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VATICAN CITY – Speaking on behalf of all adult Catholics, Pope Francis formally closed the Synod of Bishops by asking young people for forgiveness.

“Forgive us if often we have not listened to you; if, instead of opening our hearts, we have filled your ears. As Christ’s church, we want to listen to you with love” because young people’s lives are precious in God’s eyes and “in our eyes, too,” the pope said in his homily Oct. 28.

The Mass, celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica, closed a month-long synod on young people, faith and vocational discernment. The pope thanked the 300 synod members, experts, observers and ecumenical delegates for working in communion, with frankness and with the desire to serve God’s people.

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Pope Francis holds his pastoral staff as he celebrates the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 28.

VATICAN CITY – As the Synod of Bishops finished its work, Pope Francis called on all Catholics to defend the church from those who are influenced by the “great accuser” seeking to destroy it.

After thanking the synod members, observers and experts following the vote on the final document Oct. 27, the pope said that although church members are sinful, “our mother (the church) is holy,” but “because of our sins, the great accuser always takes advantage.”

While in some parts of the world, Christians suffer persecution because of their faith in Jesus, there is “another type of persecution – continuous accusations – in order to dirty the church. The church cannot be dirtied. The children, yes, we are all dirty, but not the mother. Therefore, this is the time to defend the mother,” he said.

“It is a difficult moment,” he continued, “because through us, the great accuser wants to attack the mother. And no one touches the mother!”

Before concluding the synod’s final meeting, Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako of Bagdad, the Chaldean see synod, page 10

Young missionaries arrive to change the culture Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

In the old convent at St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco, five 20-something Catholics have moved in with a mission to change San Francisco. Part of a group called Culture Project International, the team of recent college graduates give Theology of the Body inspired talks to school students and young adults on respecting human dignity, the importance of marriage and family, and the value of chastity.

The Culture Project missionaries were invited to the Archdiocese of San Francisco by the Office of Marriage and Family Life and will also collaborate with the youth and young adult ministry. Their eight-month stay in the archdiocese will build on

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Culture Project missionaries Maura Eckels, Genesis Gutierrez, Jesse Orenge, Ally Klekas and Angel Rodriguez. The team has been invited to the archdiocese to give school presentations on human dignity and sexual integrity. a three-month visit another Culture Project missionary team did last

year, when they talked to more than 2,500 students. Missionary Angel

Rodriguez told Catholic San Francisco the team has felt welcomed and have begun filling up their speaking schedule.

Culture Project International, founded four years ago, aims to shift people away from what Pope Francis has called a “throwaway culture” toward one that affirms the dignity and worth of every person, especially in sexual relations. By creating a culture of sexual integrity and respect for others, they hope to build a culture of strong marriages and families. Rodriguez said that at the heart of the Culture Project’s message is a simple affirmation: “You are good. You are loved.”

The talks offered by Culture Project missionaries are on “Human

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Need to know ‘FAITHFUL CITIZENSHIP’: In anticipation of the general election Nov. 6, the California Catholic Conference offers an abundance of resources on taking one’s faith to the polls. Visit www.cacatholic. org/faithful-citizenship. “As faithful Catholics and citizens living in a democracy, we must exercise and cherish the opportunity to participate in extending God’s reach in this world,” the CCC, the official voice of the Catholic community in California’s public policy arena representing the state’s Catholic bishops, exhorts on its website. Information on the site includes analysis of propositions on the ballot; frequently asked questions about faithful citizenship; and forming one’s conscience for voting.

PRAYER AND ADORATION: With the close of listening sessions recording reaction of the faithful (Photo courtesy The Guardsmen) to sexual abuse in the church, opportunities for The Guardsmen Christmas tree lot now in its 70th year has become a staple of the holiday season. communal prayer with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament have been announced: Nov. 2, 9 a.m-6 p.m., St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael; Dec. 7, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, and Dec. 15, 10 a.m.-noon at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo. www.sfarch.org/ protecting-children.

Church Goods & Candles Religious Gifts & Books in 1948 and during the 70 ensuing years more MASS FOR ALL SOULS: Archbishop Salvatore Tom Burke than 200,000 trees have been sold there.

J. Cordileone and visiting retired Cardinal FranCatholic San Francisco “The funds we raise provide tuition assistance, cis Arinze will offer a Mass for all souls, Nov. 3, 11 a.m., St. Patrick’s Seminary, 320 Middlefield For 70 years many Christmas trees in San Fran- for both camps and schools, to low-income students,” Varni said. “Funds must be spent on the Road., Menlo Park. Choir for the Mass will be cisco have served double duty as bright company kids, funds cannot be spent on employee salaries, The Benedict Sixteen, a professional for the gifts under them, and as a source of aid 5 locations in ensemble California capital projects or saved in endowments.” directed by guest conductor John Renke. A recepto young beneficiaries throughout the Bay Area.

Local Store: The Guardsmen partners with more than 20 local tion follows Mass at 1Your p.m. Register to attend at The Guardsmen this year will sell more than schools.

Boys and Girls Club and CYO Camp are www.benedictinstitute.org/featured-events.

6,000 Christmas trees at their Fort Mason tree lot 369 Grand Ave., S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 two of the group’s largest campership partners. with the $500,000 raised funding a campership Near SF Airport - Exit 101 Frwy @ Grand “With Guardsmen funding, Catholic Charities MASS FOR THE DECEASED HOMELESS: program sending underprivileged children to CYO Summer Camp provided 352 camperships to Archbishopwww.cotters.com Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal summer camp, and scholarships for underprivicotters@cotters.com economically disadvantaged youth this summer,” celebrant for a Mass remembering the deceased leged children attending private schools in San said Rich Garcia, CYO Camp director. “Each of homeless, St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St., Francisco. these children had the opportunity to learn and San Francisco, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m. All are welcome “The volunteer effort for this event is monugrow through formative experiences with nature, to attend and to bring the names of any deceased mental,” Steve Scharf of the Guardsmen told youth mentors, and children of diverse backhomeless for whom they wish to pray. homelessCatholic San Francisco. “Our team completes evmass@sfarch.org; www.sfarchdiocese.org/homeery task at Fort Mason from unloading thousands grounds from throughout the Bay Area.”

Any Bay Area private school that has a program lessmass; Martin Ford, social action coordinator, of trees by hand the day after Thanksgiving, to to support low income youth is eligible, Varni said.

(415) 614-5569. managing complicated logistics of customer serYouth ages 5-18 in a family at, or below, federal vice deliveries.” Hundreds of volunteers donate poverty guidelines may apply for a camp scholarthousands of volunteer hours, Scharf said. ship. More than 150,000 youth have benefited from “We have a great relationship with the GuardsArchbishop cordileone’s schedule Guardsmen funds since the group’s founding. men as we are one of the many Catholic schools “The Guardsmen tree lot is entirely enclosed and who receive scholarship dollars from the Guardsdecorated so guests enjoy seasonal treats with holimen fundraising efforts,” said Tim Szarnicki, Nov. 2: Clergy Reparation Day, cathedral, St. Isaday music while selecting from the largest selection vice president for mission advancement at San bella, St. Matthew of trees in Northern California,” Varni said.

Francisco’s ICA Cristo Rey and chair of the “The Guardsmen will continue to build on its Guardsmen volunteers. Tim’s dad was also a NOV. 7: Cabinet and chancery meetings heritage, ever-mindful of the changing and expandGuardsmen. “I have a long history with all the ing needs of at-risk youth, and their importance to work they do,” Tim said. “I even received my NOV. 8: Presbyteral Council, chancery meetings; our future,” the Guardsmen said on their website.

‘Christian Service Hours’ serving at the tree lot Mass for Deceased Homeless, 6:30 p.m., St. Patwhen I was at Notre Dame des Victoires school.” rick Church, San Francisco The Guardsmen tree lot is located at Festival Pavilion Guardsmen president Greg Varni spoke with at Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, from Catholic San Francisco via email on the history NOV. 9: Mass for Deceased ADSF Priests, Holy Nov. 24-Dec. 14, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Information about the of the group and the tree lot. The Guardsmen Cross Cemetery, 11 a.m.

Guardsmen and their work is available at www.guardswere started in 1947 by seven men, Varni said, men.org; info@guardsmen.org; (415) 856-0939. and today has 1,000 members. The tree lot began NOV. 10-15: USCCB General Meeting, Baltimore

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‘Early Days’ controversy seen as opportunity to examine history, promote reconciliation Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

The city of San Francisco removed a controversial statue from the Pioneer Monument near City Hall in the early hours of Sept. 14.

“Early Days,” part of the Pioneer Monument designed by Frank Happersberger and dedicated in 1894, had depicted the early period of Californian settlement by Europeans. The statue depicts a vaquero looking into the distance; behind him, a Native American lies on the ground, with a missionary bending over him, pointing a finger toward the sky. Pioneer Monument was a gift from the estate of James Lick, a philanthropist who wanted to memorialize the history of California.

Criticized for decades for its depiction of Native Americans, “Early Days” was trucked off to storage after an 11-month attempt by the city to remove it. In October 2017, the San Francisco Arts Commission voted to remove the statue, following a wave of protests over Confederate statues in other states.

While the Historic Preservation Commission agreed to the decision in February 2018, the Board of Appeals said the commissions lacked the authority to remove the historic statue, before reversing its decision in September.

A 1995 letter to the Arts Commission asking for its removal called

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“Early Days” a symbol of the “humiliation, degradation, genocide and sorrow inflicted upon this country’s indigenous people.”

According to Benjamin Madley, author of “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe,” the California Indians numbered 16,000 in 1900, compared to their pre-colonial population of 300,000.

At meetings held by the Arts Commission and Historic Commission, the majority of citizens spoke forcefully in favor of removing the statue.

Barbara Mumby told the Arts Commission in October 2017 that “monuments are erected to commemorate a victory – it is time to reconcile that purposeful acts of genocide do not make a country or state victorious.”

“Today you have the power to help us change the narrative and let the world know that we are not weak, submissive, conquered, heathen savages – but that we are human beings,” she said.

Andrew Galvan, an Ohlone Indian and the curator at Mission Dolores, told Catholic San Francisco that

The controversial “Early Days” statue was removed by the city of San Francisco from the Pioneer Monument near City Hall on Sept. 14. The statue had been criticized for its demeaning portrayal of Native Americans. The statue was part of the James Lick Pioneer Monument depicting California history from the early settlement of the missions until 1874.

“statues from 100 years ago tell us more about the people who erect them than the people in them.” The intention of the statue, Galvan said, was to depict the Mission period, but it perpetuated the “romantic myth” of California.

“I’m happy to see it go,” said Galvan.

Kim Shuck, the San Francisco poet laureate and a Cherokee Nation citizen, told Catholic San Francisco that the establishment of Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the city and the removal of the statue have been “hopeful” moments, but that other issues, like the high rate of violence against indigenous women, need to come to public attention.

“We make small changes,” Shuck said. “It would be great if more non-Native people became educated, though.”

Galvan said the statue’s departure is an occasion for Catholics to continue to examine how natives are presented in history and in the missions. Prior to the canonization of St. Junipero Serra in 2015, California’s bishops announced they would begin a review of how children learn about the mission period in diocesan schools.

