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WASHINGTON – The bishop of the Delaware Catholic diocese where the nation’s future 46th president has worshipped for decades offered his congratulations Nov. 8, as well as hopes that voters set aside political differences and heed the Gospel’s call for unity.

“Today I congratulate Presidentelect (Joe) Biden. We all must pray for the president-elect and President (Donald) Trump during this time of transition and we look to the future with hope that as one nation under God, we will continue be a beacon of freedom and prosperity to the world,” said Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington, Delaware, in a statement.

“No matter where we might fall on the political spectrum, we must seize this moment as an opportunity to begin to heal the crippling divisions in our great nation,” he said. “These SEE BIDEN, PAGE 7

At audience, pope renews commitment to fight abuse JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – After the Vatican released its extensive report on Theodore E. McCarrick, Pope Francis renewed the Catholic Church’s pledge to uproot the scourge of sexual abuse.

Before concluding his weekly general Pope Francis audience Nov. 11, the pope made his first public statement on the release of the report regarding the “painful case” of the former cardinal.

“I renew my closeness to all victims of every form of abuse and the (CNS PHOTO/KEVIN LAMARQUE, REUTERS) church’s commitment to eradicate this Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden removes his face mask to speak about the presidenevil,” he said. tial election results during an appearance in Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 4, 2020.

After reading his brief comment on the report, the pope bowed his head and closed his eyes in silent prayer.

The 460-page report, which was published by the Vatican Nov. 10, chronicled McCarrick’s rise through the church’s hierarchal ranks despite decades of accusations of sexual abuse and abuse of power.

Before his comment on the report, rick’s own strong denial and the pope’s the pope continued his series of audiexperience with communist authorities ence talks on prayer, reflecting on the in Poland making accusations to disimportance of perseverance. credit the church, the summary said.

He began by saying he was told by But, in fact, rumors of McCarrick’s someone that he “speaks too much about conduct, especially knowledge that he prayer” and that it was unnecessary. had young adult men and seminarians However, he said, “it is necessary, sleep in the same bed with him when he because if we do not pray, we will not was bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey, have the strength to go forward in life. led the Vatican to decide it would be Prayer is like the oxygen of life; prayer “imprudent” to promote him when draws upon us the Holy Spirit who looking for candidates to become archalways carries us forward. That is why bishop of Chicago in 1997, New York in (CNS PHOTO/PAOLO COCCO, REUTERS) I speak so much about prayer.”

1999-2000 and, initially, of Washington Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Jesus taught people to engage in in July 2000, the report said.

Washington faces the press in the shadow “constant dialogue” with God not only One hour before the release Nov. 10 of of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 24, with the example of his own prayer, the “Report on the Holy See’s Institu2002. U.S cardinals met for a summit with A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. but also with parables that highlighted tional Knowledge and Decision-Making Pope John Paul II at the Vatican April 23-24, If you have received a 2002, flag honoring yourabuse loved one's service and would like to donate it as the sex crisismilitary unfolded in the toPAGE the cemetery to be flownUnited as partStates. of an “Avenue of Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' Day, SEE MCCARRICK, 6 SEE POPE, PAGE 14

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VATICAN CITY – Although dogged for years by rumors of sexual impropriety, Theodore E. McCarrick was able to rise up the Catholic hierarchical structure based on personal contacts, protestations of his innocence and a lack of church officials reporting and investigating accusations, according to the Vatican summary of its report on the matter.

In choosing then-Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark in 2000 to be archbishop of Washington and later a cardinal, St. John Paul II likely overlooked rumors and allegations about McCarrick’s sexual misconduct because of a long relationship with him, McCar-

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Top from left, Msgr. Michael Padazinski, a retired Air Force colonel, is pictured with Father Alex Legaspi, a commander in the U.S. Navy, at the Veterans Day prayer service at Holy Cross Cemetery on Nov. 11, 2020. Families were able to sit closer together but social distancing was the order of the day. Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts led the Pledge of Allegiance to open the service at the cemetery’s Star of the Sea military section, with families and friends of deceased veterans joining in prayer.

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Recommended by Richard Collyer, director, archdiocesan Mental Health Ministry, (415) 614-5593 FAITH AND MODERN SCIENCE: Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23 and March 2, 2021, 7-8:30 p.m.: Are faith and science opposed to each other? Do miracles matter? These and other questions will be addressed with Dr. Stephen Barr, a physicist and president of the Society of Catholic Scientists. To register, visit www.sfarch.org/science.

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Scripture, a roll call of deceased veterans, and the playing of “Taps” built the framework and the substance of a Veterans Day prayer service at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma on Nov. 11, 2020.

Monica Williams, cemeteries director, hosted the event with a warm welcome and farewell and managed social distancing and other COVID-19 protocols among the 150-member assembly.

Msgr. Michael Padazinski, chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force reserve, presided. In his homily, Msgr.

