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‘Amazing’ Hispanic Day draws 1,000plus to St. Mary’s Cathedral Lorena Rojas and Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Hundreds of people, including many children and teenagers, packed St. Mary’s Cathedral for a day devoted to issues critical to Latino Catholics: family, immigration and vocations. “It was amazing,” said Father Moises Agudo, pastor of St. Peter and St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception in the Mission District as well as archdiocesan vicar for Spanish-speaking. He estimated 1,500 people attended the Oct. 31 event. “After this day I can only say thank you, thank you to all who made possible this day.” This was the fifth Dia de la Hispanidad or Hispanic Day but the first all-day event, and it drew people from all 34 of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s parishes with Spanish Masses, Father Agudo said. see hispanic day, page 9

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Little girls from Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay performed a Mexican dance during Hispanic Day. They were among more than 300 children and teenagers who participated.

Military chaplains of the archdiocese: Accompanying those who serve in the U.S. military Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Holy Angels pastor Father Alex Legaspi is one of five brothers, and service in the military is what each of them did – so joining up as a Marine Corps chaplain was a natural for him. His uncles fought in the Philippines in World War II. Three of them were in the Bataan Death March, one escaped and all three survived it. “For me it’s being close to the young people and making them understand that there is a God who will always protect them and who always is there to answer their prayers,” said Father Legaspi, a Navy commander, who loves “the esprit de corps.” With an estimated 40 percent of Marines and Navy military Catholic, the need and the respect for the priests is great, Father Legaspi said. He noted that even women Protestant chaplains get called “Padre.” “I would say Mass in the field for the Marines.

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Father Alex Legaspi and Msgr. Edward McTaggart at the priests retirement luncheon Oct. 31 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Father Legaspi credits Msgr. McTaggart’s advice for his military chaplaincy vocation. I would say, ‘The Lord be with you,’” said Father Legaspi, who was 11 years a Marine Corps chaplain

and is now in his 12th year as a Navy chaplain, and the response would be ‘And also with you, sir!’” A handful of priests in the archdiocese are or were military chaplains, serving the men and women in uniform who defend our country in a “vocation within a vocation.” In a series of Catholic San Francisco interviews timed to coincide with Veterans Day Nov. 11, the priests said military chaplains are uniquely situated to accompany the young adults who make up most of the armed forces. “We’re dealing with young people during a critical time in their lives,” said Msgr. Edward P. McTaggart, a retired U.S. Army colonel now living at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo. Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski thought enlisting as a second lieutenant with the Air Force in 1984 was a short-term commitment, a summer job to make money while he was in the seminary. Thirty-two years later, the tall priest with the silver brush cut see chaplains, page 13

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need to know Affordable housing bond ok’d: San Francisco voters approved a $310 million affordable housing bond, Proposition A, on Nov. 3. The bond was aimed largely at helping middle class residents afford to live in the city. The bond issue was supported by Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Charities and the San Francisco Interfaith Council, as well as Mayor Ed Lee, the Board of Supervisors and numerous others. Guadalupana Pilgrimage Dec. 5: The annual pilgrimage from All Souls Church in South San Francisco to St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco will be Dec. 5. The walk begins at All Souls at 5 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral is at 2 p.m. SCIENCE TALK: Dr. Maria Elena Monzani, astrophysicist, will speak and answer questions Nov. 15 on black holes and the origins of the universe, Star of the Sea auditorium, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco, 7 p.m., www. starparish.com. (415) 751-0450. Admission is free. Suitable for all ages.

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Above, priests, seminarians and the archbishop processed through the cemetery to the Priest Plot. Left, top to bottom: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated the Mass and the priests concelebrated; middle, a cross marks one of the many priestly graves at Holy Cross Cemetery; bottom, priests gathered in prayer at the Priest Plot.

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Feast of St. Frances Cabrini: All are welcome to a Mass honoring America’s first saint, Frances Mother Cabrini (1850-1917), Nov. 13, noon, Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone as celebrant. The Mass will honor the humanitarian deeds of sisters from various congregations as well as the memory of immigrant families and the role of women in keeping the family together.

Priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco gathered at Holy Cross Cemetery Nov. 4 to remember in prayer the deceased clergy of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This new tradition of the priests and bishops joining together to celebrate a Mass for the deceased priests of the archdiocese at the cemetery is expected to continue each year in November, the month Catholics pray particularly for the faithfully departed. During the Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and the priests of the archdiocese at Holy Cross Cemetery’s Mausoleum, the names of the clergy who died in the past year were read, said Monica J. Williams, archdioc-

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Parents with children were among those attending.

Young people enjoyed posing with the life size cardboard cutout of Pope Francis.

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Workshops gave participants a chance to share ideas.

First-ever Young Adults Conference aimed to build parish communities Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

The Young Adult Ministry Conference Oct. 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral attracted singles, as well as married couples with and without children to learn about topics including theology of the body, handling Angela Pollock technology in a healthy way, reducing stress, and communication skills. “The thing the participants most appreciated was the chance to come together with one another and deepen their faith and sense of community with others across the archdiocese,” said Angela Pollock, director of young adult and campus ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “For the first conference of its kind, it was incredibly successful,” Pollock said. Young adults are those 18 to 40. “We had nearly 100 people there

throughout the day. This demographic works full time; they have children, etc.,” said Pollock. “We intentionally made it flexible and I was very happy that many people took advantage of that and came when they were able. We had a great crew of volunteers who did an amazing job.” The event also included a children’s track where they learned that God loves them and created them with special gifts, Pollock said. The day began with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and concelebrated by San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy. Bishop McElroy was the keynote speaker. “There were a variety of speakers on different topics relevant for young adults,” said Bertina Cannizzaro, a parishioner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley. All the topics were presented “in light of Catholic teaching and faith,” Cannizzaro said. The Young Adult Ministry was re-founded two years ago and is moving away from the previous common

model of big events outside the parish such as Theology on Tap. “The new model is to really strengthen the young adults’ sense of community in their own parishes,” said Pollock. “This is the first big event that the Young Adult Council and I decided would help what they are trying to do in the parishes.” The teams had tables so those who were new could learn about the parish-based groups. The Young Adult Council draws from parish young adult groups. There are about 20 young adult groups in parishes including Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Mill Valley and St. Raphael in San Rafael; St. Andrew in South San Francisco; St. Charles in San Carlos; St. Gregory in San Mateo; St. Charles Borromeo, St. Thomas More,

St. Dominic, St. Agnes, St. Ignatius, St. Peter, Notre Dame des Victoires and Holy Redeemer in San Francisco; and the California Catholic Chinese Young Adult Group. New young adult groups are forming at Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park, Our Lady of Mercy in Daly City, St. Matthew in San Mateo, and St. Brendan the Navigator in San Francisco. The concept of young adult ministry began in 1997 when the U.S. bishops issued the document “Sons and Daughters of Light,” in which they said many adults 18-40 had been neglected by the church. For more information on the Catholic young adult groups and the Young Adult Council, go to CatholicinSF.com.