Galvan said the present relation of California Indians to the church needs to be addressed as well. While he said many California Indians see ‘early days’, page 7

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Five new teachers join faculty at St. Pat’s seminary Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Fall was a busy time for putting new names on office doors at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. Welcomed to the faculty to teach and assist in several areas of faith were Father John Boettcher, Dr. Nina Heereman, Dr. Francis Feingold, Father Francis Lowe and Jesuit Father David Robinson.

Father Boettcher, ordained in 1991 for the Diocese of Santa Rosa, Father John serves as an assistant professor of Boettcher Sacred Scripture. “Father John has enjoyed a great variety of ways of seeking and serving God,” the seminary said. “He has taught in Rome, Jerusalem, Connecticut, and Ohio.

He is delighted with Scripture: to read, meditate on, pray, preach, and teach.”

Dr. Heereman serves as an assisDr. Nina tant professor of Sacred Scripture.

Heereman “In particular, I desire to open up the treasures of the Scriptures to future priests so that their ministry might be rooted in the word of God as the living source of their life and preaching,” she said in a statement.

Dr. Feingold serves as an assistant professor of philosophy. “I chose a career in philosophy chiefly Dr. Francis because I saw it as my vocation; the Feingold path in which I was best suited to bring others to know and love God,” he said in a statement. Dr. Feingold has taught at schools including Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In addition to academic faculty, Father Francis St. Pat’s added two people to its Lowe spiritual formation team.

Father Lowe, ordained to the priesthood from St. Patrick’s Dec. 12, 1985 for the Diocese of San Bernardino, serves as a spiritual director. He is a former armed forces chaplain with deployments to Saudi Arabia in 1998, Kuwait in 2005 and Iraq in 2009.

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While we’re at it, let’s welcome too, Stephen Terlizzi, St. Pat’s new marketing director, who filled this column in on the new hires.

Another “while we’re at it”: Father Patrick Summerhays, director of vocations for the archdiocese, has scheduled monthly meetings for men interested in learning more about the priesthood. The next is Nov. 1, 6:15- 8:30 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 826 Vienna St., San Francisco. Come hungry for information and dinner as “food will be provided,” Father Summerhays said. Best bet is to RSVP to Father Summerhays: (415) 614-5684, summerhays.patrick@ sfarch.org; www.sfpriest.org. “Many resources about the priesthood are available on the website as well as signing up for my monthly e-mail message,” he said.

HOME AWAY FROM HOME: It is “welcome to D.C.” for Michael Lundgren and Roman Peregrino, former student body presidents from St. Ignatius Prep and Archbishop Riordan High School, respectively, and now both first-years at Georgetown University. Roman is planning to major in government while Michael is studying either international political economy or international politics. I learned about the lads from a note to this column from Victoria Terheyden, a Georgetown alumna and director of communications at Riordan. “This picture was taken in the courtyard near Georgetown’s iconic Dahlgren Chapel,” Vicki said. “It is great to see this SF Hoya connection.”

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Listening sessions end with lingering questions Nicholas Wolfram Smith

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone talking to people after the listening session held Oct. 28 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Belmont. The Archdiocese of San Francisco organized five listening sessions in the wake of the most recent clergy abuse scandals.

Speakers talked about the ‘total lack of trust’ in the hierarchy among Catholics, as well as their grief and pain over what has happened to the church. One man suggested that given the widespread pattern of bishops moving around abusive priests, ‘how can we not hold them responsible for their misjudgment?’

would be important steps in preventing a future crisis. Archbishop Cordileone responded that “the problem is not celibacy; it’s lack of chastity.” He also said married clergy would be “a superficial way” to address the abuse crisis.

Speakers talked about the “total lack of trust” in the hierarchy among Catholics, as well as their grief and pain over what has happened to the church. One man suggested that given the widespread pattern of bishops moving around abusive priests, “how can we not hold them responsible for their misjudgment?”

One woman said that in light of the Vigano testimony regarding corruption in the Vatican, she felt hopeless about the church’s response to the scandals.

“Nothing we’re doing will be effective when the seed of dysfunction goes to the top,” she said.

While many spoke about their faith having been shaken, one woman stood up to remind the session “faith is what you make of it.” She encouraged everyone to hold onto their faith in difficult circumstances, “because at the end of the day, that’s what you’ve got.”

After the meeting, Bill Tauskey, a parishioner at St. Bartholomew Parish, told Catholic San Francisco he appreciated the archbishop’s visit but said “there needs to be an ongoing dialogue.”

“We’re looking for the next steps now – the wheels of the church turn too slow,” he said.

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Closing out a monthlong series of town hall-style discussions about clergy sex abuse, the Archdiocese of San Francisco held its final listening session Oct. 28 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont. More than 100 people gathered to hear Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone review archdiocesan policies to safeguard children and talk to him about the abuse scandals inundating the church.

The concerns brought to the session, from homosexuality in the clergy to bishop accountability, highlighted local Catholics’ desire to avoid a repeat of the scandals affecting them now.

Existential questions for the church, such as how to trust a hierarchy that has seemed to place institutional preservation over pastoral care, were also foremost on several people’s minds.

John McCord, a sex abuse survivor and member of the Independent Review Board, highlighted the plight of what he called “secondary victims:” Catholics whose faith has been harmed by the clergy abuse scandals in the church.

In an October CBS News poll, 26 percent of respondents said the sexual abuse scandals had led them to question remaining in the church, while 22 percent said the revelations of sex abuse had made them less likely to attend Mass.

Questions over how to welcome back disaffected Catholics and regain the trust of the laity were essential to the abuse crisis, McCord said. Drawing on his own experience, he said trusting the church again was a difficult decision, but ultimately important for its future.

“We need to take what has happened and make something good out of it,” said McCord.

Amid the turmoil introduced to the church by the Pennsylvania grand jury report, the Archbishop McCarrick scandal, and the Archbishop Vigano testimony, how to move forward re-

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mains contentious. One speaker asked Archbishop Cordileone to consider hiring an independent investigator like the San Jose and Oakland dioceses have to examine clergy personnel files and publish a list of priests credibly accused of abuse, suggesting that step would help the credibility of the church among non-Catholics. The archbishop said his office has been considering that option but noted “most if not all [names] are already in the public record.”

According to Archbishop Cordileone, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will consider at its November meeting measures to hold bishops accountable for sexual abuse or covering it up. The most significant challenge to any proposal is that since bishops are only answerable to the pope, any board set up to verify allegations against a bishop would lack the canonical authority to ensure compliance with an investigation.

The role of the priesthood in fostering the abuse crisis was a focus of several speakers. Some people suggested celibacy was to blame and said opening ordination to women and married laity

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The Fil-Am Singing Priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco entertained at the luncheon, singing tunes like “Hallelujah” and “Because of You.”

Left, Father Michael Liliedahl, parochial vicar of St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco, emceed the luncheon. In his opening remarks Father Liliedahl, ordained in 2017, joked that the “priest furthest away from retirement” was tapped to host the event. Right, Father P. Gerard O’Rourke, ordained in 1950 and retired director of the Office of Interreligious Affairs for the archdiocese, at the luncheon. At 93, he is the oldest priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Annual luncheon thanks ‘invaluable’ retired priests Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

The hall underneath St. Mary’s Cathedral buzzed with chatter as more than 500 people gathered for a luncheon to celebrate the archdiocese’s retired priests. The eighth annual St. John Vianney Luncheon on Oct.26 honored the more than 70 retired priests who have served in the archdiocese, and supported the Priests Retirement Fund. Since it began in 2011, the event has raised more than $1.7 million.

In his introductory remarks, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone thanked everyone in attendance for their support for retired priests. He said that though the church was going through a difficult time, there is “an awful lot of good to celebrate.”

The archbishop spoke about the importance to the archdiocese of retired priests, who continue to remain active in the archdiocese.

“The word retirement does not exist in canon law,” Archbishop Cordileone said, and added it was “a sign of their love” for retired priests to continue their ministry in the church. Among many other services, retired priests assist at parishes with saying Mass, hearing confessions and offering spiritual direction.

In a letter in the luncheon program,

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Four retired priests were recognized as Milestone Honorees and given a Papal Blessing by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the eighth annual St. John Vianney Luncheon on October 26 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The annual luncheon honors retired priests and helps fund their retirement. Pictured is Father Guillermo Rodriguez, who celebrated the 62nd anniversary of his ordination. The other three milestone honorees were Father Wilton Smith, a priest for 60 years; Father Joseph Richard, a priest for 60 years; and Father Kevin White, a priest for 57 years.

Archbishop Cordileone wrote that without retired priests, “we simply would not have the spiritual blessings we need to grow closer in communion with God and one another.”

During the lunch, four priests were singled out as Milestone Honorees: Fathers Joseph Richard, Guillermo

Rodriguez, Wilton Smith and Kevin White each received papal blessings from Archbishop Cordileone.

Father Michael Liliedahl, parochial vicar of St. Cecilia in San Francisco, was the luncheon’s emcee. Father Liliedahl, who was ordained in 2017, joked that the organizers had chosen

“the priest furthest away from retirement” to host the event.

“It’s a chance not only to honor and thank our retired priests, but to come together and enjoy the fellowship of priests that we often don’t get to see,” he said.

This year’s program also paid tribute to Monsignor James Tarantino, who died in April and was instrumental in founding the retirement luncheon. Monsignor Tarantino’s sister, Mary Tarantino Beigel, spoke about event’s importance to her brother.

Monsignor Tarantino, she said, always wanted the retirement luncheon to be an opportunity for priests and laity to celebrate together as a family.

“Remember that the priests who are always there for us are our family,” she said.

Father Liliedahl told Catholic San Francisco that retired priests were “invaluable.” Along with all of the important work they do in parishes, he said their example had helped him discern his own vocation to the priesthood. Father Liliedahl said retired priests have also been an important source of advice in carrying out his own ministry.

“As a newly ordained priest, you come in with a lot of energy and drive, and they really provide a rudder,” he said.

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Dignity,” “Sexual Integrity” and “Social Media.”

Missionaries said while they address different topics during them, they keep the same “cohesive themes” of placing the dignity of the person at the center of every interaction. Prior to going to a school, the missionaries also offer a parent talk, to let parents know what they’ll talk about, and bring parents on board to be a resource for their kids.

“Chastity’s not a one and done deal,” Rodriguez said, but requires parents to be supportive and ready to help their kids.

Many of the missionaries bring their own experiences to the presentations they give. Maura Eckels told Catholic San Francisco the failures of her upbringing led her to doubt the church’s teachings on marriage and family life. It was only in college that she found a community where families lived the church’s teachings in a way that made them believable.

Jesse Orenge, who visited last year, said being open about their pasts creates a way to connect to their audience. While each person has a unique background, everyone has experienced “the constant desire to be happy, to be loved and wanted, and instead turning to using people,” he said. In his own life, he found that converting to Catholicism “was the first time there was actu-

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Culture Project missionaries Genesis Gutierrez, Jesse Orenge, Angel Rodriguez, Ally Klekas and Maura Eckels at their home at St. Cecilia. The missionary team has been invited for an eight-month stay in the archdiocese to give presentations on human dignity and sexual integrity.

ally something different: there is hope, I can be fulfilled.”

“So we have this chance to show them that we’ve experienced this lifestyle, and it’s left us all wanting,” he said.

Each talk also offers time for audiences to ask questions and talk to the missionaries. Sharing what the church teaches about pornography and birth control usually gets the most pushback from students.