Padazinski spoke of the change driven by the pandemic. However, some things never change, he said, including “the call to serve others like Christ who

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON MUSICAL MEDITATIONS: For the time being, all performances are livestreamed on the San Francisco Archdiocesan YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/channel/UCLhEzFXPtxOfQBVjdjixFOA Sunday, Nov. 22, 4pm: Jin Kyung Lim, Organ.

Sunday, Nov. 29, 4pm: Jonathan Kroepel (Peoria, IL), Organ.

Louis Vierne: Symphony No. 3.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 4pm: Dana Robinson, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Organ.

Sunday, Dec. 13, 4pm: August Lee, Cello; Jin Kyung Lim, Organ.

Sunday, Dec. 20, 4pm: Jin Kyung Lim, Organ and Piano; Kyle Jones, Tenor. Music for Advent and Christmas.

Sunday, Dec. 27, 4pm: Pierre Zevort (France), Organ.

Sunday, Jan. 3. 4pm: Epiphany Lessons and Carols, sung by the St. Brigid School Honor Choir (Cathedral Choir School), directed

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came to serve and not to be served,” a quality he said was present in the men and women veterans being honored.

Assisting with the liturgy were Father Alex Legaspi, pastor of Holy Angels Parish, Colma, and a commander in the U.S. Navy reserve; Father Alner Nambatac, pastor of St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo and a captain in the U.S. Army reserve; Father Edward Dura, parochial vicar at St. Augustine Parish in South San Francisco and a former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy reserve; and Father Joseph Tran of the Diocese of Oakland and a captain in in the U.S, Air Force reserve.

The names of veterans buried in the Star of the Sea military section of the cemetery where the service took place were read aloud. Bugler John Capobianco closed the ceremony with “Taps.”

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Guadalupana march goes virtual in faith, hope to overcome pandemic LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

The Crusada Guadalupana in the Archdiocese of San Francisco will be held virtually on Dec. 5, an act of faith and hope in the virgin of Guadalupe, for survivors of COVID-19 and for an end to the pandemic, said the founders of the annual veneration, Pedro García and his wife Marta García.

“The Virgin cannot be without her party,” Marta García said.

“For us it is very important not to miss this date to venerate Our Lady of Guadalupe and ask God for everything that is happening with the pandemic,” she said. “So, this idea came to us to do the crusade virtually even though it is a challenge for us because of the technology.”

The Guadalupana Crusade was an inspiration of Pedro García, who first organized the pilgrimage in 1993 to ask Mary’s intercession for immigrants and their legal status in the United States.

Since then, each year on the Saturday before the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is Dec. 12. 2020, the pilgrims walk 12 miles from All Souls Church in South San Francisco to St. Mary´s Cathedral in San Francisco.

Pedro García thinks that the pilgrimage “is a very strong vehicle, among all of us, to ask the Virgin of Guadalupe to intercede for us and for the whole world because the situation is very serious.”

“In difficult moments the first one we turn toward is her – through her intercession our request goes to God,” he said.

“This year we pray for a remedy for this great evil that is in the world.”

Marta García said: “This is a new experience. If it weren’t for the great help

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Actors portraying Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego are filmed in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for a video reenactment to be shown during a virtual edition of the annual Guadalupana march to be held Dec. 5 in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. we have had, Pedro and I would not have known what to do.”

One of the volunteers who stands out in the production of the virtual crusade is Raul Chavez, a technology specialist.

For Chavez, to produce the Cruzada Guadalupana virtually is more than an act of gratitude to the García couple, whom he loves as if they were his aunt and uncle.

He believes in the miraculous appearances of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the neophyte Juan Diego outside what is now Mexico City in December 1531 and notes the faith of the many devotees who come to the pilgrimage each year.

“When I go to the pilgrimage, I see and feel that energy,” Chavez said.

Regardless of the effort that implies the production of this virtual edition of the Guadalupana, Chavez’s greatest satisfaction is the opportunity to develop the project with his family.

This year’s pilgrimage will be held Dec. 5 with the same program as previous years but with participation through Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

The day begins at 8 a.m. with a video welcome message recorded in All Souls Church from pastor Father Kazimierz Abrahamczyk and a blessing by retired Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, who opened the doors to the first crusade when he was the pastor at All Souls.

Other videos from Holy Cross on Mission Road will feature archdiocesan cemeteries director Monica Williams and archdiocesan vicar for administration Father John Piderit, SJ, praying a mystery of the rosary.

The virtual event will include a video reenactment of the first apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with Geisy Tórrez as Our Lady of Guadalupe and Juan Madriz as St. Juan Diego. Other videos about later apparitions will be presented from St. John the Evangelist Church and the cathedral.

The crusade will end with a livestreamed Mass at 2 p.m. at the cathedral, celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone.

Participants in the virtual pilgrimage will include a COVID-19 survivor, Mario Ayer, a longtime volunteer at the annual event.

