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Mary Schembri, who is retiring as longtime archdiocesan case manager for retired priests, and Msgr. Harry Schlitt received special recognition Oct. 28 at the Sixth Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon for retired priests.
Every year the archdiocese honors its retired priests with a special luncheon, and this year the woman who has taken care of those priests since 2002 was singled out too. Honoring Mary Schembri at the Sixth Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon to honor retired priests was a cause for “grateful sadness” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said because Schembri recently announced she will retire at the end of this year. When Schembri was hired to take care of retired priests in 2002, a case management system for retired priests was an innovation and she was met with some suspicion. “You talk to that girl, she will take away your car keys and put you in a home,” was the word after her first couple of cases, Schembri said. However, today the case management system is one other dioceses look to for advice. Schembri “so exudes what it means to accomsee priests, page 24
Sulpician order to depart St. Patrick’s Seminary after 118 years Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
After 118 years, the society of diocesan priests who have administered and taught at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University will withdraw completely from the seminary at the end of this academic year. The abrupt Oct. 21 announcement by the U.S. provincial of the Sulpicians Father John C. Kemper to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will sever a relationship with the Society of Priests of St. Sulpice that began with the seminary’s founding in 1898. The Sulpicians are a society of apostolic life, composed of diocesan priests who serve as educators of seminarians and priests. Six Sulpicians teach and work as administrators at St. Patrick’s; they include the president-rector, the vice rector and the dean of spirituality. The province owns and operates St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore; administers Theological College in Washington, which is associated with The Catholic University of America;
and contributes staff to the Archdiocese of San Antonio’s Assumption Seminary. Archbishop Cordileone expressed sadness in an Oct. 23 statement to priests of the archdiocese. He wrote that Father Kemper, a seminary trustee, “informed me of this decision Friday afternoon, about two hours before the commencement of the meeting of the board of trustees. He then stayed for the board meeting and responded to questions and entreaties by board members. The decision, however, remains final.” The archbishop praised the Sulpicians in his statement, noting the society educated many of the archdiocesan priests. “For 118 years, the Sulpicians have formed priests after the heart of Jesus Christ for the work of the Church here in the Bay Area and beyond,” Archbishop Cordileone wrote. “While this moment is an occasion of sadness and challenging transition for all of us, it is also one of gratitude to them for having built up our seminary and contributed see seminary, page 19
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Implementing ‘Amoris Laetitia’
Need to know Archbishop to speak on Year of Mercy: “Reflections on the Year of Mercy” will be the topic of a talk given by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Nov. 19, 10:30 a.m.noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center, 1111 Gough St., as part of the cathedral’s Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy monthly speaker series. The presentation is open to the public and free of charge. The chaplet of Divine Mercy begins at 10:15 a.m., also in the Event Center below the cathedral. Call (415) 567-2020 or visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
This is the sixth and last in a series by Archbishop Cordileone on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” (the Joy of Love).
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he apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” is the longest document of its kind; Pope Francis says that he “does not recommend a rushed reading,” and that “the greatest benefit … will come if each part is read patiently and carefully.” In my series of reflections, I have tried to highlight Archbishop some of the document’s Salvatore J. most signifiCordileone cant themes and now, in this final piece, I wish to specifically address several of the Holy Father’s recommendations, and the response the archdiocese is making, or has made, to each. The lack of dignified or affordable housing (“Amoris Laetitia,” 44); “Migration [and its] its negative effects on family life” (AL, 46). The Public Policy office of the archdiocese advocates for adequate housing, education, and rights of immigrant families in our community. Pastoral care for the faithful who are living together, or are only married civilly (AL 78). The archdiocese supports programs such as “I do, I do” which prepare couples for convalidation and sacramental marriage. Seminarians should receive a more extensive … formation in the areas of engagement and marriage (AL, 203).
Vocation Awareness Week: The U.S. Catholic Church will celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 6-12. The annual event is a special time for parishes in the U.S. to foster a culture of vocations for the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life. More information and resources, including a prayer card, suggested prayers of the faithful and bulletin-ready quotes, are available online at: www.usccb.org/beliefsand-teachings/vocations/nationalvocation-awareness-week.cfm. Mercy Year Closing Mass: Join EWTN for the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Mercy, Nov. 20, 4 p.m. EST. The Mass and closing of the Holy Doors will be presided over by Pope Francis from St. Peter’s Basilica on the Solemnity of Christ the King. Visit ewtn.com for complete information. Fatima Masses: First Saturday Masses of reparation to obtain peace in the world and to give special honor to Our Lady of Fatima will be held Nov. 5, 9 a.m., at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, Father John Itzaina, pastor; and Dec. 3, 9 a.m., at Mission Dolores Basilica chapel, 3321 16th St., San Francisco, Father Francis Garbo, pastor. Men’s Retreat: St. Mary Star of the Sea Men’s Club in Sausalito is hosting a retreat for all Catholic men, Nov. 19, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Marin Catholic High School. Bishop Thomas Daly will conduct the retreat titled “Advent through the Eyes of Mary,” followed by a discussion of Advent traditions. The donation for the retreat is $50 and includes a continental breakfast and lunch. Please reserve a place by emailing staroftheseamensclub@gmail.com.
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and families throughout the archdiocese. Many parishes also offer programs for couples, such as “date nights.” Liturgies, devotional practices and the Eucharist celebrated for families, especially on the wedding anniversary” (AL, 223). The archdiocese offers an annual Wedding Anniversary Mass. Many parishes also recognize wedding anniversaries. The life of every family is marked by all kinds of crises … Couples should be helped to realize that surmounting a crisis … can improve and mature the wine of their union …. Experienced and trained couples should … [offer] guidance (AL, 232). The archdiocese supports an active Retrouvaille program, which helps married couples work through crises and renew their love for each other. The divorced who have entered a new union should be made to feel part of the Church. “They are not excommunicated”… they remain part of the ecclesial community (AL, 243). We are planning our first-ever archdiocesan retreat for divorced Catholics in this Year of Mercy, Nov. 12. The need to make the procedure in cases of nullity more accessible and less time-consuming (AL, 244). Our highly trained tribunal staff works tirelessly to expedite all requests we receive for a decree of nullity, as well as other legal matters. The Lord Jesus … offers his boundless love to each person without exception … families should be given respectful pastoral guidance, so that those who manifest a homosexual orientation can receive the assistance they need to understand and fully carry out God’s will in their lives (AL, 250). The archdiocese supports both the Courage and EnCourage
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The programs for both seminarians and deacons have been revised to include a greatly-expanded education and formation in these areas. Deacons are expected to play an increasingly important role to support marriages in parish life. Marriage preparation should be a kind of “initiation” to the sacrament of matrimony (AL 207). Marriage preparation should ensure that the couple … embark upon marriage as a lifelong calling (AL 211). The archdiocese has begun a new program, “Witness to Love,” which will provide experienced mentors to engaged and newly-married couples, to “walk with” them in the early stages of marriage. Preparation of engaged couples by the parish community … they should be strongly encouraged to discuss what each expects from marriage (AL, 209). The FOCCUS pre-marriage inventory is required for all engaged couples to facilitate dialogue in a wide variety of topics With respect to family planning, “the use of methods based on the ‘laws of nature and the incidence of fertility’ (Humanae Vitae, 11) are to be promoted, since ‘these methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them and favor the education of an authentic freedom’ (AL, 222). We have more than doubled the number of teachers of Natural Family Planning in the past year, to help couples learn about this invaluable resource for planning families and strengthening marriages. The parish is a place where experienced couples can help younger couples (AL, 223). Apostolic movements such as the Worldwide Marriage Encounter, Couples for Christ and the Catholic Christian Family Movement all support marriages
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St. Jude pilgrims carry saint’s promise of hope Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Almost 2,000 pilgrims, many dressed in green, the color of the cloak depicted in imagery of St. Jude, walked over two miles together through the streets of San Francisco on Oct. 22 in prayer to the patron saint of difficult and desperate cases. The 13th annual St. Jude Pilgrimage was sponsored by the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus in San Francisco, an apostolate of the Dominican Friars of the Western Dominican Province founded in 1935 to bring hope to a world then in the grip of the Great Depression. The shrine which is not affiliated with other St. Jude shrines, helps support the formation and education of seminarians preparing to be ordained into the Dominican priesthood. Pilgrims from as far away as Los Angeles lined the blocks for hours around St. Dominic Church which houses the shrine, to board buses to the pilgrimage starting point at the National Shrine of St. Francis in North Beach. Men carrying a statue of St. Jude led the crowd, many of them whole families with children dressed as the saint, up hills and across busy intersections back to St. Dominic for an afternoon Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. Throughout the two-hour walk, shouts of “Viva San Judas!” (St. Jude Lives!) arose from the predominantly Hispanic following, many seen praying the rosary. When the statue of St.
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Pilgrims carrying a statue of St. Jude crest a hill in North Beach after leaving the Shrine of St. Francis, the start point for the 13th annual Pilgrimage to St. Jude Thaddeus on Oct. 22. Pilgrims pray to St. Jude known as the patron saint of desperate cases, for his intercession in difficult matters or in thanksgiving for prayers answered. Left, dressed as St. Jude, a happy 8-month-old Valentino Hernandez is held by his grandfather.
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Jude appeared in the doorway at the end of the prayerful journey and entered the church on the shoulders of pilgrims, an audible gasp went up from the sanctuary along with a bank of camera phones. According to Stedman Matthew, chief administrative officer of the shrine, thousands of pilgrims visit the devotional site each year seeking solace and St. Jude’s intercession on behalf of private intentions. Each month over 2,500 prayer, Mass and votive candle requests come to the shrine via mail, email and telephone, along with donations. Matthew said prayer requests include general prayers of thanksgiving to St. Jude, people praying for a loved one’s return to the church, parents for children, and commonly, a prayer for health and healing. “The volume of prayer requests for those suffering from cancer has become so great that four years ago we began an annual novena in honor of St. Peregrine, the patron saint against cancer,” said Matthew. According to Catholic Online, St. Jude Thaddeus was one of the Twelve Apostles and a relative of Jesus Christ. It is believed he became known as the patron of seemingly hopeless cases because of a New Testament letter he wrote stressing that the faithful must persevere in the environment of harsh and difficult circumstances. Two saints, St. Bridget of Sweden and St. Bernard, had visions from God asking them to accept St. Jude as “The Patron Saint of the Impossible.”