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Sisters of the Immaculate Conception: ‘Forward, go always forward’ Sisters of the Immaculate Conception

Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

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We, Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, were founded in 1892, by St. Carmen de Jesus Sallés WAKE UP THE WORLD ! in Burgos, 2015 Year of Consecrated Life Spain. We came to California in 1962 to the Diocese of Fresno and in the early 1980s we expanded to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, where we are still present in St. Brigid School. Carmen Sallés was a woman of courage who was determined to seek and do the will of God at all cost. She was also a pilgrim of hope. Hope for the girls she dedicated her life to educate their minds and hearts so they may have a better life; hope that God will provide because his grace will never fail. Her motto was “Forward, go always forward. God will provide.” She was beatified March 18, 1998, by St. John Paul II, and canonized Oct. 21, 2012, by Pope Benedict XVI. Mary under the mystery of the Immaculate Conception as contemplated by St. Carmen Sallés, is at the center of our charism which is trinitarian, Christ-centered and eucharistic. The mission that flows from our charism is

When and where founded: 1892, Burgos, Spain First arrived in the archdiocese: 1982 Original ministry: Education Current ministries: Education (Courtesy photo)

Sisters of the Immaculate Conception are pictured at a community meeting. The congregation arrived in the archdiocese in 1982 and still ministers at St. Brigid School in San Francisco. carried essentially through education, having its roots in Christ the teacher, and in Mary Immaculate, the first fruit of the redemption. The missionary commitment is essential to our spirituality and charism. Although we work in other areas of evangelization, such as parish education programs, youth groups, houses of spirituality, orphanages, detention ministry, dining rooms, and campesino ministry, our main apostolate remains the education of children and youth handed down to us by St. Carmen Sallés. It is the mystery of Mary conceived without sin that fascinated St. Carmen and motivated her mission: To educate the minds and hearts of children after the model of Mary Immaculate to

prevent evil from entering their lives, so that when they have met Jesus as the truth, they may follow him as faithful disciples. To help the children and youth in their decision making in order to live honest and useful lives in our society and finally to become citizens of heaven, is the purpose of our mission. In all parts of the world where we are located, the mission of evangelization continues to be carried out by the sisters according to the needs and culture of the people. Even though we are 500 religious in number and working in five continents and 17 different countries, we feel as belonging to one family in collaboration with the laypeople we share our charism, spirituality and mission.

Number of sisters: 500 congregation, 5 archdiocese To Mary we lift our hearts frequently asking her for help, so she can teach us to educate as she did. Our educational centers are like a garden where God placed us, so all the religious and educators, together with the families, must cultivate it. St. Carmen used to tell us “You will encounter Jesus in the hearts of children.” We attend all social classes, paying special attention to the most needy. The congregation became “Soil of Blessing” according to the words of St. Carmen de Jesús Sallés and we know we are called to receive God’s blessing. The missionary challenge is to open new ways and horizons to try to imitate the apostolic zeal, creativity and strength of our foundress.

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All Souls pastor Father Briccio Tamora, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Deacon Alex Aragon and parochial vicar Father Jerome Bai posing outside the parish house after the installation Mass. installed Nov. 1 by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at a 10:30 a.m. Mass. The parochial vicar, Divine Word Missionary Father Jerome Bai, was ordained in May. This is his first parish assignment, Father Tamora said. In 2011, Divine Word Missionaries assumed administration of St. Kevin Parish in San Francisco. That same year Divine Word Missionary Father Peter Zhai came to the archdiocese and began serving as a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City. He was appointed Chinese Catholic ministry director in 2013, and is in residence at St. Anne of the Sunset. Divine Word Missionary Father John Tran is pastoral administrator at St. Kevin. Both Father Bai and Father Zhai are from China, and have family in mainland China. Father Tamora, who was provincial of the nearly 70-priest California province prior to assuming his new role as pastor, said the order first came to the archdiocese many decades ago to minister to Japanese Catholics but as the number of both Japanese speak-

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Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester, former Archdiocese of San Francisco auxiliary bishop, traveled to Marin County Nov. 1 to celebrate a 50th Foundation Day Mass for the Mother of God Carmelite Monastery in San Rafael. Pictured at a reception following are, from left: Archbishop Wester; founding prioress Carmelite Mother Dolores; and current prioress Carmelite Mother Anna Marie. Above, the Jubilee celebration coincided with Archbishop Wester’s birthday which was not forgotten by the Carmelite community, which surprised him with a birthday cake.

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In 1965, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken invited 10 sisters from the Carmelite monastery at Carmelby-the-Sea to come to the Archdiocese of San Francisco and built the suburban enclave for them. Today the Carmelite community includes Mother Dolores, who served as prioress for more than 20 years, current prioress Mother Anna Marie and four other sisters. In his homily, Archbishop Wester said that our sanctification is nearly guaranteed if “we let God be God” and honored the sisters’ life of prayer. “My dear sisters, you are living examples of this because you believe in a God who actively works in you in very beautiful ways,” he said. “It’s not always been easy, but you take on our sufferings and make them your own.”