Ayer, 53, knew he had COVID-19 when he went to Seton Hospital in Daly City on Aug. 21. Before leaving his home he stopped in front of a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the living room of his house and he told her, “I am in your hands, mother. You will know if you brings me back home again.”

In the hospital, his health worsened.

“Only a nurse, who went to Mass and prayed the rosary for me, had faith that I was going to live,” Ayer said. “I was so sick that I even saw my father-in-law who died three years ago, but I abandoned myself to the Virgin of Guadalupe.”

This year, although there will be no pilgrimage in the streets, Ayer will walk from All Souls Church in South San Francisco to the cathedral as a sacrifice to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Nazareth House San Rafael prepares to close in 2021 CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

After caring for Bay Area seniors including dozens of priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for almost 60 years, the Sisters of Nazareth are closing the doors of Nazareth House in San Rafael.

Surprised residents, families and staff learned from the congregation’s leadership Oct. 27 that the Marin County facility – one of four assisted care facilities run by the order in California – is unable to sustain operations and will close in early 2021.

A press release issued the same day said the coronavirus pandemic helped deal a fatal blow to Nazareth House, which has been unable to take in new residents for eight months.

“As is the case with so many affected by the global pandemic, Nazareth House simply can no longer sustain the financial, staffing and health care-related challenges presented by current circumstances,” said Barbara Ann Crowley, the congregation’s chief executive officer.

Sisters of Nazareth American Superior Sister Rose Hoye, CSN, told Catholic San Francisco Nov. 4 that closing Nazareth House in San Rafael was not something the sisters or their local board took lightly.

“It took us a long time to make this decision,” she said. “Even though it sounds like a quick decision it wasn’t.”

The same kind of staffing issues that other Marin County businesses face became the “straw that broke the camel’s back” this year amid the pandemic, accoring to Sister Hoye.

The Sisters of Nazareth also own and operate Nazareth House locations in Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego but are only closing the San Rafael location, said Sister Hoye.

The lack of affordable housing in or even near Marin County was not an issue when the Sisters of Nazareth opened the San Rafael facility in 1962, she said. But over the past 20 years it has become a critical obstacle to finding and retaining qualified staffing.

Nazareth House employs a staff of more than 75 nurses, nursing aids, food services staff, maintenance workers and others who can’t afford to live where the average apartment rents for $2,700 a month.

“It’s always been a challenge, but

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Nazareth House resident Nadine Calliguiri is pictured inside her room at the Catholic assisted care facility in San Rafael which announced Oct. 27 it will close in 2021 due in part to complications from the coronavirus pandemic. San Francisco native Calliguiri, 82, founded Handicapables, a nonprofit ministry for adults. when the coronavirus hit, what was a challenge became a crisis,” said Sister Hoye.

Staff traveled from Vallejo or Richmond, or further to come to work at relatively low-paying jobs. Those that lived in San Rafael tended to live in the low-income Canal neighborhood which became Marin County’s virus case hotbed.

Sister Hoye confirmed there was a coronavirus outbreak in the building this year but declined to elaborate or offer details.

On a visit to the facility licensed to house up to 125 residents, the number of obviously unoccupied rooms bordering a lovely courtyard was striking to Catholic San Francisco.

“We haven’t been able to do any admissions since March,” said Sister Hoye. “That’s not financially sustainable.”

Nazareth House had just completed a $3.5 million renovation project of the nursing unit and added a new roof, she said. Another project for residential upgrades was in the planning

stages but was pulled when the Sisters saw where things were heading.

Sister Hoye said the reaction to the closure announcement is one of “great sadness” among residents and staff.

“We are extremely sad ourselves,” she said. “It’s a tragic, tragic decision to have to make.”

Crowley said the Sisters will be working with each resident to help them transition to a new community.

San Franciscan Nadine Calliguiri, 82, moved to Nazareth House seven years ago.

“I was happy here from the first day I moved here,” said Calliguiri, who was born with cerebral palsy and founded Handicapables, an almost 60year Catholic ministry for adults with disabilities. “You sense the joy of the Holy Spirit here,” she said.

The San Francisco chapter of the now-national organization is run by Catholic Charities and was renamed Breaking Bread with Hope earlier this year.

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Claire Miller was a volunteer at Nazareth House for 15 years before moving there with her late husband, Don, three years ago.

“This peaceful and joyful house provided us with a home where we could be together during the last days of his journey here on earth,” she said.

“I felt secure and supported at a time that I needed it most.”

Nazareth House was favored by many retiring priests, and its closure will leave a void for those in the future said Rachel Avelais, care manager for retiring and aging priests for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

She said the community of priestresidents at Nazareth House grew some years ago after a few priests chose to live there.

“There was quite a group there for many years, with a dedicated table for them to gather at for meals,” Alvelais told Catholic San Francisco. “The community that developed there became its own attraction.”

