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NETTUNO, Italy – “No more, Lord, no more (war)” that shatters dreams and destroys lives, bringing a cold, cruel winter instead of some soughtafter spring, Pope Francis said looking out at the people gathered for an outdoor Mass at a U.S. war memorial and cemetery. “This is the fruit of war: death,” he said, as the bright Italian sun lowered in the sky on the feast of All Souls, Nov. 2. On a day the church offers special prayers for the faithful departed with the hope of their meeting God in heaven, “here in this place, we pray in a special way for these young people,” he said, gesturing toward the rows of thousands of graves. Christian hope can spring from great pain and suffering, he said, but it can also “make us look to heaven and say, ‘I believe in my Lord, the redeemer, but stop, Lord,” please, no more war, he said. see war, page 9
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Archbishop blesses newly seismically upgraded St. Monica, St. Thomas the Apostle schools Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blessed the newly seismically retrofitted schools of St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Monica in San Francisco, telling the students to “spread God’s life to the world and that the world might be a joyful place because God is known among you.” The retrofits put the two Outer Richmond schools in an admirable position, as they are among the first to be completely retrofitted after the Archdiocese of San Francisco evalu-
ated San Francisco schools in response to a mandated seismic review of private schools in the city. “I have to say when people come to tour that always comes up,” St. Thomas the Apostle principal Judith Borelli said after the Nov. 1 ceremony. “Because the buzz in San Francisco now is so (about) seismic. Seismic is one of the things they ask about and they are much relieved that it is already finished.” “I’m very proud of our parent community for collaborating together to make this project possible. The seismic retrofit and accessibility project
was a major accomplishment and we are thrilled with our renovated science room,” St. Monica principal Vincent Sweeters said. Father John Sakowski, who is pastor of the two parishes, said the schools also included deferred maintenance and special projects in the scope of work. The retrofits added framing to the reinforced concrete walls, strengthened the walls and corrected any distortions that would occur at the doorways to jam the doorway and prevent exit. “Unfortusee seismic, page 9
Priest resigns as consultant on doctrine after letter to pope Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – After publication of his letter to Pope Francis questioning the pontiff’s teachings, Father Thomas Weinandy has resigned from his position as consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee Capuchin Franon Doctrine. ciscan Father The Capuchin Thomas Weinandy
In a separate statement, Cardinal secretary of the conference today, FaFranciscan priest is former executive Daniel N. DiNardo of Galvestonther Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M., Cap., director of the U.S. bishops’ SecretarHouston, USCCB president, said the has resigned, effective immediately, iat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs, departure of Father Weinandy as a from his position as consultant to the serving in the post from 2005 until consultant “gives us an opportunity USCCB Committee on Doctrine,” said 2013. He expressed loyalty to the pope to reflect on the nature of dialogue but at the same time told the pope that James Rogers, chief communications within the church.” officer for the USCCB. “a chronic confusion seems to mark “Throughout the history of the “The work of the committee is done your pontificate.” church, ministers, theologians and in support of, and in affective colHe released his letter to several the laity all have debated and have legiality with, the Holy Father and Catholic and other media outlets Nov. held personal opinions on a variety of 1, including Crux. The priest told Crux, the church in the United States. Our theological and pastoral issues,” the prayers go with Father Weinandy as a Catholic news outlet, he did not write cardinal said. “In more recent times, his service to the committee comes to the letter in an “official capacity,” and way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. close,” Rogers said in a statement he was alone responsible for it. A personal a yougeneral have received a flag honoring your loved1.one's military service and would like to donate it issued late Nov. “After speaking with Ifthe see weinandy, page 17
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Vocations pilgrimage to Lourdes was ‘wonderful experience’ Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Seven young men traveled to the site of Our Lady’s appearance to St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France, on a pilgrimage sponsored by the vocations department to “help foster disciples for Christ.” “We wanted to focus on guys who were involved in high school,” as altar servers, in campus ministry or otherwise in a way that demonstrated a “greater spiritual awareness and love for the Lord,” said Father Andrew Ginter, who led the pilgrimage in early August with the assistance of seminarians Zachary Alspaugh and Cameron Polette. The young men, ages 18-21, were recent graduates of archdiocesan Catholic high schools, Father Ginter USF talk on mass incarceration: Jesuit said. Father William O’Neill speaks about the impacts “It’s just a beautiful way to feel God’s presence, of mass incarceration in light of Christian ethics through Mary,” said Jimmy Velasco, a 2017 graduate on Nov. 16, 4 p.m., at the Lo Schiavo Science of Archbishop Riordan High School who attends UniCenter, University of San Francisco. Father O’Neill versity of San Francisco as a theology major. is associate professor of social ethics Santa The men were able to participate in the Sunday Clara University as well as chaplain at the federal Mass, which draws 20,000 pilgrims, as well as to visit women’s prison in the Diocese of Oakland. The all aspects of the shrine, participate in eucharistic talk is sponsored by USF’s Joan and Ralph Lane processions, say the rosary and spend time before the Center. www.usfca.edu/lane-center. Blessed Sacrament. The last two days were in Paris, and through the intervention of a priest they met at Notre Dame Cathedral the small group was able to celebrate Mass on the high altar of Notre Dame, Archbishop cordileone’s schedule Father Ginter said. “Our Lady took care of us. Because we knew that Nov. 9: Interfaith service, AT&T Park, 5 p.m. wasn’t planned,” Father Ginter said, noting many saints have celebrated Mass and attended Mass at Nov. 10: California Catholic Conference executive Notre Dame. “Our Lady really took care of us. They board call said I have never smiled so much.” Nov. 11-15: U.S. bishops general meeting, Baltimore ReligousFather Church Goods & Candles Gifts &Ginter Bookssaid he took a trip to Lourdes in 2009 with now Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly as a recent graduate of Marin Catholic High School. Bishop Daly, Nov. 16: Chancery meetings; Finance Council as vocations director and president of the Kentfield meeting and dinner Catholic high school, frequently led young men on pilgrimages to Lourdes. Nov. 17: Benedict XVI Institute board retreat; “It was a wonderful experience,” Father Ginter said, confirmation, St. Brendan5Parish, 5 p.m. locations in California noting he had been talking with Father Daly about vocations for four or five years before that. “I left content Nov. 18-20: Mission Your Dolores Parish andStore: Local that God wanted me to try” the seminary. Academy visit
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“We are all called to be good Christian men” whatever our vocation, and Father Daly told him that no matter what he would emerge a better man, Father Ginter said. Seminarian Alspaugh said he also had been to Lourdes in 2007 before he entered the Catholic Church in 2012 at the age of 37. In retrospect that trip affected his discerning a vocation to the priesthood, Alspaugh said. “On that trip, I was deeply moved by the eucharistic procession in which thousands of men and women, some seated in small hand-pulled carts or wheeled on hospital gurneys, were led into the basilica for adoration. In the midst of that huge crowd, I experienced God’s grace profoundly. In the basilica, I had an inspiration that someday I might offer a Mass for the family who had brought me to Lourdes,” Alspaugh said. “As I look back on my life, I see how Lourdes was a key moment in my conversion to Catholicism.” Potts called them a “tremendous resource as we try to live up to the archbishop’s three-point call to action.” During the Oct. 7 consecration marking the centenary of Our Lady of Fatima, the archbishop encouraged Catholics to pray the rosary daily, observe penance on Fridays and regularly attend adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Visitor feedback is encouraged at comms@sfarch.org. Christina Gray
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CLASS OF ’52: Classmates and spouses attended the 65th reunion of St. Cecilia School Class of 1952 Sept. 23 at Original Joe’s in Westlake. “The food was excellent and the camaraderie even better,” member of the class Marilynn Donnelly told me in a note to this column. “It was great seeing everyone and catching up. We all had such a good time that we will repeat it in three years.”