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“We had no idea what to expect and it was a great success. The organizing committee worked tirelessly. They made 1,500 sandwiches to feed the group,” said Ed Hopfner, director of marriage and family life for the archdiocese. Hopfner spoke on marriage and family life. Archdiocesan vocations director Father David Schunk and leader of the Hispanic Vocation Committee Father Juan Manuel Lopez, parochial vicar at St. Anthony in Menlo Park, spoke on vocations. Parish outreach and organizing coordinator Lorena Melgarejo addressed immigration issues. Confessions were heard by 10 priests almost all day, and as many as 50 people were standing in line much of the day, said Father Agudo. There were separate sessions devoted to the teenagers and children. The day began with morning prayer led by Auxiliary Bishop William Justice and ended with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the packed cathedral. The archbishop also spoke at the conference, telling attendees to focus first on the family and then on the call to religious life and the priesthood. “We are still in the Year of Consecrated Life,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “I ask you to try as much as possible to encourage young people to consider the call of the Lord to serve him in this so-called extraor-

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People from 34 different parishes in the archdiocese attended the day. dinary vocation to which the Lord calls ordinary people.” The archbishop noted the family is known as the “domestic church” because everything starts with the family, and the focus must first be on the family and then on religious vocations. “Actually, the most important vocation in the world and in the Church is marriage,” Archbishop Cordileone said. Father Agudo stressed how important it is for Latinos to educate themselves in the faith for themselves and to be Catholic leaders for the future of the U.S. church. More than 40 percent of Catholics in the archdiocese are Latino, according to the archdiocesan statistics. However, Latinos often go unno-

ticed in their parishes, Father Agudo said. He conceived of the Hispanic Day, which began five years ago, to build unity in the archdiocese. Latinos come from many different cultural traditions although they share the common language of Spanish. “The Latino community has always been divided and is known for its various devotions or traditions of their countries,” said Father Agudo. “Our Lady of Guadalupe represents Mexico, Immaculate Conception represents Nicaragua, El Salvador de Mundo represents El Salvador, El

Pedro Saucedo, member of the board of the Pastoral Hispana Arquidiócesana carries the flag of Panamá and another parishioner of the archdiocese carries the flag of Mexico in the procession before Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Divino Niño represents Colombians and so on. But, the magnitude of Hispanics in the archdiocese was not known.” With Hispanic Day, “we could unite the community year after year and make it grow.” “One of the great strengths of the Spanish-speaking community is family,” said Hopfner. “It is a crucial issue for the church and for all of society. In many ways you can be the leaders, showing the rest of us how to live marriage and family,” he told the group.

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Notre Dame Elementary School fifth graders hosted the school’s annual “Trick or Treat So All Can Eat” food drive benefitting the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo Homeless Help Centers of South San Francisco and San Mateo. Students from kindergarten through eighth grades competed to see which grade could bring in the most canned food and non-perishable goods, as calculated by weight, said sixth-eighthgrade social studies teacher Sara Maennle. The hallways of the school were filled with cans of tuna, beans and pasta totaling more than 2,300 pounds. Student council members from sixth, seventh and eighth grades spearheaded a drive to raise funds for breast cancer research. The students made and sold dozens of pink pins to students and faculty. They raised $333 for the American Cancer Society. Additionally, student council members collected several boxes of extra Halloween candy to send to U.S. armed forces through Operation Gratitude.

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VATICAN CITY – A week after the 65th anniversary of Father Emil J. Kapaun’s capture in North Korea, the bishop of Wichita, Kansas, formally presented a report on the Army chaplain’s life, virtues and fame of holiness to the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. Bishop Carl A. Kemme of Wichita and a small delegation from the diocese met Nov. 9 with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the congregation, and other officials to hand over the 1,066 page report known as a “positio.” During the Korean War, Father Kapaun, a priest of the Wichita diocese, and other members of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, were captured by Chinese troops in North Korea Nov. 2, 1950. The priest died in a North Korean prison camp May 23, 1951. President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor posthumously to the war-hero priest in a White House ceremony in 2013, but the men who were imprisoned with Father Kapaun and the faithful of the Diocese of Wichita had been honoring him long before that. Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, secretary of the congregation, told Bishop Kemme and his delegation that if the historians have no questions and believe the biography and the information about the circumstances of Father Kapaun’s death are complete,

Father Emil J. Kapaun the report would go to a commission of theologians by late 2017. Father Kapaun is the first sainthood candidate from the Wichita diocese. Bishop Kemme said the diocese already has identified and is working on the documentation for two healings. One of them could be the miracle needed for Father Kapaun’s beatification. A special novena for the beatification of Father Kapaun began Nov. 2, the 65th anniversary of his capture at the Battle of Unsan, and was to end on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

Supreme Court to hear challenges to HHS contraceptive mandate Catholic News Service

The Supreme Court will hear legal challenges to the federal contraception mandate brought by the Little Sisters of the Poor and six other faith-based organizations. In addition to the Little Sisters of the Poor, the plaintiffs include the Archdiocese of Washington, the Pittsburgh and Erie dioceses, Priests for Life, Southern Nazarene University and Texas Baptist University. At the center of the controversy is a federal rule announced by the Obama administration that requires most employers to provide employee health care plans that cover birth control, sterilizations, and drugs that can cause early abortions. Employers that do not comply with the mandate may face crippling fines as a penalty. In the case of the Little Sisters – an order that cares for the elderly poor and dying – this could mean up $2.5 million per year in fines, or 40 percent of the annual amount they beg for. Under the federal Affordable Care Act, most employers, including religious ones, are required to cover employees’ artificial birth control, sterilization and abortifacients, even if employers are morally opposed to such coverage. In all the cases to be argued be-

fore the high court in March, appellate courts in various jurisdictions sided with the Obama administration. The rulings said the religious entities’ freedom of religion was not burdened by having to comply with the mandate as they have argued, because the federal government has in place an accommodation for a third party to provide the contested coverage. But the religious groups object to that notification, saying they still would be complicit in supporting practices they oppose. While their appeals worked their way to the high court, the government has not been able to force the groups to comply with the mandate or face daily fines for noncompliance. “Charitable ministries across the nation simply want to provide life-affirming health care for their employees, without fear of massive government penalties,” said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. In a Nov. 6 statement, he called on Catholics to pray that “this basic freedom” guaranteeing that no one in this country has to violate their religious convictions “will prevail.” “This freedom is not only common sense, it is what the law requires,” the archbishop said.

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Pope wants to visit Czestochowa, Auschwitz, Polish president says

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis wants to visit the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa and the Auschwitz concentration camp when he travels to Poland next year, Polish President Andrzej Duda said. After meeting Pope Francis Nov. 9, Duda told journalists of the pope’s desire to visit the two historical sites during his apostolic trip to the country in July for World Youth Day 2016. The famed icon of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, according to legend, was painted by St. Luke on a tabletop built by Jesus and brought to Europe after its discovery by St. Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine. The monastery which houses the icon

was visited by St. John Paul II four times during his pontificate and by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. The Polish president said that the pope also wished to follow the footsteps of his predecessors and pray at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp where more than 1 million people, most Jews, were murdered.