Talking to high schoolers and middle school students is not the easiest job, the missionaries said.

“They will eat you up,” Genesis Gutierrez said, laughing. “They can dog you, especially on social media.”

Ally Klekas agreed, saying that it can be “nerve wracking” to go in front of audiences, “but the Holy Spirit comes through.”

The missionaries dedicate themselves to Mass and a Holy Hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament every day, as well as doing continual spiritual formation.

“We need to grow in Christ to do our work well.

It’s useless without faith,” said Rodriguez.

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Holy Name School students wait for their parents or guardians during a drill Oct. 19 held to prepare the school community for possible emergency lockdowns or evacuations.

Holy Name refines emergency protocol in advanced all-school drill Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Students, parents, teachers and staff of Holy Name School in San Francisco are more prepared for a schoolwide or local emergency than they’ve ever been after the school held its third annual lockdown, evacuation and reunification drill Oct. 19, principal Natalie Cirigliano said.

“Our parents are grateful that we do this type of drill,” Cirigliano told Catholic San Francisco in an email.

“It allows teachers to better understand their roles as well as helps parents to know what to expect should there ever be an emergency.”

According to Cirigliano, the Sunset neighborhood K-8 school is the only school in San Francisco to hold an emergency drill at this advanced level.

The drill, which was initiated by the school three years ago, will be held annually to help the school community “rehearse” the steps involved in evacuating, then reuniting students with their parents in the event of a natural disaster such as an earthquake or fire, or of a criminal event

such as an active shooter. The school partnered with the San Francisco Police Department in the planning and execution of the drill, and with nearby St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School, which served as the off-site evacuation center.

The drill began in the classrooms at Holy Name School with a lockdown scenario where students hid with their teachers in their classrooms until they were released to evacuate to St. Ignatius High School, the drill evacuation site.

As students arrived to SI, parents were notified via text message, voicemail and email that the reunification drill had begun and were instructed to pick up their children. Upon arrival, parents or guardians filled out reunification identification forms and presented ID for confirmation. Names were cross-referenced with the names listed on the student emergency forms and only those listed were able to pick up the children.

“The drill was an opportunity for the school and parents to partner together to practice various safety protocols,” Cirigliano said.

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“refuse” to enter missions today, “can our missions be places today where all the cultural things that were suppressed be revitalized?”

The California Missions were “an unmitigated disaster for native people,” Galvan said. But at the same time, he said, the missions belonged to the evangelical impulse at the heart of the Gospel: to go forth and baptize. Men like St. Junipero Serra, whose cause Galvan worked to advance for decades, “loved the Indians,” but the missions were built

within the framework of a colonial empire.

Galvan pointed to the listening sessions being held in dioceses over sex abuse as a model for the church examining its past with California Indians.

“Maybe there could be a way to gather native peoples whose ancestors were at missions,” he said, for reconciliation and for ideas on how to move forward.

“The challenge for the church is to get Indians today to feel welcomed by California Missions,” Galvan said. “To listen to native voices, no matter what comes from it.”

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USCCB president condemns shooting at synagogue Julie Asher Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Catholic bishops stand with “our brothers and sisters of the Jewish community,” the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Oct. 27 after a horrific shooting earlier that day in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life Synagogue, described as a hub of Jewish life in that city.

The shooting occurred during a morning babynaming ceremony, for which an estimated crowd of 45 to 100 people had gathered, according to news reports. There were 11 fatalities, all adults. Six others were injured, including four members of law enforcement.

“We condemn all acts of violence and hate and yet again, call on our nation and public officials to confront the plague of gun violence,” said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.

“Violence as a response to political, racial or religious differences must be confronted with all possible effort. God asks nothing less of us,” he said. “He begs us back to our common humanity as his sons and daughters.”

At the Vatican Oct. 28, Pope Francis prayed for those affected by the deadly attack, calling it an “inhumane act of violence.” “May the Lord help us extinguish the fires of hatred that develop in our society,” the pope prayed after reciting the Angelus prayer.

The gunman, later identified as a 46-year-old Pittsburgh man named Robert Bowers, allegedly shouted that “all Jews must die” as he stormed the synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of the city.

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Once inside he began shooting. Police said he was armed with three handguns and an AR-15 “style” weapon. He is believed to have acted alone.

Officials identified those killed as brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal, ages 59 and 54; a husband and wife, Sylvan and Bernice Simon, ages 86 and 84; Joyce Fienberg, 75; Richard Gottfried, 65; Rose Mallinger, 97; Jerry Rabinowitz, 66; Daniel Stein, 71; Melvin Wax, 88; and Irving Younger, 69.

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Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik denounced the shooting and said the entire Pittsburgh community is devastated. The relationship between the Catholic diocese and the synagogue, he said, has been “close over many years.”

Prayer, loving one’s neighbor and working to end bigotry must be the response to the hatred shown by the shooting, he said.

“Anti-Jewish bigotry, and all religious and ethnic bigotry, is a terrible sin,” he said. “As we pray for peace in our communities and comfort for the grieving, we must put prayer into action by loving our neighbors and working to make ‘Never again!’ a reality.”

The chairman of the USCCB Committee for Ecumenism and Interreligious Affairs called the attack is “a cowardly act” that must “be condemned by all Americans.”

“Those killed and injured represent the best of who we are: people of faith gathered to pray and celebrate the birth of a child and officers responding to the ensuring violence with no concern for their own safety,” Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pennsylvania, said in a statement Oct. 28.

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Canonists: Laity have a rightful place in church in addressing abuse Mark Pattison Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Canon law gives Catholic laypeople the right to make an impact in addressing the clerical sex abuse crisis which has re-emerged anew in the church, said a number of canon lawyers interviewed by Catholic News Service.

Much depends, though, on the degree to which a local bishop is willing to consider the voices and expertise of the laity in this or other matters, they added.

And what canon law in itself may not explicitly provide, a “motu proprio” (on his own initiative) issued in by Pope Francis in 2016 just may.

“In the 1990s, there was a big role to promote the role of women in the church, and the bishops took that up as well,” said Mercy Sister Sharon Euart, a former associate general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who is now executive coordinator of the Resource Center for Religious Institutes in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland.

“What we tried to do,” Sister Euart said, “was to say let’s look at what women can do that doesn’t require ordination in the church. And you found there was a lot – an awful lot – of service that can be provided.

Move forward 25 years and I think right now the call for laity is loud and it’s clear – but it’s not focused on exactly what it is different groups are asking.”

Susan Mulheron, chancellor for canonical affairs for Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, was among the canonists interviewed by CNS who cited “Book II” of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, titled “The People of God,” and specifically the first part, “The Christian Faithful,” as giving some rights to the laity.

Mulheron pointed to Canon 208, which says: “There exists among all the Christian faithful a true equality regarding dignity and action by which they all cooperate in the building up of the body of Christ according to each one’s own condition and function.”

“We cooperate in the work of the church” as laity, Mulheron said, and that can be read to include applying one’s gifts and talents to address the abuse crisis.

Benedictine Sister Nancy Bauer, who teaches courses in canon law and in lay ministry at The Catholic University of America in Washington, cited Canon 212, a three-paragraph canon which presumes that “the Christian faithful” are “conscious of their own responsibility” and are “free to make known to the pastors of the church their needs, especially spiritual ones, and their desires.”

It also says: “According to the knowledge, competence and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors” – bishops – “their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful.”

“I think that is actually happening. They (laity) may know this is actually happening,” Sister Bauer

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A eucharistic minister distributes Communion during Mass. Laity have a rightful place in the church to address the abuse crisis, say canon lawyers. said. “Writing letters, speaking to the press. When one person has a right, it often gives rise to an obligation on the part of someone else. If a layperson has the right to make her opinion known, it gives rise to an obligation of a sacred pastor, a bishop, to listen. “’Listen.’ It’s the first word in the Rule of Benedict, which is pretty important to me,” she added.

“What are we listening for? We like to call it the will of God. I think it’s more the desire of God.” Canon 228.2 says, “Laypersons who excel in necessary knowledge, prudence and integrity are qualified to assist the pastors of the church as experts and advisers, even in councils according to the norm of law.”

Zabrina Decker, president of the Canon Law Society of America and chancellor of the tribunal for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, said this canon does not apply to just any Catholic. “You have to have an expert, a medical doctor, just as you would get a civil lawyer. You have to get someone who knows what they’re talking about,” she said. “In this particular issue, this is a broad brush they can paint across a lot of different committees, a lot of particular involvement.”

Canon 229 that follows also is relevant, according to Decker. It says the laity are “bound by the obligation and possess the right to acquire knowledge of Christian doctrine appropriate to the capacity and condition of each.”

“A lot of laypersons in the church don’t know their rights and obligations that belong to them,” Decker said. “If someone is qualified, if someone has the background, then they themselves have not only the right but that obligation to assist, to announce that message, to defend that message, to use that theological knowledge to be able to serve the church in concert with the magisterium,” or teaching authority of the church.

Mulheron also cited the final 13 canons in the Code of Canon Law, which deal with “the removal or transfer of pastors.”

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listen to young people, be their neighbors and bear witness before them to Jesus, the joy of our lives,” he said in his homily.

Living the faith and sharing it with the world, especially with young people, entails going out to those in need, listening, being close to them and bearing witness to Jesus’ liberating message of salvation, Pope Francis said.

The pope used the day’s Gospel reading (Mk 10:46-52) and its account of Jesus helping Bartimaeus as a model of how all Christians need to live out and share the faith.

Bartimaeus was blind, homeless and fatherless, and he begged for Jesus’ mercy as soon as he heard he was near, the pope said. Many rebuked the man, “telling him to be silent.”

“For such disciples, a person in need was a nuisance along the way, unexpected and unplanned,” the pope said.

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pleading for help is not a nuisance but a challenge,” the pope said.

Jesus goes to Bartimaeus and lets him speak, taking the time to listen, Pope Francis said. “This is the first step in helping the journey of faith: listening.

It is the apostolate of the ear: listening before speaking.”

The next step in the journey of faith, the pope said, is to be a neighbor and do what is needed, without delegating the duty to someone else.

Jesus asks Bartimaeus, “What do you want me to do for you?” showing the Lord acts “not according to my own preconceived ideas, but for you, in your particular situation. That is how God operates. He gets personally involved with preferential love for every person.”

Being present and close to people’s lives “is the secret to communicating the heart of the faith, and not a secondary aspect,” the pope said.

“When faith is concerned purely with doctrinal formulae, it risks speaking only to the head without touching the heart,” he said. “And when it is concerned with activity alone, it risks turning into mere moralizing and social work.”

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Speaker: From Nairobi to New York, human life should be respected Kelly Sankowski Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Obianuju Ekeocha, founder and president of Culture of Life Africa, encouraged a Washington audience Oct. 23 to celebrate the birth of babies and to ensure that U.S. government funds do not go toward promoting a culture of abortion in Africa.

She spoke during the second annual Lives Worthy of Respect event at Georgetown University.

Ekeocha has advised African members of parliament, African delegates to the United Nations and African religious leaders on promoting pro-life values in different countries and also has co-written pro-life declarations with various African Catholic bishops’ conferences.

Abuse crisis, day of discernment, prayer top agenda for Baltimore meeting

WASHINGTON – Discussion and voting on concrete measures to address the abuse crisis and a day of spiritual discernment and prayer will top the agenda for the U.S. bishops when they meet Nov. 1214 for the fall general assembly in Baltimore.