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Veronica Granucci jokes that she hasn’t “really left 19th Avenue.” She is a 2004 graduate of St. Cecilia School, a 2008 graduate of Mercy High School, San Francisco, and in 2013 graduated from San Francisco State University with Veronica a degree in anthroGranucci pology. About three years ago she took the job of Events and Communication Coordinator at St. Cecilia’s, a job that includes keeping the 3,000 active alumni on the school’s database informed about Georgia Wasley their alma mater. Veronica is proud of the “incredible sense of pride within the alumni community at St. Cecilia” with many staying connected because it “feels so much like a family.” Many current school parents and grandparents are alumni themselves, she said. Alumni like the idea that future generations at the school are experiencing many of the same traditions that they got to
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HONORED SCHOLARS: Congrats to Mercy High School, Burlingame seniors Emma Miller and Paulina Morearty, who have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship competitions. The young women placed among the top 5 percent of the more than 1.6 million entrants across the nation. “They are among about 34,000 Commended Students currently being recognized for their academic promise,” Mercy said. Karen Hanrahan, head of school, announced Emma’s and Paulina’s accomplishment at the end of the school’s Mercy Day Mass Sept. 22.
enjoy when they attended including “the annual Parish Festival or the May Procession which can be traced back to the very first year the school was open in 1930,” Veronica said. Change too is exciting for alumni including a new computer lab installed in the mid-90s. “We also, really like to show off our alumni,” Veronica said. “Every class portrait from 1933 through 2017 is hanging along the hallways and that is the first thing people gravitate to when they come back for events and reunions.” Most alumni live in the Bay Area but are also “across the country from Hawaii to New York,” Veronica said, “with a few in Ireland and Singapore.” Veronica, her mother, her three sisters, grandfather, brother and two cousins are all St. Cecilia graduates, and a few cousins are still students there. “I really love that I got to experience some of the same things
that past and future generations of my family have at St. Cecilia. It connects us in a very special way.” www. facebook.com/stceciliaschoolsf. Open houses at St. Cecilia are scheduled for Nov. 21 for grades k-6, and Jan. 30 for grades 1-6, www.stceciliashool.org. Georgia Wasley is a 2009 graduate of Mercy High School, San Francisco and as of July 1 the school’s new Alumnae Development Officer. “I’m excited to be in this new role,” Georgia told me via email. Georgia attended San Francisco State and is a former extended care director at St. Gabriel School of which she is also a graduate. A phone call alerting her to the opening at Mercy opened the door there. “I’m excited to strengthen our alumnae community and to reconnect Skippers who have lost contact with their school,” Georgia said. “Given that it is our 65th anniversary
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The Archdiocese of San Francisco has formed a vocations team made up of six priests whose mission is to accompany men discerning whether God is calling them to priestly ministry. Organized geographically to reach out to potential candidates in the communities where they live, the team is made up of Father Patrick Summerhays, the archdiocese’s new vocations director and parochial vicar at St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco; Father Andrew Ginter, parochial vicar at St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon; Father Tom Martin administrator of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco; Father Cameron Faller, parochial vicar at Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco; and Father Juan Manuel Lopez, administrator at Church of the Assumption of Mary Parish, Tomales. This discernment process “requires a certain amount of accompaniment” to bring a person-to-person element to the individual’s ongoing conversation with God, Father Summerhays told Catholic San Francisco during a recent visit to the archdiocesan Pastoral Center. “Each call from God is unique,” said Father Summerhays, who was ordained a priest in 2015. “Yet, there are similarities. Nothing replaces that essential ongoing conversation with God, but having someone who
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Father Patrick Summerhays, left, and Father Andrew Ginter recently visited Catholic San Francisco at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center to discuss the new vocations team.
understands this process and who can reassure the discerner that some anxieties and questions are perfectly natural is reassuring.” The new approach is part of building a “culture of vocations,” Father Summerhays said. In a vocations culture, one asks God, “What is your plan for my life?” and “our greatest joy” comes in discerning this plan and carrying it out, he said. In contrast, the prevailing culture idealizes career and success. Discerning a vocation can be a lengthy, difficult and often halting process in conversation between the individual and God, and vocations team members are charged with going into the field to bring their own perspectives to the conversation.
“If they feel called, they need someone to talk to,” Father Summerhays said. “My biggest role is to share the joy I have in the priesthood,” said Father Ginter, who noted that his call owed much to having a model in longtime St. Anthony of Padua, Novato, pastor Father Kevin Gaffey, a beloved priest who died in 2016. Father Ginter, who was ordained in 2016, said he initially wanted to become a permanent deacon. “I don’t think I would have ever chosen priesthood, but I’ve never been happier,” he said. “It’s a wonderful life.” Father Summerhays said his discernment “took a while.” He stressed the difference between the surrender of “true discernment” and the self-interest of “simulated discernment.” “It does take a kind of adventurous heart,” Father Summerhays said. And “it’s not going to come without crosses.” A priest’s vocation continues to develop on the job. “I come from a big family,” Father Summerhays said. “I’ve enjoyed being a parish priest in a large parish family. Now, the learning has to continue in the parish. You’ve got to meet people where they’re at. You’ve got to help
them see how the Gospel continues to speak to our daily lives.” In a follow-up email, Father Summerhays also stressed the importance of the faithful praying for priests and the priesthood. “Prayer for vocations to the priesthood is certainly a big part of the message we have been asked to promote,” he said. “Many people wonder what they can do about the vocations crisis. They can look out for great candidates, but everyone can pray for vocations. That is one thing that Jesus commanded us to do in Luke 9:38. “An essential aspect of promoting and fostering a culture of vocations in the archdiocese is prayer for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life,” Father Summerhays said. “Asking parishes to initiate eucharistic holy hours for vocations to the priesthood at their parishes is also a great way of supporting the cause. “For these parish initiatives for praying for vocations, we would hope to bring attention to them by advertising them on our website, Twitter and Facebook accounts,” Father Summerhays said. “So we encourage those who do launch prayer initiatives for vocations to let us know at vocations@sfarchdiocese.org.”
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Above, St. Mary Church as it looked in the 1950s. Right, parishioners gathered for a group picture outside the church in Nicasio to memorialize Archbishop Cordileone’s pastoral visit marking the 150th anniversary of the West Marin County parish.
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St. Mary Church in Nicasio celebrated an historic occasion with another equally historic occasion when Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone spent a weekend in Marin County to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the rural church built to serve a then-booming community of dairy farmers, ranch families and lumbermen. The archbishop timed his first pastoral visit to St. Mary, a mission of St. Cecilia Church in Lagunitas, on Oct. 28 and 29 to coincide with the anniversary. The archbishop has been making pastoral visits to parishes in all three counties for the last four years. “This is a time of great gratitude for so many
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TV’s ‘Papal Ninja’s’ day job: Helping form Catholic laity for discipleship Tom Burke
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Like most people in show business, Sean Bryan of recent “American Ninja Warrior” fame competing as the “Papal Ninja,” has a day job, one he is not likely to ever give up. Bryan is animating director of the Sean Bryan Lay Mission Project, founded “to form laypeople to delve deeply into the mysteries of the faith” and to take them into their daily lives, he said via email. Bryan holds an undergraduate degree in physics from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in theology from the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology in Berkeley. Dominican Father Michael Sweeney is executive director of the project. The three-year lay mission program has online and in-person elements and is now being tested in the Diocese of Sacramento. “We’ve received great feedback regarding how the formation has impacted the lives of the participants within their families” and “their engagements at work,” Bryan said. While Bryan’s deep-seated faith, a gift he sources mostly to his mom’s dad and writings of saints especially St. Francis de Sales and St. John Bosco, seems a long way from running televised obstacle courses, he says everything he does “is an opportunity to witness the faith.” Ninjas are like disciples, he said, in that they are both charged with missions accomplished with “skill sets taught to them by a master.” The Papal Ninja name enforces that for him.
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He said topics may include love, friendship, sin, vocation, and the interior life and the session “will conclude with a ‘no-holds-barred’ question-and-answer session, where you can ask about life, liturgy, discipleship, ministry, being a ninja, or even about my favorite childhood cartoon.” Bryan said to watch for him on a few more episodes of “American Ninja Warrior” on NBC, and the
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Left, pastor Father John Sakowski explains St. Monica School retrofitting details to Archbishop Cordileone. Right, the archbishop blesses the school’s second grade first Communion class.
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nately most of this work is invisible to the public since all walls and roof elements are beneath the final finishes.” At St. Thomas the Apostle, the school also installed a new roof, new copper gutters, new vent screens, a new handicapped accessible bathroom, new water fountains, an upgrade of electrical power and new paint on the exterior and many interior walls, he said. St. Monica, in addition to the new science room, replaced the roof, added a new handicapped accessible ramp, new handicapped accessible bathroom, new exterior doors and new paint on some of the interior.
An ordinance passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2014 required that all private schools be evaluated according to an engineering standard of life safety – that everyone can escape the building in the event of a significant earthquake. The ordinance, which applies to all private schools in San Francisco, does not require any retrofits. However, the Archdiocese of San Francisco is encouraging all affected schools to retrofit to the lifesafety standard of the ordinance. It commissioned additional seismic engineering reports exceeding the city’s requirements on each school building, with recommended structural changes and costs,
and delivered them to pastors and principals between March and June 2016. According to the archdiocese, the buildings remain safe to occupy. However, each of the 24 San Francisco Catholic elementary schools has some recommended seismic retrofit – some significant, and some less significant. The aggregate estimated cost of the retrofits totals $70 million to $80 million. St. Anne of the Sunset moved its students into portables to complete its retrofit and plans the blessing of the completed work at the end of November. St. Stephen and St. Philip the Apostle completed work and Holy Name of Jesus completed Phase 1.