Leaked documents won’t stop financial reforms, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Leaked and published information about Vatican financial problems were already known and are the reason “measures have already been taken that have begun to bear fruit,” Pope Francis said. At his first public appearance since the release Nov. 5 of two books based on the leaked docu-

ments, Pope Francis assured Catholics Nov. 8 that the leaks “certainly will not divert me from the reform work that I and my collaborators are carrying out with the support of all of you.” Gianluigi Nuzzi’s book, “Merchants in the Temple,” and Emiliano Fittipaldi’s book, “Avarizia” (“Greed”), cite documents written for or by a commission Pope Francis established to study the financial activity of Vatican offices and make recommendations for reforms and

improvements. Both books focus on the irregularities uncovered. The Vatican announced Nov. 2 the arrests of two members of the former Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Organization of the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See. The monsignor and the laywoman are suspected of releasing confidential documents, which is a crime under Vatican law. catholic news service

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is a colonel in the Air Force Reserve and continues to fly to remote air bases, saying Mass and hearing confessions in the Arctic and in other remote locations at Christmas and over the Holy Week and Easter holidays. “Because of the great need,” said Msgr. Padazinski, who is chancellor for the archdiocese and judicial vicar of the canon law tribunal. “It’s gotten more critical as the years have gone on.” Msgr. C. Michael The Archdiocese for the Padazinski Military Services serves the spiritual and sacramental needs of an estimated 1.8 million Catholics worldwide. A “chronic shortage” of Catholic chaplains is accelerating as more priests reach mandatory retirement age of 62. Even though there has been a big uptick in interest and seminary enrollments in the past few years, the number of active-duty chaplains throughout the U.S. military has fallen from more than 400 to 225 since 9/11, according to the AMS. Msgr. McTaggart spent 15 years in the National Guard and 13 in the Army Reserves. “All of my cousins and classmates went to World War II or Korea,“ he said. It was the 1960s. The Cold War was in full swing, “the draft was on and guys were getting drafted right out of our parishes.”

While Msgr. McTaggart never went overseas, he saw action – as chaplain of a National Guard unit deployed for 21 days to handle the student demonstrations at UC Berkeley in 1969. “You didn’t know what could happen from one minute to the next,” said Msgr. McTaggart who celebrated Mass in People’s Park in the middle of the chaos, and heard a lot of confessions. He retired at 60 in 1989. It was Msgr. McTaggart’s encouragement and advice that helped Father Legaspi sign up as a chaplain, the pastor of Holy Angels said. Dominican Father Steven Maekawa, now at St. Dominic Parish, served in Afghanistan. St. Denis pastor Father Paul O’Dell served in Iraq. “I was activated and deployed to Afghanistan with the Army, assigned to the 25th infantry division,” said Father Maekawa. “A really great ministry. The people work was high and the paperwork was low and that’s about as good as it gets.” “One of the great challenges is you are really there to minister to everybody—everybody needs Christ in their life,” Father Maekawa said, noting “of course, there is sadness and loss when people get killed or hurt. That was a part of my education, seeing the effect of evil on another scale, another part of the world. It drives home the mes-

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Searching for peace with help from a sage

t is the book that somehow surfaces when you need it most – manna for the multitasker, solace for the stressed. It is the book you stock up on to give to others, to slip in Christmas stockings, to pay it forward. It is the book that spiritual directors recommend again and again: Father Jacques Philippe’s tiny Christina paperback with Cappecchi the nondescript cover, the one that delivers everything its title promises: “Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart.” My friend Roxane introduced me to the book earlier this year. She had been sitting with a fellow chaperone on a bus in Washington, D.C., making their way to the March for Life, when

Letters Movie sure to get story wrong

Remember that you heard it here first: A new movie about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal is sure to get the story wrong. I know the story behind the story, which is more about the church and contemporary news reporting than it is about sex abuse. I was with The Associated Press when this broke. The movie is “Spotlight.” The focus is on The Boston Globe’s alleged breaking of sex abuse in the church. The National Catholic Reporter reported on predator priests as early as 1983. The Mercury’s Carl Cannon won honors for his 1985 story, which was the first to put a true “spotlight” on the scandal. The church scandal is a prime example of Oz reporting in which you pay no attention to the man behind the curtain even though you know something is wrong. I knew something was wrong a few weeks after AP picked up the Mercury story. An education group met in San Francisco and one of its papers had to do with sex abuse in public schools. I figured it would be as well covered as the church story. It wasn’t. Later Education Week did a largely ignored series on school sex abuse called “Passing the Trash” about offending teachers being moved from one school to another. It wasn’t until 2010 that AP got around to doing a series on sex abuse in schools. Few newspapers ran it. The media is part of the cover-up. It’s simply not doing its job. James O. Clifford Sr. Redwood City

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she began sharing her struggles as the mother of teens. “I wasn’t sure why I brought this,” the chaperone told Roxane, reaching for her purse, “but I think I know now.” And hence, Roxane was gifted with Father Philippe’s tome. “His way of approaching spiritual topics is like having a flashlight to navigate murky areas of life, when before you were just groping around in the dark,” Roxane says. I made a mental note, but it took another nudge before I bought a copy. Katrina Harrington, a 26-year-old Catholic from South Bend, Indiana, recently blogged about her third baby, a 9-pound girl with a powerful set of lungs. “Ever since she was born bellowing,” Katrina wrote, “my cup runneth over in patience and humility. I suspect part comes from reading this book” – and the embedded Amazon link directed me to a familiar page. This summer, when Katrina’s family was moving, she found a copy of “Searching for and Maintaining Peace” on a bookshelf. “I have no clue who bought it, since neither my hus-

band nor I remember purchasing it or receiving it as a gift,” she told me. But it made for third-trimester reading the young mom would soon need. When her husband, a theology graduate student, had to go on a retreat six days after Elise’s birth, leaving Katrina home with no help, she felt the book’s impact, crediting it for providing “an almost miraculous amount of peace.” Now it’s guiding her as she resumes her at-home business, Hatch Prints – a hand-lettering and art shop that illuminates the wisdom of the saints through watercolor – providing for her family amid her husband’s fulltime studies. I’ve been savoring the book, which is as practical as it is profound. Father Philippe, a 68-year-old French priest with a white goatee and a ruddy complexion, feels like a modernday doctor of the church. Peace, he explains, is the spiritual condition that lets God’s grace work in us. It is a “necessary corollary of love,” of being available to those around us. I hadn’t felt that I was lacking

