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Pope Francis: Catholics must affirm God’s primacy HANNAH BROCKHAUS CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

VATICAN CITY – Catholics, by virtue of their baptism, must affirm to the world God’s primacy in human life and in history, Pope Francis said.

In his weekly Angelus address Oct. 18, the pope explained that “to pay taxes is a duty of citizens, as is complying with the just laws of the state. At the same time, it is necessary to affirm God’s primacy in human life and in history, respecting God’s right over all that belongs to him.”

“Hence the mission of the church and Christians,” he stated, “to speak of God and bear witness to him to the men and women of our time.”

Before leading pilgrims in praying the Angelus in Latin, Pope Francis reflected on the day’s Gospel reading from St. Matthew.

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Archbishop celebrates Mass for 40 Days for Life

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blesses a crowd praying in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Rafael Oct. 17 during 40 Days for Life’s fall prayer campaign. The archbishop celebrated a Mass for 40 Days for Life at St. Raphael Parish before leading a rosary walk to Planned Parenthood, where he conducted an exorcism. Earlier in the morning he exorcised the area where a statue of St. Junipero Serra was torn down.

Archbishop exorcises site of Serra statue vandalism NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone performed an exorcism Oct. 17 at the spot where a statue of St. Junipero Serra had been pulled down by protesters several days before.

“This sacred site has been desecrated, so we know there is evil here,” Archbishop Cordileone said outside St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael, where the saint’s statue had stood close to the street. The parish grounds also contain Mission San Rafael Arcángel, which was built after the death of St. Junipero but was part of the California mission founded by him. About 150 people attended the exorcism.

A protest on Indigenous People’s Day, Oct. 12, drew about 45 people to the site of the statue. A small group of protesters threw red paint on the statue and removed duct tape protecting it before tearing it off its base using cargo straps.

San Rafael police arrested five people on felony vandalism charges after the protest and then released

spokesman Sgt. Daniel Graham said his department had received reports the previous week that the protest would involve vandalism and possibly destruction of the statue and had coordinated with the Archdiocese of San Francisco on its response.

Archdiocesan representatives asked police to avoid forceful conflicts with protesters and use de-escalation techniques.

“The archdiocese supported a civil protest and stated that they wanted to prosecute any offenders who damaged or vandalized their property,” he said.

About 75 Catholics gathered the next day to pray the rosary at the statue’s base. Father Kyle Faller, parochial vicar at St. Raphael, urged the group to imitate (VALERIE SCHMALZ/OFFICE OF HUMAN LIFE AND DIGNITY) Christ by praying for their persecutors.

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Archbishop joins St. Francis of Assisi Parish for racism listening session NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocese of San Francisco has begun holding listening sessions to give people an opportunity to speak about racism and its effect on their lives and build a consensus on how the church can contribute to eliminating it in society. The sessions are part of the statewide anti-racism initiative announced in September by the California bishops’ conference.

Around 40 people attended the archdiocese’s first session on Oct. 10, held outdoors at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto.

Christopher Major, African-American ministry coordinator for the archdiocese, said the afternoon’s event was an example of what Catholic social teaching called for, building solidarity among people across their differences.

“We want to hear issues you are dealing with so we can act and make a change,” he said.

During the two-hour session, about a dozen people from the parish and community spoke about their personal experiences with racism and their priorities in crafting any solution.

“Throughout my whole life it’s been a march, it’s been a wrongful death, it’s been somebody getting shot. I feel that right now through 2020, that we’re getting a little light, and light is shining on what’s been wrong,” said Halley Crumb, president of the nonprofit organization Retraining the Village.

Derek Gaskin, director of the archdiocese’s safety and security office, spoke about growing up in Watts and seeing his cousin “getting beat with a long black-handled flashlight by an LA County deputy sheriff.”

Parishioner Melody McLaughlin pointed out racial disparities in educational opportunities and the criminal justice system, and said children born into poor families “are almost doomed. This is not the land of opportunity, and how can we address that in 2020?”

Speakers also emphasized the importance of solutions and of starting points for reconciliation. Gaskin said community members need to learn to trust police and hope they are responding to protect people, and law enforcement have to respond to calls with empathy and dignity, treating the people they meet with respect.

“At the end of the day, it’s very important for us to try and regain respect and trust from a community standpoint as well as a law enforcement standpoint: we need each other. There are a lot of great officers and a lot of great families in the community; there’s a small percentage of cops with hidden agendas that most cops don’t want on the force,” he said.

East Palo Alto Councilmember Larry Moody urged churches to build bridges between community members and law enforcement through police athletic leagues and other initiatives. He also suggested churches become more involved in after-school or mentoring programs in order to reach young people.

Pastor Paul Bains, senior pastor at St. Samuel Church of God in Christ in East Palo Alto, emphasized that racism

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Pastor Paul Bains from St. Samuel Church of God in Christ speaks Oct. 10 at an archdiocese organized racism listening session at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto.

“is not a black problem: We have to understand that. It’s a problem that for some reason is just now resonating with people because of video being displayed on social media.”

Bains encouraged people to listen to the experiences of others and then take action based on what they have learned but said racism would not be solved quickly.

“At 59 years old, I’m looking at it from the optimistic perspective that there’s hope. We are stronger together than when we are apart and so when we can come together, when we can work together, that’s progress,” he said.

At the end of the listening session, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said he was grateful that people had spoken about their experience.

“I think that’s so important that we listen. This is my vision in building up these listening sessions. I’m convinced that we need to hear each other’s stories and understand each other’s perspectives,” he said.

“It’s my real hope that as we continue this, we will build up relationships and build up trust across lines of people who maybe would not listen to each other,” he added.

The archbishop spoke about systemic racism as “cultural attitudes that get so ingrained that it blinds people in the group that have the advantage to the injustices they inflict on those who do not have that advantage” and said indigenous Americans and descendants of African slaves have been its victims.

Systemic racism is responsible for an implicit attitude that Black Americans are disposable, he said, whether it is Planned Parenthood’s targeting of African-American communities, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, or the state of schools in inner-city communities.

California’s bishops announced in September a yearlong initiative to address racism in the church and society.

Dioceses endorsed a three step process of listening, dialogue and action in order to “root out racist thinking and practices and foster a ‘culture of encounter’ within all aspects of our dioceses, parishes, places of education and homes,” according to the bishops’ statement.

In June, the archdiocese established its Committee on Racial Reconciliation and Justice to organize listening sessions. Kathryn Parish Reese, committee chair, said the next listening session will be in San Francisco, followed by sessions in Marin County and in San Mateo.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 22, 2020

Marin Carmelites pray for new home together CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The 400 redwood trees shading the grounds of Mother of God Monastery will still reach for the heavens long after the cloistered nuns who planted them move off the 45-acre property next spring.

In an emailed letter sent to over 3,000 supporters on Aug. 31, Carmelite Sister Anna Marie Vanni announced the San Rafael monastery will close March 1, 2021. After 55 years the monastery is an apparent casualty of dwindling vocation numbers, the letter suggested.

“We are only four sisters now. We have been exploring the possibility of joining another monastery of Carmelites,” wrote Sister Vanni, the monastery’s last prioress. “Please pray for us during this period of transition.”

The sisters were informed in May after a decree of closure was issued to the archdiocese by the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, she told Catholic San Francisco.

At ages 59-98, they are now looking for a new home together in another Carmelite monastery, or if necessary, apart in several, she said.

Prayer has always powered the rambling, suburban monastery built

by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken for 10 Carmelite nuns who moved from Carmel on Nov. 24, 1965.

A life of prayer is the witness of the great Carmelite saints, according to the order’s website: “When facing a ‘dark night of the soul,’ St. John of the Cross will tell you to keep praying. When daunted by the heavy lifting that true self-understanding entails, St. Teresa of Avila will tell you to keep praying. When vexed by the everyday foibles of the people around you, Saint Therese of Lisieux will tell you to keep praying.”

The sisters pray together in early morning prayer, mid-morning prayer, Mass, midday prayer, office of readings, vespers and final prayer.

Individual time is allotted for private prayer and study too.

Private intentions come to the sisters from all around the world.

Since the beginning, the monastery has been self-supporting, its life of prayer sustained through a variety of cottage industries – such

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Left to right: Sister Anna Marie Vanni, OCD; Mother Dolores Sullivan, OCD; Sister Teresa Francis Wilkins, OCD; and Sister Mary Ann Biata, OCD, are pictured Oct. 9 on the grounds of Mother of God Monastery. The monastery, opened in 1965 by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken, is closing after 55 years on March 1, 2021. Right, one of the many statues of Mary for whom the monastery is named is seen on its wooded grounds. One of the monastery’s simple hermitages built by the sisters in 1999 for the restoration of visiting priests can be seen in the background.

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as its popular annual homemade jam sale – and the generous devotion of supporters such as the Friends of Carmel, the Mater Dei Guild and the Angel Prayer Club, said Sister Vanni.