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“With war, you lose everything,” he said. Before the Mass, Pope Francis placed a white rose atop 10 white marble headstones; the majority of the stones were carved crosses, one was in the shape of the Jewish Star of David. As he slowly walked alone over the green lawn and prayed among the thousands of simple grave markers, visitors recited the rosary at the World War II Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial site in Nettuno, a small coastal city south of Rome. In previous years, the pope marked All Souls’ Day by visiting a Rome cemetery. This year, he chose to visit a U.S. military burial ground and, later in the day, the site of a Nazi massacre at the Ardeatine
Caves in Rome to pray especially for all victims of war and violence. “Wars produce nothing other than cemeteries and death,” he said after reciting the Angelus on All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1. He explained he would visit the two World War II sites the next day because humanity “seems to have not learned that lesson or doesn’t want to learn it.” In his homily at the late afternoon Mass Nov. 2, Pope Francis spoke off-the-cuff and said people do everything to go to war, but they end up doing nothing but destroying themselves. “This is war: the destruction of ourselves,” he said. He spoke of the particular pain women experience in war: receiving that letter or news of the death of their husband, child or grandchild. So often people who want to go to war “are con-
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Abortion referral law blocked by judge A California Superior Court judge granted a permanent injunction against the state attorney general and he is now prevented from enforcing the Reproductive FACT law, which requires pro-life pregnancy centers to post a sign with a referral number for information about obtaining an abortion. “Compelled speech must be subject to reasonable limitation,” ruled Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gloria Trask in the Oct. 30 decision that provides injunctive relief statewide and prevents the law from being enforced effective immediately.
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USCCB publishes English-language translation of exorcism rite Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The first official English-language translation of the ritual book “Exorcisms and Related Supplications” is available from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Distribution of “Exorcisms and Related Supplications” is limited to bishops, though exorcists, other clergy, scholars and seminary professors also can obtain a copy with the permission of a bishop. Having it available now in English “should make it easier for a bishop to find a priest who can help him with this ministry,” said Father Andrew Menke, executive director of the USCCB’s Secretariat of Divine Worship. “Given that there’s less facility in Latin than there used to be, even among priests, it opens the door to more priests to do this. Until now, not only did the priest have to be wise and holy, but he also had to have strong facility in Latin,” Father Menke told Catholic News Service. “It makes it easier for a priest who might otherwise be a good exorcist but who would be intimidated by a requirement to use a Latin text. Having it available in the vernacular means he can concentrate on prayer and on the ritual, without needing to worry about working in another language,” he explained.
The translation is from the rite that was revised following the Second Vatican Council. It was promulgated in Latin in 1999 and then slightly amended in 2004. The revised text draws from rituals used by the Catholic Church for centuries. The USCCB approved the English translation at its 2014 fall general assembly. The Vatican gave its “recognitio,” or approval, of the translation earlier this year. Hearing prayers offered in English also can benefit the person seeking an exorcism, said Father Menke, who noted he is not an exorcist. “The first and foremost reason for an exorcism is to rid the person of the demon. And whether the person understands what’s being said or not is irrelevant on one level. They just want to be free of this oppression,” he said. “But at the same time, exorcists have told me that for some people it can be a big help to hear words that they understand, words that are consoling, words that remind them of the power of Christ over the demons. There’s a certain confidence that comes from hearing these words,” he said. For others, hearing the exorcism rite carried out in Latin can be consoling in its own way, Father Menke added, because the person “knows this is the prayer of the church.”
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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
Mariners. None of the above want to be referred to as heroes since they all insist that they are “just doing their job”. Nobody wants war. Nobody wants diplomacy to fail. Nobody wants conflict. Unfortunately these are realities of the world we live in and the dangers we need to be attentive to. Fortunately though we have individuals who have a calling to serve their country and defend the rights and freedoms we cherish as Americans. As a country we all want to be seen as a positive example to the world, we want to strive to be our best as Americans, and we want to do what is right, but nobody is perfect. With that in mind, look at other parts of the world where frightened inhabitants risk it all to escape from their homelands. They don’t have the freedoms or security we all take for granted, which exist mostly in part because of those who serve, and have served, in our U.S. Military. Veterans Day is a time to honor those who have served in uniform. Take a moment that day to reflect on the sacrifices made by so many who were called upon to help keep our country safe and strong. To conclude I thank our friend and local attorney Paul Constantino for inspiring me to write this article. Paul is a U.S. Army Veteran, and his daughter now serves in the U.S. Army overseas. On November 11th let’s think about all of our Veterans, active military and those who were injured or gave their lives while “just doing their job”. If you ever wish to discuss cremation, funeral matters or want to make preplanning arrangements please feel free to call me and my staff at the CHAPEL OF THE HIGHLANDS in Millbrae at (650) 588-5116 and we will be happy to guide you in a fair and helpful manner. For more info you may also visit us on the internet at:
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Letters ‘Early Days’ and California history
“Where does the statue controversy end?” (Oct. 26): There are two issues here as I see it. On the one hand, there is the history of the Spanish missions in California. For anyone who went to a Catholic school in the 1950s, that history was seen through rose-colored glasses. How many of us carved mission churches out of bars of Ivory soap? We were only taught the “positive” side of that history. One could argue that the plaque added in the 1990s addresses that history somewhat. But the other issue is the depiction of this part of California history. If the figures had been set up in a more neutral way, I doubt it would be the center of attention. However, that is not the case. The Native American man is placed on the ground in a very submissive position. He seems helpless and defeated. The “vaquero” or cowboy is standing up straight with his back to the friar and not looking at either figure. But it is the Franciscan missionary who is most controversial. He is standing over the Native American with his arm raised, finger in the air, making an ambiguous yet aggressive gesture. Is he threatening the man? Is he preaching to the man? It is not clear what the missionary is doing, but it is not a gesture of kindness. I think that the Franciscan order would want the removal of the statue for depicting them in such a way. We also should ask ourselves the question, “Do we still see the history of the missions in the way it is shown with this tableau?” If not, then the statues should be moved to the Oakland Museum of California so that we can remember how we used to view that period of time in the past. Richard Morasci San Francisco
Marriage in San Francisco
How upsetting to read in “Culture Project brings virtue into the center for Catholic dating – and life” (Oct. 19) that one woman got this advice from a priest: “If you want to get married, you should not be living in San Francisco.” I am a native San Franciscan and so are my children. I have faith that God will lead them to good spouses just as he led me, my cousins and other Catholics that live here. (The priest) is giving poor advice. Kathy Murphy San Francisco
George Weigel and papal memory
Here is a suggestion to George Weigel. Why not leave the memory of John Paul II be as a saint and forget his mistakes? As for Paul VI, his mistakes are far too serious to forget. Why not let history sort out why he rejected an enormous majority of his advisers? It was 60 out of 72. (By the way, St. JPII signed the minority report that Paul VI also rejected.) You can call them names, like bourgeois, but they were “handpicked” by Paul VI. Yet their serious investigation returned answers he did not like. More to the point, George, you also do not like. And so you put in your opinion to support an out-of-date view. Your penance, George, should be to live for a year in the heart of Africa and watch the population increase and multiply, starve and die of hunger. Watch the unwilling mothers give birth to yet more children that will starve and die. Then write a clarification of your opinion on how it is intrinsically wrong to reverse that trend. Alex M. Saunders, M.D. San Carlos
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Kathleen Dowling Singh, RIP