Former residents include Father Ray Zohlen, former pastor of St. James and St. Raymond parishes, the late Father Kirk Ullery, former pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes in San Francisco and Father Bernie Brennen and Father Kevin Gaffey, both pastors of multiple parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and are now deceased.

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer lived at Nazareth House before his death in 2017 at age 80. Only three priests are currently living there according to Avelais.

Nazareth House’s “fully Catholic” living environment with its high level of community and care will not be easy to replace, she said. Its closure “places one more limit on our choices” for priests, certainly, but for all residents who valued that.

“People will have to make more compromises,” she said, including leaving the area or exchanging a Catholic-run community for a secular non-profit or for-profit facility.

Sister Hoye said that despite the all the losses that will not easily be replaced, the Sisters believe they made the right decision.

“We believe God is in this decision and that our mission never dies, it just takes a turn in the road,” she said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Listening session on racism highlights youth outreach NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The church must do more to include youth in its work to overcome racism, speakers at a listening session said.

About 20 people gathered Nov. 14 at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church for a meeting organized by the archdiocese’s racial reconciliation and justice committee. The committee’s work is part of the California Catholic bishops’ commitment to a yearlong antiracism process, which begins with listening sessions to understand how community members have been affected by racism. The archdiocese held its first listening session Oct. 10 at St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto.

Derek Gaskin, archdiocesan safety and security preparedness director, spoke about the lessons he learned running a jobs boot camp in Bayview-Hunters Point two decades ago and highlighted problems of violence and internal racism facing the community there.

Gaskin said the history of slavery and racism needs to be taught more in schools in order to bring about healing. “All the things I know now I had to teach myself. To have gone through education and never learn about this until after the fact, that’s a problem,” he said.

LyRyan Russell, a counselor and coach at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, said youth are often

FELONY CHARGES FILED IN SERRA STATUE VANDALISM

Five people have been charged with felony vandalism in connection with the Oct. 12 toppling of a statue of St. Junipero Serra on the grounds of St. Raphael Church and Mission in San Rafael.

The Marin County district attorney’s decision to pursue a felony complaint in the case is “a breakthrough moment for Catholics,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in a Nov. 13 statement.

He said the complaint, filed Nov. 12 in Marin County Superior Court, marks “the first time that any of the lawbreakers attacking statues of St. Junipero Serra and other acts of vandalism on Catholic Church property across California will be held accountable for their actions in a court of law.”

In an Oct. 26 letter to the Marin district attorney, Archbishop Cordileone asked that the suspects be charged “to the full extent of the law” and seconded the San Rafael Police Department’s

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misunderstood and disconnected from older generations, but are a critical part of changing a community.

Russell said families and communities need to not only give children a good foundation but maintain it as they grow into adulthood. That involves adults showing leadership by exemplifying in their lives what they want to teach youth, he said.

“Some of our systems as adults are flawed and youth see that, they can see we haven’t done the work,” Russell said. “I cannot be a fraud if I want them to trust me,” he said, arguing that any gap

request that the individuals be charged with both felony vandalism and vandalism in a house of worship (a hate crime), in addition to trespassing and conspiracy.

“While a hate crime was not charged in this case, let us hope that this prosecution will nonetheless contribute to putting an end to attacks on all houses of worship,” he said Nov. 13.

On Oct. 17, Archbishop Cordileone led an exorcism at the site of the toppled statue. He was joined in prayer by a crowd of Catholic faithful.

The Serra statue outside Mission San Rafael in San Rafael was desecrated with red paint and toppled, leaving just the saint’s feet in place.

The incident came on the federal holiday of Columbus Day, which is known as Indigenous People’s Day in California and elsewhere. Protesters say the saint mistreated indigenous people in what is today California as a missionary, although Catholic leaders and

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Stephen Staten, an adviser to the young adults organization Bay Area Catholics for Racial Justice, spoke about how police brutality and racial violence during the last year pushed him to find a Catholic response to it.

Staten acknowledged that the Black Catholic community in San Francisco is small and traced it back to a lack of evangelization and the historical involvement of the church in slavery and segregation, but said that the small number of Black Catholics means there is “even more reason to expose the church to our stories.”

Gabriela Moreno, speaking in Spanish, said children need to be taught that they are all family and need to respect each other. Teaching children to love each other and not let language, color or nationality divide them will overcome racism, she said.

Kathryn Parish Reese, chair of the archdiocese’s racial reconciliation committee, said passing on the Catholic faith to her children was made more difficult “because we don’t see people that look like us.” Her children were often the only Black students in their classes, and they met few if any Black priests, women religious or teachers.

Reginald Reese seconded the challenge the archdiocese faces in its anti-racism work because of the lack

many historians dispute such claims.

Father Luello Palacpac, pastor of San Rafael Parish and Mission, said in a statement that the Serra statue vandalism was traumatic for parishioners and “caused my flock to enthusiastically support” the archbishop’s call to prosecute those responsible.