The sisters and their friends raised about $150,000 a year to meet expenses, she said, 10% of that paid in stipends to the rotation of about 25 priests from five counties who offered Mass in the packed (pre-COVID-19) monastery chapel.

“But when you get down to five black veils, five professed sisters, you

really have to look at your vitality,” she said. The native of nearby Fairfax has spent her entire 43-year Carmelite vocation at the multi-room monastery.

It was Sister Vanni who planted each of the young redwoods decades ago that have since grown into a lush grove valued by an arborist recently in millions of dollars. But their true value is perhaps best measured during a contemplative morning walk.

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misty-eyed above their masks – as they expressed their their years-long attempt to “revitalize” to save the monastery and failing that, their trust in God for whatever lies ahead.

“It’s more sadness I feel, not fear, because I know the Lord will look after us,” said England-born Sister Teresa Francis Wilkins, OCD. Sister Wilkins, 82, has been a Carmelite for 64 years, the last 15 of those years in San Rafael.

The oldest is Mother Dolores Sullivan, OCD, 98, last surviving member of the founding sisters and former prioress. Bright and inquiring, she in a fashion still rules the roost from behind her wheeled walker.

The youngest in age and time at the monastery is Sister Mary Ann Biata, OCD, 59, a French-speaking native of the Congo who was the last new sister the community welcomed seven years ago.

The complications of moving the sisters – all technically seniors – into new group housing during a pandemic helped extend out the sister’s moving date until spring of the new year, Sister Vanni said.

“But at this moment we don’t know where we will live,” she said.

Joining another Carmelite monastery somewhere in the U.S. is the goal, said Sister Vanni, but easier said than done. Contemplative communities are “running scared,” she said.

“They don’t want to take a lot of older sisters in because they might not be seen as being ‘vital’ and will have to close too,” she said. It is more likely the sisters will be split into pairs.

“There is a real big sadness,” she said of the reaction of supporters to news of the monastery’s closure.

The monastery has been “greatly blessed” by local priests including Father O’Sullivan, pastor of nearby St. Isabella Parish, who have come to celebrate Mass at the monastery’s small, often-packed (in pre-COVID times) chapel.

“To have cloistered sisters is a rare gift in today’s world,” Father O’Sullivan told Catholic San Francisco. “They are a jewel here in Marin County and I totally support them and believe in them.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 22, 2020

Mission church reopening a respite for the faithful LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

María Luisa Wence, 90, and her husband, Miguel Moreno, 83, took the bus from Clayton Road to the Bart station in Concord that took them to the Mission district, to attend the 1 p.m.

Mass at St. Peter Church the day of the reopening of the churches in the county of San Francisco, Oct. 4.

The Moreno Wence couple moved from San Francisco to Concord several years ago, but they are still parishioners at St. Peter Church in the Mission.

Since March, when churches were closed to indoor assemblies due to COVID-19, the Moreno Wence couple have not attended any of the outdoor Masses, they only have seen livestreamed Masses.

“Some friends who live in San Francisco told us that St. Peter had started to open the church and we decided to come to Mass to reconcile with God,” they said.

Wence has faith that the time will come when we will be free from the virus that causes COVID-19, meanwhile she recommends asking God for health for oneself and for the priests.

She advises people who want to go the Mass in church to trust that God will protect them.

“For us as Catholics it is necessary to hear the word of God here in the church. Of course, keeping a distance,” said Miguel Moreno.

St. Peter Church celebrated the first Mass following the hygiene protocol required by the Department of Public Health and the City of San Francisco.

At the main entrance they placed two stations for hand disinfecting and mask checking. Ushers led families or individuals to the pews. At the end of the Mass they directed the faithful through different exits to avoid crowds.

“I felt safe with the measures they are taking,” said Javier López González, 51, a St. Peter parishioner who lives in the Mission.

López González went to public Mass in St. Peter on the day of the reopening. He had not attended any of the Masses in the courtyard or in the park-

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Father Moisés Agudo, pastor of St. Peter Church, welcomes a family of parishioners on Oct. 4, 2020. Right, the faithful gathered for Mass on Oct. 4 after a seven-month closure of indoor services. ing lot of the Mission churches since the shelter-in-place started in March.

“I was excited that God gave me the opportunity to come back to church again,” he said at the end of the 11 a.m. Mass, presided by Father Moisés Agudo, pastor of three churches in the Mission and vicar for the Hispanics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

In the homily for the first public Mass, on Oct. 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, Father Agudo said that St. Francis is recognized for many virtues, but what characterized him the most was his love for the Eucharist and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.

The church in San Francisco has been struggling in the recent months because it can’t celebrate the Eucharist inside the churches. The restrictions due to COVID-19 have been extended for almost seven months.

“Today we begin a new phase in San Francisco. Churches have been reopened with 25% of the capacity or a maximum of 100 people” at each Mass, said Father Agudo.

St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral also celebrated its Masses indoors with public on Sunday, Oct. 4. “It was

a great joy,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in an interview with ESNE. He added that the campaign “the Church is Essential” continues because the worship of God is the most essential.

“We accept the safety rules. This is very important. We have protocols that are very effective in protecting people, we already have evidence from scientific studies that say that the protocols work and protect people when they are at Mass. We want to do it very safely and we can do it,” the archbishop said.

In a memo to the priests on Oct.2, he said that the limit of 100 in the largest churches is still problematic.

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Father Agudo asked for patience while the church returned to normality for now we must continue with the discomfort by the use of masks, he said.

Father Agudo added that he hopes that little by little fear will disappear, because “fear is not of God, responsibility is of God.” The parishioners of St. Peter, St. Anthony and St. Charles in the Mission publicly demonstrated for several weeks their disagreement over the restriction of not celebrating Masses inside the church, only 12 people had been allowed at Mass in the yard or in the parking lot.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 22, 2020

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Farm worker and parish catechist Jorge Guzmán walks through weed-strewn fields at Westland Nursery in Pescadero, where church closures during the pandemic crippled demand for fresh flowers.

Pescadero flower farms threatened by church closures LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

The prolonged closure of churches, the cancellation of weddings, quinceañeras and first communions due to COVID-19, has some nurseries in Pescadero about to close, the measure also affects other businesses in San Francisco related to flowers.

The Westland Nursery in Pescadero had about 70 employees last year, the business began to decline slowly before the pandemic from competition with imported flowers, but after the two and a half month shelter-in-place the decline has left it on the brink of closing.

When the nursery reopened in May, it was only able to hire ten of its employees and for fewer hours a day.

The greenhouses look desolate, without single cultivated plant, much less flowers, with outdoor fields covered with weeds.

On one of the farms there is a small parcel of Amor en la Niebla (Nigella) and on another of the company’s farms there is a small parcel of lilies. These two parcels were cultivated in May upon return from quarantine.

As if the damage caused by the quarantine closure were not enough, the new plantations were about to be lost with the August fires near the coast.

Westland Nursery workers as well as many tresidents of Pescadero, La Honda and San Gregorio were evacuated.

Nursery employees were allowed to work a few hours so that they would not lose the little production that means the sustenance of four families.

Westland Nursery greenhouses stand empty in Pescadero.

Jorge Guzmán, a Westland Nursey worker and catechist at Mission San Antonio in Pescadero who has worked for this nursery for 43 years, told San Francisco Católico that he does not know if the owner will be able to continue with the business.

The little they have planted after the quarantine is barely sold because the San Francisco flower market isn’t buying from them like it used to, he said.

Guzmán affirmed that the closing of the churches is one of the reasons why the flowers are not being sold.

Lucy Michel, the florist who designs the flower arrangements for St. Mary´s Cathedral in San Francisco and St. Charles Borromeo parish, agreed that Catholic churches and events require a lot of flowers.

During the quarantine, Michel’s busi-

ness wcompletely stopped. She had contracts to do the floral decorations for six weddings during the spring and summer of 2020 but were canceled. The clients moved the weddings for the next year.

Michel’s business has started operating again in the last two months, but at a slow pace.

Currently, it is selling flowers mainly for funerals, although not as much as before the pandemic, due to the limitations in funeral services.

Many of the flowers Michel uses for decorations come from the farms in Half Moon Bay and from Pescadero to the flower market in San Francisco, where most of the workers are Hispanic as Susano Ledezma.

Since Ledezma came from Guadalajara, México, 25 years ago he has worked in the San Francisco Flower Market.

The last 16 years he worked in one of the largest florists there. When the shelter-in-place started, Ledezma and his co-workers lost their jobs.

The San Francisco Flower Market has opened and some of Ledezma’s co-workers have been rehired, but he hasn’t yet.

Since the middle of March when he lost his job, he and his wife Catalina Rocha have not had health insurance and both are suffering stress and depression.

Ledezma is concerned because unemployment benefits were reduced to 50 percent in September and he does not know how he will pay the rent of $1,800 for his apartment in South San Francisco.

“I can still work,” he said.

When Ledezma worked in the San Francisco Flower Market, he had clients from many churches. “They were good customers. They bought many flowers in May for first communions and in June for weddings and quinceañeras. There was a lot of business“, he said.