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‘Spirituality, charity, justice drive Vincentians,’ new SVdP prez says Tom Burke catholic San Francisco
Though I have never met a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society who would claim any credit for the work he or she does, as a longtime witness to the goodness they have wrought I can say with confidence, and humbly in their shadow, they have all earned their stripes as hardworking tillers of the Lord’s soil. Martin Duda is among the Vincentian number and has recently Martin Duda taken office as president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County. He came to SVdP 20 years ago when he joined the parish conference at St. Mark’s in Belmont. It immediately took him face to face with the poor. “Once I understood the need in our community, there was no turning back,” Marty told me via email. Since then, Marty, now of Our Lady of the Pillar conference in Half Moon Bay, has held various roles in SVdP at the conference and district level including providing support for new members. “New Vincentians are the lifeblood of our organization and need to be nurtured,” he said. As president, Marty looks to “sustain the spirituality, charity and justice that drive Vincentians to carry out their mission each and every day,” a pledge echoing back to the call of SVdP founder Frederic Ozanam. Marty also seeks to “hammer out a strategic plan to ensure we prioritize and address the needs most critical to our community” and maintain “the safety net programs while addressing systemic change initiatives to help end the cycle of poverty.” Who is right for SVdP? “SVdP is not for everyone,” Marty said. “It is easy to judge those in need. It can be difficult to understand how someone ends up in the situations they face. Anyone who truly believes they are blessed and fortunate to have the life they enjoy, but understand that their neighbor may not be so fortunate might consider becoming a Vincentian.” Social Justice is a cornerstone of the church and SVdP, Marty said: “The St. Vincent de Paul Society is at the forefront of putting this teaching into action. It was true in 1833 France when our founder Blessed Frederic Ozanam founded the Society and it is just as true in 2016. All God’s children deserve and receive the compassion of Vincentians worldwide.” Marty could not name his best moments with
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THANK YOU: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County presented its highest honor, the Ozanam Service Medallion, to Vincentians Jean Henderson, Hugo Gallegos, and Alan Stanley at ceremonies Sept. 24. Jean, Good Shepherd conference, Pacifica, has been a Vincentian since 1988; Hugo, St. Anthony conference, Menlo Park, joined in 2009; Al, Our Lady of Mount Carmel conference, Redwood City, became a Vincentian in 1998. Also honored was SVdP’s Peninsula Family Resource Center director, Maritza Techioli, for 18 years of service. “Many others, including youth were recognized for their volunteer hours supporting SVdP’s programs,” SVdP said in a note to this column. “Years of Service pins were awarded to Vincentians who have dedicated many years of their lives to serving others.” Pictured from left at the awards ceremonies are outgoing SVdP president, John Denniston, Alan Stanley and Bishop William Justice.
JUBILEE: A former member of the faculty at St. Paul High School, San Francisco celebrates 70 years as a religious in 2016. Sister Dorothy Gaffney, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, taught at St. Paul’s in the ‘60s as well as in elementary schools in states including Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois at other times. Sister Dorothy marked the occasion with members of her Sister Dorothy community Sept. 11 at Mount Carmel Motherhouse Chapel in Dubuque.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo, celebrated the parish’s 75th anniversary with a Mass of Thanksgiving Oct. 9 with Bishop William J. Justice as principal celebrant. Bishop Justice is a 1956 graduate of St. Gregory School and was given the “first honorary alumni award” at the Mass, said school principal Laura Miller. St. Gregory pastor, Father Paul Arnoult, concelebrated with Deacon Steve Fox and Deacon Bob Leathers assisting. SVdP only because he has loved every one. “I’ve never had a bad moment as a Vincentian,” he said. “Vincentians are some of the best people I have ever been associated with. I receive so much more than I could ever give.”
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Catholic cemetery options exist for already scattered remains of cremated
Vatican releases instruction on burial, cremation Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Professing belief in the resurrection of the dead and affirming that the human body is an essential part of a person’s identity, the Catholic Church insists that the bodies of the deceased be treated with respect and laid to rest in a consecrated place. While the Catholic Church continues to prefer burial in the ground, it accepts cremation as an option, but Cardinal Muller forbids the scattering of ashes and the growing practice of keeping cremated remains at home, said Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “Caring for the bodies of the deceased, the church confirms its faith in the resurrection and separates itself from attitudes and rites that see in death the definitive obliteration of the person, a stage in the process of reincarnation or the fusion of one’s soul with the universe,” the cardinal told reporters Oct. 25. In 1963, the congregation issued an instruction permitting cremation as long as it was not done as a sign of denial of the basic Christian belief in the resurrection of the dead. The permission was incorporated see cremation, page 20
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A “strongly worded” document from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the disposal of cremated remains means some Catholics may have concerns about past decisions to scatter the ashes of loved ones, said Monica Williams, director of the archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries. But Williams said there are still ways to honor at a Catholic cemetery those whose cremains have been scattered and to insure they will be prayed for as an individual as all the dead are prayed for at Holy Cross Cemetery and all Catholic cemeteries. The new document specifically forbids scattering of ashes, dividing them up between several places or people, and keeping them at home in an urn. However, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, noted in his talk with reporters Oct. 25 that cremation is becoming more and more common and it is acceptable as long as it is not chosen as a way to deny the Christian belief in the resurrection of the body. “Caring for the bodies of the deceased, the church confirms its faith in the resurrection and separates itself from attitudes and rites that see in death the definitive obliteration of the person, a stage in the process of reincarnation or the fusion of one’s soul
with the universe,” the cardinal told reporters Oct. 25, after release of the instruction “Ad resurgendum cum Christo” or “To Rise with Christ.” At Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, a number of options exist to make sure each individual is remembered, even if their bodies have already been cremated and dispersed, Williams said. For those choosing cremation, the archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries have niches, graves and family columbariums for cremated remains, she said. Most family plots also have room to accommodate cremated remains. For those who have been keeping cremains in an urn at home, and want to now bring them to a Catholic cemetery for their final rest, Williams said the cremains may be added to grave or niche, just as of those who are recently deceased. There are other options too, she said. The cemetery makes provisions for those who cannot afford burial or cremation. It has also created special areas throughout the cemetery for cremated remains that offer a wide range of prices and memorial options, Williams said. “We want to make the cemeteries accessible for people to have cremated remains placed, for those who believe our church’s teaching about the cemetery as a place of prayer and as a place to remember,” she said. see cemetery, page 20
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All Souls goes solar – first in the archdiocese Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
All Souls School and Parish, located in one of the Bay Area’s foggier areas, became the first school and parish to go solar in the Archdiocese of San Francisco this month. All Souls principal Vince Reiner said estimates indicate the South San Francisco school will save at least $12,000 a year in electrical costs. The parish, which is also installing solar panels on the church roof, will save $15,000 the first year, according to project estimates by the solar company, Sunjevity. “It’s a legacy for the future,” said Reiner. Previously the school had installed energy saving lights and new energy efficient boilers were installed recently, he said. A needed new roof was put on the school in June, as well, which should last the life of the solar panels laid on top of it, said Steve Kalpakoff, director
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He said it was “absolutely” worth it for the parish and school. “I wish we did a lot more of them,” Kalpakoff said. “I would recommend it if the parish can afford it. The system will last 20 to 25 years and you are going to save thousands and thousands of dollars.” The self-ballasting system uses heavy blocks to hold down the panels on the roof, and the roof is not penetrated so leaks are unlikely, said Benito Garcia, vice president of Renewable Electric Inc., the subcontracting installer. It is designed for stability for winds up to 110 miles per hour, Garcia said. Over the 25-year expected life of the project, the church will save nearly $600,000 while the school will save almost $500,000, according to Sunjevity’s estimate. The cost of the school project was $81,000 while the church project was about $75,000. The savings estimates are calculated after subtracting the project costs. The parish owns the system outright so savings kick in immediately in both the parish and school operating budgets. The solar panel project was paid for in monies collected in the parish bingo account, said Reiner. Every Friday night, the parish hosts a bingo game in the hall. “It is not only that we see it is more economical, it is ecological,” said All Souls pastor Father Briccio R. Tamora, a Divine Word Missionary.
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On the evening of Oct. 21, the Office of Vocations of the Archdiocese of San Francisco held the first Clericus Classic basketball game at Archbishop Riordan High School. The contest pitted a group of 17 priests and one permanent deacon against a very formidable opponent, a group of eight seminarians from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. The first minutes were slow as the teams looked to find their shot. The seminarians, wearing black, were the first team to lock into a rhythm and once they did, the men in black never looked back. The priests, wearing white, made a noble effort to keep pace. Father Larry Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto, was the secret weapon for the priests, burying several baskets. Unfortunately, this priest ordained for 52 years could not carry the entire team. The crowd of almost 300 enthusiastic fans definitely favored the priests and supported the team throughout the entire game. In the end, it was the seminarians who were victorious over the priests, 63-44, and who raised the trophy in their moment of triumph. The good news for the priests is that two of these players will be on their team next year after their ordination to the priesthood.
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St. Dunstan Catholic Elementary School (K-8) located in Millbrae, Ca. will have an Open House on Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 pm for prospective families applying for the 2017-18 school year. Additionally, there will be a Kindergarten (only) Open House scheduled for Saturday, November 19 at 10:00am. Please call the school at 650-697-8119 to RSVP for open house or to inquire about St. Dunstan School. Centrally located between 101 and 280, we are in our 66th year offering excellence in Catholic education, serving the mid-peninsula and surrounding communities. Link to St. Dunstan School at
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The student council of Our Lady of Loretto School spelled out a seasonal greeting to Archbishop Cordileone on the school stage during the archbishop’s visit to the Novato school on Oct. 7. The archbishop celebrated Mass with the school, toured classrooms and had lunch with faculty and staff.
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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone brought the Our Lady of Loretto School community in Novato together on Oct. 7 starting with a morning Mass followed by visits to each of the 58-year-old, K-8 school’s classrooms. Vice principal Jennifer Woodall told Catholic San Francisco that the archbishop was “really warm and personable” with the students who asked him if he had always wanted to be an archbishop. “He smiled and told them that it’s priesthood that is the calling and you
are honored with the role of archbishop,” she said. Woodall said the students also asked him what he might be doing if he had not become the archbishop and he talked about loving music, particularly jazz. At the start of a luncheon with faculty and staff, the student council greeted the archbishop with a pumpkin-themed sign on the school stage. “It was a really great day for all of us,” said Woodall. “I felt very happy I work for the Catholic Church.” The archbishop returned to Novato on Sunday to celebrate two Masses at Our Lady of Loretto and greet parishioners in the piazza, said Woodall.
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Order prepares lay ‘ambassadors’ to invite women into religious life each other. They were real and that was attractive to me.” Rosskopf said that young women do experience the same sense of being called by God to religious life, but with less exposure to the lives of sisters than in previous generations, the vocation is often not anchored in reality. Young women can have an idealized view of religious life, said Sister Carla, and often don’t know who to talk to or how to take the next step. The vocations department which also uses vocations-specific Facebook, Twitter and Instagram campaigns to connect to young Catholic women, promoted the ‘vocations ambassador’ meeting through parish bulletins, email lists and old school flyers. The group included a senior at Dominican University and a handful of St. Raphael parishioners. They reported positive experiences with Dominican sisters as a reason for wanting to spread the word about vocations along with a strong belief in the future of religious life.
