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Archdiocese fetes Father Greene, Msgr. Harriman

Marin parish builds on former pastor’s legacy

Young Catholics gather for retreat at Menlo Park church

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Local Catholics form racial justice group NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In the wake of the high-profile deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd that prompted national outrage and discussion about Black lives and dignity, local Catholics started discussing what role the church could have in bringing about racial justice.

“Where’s Christ’s body when his members are being killed or facing Stephen Staten injustice – where is the church in this?” Stephen Staten said.

Staten, a parishioner at St. Dominic, began talking to other Catholics in the Bay Area to answer that question. Out of those conversations eventually grew a new group that hopes to model for the church what it means to work against racism and pursue racial justice.

Bay Area Catholics for Racial Justice, founded in July, is focused on educational activities, sharing stories of responding to racism, and building collaborative relationships with other activists and Catholics in the Bay Area and beyond, according to its co-president Rosalie Chan. About 15-30 people are associated with the group right now.

The organization has hosted two events so far. In September, they hosted a virtual gathering to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet for Black people who have suffered under systemic racism and died from its effects. In October, they hosted a “ballot party” where people gathered to discuss voting on ballot propositions and their effect on racial justice.

A planned November event focuses on sharing stories and praying for the dead, especially those whose names are unknown, like many of the victims of slavery.

One of the convictions of the group is that as Catholics their concern for establishing racial justice grows out of the Gospel and the church. Group leaders have a vision that they can be effective in mobilizing Catholics for racial justice by organizing around their common Catholic faith. That can be especially urgent as conversations about racial justice often become a part of political battles.

“The point I want this group to really push is our mission is greater than any political expression. It’s a higher thing, it’s not about what side you’re on but a SEE RACIAL JUSTICE, PAGE 5

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A temporary memorial for the victims of COVID-19 is seen near the armory in Washington Oct. 23, 2020. Each day the artist adds new flags to the installation as the death toll rises. As of Oct. 29, nearly 230,000 Americans have died from the disease.

All Souls’ Day 2020 is poignant reminder of COVID-19 clude, as in previous years, aspects of the Mexican celebration Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrated Nov. 1-2.

A vigil Mass will be celebrated by Los Angeles WASHINGTON – The feast of All Souls’ Day, Archbishop José H. Gomez on the evening of Nov. when Catholics remember and pray for the dead, 1 in the outdoor courtyard of the Mausoleum of has weighted significance this year when so many Calvary Cemetery and Mortuary in Los Angeles. have died of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s restricAt the livestreamed Mass, the archbishop also tions have prevented usual funeral services and will bless the eight altars on display paying tribute final goodbyes in person. to those who died in the past year, a typical feature As of Oct. 29, about 228,000 people in the United of Day of the Dead celebrations. One of the altars States alone have died of COVID-19. will specifically commemorate COVID-19 victims.

As that number continues to rise, it is no surFor Concepción Sanchez, who is placing photos prise that on All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2, many parishes of her father on the COVID-19 altar, the archdiocand dioceses are remembering these deaths with esan event is a means of closure.

Masses, prayers or special altars.

She said the Day of the Dead tradition has been Conversely, because of pandemic restrictions, something her Mexican family has done privately some dioceses also have had to cancel, or at least for the past six years since the death of one of her modify or livestream, their usual All Souls’ Day A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. commemorations often held at Catholic cemeteries. brothers, but this more public commemoration youLos haveAngeles received a flag honoring yourscaled loved one's military In Ifthe Archdiocese, back All service and would like to donate it to the cemetery to be are flowncontinuing as part of an “Avenue of Flags" Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' Day, DAY, PAGE 6 Souls’ Day plans and they willoninSEE ALL SOULS’ CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Father John Greene

Msgr. Michael Harriman

Archdiocese honors Father Greene, Msgr. Harriman The annual St. John Vianney Luncheon that has raised more than $2 million to support retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco cannot be held this year. Instead, the archdiocese celebrates Priests Retirement Week. The honorees for 2020 are Father John Greene and Msgr. Michael Harriman. Highlights of Priests Retirement Week include: Nov. 14-15, special collection in parishes; Nov. 14-18, gift baskets will be delivered to more than 50 retired priests living in the Bay Area; Nov. 19, online celebration open to the public, 10:30-11:15 a.m., followed by Mass by Archbishop Cordileone in his chapel for Father Greene, Msgr. Harriman and their guests. For more information, visit https://sfarchdiocese.org/priestfund or contact Rose Marie Wong, (415) 614-5517, wongr@sfarch.org.

Father John Greene

“I want to help people feel the presence and power of God’s love in their lives.” That presence and power has been a part of Father John Greene’s life for as long as he can remember. It has been his life’s mission, ministry, and joy to share it with others.

Ever since he was a little boy, Father Greene wanted to be a Priest. In fact, it was the only thing he ever wanted to be.

He couldn’t wait to be ordained – a native of Vallejo, he entered minor (“junior”) seminary at St. Pius X Seminary in Galt, California, when he was just 13 years old.

It was a life of prayer, Mass, and study, and he thrived.

Eventually, Father Greene was the only one of 75 original classmates from minor seminary who became a priest.

He was ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1976 and since then has shared God’s love with many parishes – perhaps most notably as pastor at St. Monica’s in San Francisco and St. Robert’s in San Bruno, and also as the chaplain of the San Francisco Fire Department for 37 years.

Father Greene’s life is one of continuous learning and service: Being there for and with the people he served in his active ministry and continues to serve in retirement. His is a ministry of accepting people for who they are and what they believe.

It is in this way, Father Greene believes, that he can best share God’s love and presence, and it has always been his ultimate calling to bring “…the power of his love in their lives…”. Countless parishioners and members of the San Francisco Fire Department would certainly say Father Greene has done so.

Father Greene will be honored Nov. 19, 2020 at the annual and this year virtual Priests’ Retirement Lunch.

Msgr. Michael Harriman

The message of Christian discipleship, fellowship and significance of the Eucharist in St. Luke’s account of the road to Emmaus, is one that resonates with Msgr. Michael Harriman. It has had a powerful influence on his priestly ministry to individuals, families and youth of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Msgr. Harriman, who will be honored at the annual and this year virtual Priest Retirement Celebration on Nov. 19, 2020, said the Gospel story tells us: “The role of a priest is to walk with our people – not ahead or behind – and listen to their life experiences.” He continued: “The priest’s response is to break open the Scriptures to allow the light of the Gospels to affect people’s lives.”

Msgr. Harriman has worked with many people since his ordination in 1968, serving as parochial vicar at St. Isabella and pastor at St. Thomas Apostle and St. Cecilia parishes. As Msgr. Harriman stated: “In a particular way it was a privilege to work with the three parish schools. Working with the principal, faculty and student leaders resulted in a collaborative effort to evangelize and catechize the school families.”

Msgr. Harriman also assumed leadership roles at CYO, including director of the CYO Camp and Retreat Center in Occidental, and helped develop many youth and young adult programs that flourish to this day. His extensive work in youth ministry and in the parishes where he served left an indelible mark on him.

Msgr. Harriman celebrated 52 years as a priest in May SEE MSGR. HARRIMAN, PAGE 13

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Shutdown offered Marin parish church a window for remodel CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

For Our Lady of Loretto Parish, the closure of its church to public Masses from March to October had a silver lining: It expedited a plannedfor church renovation that done later, would have taken longer and been more disruptive to church life.

“The timing could not have been better,” said Annie Troy, longtime director of confirmation and youth ministry in an after-Mass video shown to parishioners on Oct. 4. “We were able to take advantage of the closure to put our plan into place.”

Indoor Mass with restrictions resumed at the parish in late September. Parish leaders chose to formally reveal the project and the spirit of renewal behind it during the Mass on the Feast of St. Francis.

According to Troy, the physical renovation of the church built in 1963 is the first phase of a comprehensive parish overhaul launched two years ago by pastor Father Brian Costello who was diagnosed with cancer in February and died in July.

As one on a parish team called ‘Rebuilt,’ Troy and other members along with parish administrator Father Tony Vallecillo, are continuing the ‘physical and spiritual renewal’ envisioned for the parish by Father Costello.

“We had decided on this course of action prior to the lock down,” said parishioner Wayne Richards, another member of the Rebuilt team. “With the church closed and inside services suspended, we accelerated our activities, taking advantage of the situation.”

The video lovingly detailed each aspect of the renovation which staff and parishioners took literally into their own hands, including parish manager Patrick Reeder and his son.

Troy explained that the physical changes, lovely as they are, were not just an interior decorating job. Nearly every decision, she said, was made to usher in a new parish “culture” where both longtime parishioners and newcomers, both Englishspeaking and Spanish-speaking, feel welcomed, comfortable, engaged and inspired.

“Every change, every enhancement has been purposefully set in place to shine a light, to bring greater glory to

(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO).

Our Lady of Loretto parishioner Jim Quinn receives a solo tour of the newly remodeled church by fellow parishioner Holly Lemos on Oct. 4. The Novato church built in 1963 completed a major renovation this summer after the church was shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

God in and through his church,” said Troy.

The dark, 1960s-era vestibule has been transformed into an open entry hall with comfortable seating and warm lighting meant to be a visual invitation to join, to stay. The wall separating the sanctuary and the vestibule will be replaced with windows for the same reason.

TV monitors have been installed in the entry to message useful parish information; another set in the sanctuary will make Mass readings and song lyrics more accessible to all, but especially newcomers. Woodwork and pews were sanded and refinished to restore their mid-century beauty, and all manner of glass and brass was cleaned, polished or restored, among the many improvements.

Troy revealed the intention behind each decision the parish made when she described the new interior paint color as “Blessed Mother Blue,” the color of the mantle of the church patroness.

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building, parish leaders understood that, “Jesus wants more of us.”

When the Lord revealed himself to St. Francis in Assisi and asked him to rebuild his church, “it wasn’t just the building that needed attention,” said Troy.

“The church that is in ruins is our community around us, church-going or not, who the Lord calls us to love and serve,” she said.

Parish renewal began in 2018 under Father Costello’s leadership when a small group of parishioners and administrative staff with a “shared concern about the state of our parish” began meeting to discuss solutions, said Troy.

The problems were not unique to Our Lady of Loretto; declining Mass attendance, lack of parish involvement by young families and the aging and death of longtime parishioners.

Father Costello summed up the challenges facing the parish in a January letter following a parish survey completed by almost 900 parishioners in December 2019.

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and our young families, the future of our parish, are not actively engaged with the church,” he wrote. “If we stand by and do nothing about this current reality, I am afraid there will not be a future for Our Lady of Loretto Church.”

The parish renewal group took its name and guidance from a book by the same name, “Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter”(Ave Maria Press, 2013).

Authored by Father Michael White, pastor of Church of the Nativity Parish in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and Tom Corcoran, his lay associate, the book is the story of how they saved their parish from inevitable decline by “rebuilding parish culture.” They now help leaders at other Catholic parishes to do the same and traveled to Novato last year to help the parish identify its most critical goals.

In a May letter just weeks before his death, Father Costello identified them as: improving the Mass experience, particularly for newcomers or those who don’t attend Mass regularly; evangelization; upgraded facilities (the church) and improving engagment in parish life.

Troy, whose in-laws have been part of the parish community for more than 50 years said it will be tricky to find the right balance between “honoring our older parishioners who have built this parish,” while also opening our doors to those who have “never even considered entering a church.”

Marin County is a place of opportunity in that regard. Here, she said, the the number of people who identify themselves as Catholic or are practicing Catholics is “staggeringly low.”

“How do we bring people in who have stopped practicing their faith?” she asked, while attracting non-Catholics and staying true to the needs of aging parishioners.

Father Vallecillo, who took over Father Costello’s administrative duties and hopes to be named pastor, sees that “the people here are very appreciative of stepping into a beautiful new church.” As the parish moves into the next phase of its renewal, the physical renovation is a sign of hope for the future.

“But the next phase, evangelization, is the most important part of the process,” he said.

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RACIAL JUSTICE: Local Catholics form group FROM PAGE 1

deeper, higher calling of compassion for others and love of Christ,” Staten, now an advisor to the group, said. “Christ is the answer, he’s the healing everybody needs. We have a sickness, we have an injustice, and Christ is here to heal us,” he added.

Racial injustice is Eddie Espinoza an issue within the church and is rarely discussed, according to organizers.

Chan and other members emphasized the importance of the Catholic Church engaging racial justice as a means of coming to terms with its historical participation in slavery, segregation and other forms of racism, and to improve its witness to the Gospel.

“It means a lot when parishes address this issue instead of ignoring it, and I would like to see ways to take action around it: how to be more welcoming to parishioners of color, or in ministry thinking more critically about systemic racism and the impacts on poverty and things like that,” Chan said.

Parishes can sometimes be unwelcoming toward different cultural expressions of Catholicism and make European Catholicism the norm for how the faith is depicted and celebrated, organizers said.