Rita Mancera, deputy executive director of the nonprofit organization Puente that helps the communities of Pescadero, La Honda, Loma Mar and San Gregorio, said that the farms most affected are those that produce flowers only.

The other farms that grow vegetables and flowers kept producing during the shelter-in-place. She thinks the biggest hit on all agricultural activity in the cost was the fires of August.

Puente has allocated resources to temporarily cover the wages of farm workers who have not been able to work due to the fires and who do not have unemployment insurance, Mancera said.

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Catholics gathered in San Rafael Oct. 13 to pray the rosary after a statue of St. Junipero Serra was vandalized and torn down the previous day.

should be a reminder to spread the Gospel in the world. When he and St. Raphael pastor Father Luello Palacpac saw the protesters, “we looked upon people that need to be loved. We looked upon people who have been told that the only way to live is in anger and hate.

We need to love, to let people know they are loved, to allow our Lord and savior to love us,” he said.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone released a statement Oct. 13 condemning the statue’s destruction.

“This kind of behavior has no place in any civilized society,” he said. “We cannot allow a small unelected group of lawbreakers to decide what sacred symbols we Catholics or other believers may display and use to foster our faith.”

Treating violence against statues as property crimes

“misses the point” that Catholic symbols are “under attack not only on public property, but now on our own property and even inside of our churches,” he said.

Native Americans had unquestionably suffered from European and American colonization, Archbishop Cordileone said, but St. Junipero Serra should not be targeted by people protesting historical injustice. At least three statues of the saint have been torn down by protesters in California cities this year.

“There are deep, lingering scars from this oppression that need to be healed, but vilifying a great man who sacrificed to protect the rights of the oppressed is not how we achieve this. Recognition of the truth must necessarily precede healing and reconciliation. Attacking the symbols of faith of millions of Catholics, who are as diverse in ethnicity as any faith in America, is counterproductive. It’s also simply wrong,” he said.

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WHITE MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone incenses the gifts at the annual White Mass Oct. 16, 2020, at St. Augustine Church in South San Francisco. The intention of the Mass is thanks and prayer for the continued good work of medical professionals. Invited to be among the assembly were doctors, dentists, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical and occupational therapists, nursing assistants and other health care professionals. Others outside the profession were invited joined the Mass by livestream.

ST. BRENDAN: “Faith and Blue” was the focus of an outdoor gathering Oct. 9, 2020, at St. Brendan Parish in San Francisco.

Parishioners and San Francisco police spent an afternoon together.

Father Michael Quinn, pastor, shown here talking with a parishioner, is a Catholic chaplain to the San Francisco Police Department.

A highlight of the event was its crossing paths with St. Brendan School families collecting and dropping off schoolwork for their student children now in distance learning mode. Father Quinn called the time “a great success.”

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JUDGE DENIES BROOKLYN DIOCESE IN CASE AGAINST COVID LIMITS

A federal court ruled against the Diocese of Brooklyn in its case against new coronavirus restrictions that impose local limits on Mass attendance.

The diocese had sued the state of New York on Oct. 8 over new public health restrictions that limited the size of gatherings in certain “hot spots” around the state, or localities where the new coronavirus has been spreading. Certain churches Bishop Nicholas in Brooklyn and Queens were efDiMarzio fectively limited to holding 10 or 25 people for indoor Masses, under the new rules.

On Friday, a federal judge for the Eastern District of New York denied the diocese’s motion to halt the implementation of the restrictions. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn said he was “extremely disappointed” by the ruling and is considering an appeal.

The diocese had argued that religious institutions had been wrongly singled out as “non essential,” and held churches to a higher standard of restrictions compared to other venues, including retail outlets.

“Despite this loss,” DiMarzio said, “we will continue to press our leaders for policies that consider the individual circumstances of houses of worship.”

“We will also continue to advocate for places of worship to be classified as essential, for there is nothing more necessary today than a community of believers, united in prayer, asking the Lord to end this pandemic.”

In his opinion on Friday, Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that the state did not unlawfully single out religion for its restrictions, noting that its rules applied to other non-religious gatherings as well. New York also presented sufficient evidence to show that its decision was based on scientific and epidemiological considerations, he said.

If the court ruled in favor of the diocese and religious gatherings subsequently resulted in spreading the virus, Garaufis said, such a scenario would result in “avoidable death” and “overwhelming” damage; conversely, if the court sided wrongly with

the state, it would bring a less grave consequence: “severely curtailed in-person ceremonies.”

Bishop DiMarzio, however, said that it was “a shame our parishioners in the red zones cannot return to Mass when the judge acknowledged we have done everything right.”

ARCHBISHOP SAMPLE LEADS ROSARY, EXORCISM TO BRING PEACE TO PORTLAND

Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample offered a rosary for peace and conducted an exorcism Oct. 17 for a city that has witnessed peaceful racial justice protests peppered with riots for more than four months.

Two demonstrators have been killed over electionrelated division and many police injured. In early October, groups promoting indigenous rights toppled popular statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

“There is no better time than in the wake of civil unrest and the eve of the elections to come together in prayer, especially here in Portland,” Archbishop Sample said.

“The Catholic Church takes the promotion of unity, and accordingly peace, as belonging to the innermost nature of the church,” he said. “For this reason, the church fosters solidarity among peoples, and calls peoples and nations to sacrifices of advantages of power and wealth for the sake of solidarity of the human family.”

Catholics across western Oregon took part in the morning prayers via livestream. There were almost 8,000 views on Facebook.

NEW REPORT DETAILS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST CATHOLIC COMPOSER HAAS

A report detailing sexual abuse and assault allegations against Catholic musician and composer David Haas describes him using his influence as a faith leader in grooming victim/survivors and suppressing reports or concerns about his behavior.

The report also alleges Haas sexually abused minors, including the claim he raped a 13-year-old girl in 1979 during a confirmation retreat in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

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victim/survivors’ claims, including forced sexual acts and unwanted touching.

The report alleges that, between 1979 and 1982, when Haas was in his early 20s, he targeted girls ages 13 to 17 for sexual acts, including rape. After 1982, reported allegations include grooming of girls under 18, and grooming, unwanted attention and touching, and forced sexual acts with women between the ages of 18 and 60.

Haas is a well-known composer of contemporary hymns, including “You Are Mine,” “We Are Called” and “Blest Are They.” From 1999 to 2017, Haas led Music Ministry Alive!, a liturgical arts camp independent from, but held at, St. Catherine University in St. Paul. Haas has led concerts and retreats and participated in conferences around the United States.

He also directs the Emmaus Center for Music, Prayer and Ministry in Eagan, Minnesota, and has worked in campus ministry in two high schools in the archdiocese.

In an Oct. 11 email to The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan newspaper, Haas, through an attorney, said he reiterated an apology he issued in July, and denied the claim he raped a 13-year-old girl.

“The new allegation in the Into Account report as referenced in the archdiocese statement that I sexually abused and raped a 13-year-old girl is absolutely false. It is an anonymous allegation and an attempt to smear me with an outrageously false allegation.

I have never had improper sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl,” he said.

In June, Haas denied Into Account’s allegations, calling them “false, reckless and offensive.” In July, he issued an apology that said he had “come to realize that I have caused great harm to a variety of people.”

In the Oct. 11 email to The Catholic Spirit, Haas said he wants people whom he’s harmed to know he takes “full responsibility for my actions and am truly sorry.”

“I am continuing with professional intervention to help me face and understand how my actions have violated your trust,” he said, speaking to those whom he’s hurt.

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In hearings, Barrett stresses commitment to ‘rule of law’ CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – During the two days of questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett made a clear distinction between policy preferences and legal precedents.

She also did not give direct answers on how she would vote on top issues but assured the senators that she would follow the rule of the law.

“My policy preferences are irrelevant,” she said, Oct. 13 when asked if she had intended to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and she reiterated this same view when asked about abortion and samesex marriage.

On the opening day of the hearings, Republican senators had adamantly emphasized that Barrett’s Catholic faith should not be a factor in questioning, and on the start of the first day of this inquiry, it clearly wasn’t a topic, although it was mentioned, even in opening remarks by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, committee chairman.

He asked if Barrett would be able to set aside her religious beliefs to fairly decide legal cases, which she said she could.

“I can. I have done that in my time on the 7th Circuit,” she said. “If I stay on the 7th Circuit, I’ll continue to do that. If I’m confirmed to the Supreme Court, I will do that.”

When asked what she thought about the nomination, Barrett, in a rare moment of candor, said she has “tried to be on a media blackout” for the sake

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of her mental health but that she was aware “of the caricatures that are floating around” about her.

She said she has made her own choices professionally and personally with balancing her career and her family of seven children. “I have a life brimming with people who’ve made different choices, and I’ve never tried in my personal life to

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impose my choices on them and the same is true professionally.”

She said in the short amount of time she and her husband had to decide if she would accept the nomination, they both knew “our lives would be combed over for any negative detail.”

“We knew that our faith would be caricatured,” she added, and they would have to determine if those challenges would be worth it.