Public sessions of the assembly also will be livestreamed live tweeted and carried via satellite, said an Oct. 29 news release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The assembly will begin Nov. 12 with an address by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who is USCCB president, as well as remarks by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States.

The body of bishops will then adjourn to an on-site chapel for a full day of spiritual discernment and prayer. This will be followed by a Mass celebrated at the site of the assembly that evening.

In a letter sent late Oct. 27 to all U.S. bishops, Cardinal DiNardo asked them to spend seven days before the meeting, from Nov. 5 to Nov. 11, in “intensified” prayer, fasting and reparation to prepare for their general assembly in Baltimore.

During their business sessions, the U.S. bishops will discuss and vote on a series on concrete measures to respond to the abuse, including those approved for their agenda at the September meeting of the Administrative Committee.

Actions approved by the committee Sept. 19 and to be voted on include approving the establishment of a third-party confidential reporting system for claims of any abuse by bishops.

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During her Oct. 23 talk, she explained how African culture embraces those pro-life values.

“The African people have a culture of life,” she said. “The recognition of human life from the womb to the tomb is a common thread that runs through many tribes and towns of Africa.”

She recalled how in the village where she grew up in Nigeria, “new life is welcomed with joy.”

There is a special call reserved for the birth of a baby, and the entire village celebrates the first day of a baby’s life. People sing, dance and clap, “celebrating like it is the #RoyalBaby,” she said.

“As a society, we love and welcome babies,” said Ekeocha. “Amidst our different difficulties and afflictions … our babies are always a firm sign of hope.”

But many of the Western organizations trying to

help out in Africa do not embrace life in the same way, Ekeocha said.

The era of colonialism is over, she said, but there has been a “return of Western footprints in Africa,” in the form of powerful nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, that promote “population programs” to give access to abortion and contraception.

“We are looking upon our child – one baby – not as an increase in population, but as a valuable member of our community of love,” she said, adding that donors spend so much money to “buy us streets devoid of the chatter of children.”

African people are concerned about the unmet demands of the continent, such as the need for

commission to review all personnel files of clerics and religious men and women who have served in the Archdiocese of Anchorage since its canonical establishment in 1966.

The commission was formed following consultation with lay leadership, the archdiocese said.

The independent body also will review allegations of sexual misconduct of lay volunteers and employees reported to the archdiocese.

Members of the commission have more than 50 years of combined experience in law enforcement, prosecutorial and judicial service.

The commission’s review is expected to begin Oct. 31 and may take up to nine months to complete.

The archdiocese said the commission will deliver directly to Archbishop Etienne a written report that is to include a list of all individuals determined to have credible allegations of sexual misconduct.

This report also may include any individuals, who through gross negligence, failed to adequately respond to such misconduct.

families free of fear. According to international law, they have a right to seek asylum where they feel safe,” said the Washington-based Franciscan Action Network in an Oct. 24 news release expressing solidarity with the group.

Catholic groups ask for humane treatment of migrants heading for border

WASHINGTON – As a group from Central America heads to the border between the U.S. and Mexico, the Trump administration is said to be getting ready to send troops to meet them and Catholic groups are asking that the migrants be treated humanely.

“We urge the administration to manage refugee arrivals humanely and in a manner that respects their dignity and rights under U.S. and international law,” said an Oct. 26 statement by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

The mobilization of migrants is believed to have formed sometime in mid-October and comprised of mostly Honduran migrants seeking refuge from violence and poverty at home. It seems that, spontaneously, others from nearby countries have joined their ranks as the group travels north, likely seeking to ask for asylum in the United States.

“These people simply want to live with their

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Open letter to US bishops: Make prelates mandatory reporters of abuse

PHILADELPHIA – An open letter to the U.S. bishops asks that at their Nov. 12-14 fall general meeting in Baltimore, they make it mandatory for bishops to become reporters of suspected sexual abuse.

“The nefarious actions of certain bishops surreptitiously transferring sexually abusive priests from parish to parish, and in some cases from diocese to diocese, without notifying civil authorities of the suspected abuse has been one of the most demoralizing elements of this crisis,” said the letter, from the Villanova University Task Force on the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Church.

“Children being abused by priests is tragic enough, but when our bishops, who are supposed to be our spiritual and moral leaders, not only abandon our children in their time of need but actually become complicit in that abuse by actively covering it up, we must ensure that effective and rigorous standards are instituted so that children will truly be safe,” the letter said. “American bishops should never have the option of looking the other way and remaining silent again.”

The open letter, posted on the university’s website, was signed by 13 members of the task force, and about 140 Villanova faculty members and senior officials. The letter’s signers also want the bishops to launch and fund a long-term study on the clergy sex abuse crisis.

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Sunday readings

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time DEUTERONOMY 6:2-6 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “Fear the Lord, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the promise of the Lord, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone!

Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today.”

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

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

I love you, Lord, my strength.

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

Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

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

I love you, Lord, my strength.

HEBREWS 7:23-28 Brothers and sisters: The levitical priests were many because they were prevented by death from remaining in office, but Jesus, because he remains forever, has a priesthood that does not pass away.

Therefore, he is always able to save those who approach God through him, since he lives forever to make intercession for them. It was fitting that we should have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, higher than the heavens. He has no need, as did the high priests, to offer sacrifice day after day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did that once for all when he offered himself. For the law appoints men subject to weakness to be high priests,

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his passage in the letter to the Hebrews reminds us that eternal priesthood comes from God. In the Old Testament, the Lord unfolds his providential plan for his people slowly over time to help them assimilate and digest the great call he has given them and his expectation that they will be a “kingdom of priests.” The author of the Letter to the Hebrews teases out this motif to illustrate a few points.

Though it was inaugurated to proclaim the truth of God’s love to his people and restore their relationship with him, the Levitical priesthood “nevertheless remains powerless to bring about salvation” (CCC 1540).

More is needed to atone for sister maria our sins! More is needed catherine to save us from ourselves! toon, op More is needed to draw us into the embrace of eternal triune God. We need a different kind of priest: One who simultaneously can offer the sacrifice worthily while being the sacrifice himself. Where does one find priests like this? Recalling Abraham’s words to his son Isaac is apt here: “God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering” (Genesis 22:8).

Jesus is both the offering and the one who offers,

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which means, “he is always able to save those who approach God through him.”

Thus, in today’s Gospel, it is Jesus, as the high priest, who speaks to the inquiring scribe. When Jesus names these two commandments as being the heart of obedience, he illustrates how they correspond to human nature: It is our whole being (soul) and all its parts (body, mind, will) that must say yes to God. Even after Jesus notes the scribe’s clear understanding of his instruction, knowing what to do is not enough. As the scribe walks away, Jesus encourages him by saying “he is not far from the kingdom,” but neither is he there yet. When the full surrender takes place, which means the whole offering, the total personal holocaust of ourselves, then we win entrance to eternal life with God. How do we love God with our whole being, so that we can love others as ourselves? Loving God puts self-love in its proper perspective. Loving him makes focusing on others less of a drag and more of a joy. St. Catherine of Siena has a beautiful prayer that is helpful here: “Holy Spirit, come into my heart, and draw it to yourself by your power, oh my God, and grant me charity with fear [reverence]. Preserve me, O ineffable love from every evil thought. So warm and inflame me again with your love, that every pain will seem light to me.” May the Holy Spirit truly inflame us with that love for God that spurs us on toward a deeper love of neighbor.

Sister Maria Catherine Toon is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.

but the word of the oath, which was taken after the law, appoints a son, who has been made perfect forever.

MARK 12:28B-34 One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, ‘He is One and there is no other than he.’

And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, November 5: Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Phil 2:1-4.

Ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3. Jn 8:31b-32. Lk 14:12-14.

Tuesday, November 6: Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Phil 2:5-11.

Ps 22:26b-27, 28-30ab, 30e, 31-32. Mt 11:28.

Lk 14:15-24.

Wednesday, November 7: Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Phil 2:12-18. Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14. 1 Pt 4:14. Lk 14:25-33.

Thursday, November 8: Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Bl. John Duns Scotus, priest. Phil 3:3-8a. Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Mt 11:28. Lk 15:1-10.

Friday, November 9: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12. Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17. 2 Chr 7:16. Jn 2:13-22.

Saturday, November 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor. Phil 4:10-19.

Ps 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a and 9. 2 Cor 8:9. Lk 16:9-15.

Sunday, November 11: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1 Kgs 17:10-16. Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10. Heb 9:24-28. Mt 5:3. Mk 12:38-44 or Mk 12:41-44.

Monday, November 12: Memorial of St. Josaphat, bishop and martyr. Ti 1:1-9. Ps 24:1b2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Phil 2:15d, 16a. Lk 17:1-6.

Tuesday, November 13: Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin. Ti 2:1-8, 11-14.

Ps 37:3-4, 18 and 23, 27 and 29. Jn 14:23. Lk 17:7-10.

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Mercy, love can heal wounded marriages Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – God wants couples to live out their marriage faithfully and not abandon hope when things go awry, Pope Francis said.

“A love with mutual self-giving sustained

by Christ’s grace” is what allows couples to remain united in marriage, the pope said Oct. 7 during his Sunday Angelus address.

But “if individual interests – one’s own satisfaction – prevail in spouses, then their union will not endure,” he said.

The pope reflected on the Sunday Gospel reading from St. Mark, in which the Pharisees test Jesus by asking him if it is “lawful for a husband to divorce his wife.”

“What God has joined together, no human being must separate,” Jesus replied to them.

Jesus’ teaching, the pope explained, is “very clear and defends the dignity of marriage” as a union between man and woman “that implies fidelity.”

Nevertheless, the Gospel story also realistically recognizes that couples called to “live the experience of relationship and love can painfully do things that put it in crisis,” he said.

While Jesus doesn’t set out to label “everything that leads to the failure of a relationship,” the pope said, he takes the opportunity to confirm God’s plan “where the strength and beauty of the human relationship stand out.”

Wednesday, November 14: Wednesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Ti 3:1-7. Ps 23:1b-3a, 3bc-4, 5, 6. 1 Thes 5:18.

Lk 17:11-19.

Thursday, November 15: Thursday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor and doctor. Phmn 7-20. Ps 146:7, 8-9a, 9bc-10. Jn 15:5. Lk 17:20-25.

Friday, November 16: Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude, virgin. 2 Jn 4-9. Ps 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18. Lk 21:28. Lk 17:26-37.

Saturday, November 17: Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious. 3 Jn 5-8. Ps 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. See 2 Thes 2:14. Lk 18:1-8.

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Faith and levity

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husaku Endo, the Japanese author of the classic novel, “Silence” (upon which Martin Scorsese based his movie) was a Catholic who didn’t always find his native land, Japan, sympathetic to his faith. He was misunderstood but kept his balance and good heart by placing a high value on levity. It was his way of integrating his faith with his own experience of occasional personal failure and his way of keeping his perspective on a culture which misunderstood him. Levity, he believed, makes faith livable.

He’s right. Levity is what FATHER ron makes faith livable because rolheiser humor and irony give us the perspective we need to forgive ourselves and others for our weaknesses and mistakes. When we’re too serious there’s no forgiveness, least of all for ourselves.

