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Filipinos continue to mourn a year after typhoon SIMONE ORENDAIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

TACLOBAN, Philippines – The sun was ﬁerce over the ﬁeld of dried grass and clumps of earth marked with 3,000 small white crosses. Priests in white vestments walked along the rows of graves, sprinkling streams of holy water from plastic bottles. The blessing was part of the Catholic community’s remembrance of the thousands who lost their lives in and around this city of 224,000 in the central Philippines, one year after their lives were ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan. More than 7,300 people died or went missing. More than 1 million people were left homeless and jobless. A year later, people harbor a deep sense of loss. A Mass Nov. 8 – the one-year anniversary of the SEE TYPHOON, PAGE 18

‘Tale of two synods’ emerged from Vatican, says USCCB president MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BALTIMORE – October’s extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family was just one event, but “a tale of two synods” emerged from it, according to the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Speaking to reporters Nov. 10 after the morning session of the USCCB’s annual fall general assembly in Baltimore, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, acknowledged the differences in the synod experienced by the bishops participating in it and news accounts disseminated outside the synod. Those differences were highlighted by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York in remarks delivered during the assembly’s morning session. “There must have been two synods,” he said, and SEE US BISHOPS, PAGE 18

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A Catholic priest sprinkles holy water on the crosses at a mass gravesite for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines, Nov. 8. Many Filipinos continue to struggle with the loss of family members, homes and jobs a year after the storm ravaged the central Philippines Nov. 8, 2013.

25 years after massacre, Jesuit institutions working to commemorate, emulate lives of martyrs CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In a memorial garden overlooking the entrance to the University of San Francisco’s Lone Mountain campus, Kate Carter sits on a bench dedicated to one of the six Jesuit priests executed by the Salvadoran military in1989. Twenty-ﬁve years after the atrocity shocked the world, Carter discusses the ways the martyrs’ spirit is very much alive here. “As a Jesuit institution we are Kate Carter called to use our place of privilege in the world to tell the truth, which is why the Jesuits were killed, and to help our students understand that we are part of something much larger than we are,” Carter, USF’s assistant director of admissions, told Catholic San Francisco Nov. 6. When Carter talks to students during information sessions about the university, she says she emphasizes that an important part of a Jesuit education is the knowledge that their education and careers are “not just for us.”

“Learning about who is here and whose is not here and why is an important part of our education,” said Carter, 60, a parishioner at St. Agnes Parish. Helping students understand this and work for a more “humane and just world,” whatever profession they choose, is the mission of Jesuit schools, she said. It was certainly what the six Jesuits were doing as they pursued educational and economic justice for the people of El Salvador in the 1980s. On Nov. 16, 1989, during the height of the Salvadoran civil war, which was essentially a conﬂict between an impoverished majority and the powerful elite, Jesuit Fathers Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Juan Ramón Moreno, Joaquín López y López and Amando López were summarily executed by American-trained Salvadoran militants. They stormed the Jesuit residence at the Universidad Centroamericana where the priests taught and lived and also killed the priest’s cook, Elba Ramos and her daughter Celina. The Jesuits were aware they were viewed as a threat to the government for their outspoken support for the poor, but they remained to advocate SEE MARTYRS, PAGE 5

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Book, play spark schoolwide conversation about death penalty CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Before he was cast as condemned killer Matthew Poncelet, the lead in Archbishop Riordan High School’s production of “Dead Man Walking” running Nov. 14-23, 16-year-old Dominic Collantes did not spend much time thinking or talking about the death penalty with friends and family. That’s changed for Collantes, 16, and the entire school community since the book by Sister Helen Prejean was chosen this year for the school’s first experience with the “One School, One Book” program, a community-building educational initiative that aims to create a shared reading experience within a single school community. “It has definitely opened up more dialogue,” Collantes said in an email to Catholic San Francisco a week before opening night. The book was read over the summer by the entire school and was chosen as the fall play. “I think it has made every member of the Riordan community think more about how our justice system is being run and if capital punishment is fair and just,” he said. The book, published in 1994, chronicles Sister Helen’s real-life experience as the spiritual advisor to Elmo Patrick Sonnier, a Louisiana man sentenced to die in the electric chair for his part in the murder of two teenagers in 1977. Out of that dreadful intimacy which ended with her witness of his execution in 1984 she wrote “Dead Man Walking.” Her story about the experience and the human and moral consequences of the death penalty became an Academy Award-winning movie in 1995. The title comes from a phrase once used by prison guards as they walked a condemned man to his execution. Collantes, a junior in his first leading role, said he has always rejected the death penalty based on his Catholic beliefs, but his conviction has deepened. “This story showed me that even a man who committed such a horrible crime is still a child of God,” he said. He believes the death penalty is the “taking of another human life,” not unlike abortion, and he’s now asking friends and family to think about the topic in the light of their shared beliefs.

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Liz Merski and Dominic Collantes star in Archbishop Riordan High School’s production of “Dead Man Walking,” running Nov. 14-23. “Redemption is possible and powerful,” he said. Liz Merski, a senior at Lowell High School in San Francisco, said she was surprised by how her lead role as Sister Helen impacted her, given that her belief system was already so similar. “Taking on this part has given me a glimpse of what it’s like to carry the burden of human life on your shoulders,” she said. Merski, 17, understands why some Catholics don’t see the death penalty through the same pro-life eyes as they do abortion and euthanasia. “But you can’t be pro-life and pro-death penalty,” she said. “To be pro-life is to believe that all life has sanctity, that all life is precious and that life is not ours to destroy.” She’s also troubled by the Christian contradiction. “Is killing people who kill people to show that killing is wrong really the most ethical or effective way to go about the problem of violence?” she asked. In a phone call squeezed between classes and the play’s last days of rehearsal, American literature teacher and drama director Valerie O’Riordan said she recommended “Dead Man Walking” to the school because she wanted to make “a bigger impact.” She said the play became a natural extension of the book and The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project created by Sister Helen and actor Tim Robbins, who wrote the screenplay.

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High schools and colleges have the rights to the play if they include an interdisciplinary, cross-curriculum program on the subject. At Riordan, every teacher was asked to integrate the death penalty into a lesson or project. As an example, O’Riordan said her American literature class is writing lyrics for the play’s musical score and the music department’s jazz class is composing music. “Even the PE department is doing a project on the diet in death row,” she said. Stephen Baccari, Riordan’s freshman theology teacher, said the experience gave his students the opportunity to associate the required theology curriculum to a real-life, modern-day issue. “In my Hebrew Scriptures class, students were assigned a project whereby they became modern-day prophets trying to eradicate social issues that lead to crimes that might result in a conviction and a death sentence,” he said. Sally O’Connell, an associate in Riordan’s admissions department, said the most important part of the schoolwide project and the play is that “we are engaging our students and colleagues in the exchange of ideas in a knowledgeable and respectful manner.” “While opinions of the subject matter may vary, isn’t it enriching to all be discussing with a common foundation?” she said. “It has broadened horizons on a topic that can really make people squirm.”

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Parish, school marking ‘100 Good Deeds’ during anniversary year

Holy Angels Parish celebrates centennial

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Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy blesses the new Holy Angels statue at Holy Angels Church during last month’s centennial celebration.

The eucharistic celebration of the centennial jubilee of Holy Angels Parish, Colma, was celebrated Oct. 5, officiated by Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy and assisted by pastor Father Alex L. Legaspi, parochial vicar Father Erick Arauz and many priests from the archdiocese. The liturgy started with the entrance of the Color Guard of the Knights of Columbus, followed by the lay ministers and the clergy. The combined adult and children’s choir, and the prayerful liturgical dance of the students of Holy Angels School, added to the prayerful atmosphere of the celebration. “The Archbishop Riordan High School Band played joyful music while Bishop McElroy blessed the new Angel Garden,” school principal Dominican Sister Leonarda Montealto said. “The 100 times ringing of the bells and 100 pigeons released and set free made everyone in the crowded courtyard feel the presence of the holy angels in the community.” Sister Leonardo thanked Bishop McElroy, the clergy, centennial committee members, donors and benefactors and all parishioners and friends. “The 100 Good Deeds that the parish and school community put together during the centennial year will continue to bring joy and thanksgiving in our hearts,” she said.