“Not that the Eurocentric depiction of faith is bad,” Eddie Espinoza, who works on outreach and programming, said. “We want to make sure that since Catholicism is multi-rite and multi-cultural, there is no one true lens to express the Catholic faith — that’s part of the beauty of the church.”

Espinoza said he hoped to see bishops and other people with authority in

the church place a sustained focus on racial justice rather than having “the piecemeal response we have today.”

He added lay people also should examine how they have directly or indirectly acted in racially prejudiced ways.

“Racism isn’t just in the past. As long as sin is in the world there will be racism, and so we should spend as much energy stamping that out as other gravely sinful acts,” he said.

Espinoza praised the racism listening sessions currently being held by the Archdiocese of San Francisco as part of the California bishops’ year long anti-racism initiative.

“The first step is going to be a ton of listening. That’s what we need to do, experience the faith through other people’s lenses. If we can’t listen to one another and articulate each other’s views and understand them then we’re going to be lost,” he said.

Staten agreed about the urgency of churches getting together to listen to others’, experiences and learn more about racial justice.

“Black people have experienced (racism in the church) and white people have been part of it and it’s not discussed. Unless we go into our Black Catholic community and amplify Black Catholic voices and talk about these particular historical things, until we do that, we won’t ever really have recognition of the church’s role in bringing about racial justice,” he said.

The church has experience in preaching about uncomfortable and unpopular issues like abortion, euthanasia and marriage, Staten said. “We should also bring up racial justice: there’s healing that’s needed, and that can’t be done unless we bring up the actual sickness there is and how to address it,” he said.

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The life of 17-year-old Oswaldo Sánchez has been marked by drugs, alcohol, family troubles, suicidal thoughts and hatred even toward God. Sánchez, a parishioner of Our Lady of the Assumption in Carmichael, participated in the first youth retreat at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Menlo Park, Oct. 17-18.

“I met Jesus in the Eucharist and it changed my life,” he said. “Now I want to be a Capuchin Franciscan friar.”

Sánchez narrated some episodes of his life.

“When I was young, I just had the desire to do bad things,” he told San Francisco Católico. “I felt miserable and wanted to end my life. I was a living dead. I hated God for everything that happened to me.”

Sanchez said he comes from “a very dysfunctional family” but was changed by an encounter at church.

“One day, my dad, who did not live with us, invited me to Mass in a small chapel,” he said. “I got there but there was no Mass. I looked through the crack in the chapel door and I saw him, (Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament).”

“I did not know God, and that day I saw him present in that Eucharist,” he said. “I felt that God told me that he loved me and I fell in love with him. From that moment on I visited him day after day. I cried a lot in front of him in the Blessed Sacrament while God was healing me little by little until he took a legion off me.”

In eight months since he has been away from the “bad things” he did, he became an altar boy at his parish.

Sánchez has also participated in a retreat with the Franciscan Capuchin friars, an order to which he wishes to enter when he finishes high school. He is a senior.

Painful stories like Sánchez’s afflict many of the young people who came to the retreat at St. Anthony.

“The young people have shared their difficulties with us, most of them have communication problems

(PHOTO BY ZAC WITTMER/SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO)

Youths from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and nearby dioceses are seen on their knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament on the field of St. Anthony Church in Menlo Park. Eudist Father Carlos Panesso led a Holy Hour Oct. 17 during a youth retreat at the church. with their families,” said Miriam Villar, one of the organizers of the event along with her husband Jesús Lombera, both members of the charismatic prayer group Caminando con Jesus at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Redwood City.

The young participants came from San Mateo, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Sacramento.

“The idea of doing this youth retreat and continue every year is because we want to attract them to the church and motivate them to get involved in the ministries we have,” Villar said.

The participants adored the Blessed Sacrament with devotion, attended the Mass, and also played games.

One of the lecturers was Eudist Father Carlos Panesso, who came from Colombia to preach to the young people.

During Holy Hour, Father Panesso shared his devotion to the Eucharist and the testimony of his mother and a friend of his both converted to the Catholic faith because of the first experience when they were close to the Eucharist.

ALL SOULS’ DAY: Poignant reminder of COVID-19 FROM PAGE 1

is something her whole family is happy she is doing since they did not get to say goodbye in person to their dad, grandfather and husband, Blas Mena Espinoza, who died a month and a half after contracting the coronavirus. He was 68.

One of Espinoza’s sons contracted COVID-19 in July at his work, from someone who was asymptomatic, and it quickly spread to most of the family, to other brothers and their mother, who also has diabetes. Espinoza went to the emergency room in August where he was intubated; he died at the hospital Sept. 8.

“We thought he would get better. We didn’t get to say goodbye,” Sanchez, a mother of three, told Catholic News Service Oct. 28. She plans to place photos of her dad and his favorite hobby, woodworking, on the altar.

“He wanted the family to be together all the time,” she said.

Sanchez said her dad always had a positive attitude and would say: “No matter what happens in life, always have a smile, say to God, ‘Thank you for all the good things and bad things.’ He would always have a smile; he would always joke with people and would never show pain.”

Sanchez chokes up when talking about her dad, who came to the United States in his early 20s and worked in construction. She said remembering him at this event is a small way to celebrate his life, but it also joins her family with others who have experienced a similar loss.

“In a bigger way, it’s for everyone, too,” she said, noting the COVID-19 altar will have a globe at the top representing all those around the world who died because of the coronavirus.

Sister Rosalia Meza, a Verbum Dei sister, who is director of the Office of Religious Education in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, said even though the Mass and altar blessings will not draw as many people as it has in previous years, it is still, or even more so, “very significant.”

“It’s simple with a lot of meaning,” she added.

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A woman wearing boots wades through a flooded cemetery in Pampanga, Philippines, Oct. 27, 2020, following Typhoon Molave.

This year, cemeteries – normally open for All Saints’ and All Souls’ days – will be closed nationwide from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

She said some parishes in the archdiocese are doing beautiful things to honor the dead, which is a way to show that even when family members and friends cannot be together in person, “the people we love are remembered ... the connection is there.”

“I think we are going back to simple things,” holding onto faith, when typical rituals and ways of being together to comfort each other aren’t possible, she said.

Sister Meza speaks from experience since her grandfather died in late October in Mexico and she was unable to attend his funeral.

Paulist Father Larry Rice, who lives in Austin, Texas, and is currently between assignments, said the Day of the Dead celebrations in Texas have been curbed due to the pandemic, but even when they are simply done at home – the Catholic expression of the domestic church – these celebrations serve as reminders of connections between loved ones living and dead.

He said the church’s celebration of All Souls’ Day

is a reminder that the “bonds of love and affection that we form in life do not dissolve in death,” quoting a prayer from the Mass of Christian Burial.

All Souls’ Day was initiated in the 11th century

by St. Odilo of Cluny, the abbot of the Benedictine Abbey in Cluny, France, who urged those in his monastery to pray for the souls in purgatory every Nov. 2.

This practice spread to other Benedictine monasteries, and local bishops also began adopting it. A few centuries later it was instituted by the Catholic Church as a day of prayer for the souls in purgatory, following the Nov. 1 celebration of All Saints’ Day. In the United States, there is one parish named after the initial All Souls’ Day promoter, St. Odilo in Berwyn, Illinois. On the parish website, it says that pilgrims who visit the church can obtain indulgences for the souls in purgatory.

This year, the parish will have Masses in English, Spanish and Latin on All Souls’ Day, but due to pandemic restrictions, participants need to register by phone or online to attend.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic cemeteries director Monica Williams said people are “generally still being very cautious” and for the most part continue to treat their services as private for family and invited friends.

With churches closed until just recently, Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma began offering parish priests the opportunity to celebrate outdoor Masses in courtyard areas. To date, the cemetery has held about two dozen funeral Masses, Williams said.

Families have become very creative in adapting to the guidelines, she said.

“Since receptions were not being held, we’ve seen families rent space at local parks, hand out boxed lunches to go, and even rent food trucks in order to still have some way to offer food to people after the service,” she said. Many continue to record services to share with family members and friends or livestream them on Facebook.

Christina Gray contributed.

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Archbishop: Catholic medical professionals live values of faith every day CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

During this ongoing pandemic, the commitment of health care workers to treat COVID-19 patients even at risk to their own health and lives – and some have died – is an illustration of Judeo-Christian values still at work in the larger society, said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco.

“We bear fruit by doing what Christ commands us to do,” he said. “And what does he command us to do?

‘This is my commandment: Love one another as I love you no one has greater love than this than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.’”

“As de-Christianized as our society has become, we still see this happening” in the work and dedication of medical professionals, he said. “This tells me we still have the vestiges of what was once a society imbued with Judeo-Christian values. This is what a Christian society looks like.”

Archbishop Cordileone made the comments in his homily for the archdiocese’s second annual White Mass and blessing for medical professionals.

He was the main celebrant of the evening Mass, which took place Oct. 16 outside St Augustine Church in South San Francisco with socially distanced seating. Massgoers followed all state and local health protocols, including mask-wearing and hand-sanitizing.

The Benedict XVI Institute musicians played and sang from inside the church, and St. Augustine’s audio-

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Catholics attend an outdoor White Mass at St. Augustine Church in South San Francisco celebrated Oct. 16, 2020, by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. The annual Mass and blessing honors medical professionals. visual team piped the music out to those outside. The Mass invoked the Holy Spirit to provide his guidance and protection of medical professionals. The archbishop imparted a special blessing to all medical professionals in attendance.

The name of the White Mass comes from the color of uniforms traditionally worn by those in health care.

Gathering to pray for and show spiritual support for Catholic health care workers “is so important,” Arch-

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bishop Cordileone said. “As the body is all interconnected, as the church is all interconnected, so is society as a whole. We’ve seen this interconnectedness in the distress of the current pandemic, physical health and economic health, the health of social life.

“Above all what is important in society is spiritual health. We must give primacy to the spiritual in order for a society to be healthy.”

He added, “How we relate to one

another, how we fulfill the duties of our state in life, how we live out our vocation, that all comes from where we are in our spiritual state, so we need to continue to exercise our most sublime duty as human beings in giving worship to God. We must make sure we do so in a safe way but we make sure that we do so.”

Archbishop Cordileone thanked all in the health care profession “for your commitment to living your faith in your workplace.”

“Your workplace, providing health care, is one of the most privileged places where the values of our faith can affect people on such a deep level,” he said. “You understand this, you understand that your role is not only to improve the quality of your patients’ life in this world but above all to help them improve the quality of their life everlasting.”

Archbishop Cordileone also welcomed the formation of a new chapter of the Catholic Medical Association in the archdiocese.

“I am so appreciative of the vision of your founders,” he said. “It’s something I have been desiring and envisioning and seeing the great need (for) here in this archdiocese, given what a great center of health care and health care research we are.”

“We need to imbue this vocation, this endeavor of health care and health care research with the values that come from the Gospel otherwise what is quintessentially a Christian work can devolve into something that can be harmful in so many ways,” the archbishop added.

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Upcoming virtual conference offers weekend of faith formation NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

An upcoming virtual conference hopes to show that even if people cannot travel and mingle, they can still join together for a weekend of faith and education. The “Hope, Heal, Renew” conference, organized by dioceses from California, Hawaii and Nevada, will be held Nov. 12-14.

“We’re hoping besides doing catechesis this is a time people can enjoy being together and getting some healing and hope with a good Catholic message,” said Sister Celeste Arbuckle, a member of the Sisters of Social Service and director of faith formation for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

After the cancellation of the California Catholic Ministry Conference, which is usually held in November, the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Diocese of Monterey decided that even though they could not hold an in-person gathering, they wanted to offer a virtual conference. Together with the Dioceses of Fresno, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Reno, San Bernardino, and Stockton, they began planning over the summer for the event and lining up presenters and sponsors.

Building up a slate of presenters “took a little time but we have a great team working together and brain-

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The Hope, Heal, Renew conference is a virtual faith formation event Nov. 12-14 sponsored by eight dioceses, including the Archdiocese of San Francisco. storming,” Sister Celeste said.

At least 57 different conference sessions in four languages will be offered on topics like evangelization, catechesis, youth and family ministry and spiritual life. Sessions will be live and prerecorded and conference participants will be able to view them until Dec. 31.

Among the standout events Sister Celeste mentioned are a Thursday

night gathering for families led by musician and speaker Jessie Manibusan.

California’s Catholic bishops have made supporting family faith life a priority. Sister Arbuckle was hopeful that with religious education interrupted for so many families, kicking off the conference with a family focused event could support families in their own catechetical work.

Archbishop seeks justice in Serra statue vandalism NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone asked Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli to prosecute six people accused of vandalizing a St. Junipero Serra statue in San Rafael to “the full extent of the law” in an Oct. 26 letter.

“This attack on a cherished religious symbol on our own church property is not a minor property crime, but an attack on Catholics as a people,” he said.

The alleged perpetrators could face charges of trespassing, conspiracy, felony vandalism and vandalism in a house of worship, which is a hate crime. The district attorney’s office has not said if it will bring charges.