What is humor? What’s its meaning? A generation ago, Peter Berger wrote a book, “A Rumor of Angels,” in which he looked at the question of humor philosophically. I like his conclusion. In humor, he submits, we touch the transcendent. To be able to laugh at a situation, no matter how dire or tragic, shows that we’re in some way above that situation, that there’s something in us that’s not imprisoned by that situation, or any situation.

There’s a wonderful example of this in the writings of the Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova. During the purges of Stalin, her husband had been arrested, as had many others. She occasionally tried to visit

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the prison he was in to leave letters and packages for him. Standing in long lines outside of that prison in St. Petersburg, she waited alongside other women whose husbands or sons had also been arrested. The situation bordered on the absurd. None of them even knew whether their loved ones were even alive and the guards made them wait for hours without explanation, often in the cold of winter. One day, as she was standing in line waiting, another woman recognized her, approached her, and asked: “Can you describe this?” Akhmatova replied: “I can,” and when she said this something like a smile passed between them.

A smile passed between them. That smile contained some levity and that allowed them both to realize, however unconsciously, that they were transcendent to that situation. The smile that passed between them alerted them both to the fact that they were more than what they were in that moment. Awful as it was, they weren’t ultimately prisoners to that moment.

Moreover that smile was a prophetic and political act of defiance, based upon faith. Levity is subversive.

This is true too not just for how we live inside our faith lives; it’s true too for how we live, healthily, inside our families. A family that’s too serious will not allow for forgiveness. Its heaviness will eventually drive its members either into depression or away from the family. Moreover, it will make an idol out of itself. Conversely, a family that can take itself seriously but still laugh at itself will be a family where there is forgiveness because levity will give them a healthy perspective on their foibles. A family that’s healthy will sometimes look at itself honestly and with the kind of smile that passed between Anna Akhmatova and her friend, say of itself: “Aren’t we pathetic!”

That’s true too of nationalism. We need to take our nation seriously, even as a certain kind levity keeps this seriousness in perspective. I’m a Canadian. As Canadians, we love our country, are proud of it, and would, if push came to shove, die for it. But we have a wonderful levity about our patriotism. We make jokes about it and enjoy it when others make jokes about us. Consequently we don’t have any bitter controversies regarding who loves the country and who doesn’t. Our lightness keeps us in unity.

All of this, of course, is doubly true of faith and spirituality. Real faith is deep, an indelible brand inside the soul, a DNA that dictates behavior. Moreover, real faith does not sidestep the tragic within our lives but equips us to face the heaviness in life where we meet disappointment, personal failure, heartbreak, injustice, betrayal, the breakdown of cherished relationships, the death of loves ones, sickness, the diminishment of our own health, and ultimately our own death. This is not to be confused with any natural or contrived optimism that refuses to see the dark.

Rather real faith, precisely because it is real and therefore keeps us inchoately aware of our identity and transcendence, will always allow us a discreet, knowing, smile, no matter the situation. Like the English martyr, Thomas More, we will be able to joke a bit with our executioner and we will also be able to forgive others and ourselves for not being perfect.

Our lives often are pathetic. But it’s OK. We can still laugh with each other! The God who made obviously has a sense of humor – and therefore understanding and forgiveness.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Courtesy: Not a trivial pursuit

oon after I entered the convent, our group (of twenty-four) began having information sessions with the Postulant Director. Of course, we really knew very little about what convent life would be like when we entered. On the first day we got a big shock when we were brought downstairs to the dining room and saw that there were tables and stools, not chairs. That wasn’t too bad. We were young and with one exception, no one had back trouble yet.

Back to the information sessions. After a few months, we were given a spiral book Sister jean called the “Guide to the evans, rsm Sisters of Mercy” to peruse. I don’t know what I expected, but when I opened to the section on the vows – poverty, chastity and obedience – I found a chapter on “Courtesy” and thought, “What has this got to do with the vows?”

Now, a half-century later, I realize that the chapter

on “Courtesy” provided a bedrock for a happy, constructive life in common, and not only in community, but in families and in society as well.

It took many years before I realized that my offhand manner with people was hurtful. One day at lunch in the staff room of our high school in Soweto, one of my colleagues, an African teacher said, “Jean, you are rude.” I had no choice but to swallow hard and agree. She was right. I had grown up in a home where sarcasm was the order of the day – it was sometimes funny, but usually carried a sting. I can’t say now that I’m not sarcastic, but I’d like to think I’m in recovery. And I have Glenrose to thank.

The use of sarcasm, as we witness in our current political scene, is demeaning. It slams a door in someone’s face. It undermines and victimizes. It is a bully’s weapon of choice.

Akin to the use of sarcasm is the use of language to belittle and de-value the experience of another or to play down one’s own experience of oppression. How often have we heard victims of domestic violence say, “Oh, it’s not so bad”? In 2001, theologian Dorothee Sölle expressed concern about an attitude prevalent in the first world that relativizes women’s experience

of oppression and diminishment while causing them to de-value and question the validity of their own experiences. She called it “trivialization.”

Up until November 2017, women generally kept silent about their victimization at the workplace for fear of losing their jobs. However, once the #MeToo movement gathered momentum, increasing numbers of courageous women broke the silence that protected their oppressors. Certainly, their abusive and de-grading experiences were not in the least trivial in their eyes.

Right now, the greatest task set before us as a country is to recover the virtue of respect. This can only happen by recognizing the sinfulness of behavior that mocks, belittles, insults and demeans others.

This is why I now see the importance of that chapter on courtesy. It outlines an essential spiritual practice, a first step in recovery. Genuine courtesy is an acknowledgement of someone’s inherent dignity. It says: “You are a human being, a child of God. You are worthy of respect.”

giveness, there is sincere contrition (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa). I don’t see that. Maybe I have not read enough about this, but nowhere do I see any individual priests come forward and confront those they abused either individually or in a specific setting and show repentance and contrition. It seems to me the Act of Contrition ends “to sin no more, and to avoid the near occasions of sin.” So much for avoiding the “near occasions.”

My personal suggestion for a “fix” is a clean sweep.

What the Catholic hierarchy needs is a few good women to set things straight.

There is an army of well qualified, professional, compassionate, pragmatic activists in the United States and worldwide religious orders (such as the Dominicans), who I am sure are ready and willing

and more than able to get the job done quickly and efficiently. This intelligent group, who by the way knew what chastity meant when they took their vows, could replace the foot-dragging, excuse-making, wewill-do-a-study-of-it old boys’ network who need not only chastising but reminding of their own vows of chastity.

My heart goes out to all those faithful priests who, by association, have been sullied by those miscreants, but it is also their duty to remain vigilant, not only for their own personal impulses, but to catch out those who still offend. Yes, I know whistleblowers have been vilified for speaking out but it is their duty to protect the innocent.

Grace Garcia San Francisco

Mercy Sister Jean Evans ministers in the Capuchin Development Office in Burlingame.

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The first question is, why has it taken so long for the hierarchy to see the problem and not address it adequately? I recall some 30 or 40 years ago hearing about it and mistakenly believing these were isolated incidents. Many friends either left their parishes or declined to support them financially due to the funds spent on court settlements. But obviously those supposed to be in charge did not go to the root of the problem.

Why did it take a secular press and civil authorities to stir the embers of a fire that was willfully allowed to keep burning over decades? What about the movie, “Spotlight,” that did a professional job of uncovering the awful truth in the Boston area? I am afraid we cannot slough it off saying it is a secular attack on the Catholic Church. I feel it is an attack on an institution which has failed God and his faithful.

Pope Francis, whom I have consistently admired, but in whom I now feel disappointed, has expressed deep sorrow and asked for forgiveness as have others in the hierarchy. However, I find a key ingredient missing in this. My feeling is that between sin and for-

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Mediation and loneliness

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illions of men and women down through the ages have tried to solve the problem of loneliness, each in his or her own way. Even the saints suffer from loneliness.

St. Augustine described it as the human condition, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee O Lord.”

Begin by acFATHER JOHN cepting the fact CATOIR that loneliness is basic to human nature. Even husbands and wives experience it because metaphysical loneliness is the price we pay for being unique. We are utterly different. That is a universal fact of life, and a spiritual problem. You experience loneliness be-

cause your soul longs for the living God. Consider this: if you put the pain of loneliness next to all the problems you’ve had to cope with in 2018, like the political unrest over the Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination, the starkness of your isolation has never been more evident and upsetting. Political opinions put us at odds with one another. In some families, members argued fiercely with loved ones, thus separating them further apart from one another.

Going forward, what’s the answer? I don’t have a simple answer, but I think there’s one remedy we can all agree on; namely, that attitude is important. Your attitude can make an enormous difference. With the right attitude life can move along much more peacefully, and more joyfully.

Meditation is one of the best ways to achieve the proper attitude. It helps you to calm yourself down, increase your joys and minimize your sorrows.

Achieving control over your emotions is

easier said than done, but psychiatrists agree that happiness is a choice, and meditation is one of the best resources we have in controlling our outlook.

Turn off the cell-phone, the TV, and all the electronic devices that compete for your attention. On a regular basis, remove yourself from the fray and take inventory. Relax in silence. Put on the will to listen to yourself breathing.

Thank the Lord for all your blessings.

Really pause and be grateful.

By reminding yourself of the importance of meditation, I hope you will be able to put on a protective shield that will save you from your worst faults and failings. It’s free of charge and available at all hours of the day and night. Many lives have been ruined by anger, and the loss of self-control. People are murdered and severely hurt, relationships are broken, and all kinds of misery ensue. Words and actions can do a lot of harm. The loss of common sense in a fit of anger can be devastating.

Regaining one’s self-control becomes possible with the frequent practice of meditation. Learn how to master yourself and you’ll avoid much needless suffering. Invite God into the situation.

Jesus said, “Seek first the Kingdom of God.” Surround yourself with silence and count to ten. Focus on your own breathing. Sit quietly for a time, and day-dream about peace of soul. Abide in the Lord. By doing this you will be more appreciative of your friends and loved ones. Don’t be negative, with God’s help you can do all things.

Learn how to be your own best friend, and not your own worst enemy. Love God and become more holy. This would please the Lord immensely. God bless you and may the Lord be your strength and your joy, as you work your way through the storms of life.

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use these powerful pharmacological agents in an appropriate and ethical manner is urgent and imperative.

At a minimum, a three-pronged approach is required. One prong involves working with medical professionals to limit the use and availability of these drugs by modifying prescribing practices. A second involves making patients more aware of the risks of addiction and increasing their involvement in monitoring their medications and managing decisions about their care. A third involves making effective addiction treatment and outreach programs accessible to those caught in the throes of chemical dependency.

With regard to reducing opioid availability, in recent years medical professionals have been seeking to establish guidelines for prescribing opiates that take into account the number of pills typically needed to get through a surgery or treatment. For example, recovery from more complex stomach surgeries might require 60 opioid pills, while an appendectomy or hernia might only require 15-20. Although prescription

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Careful titration of pain medications, whether for surgery or chronic pain, also helps to avoid overmedicating patients and rendering them lethargic or semi-comatose; in terminal situations, patients still have the right to prepare for their death while fully conscious, and they should not generally be deprived of consciousness or alertness except to mitigate excruciating or otherwise uncontrollable pain.

In certain cases, of course, it may not matter if a person becomes addicted to pain medications. If a patient has only a few weeks of life remaining, and he or she is experiencing intractable pain such that high doses of opioids are the most effective approach, addiction during his or her final days and hours would not generally raise ethical concerns.