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Priesthood and ministry to Chinese community Father McCotter’s joys TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Paulist Father Dan McCotter calls it “a wonderful 31 years.” The time is his tenure as pastor of Holy Family Chinese Mission in San Francisco and since 2010, of both the mission and Old St. Mary’s Cathedral from where he recently retired. Father Dan hails from Missouri, the “show me state.” He attended Christian Brothers Father Daniel Military High School in St. Louis McCotter, CSP and entered the Christian Brothers in September 1959. “I admired their dedication to teaching,” he said. He served as a Christian Brother until priesthood beckoned and he became a Paulist in 1978. “I had worked with the Paulists as a Christian Brother at Good Shepherd School in New York and was attracted to the charism of Paulist founder Father Isaac Hecker – to preach the Gospel to those who have not yet heard it.” Father Dan was ordained at New York City’s St. Paul the Apostle Church May 16, 1981. “My ordination and working in the Chinese community,” are the two favorite things Father Dan said he will take into retirement. He is grateful and glad for the new St. Mary’s School and Chinese Center on Kearny Street though he said its path to completion was filled with “almost impossible challenges” and “many, many sleepless nights.” He shares the legacy of the new facility with retired Archbishop George Niederauer and Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy. “One never retires from being a priest,” Father Dan said, though he said he does look forward to fewer responsibilities. “In the Paulists we call it SMS – Senior Ministry Status.” He will continue to work at St. Mary’s School part time as director of development and chaplain and plans to travel as well as spend time with his family in St. Louis. “After 31 years it was time to let go … well not really let go,” Father Dan said. HERE AND NOW: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory calls the late Michael Del Debbio “a beloved SHC investor.” The UC Berkeley grad left his entire estate of some $10,000 to the school to buy textbooks for low-income students. Michael lived the last two decades of his life homeless

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for social change. Their murders marked a turning point in the nearly 13-year uprising in which 75,000 civilians died or disappeared. A peace accord was reached in 1992. Carter said USF students, many of whom were not even born in 1989, understand what the priests’ sacriﬁce means to them and to the world. On Nov. 16 they will walk in candlelit procession from a Mass at St. Ignatius Church to the garden dedicated to Jesuit Father Ignacio Martin-Baro. They will pray and plant wooden crosses in the soil around his statue. But the priests’ legacy extends far beyond annual commemorations. The work continues in part through the Ignatian Solidarity Network, a national faith-based social justice organization mobilizing Jesuit educators in the U.S.to follow in the footsteps of the martyrs. “We are challenged as persons and communities of faith to live more in solidarity with persons at the margins of our church and society,” said Carter, who is a member of the network. “That is the crux of our faith.” On Nov. 15-17, Carter will join 1,300 other people in Washington, D.C., for 17th Annual Ignatian Family TeachIn for Justice. “This a community that sees faith and justice integrally linked,” said Carter, one of the event’s speakers. “Blood in the Backyard,” a documentary depicting the story and legacy of the Jesuit murders, will make its national premiere at the event.

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Leadership development is the primary focus for participants coming from Jesuit universities, high schools and parishes as well as Jesuit Volunteer Corps volunteers. On the last day of the event participants will go to Capitol Hill to talk with lawmakers about immigration reform and other justice issues. In July, Carter traveled to El Salvador as part of a 45-person Ignatian Solidarity Network delegation to mark the 25th anniversary of the Jesuit massacre. The delegates were housed at Jesuit University in San Salvador but also stayed in the homes of Salvadoran hosts, most of

Above, a stone bearing the names of six Jesuits massacred in 1989 is seen at Central American University in San Salvador, El Salvador, Nov. 16, 2009, the 20th anniversary of their deaths. Left, Kate Carter, an assistant director of admissions at the University of San Francisco, is pictured with members of her host family in El Salvador last July. Carter was one of 45 people from Jesuit institutions around the country who traveled to El Salvador with the Ignatian Solidarity Network to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the murders of six Jesuit priests and two local women by the Salvadoran military.

whom did not have water or electricity. Even two decades after the peace accords officially ended the conﬂict, the country suffers epidemic violence and impunity from legal prosecution, social disintegration, a stagnant economy and extensive migration that tears apart communities and families, Carter said. Poverty remains widespread, she said, although towns are slowly building road and electricity networks that did not exist 20 years ago. Carter said the saddest reality of El Salvador is the migration of unaccompanied children who are

ﬂeeing for their lives as Salvadorans struggle for basic needs. “They are no longer ﬂeeing military violence,” she said. “Now it’s gang violence.” The most positive aspect was seeing how much hope remains despite the hardships. “They have a tremendous desire for a parcel of land to work, food on the table and to send their kids to school,” Carter said. “They are not giving up. Neither can we.” “In my Catholic tradition, there are many people at the table, but there are so many people who aren’t there,” she said. “What are we going to do to make the table bigger?”

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A Sister of Mercy finds her inner artist LIZ DOSSA

A year ago, Mercy Sister Janet Chau began to learn to draw. She didn’t know if she could be an artist, but it was something she had wanted to do since she was a little girl in Hong Kong. She had accompanied her older brother Edwin to his art class, but he was the student. She was just his small chaperone. After retiring from 10 years of ministry as coordinator of children’s faith formation at St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco, last year she decided to take art classes at the newly opened Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame. Artist and teacher Susan Switzer took Sister Janet under her wing in class. “She was so diligent in working on her first picture and was so excited when she finished it because she never knew she could do something so nice,” said Switzer. Few beginning artists receive the support that has surrounded her. Her Mercy sisters encouraged her, visiting shows when her art was displayed. Several pieces are exhibited outside the convent dining room. After a Chinese retreat at Mercy Center in December 2013, she took retreatants to the open studios event at the museum. They were enthusiastic about the work of their leader who showed another side in addition to her skill at facilitating spiritual formation in their first language. St. Agnes Parish invited Janet to their fundraising dinner last February. She was happy to donate her drawings to their silent auction. The second and third she had ever created were sold. The pastor, Jesuit Father Ray Allender, liked her work, but said “I can’t be part of this auction. I’m staff.” Janet said offhandedly, “There will be another time.”

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Father Ray himself arranged for another time. In September he invited her to exhibit her work at the parish volunteer appreciation brunch. Janet brought ﬁve pieces and sold six, she said, laughing. Father Ray liked her portrait of a hummingbird so much that he commissioned a piece from her. Her proceeds have gone to Mercy Beyond Borders, a ministry for women and girls in Sudan and Haiti created by Sister Marilyn Lacey. Art is part of her family history. The brother she followed to class, Edwin H.K. Chau, was accomplished in Chinese painting, watercolor and

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Members of a Chinese retreat group at Mercy Center in Burlingame are pictured with artwork by Mercy Sister Janet Chau, fourth from left, who found a new avocation as an artist after retiring from 10 years of ministry as coordinator of children’s faith formation at St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco.

oil. He left 300 paintings at his death in Toronto many years ago. His youngest daughter Katie Chau Niergarth, is an architect working with the Ottawa government. Her other niece was curator at the Detroit Institute of Art for more than 10 years until the financial chaos of Detroit. Currently, Amelia is enjoying working at a museum at Sacramento. Shy and soft spoken Sister Janet has a focus and determination that has led to her artistic development. Still busy giving retreats in Chinese three times a year and mentoring Chinese groups that gather at Mercy Center, she loves to relax and do her artwork. “Sitting in front of the TV is a torture for me. I like to do things with purpose. I draw instead,” she says. The proceeds of the next sale of her drawings will go to St. Vincent de Paul’s Catherine’s Center where women after incarceration are helped to transform from deep within, and start a new life. She likes simplicity, not abstraction, she says. Her subjects are a rose, a goblet, a hummingbird. But Switzer points out that her work has complexity and depth to it. “Her work has progressed. She has learned how to pay attention to detail,” said Switzer. “She is very excited about being able to use charcoal and give the object dimension. She uses light and dark to get perspective.” Switzer explains the popularity of Sister Janet’s art: “When you really love something it shines through. When people know her, it is an honor to have a piece of her work in their home.” DOSSA is West Midwest communications manager for the Sisters of Mercy.