“If the perpetrators of this crime are not brought to justice, small mobs will be able to decide what religious

symbols all people of faith may display on their own property to further their faith, and they will continue to inflict considerable spiritual suffering on ordinary Catholic people who would see our sacred spaces as unprotected by law.”

During a protest Oct. 12 on Indigenous People’s Day attended by about 40 people a small group spray painted and tore down a statue of St. Serra on St. Raphael Parish grounds. San Rafael police arrested five people after the protest and later identified a sixth person for prosecution.

Critics have lambasted Serra as a symbol of European colonialism and the erasure of Native culture, and have in recent years sought to remove monuments to him and change the names of streets or landmarks named for him.

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Other major speakers lined up are education consultant Sister Patricia McCormack, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Brenda Noriega, young adult ministry coordinator at the Diocese of San Bernardino, and Hong Kong Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing. Retreats in English and Spanish will be led by Michael Ruzicki and Lupita Vital.

Sister Celeste said conference organizers had put thought into how to create space for personal connections at the conference. While there is no replacement for chatting over coffee before a session starts, “we’ve built things to try and recreate that experience” by making it easier to connect with other attendees.

As much as organizers have done and have planned, “I’m going to miss being there and seeing everybody and personally greeting everyone when they come in. I miss the hugs and greetings, just like all of us miss going to Mass and Communion and gathering with our church communities,” she said.

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The drive has increased its contributions to San Francisco’s St. Anthony’s holiday meals each of its eight years. Now, St. Anthony’s will receive a cash donation.

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St. Thomas More Society president Philip Kearney, Jesuit Father John Coleman and Catholic Charities CEO Jilma Meneses are pictured as Father Coleman received the society’s 2020 Thomas More Award on Oct. 15, 2020.

Thomas More Society honors Jesuit Father John Coleman The St. Thomas More Society honored Jesuit Father John Coleman with its St. Thomas More Award Oct. 15, 2020. The presentation took place at the annual Red Mass, this year celebrated outdoors, at Most Holy Rosary Chapel on Catholic Charities St. Vincent’s Campus in San Rafael.

The Red Mass prays for the continued good work of attorneys and all in the legal profession.

Jilma Meneses, herself an attorney and CEO of Catholic Charities, congratulated Father Coleman “for his inspiring writings on social justice and Catholic teachings. We also extend our gratitude to the St. Thomas More Society for their dedication and commitment to blessing, strengthening, and enlightening all servants of the law.”

The award says: “The Thomas More Society of San Francisco, desirous of promoting and advancing those ideals of service and sacrifice that are reflected so conspicuously in the life

and death of our lawyer-patron, gives tribute to Father John Coleman, SJ.” Father Coleman holds a roster of degrees including a doctorate in sociology from UC, Berkeley. He was presented with an honorary law degree from the University of Chicago in 1992.

He has written or edited 18 books on topics such as the evolution of Catholicism and Christian political ethics, and contributed 80 book chapters on themes such as the future of Catholic social thought.

“We all need to fight for laws that are reasonable, look to the common good and promulgated (or interpreted by the courts) in ways that show what it really means,” Father Coleman said in concluding his acceptance speech.

“So I say to all lawyers here, be sure you have the care of the community constantly in mind.”

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was principal celebrant of the Mass.

Oakland Bishop Michael Barber, a Jesuit, was homilist.

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Pope announces new cardinals, including U.S. Archbishop Gregory U.S. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, retired archbishop of Washington, will celebrate his 80th birthday Nov. 12, before the consistory. Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, whom the pope dismissed as prefect of the congregation for saints in late September, is 72 but renounced the rights of a cardinal, including the right to enter a conclave to elect a new pope.

Italians will continue to have an outsized portion of the electors, rising to 22 of the 128; the United States will stay at nine voters with Cardinal-designate Gregory taking Cardinal Wuerl’s place.

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced he will create 13 new cardinals Nov. 28, including Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington.

The pope made the announcement at the end of his Angelus address Oct. 25, telling the crowd in St. Peter’s Square the names of the nine cardinals under the age of 80, who will be eligible to vote in a conclave, and the names of four elderly churchmen whose red hats are a sign of esteem and honor.

In addition to Cardinal-designate Gregory, who will be the first African American cardinal from the United States, the pope chose as cardinal electors two officials of the Roman Curia and bishops from Italy, Rwanda, the Philippines, Chile and Brunei.

Speaking soon after the announcement with the Catholic Standard, Washington’s archdiocesan newspaper, Cardinal-designate Gregory said he was “deeply humbled” and he knows that “I am reaping a harvest that millions of African American Catholics and people of color have planted. I am deeply grateful for the faith that they have lived so generously, so zealously and with such great devotion.”

Another U.S. citizen is among the new cardinals; retired Italian Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, 80, a former nuncio and a member of the Scalabrinian missionaries, holds dual citizenship. He completed his studies for the priesthood in the United States and taught there for years. He also was director of pastoral care at the U.S. bishops’ Migration and Ref-

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Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington was one of 13 new cardinals named by Pope Francis Oct. 25, 2020. He is pictured in a 2019 file photo.

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Here is the full list of the new cardinals, in the order named by the pope: Maltese Bishop Mario Grech, 63, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops.

Italian Bishop Marcello Semeraro, 72, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.

Archbishop Antoine Kambanda of Kigali, Rwanda, who will turn 62 Nov. 10.

Archbishop Gregory, 72.

Archbishop Jose F. Advincula of Capiz, Philippines, 68.

Archbishop Celestino Aos Braco of Santiago, Chile, 75.

Bishop Cornelius Sim, apostolic vicar of Brunei, 69.

Italian Archbishop Paolo Lojudice of Siena, 56.

Franciscan Father Mauro Gambetti, custos of the Sacred Convent of Assisi in Assisi, 55.

Retired Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, 80.

Retired Italian Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, a former nuncio, 80.

Italian Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, 86.

Italian Father Enrico Feroci, 80, former director of Rome’s Caritas.

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Blessed McGivney: Model parish priest JULIE ASHER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Blessed Michael J. McGivney was “an outstanding witness of Christian solidarity and fraternal assistance” because of his “zeal” for proclaiming the Gospel and his “generous concern for his brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis said in his apostolic letter of beatification of the founder of the Knights of Columbus.

Representing the pope, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, read the letter in Latin during the Oct. 31 Mass of beatification for Father McGivney at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut. Beatification is a step toward sainthood.

In his homily, Cardinal Tobin elaborated on Blessed McGivney’s attributes as a parish priest.

“Father McGivney’s life is an illustration of how a holy priest can provide that necessary and intimate connection so crucial in the life and mission of a parish,” the cardinal said.

Blessed McGivney “knew the simple, indispensable requirement for a pastor: to love his people. He was with them in their sorrows, in times of death and bereavement. He was sanctified by doing what parish priests still do, day in and day out.”

His parish was not bound by names on his church’s registration rolls, Cardinal Tobin said. “He was not a stranger to jails and hospitals. He fostered respectful relationships with other Christian churches and civil authorities. He was a bridgebuilder who shunned walls.”

In Blessed McGivney, “we see the face of a son of immigrants who gave his life in pastoral service of those most recently arrived in this country,” he said.

“We meet the eldest of 13 children, who worked to keep families united in dignity and security; we are in the presence of

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Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson and members of the Schachle family pay their respects Nov. 1, 2020, at the sarcophagus near the entrance of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Connecticut, where the remains of Blessed Michael McGivney are entombed. an apostle who cared for victims of an epidemic before he himself died of the disease.

“We praise God for (the) timeliness of this celebration because 130 years after his death, the brief life of this holy man speaks eloquently to our own path to holiness.”

Jesus asks “each one of us to become a saint,” and “each one of us can certainly find encouragement in the life of Father McGivney, but none more than those of us who are called to become saints as parish priests,” Cardinal Tobin said.

The founding of the Knights of Columbus “grew out of his ministry as a parish priest,” he noted. And “long before his exhausted body surrendered to disease, he died daily to his own desires,” the cardinal added, and “he laid down his life for his friends.”

God is good for giving the church Blessed McGivney “at this moment of our common pilgrimage,” Cardinal Tobin

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said. “In a time of suffering and division, we glimpse his face among the ‘cloud of witnesses’ that urge us on. In Blessed Michael, we are reminded that life is not transactional, but a gift to be shared.

“We appreciate that true worship is centered on a right relationship with God and others, particularly those on the margin of society, and that Christian unity is more than simply adherence to a common belief,” the cardinal said. “We accept that like him, God calls each of us – in our own day and our own way – to be vessels of mercy and so enter into our heavenly inheritance.”

The beatification rite came shortly after the beginning of the Mass. After Cardinal Tobin read the rite in Latin, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, the Knights’ supreme chaplain, read the

English translation of the letter. A giant tapestry of Blessed McGivney’s portrait was unveiled in the cathedral sanctuary.

Michael “Mikey” McGivney Schachle, together with his parents, Daniel and Michelle, and several of his 12 brothers and sisters, carried a relic of Blessed McGivney and presented it to Cardinal Tobin. The relic was placed in the sanctuary and censed.

Mikey, now 5, is the child whose in utero healing from a life-threatening condition that, under most circumstances, could have led to an abortion, was confirmed by Pope Francis; it was announced in May as a miracle that occurred through Father McGivney’s intercession.

This miracle paved the way for the priest’s beatification. In general a second miracle is needed for canonization.

Before asking Cardinal Tobin that the beatification proceed, Hartford Archbishop Leonard P. Blair welcomed those in attendance – and all watching from afar – to “the joyful celebration of the beatification.”

The number inside was limited by COVID-19 restrictions, and those in the cathedral wore face masks and practiced social distancing.

Thousands more, in the U.S. and around the world, participated by watching the EWTN broadcast of the Mass or a livestream of it on www.kofc.org.

Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson read a brief biography of the Knights’ founder, saying that by establishing fraternal order he “presented to the church a paradigm” for an active and engaged laity.

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lizing Network’s three-day meeting on restorative justice issues, said the question now is “whether we will continue to allow this practice of mass caging to define who we are.”

She outlined four “pillars” that should “guide all of our responses to violence.” First, Sered said, “our response to violence should be survivor-centered,” she said. “We actually rarely listen to crime survivors.”

A crime survivor herself, Sered said, “We feel fear so intrusive and all-consuming (that) we will be unable to sleep, and when we are able to sleep, we will awaken with nightmares. Our rage will make us unrecognizable not only to those we love but also to ourselves.”

While “we cannot abide the idea of going through it again” by reliving the experience at a trial and sentencing of the perpetrator, “we cannot abide the idea of someone else going through what we went through,” she added.

WASHINGTON – In a Mass for All Saints’ Day at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, Cardinal-designate Wilton D. Gregory said the Nov. 1 feast day was a reminder and an invitation that all people are called to be saints by living everyday lives of holiness.

“God’s mercy and God’s compassion continue to invite all of us to holiness and salvation,” Washington’s archbishop said in his homily.

He said the day’s first reading from the Book of Revelation offered St. John’s mystical vision of heaven, filled with wonder that should offer hope to today’s faithful, as a number of people beyond human counting are united with God for eternity. He compared that to the joyful, impromptu “flash mob” gatherings at public parks and malls that were regular occurrences before the coronavirus shutdown.

“The church suggests that all of us who are currently living are also invited to that banquet of life eternal as well,” he said, adding that All Saints’ Day “is a reminder as well as an invitation to believe that God’s saints are not just those the church formally canonizes or publicly identifies.”

He said “the ‘flash mob’ of God’s saints” are those known only to God who accepted his call to holiness, “are united with him in perfect love and happiness, and they fervently wait for us to join them.”

Washington’s archbishop stressed that those in heaven will include ordinary people, including family members, friends and neighbors who lived lives of faith and love.

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WASHINGTON – While the annual March for Life in Washington is still scheduled for Jan. 29, the crosscountry bus pilgrimages that have been at the heart of the event for decades are being decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Local events are being announced in lieu of the pilgrimages. Among the cancellations announced so far are pilgrimages sponsored by the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Each of them typically brings 200 or more marchers for visits of at least three days, reserving large blocks of hotel rooms.

“We did not come by this decision lightly,” the Buffalo Diocese said in a statement. “With the uncertain and ever-changing regulations due to COVID-19, bus capacity restrictions and traveling through other states, all to converge with other states around the

SPEAKER: INCARCERATION ‘A CENTRAL MORAL CHALLENGE’

WASHINGTON – Incarceration is “a central moral challenge of our time,” said Danielle Sered, the founding director of the restorative justice organization Common Justice.

“No nation in human history has jailed as many people as the United States has today,” she said.

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LEWES, Del. – When Father Brian S. Lewis celebrates Mass these days, it’s being filmed and uploaded to YouTube so that those who are self-isolating because of the increased spread of the coronavirus can worship along with him and his masked congregation at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church in Lewes.

When he consumes the Eucharist during Mass, he looks into the camera and receives it – not just for himself – but for all of the viewers who are unable to receive the body of Christ at the church.