There are alternatives to the use of opioids that may be suitable for some

patients. These include the use of lessaddictive or non-addictive drugs such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen, or anesthetics and blockers at the pain site. Cognitive behavioral therapy, stress management and relaxation techniques can help patients learn how to modify triggers that increase pain. Specialists sometimes remind us that bringing pain down to a tolerable level should be the goal, rather than trying to eliminate it entirely, which in many cases may not even be possible. Some patients may require assistance to come to accept even a limited amount of pain.

A San Diego-based pilot program to reduce the over-prescription of opioids included the novel step of notifying physicians when one of their patients had died from an overdose. The San Diego medical examiner would send health care professionals a letter in this format: “This is a courtesy communication to inform you that your patient [Name, Date of Birth] died on [Date]. Prescription drug overdose was either the primary cause or contributed to the death.” In follow up studies, physicians who received these letters were found to prescribe at significantly decreased levels, and they were also less likely to start new patients on opioids at all. Researchers speculated see pacholczyk, page 20

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Bus drivers on strike got behind the wheel again to take them to the schools, shelters and churches. They sang together, told stories and played chess.

Locals invited the plane people into their homes for hot tea, hot showers and computer access, charming them with Gander’s unique lilt, their sentences ending with “me dear” and “me lovely.”

Donations of every kind poured in: diapers, a stroller, toothbrushes, underwear. Pharmacists filled more than 1,000 prescriptions in 24 hours at no cost. A military general walking to a store was invited to a 7-year-old’s backyard birthday party, where she momentarily forgot how dangerous the world had become.

The members of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church welcomed Hannah O’Rourke, whose son, a New York City firefighter, was missing. She felt sustained by the Eucharist and, for the next hour, at home in the church universal.

The president of the Lion’s Club took special care of the Lopers throughout the week and rushed to their rescue when they almost boarded a plane headed back to Frankfurt.

oxanne Loper was almost home.

Her journey had begun 15 months ago when she spotted a picture of a baby girl on the World Partners website and sensed something special.

She and her husband, Clark, ranchers in Alto, Texas, had not been able to conceive a child naturally.

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For the next 14 days, they would visit the orphanage two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon so Alexandria could get to know her new parents.

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Former nuncio to US heard rumors of McCarrick misconduct in 1994 ed an inquiry, Cardinal Cacciavillan responded, “I thought it was something important.”

Cardinal Cacciavillan told CNS that while he encountered Archbishop McCarrick frequently during the eight years he served as nuncio, he never spoke to Archbishop McCarrick about the rumors nor did he report the rumors to the Vatican.

In fact, he said, the first time he spoke to any Vatican official about the rumors was Oct. 7 during a visit with Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Earlier that day, the Canadian cardinal had released an open letter responding to allegations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, another former nuncio, that Pope Francis had known for years about Archbishop McCarrick’s behavior and had done nothing about it until accusations were made about him sexually abusing boys.

Interviewed in his Vatican apartment, Cardinal Cacciavillan denied reports that he ordered thenArchbishop McCarrick to sell his beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey, the house where he allegedly brought groups of seminarians and would have one share a bed with him. Archbishop McCarrick sold the house in 1997 while Cardinal Cacciavillan was still nuncio.

Cardinal Cacciavillan was not mentioned in the long statement Archbishop Vigano published in August alleging that complaints about Archbishop McCarrick were mishandled for years; the statement did, however, mention steps he claimed Cardinal Cacciavillan’s successors – Archbishops Gabriel Montalvo and Pietro Sambi – tried to take.

“The case of McCarrick came out especially after he was transferred to Washington” in late 2000 and after St. John Paul named him a cardinal in February 2001, Cardinal Cacciavillan said.

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VATICAN CITY – A former nuncio to the United States acknowledged hearing rumors about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick already in 1994.

Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, who served as pro-nuncio to the United States from 1990 to 1998, told Catholic News Service Oct. 29 that he received a phone call from a woman in the months preceding St. John Paul II’s visit to the United States in 1995.

“I remember in 1994, during the preparation of the papal visit to New York, Newark and Baltimore,” Cardinal Cacciavillan said, “I received a telephone call” at the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, D.C. According to the 93-year-old retired papal diplomat, the caller feared there would be a “media scandal if the pope goes to Newark,” Archbishop McCarrick’s diocese, because of “voices, voices (rumors) about McCarrick’s behavior with seminarians.”

“It was not a formal complaint, but the expression of a concern,” he said.

Cardinal Cacciavillan said that he took the matter to the then-archbishop of New York, Cardinal John J. O’Connor, because he was “the closest

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Cardinal Cacciavillan described Cardinal O’Connor, who died in 2000, as a “very competent person,” and the retired nuncio said he had no reason to doubt the reliability of Cardinal O’Connor’s inquiry.

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VATICAN CITY – The more than 250 Catholic bishops from around the world meeting at the Vatican in October missed an opportunity to confront the global sex abuse crisis, said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia.

“I wish that we had spent more time not only talking about (the crisis) but apologizing to people for it,” said Archbishop Chaput, one of the delegates elected by the U.S. bishops to participate in the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment.

The “resistance (of) some bishops” meant the abuse crisis was largely absent from the discussions, he told Catholic News Service Oct. 25. “Some say that (sex abuse) really is an issue of the Western world.”

But “it seems to me that it’s an issue of human nature, and it’s very important for the church to talk about it,” said the archbishop, who in August had written to Pope Francis asking him to postpone the synod in the wake of the scandal. Archbishop Chaput was a member of the synod’s ordinary council, which prepared the October assembly.

Judging from the discussion and the first draft of the meeting’s final document – a draft he said could be amended significantly – Archbishop Chaput said there also were other topics on which the synod could have been stronger.

“There was very little discussion of human sexuality at all. But anybody who sits in the confessional knows that that’s an issue,” he said, especially “for young people who are trying to learn how to be human and how to be Christian in a world that really promotes a wrong understanding of human sexuality.”

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of marriage preparation got little attention at the synod, she said. “That probably should have been 98 percent of what we did because that’s 98 percent of what the issues are for young people, but we didn’t spend much time on it at all,” he said.

In his own address to the synod, Archbishop Chaput asked that people not be identified by sexual orientation in the synod document, for instance by referring to “LGBTQ Catholics,” because the church does not put people into categories like that.

The archbishop said it is a “sadness” for him when “people who have same-sex attraction talk about themselves” only or primarily by referring to their sexual orientation.

“I think that you’re God’s beloved more than you’re that. So, I’m not going to call you that. I don’t think that’s what God called you,” he said.

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Canonists: Laity have role in addressing abuse

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25, barely two years after he was installed there as bishop.

Sister Bauer cautioned that the laity’s voice is “always a consultative voice. The code doesn’t provide for laypersons really to make decisions that belong to bishops right now.” Nor can they depose a bishop. “They can complain to the pope,” she said, “but they do not have the power or authority to remove a bishop.”

Since the Pennsylvania grand jury report that faulted bishops for transferring abusive priests to other parishes without any warning to the new parishes, the sentiment has been expressed that the U.S. bishops are in no position to police themselves.

“I get that,” Decker said, but “we can never forget that the church is a community. We are a community. We are here to call each other to responsibility, we are here to demand some sort of responsibility, but we are all part of that faith family. But actually scripturally, we are all called to account.

The laity of the church can do that canonically. It’s up to the magisterium to be able to bring laypeople into this conversation.”

“The influence the laity can have is enormous with some of the issues raised recently in the church,” Sister Euart said. “I don’t see it as primarily saying yes or no to something, but having to influence, move the decision in a way that is for the good of the whole church.”

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from a parish. You can see right there the recognition of that,” Mulheron told CNS. “There’s no specific canon that provides this for bishops, but we do see some in the 2016 ‘motu proprio’ ‘As a Loving Mother.’ It basically provided this process for bishops” to be transferred. A “motu proprio” becomes part of canon law once issued, she said.

In the document, written as an apostolic letter, Pope Francis affirms that the church, “like a loving mother, loves all her children, but treats and protects with special affection the smallest and most helpless.”

This care is to be carried out “in particular through her pastors, including diocesan bishops and eparchs.”

Canon law already provides the possibility of the removal from ecclesiastical office “for grave causes,” but Pope Francis, in the “motu proprio,” specifies these “grave causes” include a bishop’s negligence in exercising his role, especially in relation to cases of “sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults.”

“Who’s the bishop’s authority?

The pope. On a practical level, it’s a little more difficult for a bishop to be removed from office,” Mulheron said.

“We’ve seen it happen in Memphis (Tennessee) just this week,” as Bishop Martin D. Holley, 63, was removed from governance of the diocese Oct.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include: • Excellent time management, strong organizational skills and is deadline driven • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal • Reports directly to the CFO and provides support to the Finance staff • Maintain calendar of CFO and schedule all CFO-attended and Finance staff meetings • Maintain accurate and complete records/files and File Room • Process Pension Plan and Investment Manager billings • Support annual insurance renewal process, • Facilitates requests for issuance of Certificates of Insurance and generates and distributes all 501c paperwork to Parishes and Entities

Minimum Qualifications: • Ability to interact professionally with Finance Team, Vicar for Administration / Moderator of The Curia, Vicar General, Human Resources and Department of Catholic Schools • Excellent PC skills with experience in Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Access • Experience and good working knowledge of finance and accounting concepts. Must have experience working in an accounting office &/or financial institution with sound knowledge of banking and investment • Ability to multi-task while working fairly independently with a minimum of detailed supervision or guidance

Desired Education: • BS/BA in a field related which relates to detailed analysis and critical thinking • Relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications: • A general understanding of the Catholic Church and the workings of parishes and schools Please submit resume and cover letter to: Attn: Christine Escobar-Human Resources Manager Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 E-mail: escobarc@sfarch.org Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

Church Pianist/Organist

St. Charles Catholic Church – San Carlos, CA 94070 Part-time St Charles Catholic Church (San Carlos, CA) seeks a skilled pianist and/or organist to join the music ministry team beginning immediately. The pianist/accompanist will play for the congregation during church services and for the choir during rehearsals. This position reports to and is overseen by the Director of Music Ministry. Ideally looking for a candidate who does play both piano and organ but will consider applicants who are proficient in piano.

Necessary skills: • Ability to play hymns, service music, and special music of moderate difficulty on piano.

• Experience and basic knowledge of church music.

• Flexibility, sight-reading, and improvisatory abilities desired.

• Ability to play 4 part choral parts for choir during rehearsals • Ability to work collaboratively with others.

• Possess good organizational and communication skills.

• Ability to play service music of moderate difficulty on the organ. (Ideal but optional) Anticipated time commitments: • Playing for weekend Masses – Sundays @ 8:30am & 11:00am every week • Arriving before mass times to rehearse with cantors/choir at 7:50 and 10:15am.

• Accompany Thursday night Adult Choir rehearsal 7:00-9:00pm weekly (Sept-June).

• During summer months (June-August) the choir does not rehearse and sing, but cantors do continue to sing at all masses. Thursday night rehearsals are omitted but the weekly Mass schedule remains the same. Summer playing duties can be arranged between all pianists to allow for planned vacations.

• Additional time will be required for special services and church holidays, especially Christmas and Holy Week.

Responsibilities/Duties: • Play at both Sunday Services (8:30am and 11:00am) throughout the year.