SEE LISTENING SESSION, PAGE 13 “Whether you agree or disagree with the historic record of St. Junipero, no one has a right to trespass on a faith community’s sacred grounds to destroy property and even more importantly the symbols of its faith,” he said.

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MCCARRICK: Report summary cites lack of serious investigations of rumors FROM PAGE 1

Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick,” journalists were given the document’s 14-page introduction, which described the two-year investigation that led to the report’s compilation and gave an “executive summary” of its findings.

In June 2018, the Vatican suspended McCarrick from ministry after an investigation by the Archdiocese of New York found credible a charge that he sexually abused a teenager. McCarrick resigned from the College of Cardinals in July, and in February 2019, after a canonical process found McCarrick guilty of “solicitation in the sacrament of confession and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power,” Pope Francis dismissed him from the priesthood.

In August 2018, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former nuncio to the United States, called on Pope Francis to resign after claiming that he had informed Pope Francis of McCarrick’s abuse in 2013 and that top Vatican officials knew of McCarrick’s abusive behavior for years.

That claim led Pope Francis to initiate an investigation into how McCarrick was able to continue to rise through church ranks despite the repeated rumors, anonymous letters, allegations and even settlements with alleged victims.

The report summary said, “No records support Vigano’s account” of his meeting with Pope Francis “and evidence as to what he said is sharply disputed.”

Until the allegations about child sexual abuse were made to the Archdiocese of New York in 2017, “Francis had heard only that there had been allegations and rumors related to immoral conduct with adults occurring prior to McCarrick’s appointment to Washington,” it said.

“Believing that the allegations had already been reviewed and rejected by Pope John Paul II, and well aware that McCarrick was active during the papacy of Benedict XVI, Pope Francis did not see the need to alter the approach that had been adopted in prior years,” the summary said.

The introduction to the report said it is based on documents found at the Vatican and the apostolic nunciature in the United States as well as interviews – “ranging in length from one to 30 hours” – with more than 90 witnesses in the United States, Italy and elsewhere. They included survivors, cardinals, bishops and former seminarians.

In a statement issued with the report, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican sec-

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Left, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States, talks with a U.S. bishop during the bishops’ meeting in Baltimore in this Nov. 13, 2012, file photo. A Vatican report about former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick states that Archbishop Vigano did not follow instructions in 2012 to conduct an inquiry into allegations by a priest who claimed he was sexually assaulted by McCarrick. Right, Cardinal John O’Connor of New York is pictured in Washington in this 1999 file photo. A Vatican report about former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick states that Cardinal O’Connor wrote a letter in October 1999 about allegations against then-Archbishop McCarrick and that this letter was given to Pope John Paul II. retary of state, said the contributions of survivors were “fundamental.” The introduction of the report cautions survivors of abuse that certain sections “could prove traumatizing” and warns that some portions of the document are “inappropriate for minors.”

He also said that over the course of the two years it took to complete the investigation and compile the report, “we have taken significant steps forward to ensure greater attention to the protection of minors and more effective interventions to avoid” repeating errors of the past.

Among those steps, he highlighted “Vos Estis Lux Mundi” (“You are the Light of the World”), Pope Francis’ 2019 document on promoting bishops’ accountability and setting out procedures for handling accusations of abuse against bishops.

According to the summary, St. John Paul’s decisions to name McCarrick bishop of Metuchen in 1981 and archbishop of Newark in 1986 were based on “his background, skills and achievements.

During the appointment process, McCarrick was widely lauded as a pastoral, intelligent and zealous bishop.”

The summary also said that, at the time, “no credible information emerged suggesting that he had engaged in any misconduct.”

But in October 1999 Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York wrote to Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, then nuncio in the United States, summarizing allegations about McCarrick, then-archbishop of Newark. The letter was given to St. John Paul, who asked Archbishop Montalvo to investigate.

The nuncio did so by writing to four New Jersey bishops, the summary said without naming the bishops. The bishops, named in the full report, were Bishops James T. McHugh of Camden, 1989-1998; Vincent D. Breen of Metuchen, 1997-2000; Edward T. Hughes of Metuchen, 1987-1997; and John M. Smith of Trenton, 1997-2010.

“What is now known, through investigation undertaken for preparation of the report, is that three of the four American bishops provided inaccurate and incomplete information to the Holy See regarding McCarrick’s sexual conduct with young adults,” the summary said.

In response to Cardinal O’Connor’s accusations, the report said, McCarrick wrote to now-Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, St. John Paul’s secretary, claiming: “In the 70 years of my life, I have never had sexual relations with any person, male or female, young or old, cleric or lay, nor have I ever abused another person or treated them with disrespect.”