It’s his way of connecting with his YouTube Mass worshippers who are observing “spiritual Communion” at a time when it isn’t possible for them to receive the sacrament.

“The people who are here at Mass – though they are wearing face masks and are participating in Mass in the safest way possible – are physically able to receive the Eucharist, the real presence of Christ, in a way that our virtual worshippers are not,” Father Lewis told Catholic News Service in a recent interview.

“We’re still limited as to how many people can attend Mass in the church safely,” he said. “So, not everyone is always able to come in here for Mass and there are other parishioners who for health reasons continue to worship by watching Mass on their television screens or computer monitors. That’s when ‘spiritual Communion’ is their best option.”

The global disruption to Mass attendance caused by COVID-19 – which for a time included the complete shutdown of churches in many areas – has renewed interest in the idea of “spiritual Communion,” a custom dating back centuries that has been encouraged by popes and saints throughout the church’s history.

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The priest embodied the order’s core principles of charity, unity and fraternity, he said. His holiness directed him toward parish life, “not away from it,” and did not separate him from others but “drew him to their lives,” because he knew his people’s hardships firsthand, Anderson added.

Blessed McGivney (1852-1890), the son of Irish immigrants, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and was ordained a priest in 1877 for what is now the Archdiocese of Hartford. As a parish priest , he worked to improve the condition of his 19th-century Irish immigrant community in Connecticut.

In 1882, while he was pastor at St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, Connecticut, he founded the Knights of Columbus to provide financial support for widows and orphans and to keep Catholic men and their families close to their faith at a time of widespread anti-Catholic bigotry.

He died of pneumonia complications at age 38 in 1890, during an outbreak of influenza known as the Russian flu in Thomaston, Connecticut. Some recent evidence, according to the Knights, indicates the outbreak may have been the result of a coronavirus.

The apostolic letter of beatification also announced Aug. 13 as the feast day for Blessed McGivney – the day between Aug. 12, the day he was born, and the date of his death, Aug. 14.

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Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time WISDOM 6:12-16 Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire; Whoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed, for he shall find her sitting by his gate. For taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence, and whoever for her sake keeps vigil shall quickly be free from care; because she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude.

PSALM 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory, For your kindness is a greater good than life; my lips shall glorify you.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus will I bless you while I live; lifting up my

hands, I will call upon your name. As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. I will remember you upon my couch, and through the night-watches I will meditate on you: You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus

we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words.

MATTHEW 25:1-13 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps. Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight, there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise ones replied, ‘No, for there may not be enough for us and you. Go instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves.’ While they went off to buy it, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went into the wedding feast with him.

Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came and said, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’

But he said in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”

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he parable in this Gospel from Matthew calls us to be always prepared to live responsibly before God. We hear of an invitation to join a wedding party, that is, an invitation to participate in the eternal joy of heaven.

In the Gospel, all 10 virgins go out to meet the bridegroom.

All 10 virgins participate in the role culturally assigned to them, but only half of them are really looking for the bridegroom. The other half are merely going through a routine. True vigilance, a true seeking for God, demands ongoing preparation.

How does Jesus illustrate the gift of achieving union with God and finding eternal joy?

With the image of a wedding, the moment of a couple’s DEACON greatest joy, the fulfillment of FAIVA PO’OI a lifetime of commitment and hope, the celebration of the community and families.

The high point of the 10 virgins’ wait was the ar-

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rival of the groom to the house of the bride so that he could claim her as his wife. Here, he was greeted by the group of virgins. Ancient literature tells us that sometimes the groom deliberately delayed his arrival to the bride’s house, sometimes even waiting until midnight! His prankish purpose was to catch the bridesmaids off guard.

Jesus used this familiar image to teach the people and us about his final coming. His final coming will catch some people off guard, just as the bridegroom’s arrival caught some of the virgins off guard. And so, we may interpret Jesus’ parable this way: The bridegroom represents Jesus. The wedding feast represents the eternal wedding feast of heaven when Jesus returns to claim his church as his eternal bride. The wise virgins represent those people who are prepared for Jesus’ coming. The foolish virgins represent those people who are unprepared for Jesus’ coming.

What constitutes preparation? What does the oil in the virgins’ lamps represent? We find the answer in The Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus compares the good deeds people do to the oil burning brightly in the lamps. Jesus says: “Your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly father.”

But how does today’s parable apply to our lives, right now, in a practical way? In one of his writings, author Richard Evans answers this question in a striking way. He calls our attention to those mothers who plan to make more time to enjoy their daughters more. Yet, they keep putting it off. He calls our attention to the fathers who are determined to know their sons better. Yet, they, too, keep putting it off. He tells us about those husbands and wives who plan to spend more time together in order to strengthen their marriage bond. They, too, postpone the effort! Then in a burst of emotion, Evans shouts: “When in the world are we going to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day, and it’s passing.” When are we going to stop putting things off?

In the parable of the 10 virgins, the message is very clear: If we continue to postpone our preparation for the coming of the Lord, just like the foolish virgins, we may be caught off guard. And Jesus may one day say to us what the bridegroom said to the foolish virgins: “Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.”

May our gathering at the Lord’s table bless us with his grace and help us to prepare for his coming.

DEACON FAIVA PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo.

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VATICAN CITY – When life is difficult and when one is mourning the passing of a loved one, it is time to pray for the gift of hope and the ability to say with the prophet Job, “I know that my redeemer lives,” Pope Francis said.

Celebrating Mass on the feast of All Souls, Nov. 2, the pope said that remembering loved ones who have died is a particularly important time to “hold tightly to the rope” of the anchor of hope, which is Christ.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced Pope Francis to forego his usual practice of celebrating Mass on the feast of All Souls in a cemetery – in Rome or nearby – with people who were visiting the graves of their loved ones.

Instead, he presided over a private Mass inside the Vatican, in the chapel of the Pontifical Teutonic College, then visited and blessed graves in the Teutonic Cemetery, which has existed since the Middle Ages and now is reserved mainly for the burial of German-speaking priests and members of religious orders.

Later, he went into the grotto of St. Peter’s Basilica to pray at the tombs of deceased popes.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran Basilica. 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.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor. Ti 2:1-8, 11-14. PS 37:3-4, 18 and 23, 27 and 29. Jn 14:23. Lk 17:7-10.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11: Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, bishop. Ti 3:1-7. PS 23:1b-3a, 3bc-4, 5, 6. 1 Thes 5:18. Lk 17:11-19.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12: Memorial of St. Josaphat, bishop and martyr. PHMN 7-20. PS 146:7, 8-9A, 9BC-10. JN 15:5. LK 17:20-25.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13: Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin. 2 JN 4-9. PS 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18. LK 21:28. LK 17:26-37.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14: Saturday of the Thirtysecond Week in Ordinary Time. 3 JN 5-8. PS 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. See 2 THES 2:14. LK 18:1-8.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. PRV 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31. PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. 1 THES 5:1-6. JN 15:4A, 5B. MT 25:14-30 or Mt 25:14-15, 19-21.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16: Monday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude, virgin.

RV 1:1-4; 2:1-5. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6. JN 8:12. LK 18:35-43.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17: Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious. RV 3:1-6, 14-22. PS 15:23A, 3BC-4AB, 5. 1 JN 4:10B. LK 19:1-10.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18: Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of the Dedication of the Churches of Peter and Paul, apostles; St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin.

Rv 4:1-11. PS 150:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. See Jn 15:16. Lk 19:11-28.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19: Thursday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time. RV 5:1-10. PS 149:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6A AND 9B. PS 95:8. LK 19:41-44.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20: Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time. RV 10:8-11. PS 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131. JN 10:27. LK 19:45-48.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21: Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Rv 11:4-12. PS 44:1, 2, 9-10. See 2 Tm 1:10. Lk 20:27-40.

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The prince of lies

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ooking at our world today, what frightens and unsettles me more than the threat of the COVID virus, more than the growing inequality between the rich and the poor, more than the dangers of climate change, and even more than the bitter hatred that now separates us from each other, is our loss of any sense of truth, our facile denial of whatever truths we judge to be inconvenient, and our slogans of “fake news,” “alternate facts,” and phantom conspiracies. Social media, for all the good it has brought, has also created a platform for anyone to make up his or her own FATHER RON truth and then work at eroding ROLHEISER the truths that bind us together and anchor our sanity. We now live in a world where two plus two often no longer equals four. This plays on our very sanity and has created a certain social insanity. The truths which anchor our common life are becoming unmoored.

This is evil, clearly, and Jesus alerts us to that by telling us that Satan is preeminently the prince of lies.

Lying is the ultimate spiritual, moral, and psychological danger. It lies at the root of what Jesus calls the “unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit.” What’s this sin and why is it unforgivable?

Here’s the context within which Jesus warns us about this sin: He had just cast out a demon. The religious leaders of the time believed as a dogma in their

faith that only someone who came from God could cast out a demon. Jesus had just cast out a demon, but their hatred of him made this a very inconvenient truth for them to swallow. So, they chose to deny what they knew to be true, to deny reality. They chose to lie, affirming (even as they knew better) that Jesus had done it by the power of Beelzebub. Initially Jesus tried to point out the illogic of their position, but they persisted. It’s then that he issued his warning about the unforgivable sin against the Holy Spirit. At that time he’s not accusing them of committing that sin, but he’s warning them that the path they are on, if not corrected, can lead to that sin. In essence, he’s saying this: If we tell a lie long enough, eventually we will believe it and this so warps our conscience that we begin to see truth as falsehood and falsehood as truth. The sin then becomes unforgivable because we no longer want to be forgiven nor indeed will accept forgiveness. God is willing to forgive the sin but we are unwilling to accept forgiveness because we see sin as good and goodness as sin. Why would we want forgiveness?

It’s possible to end up in this state, a state wherein we judge the gifts of the Holy Spirit (charity, joy, peace, patience, goodness, endurance, fidelity, mildness, and chastity) as false, as being against life, as a malevolent naiveté. And the first step in moving toward this condition is lying, refusing to acknowledge the truth. The subsequent steps also are lying, that is, the continued refusal to accept the truth so that eventually we believe our own lies and we see them as the truth and the truth as a lie. Bluntly put, that’s what constitutes hell.

Hell isn’t a place where one is sorrowful, repentant, and begging God for just one more chance to make

things right. Nor is hell ever a nasty surprise waiting for an essentially honest person. If there’s anyone in hell, that person is there in arrogance, pitying people in heaven, seeing heaven as hell, darkness as light, falsehood as truth, evil as goodness, hatred as love, empathy as weakness, arrogance as strength, sanity as insanity, and God as the devil.

One of the central lessons in the Gospels is this: Lying is dangerous, the most dangerous of all sins.

And this doesn’t just play out in terms of our relationship with God and the Holy Spirit. When we lie we’re not only playing fast and loose with God, we’re also playing fast and loose with our own sanity. Our sanity is contingent on what classical theology terms the “oneness” of God. What this means in lay terms is that God is consistent. There are no contradictions inside of God and because of that, reality can also be trusted to be consistent. Our sanity depends on that trust. For instance, should we ever arrive at a day where two plus two no longer equals four, then the very underpinnings of our sanity will be gone; we’ll literally be unmoored. Our personal sanity and our social sanity depend upon the truth, upon us acknowledging the truth, upon us telling the truth, and upon two plus two forever equaling four.

Martin Luther once said: Sin boldly! He meant a lot of things by that, but one thing he certainly did mean is that the ultimate spiritual and moral danger is to cover our weaknesses with lies because Satan is the prince of lies!

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Pope calls for civil union law for same-sex couples

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omosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable because of it. What we must create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered.”

(Pope Francis, from the film “Francesco”) This statement of Pope Francis has been described in major news outlets as a bombshell, firestorm, shock, and disaster.

Both secular and ecclesiastical critics accuse the pope of diluting church doctrine and FATHER GERALD contradicting church teaching about same sex unions.

D. COLEMAN, PSS As part of the 2020 Rome Film Festival, “Francesco” was premiered on Oct. 21, 2020 and released in the United States on Oct. 25, 2020. The film is a documentary on the life and ministry of Pope Francis. Evgeny Afinssevsky, the documentarian, is a Russian-born Israel-American film director, producer, and cinematographer who lives in the United States. He began work on “Francesco” in 2018, finishing the film in June 2020. In 2015, he was nominated for both an Academy Award and an Emmy Award for “Winter on Fire,” a documentary that chronicled Ukraine’s 2013 and 2014 Euromaidan protests. His 2017 film “Cries from Syria” was nominated for four News

and Documentary Emmy Awards and three Critics’ Choice Awards.

On Oct. 22, 2020 the Italian Ministry of Culture presented him in the Vatican Gardens with the prestigious Kineo Movie for Humanity Award which recognizes filmmakers who present social and humanitarian issues through filmmaking.

Afineevsky has expressed surprise at the stir created by the pope’s remarks on civil unions as “Frances wasn’t trying to change doctrine but was merely expressing his belief that gay people should enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals.” On Oct. 21, 2020 Jesuit Father Anthony Spadaro, editor-in-chief of the Jesuit-affiliated journal La Civilta Cattolica, similarly told the television channel of the Italian bishops’ conference that “in no way did the pope’s remarks affect doctrine.”