o community should botch its deaths. That’s a wise statement from Mircea Eliade and apropos in the face of the death two weeks ago of Kathleen Dowling Singh. Kathleen was a hospice worker, a psychotherapist and a very deep and influential spiritual writer. She is known and deeply respected among those who write and teach in the area of spirituality on the strength of three major books: “The Grace in Living,” “The Grace in Aging,” and “The Grace in Dying.” FATHER ron Interestingly, she worked rolheiser backward in writing this trilogy, beginning with dying, moving on to aging, and finally offering a reflection on living. And she did this because her grounding insights were taken from her experience as a hospice worker, attending to terminally ill patients. From what she learned from being with and observing the dying taught her a lot about what it means to age and, ultimately, what it means to live. Her books try to highlight the deep grace that’s inherent in each of these stages in our lives: living, aging, dying. I want to highlight here particularly the insights from her initial book, “The Grace in Dying.” Outside of Scripture and some classical mystics, I have not found as deep a spiritual understanding of what God and nature intend in the process we go through in dying, particularly as is seen in someone who dies from old age or a terminal illness. Singh encapsulates her thesis in one poignant line: The process of death is exquisitely calibrated to bring us into the realm of spirit. There’s a wisdom in the death process. Here’s how it works: During our whole lives our self-consciousness radically limits our awareness, effectively closing off from our awareness much of the realm of spirit. But that’s not how we were born. As a baby, we are wonderfully open and aware, except, lacking self-consciousness, an ego, we aren’t aware of what we are aware. A baby is luminous, but a baby can’t think. In order to think it needs to form an ego, become self-aware, and, according to Singh, the formation of that ego, the condition for self-awareness, is predicated on each of us making four massive mental contractions, each of which closes off some of our awareness of the world of spirit. We form our egos this way: First, early on in a baby’s life, it makes a distinction between what
is self and what is other. That’s the first major contraction. Soon afterward, the baby makes a distinction between living and non-living; a puppy is alive, a stone is not. Sometime after that, a baby makes a distinction between mind and body; a body is solid and physical in a way that the mind is not. Finally, early on too in our lives, we make a distinction between what we can face inside of ourselves and what’s too frightening to face. We separate our own luminosity and complexity from our conscious awareness, forming what’s often called our shadow. Each of these movements effectively shuts off whole realms of reality from our awareness. By doing that, Singh says, we create own fear of death. Now, and this is Singh’s pregnant insight, the process of aging and dying effectively breaks down these contractions, breaking them down in reverse order of how we formed them, and, with each breakdown, we are more aware again of a wider realm of reality, particularly the realm of spirit. And this culminates in the last moments or seconds before our death in the experience of ecstasy, observable in many terminal patients as they die. As the last contraction that formed our ego is broken, spirit breaks through and we break into ecstasy. As a hospice worker, Singh claims to have seen this many times in her patients. Elizabeth Kubler Ross, in what has now virtually become the canon on how we understand the stages of dying, suggested that someone diagnosed with a terminal disease will go through five stages before his or her death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Singh would agree with that, except that she would add three more stages: A fall into darkness that verges on despair; a resignation that dwarfs our initial acceptance, and an in-breaking of ecstasy. She points out that Jesus went through those exact stages on the cross: a cry of abandonment that sounds like despair, the handing over of his spirit, and the ecstasy that was given him in his death Singh’s insight is a very consoling one. The process of dying will do for us what a deep life of prayer and selflessness was meant to do for us, namely, break our selfishness and open us to the realm of spirit. God will get us, one way or the other. We’ve lost a great woman and a great spiritual writer. Her children, writing on Facebook after her death, said simply that their mother would want us all to know that “she was an ordinary person dying an ordinary death.” But the spiritual legacy she left us is far from ordinary. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
The least religious generation in US history
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ean Twenge’s book “ iGen” is one of the most fascinating – and depressing – texts I’ve read in the past decade. A professor of psychology at San Diego State University, Twenge has been, for years, studying trends among young Americans, and her most recent book focuses on the generation born between 1995 and 2012. Since this is the first cohort of young people who have never known a world without iPads and iPhones, and since these devices have remarkably shaped their consciousness and BISHOP Robert behavior, Twenge naturally Barron enough has dubbed them the “iGen.” One of her many eyeopening findings is that “iGen’ers” are growing up much more slowly than their predecessors. A baby boomer typically got his driver’s license on his 16th birthday (I did); but an iGen’er is far more willing to postpone that rite of passage, waiting until age 18 or 19. Whereas previous generations were eager to get out of the house and find their own way, iGen’ers seem to like to stay at home with their parents and have a cer-
tain aversion to “adulting.” And Twenge argues that smartphones have undeniably turned this new generation in on itself. A remarkable number of iGen’ers would rather text their friends than go out with them and would rather watch videos at home than go to a theater with others. One of the upshots of this screen-induced introversion is a lack of social skills and another is depression. Now there are many more insights that Twenge shares, but I was particularly interested, for obvious reasons, in her chapter on religious attitudes and behaviors among iGen’ers. In line with many other researchers, Twenge shows that the objective statistics in this area are alarming. As recently as the 1980s, 90 percent of high school seniors identified with a religious group. Among iGen’ers, the figures are now around 65 percent and falling. And religious practice is even more attenuated: only 28 percent of 12th graders attended services in 2015, whereas the number was 40 percent in 1976. For decades, sociologists of religion have been arguing that, though explicit affiliation with religious institutions was on the decline, especially among the young, most people remained “spiritual,” that is to say, convinced of certain see barron, page 15
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Sunday readings
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time WISDOM 6:12-16 Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire; whoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed, for he shall find her sitting by his gate. For taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence, and whoever for her sake keeps vigil shall quickly be free from care; because she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude. PSALM 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.
Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory, For your kindness is a greater good than life; my lips shall glorify you. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus will I bless you while I live; lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name. As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. I will remember you upon my couch, and through the night-watches I will meditate on you: You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, about those
who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words. MATTHEW 25:1-13 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five
of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps. Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight, there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise ones replied, ‘No, for there may not be enough for us and you. No instead go to the merchants and buy some for yourselves.’ While they went off to buy it, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went into the wedding feast with him. Then the door was locked. Afterward the other virgins came and said, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’ But he said in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
The kingdom of heaven will be like …
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ince the kingdom of God is beyond human comprehension, Jesus’ parables each offer a dimension of the kingdom to help us understand it. The 10 virgins represent all of humanity; each soul is feminine in terms of being receptive to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The foolish virgins prove to be so because not just because they are lacking in foresight, and are sister maria unprepared for catherine the goal they toon, op seek, but also because they believe their good intentions are sufficient to win them entrance to the feast. When the moment really counts, it becomes clear they have not prepared, and
scripture reflection
they miss the bridegroom, the prize of eternal life with him, and are left in the cold. All their good intentions and vague hopes for heaven have come to nothing. The saints do not think or act in this way. They consider the desirability of their goal (eternal beatitude with Christ) and set about living so as to ensure getting the prize. These daily choices of daily prayer, Sunday Mass attendance, and monthly confession, leave their lamps cleaned and ready for the Holy Spirit to work acts of charity in them and through them. Prayer is most effective when accompanied by sacrifice. In fact, Jesus mentions that some prayers cannot be answered without it. A few small examples of sacrifices: Abstaining from meat on Fridays, giving up that extra cup of coffee, or taking a shower that is not quite as warm as you are used to, unloading the dishwasher when you don’t feel like it. These sacrifices are what build up our spiritual muscles and help us to detach from the “spirit of the world,” so as to be more attached to
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, November 13: Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin. Wis 1:1-7. Ps 139:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-10. Phil 2:15d, 16a. Lk 17:16. Tuesday, November 14: Tuesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Wis 2:23–3:9. Ps 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19. Jn 14:23. Lk 17:7-10. Wednesday, November 15: Wednesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor and doctor. Wis 6:1-11. Ps 82:3-4, 6-7. 1 Thes 5:18. Lk 17:11-19. Thursday, November 16:
Thursday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude, virgin. Wis 7:22b–8:1. Ps 119:89, 90, 91, 130, 135, 175. Jn 15:5. Lk 17:20-25. Friday, November 17: Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious. Wis 13:1-9. Ps 19:2-3, 4-5ab. Lk 21:28. Lk 17:26-37. Saturday, November 18: Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of the Dedication of the Churches of Peter and Paul, apostles; St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin. Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9. Ps 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43. See 2 Thes 2:14. Lk 18:1-8.