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Look to his history to understand ‘pope of surprises,’ cardinal says PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis is clearly “a pope of surprises,” German Cardinal Walter Kasper said in an address in Washington Nov. 6, and those who would try to understand the pontiff, he added, should remember his Argentine roots and how they influence his theology and his world view. The president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, Cardinal Kasper was at The Catholic University of America to accept the Johannes Quasten Medal for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership in Religious Studies. In a 45-minute address about the pope’s ecclesiology and ecumenical vision to a crowded hall that included many seminarians, Cardinal Kasper said that Pope Francis has, “succeeded in a short time in brightening up the gloomy atmosphere that had settled like mildew on the church.” However, he acknowledged, every pope has his “proponents and his enemies.” Likewise, Pope Francis has his own detractors, the cardinal said. Those who do not trust his new style or new enthusiasm and may “decide to sit this papacy out.” “What for some is the beginning of a new spring, is for others a temporary cold spell,” he said. Cardinal Kasper said Pope Francis “is the first pope to have grown up in a multicultural megalopolis in the southern hemisphere.” That shaped him with some European influences, but he also was strongly affected by Argentine culture, including its films and music. The cardinal compared the theological influences on Pope Francis with those of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict comes from the best European theological traditions, seeking to put the doctrine of the faith into practice. “Pope Francis works differently,” Cardinal Kasper said, and not necessarily in the way in which he is sometimes portrayed. “He’s not a Franciscan in disguise, he’s a Jesuit, through and through.” That means, according to the cardinal, that he begins with a concrete situation and seeks to assess

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German Cardinal Walter Kasper, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, wears the 2014 Johannes Quasten Award medallion on a purple ribbon. It was presented to him Nov. 6 by Msgr. Paul McPartlan, acting dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington. it according to the rules for discernment drawn from the Ignatian spiritual exercises, before arriving at a concrete action or position. That method corresponds to the approach of St. John XXIII during the Second Vatican Council, he said, “reading the signs of the times.” Understanding Argentina’s variant of liberation theology also is instructive for those who wish to understand Pope Francis, he said. The same “see, judge, act” approach of the Jesuits describes Argentine liberation theology, Cardinal Kasper said. While in other places in Latin America, the approach focused on the social and political conditions that led to societal inequality, sometimes in a Marxist manner, “Argentinian liberation theology is a theology of the people and their culture.” It proceeds from a historical and

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thing that can help people fully understand and interpret reality. For Pope Francis, he said, “faith is a light, but not like a lighthouse which expels all dark, but a lighted torch which guides our steps into the night.” That insight helps to understand how Pope Francis operates, from a basis of the Gospel as an instrument of joy and of reform. “Pope Francis stands in a great tradition,” Cardinal Kasper said. “He does not represent a liberal tradition, but a traditional position,” as in going back to the Gospels as the source and strength of renewal for the church. Pope Francis doesn’t intend to revolutionize faith and morality, as “he wants to lead faith and morality back to their original center,” to the heart of the Gospels, the cardinal said. Particularly through his constant message of the need for mercy, Pope Francis emphasizes that, as St. Thomas Aquinas said, “God is not bound by our views of justice,” but only to God’s own desires. “God allows himself to be moved by the needs and sympathies of man.” “For him, a new beginning and a new chance are always possible. It’s impossible that any human being can fall into a hole from which there is no way out.” Cardinal Kasper said another message of Pope Francis is that it is important that the church not be so self-centered. “A self-centered person is sick,” Cardinal Kasper said. “A self-centered church is a sick church.” Pope Francis wants to leave behind the self-centered, self-pitying church immersed in its own suffering, he added.

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Ruling sets up possible Supreme Court round PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Although the Supreme Court just a few weeks ago declined to accept any of several challenges to rulings making same-sex marriage legal in various states, a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision Nov. 6 could lead to another shot at the high court weighing in on a nationwide approach to such unions. It is the first federal appeals court ruling to uphold states’ rights to decide that marriage may be restricted to only heterosexual couples. Four federal appellate courts – the 4th, 7th, 9th and 10th – have said such bans are unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of the 6th Circuit said that although the question is no longer whether same-sex marriage will be allowed in the United States, but when and how, the two judges said it is better “to allow change through the customary political processes,” than through court rulings. “When the courts do not let the people resolve new social issues like this one, they perpetuate the idea that the heroes in these change events are judges and lawyers,” the ruling said, in overturning lower courts in the circuit that covers Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. The Supreme Court typically does not accept cases of nationwide impact unless there is a division among lower circuit courts. The 6th Circuit’s ruling is the first to uphold states’ rights to prohibit same-sex marriage. As Judge Jeffrey Sutton noted in his 34-page opinion, “four federal courts of appeal have compelled several other states to permit same-sex marriages under the 14th Amendment,” and 19 states plus the District of Columbia have expanded the definition of marriage to

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Chicago documents detail abuse cases from decades ago CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO – The Archdiocese of Chicago Nov. 6 released approximately 15,000 pages of documents related to 36 archdiocesan priests who have substantiated allegations of sexual misconduct with minors. The documents are posted on the archdiocesan website, www.archchicago.org. All of the records pertain to incidents that took place years or decades ago, and the names of all of the priests involved have been posted on the website for years. Fourteen of the 36 priests have died; none of them are in ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago. John O’Malley, special counsel to the archbishop for misconduct issues, said the documents answer several questions: what the abuse was and when it happened; when the archdiocese learned about it; and what the archdiocese did about it. The archdiocese released similar records pertaining to 30 other priests in January. The two sets of documents released cover all of the archdiocesan priests with substantiated allegations of sexual misconduct with minors who are identiﬁed on the archdiocesan website except for two, who have ongoing civil or canonical legal cases. “As we said in January, we are committed to transparency with the people we serve,” Cardinal Francis E. George said in a statement. “We cannot change the past but we hope we can rebuild trust through honest and open dialogue. Child abuse is a

crime and a sin. The Archdiocese of Chicago is concerned ﬁrst and foremost with bringing healing to abuse victims.” O’Malley said he hopes that people who want to know how the archdiocese has responded to abuse allegations will look to the documents. “There still remains some unsureness about what has happened in the Archdiocese of Chicago, and some of the advocates continue to say nothing has changed and that the archdiocese’s response to this issue has been bad, that it’s not enough,” O’Malley said. “Let’s get the full story out. Our hope is that fair-minded people can look at these documents and see that the archdiocese has worked very hard since 1992 to respond compassionately, responsibly, appropriately and fairly.” The release of documents in January was part of a mediated agreement involving Minnesota-based attorney Jeffrey Anderson. When those documents were released, Cardinal George made a commitment to release the rest of the ﬁles as well, although this release was completely voluntary and not required by any court or any agreement with plaintiffs or their attorneys, O’Malley said. While many other dioceses have released similar documents, it has generally been as part of a court settlement or bankruptcy, he said. Ninety-two percent of the cases included in the documents released Nov. 6 occurred before 1988, the statement said

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Pakistan bishops protest beating deaths of Christian couple

Irish archbishop decries comments critical of pope

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THRISSUR, India – Catholic leaders in Pakistan protested the Nov. 4 beatings and burning of a young Christian couple accused of desecrating the Quran. “The government has absolutely failed to protect its citizens’ right to life,” said the National Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Pakistan in a statement Nov. 5. Condemning the brutal killing of Shahzad Masih, 28, and his pregnant wife, Shama Bibi, 24, the NCJP pointed out that the killing of the couple at the hands of a mob was based on a “false accusation of blasphemy.” Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif added his voice those condemning the killings. He described the incident as “an unacceptable crime” in a Nov. 6 statement. “A responsible state cannot tolerate mob rule and public lynching with impunity,” he said. “I have directed the Punjab (province) chief minister to show no mercy, and the law should take its course to punish those who are responsible for this act,” he told local media. Jawad Qamar, a police official

DUBLIN – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin decried comments from clerics and others who said Pope Francis caused confusion in his calls for an open discussion on how the church should reach out to those who are marginalized, hurt and wounded in their lives during the recent Synod of Bishops on the family. Archbishop Martin said he was “quite surprised at the remarks of some commentators within church circles about the recent Synod of Bishops, often making accusations of confusion where such confusion did not exist and so actually fomenting confusion.” He did not identify speciﬁc comments during a Mass marking the refurbishment of a church at the Dublin Institute of Technology Nov. 4. Archbishop Martin said he believed that “a longing for certainties may spring from personal uncertainty rather than strong faith. A strong – and indeed orthodox faith – is never afraid of discussion,” he said. “They fail to see how Pope Francis shows that his concern for people who suffer is far from being a sign of dogmatic relativism, but rather is a sign of pastoral patience,” Archbishop Martin said. Archbishop Martin also said that “a church which becomes a comfort zone for the like-minded ceases to be truly the church of Jesus Christ.”