She said her reason for moving forward with this process is that she is “committed to the rule of law and the role of the Supreme Court and dispensing equal justice for all.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, the ranking member of the committee, asked Barrett about abortion, specifically if she agreed with Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion that the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion was wrongly decided.

Barrett declined to answer, saying that as a sitting judge, she wasn’t going to grade precedent with a “thumbs-up or thumbs-down.”

Feinstein expressed some frustration saying: “It’s distressing not to get a straight answer,” on a topic that affects millions of women and where Barrett could be “a very important vote.” In response, Barrett said she understood why the question was raised but reiterated that she “can’t pre-commit” to how she might vote or what her personal views are.

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“undue burden” on pregnant women seeking an abortion.

When asked about the court’s 2015 Obergefell decision that legalized same-sex marriage, Barrett again said she has “no agenda” and added that she has “never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference.” She also noted that challenges to that decision were not likely to come to the Supreme Court.

Later that day, after Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said the term “sexual preference” has a negative connotation suggesting that sexual orientation is a choice and does not need legal protections, Barrett said she “would never mean to use a term that would cause any offense in the LGBTQ community, so, if I did, I greatly apologize for that.”

The nominee pointed out that hot-button issues don’t just arrive at the Supreme Court without a long process starting with a challenge in lower courts and she also stressed that judges can’t impose their own views on decisions, which some committee members expressed skepticism about.

“Judges can’t just wake up one day and say, ‘I have an agenda. I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion,’ and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world,” Barrett told the committee. She also assured them that even though she has praised her mentor, Justice Scalia, she was not going to follow in his exact footsteps.

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When he asked if she would recuse herself from any dispute arising from the 2020 election, she said she has “made no pre-commitments to anyone about how I would decide a case.”

She also said she was not “hostile to the ACA,” in response to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, questioning her about comments she made as a college professor that were critical of Chief Justice John Roberts’ reasoning on previous ACA cases.

Democratic senators said their concern about how she would vote stemmed from President Donald Trump’s own words promising that he would pick a judge who would side with him.

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Barrett responded that she has never “expressed a is “vital that religious rights be respected” and added that he hopes she would “respect that precedent moving forward, and I don’t see any reason to think you won’t.”

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POPE URGES GLOBAL EFFORT TO END HUNGER

Repeating a call first made by St. Paul VI, Pope Francis urged a global move to divert money from national military spending and use it to “definitely defeat hunger.”

Addressing representatives of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Oct. 16, World Food Day, Pope Francis seemed to go a step further than St. Paul VI, who — in his 1967 encyclical “Populorum Progressio” — asked “world leaders to set aside part of their military expenditures for a world fund to relieve the needs of impoverished peoples.”

Pope Francis, in his recent encyclical “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship” and in his video message to the FAO, said that “a courageous decision would be to use the money spent on arms and other military expenditures to constitute a ‘Global Fund’ so that we can definitively defeat hunger and help the development of the poorest countries.”

As the U.N. agency celebrated its 75th anniversary, Pope Francis told staff and members, “Your mission is beautiful and important, because you are working to defeat hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.”

The task is getting more difficult, he said.

“Unfortunately,” the pope said, “we note that, according to the most recent statistics from the FAO, despite the efforts made in recent decades, the number of people facing hunger and food insecurity has grown and is growing, and the current pandemic will further exacerbate these figures.”

“For humanity, hunger is not just a tragedy, but a shame,” he said.

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WORLD CATHOLIC GROWTH IN LINE WITH POPULATION TRENDS

VATICAN CITY – The number of Catholics worldwide increased by almost 16 million in a year to 1.33 billion, according to statistics highlighted by the Vatican ahead of the 2020 World Mission Sunday.

The figures, shared by the Fides News Service Oct. 16, showed that there were 15,716,000 more Catholics at the end of 2018 – the most recent year where numbers are available – compared to 2017.

This took the overall number of Catholics to 1.33 billion compared to 1.31 billion the year before.

The growth was spread across all inhabited continents, with an increase of 94,000 in Europe, 9.2 million in Africa, 4.5 million in the Americas, 1.8 million in Asia, and 177,000 in Oceania.

Fides noted that this was the third successive year that the number of Catholics in Europe had risen.

But the percentage of Catholics in the world population remained unchanged at 17.73%, meaning that the number of Catholics is increasing in line with broader global population growth.

VATICAN COINS ILLUSTRATE BIBLE STORIES, MARK ANNIVERSARIES

The most expensive Vatican commemorative coins for 2020 continue a numismatic series illustrating scenes from the Acts of the Apostles; the other mid-October issues mark important anniversaries and themes dear to the heart of the pope.

The 50-euro gold coin, which sells for about $1,170, features St. Paul holding a sword and a Bible. The 20-euro gold coin, which sells for about $470, features St.

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A new Vatican commemorative 50-euro coin honors St. Paul as a witness to Christ.

Paul preaching at the Areopagus.

The Vatican Philatelic and Numismatic Office released the coins, which are sold mainly to collectors, Oct. 16.

On the same day, the office released a Philatelic-Numismatic Cover containing a bimetal commemorative two-euro coin and stamp with a special cancellation marking the 100th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s birth.

The smiling face of St. John Paul used on the stamp was inspired by a photo taken during his 1986 trip to Australia, the office said. “The lilies that make up the ornamental elements in the background — symbolizing honesty, chastity and purity — are a clear reference to the Virgin Mary, to whom the pope was very devoted and entrusted his Petrine ministry.”

The two-, five- and 10-euro commemorative coins celebrate respectively: the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael Sanzio; the World Day of Migrants and Refugees; and the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

More than 200 state-run secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland will begin to phase out historical Catholic symbols and mandatory Masses, Irish sources have reported.

The new regulations apply to the country’s ETB schools, which are run by the government’s Education and Training Boards. The new rules officially classify those schools as “multi-denominational” which therefore cannot favor Catholic or Christian symbolism or ceremonies, the Irish Times reported.

These new regulations were established in a yet unpublished document obtained by the Irish Times.

Slightly more than 78% of the population of Ireland identifies as Roman Catholic, according to the country’s latest Faith Survey in 2016.

The Times reports that these new regulations stipulate that any displayed religious symbols “must echo the beliefs of the wider school community rather than one particular religion” to reflect this multi-denominational identity. The regulations add that when religious symbols are displayed, there must be balance, such as displaying a Menorah for Hanukkah if there is also a Christmas nativity scene on display.

School Masses or other religious ceremonies or events at ETB schools are now expected to be held for students only on an “opt-in” basis, rather than on a mandatory basis that requires students to opt out.

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SUNDAY READINGS

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

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

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

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

I love you, Lord, my strength.

My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!

Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

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

I love you, Lord, my strength.

1 THESSALONIANS 1:5C-10 Brothers and sisters: You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the word of the

God’s pilot program

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hen God led Israelite slaves out of Egypt, some 3,000 years ago, they had very little idea what he was about. He guided them in the wilderness of Sinai, provided for their needs in remarkable ways, then told them that he wanted to establish a permanent relationship with them as a group. “Listen to my voice,” he said, “I will be your God, and you shall be my people.” Who could have known?

God’s idea was that the Israelites would be a kind of demonstration project for the world. He wanted everyone to come to live in intimacy with him and harmony with one another. He would mold the Israelites into an example of what this could look like.

KEVIN PERROTTA Of course, it would be worked out according to the Israelites’ particular circumstances: the little villages of Canaan (Palestine, Israel), where they were headed and would be small-scale farmers and raisers of livestock.

God laid out the basics of the relationship in the Ten Commandments. These called the Israelites to take him alone as God and deal justly with each

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

other. Then he elaborated. In what is now Chapters 21-23 in the Book of Exodus, God provided specifics for their living as a people in fairness and mutual care. Today’s first reading includes a few of these.

Don’t lend at interest, God says. When your neighbor runs out of food and seed, lend him what he needs without charging him interest, because how can an impoverished farmer pay you interest without starving or ending up in debt slavery?

If you make a loan and take your neighbor’s cloak as security, give it back at the end of the day. His cloak is his blanket. He doesn’t have anything else to sleep in.

Don’t oppress aliens who live among you. This is remarkable! In the legal codes of no other ancient Near East people were there laws protecting foreigners.

What a just society looked like around 1200 B.C. is different from what it might look like today, not because justice and solidarity are different, but because of changes in economics and technology.

We can’t simply import precepts from Exodus 21-23 into the United States in 2020. But we can let these ancient laws inspire us to think deeply about what a just society would look like in our world.

KEVIN PERROTTA is the editor and an author of the “Six Weeks With the Bible” series, teaches part time at Siena Heights University and leads Holy Land pilgrimages. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 26: Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. EPH 4:32–5:8. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. JN 17:17B, 17A. LK 13:10-17.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27: Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. EPH 5:21-33. PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. See MT 11:25. LK 13:18-21.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28: Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles. EPH 2:19-22. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. LK 6:12-16.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29: Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. EPH 6:10-20. PS 144:1B, 2, 9-10. See LK 19:38; 2:14. LK 13:31-35.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30: Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. PHIL 1:1-11. PS 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6.