Christ. They fill our lamps with rich oil that burns well in the darkness of a world consumed with complaining, bitterness, and backbiting gossip. When we are attached to “worldly things,” they lull us into a spiritual coma, and keep our lamps empty. They whisper into our ears that “We deserve a little rest because we work so hard,” or “I’ll sacrifice tomorrow.” If that is the case, then we are well on our way to filling the shoes of the foolish virgins. According to the spiritual writer and theologian Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, each of the virgins possess the same qualities: they are all faithful to the bridegroom, possess lamps, and fall asleep. No one can ascribe greater gifts or qualities to the others as an excuse for being unprepared. The lamps and oil are external signs of an internal reality. Thus the five foolish virgins prove to be “spiritual freeloaders. Their bridal vocation [the universal call to holiness] entails precisely maturing in the conviction of their own responsibility. My unique personhood is manifested in my awareness
that no one else but I can look Christ in the eyes and utter, ‘I love you’ in my stead.” The oil symbolizes the “uprightness” of heart for the virgins. When the bridegroom arrives the wise virgins’ habit of prompt obedience sets them apart from the foolish and gives them the means to respond immediately when they hear the voice of the bridegroom. This cultivated and well-practiced obedience makes them accustomed to the gentle touch of the Lord. Their joyful response comes easily. This passage is an eschatological parable. It is a kind of examination for death. How are you allowing the Holy Spirit to fill your lamp with oil, so that you are prepared for the feast of feasts, the heavenly banquet? Are you prepared to meet the bridegroom? Sister Maria Catherine is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She has a master’s in theology from Ave Maria University and teaches high school theology in Chicago.
pope francis Authority comes from good example, not title
VATICAN CITY – Hypocrisy, like that of the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ time, is not the only temptation that continues to plague religious communities, Pope Francis said. Pride also is a great danger. “We disciples of Jesus should not seek titles of honor, authority or supremacy,” the pope said Nov. 5. “I tell you, it personally pains me to see people who psychologically live running after the vanity of honors.” Before reciting the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis spoke
about the day’s reading from the Gospel of St. Matthew, in which Jesus tells the people to “do and observe” everything the scribes and Pharisees say, “but do not follow their example, for they preach but they do not practice.” A frequent defect in those who have civil and ecclesiastical authority is that of requiring from others things they do not practice themselves, the pope said. Authority exercised badly “creates a climate of mistrust and hostility and also leads to corruption,” he said. Catholic News Service
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Murderers’ row, Soviet-style
ne hundred years ago, on Nov. 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s revolution that had begun eight months earlier, setting in motion modernity’s first experiment in totalitarianism. The ensuing bloodbath was unprecedented, not only in itself but in the vast bloodletting it inspired in wannabe-Lenins over the next six decades. And still the Leninist dream lives on: in a hellhole like North Korea; in the island prison, Cuba; in what ought to george weigel be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, Venezuela. Lenin and his disciples created more martyrs in the 20th century than Caligula, Nero, and Diocletian could have imagined. And yet, somehow, communist bloodbaths have never drawn the continuous, unambiguous, and deserved condemnation visited upon other tyrannies. The horrors Lenin let loose have rarely been as powerfully captured as in Anne Applebaum’s new book, “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.” In her earlier, Pulitzer Prize-winning study “Gulag,” Applebaum demonstrated that the slave-labor camps of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “archipelago” were not incidental to the Soviet enterprise, but an integral part of it, economically and politically. Now, Anne Apple-
baum makes unmistakably clear that the Holodomor, the terror famine in Ukraine that took some 4 million lives in 1932-33, was artificially created and ruthlessly enforced by Lenin’s heir, Stalin, to break Ukraine’s national spirit while providing the faltering Soviet economy with hard currency from agricultural exports. Or to put it more simply: Stalin starved some 4 million men, women and children to death for ideological and political purposes. That mass murder could take place on this scale was due to the fact that the fires of utopian, revolutionary conviction incinerated many consciences. Here, for example, is the chilling, post-Holodomor testimony of one communist activist who helped implement the catastrophic destruction of peasant agriculture in Ukraine and its replacement by ideologically-correct collective farms: “I firmly believed that the end justified the means. Our great goal was the triumph of communism, and for the sake of the goal everything was permissible – to lie, to steal, to destroy hundreds of thousands and even millions of people, all those who were hindering our work, everyone who stood in the way. And to hesitate or doubt about all this was to give in to ‘intellectual squeamishness’ and ‘stupid liberalism.’” In the moral universe of Bolshevism, two plus two could indeed equal five – or seven, or three, or whatever the revolution required. And so, like slavery, genocide was baked into the Soviet system. Yet as Ukrainians by the thousands slowly starved to death, their bodies
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consuming themselves to the point where emaciated people simply fell, dead, on the streets or along the roadside, “Soviet exporters,” Anne Applebaum reports, “continued to ship (out of the country) eggs, poultry, apples, nuts, honey, jam, canned fish, canned vegetables, and canned meat … that could have helped to feed Ukraine.” But then doing so would have meant recognizing the humanity of those whom Stalin dismissed as “former people,” the members of “moribund classes.” The starvation of millions was not, Applebaum concludes, an indication that Stalin’s policy had failed; rather, “it was a sign of success.” The revolution defeated some of its most-feared enemies, one by one, through the hour-by-hour agony of state-imposed and stateenforced starvation. As repellant as Stalin’s Leninist morality of revolution was, the tacit acquiescence in this mass, artificial famine by western reporters who knew what was afoot in Ukraine but wrote nothing about it, so as not to jeopardize their Kremlin sources and their cushy lifestyles in Moscow, was equally revolting. Here, the chief villain remains the odious Walter Duranty of The New York Times, a principal agent of the cover-up of the Holodomor that continued well into the 1960s – and that is being revived in Putin’s Russia today, as part of its propaganda war against a now-independent Ukraine. Duranty’s morals are neatly summed up in one of his 1935 dispatches: “It may be objected that the vivisection of living animals is a sad and dreadful thing, and it is true that the lot of (those) who have opposed the Soviet experiment is not a happy one,” but “in both cases, the suffering inflicted is done with a noble purpose.” Perhaps the Times, to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik revolution, could renounce Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize, in a small gesture of repentance. George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
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fundamental religious beliefs. I remember many conversations with my friend Father Andrew Greeley along these lines. But Twinge indicates that this is no longer true. Whereas even 20 years ago, the overwhelming number of Americans, including youngsters, believed in God, now fully one third of 18 to 24 year-olds say that they don’t believe. As late as 2004, 84 percent of young adults said that they regularly prayed; by 2016, fully one fourth of that same age cohort said that they never pray. We find a similar decline in regard to acceptance of the Bible as the word of God: One fourth of genders say that the Scriptures are a compilation of “ancient fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men.” Her dispiriting conclusion: “The waning of private religious belief means that young generations’ disassociation from religion is not just about their distrust of institutions; more are disconnecting from religion entirely, even at home and even in their hearts.” Now what are some of the reasons for this disconnect? One, Twinge argues, is the given preoccupation with individual choice. From their earliest years, genders have been presented with a dizzying array of choices in everything from food and clothes to gadgets and lifestyles. And they have been encouraged, by practically every song, video, and movie, to believe in them and follow their own dreams. All of this self-preoccupation and stress upon individual liberty stands sharply athwart the religious ideal of surrendering to God and his purposes. “My life, my death, my choice” (a rather givenfriendly motto which I recently saw emblazoned on a billboard in California) sits very uneasily indeed with St. Paul’s assertion,
“whether we live or we die, we are the Lord’s.” A second major reason for given dissatisfaction with religion is one that has surfaced in lots of surveys and polls, namely, that religious belief is incompatible with a scientific view of the world. One young man that Twinge interviewed is typical: “Religion, at least to people my age, seems like it’s something of the past. It seems like something that isn’t modern.” Another said, “I knew from church that I couldn’t believe in both science and God, so that was it. I didn’t believe in God anymore.” And a third – also attested to in lots of studies – is the “anti-gay attitudes” supposedly endemic to biblical Christianity. One of Twinge’s interviewees put it with admirable succinctness: “I’m questioning the existence of God. I stopped going to church because I’m gay and was part of a gay-bashing religion.” One survey stated the statistical truth bluntly enough: 64 percent of 18 to 24 year-olds believed that Christianity is antigay, and for good measure, 58 percent of those genders thought the Christian religion is hypocritical. Dismal stuff, I know. But Twinge performs a great service to all those interested in the flourishing of religion, for she lays out the objectivities unblinkingly, and this is all to the good, given our extraordinary capacity for wishful thinking and self-deception. Further, though she doesn’t tell religious educators and catechists how to respond, she unambiguously indicates what is leading this most unreligious generation in our history away from the churches. Her book should be required reading for those who wish to evangelize the next generation. Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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Private conscience and the church
he late Archbishop Fulton Sheen explained that there are two kinds of truths: “Outer truths, which we master, like the distance of the sun from the earth; and inner truths, which master us; for example: God is merciful to the penitent. Inner truths affect a person’s destiny, like a vocational calling; they are matters of conscience.” In 1965, the Second Vatican Council defined conscience as “the most secret core and sanctuary of the person, where alone with God, in one’s innermost FATHER JOHN self, each one perceives the CATOIR voice of God.” Now consider this, if a couple, after much prayer and sincere reflection, considered themselves to be truly married in the eyes of God, but many others considered them to be living in sin, would you judge them to be sinners? Or would you give them the benefit of the doubt? Pope Francis once said, “Who am I to judge?” and he disturbed a lot of people.