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TREASURES of the archives STORY BY RICK DELVECCHIO PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

utgoing archdiocesan archivist Deacon Jeffrey Burns is your guide to the documentary greatest hits of local church history. Deacon Burns, who retires in January, gathered many little-known but revealing collections during his 31year career, and spoke to Catholic San Francisco about 10 that he feels will be of exceptional value to historians in the future. The Ph.D. historian helped expand the archives into a resource not only for the instituDeacon Burns tions of the archdiocese but also for all aspects of church life. The archives, housed in the basement at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, extensively documents the historic archdiocese that long contained territories split off in 1962 to form the Oakland, Santa Rosa and Stockton dioceses.

Father Donald McDonnell

One of five archdiocesan priests known as the “Spanish Mission Band,” Father McDonnell is credited with having helped discover farmworkers’ union leader Cesar Chavez. Chavez once called Father McDonnell, who died in 2012, the most important man in his life. Father McDonnell’s personal papers include reports he filed from the field when he reported to Archbishop John J. Mitty, starting in 1950-51. Given nonparochial duties ministering to migrant workers in farm fields around the Bay Area, the original four members of the “mission band” were Fathers McDonnell, Thomas McCullough, Ralph Duggan and John Garcia. The priests were sent to attend to the spiritual needs of migrants and braceros but the clerics “are so shocked by what they see about the physical needs that they end up advocating for higher wages,” Deacon Burns said. The “Mission Band” priests were controversial in their work helping to organize farmworkers, and Deacon Burns calls the collection “an incredible set” that documents the lives of migrants in the 1950s and church ministry to them.

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The POPE papers

POPE stood for Parents for Orthodoxy in Parochial Education, a group established in Marin County in the 1960s in the backlash to the reforms of Vatican II. Led by school parent Frances Bodeen, the group was particularly concerned about the breakdown of Catholicity in parochial education and alarmed by such developments as sex education. The collection “provides a window into the conservative movement that would blossom later,” Deacon Burns said. A foreshadowing of later battles can be seen in the group’s fight to protect Catholic teaching. In one document, the group laments that a “a vicious unrelenting campaign” has been waged to discredit the Baltimore Catechism. “The Catholic intellectual left composed of liberal educators including priests and nuns occupying high positions with the education established are the ‘elite’ who damn the Baltimore.” Another memo, from 1976, says that since the group was founded 10 years earlier “we have heard from about 60,000 parents whose children were religious illiterates” and were begging for orthodox teaching aids.

Sister Corita Kent

Sister Maria de la Cruz Aymes

The Society of Helpers sister worked for the archdiocesan religious education department in the 1950s and developed the “On Our Way” series of CCD texts. At the time Catholic school and religious ed texts were moving away from the Baltimore Catechism, a controversial trend. “On Our Way” emphasized experience in a style known as kerygmatic, referring to preaching the Gospel especially in the manner of the early church. “The loveliest lady,” Deacon Burns said, Mexican-born Sister Maria, who died in 2009, later became very involved in catechesis to the Spanishspeaking.

A detail from the cover of “With Christ to the Father,” a workbook with the “On Our Way” religious ed series

Immaculate Heart Sister Corita Kent was a Catholic pop artist who decorated the Vatican pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair and remixed advertising slogans to create colorful posters in the style of the era. But the story told in her collection is one of struggle as the church adapted to Vatican II. The sisters who led Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles renewed their charism post-council but the change did not suit the local ordinary, Cardinal Francis A. McIntyre. Sister Corita poured out her heart to Sulpician Father Robert Giguere at St. Patrick’s Seminary, writing him more than 100 letters, many in the margins of pages torn from magazines, from 1964-68. She shared intensely personal feelings about the great hopes the sisters felt in 1964-65 and the sense that matters were spiraling out of control in 1967. She left the order in 1968. The controversy “had to do with a vision of the future but in my estimation it ended up a battle over authority,” Deacon Burns said.

Latin American Mission Program

Formed in the 1960s, LAMP sent missionaries of the archdiocese to Mexicali, Mexico, and Guatemala. Missionaries sent back regular field reports, which were published in the archdiocesan newspaper The Monitor. In a tragic note from a brutal time in Central America, one missionary prepared 26 lay catechists in a Guatemalan village – and all were killed by government death squads during the nation’s civil war.

AIDS ministry

Dominican Father Michael Lopes, succeeded by Father Rodney DeMartini, developed the first response of the local church to the AIDS crisis, in the mid-1980s. They formed a hospice program and helped provide proper information to combat fear and misinformation as the crisis grew. The collection includes the personal papers of two priests who were working their way through the process of creating what Deacon Burns called a groundbreaking ministry and high point for the church. For example, a 1987 paper for an interfaith conference on the crisis, titled “Reflections on Roman Catholic Moral Teaching in the AIDS Epidemic,” includes thoughts by another priest, Father Xavier Harris from the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. “God is in the AIDS crisis,” he reflects, “bringing us into Irasmos, so that the works of God might be revealed in us. We cannot predict how, but we are all being transformed. And may God help us in the process.”

Father Eugene Boyle

An archdiocesan priest in the 1960s and early ‘70s, he worked with Cesar Chavez and was a leading civil rights advocate as well as the director of the archdiocesan Social Justice Commission. In 1968 he was appointed pastor at now-closed Sacred Heart Parish in San Francisco. The Black Panthers had a breakfast program for children at the time and Father Boyle allowed the Panthers to use the church for the activity, a move that got him into trouble when FBI counterintelligence planted a Panther coloring book – drafted but never distributed – that depicted police in highly inflammatory terms. Father Boyle was called before a U.S. Senate committee, resulting in a June 24, 1969, San Francisco Examiner screaming headline “Catholic-Panther ties rapped by Senators.” During the hearing, Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota commented, “When they’re handing out materials like this in a church basement you begin to understand why this country’s in trouble.” The collection fills more than 20 boxes and captures many of the controversies of the era, Deacon Burns said. Father Boyle kept everything, including a letter from a detractor with the salutation “Dear Father Boyle, or should I say Dear Fathead Boyle.” He later ran for state Assembly, and the collection includes a campaign letter hailing the priest as “synonymous with justice and equality.” Msgr. Boyle, who was ordained in 1946, is a retired priest in the Diocese of San Jose.

Bishop Mark Hurley

Bishop Hurley’s collection includes a glimpse of the working process at the Second Vatican Council: the bishop’s copies of various drafts and then final documents as churchmen from around the world conferred. On the inside flap of one draft, on the activities of the mission church, Bishop Hurley jotted down the names of the attendees on Nov. 6, 1964: 19 bishops from at least 14 countries, with the pope present. The collection also includes Bishop Hurley’s personal papers, documenting his work in settling the San Francisco State strike in 1970 and his concern about the church-state question in the United States and in Ireland, a topic of one of the many books written by the San Francisco auxiliary who later served as Bishop of Santa Rosa.

Bishop Hurley took roll at a Nov. 6, 1964, Vatican II session on the mission church.

Father Leo Schmidt

This Sister Corita Kent serigraph features an early Beatles lyric.