• Play as scheduled for special services, including, but not limited to, Christmas and Holy Week. (All dates to be discussed prior to hiring.)

• Play for choir practice (currently on Thursday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm).

• Arrange for acceptable substitute when unable to attend, with approval from music director.

Compensation: Compensation is determined based on experience and the San Francisco Archdiocese pay rate guidelines How to Apply: Interested applicants should submit a resume and references electronically or by mail to: Sara Murphy, Director of Music Ministry • St. Charles Catholic Church 800 Tamarack Avenue San Carlos, CA 94070 • smurphy@stcharlesparish.org After receipt of applications, candidates being considered will be contacted for interview and audition.

help wanted Office Manager, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont is seeking a full-time Office Manager. This position oversees parish facilities, parish calendar, and facilities maintenance. Works closely with the Pastor. Coordinates parish development and fundraising efforts. Applicant needs strong communication and interpersonal skills and facility in Microsoft Office Suite.

Applicant to be a practicing Roman Catholic. Position requires previous secretarial and supervisory management level experience with comparable responsibilities. Competitive salary and benefits package.

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Diaconate Coordinator to the Permanent Diaconate and Diaconate Formation Offices Description: The Diaconate Coordinator works with the candidates in Formation and those already in the Diaconate Community.

This position assists in coordinating deacons for various Liturgies, maintains records, provides both the initial contact and continuing communication with the Formation group and the Diaconal Community. The Diaconate Coordinator also acts in liaison with the Diocese of Oakland in Formation matters and is delegated responsibilities for the Formation Office.

Status: Full-time (37.5 hours) and Non-Exempt Purpose of the Position: To assist the Director of Diaconate Ministry and Life and the Director of Diaconate Formation in their contacts with the Archbishop’s Office and the Auxiliary Bishop’s Office. The Diaconate Coordinator maintains the support for the deacons, their wives, and those in deacon formation and formation program activities. This position also aids the Director of Formation in every aspect of administrative duties for the formation of deacons.

Reports To: Director of the Permanent Diaconate and Director of Diaconate Formation.

Position Content: 1. Open Diaconate Office and Formation mail. Photocopy, address and send outgoing mail.

2. Answer the incoming phone calls and direct them to the appropriate resource.

3. Prepare, address and send stipend letters to parishes with deacons, receive incoming checks, prepare and send deposit slips, track the budget and expenses for the Formation Director.

4. Order books for Formation classes. Maintain program records Coordinate deacon assignments at Confirmation, the Cathedral and other Liturgies presided over by our Bishops.

5. Help organize Permanent Diaconate and Formation Retreats, Education and Events (track responses, monitor attendance and coordinate with Retreat Center).

6. Help facilitate the Epiphany Dinner (tally responses, receive and monitor incoming checks, and deposit said checks).

7. The Diaconate Coordinator represents the Director of Formation in his absence.

8. Coordinate all aspects of any Diaconate Ordination or associated Rite.

Qualifications: Computer skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, Spreadsheets.

Must also possess phone skills and the ability to multi-task, as well as maintain Diaconate files.

Personal Skills: Possess a warm and welcoming attitude to both co-workers and those accessing the Permanent Diaconate or Diaconate Formation Offices. Demonstrate the ability be a self-starter, self-motivated individual who also delegates tasks to the candidates in Formation.

PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME AND COVER LETTER: Attn: Christine Escobar – Human Resources Manager Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 E-mail: escobarc@sfarch.org

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Bishops sign document calling for action against climate change

VATICAN CITY – Six bishops representing episcopal conferences on five continents issued a joint statement calling on the international community to take immediate action against climate change.

Addressing world leaders who will be attending the COP24 Summit in Katowice, Poland, in December, the bishops urged them to take concrete steps “in order to tackle and overcome the devastating effects of the climate crisis. We must be prepared to make rapid and radical changes and resist the temptation to look for solutions to our current situation in shortterm technological fixes without addressing the root causes and the long-term consequences,” the bishops said in the statement.

The statement was signed at the Vatican Oct. 26 by: Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences; Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union; Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi of Lubango, Angola, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar; and Cardinal Jose Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan of David, Panama, president of the Latin American bishops’ council’s economic committee.

Synodality is a path not only for bishops, but for all, bishop says

VATICAN CITY – Synodality is about more than just bishops participating in the governance of the church; it encourages the involvement of all the faithful in a spirit of collaboration, said Archbishop Hector Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo, Peru.

During an Oct. 25 briefing with journalists, Archbishop Cabrejos said that “synodality” was a theme that was heavily discussed throughout the Synod of Bishops. Synodality, he said, is more than just a word; it’s a way of life for the church that “promotes everyone’s participation. When I say everyone, I don’t just mean the church as in the bishops, priests. No! It is also the laity and the faithful at all levels. And all of us bishops are called – and this is part of that syno-

dality – to make collaboration grow,” Archbishop Cabrejos said. “The church,” he added, “is not having a synod for youth, but with youth.”

The archbishop, who also serves as president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference, explained that synodality involves the entire church “walking together” not only with young people who are in the church but “also with those who are far, with nonbelievers.”

Pope: Tolerating each other’s flaws fights devil’s attempts to divide

VATICAN CITY – Humility, kindness and generosity are needed to create peace in the world, starting in one’s own family, Pope Francis said.

“To create peace, unity among us (it takes) humility, gentleness – we who are used to insulting each other, yelling at each other – gentleness, and magnanimity,” he said Oct. 26 during morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

“But can you really make peace in the world with these three little things? Yes, it is the journey. Can you reach unity? Yes, that (is) the journey: humility, gentleness and magnanimity,” he said. The pope’s homily reflected on the day’s first reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians (4:1-6). The imprisoned apostle was calling for unity among Christians, who were “too caught up with their infighting,” the pope said. People today are also too used to being around conflict, especially with the news always talking about conflicts, “one after the other,” wars, the lack of peace and lack of unity, he said.

Irish government approves excavation of former mother and baby home site

DUBLIN – The Irish government has approved a forensic excavation of the site of a former state-funded, Catholic-run mother and baby home in the west of the country. Katherine Zappone, minister for children and youth affairs, announced the excavation Oct. 23.

“I am committed to ensuring that all the children interred at this site can have a dignified and respectful burial,” she said. Significant quantities of human remains were found in 2017 in Tuam at the site of a home run by the Bon Secours congregation of sisters

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Kenyan priests say terror attacks threaten Catholic churches

NAIROBI, Kenya – As frequent terror attacks continue in northeastern Kenya, Catholic bishops and priests are warning that the acts are posing threats to missions and their work.

That caution amplified Oct. 10, when suspected al-Shabab militants killed two Christian teachers in Mandera, a county near the Somalia border. The assailants blasted a roadside bomb at a house occupied by four nonlocal teachers in Arabia Boys Secondary School, killing two.

“This is yet another incident when innocent Christian workers have become targets,” Father Alfred Murithi, the priest in charge of Our Lady of Consolation Cathedral in Garissa, told Catholic News Service Oct. 22.

“It has been an ongoing trend. I think there are some elements who don’t want to see Christian presence in this region. They are misled to believe that Christians are infidels.” Although the latest attacks are concentrated the predominantly Muslim North, their impact is being felt across the country, prompting a change in how churches carry out their day-totoday business. According to some of the Catholic priests, the acts have forced a change in how the people worship and how they mark important days and celebrations in the Christian calendar.

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Assumpta, Patrons’ Award honorees honored at cathedral Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Four individuals were feted by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for their leadership and service to the church at the 2018 Assumpta Awards dinner Oct. 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

Retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice received the 2018 Assumpta Award. Melanie Morey, Vicki Evans and George Bovone were recipients of the 2018 Patrons’ Award.

The late San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn established the Assumpta Award in 1991 to honor exceptional contributions to the local church. About 200 people attended this year’s event.

The current church crisis served as a frequent touchstone during the gala dinner and awards presentation, beginning with an opening prayer

by Father Arturo Albano, cathedral pastor.

“Make this a redemptive moment for us as we recognize the many wonderful blessings you have bestowed upon us, Lord,” he said. “May the honorees be an inspiration for us to continue loving and supporting the church, to defend her and to abide with our true and faithful shepherds.”

Melanie Morey, director of the archdiocesan Office of Catholic

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Pictured, from left, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at a St. Mary’s Cathedral dinner Oct. 24 are 2018 Patrons’ Award recipients Melanie Morey, Vicki Evans and George Bovone; 2018 Assumpta Award honoree retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice; and St. Mary’s Cathedral rector Father Arturo Albano.

sustained her through ups and downs.

“It is the good news of Jesus Christ even in these hard times,” she said.

“It is the greatest opportunity in the world to share that good news and pass it on.”

North Beach-born George Bovone

Identity and Assessment, received the St. Patrick Patron’s Award given to a person in recognition of “evangelization performed in the true spirit of St. Patrick.”

Morey said the faith was the greatest gift her family gave her and it has

received the St. Joseph’s Patron Award which honors the contributions of someone who helps “to build” the church as St. Joseph did. He has served as regent and chair of the cathedral building committee. At his own expense, Bovone underwrote creation of a software program that tracks and manages cathedral-ground projects that helps ensure accuracy and cost containment.

Vicki Evans, the Respect Life coordinator for the archdiocese, received the St. Francis Patron’s Award. Evans is one of the key organizers of the Walk for Life West Coast and directs community activities, educational programs and legislative advocacy in diverse pro-life arenas.

Bishop Justice, who retired in 2017, received the Assumpta Award in recognition of his 50 years as a priest and bishop in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He served as the pastor, or on the pastoral staff of eight archdiocesan parishes. He was vicar for clergy before being named auxiliary bishop

by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 and even in retirement is a frequent celebrant or concelebrant of special Masses and liturgies.

“We are the living stones of the cathedral,” he said. “The concrete and marble stones help us each time we enter this church to pray to be the living stones wherever we live as church.”

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affordable food, clean water, health care and education, she said, recalling how “some of those were my very own concerns” while growing up. She expressed gratitude for those people who had participated in mission trips and projects that genuinely helped fill those needs, but said, “This is not the common approach taken by the wealthiest and most prominent donors.”

According to data from 2013, she said population programs receive more donated funds than education,

health care or clean water. African countries receive about two billion donated condoms every year, which costs about $17 million – money that could go toward solving these other problems, she said.

Right now, only four out of 54 African countries have legal abortion, though several are struggling to keep their pro-life laws, because the loudest voices and strongest lobbyists are Western NGOs or people being funded by them, who believe abortion should be legalized, she said.

Ekeocha called this moment “our 1972,” and said, “the main task of the

young pro-life movement is to ensure a 1973 does not creep up on us,” referring to the year that abortion was legalized in the United States by the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling.

They have observed how the legalization of abortion has killed babies, hurt mothers and destroyed families, she said.

“Abortion is a direct attack on human life and human dignity,” she continued. “This is why Africa rejects it.”

But because Western NGOs see Africa as a “cultural vacuum to be filled with their ideas,” they plan initiatives in their own language, Ekeocha said,

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New Bing Crosby bio paints picture of crooner and his priest alter-ego NEW YORK – Affable fictional clergyman Father Charles “Chuck” O’Malley was the principal figure in two well-received World War II-era movies, 1944’s “Going My Way” and its 1945 sequel, “The Bells of St. Mary’s.”