The church has always taught the primacy of conscience. The law is the remote norm of morality, while the individual conscience is considered the proximate norm. This traditional teaching of moral theology has certain consequences; for instance, a law does not bind in conscience until the individual knows it exists, and until he or she accepts it as objectively true and morally binding. There is such a thing as licit dissent. The American hierarchy issued a pastoral letter titled “Human Life in Our Day” (Nov. 15, 1968). Here is a pertinent excerpt: “There exists in the church a lawful freedom of inquiry, of thought, and general norms of licit dissent … In the final analysis, no person is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his/her conscience, as the moral tradition of the church attests.” In doubtful matters, Catholics should be guided by the teaching authority of the church, which is referred to as the magisterium. What exactly does that mean? At the 1991 workshop for the hierarchy, late theologian and Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles explained it this way. “The magisterium is one, but only one informant of conscience. In matters of individual conscience Catholics have the right to examine all available information in forming their conscience.” This teaching is not new.
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There has always been an emphasis on God’s mercy in the teaching of the church. Jesus said, “Go and learn what this means, I desire mercy, not sacrifice” (Matthew 9:13). “For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him” (John 3:17). Pope Francis has been emphasizing mercy quite a bit. To some, he seems to be breaking the rules. The truth is, he has been manifesting the spirit of Jesus, who excoriated the Pharisees of old. Here’s what Jesus said, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you will not lift a finger to help them” (Luke 11:46). The pope’s canonical critics demand greater rigidity. Are they wise? I think not. In view of the fact that Jesus issued this command: “Judge not that you be not judged,” wouldn’t it make more sense if these papal critics calmed down, and left the matter of judging souls to God. Divine mercy is something we’re all going to need one day. Better to be safe than sorry. May the Lord be your strength and your joy. Father John Catoir is a canon lawyer and a priest of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey.
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No baby but still giving thanks
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ven before she was married, Emily Stimpson Chapman asked for baby prayers. “I’d be in an antique store buying little trinkets for the wedding decorations, and I would be asking strangers: ‘Pray that we have a baby!’” she said. “If I’ve talked to you over the past Christina two years, I’ve Capecchi asked you to pray for us to have a baby,” she added. “Every conference I go to, every talk I give!” The Pittsburgh-based Catholic writer – a petite redhead with short hair and a huge smile – had long yearned to enter into motherhood, so when the love of her life got down on bended knee, she began dispens-
ing prayer requests. She was 40, and math was not on her side. Emily and Chris tried to make up for lost time, dating 13 months and engaged for merely five. Although her hormone levels appear excellent and she’s taking progesterone and working closely with a NaPro doctor, after 16 months of trying to conceive, Emily is still not pregnant. “I am not handling this well,” she recently admitted on her blog. Each passing month feels like a year. Just when she’s stitched together a pocket of hope, her period returns. “On that day,” she wrote, “barren isn’t just the state of my womb. It’s the state of my soul.” Now comes the national holiday that echoes the Catholic Church’s daily exhortation: Give thanks. Emily has contemplated the spiritual underpinnings of this invitation deeply and turned her insights into a beautiful book released one year ago, “The Catholic Table: Finding Joy Where Food and Faith Meet.” The book lays out a Catholic view of
food, which sees it as a symbol of the Eucharist, a gift that helps us grasp the great mystery of the sacrament. “Everything food does on a natural level,” she said, “the Eucharist does on a supernatural level – it nourishes, comforts and strengthens.” Emily challenges Catholics to eat liturgically, virtuously and joyfully. “Bacon is proof that God is good,” she writes. “It’s better to be a happy, healthy, energetic size 6 (or 8 or 10 or 12), than it is to be a crabby, crotchety, underfed size 2.” The book examines our disordered relationship with food and a culture that has made a mockery of mealtime: breakfast in the car, lunch at the desk and dinner in front of the TV. “Our busy-ness and technology interfere with the natural rhythm that God established for life,” Emily said. Food is meant for fellowship, which means we must open our hearts and homes, Emily writes. Making a distinction between entertainment and hospitality can help us more readily swing open the front door. “Enter-
tainment is about impressing people. Hospitality is about loving people.” Entertainment is for Instagram. Hospitality is for every real-world, road-weary Christian. “Letting people into your home when you know it’s not perfect is a call to die to yourself and to love the other,” Emily said. “I have never regretted answering that call.” These days, she’s reminding herself that she can care for her body but not control it. She is trusting in God’s plan even though it does not make sense right now. She will gather with loved ones this Thanksgiving and count her blessings, and even if she’s feeling empty, she will look for the abundance in her midst. “A Catholic table is groaning under this feast of delicious food and wine, surrounded by friends and lively, joyful conversation, people receiving the gift of food and making a gift of themselves through conversation,” she said. “It’s where you want to be.” Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
Weinandy: Priest resigns as consultant on doctrine after letter to pope FROM PAGE 1
these debates have made their way into the popular press. That is to be expected and is often good. “However, these reports are often expressed in terms of opposition, as political – conservative vs. liberal, left vs. right, pre-Vatican II vs. Vatican II. These distinctions are not always very helpful,” he added. In his letter, Father Weinandy outlines five areas of concern where he said confusion may result among the faithful. First, he shared unease with the pope’s “manner” of teaching in his 2016 apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”). “Your guidance at times seems intentionally ambiguous, thus inviting both a tradi-
tional interpretation of Catholic teaching on marriage and divorce as well as one that might imply a change in that teaching,” Father Weinandy wrote. He said that while the exhortation urged pastors to accompany and encourage people in irregular marriages, it is unclear what the pope means by “accompaniment.” “To teach with such a seemingly intentional lack of clarity risks sinning against the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit is given to the church, particularly to yourself, to dispel error, not to foster it,” the letter said. It added that the pope also “seems to censor and even mock” those who uphold traditional church teaching on marriage as “Pharisaic stone-throwers who embody a merciless rigorism.”
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USCCB president decries massive shooting at Texas church “We ask the Lord for healing of those injured, his loving care of those who have died and the consolation of their families,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “This incomprehensibly tragic event joins an ever-growing list of mass shootings, some of which were also at churches while people were worshipping and at prayer. “We must come to the firm determination that there is a fundamental problem in our society. A culture of life cannot tolerate, and must prevent, senseless gun violence in all its forms. May the Lord, who himself is peace, send us his spirit of charity and nonviolence to nurture his peace among us all,” the cardinal said.
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PINE RIDGE, S.D. – During a Mass to formally open the sainthood cause for Nicholas Black Elk, the Native American was described as someone who merged the Lakota and Catholic culture in a way “that drew him deeper into the mystery of Christ’s love and the church.” Black Elk’s love for God and Scripture led him to become a catechist, fulfilling the mis(CNS photo/courtesy Marquette University) sion of all disciples, Nicholas Black Elk is pictured in said Bishop Robert an archival photo teaching a girl D. Gruss of Rapid how to pray the rosary. City in his homily at the Oct. 21 Mass at Holy Rosary Church in Pine Ridge. The bishop said that for 50 years Black Elk led others to Christ often melding his Lakota culture into his Christian life. “This enculturation can always reveal something of the true nature and holiness of God,” he said, adding that Black Elk always “challenged people to renew themselves, to seek this life that Christ offers them.” Bishop Gruss said Black Elk’s life as a dedicated catechist, spiritual leader and guide “inspired many to live for Christ by his own story.” With
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Faith leaders: Christian politicians who hurt migrants, hurt Jesus
WASHINGTON – Some carried cards with a photo of St. Teresa of Kolkata or Blessed Oscar Romero and stood near the U.S. Capitol on the feast of All Saints Nov. 1, calling on politicians who call themselves Christian to act as Jesus would when shaping laws that affect migrants. “To the senators and representatives who call yourselves Christians ... the Bible says that that which you do to the most marginalized among us, you do to Christ himself,” said the Rev. Jennifer Butler, CEO of Washington-based advocacy group Faith in Public Life. She was one in a crowd of more than two dozen religious leaders gathered outside of Congress to primarily call on politicians to pass – and pass soon – legislation to help youth who were brought to the U.S. illegally as minors. However, like others in the group, she also spoke about a general sense of discrimination toward many other immigrants in the country. She called on politicians to avoid using a bill that would help the young migrants to hurt other groups of migrants. The group asked lawmakers to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act. In theory, the measure would help youth and young adults, brought illegally into the country as minors, attain some form of immigration relief.