JN 10:27. LK 14:1-6.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31: Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time. PHIL 1:18B-26. PS 42:2, 3, 5CDEF. MT 11:29AB. LK 14:1, 7-11.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1: Solemnity of All Saints. RV 7:2-4, 9-14. PS 24:1BC-2, 3-4AB, 5-6. 1 JN 3:1-3. MT

11:28. MT 5:1-12A. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls). WIS 3:1-9. PS 23:13A, 3B-4, 5, 6. ROM 6:3-9. MT 25:34. JN 6:37-40.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3: Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres, religious. PHIL 2:5-11. PS 22:26B-27, 28-30AB, 30E, 31-32. MT 11:28. LK 14:15-24.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4: Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, bishop. PHIL 2:12-18. PS 27:1, 4, 13-14. 1 PT 4:14. LK 14:25-33.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5: Thursday of the Thirtyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. PHIL 3:3-8A. PS 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. MT 11:28. LK 15:1-10.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6: Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. PHIL 3:17—4:1. PS 122:1-2, 3-4AB, 4CD-5. 1 JOHN 2:5. LK 16:1-8.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7: Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. PHIL 3:17—4:1. PS 122:1-2, 3-4AB, 4CD-5. 1 JOHN 2:5. LK 16:1-8.

Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

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

POPE FRANCIS POPE: FAMILY IS ‘FIRST AND ESSENTIAL PLACE OF EDUCATION’

Pope Francis said that, among other global goals for education, he wants the world “to see in the family the first and essential place of education.”

The pope spoke in a video message to participants in the Oct. 15 launch of the Global Compact on Education. The conference, held at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, was organized by the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education.

“Amid the present health crisis – and the poverty and confusion it has caused – we believe that it is time to subscribe to a global pact on education for and with future generations,” the pope said.

He added: “This calls for a commitment on the part of families, communities, schools, universities, institutions, religions, governments, and the entire human family to the training of mature men and women.”

Francis called for an education that places human dignity at the center. This kind of education, he argued, can promote the hope and harmony that the world needs.

“We consider education to be one of the most effective ways of making our world and history more human. Education is above all a matter of love and responsibility handed down from one generation to another,” he said.

The pope laid out seven commitments for people to make, both personally and together, in the context of education. In addition to seeing the family as “the first and essential place of education,” he urged making “human persons in their value and dignity the center of every educational programme, both formal and informal.”

The goal, he continued, “is to ensure that everyone has access to a quality education consonant with the dignity of the human person and our common vocation to fraternity.”

“It is time to look to the future with courage and hope,” he said. “May we be sustained by the conviction that education bears within itself a seed of hope: the hope of peace and justice; the hope of beauty and goodness; the hope of social harmony.”

Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, also spoke at the conference. Echoing Francis’ words, he underlined the “role of the family as the first educational school” and the need to respect “the family as the first institution of education.”

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Pope Francis’ new encyclical

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n Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis released a new encyclical titled “Fratelli Tutti” (“On Fraternity and Social Friendship).”

It can appear a rather depressing read because of its searing realism, except it plays the long game of Christian hope.

“Fratelli Tutti: lays out reasons why there’s so FATHER RON much injustice, ROLHEISER inequality, and community breakdown in our world and how in faith and love these might be addressed. The intent here is not to give a synopsis of the encyclical, other than to say it’s courageous and speaks truth to power.

Rather the intent is to highlight a number of special challenges within the encyclical.

First, it challenges us to see the poor and to see what our present political, economic, and social systems are doing to them. Looking at our world, the encyclical submits that in many ways it is a broken world and it names some reasons for this: the globalization of self-interest, the globalization of superficiality, and the abuse of social media, among other

things. This has made for the survival of the fittest. And while the situation is broken for everyone, the poor are ending up suffering the most. The rich are getting richer, the powerful are getting more powerful, and the poor are growing poorer and losing what little power they had. There’s an ever increasing inequality of wealth and power between the rich and the poor and our world has become ever more calloused vis-à-vis the situation of the poor. Inequality is now accepted as normal and as moral and indeed is often justified in the name of God and religion. The poor are becoming disposable: “Some parts of our human family, it appears, can be readily sacrificed for the sake of others. Wealth has increased, but together with inequality.” In speaking of inequality, the encyclical twice highlights that this inequality is true of women worldwide: It is unacceptable that some have fewer rights by virtue of being women.”

The encyclical employs the parable of the good Samaritan as its ground metaphor. It compares us today, individually and collectively, to the priest and the scribe in that parable who for religious, social, and political reasons walk past the one who is poor, beaten, bleeding and in need of help.

Our indifference and our religious failure, like that of the priest and the scribe in the parable, is rooted both in a personal moral blindness as well

as in the social and religious ethos of our society that helps spawn that blindness.

The encyclical goes on to warn that in the face of globalization we must resist becoming nationalistic and tribal, taking care of our own and demonizing what’s foreign. It goes on to say that in a time of bitterness, hatred, and animosity, we must be tender and gracious, always speaking out of love and not out of hatred: “Kindness ought to be cultivated; it is no superficial bourgeois virtue.”

The encyclical acknowledges how difficult and counter-cultural it is today to sacrifice our own agenda, comfort, and freedom for community, but invites us to make that sacrifice: “I would like especially to mention solidarity which is a moral virtue and social attitude born of personal conversion.”

At one point, the encyclical gives a very explicit (and far-reaching) challenge. It states unequivocally (with full ecclesial weight) that Christians must oppose and reject capital punishment and take a stand against war: “St. John Paul II stated clearly and firmly that the death penalty is inadequate from a moral standpoint and no longer necessary from that of penal justice. There can be no stepping back from this position. Today we state clearly that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible’ and the church is firmly committed to calling for its aboli-

The toxic waste of Roe v. Wade

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reat Britain’s parliamentary democracy has no constitutional text, but rather a “constitution” composed of centuries of legal traditions and precedents. So, when British courts make grave mistakes, those mistakes can be fixed, more or less readily, by Parliament. The American situation is quite different.

Given a written constitution and GEORGE WEIGEL the principle of judicial review, grave mistakes by the Supreme Court are exceptionally toxic and hard to remedy, as three wrongly decided cases illustrate.

In 1857, the court declared in Dred Scott v. Sanford that the Constitution recognized no rights inherent in black people the white majority was bound to acknowledge – and thereby accelerated the process of national dissolution leading to the Civil War, in which over 700,000 Americans killed each other. Plessy v.

Ferguson, which upheld the constitutionality of racially segregated public facilities in 1896, kept Jim Crow alive, delayed the full legal implementation of the 13th and 14th Amendments, and poisoned the Democratic Party for generations by giving inordinate weight within party counsels to segregationists, who cowed even Franklin D. Roosevelt. It took a half century of civil rights struggle and the 1964 Civil Rights Act to begin repairing the damage Plessy had done.

Then there was Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton: the 1973 Supreme Court decisions that invented a constitutional right to abortion throughout a pregnancy. Denounced

by Justice Byron White in his dissent

as “an exercise in raw judicial power,” Roe’s effects on American political culture have been as toxic as Dred Scott and Plessy.

Defending Roe’s abortion license has become a prime imperative for the national Democratic Party. And because of that, far too many Catholic politicians, including the Democratic presidential candidates in 2004 and 2020, have put a canine fealty to a shabby judicial diktat above the truth of science (the product of human conception is a unique human being) and the moral truth we can know by reason (in a just society, innocent human life is protected in law). Roe has also jeopardized religious freedom and the rights of conscience, corrupted the medical professions, and eroded the authority of the states to regulate medical practice.

In an attempt to buttress Roe, a three-judge plurality in 1992’s Casey v. Planned Parenthood cheapened the “liberty” to which the Founders pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor,” reducing it to a sheer personal willfulness that turns “I Did It My Way” into the unofficial national anthem. And thanks to Roe, Supreme Court nomination hearings have become exercises in character assassination with no holds barred.

While political scientists may wonder why the defense of Roe’s abortion license has become so fevered, comparative religious studies may provide an answer: For those who worship the totem of the imperial autonomous self (the false god of “Me, Myself, and I”), the abortion license has become sacramental – an outward sign of the inner reality of women’s autonomy; an outward sign, for men, of their acquiescence to forms of feminism that promote freedom-as-autonomy.

Unquestioning faith in that which is

unworthy of faith darkens the mind, so that otherwise intelligent people are blinded to the reality of things. This was true of primitive religions, and sadly enough, similar phenomena are at work today. For other than a debilitating myopia caused by the credulous belief that abortion-on-demand is a “civil right,” why would so many black political leaders support a practice that, thanks to Planned Parenthood’s innercity “reproductive health” clinics, has caused the mass slaughter of unborn black children, thereby making African Americans the second-largest minority group in the United States?

Today’s Supreme Court agitations involve many issues, including the oversized role of the judiciary in our constitutional order. Those issues deserve a serious, thoughtful, public airing. For many of those bending every effort to defeat Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, however, the meta-issue will be the defense of an abortion license they not only support, but revere. And that ultramundane reverence explains why their efforts will be so vicious. False gods often underwrite human cruelty.