While the pope’s reflections about civil unions are attracting international attention, the film itself chronicles Francis’ pastoral approach to a number of pressing social issues and displays his words and actions to those who are “on the existential peripheries,” for example, migrants, refugees, the poor, victims of clerical sexual abuse.

His remarks about homosexual persons are nothing new. In 2010, while he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, he publicly opposed efforts to legalize same sex marriage. In the 2013 book “On Heaven and Earth,” conversations between Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio and rabbi Abraham Skorka, however, he did not reject the possibility of civil unions, but strongly rejected laws that equated same sex unions with

marriage. He called such “assimilation” an “anthropological regression.”

Opponents of Francis’ comments on the possibility of recognition of civil unions for homosexual people cite the 2003 document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons.” The context for this letter is stated in paragraph 1: The need of “protecting and promoting the dignity of marriage, the foundation of the family, and the stability of society.”

The document quotes the Catechism of the Catholic Church that “men and women with homosexual tendencies must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided” (no. 2258).

At the same time, the congregation expressed concern that “where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty” (no. 5). The congregation’s fundamental concern is that such recognition too easily will make civil unions “analogous to those granted to marriage” (no. 6). The pope’s remarks in “Francesco” are interpreted wrongly if one thinks he is attempting to compromise the church’s longstanding beliefs about the sacredness of marriage. His comments in 2010 and 2013 show that this is not the case.

I’m not gainsaying the appropriateness of the exorcisms in San Rafael and San Francisco, but I’m concerned about the public relations fallout, and public perception is no trivial matter. People might well think the church sees demons behind every door. “What can you expect from some-

thing out of the Dark Ages?” I can hear them say.

Perhaps there exists a simpler rite of purification of some sort that could serve as an acceptable substitute.

Michael Biehl San Francisco

SULPICIAN FATHER GERALD COLEMAN is adjunct professor, Graduate Department of Pastoral Ministries, Santa Clara University

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It has come to my attention that across the nation and in this (arch)diocese the message “you cannot be a Catholic and a Democrat” is being spread via the homilies. Outrageous! Un-American. Shame.

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Given the hot, Halloweenish imagery conjured up in the public’s mind by the word “exorcism,” I wonder if the archbishop’s actions might not make him and the church look slightly ridiculous.

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Three models of priestly goodness

he pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time may remind us what 20th-century heroes of the faith in underground churches endured, and what 21st-century confessors in China and elsewhere endure today; and that is no bad thing.

Still, it is very, very hard to GEORGE WEIGEL be the Catholic Church without being a vibrantly eucharistic church.

That’s true for everyone. The people of the church should realize that it’s especially true for priests.

Priests who live out their priesthood as the Catholic Church understands that unique vocation –- as an icon of the eternal priesthood of Jesus Christ, the church’s spouse – miss their eucharistic congregations terribly. They have dedicated their lives to nourishing the flock, and to be unable to do so as they did eight months ago is a constant sorrow. Pastors are also bearing heavier financial burdens these days as donations shrink. Then there are the serious challenges involved in keeping parochial schools afloat under today’s public health circumstances.

No man entering the seminary after the Long Lent of the 2002 and the sexual abuse crisis could imagine he

There being neither rivalry nor jealousy in the heavenly Jerusalem, it is easy to imagine Fathers Morrow and Tighe celebrating Father McGivney’s beatification with him. May these three great American priests intercede for us all. was embracing an easy life; but no one expected this.

All the more reason, then, to celebrate the Oct. 31 beatification of an exceptional parish priest, Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, who died during the pandemic of 1890.

He was born in 1852 to immigrant parents and his brief life coincided with the greatest period of expansion in U.S. Catholic history. That expansion also helped define his heroic ministry – and his genius. America in the late 19th century had nothing remotely resembling the social safety net created since the New Deal. Immigrant and firstgeneration families who lost their sole wage-earner could find themselves in desperate straits. In collaboration with Catholic lay leaders in New Haven, Connecticut, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus in 1882 and created a new model of Catholic pastoral action: a fraternal organization that would provide for the spiritual and material needs of its members while serving the bereft, the indigent, and those foundering in their new homeland. Catholicism has been one of the great integrators of immigrants in

American history, and no small credit for that is due to the Knights.

McGivney’s Knights also anticipated the Second Vatican Council in its teaching that the lay vocation in the world is just that: a vocation, a divine calling to live out the Great Commission given every Catholic in baptism: “Go and make disciples….” (Matthew 28:19). Following Father McGivney’s lead, the Knights have been a force for evangelization as well as charity, even as they have provided major philanthropic support to many Catholic initiatives, including Vatican communications. In the public arena, the Knights’ recent robust defense of religious freedom follows the example of their work for racial justice. Knights of Columbus chapters on nominally Catholic campuses today provide young men serious about their Catholicism with a means of evangelizing their peers while nurturing their own faith.

Father Michael McGivney’s beatification is a blessing for the organization he founded and inspired; it is also a compliment paid by the universal church to the parish priests of the United States. Two of the finest were called home to the Lord in recent

months, and while there is no way of knowing whether they will eventually follow Blessed Michael McGivney into the church’s liturgical calendar, their memory is already firmly lodged in the hearts of the people they served, and they stand as further models of priestly goodness.

One of his admirers told me that, were it not for the pandemic, the entire city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, might have turned out in May for the funeral of Father Dennis Morrow, so beloved was this pastor, police, and fire department chaplain. I knew Den Morrow in college and he remained a rock of Catholic faith for the next 50 years. Father Philip Tighe came to the seminary after a business career, and it was clear from the deacon year he served in my Maryland parish that he would be a superb priest, eager to lead others in the adventure of orthodoxy –- which I happily observed him doing when he became my daughter’s family’s pastor in North Carolina. His Aug. 31 death deprived the Diocese of Raleigh of an exceptional spiritual leader.

There being neither rivalry nor jealousy in the heavenly Jerusalem, it is easy to imagine Fathers Morrow and Tighe celebrating Father McGivney’s beatification with him. May these three great American priests intercede for us all.

GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C

Is mandating a COVID-19 vaccine ethical?

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irginia health commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told a local news station in August 2020 that he planned to mandate COVID-19 immunizations for Virginians once a vaccine becomes available to the public. The following day, the governor, Ralph Northam, pulled rank on the commissioner and announced there would be no vaccine mandate after all. The Health Department walked back the commissioner’s earlier comFATHER TADEUSZ ments while the PACHOLCZYK governor’s office issued a statement focusing on vaccine accessibility and fair distribution, not a mandate.

Virginia law, nevertheless, does empower the commissioner to issue a vaccine mandate under certain conditions. Virginia has a religious exemption for vaccines generally, but not if the state declares an “emergency or epidemic of any disease of public health importance for which a vaccine exists.” In the emergency situation, the only exemption would be for serious medical reasons, i.e. the vaccine would be detrimental to the health of the recipient, as certified by a physician.

State legislators have been pushing to update the Virginia law to include a religious exemption in an emergency declaration.

MAKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS

It is Catholic teaching that one must follow one’s informed judgment of conscience even if one is in error because the conscience is our last best judgment about what is right or wrong.

The contentious discussions in Virginia raise broader questions about vaccine mandates and exemptions.

It can be helpful to distinguish local vaccine mandates from universal ones.

A local mandate means an immunization is required for services or employment, insisting, for example, that children be vaccinated prior to admission to the local school, or workers in a hospital system be compliant with Centers for Disease Control immunization schedules as a condition for employment.

A universal mandate, meanwhile, involves a demand that all residents of a particular geographical area, such as a township, county, state or country be immunized.

Generally speaking, vaccinations should not be universally mandated, considering the unique manner in which a vaccine can impose itself upon the inner workings of the human body, and in consideration of the potentially complex set of risks that may accrue.

Especially for newly developed vaccines with uncertain profiles of efficacy, adverse events, and long-term consequences, universal mandates are ethically problematic.

Only in the face of a highly virulent and deadly pathogen, with few or no alternative treatments available – and it would be doubtful whether any vaccine for COVID-19 could ever qualify in this way – might a broader, universal-type mandate become justifiable.

Even in such high risk situations, however, only a “soft universal mandate” would be justifiable, one that allowed for at least three exemptions to be liberally available to the populace: a conscience exemption, a religious exemption, and as noted earlier, a medical exemption. These exceptions provide the basis for appropriate “opt outs” to occur, and for basic human freedoms to be duly safeguarded.

A local vaccine mandate to ensure the safety of a school or work environment can be acceptable, and not unduly coercive, in part because no one is compelled to seek employment in the field of healthcare, nor to be educated in one specific school setting. Also, exemptions are oftentimes available within schools or certain healthcare settings.

How would a religious exemption differ from a conscience exemption?

A religious exemption would apply if the teachings of the faith of the individual to be vaccinated held that vaccines in general were immoral and contrary to God’s will, as might be the case for members of the Christian Science Church founded by Mary Baker Eddy. Since there is no Catholic teaching that the reception of vaccines, including those that rely on fetal cell lines from abortions that happened long ago, is sinful, Catholics cannot claim a religious exemption from the requirement of immunization.

A conscience exemption, meanwhile, would refer to the situation in which an

individual in conscience believed that it was immoral to be vaccinated.

Some individuals might claim a conscience exemption if they were convinced, even following extensive safety and efficacy testing, that the risks of being inoculated outweighed the potential benefits.

It is Catholic teaching that one must follow one’s informed judgment of conscience even if one is in error because the conscience is our last best judgment about what is right or wrong.

Some Catholics might claim a conscience exemption out of a mistaken but sincerely held conviction that vaccinations themselves are always wrong, or that it is always immoral to receive vaccines made out of cell lines from abortions when that is the only option available.

Some states and jurisdictions do not distinguish between religious and conscience exemptions. They only make available a religious exemption, by which they often intend to include and subsume under the same heading the exercise of conscientious objection.

In sum, state-sponsored or legislative coercion through a universal vaccine mandate raises ethical concerns, especially when appropriate exemptions are unavailable.

Health officials should instead seek to educate those under their authority, through careful and patient explanation, about the importance of receiving a vaccine, so they might freely choose to do so on their own initiative.

FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK, PH.D, is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Pope Francis endorses civil union laws for same-sex couples CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis often has expressed openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions, including for gay couples, to protect their rights.

The pope’s comments in a brief passage in the documentary film, “Francesco,” are similar to the position he took while archbishop of Buenos Aires and echo remarks he has made in several interviews during his pontificate: “Marriage” is only between a man and a woman, but civil union laws could provide legal protection for couples in long-term, committed relationships.

Speaking in Spanish in the film, Pope Francis says, “Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it.

What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered.”

The film premiered in Rome Oct. 21.

In a statement published Oct. 21, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said bishops from California, Hawaii and Nevada discussed civil unions with the pope during their “ad limina” visit to Rome last January.

“The Holy Father clearly differentiated between a civil arrangement which accords D I mutual S T benefits I N to CtwoT people, and marriage. The former, he said, can in no way be equated to marriage, which remains unique,” he said.

Archbishop Cordileone added “a civil union of this type (one which is not equated to marriage) should be as inclusive as possible, and not be restricted to two people of the same sex in a presumed sexual relationship. There is no reason, for example, why a brother and a sister, both of whom are unmarried and support each other, should not have access to these kinds of benefits.

“Marriage is unique because it is the only institution that connects children to their mothers and fathers, and therefore is presumed to be a sexual relationship.

Indeed, the sexual relationship that marriage is presumed to involve is the only kind by which children are naturally made. The nature of marriage, the place of

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Pope Francis speaks with Valentina Alazraki of the Mexican television station Televisa during an interview that aired in May 2019. Clips, apparently cut from the interview and showing Pope Francis talking about civil unions, is used in the documentary D “Francesco” by Evgeny Afineevsky.

sex within a virtuous life, these great teachings of the church come to us from God, are illuminated by reason, and do not change,” he said.

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In a 2019 interview on Mexican television, he was asked about his opposition to gay marriage in Argentina and his openness to LGBT people as pope.

“I have always defended doctrine,” he said. “It is a contradiction to speak of homosexual marriage.”

But he also told the interviewer, “Homosexual persons have a right to be in the family; persons with a homosexual orientation have a right to be in the family and parents have the right to recognize a son or daughter as

homosexual; you cannot throw anyone out of the family, nor make life impossible for them.”

In “A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society,” a book-length series of conversations with the French sociologist Dominique Wolton, the two spoke about gay marriage and civil unions in the context of a discussion about tradition, modernity and truth. “’Marriage’ is a historical word,” the pope said, in the book published in French in 2017. “Forever, throughout humanity and not only in the church, it’s been between a man and a woman. You can’t change it just like that.

It’s the nature of things. That’s how they are. So, let’s call them ‘civil unions.’”