“McCarrick’s denial was believed,” the summary said, adding that because of “the limited nature of the Holy See’s own prior investigation, the Holy See had never received a complaint directly from a victim, whether adult or minor, about McCarrick’s conduct.”

“Though there is no direct evidence,” the summary added, “it appears likely from the information obtained that John Paul II’s past experience in Poland regarding the use of spurious allegations against bishops to degrade the standing of the church played a role in his willingness to believe McCarrick’s denials.”

In addition, McCarrick had a relation-

USCCB president apologizes to clergy abuse victims CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Calling a Vatican report on its investigation into its knowledge of sexual improprieties of Theodore McCarrick while a clergyman, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles said the findings mark “another tragic chapter in the church’s long struggle to confront the crimes of sexual abuse by clergy.”

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops also said in a Nov. 10 statement as the report was being released at the Vatican that the findings were being reviewed by U.S. church leaders, and he expressed gratitude for Pope Francis’ effort to address clergy sexual abuse.

“We are studying these findings,” he said, “and we are grateful to our Holy Father, Pope Francis, for his pastoral concern for the family of God in the United States and his leadership in calling the church to greater accountability and transparency in addressing issue of abuse and the handling of abuse claims at every level.”

The report summarizes the actions of church offi-

cials, including earlier popes, that led McCarrick to rise through the church hierarchical structure to become a cardinal despite years of rumors of sexual impropriety.

McCarrick used personal contacts, protestations of his innocence and a lack of church officials reporting and investigating accusations against him to advance in the hierarchy, according to the Vatican summary of its report on the matter.

In his statement, released in Washington, Archbishop Gomez offered “profound sorrow and deepest apologies” to “McCarrick’s victims and their families and to every victim-survivor of sexual abuse by the clergy.”

He also urged all people who may have been abused by a priest, bishop or someone in the church to report their allegation to law enforcement and to church authorities.

“This report underscores the need for us to repent and grow in our commitment to serve the people of God,” Archbishop Gomez said. “Let us all continue to pray and strive for the conversion of our hearts, and that we might follow Jesus Christ with integrity and humility.”

ship with the Polish pope going back to his days as the cardinal of Krakow.

The summary said, “McCarrick’s direct relationship with John Paul II also likely had an impact on the pope’s decisionmaking.”

St. John Paul II “personally made the decision” to name him archbishop of Washington and a cardinal, it said.

The report also concluded that nowretired Pope Benedict XVI did not initiate a formal canonical process against McCarrick or even impose sanctions on him because “there were no credible allegations of child abuse; McCarrick swore on his ‘oath as a bishop’ that the allegations were false; the allegations of misconduct with adults related to events in the 1980s; and there was no indication of any recent misconduct.”

However, after initially asking McCarrick to stay on in Washington for two years past his 75th birthday in 2005, the summary said, new details related to a priest’s allegations about McCarrick’s sexual misconduct emerged and Pope Benedict asked him to step down in 2006.

At the time, the summary said, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, then-prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, told McCarrick “he should maintain a lower profile and minimize travel for the good of the church.”

“While Cardinal Re’s approach was approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the indications did not carry the pope’s explicit imprimatur, were not based on a factual finding that McCarrick had actually committed misconduct and did not include a prohibition on public ministry,” the summary said.

Archbishop Vigano, while working in the Vatican Secretariat of State, wrote memos in 2006 and 2008 “bringing questions related to McCarrick to the attention of superiors,” the summary said.

The memos referred to allegations and rumors about McCarrick’s “misconduct during the 1980s and raised concerns that a scandal could result given that the information had already circulated widely.”

The archbishop, the report said, noted that “the allegations remained unproven,” but he suggested opening a canonical process to investigate.

Archbishop Vigano, who was appointed nuncio to the United States in 2011, was “instructed” in 2012 to conduct an inquiry into allegations by a priest who claimed he was sexually assaulted by McCarrick, the summary said.

Archbishop Vigano, it continued, “did not take these steps and therefore never placed himself in the position to ascertain the credibility” of the priest’s claims.

ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE: REPORT ‘DEEPLY PAINFUL’

In a comment posted on the archdiocesan website Nov. 10, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said the results of the McCarrick Report are “deeply painful to me.” He said priesthood is not a career but a vocation, “a call to follow the Good Shepherd by laying down one’s life for his flock.”

The archbishop added, “I also want to reassure Catholics that I am doing everything I can to continue the good work of my predecessors in protecting children and the vulnerable from abuse, and to ensure that St. Patrick’s Seminary be a place that forms heroic and holy men to serve as your priests.

“Our website has specific information about the safeguards that are in place in the Archdiocese, as well as information on how to report abuse (sfarch.org/protectingchildren); this year the national bishops conference, the USCCB, created a third-party reporting system for claims of abuse committed by bishops, reportbishopabuse.org.”

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BIDEN: Win prompts calls for unity in divided nation FROM PAGE 1

fractures were forged over decades and reconciliation will take time and patience.”