peace, but the book has helped me recognize how often I hurry and control, trying to strong-arm my own agenda into daily life. It has reminded me to be patient about my progress, to resist the kind of checklist living – go, go, go – that can define young adulthood. “Your guide is the Holy Spirit,” Father Philippe writes. “By your struggles and worries, by your anxiety and haste, you overtake him with the pretense of moving more quickly.” The opposite occurs: You wind up on rougher terrain, and “far from advancing, you go backward.” It has refined my thinking and strengthened my desire to harbor the peace that invites God in, so he can work through me, enabling me to produce the good works he designed me to do. In a season accelerated by the holiday scramble and end-of-year drumbeat, this book feels like a slow exhale, reminding of another way. Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and the editor of SisterStory.org.

The mystery of male-female complementarity

ames Parker came out at age 17 and later entered into a relationship with another man. He worked as a gay activist for a while, but his personal experiences of intimacy and human sexuality eventually led him to grasp that “same-sex marriage just doesn’t exist; even if you want to say that it does.” He concluded that trying to persuade those with homosexual father tadeusz inclinations pacholczyk that they can have marriage like heterosexual couples is basically to “hoodwink” them: “Deep down, there is no mystery between two men, ultimately.” This striking insight helps bring into focus the authentic and remarkable mystery we encounter in the joining of husband and wife in marriage. That abiding mystery touches on their one flesh union and reveals an inner fruitfulness, enabling them to contribute together something greater than either can do alone, namely, the engendering of new life in the marital embrace. Ultimately, that life-giving mystery flows from their radical male–female complementarity. Pope John Paul II commented on this “mystery of complementarity” when he noted how “uniting with each other (in the conjugal act) so closely as to become ‘one flesh,’ man and woman, rediscover, so to speak, every time and in a special way, the mystery of creation.” The personal and bodily complementarity of man and woman, along with the “duality of a mysterious mutual attraction,” reminds

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us, again in the words of the pope, how “femininity finds itself, in a sense, in the presence of masculinity, while masculinity is confirmed through femininity.” In recent times, nevertheless, the importance of the bodily and spiritual complementarity of man and woman has come to be diminished and even negated in the minds of many, largely due to the diffusion of contraception. This way of intentionally impeding our own procreativity has effectively diminished and even undermined our ability to perceive the inner order and interpersonal meaning of our own sexuality. Pope John Paul II once described the root truth about human sexuality as that “characteristic of man – male and female – which permits them, when they become ‘one flesh,’ to submit at the same time their whole humanity to the blessing of fertility.” The routine promotion of contraceptive sexual relations across all strata of society has effectively collapsed the mystery of sexuality into the trivial pursuit of mutually-agreed-upon pleasurable sensations. It has managed to reconfigure that sexuality into, basically, sterile acts of mutual auto-eroticism. Men and women, neutered and neutralized by various surgeries, pharmaceuticals, or other devices, no longer really need each other in their complementary sexual roles, with homosexual genital activity claiming the status of just another variant of the same game. This depleted vision of our sexuality strips out the beautiful mystery at its core and diminishes our human dignity. Human sexuality clearly touches deep human chords, including the reality of our solitude. In the depths of the human heart is found a desire for completion through the total spousal gift of oneself to another, a gift that profoundly contributes to alleviating our primordial sense of human solitude. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope

Francis have noted how the deeper mystery of communion that we seek through intimacy is connected to this desire to overcome solitude. We are ultimately intended for communion, so our experiences of human solitude draw us into relationship, and beckon us to an encounter with the other. Yet the union of friendship that arises between two men, for example, or between two women, while clearly important in helping to overcome solitude, can be predicated only on non-genital forms of sharing if their friendship is to be authentic, fruitful and spiritually life-giving. Genital sexual activity between members of the same sex fails to communicate objectively either the gift of life or the gift of self. Such activity countermands authentic intimacy by collapsing into a form of consensual bodily exploitation, contradicting the very design and meaning of the body in its nature as masculine or feminine. It represents, in fact, the lifeless antithesis of nuptial fruitfulness and faithfulness. The beauty and meaning of every sexual encounter in marriage, then, is rooted not only in faithful and exclusive love, but also in the radical complementarity of spouses manifested in the abiding mystery of their mutual procreativity. Pope Francis, speaking at the 2015 Synod of Bishops and addressing the theme of “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and in the Contemporary World,” reiterated this divine design over human sexuality when he stressed: “This is God’s dream for his beloved creation: to see it fulfilled in the loving union between a man and a woman, rejoicing in their shared journey, fruitful in their mutual gift of self.” Father Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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The communion of saints

t any given time, most of the world believes that death isn’t final. Most people believe that those who have died still exist in some state however that might be conceived. In some conceptions, immortality is seen as a state wherein a person is still conscious and relational; while in other FATHER ron concepts, exrolheiser istence after death is understood as real but impersonal. Christians believe that the dead are still alive, still themselves and, very importantly, still in a living, conscious, and loving relationship with us and with each other. However simplistic it is wonderfully correct. That’s exactly what Christian faith and Christian dogma, not to

mention deep intuitive experience, invite us to. But how is this to be understood? How do we connect to our loved ones after they have died? The Gospels say that at the instant of Jesus’ death the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised (Matthew 27, 50-52). The Gospels tell us that on the morning of the resurrection women came to Jesus’ grave to anoint his dead body with embalming spices, but rather than finding his dead body, they meet instead an empty grave and two angels who challenge them: Why are you looking for a live person in a cemetery? He isn’t here. He’s alive and you can find him in Galilee (Luke 24, 5). As Christians, we believe that we are given eternal life through Jesus’ death. Jesus death, the Gospels tell us, “opened the tombs” and emptied graveyards. For this reason, Christians have never had a huge cult around cemeteries. Why? Because we believe all those graves are empty.