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The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael launched a “vocation ambassadors” program on Sept. 28 aimed at preparing laywomen in parish and school communities to invite young Catholic women in Marin County and beyond to consider religious life. “I know a lot of young people because I stay connected,” said vocations director Sister Carla Kovak, a former teacher and novice director who celebrated her 50th jubilee this year. “They know who a sister is because of our relationship. But how can we engage others to be more proactive about talking about religious life and inviting others to consider it?” According to a 2015 study on Catholic sisters in the U.S. by the Conrad Hilton Foundation, 25 percent of all Catholic women have considered becoming a Catholic sister at some point in their lives. But the report said the call is often stifled by misconceptions about the lives and work of sisters today and a “big lack of inviters,” according to Reena Rosskopf, vocations promoter for the order. “Sisters aren’t in people’s lives like
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Dominican Sister Carla Kovak, vocations director for the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, left, and vocations promoter Reena Rosskopf hosted a “vocations ambassadors” night at the community’s motherhouse in San Rafael on Sept. 28. they used to be,” said Rosskopf. “They are out in the community and working but it’s not like the old days when they were in the schools and hospitals on a regular basis. We really want to expand that network.” When Sister Carla was a young woman discerning what she felt was a calling to enter religious life in the 1960s, she had a pretty good idea of what she was getting into. Educated by
Dominican Sisters of San Rafael in Los Angeles, she spent summers helping them teach religion in a nearby barrio. “That was a different era,” Sister Carla told Catholic San Francisco. “I was able to see sisters for who they were. I discovered their humanity, but also that they were smart and generous and funny and loving and kind to
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Vietnamese martyrs liturgy to be celebrated Nov. 20 at St. Thomas the Apostle
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Catholics urged to vote Nov. 8
WASHINGTON – In urging Catholics in his archdiocese to look to “Faithful Citizenship” for guidance for the elections, Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Connecticut, said that by offering that guidance, “some accuse the bishops of trying to tell Catholics for whom or against whom to vote, thus embroiling the church in partisan politics. Others think that the bishops are timid, and that they should be more pointed in telling Catholics exactly how to vote in light of the gravity of the moral issues.” But in the document, he said, “the bishops state flatly: ‘The church is involved in the political process but is not partisan. The church cannot champion any candidate or party.’ What the church is calling for is ‘a different kind of political engagement: one shaped by the moral convictions of well-formed consciences and focused on the dignity of every human being, the pursuit of the common good and the protection of the weak and the vulnerable.’” In the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, Bishop Mark J. Seitz in a blog post likewise pointed to “Faithful Citizenship.” He acknowledged the dilemma facing Catholic voters this year, but he also said that beyond Election Day, “we desperately need citizens of character, committed to the common good and guided by revealed wisdom, to step up and be involved if our democratic republic is to continue to be a place of well-being for its people and a source of hope for the world.”
US Catholics asked to help world’s poor children with a ‘Box of Joy’
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Cross Catholic Outreach’s Box of Joy program is “a way for people anywhere to pack a Christmas gift box and deliver it to a child who otherwise would receive nothing,” said the president of the Florida-based organization. Jim Cavnar said the program started out small in 2014 to give U.S. Catholics an opportunity to send Christmas presents to poor children” and “the response was overwhelming.” The 2016 Box of Joy program is well underway with almost 300 parishes schools and other groups participating to date. But there is still time to get involved. The Cross Catholic Outreach website has details of items needed and locations of local drop-off centers at www.crosscatholic.org/boxofjoy.
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Family members in Tijuana, Mexico, separated by deportation, visit through the U.S.-Mexico border fence Oct. 16. Visiting is not restricted on the Mexican side, but the U.S. Border Patrol allows family to approach the fence for only a few hours on weekends. next decade under a plan to strengthen the quality of education. The plan was announced by the archdiocese following an 18-month study on school needs. Overall, 19 of the 22 schools the archdiocese operates in Baltimore City and the immediate surrounding, including two that will be merged, will benefit from the expenditure. James B. Sellinger, archdiocesan education chancellor, said the plan is “all about investment. We are committed to safeguarding the legacy of Catholic education in Baltimore and enhancing its quality in preparing for future generations of students,” he said, noting the average age of Baltimore-area Catholic schools is 61 years. The plan also includes, at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year, the closures of three schools: John Paul Regional Catholic School in Woodlawn, St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School in Hampden and the Seton Keough High School in Baltimore.
Enrollment growth prompts Boston seminary to buy back space
BRIGHTON, Mass. – Rapid growth in the number of men entering St. John’s Seminary in Brighton to study for the priesthood has prompted the Boston archdiocese to buy back space from Boston College to accommodate the increase. Msgr. James Moroney, seminary rector, signed a purchase and sale agreement with the Jesuit-run college Oct. 20 to buy back more than 13,000 square feet of space within the current seminary building.
Pediatricians suggest screen-time limits
WASHINGTON – The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a new policy statement in October, saying that the younger children are, the less time they need in front of screens. “More children, even in economically challenged households, are using newer digital technologies, such as interactive and mobile media, on a daily basis and continue to be the target of intense marketing,” said the academy’s statement, “Media and Young Minds.” It issued a list of 10 things parents should do when it comes to their child’s screen time: Avoid digital media use, except video-chatting, in children younger than 18-24 months; for children ages 18-24 montths, if parents want to introduce digital media, choose highquality programming and use media together with a child, and avoid solo media use in this age group; do not feel pressured to introduce technology early; for children ages 2-5, limit screen use to one hour per day of high-quality programming; avoid fast-paced programs, apps with lots of distracting content, and any violent content; turn off televisions and other devices when not in use; avoid using media as the only way to calm your child; monitor children’s media content and what apps are used or downloaded; keep bedrooms, mealtimes, and parent-child playtimes screen free for children and parents; no screens 1 hour before bedtime, and remove devices from bedrooms before bed. Catholic News Service
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Catholic san francisco | November 3, 2016
Pope, Lutheran leaders begin Reformation commemoration
LUND, Sweden – Urging Catholics and Lutherans to take decisive steps toward unity, Pope Francis nevertheless offered no new openings to the idea of sharing Communion before full unity is achieved. “We Christians will be credible witnesses of mercy to the extent that forgiveness, renewal and reconciliation are daily experienced in our midst,” the pope said Oct. 31 during an ecumenical prayer service in the Lutherans’ Lund cathedral, which was built as a Catholic cathedral in the 11th century. With the prayer service, Pope Francis and leaders of the Lutheran World Federation launched a year of activities to mark the 500th anniversary in 2017 of Martin Luther’s efforts to reform the church. For Pope Francis and the Vatican, Catholics are called to commemorate the event by focusing on concrete ways to express and strengthen the doctrinal agreements reached by Catholic and Lutheran theologians over the past 50 years. The most appropriate way to mark the anniversary, they said, was with common prayer and renewed commitments to working together to help the poor and promote justice. At a related event in Malmo, Sweden, Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria, called on all Christians to join their voices in prayer and in pressuring their governments to stop the bloodshed and destruction in his homeland. A centerpiece of the Malmo event was the signing of a “declaration of intent” by the heads of Caritas
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Pope Francis embraces the Rev. Martin Junge, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, during an ecumenical prayer service at the Lutheran cathedral in Lund, Sweden, Oct. 31.
Internationalis, the Vatican-based confederation of Catholic charities, and the Lutheran World Federation’s World Service. The two organizations promised to “witness and act together,” supporting one another, including by serving the victims of war in Syria and Syrian refugees in neighboring
Pope: Bishops, religious must respect one another, work together
VATICAN CITY – Bishops and members of religious orders in their dioceses must work together for the good of the Catholic Church, striving to understand one another and always respecting both the responsibility of the bishop for his diocese and the autonomy of the religious order, Pope Francis said. “Mutual relations do not exist where some command and others submit out of fear or convenience,” Pope Francis
said Oct. 28 during a meeting with episcopal vicars and delegates for religious life. The priests and bishops were in Rome for a conference sponsored by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Pope Francis insisted that for the good of the church, a healthy relationship between bishops and religious could exist only where “there is cultivated dialogue, respectful listening, reciprocal hospitality, encounter and knowledge, the shared search for the truth and fraternal collaboration for the good of the church, which is a ‘house of communion.’”
Pope sends Detroit bishop to assist Guam archdiocese
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis appointed a Detroit auxiliary bishop to a Guam archdiocese whose leader is under a Vatican investigation for the alleged sexual abuse of minors. Coadjutor Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes, 58, also was given “special faculties” or authority in the Archdiocese of Agana, according to a Vatican press release Oct. 31. The appointment came several weeks after the apostolic administrator of the Agana archdiocese requested the Vatican remove the current leader, Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron, and name a successor. A coadjutor archbishop – as opposed to an auxiliary
bishop – immediately succeeds an archbishop who retires or dies.
Bishop urges change of heart toward migrants
OXFORD, England – A French bishop defended the demolition of a migrant camp in northern France while urging greater help for displaced refugees and a “change of mentality” toward asylum-seekers. Bishop Jean-Paul Jaeger of Arras said the transfer of people from the camp in Calais, known as the Jungle because of squalor and overcrowding, was necessary because of “its unhealthiness and the precarious subsistence conditions.” “These people have often been jeered at by the very networks which led them toward an imagined promised land. Their departure from our seaboard can and must be accompanied by increased respect, especially toward minors, single women and people in poor health,” said Bishop Jaeger, whose diocese encompasses Calais. The bishop issued the statement as police bulldozers began leveling makeshift shelters Oct. 24 that housed about 8,000 migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East who were hoping to cross the English Channel to Great Britain. As demolition work began, French officials moved residents to temporary locations across the country. Catholic News Service
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Catholic san francisco | November 3, 2016
Marijuana legalization would harm children, increase traffic deaths
rom the earliest political philosophies, a measure of good governance has always been how well a proposed policy or legislation anticipates and prepares for the inevitable consequences. A prudent government makes decisions based on sound reasoning, accurate data and benefits to the body politic. Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, fails that concise and clear test on far too many levels. Even a cursory examination of data on marijuana legalization reveals that too little is known about the impact on the health Cardinal and education of our children, william j. the increased danger on our highways, the impact on ecolevada nomically challenged neighborhoods and black market expansion of cannabis-related commerce. Two states that have recently legalized marijuana – Washington and Colorado – provide us with a preview of the harmful consequences we will experience should Proposition 64 pass. These are entirely foreseeable and, given the diversity of the Golden State, likely to be magnified in both severity and number. For instance, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that emergency room visits by children and calls to poison control hotlines are increasing in Colorado as children ingest cannabis products that look and taste like everyday candies. Toddlers from 2 to 3
This page features commentaries by Cardinal William J. Levada, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and Oakland Bishop Michael C. Barber encouraging California voters to oppose the marijuana legalization initiative, Proposition 64, on the Nov. 8 state ballot. The initiative would legalize marijuana under state law, for use by adults 21 or older; impose state taxes on sales and cultivation; provide for industry licensing; and establish standards for marijuana products. years old are the most common victims. The state of Washington has also seen increases. California’s population is seven times that of Colorado and almost six times that of Washington. The impact legalization will have on our children is not something that should be trivialized and certainly not something we should be willing to “work out later.” Other changes are taking place in Colorado. The high school dropout rate increased for the first time in nine years and the graduation rate did not improve. Traffic deaths related to marijuana use are up and marijuana from Colorado has begun appearing in other states. Washington finds that 27 percent of 12th graders use marijuana, with the percentage growing. Even more frightening is a 2014 study published by the American Physiological Association, which demonstrated that regular marijuana use in teens led to a 6-point decrease in IQ by the time they reached adulthood and actually resulted in changes to brain structure.