These gentle portrayals of faith in action not only resonated with Catholic viewers across generations but also changed the life of the famous actor who portrayed O’Malley.

So concludes Gary Giddins in “Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star” (Little, Brown), the second volume of his biography of the versatile entertainer, which will be published Oct. 30. The first volume, subtitled “A Pocketful of Dreams,” appeared in 2001.

The new tome covers the years 1940 through 1946, the prime of the crooner’s career. This was the peak of Crosby’s cultural influence, exerted on radio, vinyl and the screen. Songs such as the totemic “White Christmas” gained huge popularity – as did his partnership with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour in the freewheeling “Road” comedies.

Giddins, a veteran jazz critic and music biographer, is more assured when he’s limning Crosby’s singing style and recordings than when he’s discussing films or Catholicism or Crosby’s oftenstormy family life.

Father O’Malley, though, gets the deference awarded a national monument. Four of the book’s 24 chapters are devoted to the character and his creators, including director Leo McCarey. That’s considerably more attention than Hope receives in the other 20.

“I’m not saying how ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s’ affected Crosby – but he invites his friends over for open house Sunday, and then passes the plate!”

Hope quipped at the 1946 Academy Awards.

Giddins doesn’t joke, though. He writes that, for “Going My Way,” McCarey and Crosby “concocted a fantasy priest – a perfect, albeit celibate, man.

The costume, a white collar and straw boater, and the trappings, a crucifix and golf clubs, underscore

the curious gloss of religious vocation and musical avocation. Liberated from romance, venality and vainglory but not from intrigue and statecraft, Father O’Malley emerged as a superhuman fount of liberal wisdom, empathy and action.

“As emblematic of the war years as Atticus Finch was to the civil rights era (and inspiring seminarians much as Atticus did law students), O’Malley represented a righteousness people could feel and believe in. ... It proved to (Crosby), though he never quite admitted it – modesty forbade – that he really and truly could act.”

Giddins doesn’t back up that stirring passage thoroughly, particularly the mention of inspired seminarians. But he does provide evidence that O’Malley could be held up to restrain the singer.

One example: Early in 1946, Crosby, in New York, visited the city’s archbishop, Cardinal Francis J. Spellman, the powerful “antipode of Father O’Malley,” as Giddins calls him. Crosby wanted to discuss a possible split from his wife, Dixie, whose alcoholism had grown worse. At the time, he was considering marrying the actress Joan Caulfield.

“The visit to Spellman,” Giddins writes, “was seen by her family as evidence of his intentions. If he expected an ecclesiastical solution, he was disappointed. In the account he gave of the meeting, as remembered by (Joan’s sister) Betty Caulfield, ‘Cardinal Spellman said, “Bing, you are Father O’Malley and under no circumstances can Father O’Malley get a divorce.”’ Betty added, ‘I think that was the beginning of the end for Joan and Bing.’”

The influence of movies was taken so seriously in that era that Spellman even wrote to McCarey to stress “the great calamity to the church and family life everywhere” should Crosby’s divorce occur.

It never did. Dixie died of ovarian cancer in 1952.

Crosby remarried in 1957 and died in 1977.

If Crosby had any apprehension about portraying a priest, after several years of playing carefree romantic leads, Giddins hasn’t uncovered it.

Instead, he writes that Crosby “desperately wanted to make” “Going My Way” based on his trust in McCarey, but that Paramount executives were worried that the film would fail.

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The hit song from the first movie, “Swinging on a Star,” originated when McCarey suggested to songwriters Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen his “idea of music that taught biblical lessons.”

The Production Code Administration fretted over any scenes that showed lingering romantic tension between O’Malley and his old flame, Genevieve Linden (played by opera singer Rise Stevens). “But the whole point of O’Malley,” Giddins writes, “is that, like Augustine, he has experienced life, made a choice, a sacrifice, found freedom in conversion and does not look back.”

There were fewer concerns about any lovelorn gazes between O’Malley and Ingrid Bergman’s Sister Mary Benedict (named after McCarey’s aunt, an Ursuline nun) in “The Bells of St. Mary’s.” But RKO studio chief Charles Koerner feared that the improvised children’s Christmas pageant would offend Catholics and got newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst to agree with him. McCarey rallied clergy support, and the pageant stayed in.

Crosby requested one change for O’Malley that only sharp-eyed viewers can detect. He’d worn toupees throughout his film career when he couldn’t wear a hat in a scene. And this time, “he requested a modification, a wig to distinguish O’Malley from the familiar Crosby characters.”

Famed Hollywood salon the House of Westmore “came up with a credible wig, wavy, combed to the side, reducing the usual pompadour flip. It did the job but served so clearly as gilding for this particular character that Bing could never use it again.”

The most famous line in “The Bells of St. Mary’s” was Bing’s suggestion: “Just dial O for O’Malley,” which is used twice, was not in the screenplay.

When it ended the scene in which Sister Mary Benedict departs for a sanitarium, where she’ll be treated for tuberculosis, and there was “not a dry eye in the house,” Giddins writes.

“Here we have the parting ... of a man and woman in the spring of their lives, sharing a chaste love and understanding that will bind them always.” kurt Jensen is a guest reviewer for Catholic News Service.

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THURSDAY, NOV 1 MEN INTERESTED IN PRIESTHOOD: Father Patrick Summerhays, director of vocations for the archdiocese, is scheduling Monthly Gatherings for Men Discerning a Priestly Vocation with the next Nov. 1, 6:15- 8:30 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 826 Vienna St., San Francisco. Food will be provided.

RSVP to Father Summerhays, (415) 614-5684, summerhays.patrick@sfarch. org. Many resources about the priesthood are available on www.sfpriest.org, where you can sign up to receive Father Summerhays’ monthly e-mail message.

FRIDAY, NOV. 2 ALL SOULS DAY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road., Colma, Holy Cross Mausoleum, 11 a.m., San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert Christian, principal celebrant and homilist. Monica Williams, (650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 3 ‘FRIENDSHIP WITH JESUS’: St. Mary Magdalene Church, 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, 9:30 a.m., a silent retreat with Dominican Father Nathan Castle on “How would my life be different if I lived my entire life conscious of the eternal companionship of Christ?”

Hosted lunch and weather permitting a walk to the beach. Liturgy of the Hours will be prayed, with evening prayer and Mass closing the day followed by a social hour. Reserve by Oct. 30. Suggested donation $25. Email stmmbolinas@ gmail.com or call Dominican Father Bruno Gibson, (415) 272-1866.

REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, Class of 1983, Mission Rock Resort/Fireside Lounge, 817 Terry A Francois Blvd, San Francisco, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Pam Harper Horst, harperpam@comcast.net.

begins at 9 a.m. and closes with Mass at 4 p.m., Notre Dame de Namur University, Taube Hall, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont, ample parking and handicap accessible. $20 if registered by Oct. 26, $25 if later or at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds. Students free. Dennise Burgess, (510) 303-9767; dcburgess1@juno.com; lunch in university cafeteria $8-$15, or bring your own.

BLACK CATHOLIC HISTORY MONTH: Knights of Peter Claver celebrate Black History Month with Mass, music and food, Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco. Multiple gospel choirs will perform from 12:30 p.m. with Mass at 1 p.m. and “repast immediately following in the parish hall,” organizers said.

The Mass will remember deceased members of the Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary of Northern California. The afternoon is sponsored by the Sacred Heart Gospel Choir of St. Boniface Church, San Francisco.

FIRST SATURDAY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road., Colma, Holy Cross Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for clergy, Archdiocese of San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. Monica Williams, (650) 7562060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

PEACE MASS: Church of the Epiphany, 827 Vienna St. at Amazon, San Francisco, 9:45 a.m., Father Cameron Faller, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7 DIVORCED AND SEPARATED: Regular meetings of New Beginnings ministry in San Francisco and Marin: First and third Wednesdays, 7 p.m., St. Brendan Church, Parish Center, 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco. Contact Diana (415) 929-0999, dianamwild@gmail.com, or Martin (650) 739- 6446; second Fridays, 6:30 p.m., St. Hilary Parish, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon. Contact Karen (415-2502597; third Fridays, 7 p.m., in Spanish, Our Lady of Loretto, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato. Contact Victoria, (707) 460-3116.

THURSDAY, NOV. 8 MASS FOR DECEASED HOMELESS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant of a Mass for the homeless faithful departed, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m., St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St., San Francisco. All are welcome to attend and to bring the names of any deceased homeless for whom they wish to pray. Affordable parking and the Powell Street BART Station are one block from St. Patrick Church. Contact Martin Ford, social action coordinator, (415) 614-5569; homelessmass@sfarch.org.

SATURDAY, NOV. 10 SUNDAY, NOV. 4 ST. PETER SCHOOL: Mass marking school’s 140th anniversary and legacy of Mercy Sisters and Christian Brothers, 2:30 p.m., St. Peter Church, 24th and Florida, San Francisco. Former pastor Father Tom McElligott, principal celebrant and homilist. Reception follows in parish hall. Honorees include alumna Mercy Sister Lucy Calvillo, and alumnus Christian Brother Joseph Fabiano. (415) 647-8662; jvela@sanpedro.org; www.stpeterssf.org.

‘CHALLENGE OF PEACE’: Pax Christi Northern California Annual Assembly with Notre Dame de Namur University MUSIC ‘MOSAIC’: Composer Frank La U discusses B Lhis music I career C and A hisT present Notre Dame Sister Patricia Chap-P Rocca pell, executive director, Pax Christi USA, latest work, “Mass for the Americas,” with and other speakers on the challenge of host J.A. Gray on “Mosaic,” 5:30 a.m., peace and its relationship to immigration, KPIX Channel 5.The Mass setting will be racism, poverty, and other areas. Day introduced Dec. 8, 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s

REUNION: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, all Classes, especially SA1955 and ICE 1973, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco, dinner 6-9 p.m., free parking in school lot off Shotwell Street, reservations $25 to Constance Dalton, (415) 642-6130 or cdalton@saicsf.org.

SATURDAY, NOV. 17 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street I O All disabled N Speople, caregiventrance. ers invited. Please RSVP by contacting Diane Prell, activities coordinator, (415) 452-3500; www.Handicapables.com.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 24 PEDRO TOURNAMENT: Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, Burlingame, 9 a.m. coffee with games at 10 a.m., $40 for games and lunch, $25 games only, $15 lunch only. Dorene Campanile, (650) 344-7870.

2-DAY CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE: Holy Angels Parish Christmas Boutique, Nov. 24, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Nov. 25, 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Parish Hall, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma. Free admission.

Handmade articles for sale from many vendors. Snacks will be sold as well as pictures with Santa. (650) 755-0478; e-mail croller@pacbell.net.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28 HOLIDAYS COMING: Christmas at Kohl, Mercy High School Burlingame Alumnae Association’s annual holiday boutique, 5-9 p.m., Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. More than 65 vendors, docent presentations and musical entertainment are part of the evening. Tickets are $10 adults, children under 12 free. Visit www. mercyhsb.com.

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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA

VETERANS DAY MEMORIAL SERVICES ~ STAR OF THE SEA SECTION - OUTDOOR SERVICE ~ Rev. Msgr. Michael Padazinski, Presider Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force (Ret.)

PLEASE JOIN WITH US ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2018 AT 11:00 A.M. TO HONOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM....

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Uniformed Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco will conduct the memorial ceremony accompanied by Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, CA 415-479-9020

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