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Book says nuns found John Paul I dead, challenging ‘noir’ theory
VATICAN CITY – Two women may hold the key to clearing up questions still surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I and to overcoming the first hurdle on his path to canonization. Stefania Falasca, a journalist for (CNS photo/courtesy of Avvenire, the Stefania Falasca) Italian Catholic “Pope Luciani: daily newspaChronicle of a Death” per, is the vice by Stefania Falasca postulator of was set for release in the sainthood Italian Nov. 7. cause of the pope, whose pontificate lasted only 33 days in 1978. Although it no longer is unusual for a woman to serve as official promoter of a cause, she is the first to be vice postulator of a pope’s sainthood cause. The exceedingly short term of a pope who was very popular and much less formal than his predecessors was enough to set rumors flying when he died Sept. 28, 1978. But Falasca believes the rumors were helped to become a full-blown conspiracy by a lack of transparency from the first hours of the pope’s death. “Remember, it was 40 years ago,” Falasca told Catholic News Service Nov. 6. The pope’s priest-secretaries
thought it would appear unseemly that women entered his bedroom and found him dead, so instead of acknowledging that the women religious working in the household found him, it was reported that the priests did. “That was one of the elements that helped unleash the ‘noir,’” or the series of conspiracy theories and books that read like murder mysteries, she said. Falasca has countered with her own book, “Pope Luciani: Chronicle of a Death,” which was set for a Nov. 7 release in Italian. Pope John Paul’s given name was Albino Luciani.
Irish group to offer therapy for priests falsely accused of abuse
DUBLIN – Irish priests who have been falsely accused of sexually abusing children are being offered group therapy sessions in a bid to improve their mental health. Ireland’s Association of Catholic Priests will run its first so-called “Circle of Healing” later in November in Cork, as part of an innovative new move to help innocent churchmen who have been affected by past abuse scandals. Father Roy Donovan, a spokesman for the 1,000-strong priests’ group, said the purpose of the workshops was to not only “help heal the scars” of clergymen cleared of abuse allegations, but also to provide support to clerics who still felt traumatized or a sense of collective guilt over crimes carried out by the minority of pedophile priests in their fold. “A lot of good, decent priests have been affected by the abuse carried out
by other priests in the past,” he said. “They’ve suffered shock and a sense of shame over what’s happened, and that’s partly why we’re holding a circle of healing.”
Vatican, Lutheran Federation announce study on church
VATICAN CITY – The official Catholic-Lutheran dialogue will begin a deeper exploration of common beliefs and differences on “church, Eucharist and ministry,” the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation announced. When Pope Francis joined Bishop Munib A. Younan, then the president of the Lutheran World Federation, for a prayer service in Sweden in 2016, the two noted the pain many of their fellow Catholics and Lutherans – especially Catholics and Lutherans married to each other – experience when they cannot share the Eucharist at each other’s services. “We acknowledge our joint pastoral responsibility to respond to the spiri-
tual thirst and hunger of our people to be one in Christ,” the two leaders said in 2016. “We long for this wound in the body of Christ to be healed. This is the goal of our ecumenical endeavors, which we wish to advance, also by renewing our commitment to theological dialogue.” The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation announced Oct. 31 that the next task of their formal dialogue commission would be “to discern in a prayerful manner our understanding on church, Eucharist and ministry, seeking a substantial consensus so as to overcome remaining differences between us.” The announcement was part of a statement marking the end of a yearlong joint commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Catholic News Service
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Praying the Rosary The rosary is prayed at the following locations on days and times specified. St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8:35 a.m. Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Saturday 3:20 p.m.; second Sundays 3:15 p.m. for priests and vocations; Holy Rosary Society third Sundays 1 p.m., St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 2,000 Hail Mary Devotion, second Saturday after 8:30 a.m. Mass; Tuesdays 7:30 p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament in the church. (415) 751-0450; www.starparish.com admin@starparish.com Facebook: starparishsf. St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco, Monday through Friday after the 8:30 a.m. Mass. Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, San Francisco, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/. Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Monday through Friday following 8 a.m. Mass, Saturday following 8:30 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m. St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Monday through Saturday 7:50 a.m. St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152. Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Monday through Saturday approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass, (650) 755-0478. St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Monday through Saturday, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass. St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m., Monday and Wednesday 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net. St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Monday through Saturday following the 8:30 a.m. Mass.
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Archbishop Riordan High School invites friends of Father Thomas Seagrave to a Mass of remembrance Dec. 18, the second anniversary of his death, at the school, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco at 5 Father Seagrave p.m. followed by a reception. Father John Jimenez, Riordan chaplain, will be principal celebrant. Father Seagrave is an alumnus of Riordan. He was ordained a priest May 17, 1968, and is former pastor of San Francisco’s Church of the Visitacion, St. Peter, and St. John of God parishes. RSVP by December 14 at www. riordanhs.org/seagrave-mass or email info@riordanhs.org with the number in your party.
obituary Sister Dorothy Anne Yee, CSJ
Sister Dorothy Anne Yee died Oct. 28. She was 89 years old. Sister Dorothy entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange in 1949 and ministered for 32 years at San Francisco’s St. Sister Dorothy Mary’s School and Anne Yee, CSJ Chinese Catholic Center, a school she attended as a child. In more recent years she worked in the St. Joseph Health System. “Sister Dorothy was well known for her gentle spirit, dedication and utter friendliness,” the sisters said. A funeral Mass was celebrated Nov. 2 in the sisters’ motherhouse chapel in Orange. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, Development Office, 440 S. Batavia St., Orange, CA 92868.
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shepherds of the church, but that you also seem silent in the face of their teaching and pastoral practice,” he wrote. As a result, Catholics who “have championed authentic Catholic teaching” have lost enthusiasm and “are losing confidence in their supreme shepherd,” the letter said. Fourth, the Capuchin told the pope that the push for decentralization in the church weakens church unity. “Encouraging a form of ‘synodality’ that allows and promotes various doctrinal and moral options within the church can only lead to more theological and pastoral confusion,” he said. Finally, Father Weinandy accused the pope of restricting criticism of his pontificate despite calls for transparency and invitations to all people, especially bishops, to speak openly. “Bishops are quick learners, and what many have learned from your pontificate is not that you are open to criticism, but that you resent it. Many bishops are silent because they desire to be loyal to you, and so they do not express – at least publicly; privately is another matter – the concerns that your pontificate raises. Many fear that if they speak their mind, they will be marginalized or worse,” Father Weinandy’s letter said. He concluded the letter by offering his prayers for the pope and writing, “May the Holy Spirit lead you to the light of truth and the life of love so that you can dispel the darkness that now hides the beauty of Jesus’ church.” In an interview with Crux and an explanation about his letter published by Catholic World Report, Father Weinandy said he felt divine inspiration for writing the letter to the pope. He said last May when he was in Rome for a meeting of the International Theological Commission, he “spent two different sessions in prayer” about whether he should speak up about his concerns with the papacy.
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Finally, he said, he told God to send him “a clear sign” that he should do it, suggesting that sign should come when he ran into someone he had not seen in “a very long time” and it would be a person he’d never expect to see in Rome while he was there. This person would tell him to “keep up the good writing.” Father Weinandy then had a chance meeting with an archbishop he had not seen in 20 years. The prelate congratulated the priest on a recent book and said the words, “Keep up the good writing.” So Father Weinandy proceeded with the letter to Pope Francis. “So, in a sense, I wanted to gain God’s approval, and not simply rely on myself,” he told Crux. “I feel the story shows that I’m attempting to be helpful.” Cardinal DiNardo, in his statement about the nature of dialogue in the Catholic Church today, said that “Christian charity needs to be exercised by all involved.” “In saying this, we all must acknowledge that legitimate differences exist, and that it is the work of the church, the entire body of Christ, to work
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Looking to make a difference? The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking a qualified leader to join the Archdiocese as the Director of Human Life and Dignity. This full-time, Exempt Director position is a public policy position that reports directly to the Moderator of the Curia and Vicar for Administration. We offer a competitive salary in a non-profit environment plus an excellent Benefit package that includes Employer funded Pension plan, available Health Insurance, a 403b Plan, “flexible spending” accounts and excellent benefits (including free, gated parking at our Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, Pastoral Center.) This office specifically promotes “protect life” initiatives and more generally advances social justice. In addition to directing members of the Office of Human Life and Dignity, the Director also articulates how the work of various reporting units is rooted in and motivated by Scripture and Catholic teaching. Essential Duties & Responsibilities • Supervises professional staff overseeing the following areas: Respect Life, Restorative Justice, Justice and Peace, Parish Organizing and Leadership Development, and Project Rachel. • Promotes in the Archdiocese the work of Catholic Relief Services and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. • Develops policy positions in consultation with the Archbishop and the Moderator of the Curia that are relevant to the mission of the Catholic Church locally, nationally, and internationally. Work Experience / Qualifications • An excellent writer and public speaker. • Competent in dealing with the press in relation to important issues of social justice. • Able to ground any public policy issue advanced by the Archdiocese in Scripture and Tradition. • A practicing Catholic. • An undergraduate degree, preferably in theology or public policy • Experience articulating social policy that is grounded in and in conformity with Catholic teaching. • At least five years of experience in a social policy area relevant to Catholic social teaching.