Legalization of marijuana likely to escalate poverty problem
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hile some may think that the impacts of the marijuana legalization are fairly benign, the evidence to the contrary is well documented and compelling. Obvious effects include an increase in impaired driving, a rise in use among youth, and the negative effect marijuana has on learning and intelligence. However, more attention needs to be paid to the impacts Prop 64 would have on California’s large homeless and poor populations. Cathobishop william lic teaching is clear that j. justice life and physical health are precious gifts that must be protected. It is also very clear that we must all work together to promote the common good. This is especially true for our poorer neighborhoods where residents have less power to protect their own interests. Communities which already face high unemployment rates and reduced educational opportunities will see those challenges quickly increased with the legalization of marijuana. We only need to look at Colorado, which legalized marijuana in 2014, to see why. Many cities are now looking to enact ordinances to limit the number of growers because operations have predominately been locating in low-income neighborhoods. A May article in Politico documented how well-funded marijuana operations snatch up cheap business real estate, locking out any chance of other establishments to set up shop. And what do you think has happened to crime in those areas? One town, Pueblo, now has the highest murder rate in the nation. As usage increases, poor communities – as well as other economic groups – will also ex-
perience more failed drug tests, missed days at work or school, and even loss of employment. Those with the financial strength to weather what is hopefully a temporary setback, will do so. Those with fewer resources have a much tougher time overcoming the financial ramification of even a temporary loss of income. Published reports have also documented a sharp increase in the Colorado homeless populations. One region reported a 40 percent increase in their shelter population. Many jobless and homeless “marijuana migrants” have traveled from outside of the state so they can obtain marijuana at a cheaper cost and continue its use without the fear of legal repercussions. These people should be steered toward opportunities for hope and prosperity instead of making it easier to find ways to accommodate their addiction. The threat of an increase in the need for homeless services is great enough that it has prompted Los Angeles County Supervisors to approve a ballot measure that would impose a 10 percent gross tax on all marijuana businesses to help fund the County’s homeless assistance programs. If local governments are already anticipating an increase in homeless assistance and trying to proactively intercept the fallout of Prop 64, should we not reexamine the best course of action that would prevent the need for increased services? This Election Day, I urge you to serve our brothers and sisters in underprivileged neighborhoods, and vote no on Proposition 64. The legalized use of recreational marijuana will create circumstances that will no doubt create economic winners and losers, but the impoverished will be some of the victims of this measure. Instead, the entrenched systemic problems that will result in poor communities will be extremely difficult to overcome. Bishop Justice is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Abuses and excess of any kind, be it with food, alcohol, tobacco or medicine diminish and rob us of our capacity to live a dignified life. Why – at a time when we have made great strides in public health concerns such as reducing the use of tobacco, raising awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving, or promoting the benefit of exercise and nutrition – would we want to encourage a practice that could lead to addiction and unhealthy side effects? We already hear daily reports about an “epidemic” of drug use in this nation, with its negative consequences on family, work and health. The jury of qualified experts seems to find marijuana an entry level drug that, in far too many cases, can lead to even stronger and more dangerous drugs. And clearly, as tragically demonstrated in Colorado and Washington, public safety officials are justified in expressing great concern about marijuana and driving. Experimenting with the health and welfare of our children, the potential impact on road safety, not to mention the medical and legal implications that are far from resolved, seem to me to take us in a dangerous and unwise direction. The California initiative process places great responsibility on all of us for good governance in this area. When we consider the many potential negative consequences of legalizing recreational marijuana, our prudent response should be to vote NO on Proposition 64. Cardinal Levada is archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican.
No ‘safe path’ for children
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roposition 64 asks voters to legalize the sale and use of marijuana by anyone over the age of 21. The cannabis industry asserts that it is only for adults. But the measure actually endangers 10 million Californians’ children in ways that are entirely predictable today. As persons and a society, we must protect our children. “The civil community with its institutions,” said Pope Francis, “has a certain ... responsibility toward young people, a responsibility that at times is neglected or poorly exercised ... Young people are thus deprived of safe paths to follow, of teachers to trust in, bishop michael of ideals to warm their hearts, C. barber, sj of values and of hopes to sustain them daily.” Proposition 64 does not provide these “safe paths” in at least three key areas. First, we all recognize the pervasive power of advertising and Proposition 64 virtually guarantees that millions of children would be exposed to positive, alluring marijuana advertising. Proposition 64 would provide broad permission to advertise recreational marijuana throughout much of society, including television. While federal law bans tobacco ads from television, the proposition’s language allows television advertising as long as most of the viewing audience is adult. This means that if only a quarter of a show’s audience is deemed to be children, it is acceptable to advertise marijuana products. That virtually guarantees tens of thousands of children will see favorable ads for marijuana. Second, California wrestles with the continuing challenge of providing all youth a solid education. The goal for students is to become competent, fulfilling adults in society. Yet the increased allure and availability of marijuana is almost certain to derail some younger Californians. Medical research shows that cannabis often leads to diminished learning capacity in some and less motivation to learn in others. Marijuana use by teens can have long-term, even lifelong, harmful impacts. A report in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (JAMA) “Psychiatry” notes that “… when marijuana users begin using as teenagers, the drug may reduce thinking, see barber, page 23
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Protecting yourself against state’s new assisted-suicide law
n what will go down as a dark day in California history, an assistedsuicide law with minimal safeguards took effect June 9. The End of Life Option Act states that a doctor, or anyone else, can assist in a suicide without being prosecuted for a crime. One can avail himself of assisted suicide if he has been diagnosed with a terminal disvicki evans ease and there is a reasonable prognosis of death within six months. He must be judged by two doctors as having mental capacity to make medical decisions. He then makes two oral requests and one witnessed written request to a doctor, who may then write him a lethal prescription. The new law is implemented by going to California’s Department of Public Health website and under “Hot Topics” clicking on “End of Life Option Act.” There you will find the check-the-box forms needed. The patient completes a “Request for An Aid-In-Dying Drug to End my Life in a Humane and Dignified Manner” witnessed by two individuals. The “Attending Physician Checklist & Compliance Form” is a three-page form consisting of a series of boxes the doc-
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ver since the 1960 U.S. presidential election of the Democratic Party nominee, John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, the political commentators, pundits, pollsters, and other so-called voting experts have repeatedly drawn attention to “the Catholic vote.” In fact, at least as far back as the 1928 election with the defeat father of Democratic kenneth weare nominee, Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic, the national discussion focused on him as the first Catholic nominee for president, and on the coalescing of a “Catholic vote” in his support. In contemporary political conversation it is not uncommon for voters to speak in terms of “the Black vote,” “the Hispanic vote,” “the women’s vote,” “the labor vote,” or “the LGBT vote.” Today, with an abundance of publicity and social media interest accorded the Catholic Church both for good (Pope Francis) and for evil (clergy child abuse), with prominent government posts held by Catholics (Secretary of State John Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden), and with Catholics becoming the largest religious group in both in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, it is not surprising that people once again conjure up the notion of “the Catholic vote.” The reality, however, is quite different. Even a cursory view of U.S. voting history reveals that “the Catholic vote” as such simply does not exist. Indeed, the Catholic vote has very closely resembled the overall national presidential vote. Catholics have not formed
tor checks off to document eligibility for assisted suicide. On the “Consulting Physician Compliance Form” a second physician checks off similar boxes. Nothing remains but the act of securing the lethal drug and ingesting it. It takes little imagination to envision how this law puts the vulnerable at risk. Victims of elder abuse are vulnerable to persuasion. Family members or others who stand to inherit could exert subtle pressure by suggesting or encouraging suicide. A nursing home could have motives for moving the patient along. Consider these pitfalls. The definition of “terminal” only requires the doctor to predict the patient’s death within six months. There is no requirement that he consider the impact of drugs or medical treatments in terms of survival. The fact is, many conditions become terminal if medications or routine treatments are discontinued. A diabetic will die within six months without insulin. There is no requirement that the two witnesses attesting to the patient’s request know him personally, as long as proof of identity is provided. One witness is allowed to be a relative or someone who stands to inherit. One witness may be the operator or employee of a healthcare facility where the patient resides. Notification of next-of-kin is not required. Neither the attending physician nor the consulting physician must be your regular doctor. If your doctor believes you do not have mental capacity or
Grief seminar “Hope for the Holiday,” a seminar on grief, will be held Nov. 19, 2-4 p.m., at St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center, St. Francis Hall (lower level), 1111 Gough St. at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Presenters Deacon Christoph Sandoval and Mercy Sister Elaine Stahl will discuss topics including advance directives, navigating grief for the holidays and “welcoming heaven on the last day of our lives.” The presentation is open to the public and free of charge. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org. are being pressured, there is no prohibition against “doctor shopping” until a doctor is found who will declare you capable of choosing assisted suicide. Investigation into violations of the law is prevented by a provision stating that information gleaned from the physician’s assisted-suicide reporting form is not discoverable or compelled to be produced in any civil, criminal or administrative proceeding. This effectively prohibits any inquiry into possible foul play. Before writing a prescription for death, a doctor must discuss “feasible alternatives” or treatments. But this does not mean the patient has the ability or insurance coverage to access them.