A Supreme Court that hollows out or even reverses Roe v. Wade will not settle the American abortion debate; it will return the issue to the states, where there will be mixed results for the cause of life. But a post-Roe America will have expelled a rotting bone from the national throat. And that America will then have the opportunity to demonstrate, state by state, whether we are a people capable of morally serious democratic deliberation.

GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C

tion worldwide. All Christians and people of good will are today called to work not only for the abolition of the death penalty, legal or illegal, in all its forms, but also to work for the improvement of prison conditions.”

As for war: “We can no longer think of war as a solution because its risks will probably always be greater than its supposed benefits. In view of this, it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a ‘just war.’”

The encyclical has drawn strong criticism from some women’s groups who label it “sexist,” though this criticism is based almost exclusively on the encyclical’s title and on the fact that it never makes reference to any women authors. There’s some fairness, I submit, in the criticism regarding the choice of title. The title, while beautiful in an old classical language, is in the end masculine. That should be forgivable; except I lived long enough in Rome to know that its frequent insensitivity to inclusive language is not an inculpable oversight. But the lapse here is a mosquito bite, a small thing, which shouldn’t detract from a big thing, namely, a very prophetic encyclical which has justice and the poor at its heart.

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

LETTERS Peace begins in the heart and home

Peace begins within our hearts and within our homes.

It must be very difficult to be a child today trying to understand all the violence, shouting, arguing, protesting and confusion on the streets and in many cases violence in their very home which I understand from CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse) is on the rise. Recently a first Communion catechism teacher mailed all her students a copy of the Prayer for Peace by St. Francis of Assisi” “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.” The catechist asked the children to say this prayer and with their families. If we can teach our children peace by prayer and example, we may one day bring peace in our homes, workplaces and communities.

The love in the home is so very essential.

Mary Beaudry South San Francisco

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POPE FRANCIS: Catholics must affirm God’s primacy FROM PAGE 1

In the passage, the Pharisees try to trap Jesus in speech by asking him what he thinks about the lawfulness of paying the census tax to Caesar.

Jesus replied: “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? Show me the coin that pays the census tax.”

When they handed him the Roman coin with the image of Emperor Caesar, “then Jesus replies: ‘Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s,’” Pope Francis recounted.

In his reply, Jesus “acknowledges that the tribute to Caesar must be paid,” the pope said, “because the image on the coin is his; but above all he recalls that each person carries within him another image – we carry it in our heart, in our soul – that of God, and therefore it is to him, and to him alone, that each person owes his or her existence, his or her life.”

Jesus’ line gives “clear guidelines,” he said, “for the mission of all believers of all times, even for us today,”

explaining that “everyone, by baptism, is called to be a living presence in society, inspiring it with the Gospel and with the lifeblood of the Holy Spirit.”

This requires humility and courage, he noted; a commitment to building “the civilization of love, where justice and fraternity reign.”

Pope Francis concluded his message by praying that Mary Most Holy will help everyone to “flee from all hypocrisy and to be honest and constructive citizens. And may she sustain us disciples of Christ in the mission to bear witness that God is the center and the meaning of life.”

After praying the Angelus, the pope pointed out the Church’s celebration of World Mission Day. The theme this year, he said, is “Here I am, send me.”

“Weavers of fraternity: it is beautiful, this word ‘weavers,’” he said. “Every Christian is called to be a weaver of fraternity.”

Francis asked everyone to support the Church’s priest, religious, and lay missionaries, “who sow the Gospel in the great field of the world.”

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“Let’s pray for them and give them our concrete support,” he said, adding his gratitude to God for the release last week of Father Pierluigi Maccalli, an Italian Catholic priest who was kidnapped by a jihadist group in Niger two years ago.

The pope asked for applause to greet Father Macalli and for prayers for all those who are kidnapped around the world.

Pope Francis also encouraged a group of Italian fishermen, who have been detained in Libya since the beginning of September, and their families. The two fishing crews, which came from Sicily and include 12 Italians and six Tunisians, have been detained in the northern African country for over a month and a half.

A Libyan warlord, Gen. Khalifa Haftar, has reportedly said he will not release the fishermen until Italy frees four Libyan soccer players convicted of human trafficking.

The pope asked for a moment of silent prayer for the fishermen and for Libya. He also said he is praying for the discussions happening at the international level regarding the situation.

He urged those involved “to stop all forms of hostility, promoting dialogue that leads to peace and stability, and to the unity of the country.”

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Sister Thomas Josephine Lawler, baptized Julia Jeanette Lawler, died on May 16, 2020, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 99 years old and in the 78th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Thomas Born in Chicago, Josephine Sister Thomas JoseLawler, OP phine held a graduate degree in education from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., a graduate degree in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and a doctorate in pastoral ministry from the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo.

Sister Thomas Josephine was in ministry in California for more than 60 years including more than a decade at Oakland’s St. Louise Bertrand School and Bishop O’Dowd High School, and 15 years as an administrator with the Department of the Aged for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Oakland.

She became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in Adrian in 2010.

Due to COVID-19 protocols, the Dominican Life Center is closed until further notice to all guests or visitors.

A funeral Mass was celebrated May 19, 2020 in the sisters’ St. Catherine Chapel with interment in the Congregation Cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to the Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI 49221.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 22, 2020

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novenas Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

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DIR. OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY ASSESSMENT & FORMATION Department of Catholic Identity Assessment & Formation REPORTS TO: Moderator of the Curia FLSA STATUS: Exempt, full-time PURPOSE: The Office of Catholic Identity Assessment has a two-fold charge: first to help Catholic elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese strengthen their Catholic identity, character, and mission, and second, to assess the extent to which these schools are fulfilling their Catholic mission in their core activities.

Strengthening Catholic identity in schools has two facets: strategy and formation of the formators. In this context, strategy identifies the way academics, spiritual and moral norms and practices, and religious activities work together to reinforce Catholic practice and understanding.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Director participates in the DCS-sponsored systems

review process for archdiocesan Catholic high schools and directs the Catholic identity component of the assessment. Each high school undergoes a full assessment every four years and submits a written report of progress annually.

The Office of Catholic Identity Assessment also provides workshops, sessions, and seminars designed to develop the expertise of teachers and administrators in molding Catholic culture in their institutions.

The Director will also be responsible for undertaking special interventions requested by either the archbishop or the boards and/or presidents of the various Catholic high schools.

The Director also works collaboratively with the Superintendent of Catholic Schools, participates in their staff meetings and keeps the Superintendent of Catholic Schools and her staff informed about any activities or new initiatives being undertaken by the Office. The Director also works closely with the assistant superintendents for faith formation, religious instruction, and accreditation.

REQUIREMENTS: Advanced degree in education or a related field and experience working in the areas of Catholic identity and culture and assessment.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: The Director of Catholic Identity Assessment and Formation reports to the Moderator of the Curia and closely aligns his/her activities with the Archdiocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools.

FOR APPLICATION AND FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

Please submit cover letter, resume and a completed application to Christine Escobar, Human Resources Manager at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 or email: escobarc@sfarch.org All employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal history.

• Develop new or adjust current compliance review procedures used for parish and school reviews • Perform review of each parish and school every three years. About 35 locations a year • Review preliminary findings with Pastor, Principal and finance council • Issue Letter of findings and recommendations report to the Pastor or Principal • Follow-up with parishes and schools on completion of review recommendations • Maintain and update Parish and School Finance Policy manual • Provide updates and present to the Audit Committee of the Archdiocese • • • • •

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• Perform financial control and compliance reviews of the 145+ parishes and schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco • Review, update and maintain the Parish and School Finance policy manual located on the Archdiocese of San Francisco website

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Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Human Resources, Attn: Christine Escobar One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Or e-mail to: escobarc@sfarch.org All candidates applying for the volunteer position will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin.

Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2021-2022 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment.

The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to:

Christine Escobar Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Salary will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental, and retirement benefits are included.

ARCHDIOCESAN STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION

The Archdiocese of San Francisco adheres to the following policy: “All school staff of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)

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Presentation Sisters celebrate jubilees develop the Claretian tape and book ministry where she was able to travel to many countries she never thought she would see. Today, Sister Margaret is in residence at the Presentation Motherhouse, San Francisco.

Founded in Cork, Ireland, in 1775, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, San Francisco, have been serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco since 1854. Four of the sisters celebrate jubilees in 2020-2021.

70 YEARS

Sister Janet Harris, PBVM: Sister Janet holds an undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco in education, and a graduate degree in film from Loyola University, Los Angeles. In 1969, after 20 years of service in Catholic schools, Sister Janet began serving in Detention Ministry, focusing on youth, gangs and incarcerated youth through the Diocese of San Bernardino and later as Catholic chaplain at Central Juvenile Hall, Los Angeles. In 1997, she helped start the Inside Out Writing Program at the facility. Over the years, she received local and national recognition for her unparalleled devotion to troubled and at-risk youth. Sister Janet is currently in residence at the Presentation Motherhouse, San Francisco

50 YEARS

Sister Janet Harris, PBVM

Sister Bernard Joseph George, PBVM

Sister Bernard Joseph George, PBVM: Sister Bernard Joseph holds an undergraduate degree in education and a graduate degree in applied spirituality from the University of San Francisco.