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ST. THOMAS MORE SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone stopped by the second grade classroom at St. Thomas More School during a pastoral visit on Oct. 13. With him are second grade teacher Kathleen Byrne and principal Marie Fitzpatrick.
ORDER OF MALTA: More than 250 Knights and Dames of Malta celebrated their annual Silver Chalice Awards Dinner Oct. 3 at San Francisco’s St. Francis Yacht Club. “Awards are given annually to those individuals who have 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 Northern California,” the group said in a statement. Pictured, from left, at the event with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
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St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco: Bishop William J. Justice installed Father Mark Taheny as pastor on Oct.29 at the 9:30 a.m. Mass. Pictured from left are Deacon George Khoury; parochial vicar Father Michael Liliedahl; Father Taheny; Bishop Justice; Father Patrick Summerhays; Father Pepin Dandou, in residence.
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SATURDAY, NOV. 11
TIQUE: Preview Party for Little Sisters of the Poor Holiday Boutique, St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St., San Francisco, 6-9 p.m. with dinner, drinks, holiday entertainment, games and shopping, $125 per person. Boutique is Nov. 18, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. with free admission at the same location. https://2017lspboutique.eventbrite. com.
2-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Peter Church, Holiday Boutique, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Nov. 12, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m., more than 30 vendors. 2-DAY CHRISTMAS FAIR: All Souls Women’s Club, Nov. 11, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission, many vendors, craft activities for children, allsoulswomensclub@ yahoo.com; (650) 8718944.
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SUNDAY, NOV. 12 FOUNDERS DAY MASS: Celebrate the founding of Woodside Priory School On their 60th anniversary. 9:30 a.m. Light refreshments will be served. 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, Woodside Priory School Chapel, www.PrioryCA.org. PAPAL NINJA: Sean Bryan, a contestant on NBC’s American Ninja Warriors and called the Papal Ninja is Catholic and will be speaking at Star of the Sea Church auditorium, 6 p.m. He will be sharing his experience and passion for doing what he loves while sharing his faith with the world, (415) 751-0450.
SATURDAY, NOV. 18 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com.
FAITH TALK: Come hear noted author Kaya Oakes discuss her findings of what’s behind young adults’ relationship to religion, St. Anselm Church, Shady Lane at Bolinas Avenue, Ross, www.saintanselm.org, (415) 453-2342.
2-DAY CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Mount Carmel Shop, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, 17 Buena Vista Ave. at Blithedale, Mill Valley, Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-noon, many booths with items for purchase, lunch available Saturday and breakfast Sunday. (415) 388-4332.
TUESDAY, NOV. 14 NOON MUSIC: Free classical concert 12:30 p.m., Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, www. noontimeconcerts.org, (415) 777-3211. Freewill donations accepted.
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SUNDAY, NOV. 19 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, 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. HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with more than 30 local vendors offering unique, artistic, and handmade goods. Beverages and delicious holiday treats available for purchase, parking. Ann at (650) 697-4730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org,
SATURDAY, NOV. 25 CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE: Holy Angels Parish Hall, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Handmade articles for sale from many vendors as well as snacks will be sold and pictures with Santa. (650) 755-0478; croller@pacbell.net.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29 KOHL CHRISTMAS: Holiday Boutique at Kohl Mansion. 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 5-9 p.m., with musical entertainment, and light refreshments available for purchase. More than 65 vendors will display unique holiday treasures, jewelry, clothing and holiday decorations. Docent tours of Kohl at 6:30 and 7 p.m. Adults $10, children under 12 free, www.mercyhsb.com. PICTURE TALK: Paola Gianturco, has documented women’s lives in 62 countries. “Wonder Girls: Changing Our World,” her latest, is about young women transforming the world. All are welcome, light refreshments and time for questions. RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453 8303, Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 7 p.m.
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HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Msgr, John Talesfore, pastor, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, presides over this annual remembrance service welcoming all to Msgr. John pray for and Talesfore remember those they have lost, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum, Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma; (650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
SATURDAY, DEC. 2 PEACE MASS: Mission Dolores Basilica (Chapel), 3321 16th Str., San Francisco, 9 a.m., Father Francis Garbo, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of October HOLY CROSS, COLMA
John Abbott Marie A. Alaimo Pedro M. Aristegui Balda Carmina Arricale Sue E. Asti Arthur James “Cobi” Beighley Pedro Benavides Elvira R. Bigotta Pauline Frances Bohringer Lillian J. Calonje Aurelia D. Canlas Philippe Carriquiry Carlota Carter Mark Daniel Christie Sr. Ita Patricia Cleary, PBVM Maria Irma Conceiceo Joseph Elroy Conolly, Jr. Raymond A. Crosat Francisca V. Cruz Margaret H. Delia Inez M. Denegri Helen Derham Michael J. Duerre Jenetta Marie Dupree Richard I. Edwinson Baby Angel Jesus Enciso Edward J. Eremko Arthur A. Fernandes Cecilia Figoni Julia Fitzgerald Cesar A. Gaona Maria De La Luz Garcia Rita Gauci Dorothy Giberton Maria C. Gomez George G. Gudaitis Sylvia M. Guzzetta Tevita U. Hafoka William Shea Hasler Bernice Barbara Hasler Mercedes Herrera Elysha M. Hiscox Patricia M. Hollingsworth Floyd A. Hollingsworth Mayo Johnson Myung Gyum Kim
Victoria Antonio Lansangan Rev. Jerome Paul Leach Richard Joseph Leonard, Jr. Soo Kyoen Lieu Carolyn Anne Livengood Maria Lopez Gloria Maldonado Hind Malouf Jeana M. Markovitch Vicente G. Marquez Lawrence B. Martin Christopher Jordan Masarweh George Paul McLaughlin Dorothy Anne Michael Valerio Michelini Jose Mora Ricardo A. Morales Margaret B. Mulhair Francis Murphy Ann Murphy Josephine Navarra Fernando G. Navarrette Peter Nelson Frank Nicholas Gloria J. O’Leary Bonifacio Ochoa Donald Colvin Ohlssen Patricia M. Olcomendy Oliver J. Olson III Cary D. Ompad Alfredo Jose Ordonez Margarita Garcia Oropeza Maria De Jesus Palacios-Diaz Dino Paladini Enrique A. Palma, Jr. Rosalia Fontillas Penaflor Thelma Lila Peregrino Edda Perli Ruggero Perli Anita M. Perry Dominador Picardo Enriquito M. Pillazar Romeo R. Pizarro Aurora Quijano Alex Raygoza Lourdes P. Reyes John Darcy Richardson John Anthony Rivera Theresa Dollard Rogers
Donna A. Rosko Gerald Grady Rouse Marvin S. Sampedro Ellen T. Scudder Luningning T. Semelka Jaime Herrera Solito Thomas Ignatius Stack Jane Frances Stewart Patricia M. Sullivan Carl Swanson Flores Y. Tañada Gloria R. Thompson Timothy J. Thompson Maria B. Thompson Doris A. Thrailkill Margaret Anne Tierney Christine F. Titus Vernon H. Usher Dorothy Belle Valaris Robert B. Valaris Harding Augustino Winterstein John B. Xavier Pedro T. Zamora Andreas N. Zwald
HOLY CROSS, menlo Park Armando V. Enriquez, Jr. Lusia Talia Fifita Janice L. Franklin Philip J. McDonnell Kolelolio Pimi Vea
Mt. olivet, san rafael Marty Brown Olivia “Lee” Carlos Dolores V. Dougherty Eugene Lombardi Maria Torresan
st. mary magdalene
Edward Henry Genazzi, Jr. (September)
HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma First Saturday Mass
Christmas Remembrance Service
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Rev. Camaron Faller, Celebrant
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Rev. John Talesfore, Officiant
Saturday, December 2, 2017 – 11:00 am
Saturday, December 9, 2017 – 11:00 am
Veterans’ Day Service
Saturday, November 11, 2017– 11:00 am
Star of the Sea Section Msgr. Michael Padazinski, Presider Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma CA | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA | 650-712-1675 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, CA | 415-479-9021
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021