Our loved ones aren’t there and aren’t to be found there. They’re with Jesus, in “Galilee.” “Galilee” in the Gospels is more than a place on a map; it’s also a place inside the Spirit, God’s Spirit and our own. Galilee is the place where good things happen. It’s the place where the disciples first meet Jesus, where they fall in love with him, where they commit themselves to him, and where miracles happen. And that is also a place for each of our deceased loved ones. In each of their lives, there was a Galilee, a place where their persons and souls were most alive, where their lives radiated the energy and exuberance of the divine. When we look at the life of a loved one who has died we need to ask: Where was she most alive? What qualities did she, most uniquely, embody and bring into a room? Where did she lift my spirit and make me want to be a better person? Name those things, and you will have named your loved one’s Galilee and the Galilee of the Gospels;

that place in the heart where Jesus invites you to meet him. And that is too where you will meet your loved ones in the communion of saints. Elizabeth Johnson, leaning on Karl Rahner, adds this thought: “Hoping against hope, we affirm that they (our loved ones who have died) have fallen not into nothingness but into the embrace of the living God. And that is where we can find them again; when we open our hearts to the silent calmness of God’s own life in which we dwell, not by selfishly calling them back to where we are, but by descending into the depth of our own hearts where God also abides.” The “Galilee” of our loved ones can also be found inside our own “Galilee”; a deep place inside the heart, inside faith, hope, and charity, where everyone, living or deceased, is met. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Choosing wisely or foolishly at global climate conference

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very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system,” warns Pope Francis. In his environmental encyclical “Laudato Si’ ” (“On Care for Our Common Home”), the Holy Father further warns, tony magliano “In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events. … “Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming.” From Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Paris to hopefully agree on how to drastically limit global warming. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirms that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that human activities are the main cause of dangerous climate change – especially global warming. Despite the overwhelming evidence, many people prefer to believe corporate fiction instead of scientific fact. The Union of Concerned Scientists states, “No matter how much data we publish, if companies with enormous resources like ExxonMobil can dissuade people from accepting climate science, then the data won’t matter” (http://bit.ly/1dMSAec). Even the U.S. military acknowledges the dangers of climate change. According to Forbes financial magazine, the Military Advisory Board of the Center for Naval Analysis in its report “National Security

Cardinal: Climate change affects all, regardless of wealth or privilege Gus Hardy Catholic News Service

SANTA CLARA – Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, the lead consultant on Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, issued a call to action in the heart of the world’s technology and communications industries – Silicon Valley. The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace visited Santa Clara University Nov. 3-4. He specifically wished to come to the Jesuit university because of its location. He headlined a twoday conference on climate change titled “Our Future on a Shared Planet: Silicon Valley in Conversation With the Environmental Teachings of Pope Francis.” “Real change only comes from dialogue and mobilization from below,” Cardinal Turkson said as he opened his keynote speech before a packed audience of students, faculty and local business leaders. “Climate acceleration is undeniable, but amenable to intervention,” he said. “This is why we are in need of ‘Laudato Si’,’ a full social encyclical in the tradition of ‘Rerum Novarum’ to apply the church’s teachings to this day and age.” ‘Rerum Novarum,’” the 1891 encyclical on capital and labor by Pope Leo XIII, is considered the

and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change” warns that “Climate change impacts are already accelerating instability in vulnerable areas of the world and are serving as catalysts for conflict.” Lay Franciscan Lonnie Ellis,

The need to think critically about technological advances is necessary given that ‘we are acting like a technological giant and an ethical child.’ Cardinal Peter Turkson starting point of modern social teaching. Cardinal Turkson pointed to a prevailing “naive confidence that technological advances and a free market will automatically solve all of our problems,” tying that to the “tragedy of the commons,” where our common goods of climate and atmosphere are shared by all and abused by a few at the expense of all. He said that both he and Pope Francis wished that technology could be “guided ethically” with consideration of the implications of development. The need to think critically about technological advances is necessary, the cardinal warned, given that “we are acting like a technological giant and an ethical child.”

associate director of the Catholic Climate Covenant (www.catholicclimatecovenant.org), explained to me that “Many of those who suffer the most from climate change have contributed the least to it.” He said, “In Sierra Leone where

I worked, the changing climate is causing flash floods and mudslides. But yet it takes the greenhouse gas emissions of 85 Sierra Leoneans to equal that of one American. In union with Pope Francis, bishop conference presidents representing every continent on earth have written an appeal letter (http://bit. ly/1PUmI7j) to representatives of the upcoming U.N. climate conference, urging them to commit to total decarbonization by 2050, to provide affordable renewable clean energy for all, and to adequately aid vulnerable nations suffering the effects of climate change. Together with Pope Francis and the bishops, let’s increase our commitment to protecting creation. Please sign the Catholic Climate Covenant’s petition to Todd Stern, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, by going to this link http://bit.ly/1PSNwpg. Many members of Congress who receive financial support from oil, coal and gas corporations will likely try to derail U.S. agreements reached with other climate conference nations – as some in Congress attempted to do with the U.N. Security Council’s nuclear weapons agreement with Iran. Therefore, it is very important that you email and call (Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121) your congressional delegation urging them to support, and not block, agreements reached at the upcoming U.N. climate conference in Paris. In his June 5, 2013, General Audience Pope Francis said, “We are losing our attitude of wonder, of contemplation, of listening to creation and thus we no longer manage to interpret in it what Benedict XVI calls ‘the rhythm of the love-story between God and man.’” If we open our hearts, and allow ourselves to discover the God-given ability to wonder, contemplate and listen to creation, we will deeply experience the love-story between God and humanity. Magliano is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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Sunday readings

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.’ MARK 13:24-32 DANIEL 12:1-3 In those days, I Daniel, heard this word of the Lord: “At that time there shall arise Michael, the great prince, guardian of your people; it shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time. At that time your people shall escape, everyone who is found written in the book. “Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; some shall live forever, others shall be an everlasting horror and disgrace. “But the wise shall shine brightly like the splendor of the firmament, and those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever.” PSALM 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 You are my inheritance, O Lord! O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot. I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. You are my inheritance, O Lord!

Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption. You are my inheritance, O Lord! You will show me the path to life, fullness of joys in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever. You are my inheritance, O Lord! HEBREWS 10:11-14, 18 Brothers and sisters: Every priest stands daily at his ministry, offering frequently those same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But this one offered one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat forever at the right hand of God; now he waits until his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are being consecrated. Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer offering for sin.