She is a former principal of Nativity School in Menlo Park and Religious Education Coordinator at Mater Dolorosa School in South San Francisco.

She is a former director of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program of North San Mateo County and director of Senior Services for the YWCA in San Francisco. Sister Bernard Joseph is

Sister Margaret Webster, PBVM

Sister Pat Reinhart, PBVM

currently in residence at the Presentation Motherhouse, San Francisco.

Sister Margaret Webster, PBVM: Sister Margaret Webster a native of San Francisco, holds an undergraduate degree in education from the University of San Francisco and a graduate degree in English from Loyola University, Los Angeles. For a large part of her life, Sister Margaret taught in Catholic elementary schools and served as a high school counselor.

For more than 25 years she helped

Sister Pat Reinhart, PBVM: Sister Pat Reinhart holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a teaching credential from San Francisco State. In her early years she taught at St. Patrick School, San Jose and served at Our Lady of Lourdes School, Los Angeles, as teacher and as principal. In 1987 she became part of a team serving the P’urhepecha people of Michoacan, Mexico, at Parroquia de San Francisco Parish. She then returned to California and served in parish ministry at Our Lady of the Nativity, Salinas, and then as principal at Dolores Mission, Los Angeles.

At present she is teaching students in the ICEL program through Gavilan College, Gilroy.

CARMELITES: Sisters pray for new home FROM PAGE 4

told Catholic San Francisco that the sisters have been a spiritual constant in the lives of she and her family for more than 40 years.

“Their prayerful support got me through college at a late age, my first home, relationship upsets, deaths in the family, just to mention a few things,” she said. “They are the only church that my three brothers and I recognize.”

Claire Miller, now in assisted living at Nazareth House in San Rafael, attended daily Mass at the monastery after moving to Terra Linda in 1996.

“The love of God and peace and grace that

enveloped me there was a source of strength that I needed to rededicate my daily life to the Mother of God.” Michael Mello of San Rafael, a college friend of Sister Vanni, said the sisters have “helped me and countless other people traverse both the joys and the sorrows of life.”

He recalled the homily of the late Archbishop John R. Quinn describing the sisters’ contemplative life during a visit as a “sign and signal” of the life to which all the faithful should strive.

Mother Dolores put it this way: “We are the eyes and ears and hands and feet of the church,” she said. “I think we are here to show God to the ordinary person.”

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CHESS: Young and older alike came together for chess Oct. 9, 2020 at St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael. “I began teaching chess at St. Raphael in 2016,” said Chris Major seen here watching the action. A virtual chess class is offered each Wednesday at 4 p.m. through Nov. 19, 2020: Email cmajoredu@gmail.com.

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MUSIC & ART

After a lengthy pandemic hiatus, Catholic San Francisco is resuming event listings. The following events are online only unless otherwise noted. CSF newsletter subscribers receive a weekly Catholic events email.

Subscribe at catholic-sf.org/free-email-newsletter. Email csf@sfarch.org with submissions and updates.

SUNDAY, OCT. 25: Musical Meditations livestreamed from St. Mary’s Cathedral. Organist Angela Kraft Cross at 4 p.m. Visit sfarch.org/events/livestream-cathedral-music.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 30-31: ‘Godchella,’ a Catholic online music festival hosted by the Office of Young Adults and Youth Ministry. Headliner is Joe Melendez keynote is Hip-Hop Capuchin Deacon Victor. $10. Register at eventbrite.com/e/114192274166 or contact Chris Mariano for more information at marianoc@sfarch.org or (415) 614-5594.

FORMATION FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 23-25: Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery ‘Come and See’ Retreat: A virtual discernment event for single, Catholic women ages 18-38 years. Visit opnunsmenlo.org/come-andsee-virtual-retreat or contact vocations@opnunsmenlo. org. The Dominican Sisters of Adrian are hosting an online discernment retreat for young Catholic women ages 18-38. years. Visit adriandominicans.org/Become.

SUNDAY, OCT. 25: ‘Catholics and the Election in a Pandemic.’ Jesuit Father Tom Reese presents this 11 a.m. online presentation offered as part of St. Ignatius Parish’s Adult Faith Formation Series. Zoom link at stignatiussf.org/event/adult-faith-formation.

MONDAY, NOV. 2: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: First Monday of each month, 6:15-8:30 p.m.. Currently on Zoom led by Father Thomas Martin.

Register at sfpriest.org/events.

MONDAY, NOV. 16: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: Third Monday of each month, currently on Zoom led by Father Cameron Faller. Register at sfpriest. org/events THUR.-SAT., NOV. 5-7: Adult Confirmation Classes.

Classes to prepare adults 17-years-old and older for the Sacrament of Confirmation which will be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral Nov. 21. Applications to Sister Celeste Arbuckle in the Office of Faith Formation Nov. 29. Email arbucklec@ sfarch.org or call (415) 614-5650 for more information.

LEARNING THURSDAY, OCT. 22: The Don Bosco Study Group of Sts. Peter and Paul Church will discuss Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s book, ‘The Leopard.’ Rent the 1963 movie starring Burt Lancaster or watch it in Italian on YouTube. For a Zoom link to the 4 p.m. meeting contact franklavin@comcast.net or call (415) 310-8551.

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Viveros en Pescadero afectados por cierre de las iglesias LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

El prolongado cierre de las iglesias, la cancelación de bodas, quinceañeras y primeras comuniones debido al COVID-19 tiene algunos viveros en Pescadero a punto de cerrar operaciones, la medida afecta también a otros negocios en San Francisco relacionados con las flores.

El vivero Westland Nursery en Pescadero tenía unos 70 empleados el año pasado, el negocio comenzó a caer lentamente antes de la pandemia por la competencia con las flores importadas, pero después de la cuarentena de dos meses y medio, está al borde del cierre.

Cuando reabrieron en mayo solamente pudo contratar a diez de sus empleados y por menos horas al día.

Los invernaderos se ven desolados, no hay ni una planta mucho menos flores, afuera los campos están cubiertos por la maleza.

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Como si fuera poco el daño que ocasionó el cierre por la cuarentena, las nuevas plantaciones estuvieron a punto de perderse con los incendios de agosto cerca de la costa.

Los trabajadores de Westland Nursery, de la misma manera que muchos de los habitantes de Pescadero, La Honda y San Gregorio fueron evacuados.

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Durante los meses que el vivero estuvo cerrado debido a la cuarentena se perdieron las plantaciones de flores.

Las plantaciones de flores fueron cubiertas por la maleza durante el tiempo que el vivero estuvo cerrado por el COVID-19. día para que no perdieran la poca producción que significa el sustento de cuatro familias.

Jorge Guzmán, trabajador de Westland Nursery, quien también es catequista de la Misión San Antonio en Pescadero ha trabajado por 43 años en este vivero, donde también trabaja su esposa Isabel Guzmán, dijo al San Francisco Católico que no sabe si el dueño va a poder continuar con el negocio.

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Guzmán afirma que el cierre de las iglesias es una de las razones por la cual no se están vendiendo las flores.

Lucy Michel, la florista que diseña los arreglos florales que lucen en la Catedral Santa María de la Asunción en San Francisco y en la iglesia San Carlos Borromeo está de acuerdo que las iglesias y los eventos católicos requieren muchas flores.

Durante la cuarentena, el negocio de Lucy estuvo completamente parado.

Ella tenía contratos para hacer las decoraciones florales de seis bodas durante la primavera y el verano del 2020 y todos fueron cancelados. Los clientes pasaron las bodas para el año entrante.

El negocio de Michel ha comenzado a operar de nuevo en los últimos dos meses, pero a paso lento.

En la actualidad, está vendiendo flores sobre todo para los funerales aunque no tanto como antes de la pandemia, por las limitaciones en los servicios fúnebres.

Muchas de las flores que usa Michel para las decoraciones son traídas de las fincas en Half Moon Bay y Pescadero al mercado de las flores en San Francisco, donde la mayoría de los trabajadores son hispanos, como es el caso de Susano Ledezma.

Ledezma, desde que vino de Guadalajara, México hace 25 años ha trabajado en el mercado de flores en San Francisco.

Los últimos 16 años trabajó en una de las floristerías más grandes ahí.

Cuando se dio orden de la cuarentena, Ledezma y sus compañeros perdieron sus trabajos.

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Francisco ya abrió y algunos de los compañeros de trabajo de Ledezma fueron recontratados, pero él todavía no.

Desde mediados de marzo cuando perdió el empleo, él y su esposa Catalina Rocha no tienen seguro médico y ambos están padeciendo mucho estrés y depresión.