Archdiocesan priest Father Schmidt was an amateur filmmaker who shot footage of St. Patrick’s Seminary in the early 1930s. Scenes of seminarians playing baseball and Archbishops John J. Mitty and Edward Joseph Hanna at a gathering are included in the collection’s two reels.

Priests’ senate and council

The representative body of the archdiocesan presbyterate first met in 1966 and was highly active and independent through the 1980s, with secretary Peg Moses keeping records so scrupulous as to provide a guide to almost any topic in the archdiocese during the period. Highlights of the records include the gap between younger and older priests revealed in the 1960s and a 1969 USF study of priests’ attitudes toward authority. The collection includes a Nov. 13, 1980, Social Action Committee report by Franciscan Father Floyd A. Lotito summarizing Vatican hopes for world peace and for a “new history” of mankind incorporating faith, hope and charity.

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Pope names new Vatican foreign minister, high court prefect CINDY WOODEN AND FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis named the 60-year-old nuncio to Australia, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, to be the Vatican’s new foreign minister. The position, formally known as the secretary for relations with states, was held by the Moroccoborn French Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, who was named Nov. 8 the new prefect of the Apostolic Signature, the Vatican’s Archbishop highest court. Mamberti Archbishop Gallagher, a native of Liverpool, England, is a veteran of the Vatican diplomatic corps and had been named nuncio to Australia by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. In his first posting as a nuncio, St. John Paul II sent him to Burundi in 2004 to replace Archbishop Michael A. Courtney, who was gunned down by unknown assailants. The nuncio’s death in Burundi marked the first time in the modern age that a papal ambassador had been assassinated. In an interview with Catholic News Service in 2000, then-Msgr. Gallagher said that although an ambassador’s life is filled with protocol, social niceties and cocktail parties, the Vatican foreign service counts less on “social animals” than on good priests. The Holy See looks for “someone who can express his priesthood through his diplomatic

work,” said the Liverpool-born cleric, who served as the Vatican permanent observer at the Council of Europe from 2000 to 2004. Ordained to the priesthood in 1977, he later earned a degree in canon law and studied at the Pontiﬁcal Ecclesiastical Academy, which trains Vatican diplomats. He joined the Vatican’s diplomatic service in 1984, serving in nunciatures in Tanzania, Uruguay and the Philippines. He worked at the Vatican Secretariat of State from 1994 to 2000, focusing particularly on Southeast Asia. From 2009 to 2012, he served as nuncio to Guatemala. The Archbishop Mamberti, 62, also is a veteran of the Vatican diplomatic corps and has been secretary for relations with states since September 2006. Ordained to the priesthood in 1981, he holds degrees in civil and canon law. After entering the Vatican diplomatic corps in 1986, he held posts in Algeria, Chile, at the United Nations in New York, and in Lebanon. He was named an archbishop, nuncio to Sudan and apostolic delegate in Somalia in 2002 by St. John Paul II and was given additional responsibilities two years later as the nuncio to Eritrea.Pope removes Cardinal Burke from Vatican post Separately, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis removed U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, 66, as head of the Vatican’s highest court and named him to a largely ceremonial post for a chivalric religious order. Cardinal Burke, formerly prefect of the Apos-

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tolic Signature, will now serve as cardinal patron of the Knights and Dames of Malta, the Vatican announced Nov. 8. The move had been widely expected since an Italian journalist reported it in September, and the cardinal himself conﬁrmed it to reporters the following month. It is highly unusual for a pope to remove an ofﬁcial of Cardinal Burke’s stature and age without assigning him comparable responsibilities elsewhere. By church law, cardinals in the Vatican must offer to resign at 75, but often continue in office for several more years. As usual when announcing personnel changes other than retirements for reasons of age, the Vatican did not give a reason for the cardinal’s reassignment. In December 2013, Pope Francis did not reappoint Cardinal Burke to his position on the Congregation for Bishops, which advises the pope on episcopal appointments. Cardinal Burke expressed frustration, in a February 2014 article in the Vatican newspaper, that many Americans thought Pope Francis intended to change Catholic teaching on certain “critical moral issues of our time,” including abortion and same-sex marriage, because of the pope’s stated belief that “it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.” Insisting that the pope had “clearly affirmed the church’s moral teaching, in accord with her unbroken tradition,” Cardinal Burke blamed perceptions to the contrary on “false praise” of Pope Francis by “persons whose hearts are hardened against the truth.”

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VATICAN CITY – Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pope Francis said the sudden end to the division of Europe was prepared by the prayers and sacriﬁce of many people, including St. John Paul II. After reciting the Angelus prayer Nov. 9 with visitors in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis spoke about the 25th anniversary of the wall coming down, a wall “that for so long cut the city in two and was a symbol of the ideological division of Europe and of the entire world.” “The fall was sudden, but it was made possible by the long and hard commitment of many people who struggled, prayed and suffered for it, some even sacriﬁcing their lives,” the pope said. During his lifetime, the Polish-born pope refused to claim personal credit for the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. In a 1993 interview, Pope John Paul said, “I think the crucial role was played by Christianity itself: its content, its religious and moral message, its intrinsic defense of the human person. All I did was recall this, repeat it and insist on it.”

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Spiritual warfare

piritual literature has always highlighted the primordial struggle between good and evil, and this has generally been conceived of as a war, a spiritual battle. Thus, as Christians, we have been warned that we must be vigilant against the powers of Satan and various other forces of evil. And we’ve fought these powers not just with prayer and private moral vigilance but with everything from holy water, to exorcisms, to a dogmatic avoidance of everything to do with the occult, the paranormal, alchemy, astrology, spiritualism, séances, FATHER RON witchcraft, sorcery and Ouija ROLHEISER boards. For Christians these were seen as dangerous venues through which malevolent spirits could enter our lives and do us harm. And Scripture does, seemingly, warn us about these things. It tells us that for our world to come to its completion and its fulfillment Christ must first triumph over all the powers that oppose God. And for that to happen, Christ has to first vanquish and destroy death, darkness, evil, the powers of hell, the powers of Satan, and various “thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers.” What, concretely, are these powers and how is Christ ultimately to triumph over them? How should we conceive the battle that’s taking place? We are clearer about how death will be defeated: We believe that the resurrection, Jesus’ and our own, is how that battle is to be won. As to Satan and hell, each of us has her own idea of what these are, but what we share in common as Christians is the belief that these will not be vanquished but will continue to exist, alongside and opposed to God and heaven, for eternity. That’s the common Christian belief, though not the universal one. There have always been theologians and mystics who believed that the full triumph of Christ will occur when the Satan himself converts and goes back to heaven along with everyone else in hell. The love of God, they believe, is so powerful that, in the

end, nobody, not even Satan himself, will hold out against it. Eventually love will win everyone over and Christ will be fully triumphant when hell is empty. But that still leaves us with what Scripture calls the “thrones, dominions, principalities and powers.” Are these simply another way of referring to Satan and his powers? Or do these refer to spiritual forces that many believe are hidden inside the occult, alchemy, astrology, spiritualism, séances, witchcraft, sorcery and Ouija boards? How might we conceptualize evil spiritual forces? To the extent that we do not dismiss them out of hand as purely mythical, each of us conceptualizes them in some way, usually in the graphic images given us in the Book of Revelation and by centuries of Christian artists. And so we picture some kind of spiritual warfare happening beneath the surface of things, a spiritual battle between good and evil, a warfare wherein, eventually, Christ will triumph by defeating and destroying all these malevolent powers, akin to the primordial battle wherein Michael, the archangel, initially defeated Satan and threw him out of heaven. But those are archetypal images, not meant to be pictured literally but intended rather to point us toward something deeper. What really are the “thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers” that are opposing Christ and how are they to be defeated? How might we conceptualize the spiritual warfare going on beneath the surface of things? The spiritual warfare that is being described in Scripture and inside all authentic spirituality has less to do with the occult and exorcisms than it has to do the malignant grip of narcissism, greed, anger, bitterness, hatred, lust, wound, grudges and ignorance. These are the real “thrones, dominions, principalities and powers” that oppose Christ and the struggle against them is the real battle between good and evil. Authentic spiritual warfare is to be pictured this way: Inside our world and inside each of us there’s a fierce battle waging, a war between good and evil, and these are the contestants: Hatred is battling love; anger is battling patience; greed is battling generosity; bitterness is battling graciousness, jealousy is battling admiration; choosing to remain inside our wounds is battling healing; holding on to our grudges is battling