His people, living and dead, will be victorious

ears ago a popular bumper sticker read: “Stop the world! I want to get off!” It reflected the frustration, anger, and helplessness at the insanity in the world. Aren’t we too at times exasperated by the world and national events? After the world wars, we lived under the threat of a nuclear holocaust. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict involving only about 13 million people has brought sadness to the world’s over 7,000 million people for decades. The menace from fundamentalist militants and dictators has spawned violence, terror, and wars, displacing milfather charles lions of people from their puthota homelands. What crimes are being committed in the name of God! The immigrant crisis in Europe is unprecedented. The failed states like Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan have generated unimaginable heartbreak and tragedy. Not to mention other disasters like hunger, poverty, disease, injustice, gun violence, greed, and environmental degradation. What is happening to this world, our common home? The grim list of the global ills might well be part of the apocalyptic events described in the word of God this Sunday. Poised on the penultimate Sunday of the liturgical year, as we face the feast of Christ the King next Sunday, the church invites us to reflect on the end things with abiding faith and robust hope. The world’s current tribulations may seem that we are doomed forever, but God is ready to flash a rainbow of new life and beauty as he did for Noah after the deluge. God will not abandon us. He will recreate the world that has been brought to ruin by our horrible choices. There will be peace and harmony. Justice and integrity will reign. Evil will not triumph. There will be goodness and gladness again in the world that God loves so much that he gave his only son. Written during persecution in Babylonian exile, the Book of Daniel speaks of “a time un-

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Today’s tasks and responsibilities matter. Albert Camus says: ‘I shall tell you a secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.’ surpassed in distress,” but God’s “people shall escape.” God’s prince Michael will protect them. Amidst such turmoil, there appears the flowering of the belief in immortality and resurrection, a rare Old Testament expression: “Many of those who sleep in the dust … shall awake.” Even the dead will not perish. There is afterlife. God will triumph. His people, living and dead, will be victorious. The hope of resurrection strikes a chord in us this month of November as we honor the faithful departed and accompany them in love and prayer. The cataclysmic events described by Jesus in the Gospel will lead to his second coming. At his coming, there will be not only judgment but also peace and justice. The apocalyptic discourse hints at the persecution the Christian community suffered at the time Mark was writing the Gospel. They could be anchored in Jesus because his “words will not pass away.” In the passage following today’s reading, Jesus asks us to be watchful servants waiting for the master. While we are filled with hope and reassurance as we face the slings and arrows of life, Jesus wants us to do our housekeeping. Today’s tasks and responsibilities matter. Albert Camus says: “I shall tell you a secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.” The hope we seek is brilliantly brought out in the letter to the Hebrews. Jesus’ once-for-all sacrifice of himself has redemptive power on cosmic, cataclysmic, apocalyptic events, events we might experience in some measure in our own lives and times. Jesus’ death and resurrection has brought us new life, and ultimately, our immortality. No worries! Let’s walk with Jesus and talk with him. By becoming his disciples and apostles, we can make sense of our human existence and cosmic destiny. Father Puthota is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

MARK 13:24-32 Jesus said to his disciples: “In those days after that tribulation the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.” And then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in the clouds’ with great power and glory, and then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky. “Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, at the gates. Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. “But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, November 16: Monday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude, virgin. 1 Mc 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63. PS 119:53, 61, 134, 150, 155, 158. Jn 8:12. Lk 18:35-43. Tuesday, November 17: Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious. 2 Mc 6:18-31. PS 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. 1 Jn 4:10b. Lk 19:1-10. Wednesday, November 18: Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of the Dedication of the Churches of Peter and Paul, apostles; St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin. 2 Mc 7:1, 20-31. PS 17:1bcd, 5-6, 8b and 15. See Jn 15:16. Lk 19:11-28. Thursday, November 19: Thursday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Mc 2:15-29. PS 50:1b2, 5-6, 14-15. Ps 95:8. Lk 19:41-44. Friday, November 20: Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Mc 4:36-37, 52-59. 1 Chr 29:10bcd, 11abc, 11d-12a, 12bcd. Jn 10:27. Lk 19:45-48. Saturday, November 21: Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1 Mc 6:1-13. PS 9:2-3, 4 and 6, 16 and 19. See 2 Tm 1:10. Lk 20:27-40.

Pope Francis Generosity a question of the heart, not the wallet

Before the Sunday, Nov. 8, Angelus in Vatican City the pope commented on the day’s Gospel reading, on the model of an ideal Christian. The reading describes the scene in the Temple of Jerusalem, precisely in the place where people threw coins as offerings. “There are many rich people who pay a lot of money, and there is a poor woman – a widow – contributing just two mites, two small coins. … The rich gave with great show what for them was superfluous, while the widow, with discretion and humility, gave – Jesus says – “all she had to live”; for this – Jesus says – she gave “the most of all.” The pope concluded: “Faced with the needs of others, we are called to deprive ourselves of essential things, not only the superfluous.”

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• The Manager of Payroll builds rapport and works directly with Chancery personnel, Parish and School administrators, Parish managers, bookkeepers and Pastors to establish collaborative relationships. • Works with Human Resources to assure complete coordination of pay, benefits and deductions. • Works directly with the Chancery employees on payroll inquires, and assistance when needed.

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• Bachelors in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration, or equivalent work experience required. • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) preferred. • Knowledge of various federal and California payroll taxes required. compensation: Compensation is competitive as a Religious Non-profit employment type: full-time We are an EEO employer. Individuals with criminal history will be considered.

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Filipino Ministry Gala draws more than 500 supporters The Filipino Ministry Gala coordinated by the Filipino Ministry Consultative Board took place Oct. 18 with more than 500 supporters gathered in the banquet halls beneath St. Mary’s Cathedral. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was a special guest. “A deep sense of family permeates every level of Filipino culture and this is very evident by the way you make your local parishes your home,” the archbishop said in remarks. Father David Pettingill, retired pastor, St. Gabriel Parish, San Francisco gave a keynote address on families, the evening’s theme.

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“We adopted the theme from the ‘World Meeting of Families’ held in Philadelphia in September and also the theme of the bishops’ synod in Rome,” said Estelle Oloresisimo, newly installed secretary of the sponsoring group. Other officers include Edgar Estonina, chairman; Deacon Ven Garcia, vice chairman; Loy Banez, parliamentarian; Estrelle Chan, treasurer; Peter Chan; Freda Motak and Richie Almendrala. Entertainment was by the Singing Priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Filipino Ministry Dancers.