Ledezma comenta que está preocupado porque el seguro de desempleo se lo redujeron a un 50% a partir de la segunda quincena de septiembre y no sabe cómo va a pagar la renta de $1.800 por su apartamento en South San Francisco.

“Yo todavía puedo trabajar”, dijo.

Cuando Ledezma trabajó en el mercado de las flores atendía a clientes de muchas iglesias. “Eran buenos clientes. Compraban muchas flores en mayo para las primeras comuniones y en junio para las bodas y las quinceañeras. Había mucho negocio”, dijo.

Rita Mancera, es directora ejecutiva adjunta de la organización sin fines de lucro Puente que ayuda a las comunidades de Pescadero, La Honda, Loma Mar y San Gregorio, dijo que las fincas que se han visto más afectadas son las que se dedican exclusivamente a la producción de flores.

Las otras fincas que cultivan verduras y flores se mantuvieron produciendo durante la cuarentena. Pero lo que más ha afectado a toda la actividad agrícola fueron los incendios de agosto, dijo.

Puente ha destinado recursos para cubrir temporalmente los salarios de los trabajadores del campo que no han podido trabajar debido a los incendios y que no tienen un seguro de desempleo, dijo Mancera.

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AYUDE A NUESTROS SACERDOTES JUBILADOS

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Apertura de iglesias en la Misión y la catedral es un respiro para los fieles en medio de la pandemia LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

María Luisa Wence de 90 años y su esposo Miguel Moreno de 83 tomaron el autobús de la calle Clayton hasta la estación del tren en Concord que los llevó al distrito de la Misión, para asistir a la misa de la 1 p.m., en la iglesia San Pedro, el día de la reapertura de las iglesia en el condado de San Francisco, el 4 de octubre.

Los Moreno Wence, se mudaron de San Francisco a Concord hace varios años, pero continúan siendo parroquianos de la iglesia San Pedro en la Misión.

Desde marzo que se le prohibió a las iglesias congregar fieles adentro debido a la cuarentena por el COVID-19, los Moreno Wence no habían ido a ninguna de las misas al aire libre, solo habían visto las transmisiones.

“Unos amigos nuestros que viven en San Francisco nos dijeron que ya empezaron a abrir la iglesia San Pedro y decidimos venir a la misa para reconciliarnos con Dios”, dijeron.

Wence tiene la fe de que llegará el

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El padre Moisés Agudo, párroco de la iglesia San Pedro en la Misión le da la bienvenida a una familia de parroquianos, el 4 de octubre. tiempo de estar libres del virus que causa el COVID-19, mientras tanto recomienda pedirle a Dios la salud para uno mismo y para los sacerdotes.

Aconseja a las personas que quieren ir a la misa en la iglesia que confíen en que Dios las va a proteger.

CELEBRAR & RECORDAR En esta época de pandemia cuando no podemos unirnos en grupos grandes para llorar nuestras pérdidas todavía es posible tener una celebración de vida por quienes han muerto este año. Aquí hay una sugerencia para hacer un plan, usando su casa cuidadosamente, invite a su familia y amigos guardando distanciamiento social y usando mascarillas.

Encuentre una mesa y decórela de forma sencilla. Ponga una vela.

Coloque las fotos de las personas que ahora viven con Dios a quienes deseas recordar.

Tenga a mano una Biblia (o busque en google) las lecturas de las escrituras.

Por cada persona que haya muerto, haga que los invitados traigan un pequeño símbolo de algo que les recuerde a esta persona.

Usted o elige a alguien para que sea el líder del servicio. de oración. (denota la siguiente parte).

Oración inicial: (Invocamos a Dios de una manera especial para que esté con nosotros mientras oramos). * Recordamos con dolor en nuestro corazón a (…… nombres) quienes ahora descansan contigo nuestro Dios. Recordemos el bien que ellos han hecho y su presencia para nosotros en esta vida. Ayúdenos a perdonar sus defectos y a encontrar gozo en los dones que fueron para nosotros. Amén * En este momento comparta la importancia del símbolo que has elegido.

Colocado sobre la mesa, explica por qué es importante esta celebración. * En el libro de Isaías 43: 1 leemos. Dios dice: Yo te redimí y te llamé por tu nombre: TU ERES MÍO. (Continúa diciéndonos que no importa lo que nos suceda en la vida, Dios nos ha llamado, por nuestro propio nombre... y siempre hemos sido de Dios para la eternidad). * Salmo 23: El Señor es mi Pastor (tome un tiempo para reflexionar sobre una palabra o frase que le toque hoy en esta celebración de la vida) * Evangelio: Juan 11: 21-27 Reflexione sobre: “Todo lo que le pidas a Dios, Él se lo dará”. ¿Qué significa esto para usted hoy? * Tómese el tiempo para recordar a otros miembros de la familia vivos y muertos por quienes le gustaría orar. Diga sus nombres en voz alta. *Luego, recordando: Rezamos juntos la oración que Jesús nos enseñó Padre Nuestro… *Oración final: Concede descanso eterno a…. (Nombres) oh Señor, que la luz perpetua brille sobre ellos. Que…. descanse en paz.

Que todas las almas de los fieles difuntos descansen en tu paz. Amén

“Para nosotros los católicos es necesario escuchar la palabra de Dios aquí en la iglesia, claro guardando la distancia”, dijo Miguel Moreno.

La iglesia San Pedro celebró la primera misa siguiendo el protocolo de higiene impuesto por el Departamento de Salud Pública y la municipalidad de San Francisco.

En la entrada principal colocaron dos estaciones de desinfección de manos y revisión de mascarillas.

Los ujieres llevaron a las familias o individuos a las bancas. Al final de la misa dirigieron a los fieles por diferentes salidas para evitar aglomeraciones.

“Me sentí seguro con las medidas que están tomando”, dijo Javier López González, parroquiano de San Pedro que vive en la Misión y fue a la misa pública en San Pedro el día de la reapertura. Él tampoco había asistido a ninguna de las misas en el patio ni en el estacionamiento de las iglesias de la Misión.

López se mostró conmovido de estar de nuevo en la iglesia. “Me sentí emocionado de que Dios me dio la oportunidad de volver a venir a la iglesia”, dijo a la salida de la misa de las 11 a.m., presidida por el

Miguel Moreno y María Luisa wence se ven frente a la iglesia San Pedro en San Francisco el 4 de octubre,día en que las iglesias del condado de San Francisco abrieron para celebrar misas con público, después de varios meses de cierre por la pandemia.

padre Moisés Agudo, párroco de tres iglesias en la Misión y vicario para los hispanos de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco.

En la homilía de la primera misa pública el 4 de octubre, día de la fiesta de San Francisco de Asís, el padre Agudo dijo que san Francisco es reconocido por muchas virtudes, pero lo que más lo caracterizó fue el amor a la eucaristía y la devoción al Santísimo Sacramento.

Precisamente la Iglesia en San Francisco ha venido luchando en los últimos meses por la celebración de la eucaristía en el templo, ya que el cierre por el COVID-19 se había prologando por casi siete meses.

“Hoy comenzamos una nueva época en San Francisco. Se han abierto de nuevo las iglesias con un 25% de la capacidad o un máximo de 100 personas” en cada misa, dijo el padre Agudo.

La Catedral también abrió

La Catedral Santa María de la Asunción en San Francisco también celebró misas con público presente el domingo 4 de octubre.

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APERTURA DE IGLESIAS: La Misión y la catedral es un respiro de la pandemia DE PÁGINA 22

“Fue una gran alegría”, dijo el arzobispo Cordileone en una transmisión en el canal de televisión ESNE. Agregó que la campaña “La Iglesia es Esencial” continúa porque la adoración a Dios es lo más esencial, dijo al referirse a las restricciones impuestas a la Iglesia por parte de las autoridades de salud.

“Aceptamos las reglas de seguridad. Eso es muy importante. Tenemos los protocolos que son muy efectivos en proteger a la gente, tenemos ya la evidencia de los estudios científicos que dicen que los protocolos funcionan y protegen a la gente cuando está en misa. Queremos hacerlo de modo muy seguro y podemos hacerlo”, agregó el arzobispo de San Francisco.

En un memorando dirigido a los sacerdotes el 2 de octubre señaló que el límite de 100 personas en

(FOTO ZAC WITTMER/SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO)

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las iglesias más grandes es todavía problemático.

Durante la eucaristía en la iglesia San Pedro, el padre Agudo pidió paciencia mientras se vuelve a la normalidad y dijo que por ahora hay que continuar con la incomodidad que provoca usar las mascarillas.

Agregó que espera que poco a poco vaya desapareciendo el miedo, porque el miedo no es de Dios, “la responsabilidad es de Dios”, concluyó.

Los parroquianos de las iglesias San Pedro, San Antonio y San Carlos en la Misión habían manifestado públicamente durante varias semanas su desacuerdo por la restricción que prohibía celebrar misas adentro del templo, y permitía solo misas en los patios o estacionamientos con un máximo de 12 personas.

La alcaldesa de San Francisco London Breed anunció en un comunicado del 29 de septiembre, la autorización para congregar fieles adentro de los lugares de culto.

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