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n a street corner in downtown Denver, a peddler cried out that he could tell me my future. I calmly replied that I know the future. I did not need him to tell me what my faith has already taught me. There will be a new heaven and a new earth. Jesus says, “I make all things new!” The new evangelization FATHER ANDREW is integrated KEMBERLING into the context of God’s created order. The foundation of Christianity goes past the natural world to a deeper reality. The more profound reality is true and one day will be real: It is a new heaven and a new earth for those who, by imitating Christ, seek a kingdom of love and respect, not one of consumption and competition. This is a core Christian belief to be shared with others. Stewardship spirituality aims at the conversion of a materialistic and consumeristic world, which is the sad consequence of our modern scientiﬁc thinking. The world of the weighable and the repeatable is the foundation of materialism. Spiritual things appear imaginary in this kind of world. But spiritual realities are as true as love and anger, regret and joy, or envy and satisfaction, none of which have physical dimensions. They are substantial but intangible. Cultures in “developed societies” look to pure reason to ﬁnd solutions to solve their problems, but pure reason does not consider realities such as sin, generosity and forgiveness to be important. Catholics’ task is to make

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Stewardship spirituality

Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers known a spiritual reality that interacts with the material world. Stewardship does not expect us to reject the world we ﬁnd ourselves in, but to transform it. It’s ironic that the very materialism that was used to lead us away from God is according to a stewardship mentality used as a means of conversion. Materialism fuels a hedonistic way of thinking where pleasure is the primary focus. The pursuit of luxury and the entertainment industry lead the populace to consume the goods of the earth in a disordered way. Consumerism believes that it is good for people to spend a lot of money on goods and services. Making money is rewarded by status and inﬂuence. From a Christian perspective, however, the power that money gains is inordinate compared to the proper use of money. Stewardship reorders the use of money and introduces accountability and responsibility to how we consume the goods of the earth. People who don’t have a stewardship mentality assume that it’s always good to consume more, if not of material things at least of cultural things such as music, opera, or scenic trips abroad. Stewardship, on the other hand, says more is not necessarily better. It forces people to think critically about wealth. People of wealth, that is, most Americans com-

pared to the vast majority of the world, almost instinctively buy better and ﬁner things if they have the money. Such actions are not evil in themselves; the issue is whether they lead people closer to their goal. The irony of stewardship is it inverts the role of consumption. The very consumption that leads a secular world away from God is, via stewardship, the means for us to see his blessings. In a stewardship perspective everything is a gift and we eagerly return a portion back to God for his purposes. Consumerism ultimately dehumanizes because things become more important than people. Stewardship heals this wound by focusing on our destiny. Human dignity is extended from the richest to the poorest people. Governments and societies need to believe that people are more important than things. People of a materialistic or consumerism bent are varied. The non-baptized have not even been introduced to spiritual ideas, while many Christians have heard the message of Christ but not received it as a treasure. Jesus Christ is true God and true man. He is the creator and Lord of all creation. Beyond all material goods or cultural achievements, he is to be praised and gloriﬁed. The nominal Catholic needs to perceive that individualism needs

to give way to shared beliefs in our exalted calling. Vending-machine spirituality gives way to a mutual understanding of gifts given and gifts received. A culture of death gives way to a culture of life. Stewardship begins at the parish level and converts the hearts and minds of its parishioners. Materialistic solutions need to be balanced with the spiritual systems that smartly use the ways of the world for God’s purposes. Following Jesus means participating in a transformation of the culture in which we live. We ﬁnd joy in living, not in consuming. The blessings we have received are our true wealth and should be shared to improve the lives of others, especially those in need. We should always remember that we have a need to give before giving to a need. The materialistic person who manages his goods according to the ways of the world serves neither God nor his purposes. A person guided by a stewardship perspective acknowledges that everything she has – family, friends, the institutions of society, the planet Earth, and the entire universe – are gifts. Even a poor person has abundant gifts. When one is aware of how wealthy each of us is, the good news of Jesus Christ is heard in a “new” and authentic way. Stewardship spirituality is the conversion of a materialistic and consumeristic world. FATHER KEMBERLING recently started his assignment as pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Denver, Colorado. A frequent speaker at stewardship conferences in the U.S. and in the Philippines, Father Kemberling, along with Mila Glodava, director of communications and stewardship, are authors of “Making Stewardship a Way of Life: A Complete Guide for Catholic Parishes” (Our Sunday Visitor, 2009).

Everyone deserves a home

ust imagine for a moment that you have no home. What will you do for meals today? Where will you shower? Where will you sleep? If you have children, how will you provide for them? And how will you cope with being homeless tomorrow, next week, next month? Such imaginations are distressing. Aren’t they? TONY MAGLIANO Last winter I took imagining what it would be like to be homeless one step further. I lived one day in Baltimore as a homeless man trying to stay warm and fed. From street, to soup kitchen, to shelter I ventured. I learned a lot that day about how rough it is to have no place to call your own. But later that night my experience as a homeless person ended. I got in my vehicle and headed for home. But for 100 million people throughout the world, not having a home to go to each night is a hard, sad reality (61st session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights). And in the U.S., according to the National Coalition for the Homeless (www.nationalhomeless.org), 3.5 million people – 39 percent of whom are children – have no place to call home. Recently I spoke with Ken Leslie, a

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Pope Francis blesses the sculpture “Jesus the Homeless” during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Nov. 20, 2013. former homeless alcoholic and drug addict, who is now a leading advocate for people who have no home. Based in Toledo, Ohio, Leslie founded 1Matters (www.1matters.org), an organization inviting each of us to “Be 1 that matters to 1 that matters.” As their motto indicates, one-on-one relationships help break down homeless stereotypes and build community. One major stereotype is the word “homeless” itself. Because the word “homeless” often conjures up negative images of people – which in most cases are completely untrue – Leslie prefers using the word “unhoused.”

A model project of 1Matters is “Tent City.” Every year on the last weekend of October, Tent City brings together doctors, nurses, medical students, social workers and over 500 other caring souls to serve the unhoused. Recently – Oct. 24-26, 2014 –Tent City celebrated its 25th anniversary. On Toledo’s Civic Center Mall, under several tents, approximately 1,000 unhoused and marginally housed fellow human beings received medical treatment, prescriptions, job and housing assistance, ID acquisition, haircuts, food, clothing, commitment to follow-up care and lots of love.

To watch an inspiring video on Tent City go to www.1matters.org/tentcity. And then kindly consider how a Tent City could be started in your town or city. You can contact Ken Leslie for assistance at ken@1matters.org. Another outstanding program of 1Matters is “Veterans Matter.” According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs there are over 49,000 homeless veterans on the streets of America. And while many of them qualify for government rental assistance, they lack the upfront deposit needed to get an apartment. Veterans Matter has provided deposits for approximately 500 veterans to date in several states. You can help an unhoused veteran get off the street and into decent housing by making a donation at www.veteransmatter.org. Everyone deserves a home. And National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week – Nov. 15-23 – is an ideal time to get started in helping to make a difference in the lives of unhoused people. The social doctrine of the Catholic Church clearly teaches that safe, decent housing is a basic human right. And that individuals, governments and society in general have a moral obligation to help end homelessness. In the spirit of the beatitudes: “Blessed are those who help the unhoused, for they shall ﬁnd a home in heaven.” MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’ MATTHEW 25:14-15, 19-21 PROVERBS 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband, entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize. She brings him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She obtains wool and flax and works with loving hands. She puts her hands to the distaff, and her fingers ply the spindle. She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy. Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting; the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her a reward for her labors, and let her works praise her at the city gates. PSALM 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Blessed are you who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around your table. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion: May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:1-6 Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When people are saying, ‘Peace and security,’ then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of

you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. MATTHEW 25:14-15, 19-21 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one – to each according to his ability. Then he went away. After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them. The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’”