Change begins, he said, “with each of us.”

Likewise, organizations such as the Catholic Health Association of the United States, through its CEO and president, Mercy Sister Mary Haddad, offered prayers “for the renewal of cooperation.”

“As people of faith, we join the voices of those working to unify our country and look forward to working with the new administration to promote the common good for all,” said Sister Haddad. “We take great pride that upon his inauguration, he will be the second Catholic ever elected to the highest office in the country.”

She offered cooperation from the organization in dealing with tasks ahead, citing the “profound crisis” of the coronavirus pandemic that has left more than 237,000 dead in the U.S. and millions unemployed.

The social justice organization Pax Christi USA expressed wishes that Biden and his running mate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, “might be guided by a commitment to pursue the ‘things that make for peace,’” citing the Gospel of Luke, adding that justice “must be the foundation of efforts toward reconciliation and healing.”

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago said that “as we now have the results of the election, it is good to remember that our strength in America lies in our unity.”

“We commend all who had the courage to compete in the electoral process and participate in our democracy,” the cardinal said. “We pray that the Lord will enlighten and sustain those elected in their service to all the people of our country.

“Let us also ask God to free our hearts of regrets and resentments, of pride and contemptuousness. Particularly in this time of pandemic, we must set aside whatever partisan concerns have divided us and turn our energy and passion to serving the common good.”

However, some Catholics and other organizations weren’t ready yet to accept the projection of Biden as the winner.

Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, said in a Nov. 8 statement that this was “a time for prudence and patience since the results had not been authenticated.”

However, it is typical to project the winner before results are certified, which can

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Democratic vice president-elect Kamala Harris speaks to supporters at an election rally in Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 7, 2020, after news media declared her running mate, Joe Biden, had won the presidential election. Right, President Donald Trump returns to the White House in Washington Nov. 7, 2020, after news media declared Democrat Joe Biden to be the winner of the presidential election. take from days to weeks depending on the state. The same process took place in 2016 when Trump was projected as the winner and also took place in previous presidential elections.

The day after the results were announced, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, congratulated Biden on the win.

“We thank God for the blessings of liberty. The American people have spoken in this election,” Archbishop Gomez said.

“Now is the time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity and to commit themselves to dialogue and compromise for the common good.”

Catholics have a special duty to be peacemakers, Archbishop Gomez said, “to promote fraternity and mutual trust, and to pray for a renewed spirit of true patriotism in our country.”

“As we do this, we recognize that Joseph R. Biden Jr., has received enough votes to be elected the 46th president of the United States,” he said. “We congratulate Mr. Biden and acknowledge that he joins the late President John F. Kennedy as the second United States president to profess the Catholic faith.

“We also congratulate Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California, who becomes the first woman ever elected as vice president.”

The views reflected the divisions among U.S. Catholics over the two candidates. Among Catholics, news agency AP in its VoteCast showed ballots cast were split between the two, with 50% of Catholics backing Trump and 49% Biden, who received majority support from Latino Catholics, the second largest ethnic group in the church in the U.S.

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Biden told hundreds of supporters in Wilmington on Nov. 7 that he pledged “to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify” and “who doesn’t see red states and blue states – only the United States.”

He will work with “all my heart, with the confidence of the whole people, to win the confidence of all of you,” he said in an evening speech Nov. 7. “And for that is what America I believe is about.

It’s about people. And that’s what our administration will be all about.”

Biden addressed the crowd hours after the media declared him the winner of the 2020 election. AP reported he had won Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, which put him over the 270 electoral-votethreshold needed to secure a victory.

Biden is the second Catholic to be elected to the nation’s highest office. Sixty years ago, on Nov. 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy became the first. Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harris is the first woman and the first person of color to be elected to the second highest office.

“I sought this office to restore the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class,” Biden said, “and to make America respected around the world again. And to unite us here at home.

“It’s the honor of my lifetime that so many millions of Americans have voted for that vision. And now, the work of making that vision is real, it’s a task – the task of our time.”

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Survivors: ‘We need to look this evil in the eye’ JONAH MCKEOWN CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

DENVER – After the Nov. 10 release of the Vatican’s McCarrick Report, some survivors of clerical abuse told CNA they remain skeptical that the report contains the full truth about McCarrick, and say the were disappointed that rumors of McCarrick’s misconduct with adults largely appeared not to have been investigated.

Jan Ruidl, who lives in Milwaukee, was abused by a priest in the 1970s. She worked in church ministry for several years and now works in grief ministry at a funeral home.

Based on her reading of the report, Ruidl said, there was “an extremely high level of denial” in the hierarchy about McCarrick, especially when it came to the allegations that he abused adults.

“As a woman who’s been abused, as a mother, a wife, a church minister, and a human being, I just can’t comprehend why nobody was concerned about these young men. They were adults, but they were young, and in such a power imbalance they might as well have been children.”