The law does not require the patient to be in the presence of a doctor when the lethal drugs are taken. It only addresses activities up until the drugs are procured. Nothing ensures that one is competent at the time the drugs are taken or that they are knowingly or willingly taken. So how can you protect yourself ? First, call this law what it is: assisted suicide. Language in the law provides that “death resulting from an aid-indying drug is not suicide.” Don’t fall for this abuse of the English language. Be sure your doctor knows your wishes vis-à-vis assisted suicide. If he approves of his patients ending their lives, it may be time for a new doctor. Beware of check-the-box forms becoming effective upon your signature and/or your doctor’s. This includes these “End of Life Option” forms as well as POLST, “Physician Orders for Life-Saving Treatment.” POLST should only be completed with reference to actual medical conditions. Many healthcare providers try to force the use of POLST. Say no unless circumstances warrant it. Complete an Advanced Health Care Directive to appoint a trusted surrogate who knows your values and wishes. This will be the person making medical decisions for you if you cannot so it’s vital to appoint someone you trust with your life. Evans is respect life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
The Catholic vote? a meaningful swing voting bloc for decades. Moreover, Catholic politicians have routinely sidestepped various church teachings on specific social issues such as same-sex marriage, contraception, capital punishment, and others, without being seriously rejected by Catholic voters. In the last election, in November 2012, President Obama won 50 percent to 48 percent of Catholics. The overall national tally was 51 percent to 47 percent. That was the third straight election in a row when the Catholic vote was nearly the same as the national vote. Previously, in 2008, President Obama won by 9 percent among Catholics, and by 7 percent nationally. Prior to that, in 2004, President Bush won by 5 percent among Catholics over the Democratic nominee, John Kerry, a Catholic, and by 3 percent nationally. The voting results of the 2012 presidential election became the fifth time in the last six elections when the candidate who won the Catholic vote also won the election. The single exception occurred in 2000 when Vice President Al Gore won the Catholic vote by 2 percent and the national vote by .5 percent, but lost the presidency due to the Electoral College system. Historically, party affiliation has evolved significantly. For the first half of the 20th century, the majority of Catholics were registered Democrats. Since the 1950s, more and more Catholics have been assimilated to high economic status, and shifted to Republican Party affiliation, though with limited impact on the Catholic vote. Today, with a marked increase in Hispanic voters, most of whom are Catholic, the Catholic vote is becoming more broadly Democratic. In the last election, 71 percent of Hispanic voters favored President Obama. Still, white Catholics have been self-identifying as Republicans by historic margins. In-
deed, 53 percent of white Catholics now favor the Republican Party, while only 39 percent of white Catholics favor the Democratic Party, the largest spread in modern history. Nevertheless, what is particularly noteworthy is the very long history of the Catholic vote being so very closely aligned to the overall national vote. While Catholics constitute approximately 25 percent of the electorate, they themselves have been closely divided between the Democratic and Republican parties. A recent analysis by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed that most subgroups of U.S. Catholics have consistently voted either Democratic or Republican. Notably, white Catholics who self-identify as politically conservative have voted for Republican nominees in recent elections. White Catholics who self-identify as politically progressive have voted for Democratic nominees, as have also Hispanic Catholics and other Catholic minorities. Thus it remains one of the contradictions of the U.S. political scene that while “the Catholic vote” does not exist as such, nevertheless, the votes of Catholics still matter a great deal. Gaining the support and the votes of Catholic citizens has been essential to nearly every presidential win in contemporary times. Alternately, the defection of Catholic voters has played a pivotal role in some of the most contested and crucial congressional races from 1994 to 2014, thus positioning Catholic voters as the ultimate swing voters on key elections. Father Weare, holds a doctoral degree in moral theology from the Catholic University of Louvain, and serves as pastor of St. Rita Church in Fairfax. His article was originally published as “De katholieke stem bestaat niet,” in the Belgian journal MO* Mondiaal Magazine.
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Remember in November
nnually the month of November reminds us to pray for our beloved deceased. At the time of death we hope the deceased go directly to heaven, but more likely they are not ready to be in God’s presence immediately. The church explains that they go to a place called purgatory to continue their purification and perfection. brother john Consider it like m. samaha, sm a place where you wash before dinner. On Nov. 2 we celebrate All Souls’ Day and we mark the month of November as a time of special prayer for the deceased. Some people have a childish notion of prayer. They see God as a big vending machine in the sky. Put your prayer in the slot at the top and what you want drops into the tray below. Prayer is not simply a matter of asking God for the things we want and need. At the heart of every prayer is “Thy will be done.” Prayer is powerful because we join our will with God’s. Through prayer we bring God’s blessings on those for whom we pray. These prayers are a real help both in this world and in the next. Because we Catholics are an “Easter people,” and believe in Jesus Christ who is “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25), we know that the persons for whom we pray are not really dead. They are alive, but on the other side. Jesus died and rose again. Through our baptism we share in that eternal life. Consequently we help each other with see samaha, page 23
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Catholic san francisco | November 3, 2016
Our resistance The multiple problems of surrogacy S to love
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here’s nothing simple about being a human being. We’re a mystery to ourselves and often our own worst enemies. Our inner complexity befuddles us and, not infrequently, stymies us. Nowhere is this truer than in our struggle with love and intimacy. More than anything else, we hunger for intimacy, to be touched where we are most tender, where we are most ourselves, where all that’s most precious in us lies, vulnerable and yearning. Yet, in the actual face of intimacy, sensitive people often become disquieted and resistant. FATHER ron We see two powerful inrolheiser stances of this in the Gospels: The first in a story, recorded in all four Gospels, where a woman enters a room where Jesus is dining and, in a series of lavish gestures, breaks an expensive bottle of perfume, pours the perfume onto his feet, washes his feet with her tears, dries them with her hair, and then begins to kiss his feet. What’s the response of those in the room, save for Jesus? Everyone shifts uncomfortably in their chairs in the face of this raw expression of love. Among other things, he points out that, ironically, what they are uncomfortable with is what lies at the very center of life and at the very center of their deepest desires, namely, the pure giving and receiving of love and affection. It’s this, Jesus affirms, for which we are alive and it’s this experience which prepares us for death. It’s what we are alive for. It’s also what we most yearn for? So why our discomfort and resistance when we actually face it in life? The second instance occurs in John’s Gospel where, at the Last Supper, Jesus tries to wash his disciples’ feet. As John records it, Jesus got up from the table, stripped off his outer robe, took a basin and towel, and began to wash his disciples’ feet. But he meets discomfort and resistance, clearly voiced by Peter who simply tells Jesus: “Never! You will never wash my feet!” Why? Why the resistance? Why resistance in the face of the fact that, no doubt, more than anything else, what Peter most deeply desired was exactly that Jesus should wash his feet, that he would enjoy this kind of intimacy with Jesus? Answering the question of our struggle with intimacy in this context provides one clue for why we sometimes become uncomfortable and resistant when we are in the actual face of what we desire so deeply. Our feet are too-intimate; they’re a part of our bodies where we worry about dirt and smell, not a part of ourselves that we feel comfortable having others touch. There’s an innate vulnerability, a discomfort, an inchoate shame, attached to having someone else touch and wash so intimate a part of us. Intimacy demands an ease which our vulnerability sometimes renders impossible. And so this text speaks to one kind of resistance to intimacy, to a particular unease within certain circumstances. But Peter’s resistance here speaks too of something else, something more salient: If we are healthily sensitive, we all will naturally experience a certain discomfort and resistance in the face of raw gift, before raw intimacy, before raw gratuity. And, while this is something to be overcome, it’s not a fault, a moral or psychological flaw on our part. On the contrary, in its normal expression, it’s a sign of moral and psychological sensitivity. Why do I say this? Why is something that seems to block us from moving toward the very essence of life not a sign that there’s something fundamentally wrong inside of us? I suggest that it’s not a flaw but rather a healthy mechanism inside us because narcissistic, boorish, and insensitive persons are often immune to this discomfort and resistance. Sensitive people, on the other hand, struggle with the rawness of intimacy because genuine intimacy, like heaven, is not something that can be glibly or easily achieved. It is salvation. It is the kingdom. Thus, like the kingdom, both the road and the gate toward it are narrow, not easily found. So be gentle, patient, and forgiving toward others and self in that struggle. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas; www.ronrolheiser.com.
ometimes when there is infertility in marriage, couples make the decision to seek out the services of a surrogate in order to have a child. A surrogate is a woman who agrees to be implanted with an embryo produced by in vitro fertilization and to hand over the newborn baby to the couple upon completion of the gestation and birth. In recent years, gestational surrogacy has become a multimillion dollar industry, attracting a broad clientele ranging from married couples to single women, gay couples to anyone else with the desire for a baby and the ability to finance the undertaking. Surrogacy raises grave moral concerns, and powerfully undermines the dignity father tadeusz of human procreation, pacholczyk particularly when it comes to the women and children involved in the process. One of the significant moral concerns around surrogacy is that it introduces fractures into parenthood by multiplying parental roles. Surrogacy coerces children into situations where they are subjected to the unhealthy stresses of ambiguous or split origins, perhaps being conceived from one woman’s egg, gestated by another woman, raised by a third, and maybe even dissociated from their father by anonymous sperm donation. Such practices end up being profoundly unfair and dehumanizing for the children caught in the web of the process. One woman, who was herself conceived by anonymous sperm donation, describes her experience this way: “My existence owed almost nothing to the serendipitous nature of normal human reproduction, where babies are the natural progression of mutually fulfilling adult relationships, but rather represented a verbal contract, a financial transaction and a cold, clinical harnessing of medical technology.” Moreover, women who sign up as surrogates often feel deeply conflicted about giving up the baby at birth and tearing asunder an important ninemonth connection and relationship that had been carefully developed and nurtured. There can be no doubt that the hawkers and promoters of surrogacy exploit vulnerable, financially challenged women, often in overseas settings, to undergo the risks of drug-induced artificial pregnancy. While the proponents of the procedure will often portray these women as motivated primarily by a desire to help others, surrogates themselves will privately note how they do it for the money, and in the absence of substantial
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payments, wouldn’t be willing to move ahead with the arduous procedure. Alex Kuczynski, describing her own experience of engaging a surrogate in a 2008 New York Times interview, speaks frankly: “We encountered the wink-nod rule: Surrogates would never say they were motivated to carry a child for another couple just for money; they were all motivated by altruism. This gentle hypocrisy allows surrogacy to take place. Without it, both sides would have to acknowledge the deep cultural revulsion against attaching a dollar figure to the creation of a human life.” Indeed, surrogacy involves turning human life into a commodity on multiple levels, as Kathleen Sloan recently described in testimony given to a Minnesota state commission studying the issue. A seemingly unlikely opponent of the procedure, Sloan works as a pro-abortion feminist and director of the National Organization for Women in Connecticut. On gestational surrogacy, however, she agrees with pro-life criticisms, noting how it involves “children intentionally severed from genetic and biological sources of identity, human rights be damned. In essence, it is the ultimate manifestation of the neoliberal project of capitalist commodification of all life to create profit and fulfill the narcissistic desires of an entitled elite.” Those narcissistic desires are readily catered to by an IVF industry that generates offspring in the laboratory for clients. In this process, extra embryonic humans are produced, stored and oftentimes orphaned in freezers, or even discarded outright by throwing them away as “biomedical waste.” In fact, the process of IVF, central to the practice of surrogacy, generally ends up killing more babies than it delivers. Coupled with the fact that contracting couples can pressure the surrogate mother to undergo an abortion if the in-utero child appears to be “imperfect,” or to eliminate a twin through “selective reduction” in a multiple pregnancy, it can hardly be disputed that children are pawns in the merciless endgame of satisfying parental and customer desires and corporate profit motives. A woman’s reproductive powers and her Godgiven fecundity should never be reduced to the status of a “gestator for hire” or a “breeder” as they are sometimes called by industry insiders, nor should women be exploited by allowing payment for harvesting their eggs. A woman’s procreative powers ought to be shared uniquely through marital acts with her husband, so that all the children born of her are genetically and otherwise her own. All children merit and deserve this loving consideration and assurance of protection at the point of their fragile and sacred beginnings. 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; www.ncbcenter.org.