In a 2014 interview published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis was asked about moves across Europe to legalize gay marriage or adopt civil union laws.

“Marriage is between a man and a woman,” he said.

I “Secular S T states I N want C toTvalidate I V civil E unions L Y to regulate U N I different situations of cohabitation, driven by the need to regulate economic aspects between people, such as ensuring health care. These are cohabitation pacts of various kinds, of which I could not list the different forms.”

“It is necessary to see the different cases and evaluate them in their variety,” he said, implying that some forms of civil unions would be acceptable.

According to “The Great Reformer,” a biography of Pope Francis by Austen Ivereigh, then-Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio went head-to-head with the government in 2010 when it began a drive to legalize gay marriage.

“He told a Catholic gay activist, a former theology professor named Marcelo Marquez, that he favored gay rights as well as legal recognition for civil unions,” Ivereigh wrote. “But he was utterly opposed to any attempt to redefine marriage in law.”

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Vatican extends provisional agreement with China on naming bishops CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and the Chinese government will extend an agreement signed in 2018 regarding the appointment of bishops.

As the initial agreement expired Oct. 22, the two sides “have agreed to extend the experimental implementation phase of the provisional agreement for another two years,” the Vatican said in a communique the same day.

“The Holy See considers the initial application of the agreement – which is of great ecclesial and pastoral value – to have been positive, thanks to good communication and cooperation between the parties on the matters agreed upon, and intends to pursue an open and constructive dialogue for the benefit of the life of the Catholic Church and the good of Chinese people,” it said.

The agreement was first signed in Beijing Sept. 22, 2018, and took effect one month later.

The provisional agreement, the text of which has never been made public, outlines procedures for ensuring Catholic bishops are elected by the Catholic community in China and approved by the pope before their ordinations and installations, according to news reports at the time.

Vatican officials always had said that giving up full control over the choice of bishops would not be what the Vatican hoped for, but that it could be a good first step toward ensuring greater freedom and security for the Catholic community in China.

Pope Francis told reporters in September 2018 that the agreement envisions “a dialogue about potential

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A well-wisher is pictured in a file photo kissing the ring of Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin following his episcopal ordination at St. Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai. The Vatican and China have agreed to extend provisional agreement signed two years ago regarding the appointment of bishops. candidates. The matter is carried out through dialogue. But the appointment is made by Rome; the appointment is by the pope. This is clear. And we pray for the suffering of some who do not understand or who have many years of clandestine existence behind them.”

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published an article Oct. 22 explaining the motivations for and objectives of the provisional agreement.

But the article also said it is important to recognize many situations of “great suffering” still exist for the faithful in China.

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“The journey is still long and not without difficulty,” it added.

While some political leaders have scrutinized the pact through a merely geopolitical lens, it said, for the Holy See, the agreement centered on conforming with the two principles: “Where Peter is, there is the church,” in reference to the primacy of the pope as bishop of Rome; and “Where there is the bishop, there is the church.”

The special role of the pontiff in the naming of bishops and among the community of bishops is what “inspired the talks and was the reference point in drawing up the text’s agreement,” the article said. “That will assure, bit by bit along the way, both the unity in faith and communion among the bishops, and

full service fostering the Catholic community in China.”

The agreement has meant that, for the first time in decades, all of the Catholic bishops in China are in full communion with the pope and there will no longer be illegitimate ordinations, that is, bishops ordained with government approval, but not the Vatican’s consent.

In the two years since the agreement was first signed, two bishops acceptable both to the Vatican and to Beijing have been named and a number of other appointments are at various stages, the article said.

While that does not seem to be a big number, it said, it still marks a very good beginning in the hopes of continued positive results.

The main objective, it said, is to “support and promote the proclamation of the Gospel in these lands, reinvigorating the full and visible unity of the church.”

As top Vatican officials have already underlined, the article said the agreement focused only on the nomination of bishops, not the many other issues and situations that remain and “still cause concern for the church.”

It would be impossible to confront every issue at the same time, it said, which is why the provisional agreement also represents a starting point for broader and “forward-thinking” agreements in the future.

The current “experimental” agreement is the product of “an open and constructive dialogue,” it added.

Dialogue that is fostered by respect and friendship “is intensely desired and promoted by the Holy Father,” it said.

“Pope Francis is well aware of the wounds brought to the communion of the church in the past, and, after many years of long negotiations begun and pursued by his predecessors and in undeniable continuity with their thinking, he has reestablished full communion with Chinese bishops ordained without papal mandate and has authorized the signing of the agreement on the naming of bishops, the draft of which had been already approved of by Pope Benedict XVI.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 5, 2020

French bishops order ‘death knell’ after three killed in Nice basilica SIMON CALDWELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANCHESTER, England – French bishops ordered a “death knell” to ring from every church of their country Oct. 29 after three people were hacked to death in a basilica in the southern Mediterranean city of Nice.

Churches were asked to chime their bells at 3 p.m. in an act of mourning for three people who were killed in Nice’s Notre Dame Basilica while preparing for morning Mass.

Pope Francis sent a tweet expressing closeness to the people of Nice. “I pray for the victims, for their families and for the beloved French people, that they may respond to evil with good,” it said.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, sent a similar message from Pope Francis in a telegram to Bishop André Marceau of Nice. “Entrusting France to the protection of Our Lady,” Pope Francis “wholeheartedly gives his apostolic blessing to all those affected by this tragedy,” the telegram added.

The French Council of Muslim Worship condemned the killings and asked Muslims to express their “mourning and solidarity with the victims and their relatives” by canceling all celebrations of the birthday of Muhammad, which this year is marked by Sunni Muslims Oct. 29.

According to French media, the victims included a 70-year-old woman whose body was found by police “almost beheaded” beside a holy water font.

A 45-year-old sacristan, Vincent

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Police stand near Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France, Oct. 29, 2020, after at least three people were killed in a series of stabbings before Mass. France raised its alert level to maximum after the attack.

Loques, a father of two daughters, was found dead in the basilica.

A second woman, described as African in origin and in her 30s, fled the church after she was stabbed, but died in the nearby cafe where she had sought refuge.

Police shot and wounded a man in his 20s who was suspected of the attack, and he was arrested and taken to hospital for treatment.

The suspect was later identified as Brahim Aouissaoui, 21, a Tunisian who entered France via Lampedusa, an Italian island between Malta and Tunisia, at the end of September. He arrived in France after he was quarantined by Ital-

ian authorities and ordered to leave all Italian territory.

Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said the attacker “kept shouting Allahu akbar (Arabic for God is great) even after being medicated.” The mayor said “the meaning of his gesture is not in doubt.”

“Enough is enough,” he told journalists. “It’s time now for France to exonerate itself from the laws of peace in order to definitively wipe out Islamo-fascism from our territory.”

French police have confirmed they are treating the killings as a terrorist incident.

It comes amid mounting anger of Muslims at President Emmanuel Macron’s defense of satirical cartoons of Muhammad, the founder of Islam.

Two hours after the attack, police shot dead a man who was brandishing a handgun and shouting “Allahu akbar” in the southern city of Avignon. The same day, a guard at the French consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was stabbed by a 40-year-old attacker, who was then apprehended.

The evening of Oct. 29, Prime Minister Jean Castex was due to meet Bishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, president of the bishops’ conference, and Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris to discuss security measures needed to guarantee the safety of Catholics, especially in the run-up to All Saints’ Day Nov. 1.

In a statement posted on the website of the Archdiocese of Paris, Archbishop Aupetit said he was “stunned by this murderous madness in the name of God.” “God has revealed himself to be a God of love,” he said. “Murder in his name is the real one, the only blasphemy, an insult to who he is.

“From the beginning, Christians have been persecuted, and even today it is they who, although they preach and live the love of God and of neighbor together, pay the heaviest price in hatred and barbarism,” he added.

The French bishops said in a statement they had been plunged into “immense sadness.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 5, 2020

POPE RECOGNIZES MARTYRDOM OF LEBANESE PRIESTS KILLED UNDER OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of nine men and women, including two Lebanese priests martyred under the Ottoman Empire.

Father Leonard Melki and Father Thomas Saleh were Capuchin friars and missionaries in what is now Turkey who were arrested, tortured, and martyred by the forces of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and 1917 respectively.

Melki was given a choice: convert to Islam and be freed, or die as a Christian. Refusing to apostatize, the Lebanese priest was forced to march with more than 400 Christian prisoners into the desert, where he was killed “in hatred of the faith” on June 11, 1915, alongside the Armenian Catholic archbishop Blessed Ignatius Maloyan, who was beatified by John Paul II in 2001.

Saleh was arrested and sentenced to death after giving shelter to an Armenian priest during the Armenian genocide. Before his death, he said: “I have full trust in God, I am not afraid of death,” according to the Capuchin Order in Lebanon.

Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of Melki and Saleh on Oct. 28, as well as that of two other martyrs: Father Luigi Lenzini, who was killed in Italy in 1945, and Brazilian Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos, who was murdered in 1982 at the age of 20 for resisting rape.

Following a meeting with Cardinal-designate Marcello Semeraro, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the pope also approved miracles attributed to three founders of religious orders.

Blessed Father Giustino Maria Russolillo (18911955) can now be canonized after the pope approved a second miracle attributed to his intercession, involving the healing in 2016 of a religious with serious respiratory damage belonging to the order he founded in Naples, according to Vatican News.

Russolillo was a parish priest in Naples who was highly regarded as a spiritual director and preacher. He founded the Society of Divine Vocations, also known as the Vocationist Fathers, and the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Vocations.

POPE: FIGHT AGAINST VATICAN CORRUPTION WILL CONTINUE

Pope Francis has said more changes are on the horizon as the Vatican continues to combat financial corruption inside its walls, but he is cautious about success.

Speaking to Italian news agency AdnKronos this week, Pope Francis said corruption is a deep, recurrent problem in the history of the Church, which he is trying to counter with “small, but concrete steps.”

“Unfortunately, corruption is a cyclical story, it repeats itself, then someone comes along to clean and tidy up, but then it starts again waiting for someone else to come and put an end to this degeneration,” he said in the interview, published Oct. 30.

“I know I have to do it, I was called to do it, then the Lord will say if I did well or if I did wrong. Honestly, I’m not very optimistic,” he smiled.

Pope Francis said “there are no particular strategies” to how the Vatican is fighting corruption.

“The tactic is banal, simple, to go forward and to not stop. You have to take small but concrete steps.”

He pointed to changes made over the last five years, stating that more changes will be made “very soon.”

“We went to dig into finances, we have new leaders at the IOR, in short, I had to change many things and many will change very soon,” he said.

The interview came as the Vatican City tribunal is reportedly investigating various financial scandals and allegations connected to the former curial official Cardinal Angelo Becciu.

Becciu’s lawyers deny he has been contacted by Vatican authorities.

On Sept. 24, Becciu was asked by Pope Francis to resign from his Vatican job and from the rights of cardinals following reports alleging that he used millions of euros of Vatican charity funds in speculative and risky investments, including loans for projects owned and operated by Becciu’s brothers.

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“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, the injured, their families and loved ones,” the statement said. “It was because they were in the basilica that these people were attacked, murdered. They represented a symbol to be destroyed.”

The bishops said the attack reminded them of “the martyrdom” of Father Jacques Hamel, a priest hacked to death in his Normandy church by Islamic militants in 2016.

“Through these horrific acts, our entire country is affected,” they said in the statement. “This terrorism aims to instill anxiety throughout our society. It is urgent that this gangrene be stopped, as it is urgent that we find the indispensable fraternity which will hold us all upright in the face of these threats.

“Despite the pain gripping them, Catholics refuse to give in to fear and, with the whole nation, want to face this treacherous and blind threat,” the bishops added.

Bishop Marceau responded to the attack by ordering the instant closure of all of the churches in the city and declaring them to be under police protection.

“All my prayers go out to the victims, their loved ones, the law enforcement agencies on the front lines of this tragedy, priests and faithful wounded in their faith and hope,” said Bishop Marceau. “May Christ’s spirit of forgiveness prevail in the face of these barbaric acts.”

He said the dead were “victims of a heinous terrorist act” that followed “the savage murder of Professor Samuel Paty,” a Paris teacher who was beheaded Oct. 16 by a Muslim migrant after he showed satirical cartoons of Muhammad to school children in a lesson about free speech.

The cartoons were first published in 2012 in Charlie Hebdo, a magazine that has since been the target of three terrorist attacks, one of which in 2015 claimed the lives of 12 staff members.

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Strengthening Catholic identity in schools has two facets: strategy and formation of the formators. In this context, strategy identifies the way academics, spiritual and moral norms and practices, and religious activities work together to reinforce Catholic practice and understanding.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Director participates in the DCS-sponsored systems

review process for archdiocesan Catholic high schools and directs the Catholic identity component of the assessment. Each high school undergoes a full assessment every four years and submits a written report of progress annually.

The Office of Catholic Identity Assessment also provides workshops, sessions, and seminars designed to develop the expertise of teachers and administrators in molding Catholic culture in their institutions.