Building up the kingdom of God

f you and I were hearing the parable story in this Gospel for the ﬁrst time, not knowing who told it, we would probably not attribute it to Jesus. Let’s be honest – it doesn’t sound very Christlike: “Take from the man who has the least and give it to the man who has the most.” Is that the kind of thing Jesus would do? Those who have much would then keep on getting more, until they become rich. And those who have little would keep on losing, until they have nothing left to lose. Is this the kind of statement Jesus would make? The second statement sounds like something that might be said by a cynic who argues that all life is DEACON unfair. The rich get richer, FAIVA PO’OI and the poor get poorer. So what is the meaning of this story? What did Jesus have in mind when he said, “Those who have will get more until they become rich, while those who

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS WAGE WAR ON ‘TERRORISM OF GOSSIP’

Religious orders and communities must combat “the terrorism of gossip,” which is even worse than an occasional physical confrontation, said Pope Francis, a former Jesuit provincial in Argentina. Meeting Nov. 7 with Italy’s superiors of men’s orders, the pope said the way members of religious orders live should attract people to Christ and the church, and should be a model for other Catholics of creating harmony among a varied group of people thrown together by a common call, Catholic News Service reported. “Please,” he told the superiors, “don’t let the terrorism of gossip exist among you. Throw it out. Let there be fraternity. And if you have something against your brother, tell him to his face. Sometimes it might end in ﬁsticuffs,” he said, causing the superiors to laugh. “That’s not a problem. It’s always better than the terrorism of gossip.”

have not will lose even the little they have?” In Jesus’ day, as is so often the case in our time, this statement was true – that the rich gained while the poor lost. But perhaps, Jesus was talking about something other than money. Perhaps Jesus saw this reality as a deeper parable of life. If we stop for a moment and focus on spiritual values instead of just ﬁnancial matters, this parable provides us with a very powerful insight! For example, those who have love and invest this love in other people will draw more love unto themselves. And their human relationships will grow richer with every passing day. But those who have little love, seldom sharing it with others, will eventually lose even the little they have. The same thing is true of courage. Those who bravely face up to life will gain more and more courage along the way. Every adversity that they encounter and overcome will increase their supply of courage. But those who run away and avoid the problems of life will eventually lose even the little courage they have. Those who have joy and know how to laugh will experience an increase in their happiness. Their lives will become a symphony of gladness. But those who have little joy and have no peace

in their hearts will ﬁnd themselves with very gloomy souls and eventually, may forget how to laugh. Some sad day, they will wake up and realize that even their small supply of joy has slipped away. The central theme of this parable is that life is an endowment from God. He has entrusted to you and to me and to every individual on earth a most valuable gift – the gift of human life. It is his intention that each of us will take this priceless possession and use it according to his plan. If we do that, we will prosper, and we will be greatly enriched. If we turn away from God’s plan, however, we are sure to fail, and we will lose even the little we have. In other words, life is a divine/human partnership. God provides the capital. We are responsible for the investing. All our investments are under his judgment. He is the senior partner. Each of us has been given a share in responsibility for building up the kingdom of God. If we are faithful servants, we will be greatly rewarded. If we are irresponsible servants, we will have everything, even the kingdom, taken away from us. May our choice always be the one that leads to blessedness and a greater share in God’s joy. DEACON PO’OI ministers at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17: Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious. RV 1:1-4; 2:1-5. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. LK 18:35-43.

ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY 1207-1231 November 17

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18: Tuesday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of the Dedication of the Churches of Peter and Paul, apostles; St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin. RV 3:1-6, 14-22. PS 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5. LK 19:1-10.

Elizabeth’s short life was nonetheless full; she had a happy marriage and children, was a secular Franciscan, and was so devoted to the poor and sick that she gave away royal robes and founded hospitals. The daughter of a Hungarian king, Elizabeth married a nobleman of Thuringia, Louis, at age 14. He complained about the expense of her many charities until he witnessed a miracle involving Elizabeth, bread and roses. After he died during a Crusade, she became a Third Order Franciscan at Marburg, Germany, where she founded a hospital to care for the sick. Elizabeth, who was declared a saint in 1235, is the patron of bakers, young brides, widows, those falsely accused, countesses and secular Franciscans.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19: Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time. RV 4:1-11. PS 150:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. LK 19:11-28. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20: Thursday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. RV 5:1-10. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. LK 19:41-44. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21: Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. RV 10:8-11. PS 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131. LK 19:45-48. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22: Memorial of St. Ceci-

lia, virgin and martyr. RV 11:4-12. PS 144:1, 2, 9-10. LK 20:27-40.

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the participating U.S. bishops “happened to be at the wrong one.” From what he said he had heard and read about the synod, one synod was “confrontational and divisive,” “hijacked by left-wing dissenters intent on eluding doctrine,” with proceedings “smothered by new Ottavianis, dug in to resist the fresh breeze” of change, Cardinal Dolan said, referring to Italian Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani known for his opposition to the changes being brought about in the church during the Second Vatican Council. “Too bad we missed that one,” Cardinal Dolan added. “The one we were at was hardly as spicy (and) juicy.” The synod Cardinal Dolan said he attended “was a synod of consensus. This synod was led by a pope with a radical charism for attentive listening,” he said of Pope Francis, adding the only time the pope spoke was in “reciting the Angelus – twice.” At this synod, “we listened to married couples who found God’s love in one another and their kids,” Cardinal Dolan said. “At this synod, we listened to bishops from Africa who said the (church’s) teaching on marriage, so widely dismissed in the First World, was enhancing their culture. ... We saw brother bishops asking how we can expedite and simplify marriage (annulment) cases.” It was at this synod, Cardinal Dolan

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Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, center, listens to a speaker Nov. 10 during the annual fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. said, that “life-giving marriage” was the focus of “meeting the most urgent vocation crisis of the times.” Archbishop Kurtz, in addressing his fellow bishops, noted that each one of the 62 paragraphs that constituted the ﬁnal “relatio,” or report, of the synod met with majority approval – and all but three of the paragraphs with approval by at least two-thirds of those voting. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, at a news conference following the morning session, said Pope Francis

had asked that the “votation” be published along with the text to indicate the degree of accord shared at the synod. Archbishop Kurtz said there were 12 documents in all to be considered at the synod before the ﬁnal “relatio” was discussed: the ﬁrst two “relatios” – one offered at the synod’s beginning and a second draft issued mid-synod – plus separate documents produced by each of 10 small working groups. “The work of the second ‘relatio’ was the work of the small groups,” Archbishop Kurtz told reporters.

Cardinal Wuerl added that press covering the synod and those bishops participating in it “have different perspectives.” “So many people tend to reflect now in terms of sound bites,” he said. “In the church, we’re learning to speak a little more crisply, but our teaching is not reducible to sound bites.” He noted it took some time for the final “relatio” to be translated into English from the official Italian. But he urged the bishops to wait for the translation, noting that the final “relatio” serves as the “lineamenta,” or outline, for next year’s world Synod of Bishops. Archbishop Kurtz said the Vatican was holding a meeting later in November to construct a system of reflection for bishops’ conferences to use in seeking input from dioceses to be used in preparation for next year’s synod. In his first presidential address since his election last November, Archbishop Kurtz said the role of Catholic bishops is to accompany their family of the church through their fears and concerns. He told his brother bishops that “as pastors, we accompany so many families who face their own fears and concerns and who yearn to experience the love of Jesus in and through his loving family – the church.” “Together, brothers, we seek to walk with these families and to build their confidence in faith,” the archbishop said.

Nuncio urges US bishops to provide example of faith for today’s youth CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BALTIMORE – The apostolic nuncio to the United States urged U.S. bishops to lead today’s young people by example, “not just by doctrinal teaching alone.” “We have to let our young people know that their lives are worth living and that they were born for eternal glory, not for glamour, or guns or sensationalism,” said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano in a Nov. 10 address at the annual fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. “They are crying out to us. They desperately need to be inspired, to have the life of Christ breathed back into them,” he added.