Letters Marijuana criminalization unjust
Re “Archbishop: Don’t legalize marijuana,” Oct. 20: I just finished reading the article by Archbishop Cordileone on his views for why we as voters should vote against Proposition 64, and I am frankly stunned and saddened by such a cold and unfeeling article. Some of the logic is certainly a great argument for the regulation of this substance, and both Washington and Colorado show great strides on this. California can and should make a contribution. But by the archbishop bringing up his DUI arrest, he fails to address a glaring disparity between alcohol and marijuana. While the shame and embarrassment of his DUI is of course painful, it is a far cry from the pain and suffering that millions of people suffer from the simple possession of a plant.
I would hope the archbishop realizes the fallacy of his argument and would instead enlighten himself as to why the legalization of marijuana is not only a fair thing, but a good Christian and compassionate thing to do. Eric Klein Burlingame The writer is a member of St. Catherine of Siena Parish.
Hostility, or infighting?
Re “Leaked emails show ‘hostility’ to Catholic church, some say,” Oct. 20: That Catholics on the left criticize Catholics on the right, and vice versa, is not anything new. That it should be revealed in the leaked emails of the Clinton campaign shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. This is not anti-Catholic. It is infighting within the Catholic Church. Richard Morasci San Francisco
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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 MACCABEES 7:1-2, 9-14 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God’s law. One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said: “What do you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.” At the point of death he said: “You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying.” After him the third suffered their cruel sport. He put out his tongue at once when told to do so, and bravely held out his hands, as he spoke these noble words: “It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again.” Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man’s courage, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing. After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way. When he was near death, he said, “It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the hope God gives of being raised up by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life.” PSALM 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15 Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.
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Hear, O Lord, a just suit; attend to my outcry; hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full. My steps have been steadfast in your paths, my feet have not faltered. I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my word. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full. Keep me as the apple of your eye, hide me in the shadow of your wings. But I in justice shall behold your face; on waking I shall be content in your presence. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:16-3:5 Brothers and sisters: May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word. Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified, as it did among you, and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
We are confident of you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you are doing and will continue to do. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ. LUKE 20:27-38 Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, if someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called out ‘Lord,’ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Citizenship in the City of God
lection time affords us the opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a citizen and what the purpose of a state is. Interestingly enough, this Sunday’s readings provide a helpful guide to understanding how citizenship in the City of God makes us better citizens and residents of our country here below. All of us are possessed of a deep, inalienable desire to be members of a community. This desire is an expression of the deepest desire we have, namely to be loved and understood, and to love and understand. Because love implies relationship we are drawn to community life. But what community will fulfill this desire to be in loving relationship? What Father Mark our reading from Maccabees Doherty points to and what the life of the Lord Jesus definitively establishes is that the community to which we are destined, the common life where our deepest desire will be satisfied, is the heavenly Jerusalem, the City of God. We stand with the Lord Jesus in declaring that our homeland, our kingdom, is not of this world, and that the quality and characteristics of the resurrected life will go far beyond what any mind has seen or ear heard. But now comes the pushback from those around us who do not identify themselves first and foremost as citizens of the City of God. From the earliest
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days of the Christian community until the present the charge has been made: By claiming primary allegiance to the City of God you betray, demean, and disregard the claim your country has on you. In other words, the charge is that by striving to be first and foremost citizens of God’s kingdom we sell short our rightful obligations to our country here and now. This charge is groundless. All we need to do to refute this charge is point to the innumerable number of Christians over the centuries who have been outstanding, generous contributors to the common life of their earthly country. But to give a full rebuttal to this charge we need to explain why it is that committed Christians make excellent earthly citizens. First and foremost, those who are striving to fulfill their obligations as citizens of the City of God understand that their earthly countries and communities are possessed of a deep dignity and majesty precisely because they are reflections of, precursors to, the definitive and everlasting Country. Christians embrace the privilege of being generous and responsible citizens here below because the fingerprint of God is deeply impressed on our earthly home. Let’s put the proposition in the negative: If I didn’t believe that there was a lasting, heavenly City to which I was destined, where would the elevated dignity of the earthly city come from? The dignity of earthly and material things is derived precisely from the fact that they are meant to point to the higher heavenly and spiritual realities. Spiritual realities do not demean material realities; they magnify them. Furthermore, committed Christians make great citizens because they understand that the conduct
of one’s life in the earthly country sets the stage for citizenship in the heavenly country. Therefore, in a paradoxical way, I take my earthly life even more seriously precisely because my goal is life in the heavenly realm. Let’s put the proposition in the negative: If there’s no heavenly city to prepare for, what’s the incentive for taking this earthly life seriously? Lastly, there’s no getting away from the fact that our hearts are made for a kind of community life that nothing in this world can achieve. The result is that each time a community decides that it will shun the City of God and resort to its own devices to build the perfect kingdom, the project ends in ruin and tyranny. Why? Because no amount of effort or initiative is ever enough to make things “just right.” So the pressure mounts as expectations go unmet; tempers rage; the crafty, ambitious and charismatic set themselves up as those who will resolve all the problems if only we hand over more authority to them. But it never works well enough. In contrast, those who appreciate that their true homeland in the kingdom of God can live more peaceful and productive lives in their earthly country precisely because they don’t place too many expectations on what it can deliver. Election time affords us the opportunity to renew our commitment to being generous and responsible citizens and residents of this country. The readings remind us that, paradoxically, it is by striving evermore zealously at being citizens of the kingdom of God that we will simultaneously become better citizens of our earthly country.
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Father Doherty, began moral theology studies in September at Fribourg University in Switzerland.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, November 7: Monday of the Thirtysecond Week in Ordinary Time. TI 1:1-9, PS 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6, PHIL 2:15d, 16a, LK 17:1-6. Tuesday, November 8: Tuesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, Bl. John Duns Scotus, priest. TI 2:1-8, 11-14, PS 37:3-4, 18 and 23, 27 and 29, JN 14:23, LK 17:7-10. Wednesday, November 9: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. EZ 47:1-2, 8-9, 12, PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9, 1 COR 3:9c-11, 16-17, 2 CHR 7:16, JN 2:13-22. Thursday, November 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor of the Church. PHLM
Friday, November 11: Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, bishop ; Veterans Day (USA). 2 JN 4-9, PS 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18, LK 21:28, Lk 17:26-37. Saturday, November 12: Memorial of St. Josaphat, bishop and martyr. 3 JN 5-8, PS 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, SEE 2 THES 2:14, LK 18:1-8. Sunday, November 13: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. MAL 3:19-20a, PS 98:5-6, 7-8, 9, 2 THES 3:7-12, LK 21:28, LK 21:5-19. Monday, November 14: Monday of the Thirty-
Tuesday, November 15: Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor and doctor. RV 3:1-6, 14-22, PS 15:2-3a, 3BC-4AB, 5, 1 JN 4:10b, LK 19:1-10. Wednesday, November 16: Optional Memorials of St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude, virgin. RV 4:1-11, PS 150:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6, SEE JN 15:16, LK 19:11-28. Thursday, November 17: Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious. RV 5:1-10, PS 149:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6A and 9B, PS 95:8, LK 19:41-44.
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The following unsigned editorial appeared in the Oct. 5 issue of Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newsweekly based in Huntington, Indiana. It was written by the newspaper’s editorial board and redistributed by Catholic News Service.
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he last stop for this year’s tumultuous presidential election season, which for so long seemed like a remote intangible, suddenly is within our sights. Soon, Americans will cast ballots for their preferred candidate. Unfortunately, for many American Catholics weighing their options – and their consciences – the choice is a difficult one with no ideal options. This dilemma surfaced at an in-flight press conference with Pope Francis Oct. 2 as he returned to Rome from a visit to Georgia and Azerbaijan. When a journalist asked what advice he would give to American voters, the Holy Father responded: “I would say only: Study the proposals well, pray and choose with your conscience.” Such advice pairs well with the U.S. bishops’ document on political responsibility, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” which also advocates for studying the issues, the church’s teachings and taking the choices to prayer. Such a task is sometimes more easily said than done, however, and some leaders have offered a third option. Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, recently published a column saying that in “extraordinary circumstances,” some Catholics – in following their consciences, and unable to find a candidate who, “with some degree of probability, would be most likely to do some good, and the least amount of harm, on the foundational issues” of life, family, conscience rights and religious liberty – “might choose not to vote for any candidate at all in a particular office.” Bishop Conley emphasized that what is needed
more, however, is “a broader vision of public life, which values and proclaims the dignity of every human life, and which aims for the flourishing of individuals, families and communities. This broader vision won’t come through an election. It will come through life in Jesus Christ. The most important part of being good citizens is living as faithful and active missionary disciples of Jesus Christ.” This point is critical. In an election cycle that has been a source of great uncertainty, frustration and disunity, it is natural to feel despondent and disengaged. Our challenge, as Bishop Conley reminds us, is to remember the big picture: to strive to live as missionary disciples, bringing Christ to the world through one act of love and charity at a time. As American Catholics look to an uncertain future, we can find solace and hope in our Blessed Mother, trusting in her protection and care. With this goal in mind, it is particularly fitting that October is the Month of the Rosary. As such, Catholics have the opportunity to rediscover the beauty and power of the ancient Marian devotion – a devotion which our faith credits with the victory of Christendom over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, preserving the Faith in Mexico during the persecution of the 20th century, and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Perhaps if every American Catholic family committed to praying the rosary each day between now and Nov. 8, we may begin to see Christian values once again taking root in our nation and our world. At the very least, it would help form and fortify us as we head into the voting booth. The results could impact much more than one election – it could be the game-changing effort that brings the living Christ into our hearts and our families. And through us, back into the world.
“The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. . . . I renew the appeal I made . . . for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.” Saint Pope John Paul II Papal Mass, St. Louis, Missouri, January 27, 1999
“all life is Sacred ” California Bishops announce support for PROP 62 to end the use of the death penalty in California
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Proposition 57 offers alternatives: an increase in public safety leading to less crime; programs to promote healing and rehabilitation; the means to deal with offending juveniles as the wounded children that they are; placing more decisions in the hands of impartial judges; and a chance at parole for non-violent offenders.