The Director will also be responsible for undertaking special interventions requested by either the archbishop or the boards and/or presidents of the various Catholic high schools.

The Director also works collaboratively with the Superintendent of Catholic Schools, participates in their staff meetings and keeps the Superintendent of Catholic Schools and her staff informed about any activities or new initiatives being undertaken by the Office. The Director also works closely with the assistant superintendents for faith formation, religious instruction, and accreditation.

REQUIREMENTS: Advanced degree in education or a related field and experience working in the areas of Catholic identity and culture and assessment.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: The Director of Catholic Identity Assessment and Formation reports to the Moderator of the Curia and closely aligns his/her activities with the Archdiocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools.

FOR APPLICATION AND FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

Please submit cover letter, resume and a completed application to Christine Escobar, Human Resources Manager at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 or email: escobarc@sfarch.org All employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal history.

Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2021-2022 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment.

The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to:

Christine Escobar Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Salary will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental, and retirement benefits are included.

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco adheres to the following policy: “All school staff of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)

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OBITUARIES LES MCDONALD

Les McDonald, a longtime presence in Bay Area real estate and as a part of the property management arm of the Archdiocese of San Francisco died Oct. 17, 2020. He was 80 years old. McDonald grew up in San Francisco’s Mission district where again he lived for the last 20 years.

“It’s not work if you love what you do,” was cited by his family as Les McDonald a popular adage of the man they said, “dedicated himself to helping anyone and everyone he could.” Friendships gave him great joy, his family said, with some going back to childhood.

Msgr. Harry Schlitt, now retired and who at one time headed archdiocesan operations, was instrumental in bringing McDonald onboard at the archdiocese as director of property management 30 years ago. “It didn’t take Les long to acquaint himself with every property in all three counties of the ADSF,” Msgr. Schlitt said in a remembrance circulated by email to archdiocesan staff. “This was quite an expansive assignment because of the many churches, rectories, schools, and other properties of the Catholic community.”

Msgr. Schlitt said McDonald always had “a very cold Diet Coke” within his reach. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were another of his favorites. “When it was time to eat, a bowl of soup, another Diet Coke and another peanut butter cup would suffice,” Msgr. Schlitt said. “He was never hungry as long as he knew those two mainstays were there for him.”

McDonald was happy to help when called upon, Msgr. Schlitt said. “I can’t tell you how many people who worked for the archdiocese were able to find a place to live, a used car, a place to go for family help and assistance with other little requests that they presented to me. It was a relief for me as vicar general that I could say, ‘Let’s give Les a call, I’ll bet he’ll be able to help.’”

In closing, Msgr. Schlitt said: “In this time of COVID-19 when we hear how difficult it is for those who are dying because they cannot breathe, our friend Les has now taken his last and deepest breath. Let us pray for him! God has taken his spirit to heaven. Breath no longer needed. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed breathe in peace!”

Survivors include McDonald’s children Janice

FATHER ROBERT WALSH, SJ

Jesuit Father Robert Walsh died Oct.24, 2020 at his order’s Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he had been struggling for some time with his health.

Father Walsh served as president of the Jesuits’ St. Ignatius College Preparatory from 2006 to 2012. He was 70 years old.

Father Walsh grew up in Daly City attending Our Lady of Mercy Father Robert School and later St. Ignatius from Walsh, SJ where he joined the Society of Jesus after graduating in 1968.

“After his ordination in 1980, Father Walsh served as a priest, teacher, novice director, campus minister and administrator, including at SI, where he served as campus minister in the 1980s,” Jesuit Father Edward Reese, current SI president, said in a statement. Father Walsh also served at schools including the Jesuits’ Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he was the director of the Center for Catholic Education before becoming chancellor.

“Before his death, Father Walsh expressed how much at peace he was and especially how grateful he was being surrounded by his brother Jesuits,” Father Reese said.

Survivors include Father Walsh’s mother, Maryjane, and brothers, all SI alumni, Jim (Diane), Paul (Barbara), and Greg (Mary). Father Walsh’s late father, Jim, graduated from SI in 1940.

A memorial service for Father Walsh will be held in SI’s Orradre Chapel once large gatherings are again permitted, Father Reese said.

Remembrances may be sent to Family of Father Robert Walsh, SJ, c/o Office of the President, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, 2001 37th Ave., San Francisco, 94116.

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MONDAY, NOV. 16: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: Third Monday of each month, currently on Zoom led

by Father Cameron Faller. Register at SFPriest.org/events.

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MONDAY, DEC. 7: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: First Monday of each month, 6:15-8:30 p.m.. Currently on Zoom led by Father Thomas Martin.

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THUR.-SAT., NOV. 5-7: Adult Confirmation Classes: Classes to prepare adults 17-years-old and older for the Sacrament of Confirmation which will be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral Nov. 21.

Applications to Sister Celeste Arbuckle in the Office of Faith Formation Nov. 29.

Email arbucklec@sfarch.org or call (415) 614-5650 for more information.

LITURGY WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11 - PUBLIC EVENT: Annual Veterans Day Prayer Service: An outdoor prayer service at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma led by Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, chaplain COL USAF (Ret.), and chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Rain will cancel this event. Visit holycrosscemeteries.com or call (650)756-2060.

LEARNING MONDAYS, NOV. 2, 9, 16, 23: ‘Racism - The Struggle for the Soul of a Nation:’ A four-part online series hosted by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose.

Presented by Father Thomas C. Bonacci, C.P., executive director of the Interfaith Peace Project. 7-8:30 p.m. Attend one or all four. msjdominicans.org/events.

FRI.-SAT., NOV. 6-7: ‘Medicine, Bioethics and Spirituality Conference:’ Health care Professionals for Divine Mercy are hosting a virtual conference open to healthcare professionals and anyone interested in healthcare. Register

SUNDAY, NOV. 8: Mission Dolores Basilica Organ Concert: Chase Olsen on organ, live streamed at 4 p.m. Contact Jerome Link, (415) 621-8203, music@ missiondolores.org or facebook.com/ missiondoloressf.

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MILESTONES SUNDAY, DEC. 6: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael 170th Anniversary: Mother Mary Goemaere arrived in California from France in 1852 and formed a community of women becoming the first congregation of women religious in the Golden State. Join a 4 p.m. Zoom celebration including prayer and a video presentation featuring some special guests. Register at sanrafaelop.org/ events/170th-anniversary-celebration/

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THURSDAY-SATURDAY, NOV. 12-14: ‘Catechetical Ministry Conference:’ Eight Catholic dioceses embark on an online journey with families, friends and colleagues to proclaim Christ’s message of hope and His desire to heal and renew us for mission. Visit sfarch.org/events/ ministry-conference.

SATURDAY, NOV. 14: ‘The Conversion of Roy Schoeman:’ Born into and raised in the Jewish faith, the Harvard professor had an unexpected conversion to Christianity. This talk weaves together his personal witness testimony with discussion of the role of Judaism in salvation history. 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. $20. vallombrosa.org/calendar.

THURSDAY, NOV. 19 : Racism: Roots, Resolves, and Results: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael Gather on Grand Film

SUNDAY, NOV. 15: The Varieties of Irreligious Experience: The Father John Coleman, S.J. Adult Faith Formation speaker series presents Jerome Baggett, online after Sunday Mass at 11 a.m. Visit stignatiussf.org/event/adult-faith-formation.

MONDAY, NOV. 16: ‘Why Black Catholic History Matters:’ A talk presented

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En Todas las Almas se acompaña a las familias desde la perspectiva del V Encuentro Los Alvarado han servido en el ministerio de la familia desde hace 30 años, primero como miembros del Movimiento Familiar Cristiano arquidiocesano.

Este matrimonio también ha servido en la iglesia Representantes de la pastoral familiar de la iglesia Todas las Almas desde hace 25 años como líderes Todas las Almas participaron el 9 y 10 de octubre de la pastoral familiar, ofreciendo la preparación en el V Encuentro Virtual de donde surgieron las prematrimonial a las parejas y ayudando a prioridades de llevar el método de Encuentro a las los matrimonios que tienen conflictos entre la 34 parroquias de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco pareja o con los hijos. Y trabajan con la oficina de que tienen ministerio hispano y trabajar para que Matrimonio y Vida Familiar de la Arquidiócesis. en todas estas iglesias haya un grupo de pastoral Luego que los Alvarado se integraron al proceso familiar. del V Encuentro continuaron los programas de la Los esposos Sonia y Cuauhtémoc Alvarado, pastoral familiar bajo el modelo de evangelización coordinadores de la pastoral familiar hispana de V Encuentro. de la iglesia Todas las Almas son los delegados “Ahora que nos integramos al V Encuentro diocesanos del ministerio de la familia en el V estamos llevando nuestro ministerio como lo pide Encuentro Nacional de Pastoral Hispana, al cual se (FOTOS LORENA ROJAS/SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO) el Papa, caminando juntos con otros ministerios y unieron en el 2018.

Delegados de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco ante el V Encuentro de trabajando en unidad”, dijo Sonia Alvarado al San La arquidiócesis comenzó el proceso del V Pastoral Hispana se ven en la pantalla de la computadora en una reunión Francisco Católico.

Encuentro en el 2017. vía Zoom durante el V Encuentro Nacional Virtual el 10 de octubre.

El V Encuentro Virtual fue un evento para En el trabajo del V Encuentro Virtual ellos comenzar la implementación de las conclusiones se encontraron frente a un reto “cómo vamos ministerio. Algo muy importante que aprendieron es del V Encuentro Nacional del 2018. a responder a las familias después de todo esto” (la que la oración y el estudio de las escrituras son de gran Cerca de 20 delegados de la Arquidiócesis de San pandemia), dijo Sonia Alvarado. ayuda para las familias sobre todo en este momento de Francisco participaron junto a los Alvarado en el V También encontraron fortalezas que les ayuda con su pandemia.

Encuentro Virtual. Más de cien diócesis de los EE.UU. participaron en este evento.

Sobre la implementación de las conclusiones que fue el objetivo del V Encuentro Virtual, Alvarado destacó que St. Mary’s Cathedral en Todas las Almas cuentan con un recurso muy valioso para la implementación de las metas, es el compromiso 1111 Gough St. at Geary, San Francisco de los miembros de la pastoral familiar.

415-456-2020, ext. 213 En el V Encuentro Virtual participaron obispos de varias diócesis de los Estados Unidos. Entre ellos LORENA ROJAS

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MEDITACIONES MUSICALES DOMINGO POR LA TARDE: Por el momento todas las presentaciones se transmiten en vivo en el canal de YouTube de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco, youtube.com/ archdioceseofsanfrancisco

Domingo 8 de noviembre, 4p.m.: violín con Agnieszka Peszko (Polonia) y Piano con Astghik Sakanyan.

Domingo 15 de noviembre, 4p.m.: órgano con Crista Miller (Houston).

Domingo 22 de noviembre, 4p.m.: órgano con Jin Kyung Lim.

Domingo 29 de noviembre, 4p.m.: órgano con Jonathan Kroepel (Peoria, IL).

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V ENCUENTRO: Iglesia Todas las Almas acompaña a las familias estaban participando desde el comienzo la mayoría se han mantenido y otros nuevos miembros se han integrado el obispo Arturo Cépeda de Detroit, recientemente”, dijo la hermana presidente del subcomité de Asuntos Martínez.

Hispanos de la Conferencia de Las parroquias de la Obispos Católicos de los Estados arquidiócesis que ya han Unidos (USCCB por sus siglas en recibido la información sobre inglés) quien dio un discurso de el V Encuentro son: Todas las bienvenida.

Almas, Todos los Santos, El Él dijo que “El panorama ha Naufragio de San Pablo, Epifanía cambiado y hay una necesidad y San Kevin. urgente de ser aún más creativos Durante el Encuentro e ingeniosos a medida que Nacional Virtual, la adaptamos nuestras respuestas Hna. Estela Arquidiócesis de San Francisco pastorales generadas por el Martínez trabajó en grupos sobre la proceso del V Encuentro a esta pastoral familiar y la pastoral nueva realidad”, la realidad de la social migrante. pandemia.

El arzobispo José Gómez “El mayor logro del V de Los Ángeles, presidente Encuentro Virtual fue haber de la USCCB celebró la misa escuchado cuáles son las de clausura del V Encuentro necesidades del pueblo de Dios” Virtual. dijo la hermana Estela Martínez, Durante la homilía el coordinadora del V Encuentro arzobispo Gómez dijo que Nacional en la Arquidiócesis de Sonia Alvarado este encuentro es un “nuevo San Francisco.