Retired Father John Conley died Nov. 4. He was 71 years old. Born in Detroit, Michigan and ordained later in life, he had been a priest for 22 years. A former fedFather John eral prosecuConley tor, he came to San Francisco in the early 1980s entering the seminary in his 40s. He was ordained April 17, 1993 at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop John R. Quinn. He served at parishes including San Francisco’s St. Brendan, St. Mary’s Cathedral, and St. Philip, San Mateo’s St. Bartholomew and Burlingame’s St. Catherine of Siena. He retired in 2003. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Nov. 13, 10 a.m., Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco with burial in Michigan. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94019.

Riordan students at Rosary Rally Students from Archbishop Riordan High School volunteered at the Rosary Rally Oct. 10 at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco and posed with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone after the rosary and Benediction. Many of this year’s volunteers were from the school’s international boarding program.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 14 2-DAY BAKE SALE: St Stephen Women’s Guild sponsored, pies, Irish soda bread, cookies, bars and more after Mass 4:30 p.m. Saturday; Sunday 8, 9:30, 11 a.m. and 6:45 p.m., St. Stephen Church, Eucalyptus at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco; landrini@ sbcglobal.net or francescaDDS@gmail. com. REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of 1990, 6:30 p.m., Villa D’Este Restaurant, Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, $25, Francesca Felizzatto Moore francescafm@comcast. net, Amy Courtney Feasey, amymichael28@hotmail.com. CRAFTS FAIR: St. Sebastian’s Church, Bon Air Road, Greenbrae Arts and Crafts Fair with jewelry, ceramics, knits, flowers, jams, baked goods, (415) 461-0704 for hours or reserve a table, $30 or $35. 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, Saturday 10-6 p.m.; Sunday 9:30- 3 p.m.; over 30 vendors with handcrafted gifts, holiday decorations, event includes a

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SUNDAY, NOV. 15 SCIENCE TALK: Dr. Maria Elena Monzani, astrophysicist, will speak and answer questions on black holes and the origins of the universe, Star of the Sea auditorium, 4420 Geary Blvd. at 8th Avenue, San Francisco, 7 p.m., www.starparish.com; (415) 751-0450. Admission is free, suitable for all ages.

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California Catholic Conference: Question results from Guttmacher ‘think tank’ A report from the California Catholic Conference In the continuing debate over abortion, Planned Parenthood has a unique associate that often provides credibility for the organization when its own statements have low credibility. The Guttmacher Institute is generally viewed by politicians and the media as a neutral source of research data about pregnancy issues. In reality Guttmacher is closely aligned with Planned Parenthood and regularly serves as a de facto source of credibility for the organization. Its role has grown increasingly important in recent years as Planned Parenthood has been hit with numerous exposés that damage its reputation. Rarely mentioned is the fact that Guttmacher began as a unit of Planned Parenthood in 1968 and was named for a past president. Guttmacher became an independent research organization in 1977, but remains closely aligned with Planned Parenthood’s interests. Because of damage to Planned Parenthood’s reputation, public and media acceptance of Guttmacher as a neutral research organization fills a role that complements its messaging. Guttmacher is particularly useful to Planned Parenthood in many state legislative battles over abortion as well as in Congress. In recent years Planned Parenthood has suffered continuing credibility damage in the abortion debate, especially this year when video clips showed that it routinely sells body parts of aborted babies. (Planned Parenthood has announced that it will no longer accept reimbursement for those parts but it still will provide them.) Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston and chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities summarized it well when he wrote to the Congress about of Planned Parenthood’s fetal body part sales.

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“Planned Parenthood’s willingness to traffic in fetal tissue from abortions, and to alter abortion methods not for any reason related to women’s health but to obtain more ‘intact’ organs, is the latest demonstration of a callousness toward women and their unborn children that is shocking to many Americans,” Cardinal O’Malley wrote. The revelation weakened Planned Parenthood’s voice in many venues. As its voice has become less effective, Guttmacher data helps bolster Planned Parenthood’s messages with its defenders. Today Guttmacher is widely quoted by news media as a neutral research organization, almost entirely without reference to its strong anti-life tilt. In that role it serves as a vital science arm of the pro-abortion and birth control community. A recent TIME magazine routinely referred to Guttmacher simply as “a non-profit research organization.” Sometimes Guttmacher’s data receives less attention, which often seems to occur when its data does not support Planned Parenthood’s political claims! For example, in the current public debate Planned Parenthood receives widespread attention for its assertion that if its centers are defunded and close, many women will have to travel excessively long distances for its services. Virtually ignored—and no longer promoted by Guttmacher–is its 2013 study that found 73 per cent of women travel less than 25 miles for an abortion, and 81 per cent travel less than 50 miles. How Guttmacher can tilt a discussion is seen in its assertions before abortion was legalized in Mexico in 2007. Guttmacher reported that 725,000 to 1 million illegal abortions were occurring annually in Mexico, a statistic used to help legalize abortion. After abortion became legal Guttmacher quietly revised its numbers drastically downward, saying that legal abortions in Mexico totaled 122,455.

Then a study by researchers not involved in the issue concluded that Mexico’s abortion total was only 12,000. The drastic discrepancies in Guttmacher’s data were never challenged or explained. Some Guttmacher reports in the U.S. are not widely cited today, presumably because they put abortion in an unfavorable light. Its 1995 study explored the reasons women have abortions, and has never been repeated and is rarely mentioned. The reason could be that its initial study showed that most abortions occur for lifestyle reasons rather than health concerns. The study found that three-quarters of women who had an abortion said their reason was that it would interfere with work, school or similar activities. Only 1 per cent said they aborted because of a defect in the child or because they had been raped. Alan F. Guttmacher (1898-1974) was an obstetrician/gynecologist. He was the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the 1960s and 1970s. Guttmacher was started as a division of Planned Parenthood in 1968. It became independent in 1977 and has been a stand-alone entity since then, yet remains on a close track with Planned Parenthood. Guttmacher today has a staff of more than 80 employees, plus a reservoir of academic researchers who do much of its pro-abortion research. Guttmacher reports a budget of $17,000,000, including $800,000 from the federal government in 2014. Guttmacher reports 13 individual donors of more than $10,000 each, including the “The Richard A. Busemeyer Atheist Foundation,” which also is a major contributor to Compassion & Choices, the physician-assisted suicide lobbying group. See more at www.cacatholic.org.