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Seminary: Sulpician order to depart St. Patrick’s after 118 years FROM PAGE 1
to its accomplishments for its entire history until now. “ The decision by the Sulpicians came as the seminary board of trustees was seeking to negotiate a change in the governance structure to a more “collaborative” model similar to Assumption Seminary in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, said seminary spokesman Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly, a trustee and graduate of St. Patrick’s. Sulpicians are on the formation staff at Assumption Seminary but the rector is not a Sulpician. The Oct. 22 statement by the Sulpicians said that the Sulpicians were informed they were no longer to provide “administrative leadership” at St. Patrick’s. However, Bishop Daly, said the Sulpicians made the call to leave. “They made the decision. There was no discussion with the board of trustees. They had made up their mind” the day before and had voted to withdraw. “So there was no collaboration in the decision,” Bishop Daly said. In the Oct 22 public announcement, the Sulpicians stated: “We have recently been informed that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St. Patrick’s. As a consequence, we will not be able to serve the seminary according to the Sulpician tradition. After consultation, discussion, and prayerful discernment, the Provincial Council has decided to withdraw totally from St. Patrick’s as of June 30, 2017. We extend our best wishes to St. Patrick’s Seminary & University as it moves forward.” The relationship with the Sulpicians has had
Pax Christi regional conference Nov. 12 in Oakland
The annual Pax Christi Northern California Regional Assembly will be held Nov. 12 at St. Elizabeth High School in Oakland from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The keynote speaker is Ken Butigan, who was part of a conference last April in Rome that gathered an international group of 80 bishops, theologians and lay practitioners gathered to explore the emerging concepts of non-violence and just peace. Convened by Cardinal Peter Turkson of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace and Pax Christi International, the conference explored best practices of both Catholic and Protestant efforts to promote peacemaking
some rocky moments in the last few years, with Sulpician Father James McKearney, the predecessor of the current president-rector, asked to resign in 2013. Bishop Daly, then an auxiliary bishop of San Jose, served as interim rector until current rector-president, and former vice-rector and theology professor, Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens was chosen. The Archdiocese of San Francisco owns the seminary and its grounds. In addition to the archdiocese, the sponsoring dioceses are Fresno, Honolulu, Monterey, Oakland, Orange, Reno, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Stockton and Spokane. The seminary has seen a significant drop in enrollment from 2012 at 114 seminarians to 63 today, but Bishop Daly said that is not a reflection of seminary administration rather a function of decisions by some dioceses to send seminarians to other seminaries as well as an overall drop in seminarians in some dioceses. Some such as the Fresno and Orange dioceses are sending men closer to home to St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, in Southern California, Bishop Daly said. “There are misconceptions about the program at St Patrick’s Seminary – some see it as too conservative,” Bishop Daly said. “The seminary is a solid program of priestly formation.” The board of trustees was concerned about some aspects of the seminary administration in academic and spiritual areas and was interested in discussing a new collaborative relationship with the Sulpicians. Those issues were raised in an executive committee conference call with Father Kemper and another Sulpician the previous Sunday, Bishop Daly said.
in war-torn parts of the world. The rationale for the conference was to encourage Catholics to become more knowledgeable and actively engaged in the promotion of a broad and creative array of nonviolent peacebuilding efforts that can protect vulnerable communities, avoid violent conflict, transform violent social structures and promote cultures of peace. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $20 via Pax Christi Northern California’s website at paxchristnorcal.org, or for $25 at the door. Students will be invited to attend without charge. No one will be turned away. Contact Tom Webb at paxchristnorcal@gmail.com
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That discussion apparently led to the province’s decision four days later to withdraw from the seminary. A search committee comprised primarily of a subcommittee of the board of trustees has been formed to find a new president-rector. Among those on the search committee are Bishop Daly, Oakland Bishop Michael C. Barber, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice, Archbishop emeritus George H. Niederauer and Honolulu Bishop Clarence Silva as well as several lay seminary trustees, Bishop Daly said. The Sulpicians leaving in June will include three administrators, rector-president Father Stevens, vice rector Father Anthony J. Pogorelc, and Dean of Spiritual Life Father Vincent Doan Bui as well as three teachers, Father Chris Arockiaraj, instructor of Pastoral Studies; Father Paul Maillet, assistant professor of Sacred Scripture; and Father Jaime Robledo, instructor of Moral Theology.
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Cemetery: Catholic options exist for already scattered cremated remains FROM PAGE 5
The cemetery will also install a memorial plaque for a person whose ashes have been dispersed or otherwise are unavailable, so that the most important act of mercy may be performed for them – they will be prayed for along with all those buried at the
cemetery, Williams said. The person’s name may also be added to an existing family headstone, Williams said. For instance, she said, a woman whose husband’s ashes were scattered was able to add an urn with mementos of him in a niche where she would eventually be buried. The man’s name was placed on the
plaque at the niche so that he would be individually remembered and prayed for at once, Williams said. The cemetery is committed to making Christian burial, whether of a body or cremated remains “financially affordable, so finances do not become a barrier for anyone to participate in the order of Christian funerals,” Williams said.
Cremation: Vatican releases instruction on burial, cremation FROM PAGE 5
into the Code of Canon Law in 1983 and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches in 1990. However, Cardinal Muller said, church law had not specified exactly what should be done with “cremains,” and several bishops’ conferences asked the congregation to provide guidance. The result, approved by Pope Francis after consultation with other Vatican offices and with bishops’ conferences and the Eastern churches’ synods of bishops, is “Ad resurgendum cum Christo” (“To Rise with Christ”), an instruction “regarding the burial of the deceased and the conservation of the ashes in the case of cremation.” Presenting the instruction, Cardinal Muller said, “shortly, in many countries, cremation will be considered the ordinary way” to deal with the dead, including for Catholics. Cremation, in and of itself, does not constitute a denial of belief in the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body, the instruction says. Nor does it “prevent God, in his omnipotence, from raising up the deceased body to new life.” However, the Catholic Church wholeheartedly recommends continuing the “pious practice of burying the dead,” Cardinal Muller said. It is considered one of the corporal works of mercy and, mirroring the burial of Christ, it more clearly ex-
presses hope in the resurrection when the person’s body and soul will be reunited. In addition, he said, when a person is buried in the ground – and, at least to some extent – when the urn of the person’s ashes is placed in a columbarium or tomb, the final resting place is marked with the person’s name, the same name with which the person was baptized and by which the person is called by God. “Belief in the resurrection of the flesh is fundamental,” he said. “A human cadaver is not trash” and an anonymous burial or scattering of ashes “is not compatible with the Christian faith. The name, the person, the concrete identity of the person” is important because God created each individual and calls each individual to himself. In fact, when asked if there was any way to rectify the situation when a person’s ashes already had been scattered, Cardinal Muller suggested making a memorial in a church or other appropriate place and including the name of the deceased. What is more, he said, labeling an urn or tomb in a public place is an expression of belief in the “communion of saints,” the unending unity in Christ of all the baptized, living and dead. “Other believers have a right to pray at the tomb” and to remember deceased members of the Catholic Church on the feast of All Saints and All Souls. Keeping ashes at home on the mantel, he said,
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is a sign not only of love and grief, but also of not understanding how the loved one belonged to the entire community of faith and not just to his or her closest relatives. “Only in grave and exceptional cases,” the instruction says, local bishops may give permission for ashes to be kept in a private home. Cardinal Muller said it was not up to him, but to local and national bishops’ conferences to determine what those “grave and exceptional” circumstances might be. Placing the ashes in a sacred place also “prevents the faithful departed from being forgotten or their remains from being shown a lack of respect,” which is more likely to happen as time goes on and the people closest to the deceased also pass way, the instruction said. Asked specifically about the growing trend in his native Germany of “forest burials,” where people pay to have their ashes in urns interred at the base of a tree in a designated forest burial ground, Cardinal Muller said the German bishops were not thrilled with the idea, but accepted it with the proviso that the tree be marked with the name of the person buried at its base. In the United States and other countries, a growing number of Catholic cemeteries set aside sections for “green burials” for bodies that have not been embalmed and are placed in simple wooden caskets that eventually will biodegrade along with the body.
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ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN: The ACCW held their Fall Conference Oct. 15 at St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco. The day began with Mass. Father Patrick Summerhays, parochial vicar at St. Cecilia’s was principal celebrant with Father Charles Puthota, pastor, St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco, and Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio, pastor, St. Ignatius Parish, concelebrating. A lunch followed with guest speaker Sacred Heart of Mary Sister Gretchen Hailer sharing a personal reflection on how to live the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. Catholic women from around the archdiocese were honored with 2016 Women of the Year Awards. “Congratulations to each of these women who in their many and varied ministries to their parishes, exhibit love, mercy, and generosity of time and talent to all those they serve,” the ACCW said. “Our church has, and continues to be blessed, by their many years of dedicated service.” The winners, some pictured here, and their parishes: Nancy Clarkin, Our Lady of the Pilar, Half Moon Bay; Carmella Da San Martino, St. Veronica, South San Francisco; Teodora De La Cruz, Holy Name of Jesus, San Francisco; Lorna Feria, Star of the Sea, San Francisco; Rosario Lapuz, Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco; Beth Livoti, St. Anthony of Padua, Novato; Rita Mazzei, St. Cecilia, San Francisco; Vilma Recinos Merlos, St. Finn Barr, San Francisco; Carmen Ochoa, St. Francis of Assisi, East Palo Alto; Marian Previtali, St. Sebastian, Greenbrae; Lety Simpliciano Thomas, St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco; Flora Sinajon, St. Brendan, San Francisco; Catherine Steinbach, St. Anne of the Sunset, San Francisco; Dolores Tulkoff, St. Ignatius, San Francisco.
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In commemoration of November, known for All Saints’ Day Nov. 1 and All Souls’ Day Nov. 2, an El Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead altar has been constructed the classroom at St. Anne School in San Francisco where Spanish is taught. “The main idea is to present to our students and all of the St. Anne community this colorful and meaningful tradition that originated in Mexico and other Latino countries,” principal, Tom White told Catholic San Francisco. Spanish teacher Marco Morales made a presentation of the tradition to students in all grades. “Students came away with a new appreciation for this fascinating tradition within our multicultural school community,” White said. Pictured are sixth grade students with Spanish teacher Morales and the altar.
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“Father Bertram was a very tranquil man,” his congregation said in a statement. “His tranquility came from a deep inner peace and strength that came from his life of prayer. He was gentle, humble, unassuming, kind and patient. He embodied the definition of what is a gentleman.” Father Bertram is survived by his brother Aidan Mulligan and his sister Marie McDonnell. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Nov. 4, 9 a.m., at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame, with interment at San Lorenzo Friary, Santa Ynez Nov. 5. Remembrances may be made to the Capuchin Franciscan Foundation for Retired Friars, 1345 Cortez Ave., Burlingame 94010.
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Michael Barber SJ. It is given annually to the individual who has most contributed to the ongoing success of the Order of Malta Clinic, a free clinic that provides medical services for the uninsured and poor in the Bay Area. The awards dinner helped raise funds to expand the clinic’s operations from three days to four days weekly. Over the last eight years, the Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California in Oakland has provided over 23,000 basic medical care treatments to new and returning patients with only the support of private donations. The clinic accepts no fees or public funding for its services. As a volunteer, Stein was asked to help determine the feasibility of opening the free Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. Stein became part of an ongoing committee that designed the service parameters for the clinic, most of which still exists today and has allowed the clinic to exceed the two-and-a-half year average life span of faith-based clinics.