A partir del V Encuentro Virtual se va a comienzo en las diócesis… a pesar de tantas muertes y tanta tristeza por la trabajar para que todas las parroquias de pandemia, el Señor no le ha dado la la arquidiócesis con ministerio hispano espalda a su pueblo”. vayan entendiendo la dinámica o modelo “Jesús es la respuesta a todas las de Encuentro. preguntas y es el poder del V Encuentro…

“Para mí era un reto mantener En este momento Jesús nos está invitando representantes de cada parroquia en a amar y hacer todo por amor a nuestros el grupo de V Encuentro después del hermanos. Este es el significado del V Encuentro Nacional en Texas”. Sin Encuentro”, dijo el arzobispo Gómez. embargo de los representantes que DE PÁGINA 24

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El 1.er Retiro para Jóvenes en Menlo Park LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

La vida de Oswaldo Sánchez de 17 años de edad ha estado marcada por las drogas, alcohol, abuso familiar, pensamientos suicidas y mucho odio, inclusive hacia Dios.

Sánchez es un parroquiano de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción en Carmichael, Sacramento que participó en el 1.er Retiro para Jóvenes en la iglesia San Antonio de Padua en Menlo Park el 17 y 18 de octubre.

“Conocí a Jesús en la Eucaristía y cambió mi vida, ahora quiero ser un fraile capuchino, franciscano”, dijo.

A la hora del crepúsculo, sentado junto a la silueta de los árboles dibujada en el zacate del campo de la iglesia San Antonio, Sánchez narró episodios que le ha tocado vivir en su corta edad.

“Cuando yo era joven, solo tenía el deseo de hacer cosas malas. Me sentía miserable y quería terminar con mi vida. Era un muerto en vida. Odiaba a Dios por todo lo que me pasó”, dijo Sánchez al San Francisco Católico.

Sánchez, se refiere a su juventud como si fuera algo que quiere dejar en el pasado. Y narra acerca de su encuentro con un Jesús vivo que no quiere perder.

“Mi papá, quien no vivía con nosotros, un día me invitó a la misa en una pequeña capilla. Llegué ahí pero no había misa. Miré por la rendija de la puerta de la capilla y lo vi a él, (Jesús en el Santísimo Sacramento).

“Yo no conocía a Dios, y ese día lo vi presente en esa Eucaristía. Sentí que Dios me dijo que me amaba y yo me enamoré de él. Desde ese momento lo iba a visitar día tras día. Lloraba mucho frente a él en el Santísimo Sacramento mientras Dios me iba sanando poco a poco hasta que me quitó una legión de encima”, narró este joven.

En los más de ocho meses que lleva alejado de las “cosas malas” que hacía se integró a servir como monaguillo en su parroquia Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, en Carmichael, Sacramento.

Sánchez participó también en un retiro con los frailes capuchinos franciscanos, orden a la cual desea ingresar cuando termine la secundaria. Está cursando el último año.

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Jóvenes de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco y otras diócesis cercanas se ven de rodillas frente al Santísimo en el campo de juegos de la iglesia San Antonio en Menlo Park. El sacerdote Eudista Carlos Panesso dirigió la Hora Santa la tarde del 17 de octubre.

Oswaldo Sánchez levanta las manos durante una entrevista en el campo de la iglesia San Antonio de Padua durante el Retiro para Jóvenes el 17 de octubre.

Yolanda, Rogelio y Hortensia Hernández hacen sonar los cuernos durante la elevación del Santísimo en la Hora Santa del 17 de octubre en el campo de la iglesia Menlo Park.

Sánchez afligen a muchos de los jóvenes que llegaron al retiro en San Antonio.

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sus dificultades, la mayoría de ellos tienen problemas de comunicación con sus familias”, dijo Miriam Villar, una de las organizadoras del evento junto con su esposo Jesús Lombera, ambos miembros del grupo de oración carismático Caminando con Jesús de la iglesia San José Obrero en Menlo Park.

Villar expresó con regocijo que llegaron muchos jóvenes al retiro.

Participaron de San Mateo, San Francisco, San José, Oakland y hasta de Sacramento como fue el caso de Sánchez.

“La idea de hacer este retiro para Jóvenes y continuar haciéndolo cada año, es porque queremos atraerlos a la Iglesia y motivarlos para que se involucren en los ministerios que tenemos. Queremos darles seguimiento cuando estén participando en los grupos parroquiales”, dijo Villar.

Ella se mostró agradecida con el padre Fabio Medina, párroco de San Antonio por el apoyo que les ha dado para realizar este nuevo evento.

El retiro incluyó pláticas para los papás de los jóvenes, los cuales se reunieron en una tienda en el mismo campo de juegos de la iglesia San Antonio.

Miriam Villar hace gestos durante una conversación en el campo de juegos de la iglesia San Antonio de Padua el 17 de octubre.

Los muchachos escucharon sobre temas que les afecta directamente.

Les hablaron con palabras adecuadas para sus edades y con mensajes que responden a sus necesidades.

Los participantes adoraron al Santísimo con devoción durante la Hora Santa, participaron de la misa y jugaron.

Uno de los conferencistas fue el padre Carlos Panesso, un sacerdote Eudista que vino de Colombia a predicarles.

El padre Panesso es el director de la radio Minuto de Dios en Colombia y dirige espiritualmente a una comunidad de unos 700 jóvenes.

Durante la Hora Santa, el padre Panesso compartió con los jóvenes su devoción a la Eucaristía y el testimonio de su mamá y de un amigo cercano quienes se convirtieron a la fe católica por la experiencia vivida la primera vez que estuvieron cerca de la Eucaristía.

El oró profundamente para que los jóvenes se animen a entregarle a Dios su juventud, los invitó a entregarle a Jesús los pensamientos que los lastima y los motivó a que experimenten sentirse amados por Jesús.

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Fratelli tutti: Un nuevo sueño de fraternidad

e ha publicado la tercera encíclica del Papa Francisco titulada “Fratelli tutti”. Sobre la fraternidad y la amistad social. Se trata de un texto inspirado en el testimonio de san Francisco de Asís que “se sentía hermano del sol, del mar y del viento, se sabía todavía más unido a los que eran de su propia carne” los pobres, los abandonados, los enfermos, los descartados, los últimos. Esta carta es dirigida a la humanidad y el Papa la entiende como “un humilde aporte a la reflexión para que frente a diversas y actuales formas de eliminar CARLOS AYALA o de ignorar a otros, seamos RAMÍREZ capaces de reaccionar con un nuevo sueño de fraternidad y de amistad social que no se quede en las palabras”.

El hilo conductor de la encíclica es que a partir del reconocimiento de la igual dignidad de la persona humana, podamos hacer renacer entre todos un deseo mundial de hermandad. Y el espíritu que anima ese deseo se pone de manifiesto en las siguientes palabras del Papa: “Soñemos como una única humanidad, como caminantes de la misma carne humana, como hijos de esta misma tierra que nos cobija a todos, cada uno con la riqueza de su fe o de sus convicciones, cada uno con su propia voz, todos hermanos”.

La propuesta del papa Francisco va más allá de las buenas intenciones y busca, ante todo, posibilitar transformaciones sociales que nos acerquen a una mayor solidaridad y subsidiaridad. De ahí que su

primera actitud es echar una mirada crítica ante algunas de las tendencias del mundo actual que desfavorecen el desarrollo de la fraternidad universal.

Algunas de estas realidades históricas son los nacionalismos cerrados, exasperados, resentidos y agresivos. Es la persistencia de numerosas formas de injusticia, nutridas por un modelo económico basado en las ganancias, que no duda en explotar, descartar e incluso matar al ser humano. Imperan reglas económicas que resultaron eficaces para el crecimiento, pero no así para el desarrollo humano integral. Aumentó la riqueza, pero con inequidad y nuevas pobrezas.

El capítulo “A las Sombras de un Mundo Cerrado” se refiere en parte a la comunicación digital. Sobre todo, “cuando ésta se convierte en una especie de espectáculo que puede ser espiado, vigilado, y la vida se expone a un control constante […] Cada individuo es “objeto de miradas que hurgan, desnudan y divulgan, frecuentemente de manera anónima. Por ello se afirma que la actual comunicación digital “no basta para tender puentes, no alcanza para unir a la humanidad”.

Con respecto a la crisis sanitaria mundial, el Papa expresa sus preocupaciones por lo que puede ocurrir pasada la crisis. Expresa que la peor reacción sería

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la de caer aún más en una fiebre consumista y en nuevas formas de autopreservación egoísta.

Con la encíclica “Fratelli tutti”, el papa Francisco vuelve con ahínco sobre uno de los temas centrales de su ministerio pastoral, la necesidad de cultivar una cultura o civilización del encuentro. Está convencido que “el aislamiento y la cerrazón en uno mismo o en los propios intereses jamás son el camino para devolver esperanza y obrar una renovación, sino que es la cercanía, la cultura del encuentro”.

El primer capítulo del documento concluye con una invitación a la esperanza. Mirar al futuro con realismo, sin hacerse falsas ilusiones, pero sin descuidar las posibilidades de mayor justicia e inclusión que puedan construirse. Es la esperanza “enraizada en lo profundo del ser humano, independientemente de las circunstancias concretas y los condicionamientos históricos en que vive”. No es simple optimismo o deseo que las cosas vayan bien, expresa el Papa.

AYALA es profesor jubilado de la UCA en El Salvador, exdirector de YSUCA, profesor del Instituto Hispano de la Escuela Jesuita de Teología de la Universidad de Santa Clara y profesor de la Escuela de Liderazgo Hispano de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of October HOLY CROSS, COLMA

Martin J. Fahy Robert Anthony Falla Mary Loretta Flageollet Mary Ann Gamba Doris Alioto Julia P. Garcia Rosalva Alvarez Milton A. Ghigliazza Lorraine Ampaw Constance Coleman Govi Allan Anderson Dorothy Marie Grossman Loretta Peralta Andras Lenny Grossman Ana C. Aquino Concepcion Guadamuz Evelyn Arata Jeffrey Habib Alice Boland Asturias Doris Hernandez Heraclio “Yacko” Baeza Sergio Hernandez Virginia C. Barry James W. Hicks Alberto Benavides Joseph Hwang Wenson M. Bonifacio Juan Iturburua Consolacion Borja Suad Jaber Patricia Ann Bowman John Frederick Johnston Theresa P. Brosnan Patrick Joseph Kidd Mau Brown Agnes Kolling Eleuterio Cabrales Norma Angelina Landucci Odili Cabrera Joe Lara Felipe Capacite Barbara Jo Ann Lara Irma J. Casillas Neil Thomas Laughlin Dennis Michael Childs Frank E. Lawrence Howard Joseph Connolly Su Sun Lee-King Segunda B. Contawe Leslie Linhares Jason Cortez Margot Lippert Romeo Halili Davo Jean-Claude Louis Michel Littée Evangeline De Los Angeles Richard Eric Anthony Estuardo Dell’Acqua John Robert Allen Domeniconi Leonard Lloyd-Owen Rev. Thomas Joseph Dove, CSP Yvonne Christine Ann LloydOwen Jeannette Doyle Maria Inez Lopez Louis P. Dradi Carlos Lossa Ana V. Echezarreta Gloria Helen Love Jadiene Eden Daniel Lucero Jovy M. Elizalde Rosemarie E. Mac Donnell Gabriel Enriquez Emelito Magadia Thomas J. Espinoza Milagros M. Maier Carlos Danillio Espinoza IV Evelyn Martin Maria Del Carmen Esquivel Wanda F. Martinez Rosselli

Tammy Martinez Alice G. Masini Tyson Massey Patricia Jean Mckeown Jean Mc Nab Leslie Richard McDonald George Mehas Alene Joan Meyers Robert Anton Mortola James A. Mourgos Alofaaga Makafalani Muli Lillian A. Murk Carol A. Nielsen David Niven Leslie Milton Nuhn Andy Otton Rino Tungul Pacia Carmen Paez Claire Paolini Robert Enierga Parangan James Pifer Judith G. Pizza Elaine D’Asquisto Raasch David N. Ravetti Dick Ray Mary E. Ray Renato Redaniel Olivia Rivera Barbara Rodriguez Irene E. Romies Herbert L. Rothchild Jr. Madeline Rothchild Virginia Kennedy Ryan Susie E. Santiago Katherine Mary Santos Daisy Savoy Esperanza Schembri Mercedes C. Serrano George J. Sullivan Helen Dolores Sullivan Adrian Tejeda Romero Aldo E. Tigri

Margarita Torres George Anthony Trelut Frank G. Valerio Hildelisa Vazquez Samuel Walden Victoria Maria Welch Eddie June Williams Robert A. Wilson Yusuf Ghnaim Zarur

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Beatriz Castillo Gomez Margaret E. McSweeney Raul Mendoza Claire P. Rogus Felipe Salto-Fuerte Sharon L. Sherden

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Robert Anthony Falla Constance Coleman Govi Jean-Claude Louis Michel Littée George Mehas Daisy Savoy

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Daretha Canadas Herbert T. Canadas

TOMALES John F. Johnston

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA

While we will not have a First Saturday Mass in December, we encourage you to remember in prayer all our beloved dead at rest in our Catholic Cemeteries.

Veterans Day Remembrance Service

Monday November 11 at 11am at the Star of the Sea Veterans Section.

Presider: Rev. Msgr. Michael Padazinski Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve Ret.

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A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.