Both before and after his talk, the U.S. bishops gave the apostolic nuncio a standing ovation and they interrupted his address with applause particularly when he spoke of the need to help today’s youths ﬁnd meaning. The archbishop also pointed out that young people, as well as those of all ages, would beneﬁt from knowing more about the lives of the saints, noting that youths would be inspired by their courage and the elderly would be comforted by their steadfast example of faith. He also gave the personal example of how he read the life of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini to his mother during her last days of life. “What a contrast for someone who takes their own life into their hands, for example, through suicide and

euthanasia, which leaves no hope and future for those who accept and submit themselves to the dark culture of our times,” he said. The archbishop, who referred to “saints in our very midst,” said they can help restore the church’s credibility. “We know that the church, particularly in the United States, has been deeply wounded by the behavior of some priests and bishops by whose deplorable actions the church’s reputation has been strongly shaken,” he said. Archbishop Vigano urged the bishops to “bring once again to light the sanctity of the church which exists in this country” and stressed that this can ﬂourish in the United States par-

ticularly because of its “great pillar” of religious freedom. He urged the bishops not to be afraid in their ministry of leading others, quoting St. John Paul II, who often said: “Do not fear.” “If we expect people, especially our young people, to ﬁnd direction and meaning in their lives, we ourselves must in total conﬁdence teach them” to discern God’s spirit in their minds and hearts, he said. He also said the bishops “must continually learn how to listen with attentiveness and to respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.” “May we all have the courage and fortitude, the discernment and determination that we need to help bring this about,” he added.

TYPHOON: Filipinos continue to mourn a year after devastating storm FROM PAGE 1

storm – commemorated the dead and served to offer survivors a sense of hope. Rosedel Vilarma, 36, was among those at the Mass. She told Catholic News Service she was trying to come to terms with her younger brother’s death and that his children, ages 1 and 4, went missing during the storm. “I just prayed that hopefully he was forgiven for his sins and the Lord has now accepted him. I also prayed we would ﬁnd my niece and nephew,” Vilarma said. In Palo, a few miles south of Tacloban, another mass gravesite was being prepared for a blessing. Days after Haiyan did its damage, the archdiocese’s cathedral, which lost its roof, was a burial site for hundreds of

victims, some of them entire families of multiple generations. Inside the Palo’s Cathedral of the Transﬁguration of Our Lord, Massgoers ﬁlled pews under a web of scaffolding as the roof replacement project, now 10 months long, continued. Archbishop John Du of Palo tried to rally the faithful during his homily. “We have been destroyed, but look around,” he said. “God has called us back. So many have died, but the hope of those who survived continues to give life.” He repeatedly urged the congregation to follow God, whom, he said, is “the way, the truth and the life.” At the cathedral’s new memorial garden, Jonno Cuesta repeatedly traced his hand over one name on a stenciled grave marker: his father’s.

“I’m still sad,” Cuesta, 25, told CNS. “We still can’t quite accept what happened to our papa.” Cuesta said that his father was a ﬁsherman and an excellent swimmer and it was a shock to see his lifeless body after the storm surge inundated Palo’s shore. What made it harder, he said, was that the rest of his own small family survived. Father Isagani Petilos, rector of Santo Nino Church in Tacloban, said the church continues to minister to many who are struggling to accept the loss of family, home and job. “By the homilies that we have, to continue our celebrations, these are avenues where people can once again pour out their questions to God,” Father Petilos said. He explained that addressing survivors’ material needs – decent shelter

and a way to earn a living – also played an important role in healing. “Because they go together. Having no house would always remind them, ‘Before we had these beautiful things. Before, even if our life was simple, we had our home with my family. Now my home is gone and also, my family is gone,’” he said. The need for housing is the greatest challenge facing international aid one year after Haiyan. Philippine authorities recorded 1.1 million partially damaged or destroyed homes. Aid agency tents still serve as shelter in dozens of towns and rural communities. Joe Curry, country director for Catholic Relief Services, estimated that about 95,000 displaced families continued to live in homes too weak to withstand another powerful disaster.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 21 FAITH CONFERENCE: Faith Formation Conference, Santa Clara Convention Center, liturgy, workshops, and exhibits for catechists, parish leaders, parents, youth and young adults. Registration: www.faithformationconference.com. FILM: “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” an extension of the Faith Formation Conference, Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. showings. It is a 60-minute film followed by dialogue. Free refreshments served after first showing. Rilene Simpson, rilene@comcast.net. Admission is free. Film trailer is available at http:// everlastinghills.org. RIORDAN LUNCH: Archbishop Riordan High School alumni and friends annual downtown luncheon, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco. Jim Kozimor, Comcast SportsNet, is featured speaker. $70 per person, reservations required. Tickets available online at www.riordanhs.org. Marc Rovetti, (415) 586-8200, ext 357.

SATURDAY, NOV. 22 TURKEY DRIVE: Annual Turkey Drive at St. Emydius Church, 260 Ashton Ave., San Francisco benefiting St. Anthony’s dining room, 9 a.m.-noon, Pierre Smit sfpierre@aol.com. KNIGHTS FUNDRAISER: Knights of Columbus and Marin Network for Life benefiting Chaldean Catholic victims of ISIS; Knights of Columbus Hall, 167 Tunstead Ave., San Anselmo, beginning 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Evening is free with guests asked to donate to the Chaldean cause. A refugee family and clergy from St. Mary Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church in Campbell will attend. National Knights of Columbus will match donations raised. Joe Tassone, (415) 215-8571.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3 SIMBANG GABI: Mass opening novena of prayer anticipating birth of Christ, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7:30 Archbishop p.m. ArchbishBernardito Auza op Bernardito Auza, permanent observer of the Vatican at the U.N., is principal celebrant. Nelliehizon01@gmail.com, (415) 699-7927.

High School alumni moms’ brunch, Lake Merced Golf Club to support Campus Ministry Programs. $50 per person, reservations required. Tickets available online, www.riordanhs.org. Sharon Udovich, (415) 586-8200, ext. 217; sudovich@riordanhs.org.

SATURDAY, NOV. 29 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: Holy Angels Parish Hall, 107 San Pedro Road, Colman, Saturday, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Admission free. Handmade articles for sale from many vendors. Snacks will be sold. Pictures with Santa. (650) 755-0478; croller@pacbell.net.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3 2-DAY CRAFTS: Amazing and magnificent crafts sale benefiting Children’s Medi-Fund, a 100 percent nonprofit organization supporting efforts of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and projects making a difference in the lives of children facing serious challenges; Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1310 Bacon St., San Francisco, noon-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. (415) 586-2822. BOUTIQUE: Mercy High School, McAuley Pavilion, 19th Avenue, San Francisco Holiday Boutique, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., with more than 40 vendors, raffle, silent auction and Irish coffee with student entertainment. Admission is free. Proceeds benefit Mercy athletics. 2- DAY BAZAAR: Mount Carmel Shop, 17 Buena Vista Ave. at Blithedale, Mill Valley, Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Many vendors plus games and lunch available. (415) 388-4332.

SUNDAY, NOV. 23 RIORDAN MOMS: Archbishop Riordan

KOHL CHRISTMAS: Mercy High School, Burlingame Alumnae Association’s Christmas at Kohl, 5-9 p.m., Kohl Mansion on the Mercy campus, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, with more than 60 vendors plus docent presentations of the mansion at 6:30 and 7. Musical entertainment, and light refreshments will be available for purchase. Tickets, $10 adults/children free, at the door. Visit www.mercyhsb.com for information on the event and parking/shuttles.

FRIDAY, DEC. 5 FIRST FRIDAY: Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m., followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal. TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on first Fridays at Mercy Center with Mercy Sister

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 CABARET NIGHT: St. Stephen Women’s Guild presents a fun night of dinner, dancing and auction at Olympic Club Lakeside. $135. www.cougarcabaret.com; SSauction2014@gmail.com; Mary Kerford, (415) 624-6180. ‘LOOKING EAST’: Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, with Divine Liturgy. 10 a.m., with lunch at noon and talk by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, at 1. All are welcome throughout the day. Series continues first Saturdays of the month. Parking is in St. Monica Church lot. www.byzantinecatholic.org; (415) 7522052; OLFatimaSF@gmail.com.

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