Capuchin Father Bertram Mulligan died Oct. 29, at Mercy Care and Retirement Center in Oakland where he has lived since retiring in 2007. Father Bertram, who was 94 years old, entered the Capuchin Franciscan Father Bertram Order in Ireland Oct. Mulligan, OFM 3, 1941, made solemn Cap. vows Oct. 4, 1945 and was ordained to the priesthood June 16, 1949 beginning 58 years of ministry in the Western United States, including five years as pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, just months later.
A Mass commemorating St. Peter School will be held Nov. 6 at St. Peter Church, 1241 Alabama St., San Francisco, at 2:30 p.m. Bishop William J. Justice, former St. Peter pastor, is principal celebrant and homilist at the annual event celebrating Bishop Justice the Mission District parish school that has served generations of immigrant families since it was established in 1878. A reception will follow the liturgy. Call (415) 647-8662.
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plish the work the Lord gives us,” the archbishop said. The luncheon for retired priests is “a wonderful opportunity to recognize them, thank them, and honor their very many years of service to God’s people,” Archbishop Cordileone told the more than 530 people gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral event center Oct. 28. The luncheon raised more than $260,000 to support retired priests, according to the archdiocesan development office. Those who received special recognition were Msgr. Harry G. Schlitt and Msgr. Edward P. McTaggart. The posthumous priest honorees were Father Kevin Gaffey, Father Francis K. Murray, and Father Thomas L. Seagrave. Msgr. McTaggart, a longtime military reserve chaplain and beloved pastor and priest, was unable to come. Vicar for clergy Father Raymund Reyes gave a short talk about each of the priests honored. Msgr. Schlitt, who served for 12 years as vicar for administration and moderator of the curia, is well-known for his communications work in radio and television nationally and locally, including God Squad Production’s weekly television Mass which Msgr. Schlitt frequently celebrates. He has written a new memoir “I’ll Never Tell, Odyssey of a Rock & Roll Priest.” A gifted raconteur, Msgr. Schlitt turned serious to share “The best advice I ever got as a priest,” from his good friend and television personality Merv Griffin. “Comedians and emcees are a dime a dozen. None of those guys can forgive. None of those guys can take bread and wine and make it into the body and blood of Christ.”
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November 8, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. ~ Sing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen as contemplative practice, through the Ear to the Heart. This gentle, contemplative practice of listening and singing the music of Hildegard together is led by Devi Mathieu and requires no previous experience with the music of Hildegard or with medieval music. No reservations required. Suggested offering, $10-20. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, (415) 457-7727; info@santasabinacenter. org.
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Guided by the St. Dunstan School principal, in collaboration with school and parish administration and the school advisory board, the Coordinator of Public Relations and Marketing plans and conducts the school’s communications /marketing program. This position promotes our K-8 Catholic school through various communication media. Its purpose is to support the school’s educational programs, increase awareness of the school and its services in San Mateo County, and strengthen enrollment growth and community support. This is a full time position with a competitive salary commensurate with proven experience. Qualifications:
The candidate should have a minimum of three years of related experience and a B.A. or equivalent degree in communications, marketing or English. The candidate must be an initiator, a good communicator with excellent verbal and writing skills, and take a team approach to customer service. Collegial experience in a Catholic educational setting is a plus. This position requires proficiency in Microsoft programs, Publisher, and database and web management. Proven ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines under tight time constraints. Please send cover letter and resume to Dr. Bruce Colville St. Dunstan Catholic School 1150 Magnolia Avenue, Millbrae, CA 94130 or via email principal.stdunstan@gmail.com Deadline for completed application November 2.
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Requirements • Must have solid understanding of religious life, theology and Roman Catholic traditions. • Requires strong written and verbal communication skills. • Proficiency with Microsoft products and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. • Requires a minimum of 3 years’ experience in vocations promotion, recruitment, or public relations. • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience. Position in San Rafael California, 25-30 hours a week. Offering competitive compensation and benefits at 30 hours a week. Send resume to careers@sanrafaelop.org
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FRIDAY, NOV. 4 MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club beginning with Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bob Air Road, Greenbrae followed by breakfast and talk by Dick Spotswood; members breakfast $10, visitors $15; (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com. MARRIAGE HELP: Retrouvaille has helped tens of thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. For confidential information or to register for the November program beginning with a weekend Nov. 4-6, (415) 893-1005; SF@RetroCA.com; www.HelpOurMarriage.com.
Church, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, Salesian Father John Itzaina, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@ gmail.com. SAIC REUNION: St. Anthony/Immaculate Conception Elementary, all-class reunion, 6-9 p.m., dinner, dancing, reminiscing, raffle, Constance Dalton, (415) 642-6130; Dalton_constance@ yahoo.com with questions. OLIVE HARVEST: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 9 A.m.-1p.m.; Registration at the auditorium 43326 Mission Circle , Fremont; beverages and barbecue for harvesters; fun for the whole family; (510) 933-6334; rosemarie@msjdomnicans.org.
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SATURDAY, NOV. 5 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Brian Costello, pastor, Our Lady of Loretto Parish, Novato, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries. com.
REUNION: Notre Dame High School, Belmont, class of 1966, 50th reunion luncheon. 1 p.m., San Mateo Marriott SFO, 1770 So. Amphlett Blvd., San Mateo, commemorative books available for those unable to attend in person; RSVP/questions to Connie Partmann Trewin (650)343-6889; LMadison25@aol.com.
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rating the years of St. Peter School, St. Peter Church, 1241 Alabama St., San Francisco, 2:30 p.m., Bishop William Justice, former St. Peter pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, reception follows the liturgy; (415) 647-8662. MIXED ARTS TALK: Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 6 p.m.; Dr. Barbara Nicolosi, public speaker on art, culture, media and spirituality, free admission, free parking; www.starparish.com; (415) 7510450. CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www. stmarycathedralsf.org.
TUESDAY, NOV. 8 BOUTIQUE: St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary holiday boutique 10 a.m.-3 p.m., continuing Nov. 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Nov. 10, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; proceeds benefit purchase of equipment for hospital emergency room; (415) 750-5646.
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MERCY SERIES: “To bury the dead, to pray for the living and the dead,” Laura Bertone, director of worship, and Monica Williams, director of cemeterLaura Bertone ies, Archdiocese of San Francisco, featured speakers for archdiocesan Office for Consecrated Life series Monica Williams commemorating the Year of Mercy, Presentation Sisters’ convent, 2340 Turk Blvd., San Francisco, 2-4:15 p.m. with talk, refreshments, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the final hour. Registration required, conrottor@ sfarch.org, (415) 614-5535, no fee but freewill offering accepted.
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THURSDAY, NOV. 10 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.
ADVENT RETREAT: Father Dave Pettingill with “We Don’t Get the Trinity – It Gets Us,” free admission, St. Matthias Parish, Father Lacey Hall, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Father Pettingill Redwood City, 1-4:30 p.m. followed by Mass at 5 p.m. with Father Dave as principal celebrant, homilist; Liz Vugrinecz, liz@stmatthiasparish.org; (650) 366-9544, ext. 12.
FRIDAY, NOV. 11 DISCERNMENT WEEKEND: Dominican Sisters San Rafael, “Come & See” weekend for single Catholic women, ages 18 – 40; join other women during this prayerful “no pressure” weekend as we explore the spiritual practice of discernment reflecting on the question: “Where is God calling me?” Nov. 11-13, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, vocations@sanrafaelop.org; (415) 257-4939. 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: Sisters of Mercy Christmas boutique Nov, 11, 12, 10 a.m.3 p.m., Marian Oaks Life Care Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame; choose from the sisters well-known jams and many other delicious items and wares; www.mercywmw.org; (650) 340-7400.
SATURDAY, NOV. 12 BRENNAN DINNER: St Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s 2016 Brennan Award Dinner honoring Dr. Mimi Silbert, co-founder of Delancey Street Founda-
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@ usfca.edu.
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‘WHAT’S NEXT’: Where is Mercy Leading Us?–A Year of Mercy Event with Mercy Sister Mary Trainor, 1:30-3:30 p.m., all are welcome, no fee. Sister Mary established Mercy International Center in Dublin, Ireland, and Cranaleith Spirituality Center in Philadelphia; Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. Please reserve. https:// marytrainorwhatsnext.eventbrite.com; (650) 340-7474. BOUTIQUE: St. Dunstan Parish “Holiday Boutique & Raffle,” 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae, with 25 local vendors offering unique, artistic, and handmade goods, plus a Mimosa Bar, eggnog, cocoa, coffee and delicious holiday treats for purchase, ample parking; tickets for raffle with $4,000 prize, $40; (650) 697-4730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org. 2-DAY CRAFTS: “Amazing and Magnificent Crafts 2016” benefiting Sisters of the Good Shepherd and the Children’s Medi-Fund, Nov. 19, 20, noon-6 p.m. both days, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1310 Bacon St., San Francisco, (415) 586-2822; phyllis4hope@mac.com.
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They Don’t Want To Be Called Heroes – Just Doing Their Job By Paul Larson MILLBRAE – Is there a title for the type of person who willingly puts their own life at risk to protect their fellow citizens, and foreign strangers alike, here in the U.S. and abroad? Is there a category for those who apply for a job that separates them from their home, for extended periods, with limited or no contact with their family? What do you call a person who endures weeks of job training that includes building of physical fitness, remolding of character, obeying commands, lack of privacy, miles of running, lack of sleep, tests of skill and stamina, all while being instilled with a sense of honor and decorum? What do you call a person who acts as an ambassador of the United States of America in places all over the world, strives to foster good will with citizens in hundreds of foreign countries while remaining alert for potential attacks from shadowy unforeseen enemies? Who gladly volunteers to take on all of the above 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? The answer is a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman, or any of those who are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Those who have fulfilled their active duty and have been discharged from military service are known as Veterans. Nicknames have been popular for Army Soldiers including Doughboy, Dogface, G.I. Joe and Grunt. Navy Sailors are known as Squids and Swabbies. Marines in the Marine Corps are Jarheads; Airmen in the Air Force are Flyboys; Coasties in the Coast Guard are Puddle Jumpers and Seamen in the Merchant Marine are known as
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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA
VETERANS’ DAY MEMORIAL SERVICES ~ STAR OF THE SEA SECTION - OUTDOOR SERVICE ~ Msgr. Michael Padazinski, Presider Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 AT 11:00 A.M. TO HONOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM Please join the Military Chaplains of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard for this memorial ceremony.
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proudly announces the publication “Roll Call - Reveille” a book honoring the stories of Veterans buried at Holy Cross. Books are available for purchase through the cemetery office. A book signing with the author Jean Bartlett will be held Saturday, November 12, 2016 at the cemetery at 11:00 a.m.
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