Gina Barthel, a hospice nurse in Minneapolis, is a survivor of clerical abuse which happened when she was an adult. For Barthel, the report’s chronicling of the rumors and allegations about McCarrick’s misconduct with adults was particularly disturbing.

While the legal and moral consequences of abuse against children and adults differ, Barthel said, “sexual interactions with adults should not be taken any less seriously simply because they’re not a minor.”

BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE WILL DRAMATICALLY RAISE REFUGEE CAP

WASHINGTON – Weeks after the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was dropping to a historic low the cap on the maximum number of displaced people the U.S. decides to resettle in a federal fiscal year, Presidentelect Joe Biden said Nov. 12 he would be heading in a dramatically different direction.

Addressing those gathered for a virtual event marking the 40th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service, Biden, in a

“I think this is an area where the church has a long way to go, and it needs to be taken seriously because it’s immoral,” she said.

“I would hope, in the Catholic Church, that that would not be tolerated.”

Barthel also acknowledged that even while it was hard to read, she believes bringing immorality into the light is important.

“While it is important for the church to make the findings public, as a survivor of clergy abuse, it is very painful to read. It stirs up anger and deep sadness. I had to stop reading it because it simply isn’t helpful for my healing journey. It is simply too painful and too triggering.”

“Yet, I have first-hand experience with people in the church who are in denial about the gravity of clergy abuse and the need to expose it publicly. They want to keep this in the dark. Healing isn’t possible if this isn’t brought into the light. Change won’t happen if we bury our heads in the sand. We need to look this evil in the eye, confront it and fiercely fight to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

Esther Harber was raped by a priest in 2010, when she was working as a lay missionary in New York City. She told CNA that she crossed paths with McCarrick when she was briefly a member of a religious order in the early 2010s.

In 2011, she entered the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará (SSVM), a worldwide religious order with a provincial house in Washington D.C. Then archbishop McCarrick was heavily involved with the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE)– coun-

prerecorded video, said his administration would raise the 15,000 cap set by the Trump administration for fiscal year 2021 to 125,000 refugees.

Hours after taking office in January 2017, the Trump administration announced it was cutting the cap of 110,000 allowed under the Obama administration to 50,000. The administration consistently lowered the number each fiscal year. Last year, the administration announced it was setting the cap at 18,000 refugees for the 2020 fiscal year, but fewer than 10,000 have been allowed in.

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McCarrick was reportedly close to the IVE. As archbishop of Washington, he oversaw the relocation of the IVE novitiate from the Diocese of San Jose, California to his archdiocese. He often ordained members of the order’s Immaculate Conception province, doing so as late as 2017.

Cardinal McCarrick lived with the IVE community at St. John Baptist de la Salle during his retirement, after residing for a period at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Harber said McCarrick would occasionally come over to the SSVM convent for meals. He was a major donor to the community, akin to the order’s “benefactor,” Harber said.

“We kind of had to fawn on him. He was always around, and he always had seminarians. And it just kind of gave you that icky feeling, you know?” she said.

In 2016, the Vatican affirmed the veracity of allegations that the IVE’s founder, Father Carlos Miguel Buela, engaged in sexual improprieties with adult seminarians of his community.

It wasn’t until the revelations of 2018 that Harber, along with most of the rest of the church, learned about the allegations against McCarrick. She says some former IVE members she talked with after the allegations were made public said they had already known about McCarrick’s misconduct.

“Among the brothers, it was a well known fact.

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Media can showcase overlooked portraits of survivors CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – In reporting historical and recent abuse of minors, the media should broaden its focus to include portrayals of survivors as active agents of reform, one survivor said.

Interviewing survivors about their abuse and the emotional impact of it brings an important “human face” to the crimes, said Mark Vincent Healy, an advocate in Ireland for safe spaces, care and services for survivors of child sexual abuse.

But reporters also should be asking them “the bigger questions” about ongoing injustices, unnecessary hurdles and the kind of response and care that would truly help, he said.

In some media portrayals, “your whole life can be frozen in time” to that specific span of events in the past, he said; such treatment casts survivors “in a pretty tight narrative.”

“They don’t have to just be victims. They can contribute, be given ownership as participants and instigators of change, (as) people who are building something out of their pain,” he told Catholic News Service by Skype in late August.

Healy has used his skills and experience to push for justice and redress decades after his own abuse as a young student at a Spiritan-run school in Dublin. He works with other survivors and advocates for more effective and broader changes, designed to promote greater accountability and care by all sectors, including government and the European Parliament, to help all victims of child sexual abuse.

“I found catharsis” in working with other survivors, he said, and by dedicating himself to advocacy work, “everything that seemed a negative made me even more positive.”

Highlighting more of the inspiring aspect of survivors’ lives is something Healy and Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a safeguarding expert, would like to see explored more deeply by the media.

Media could be more proactive in reaching out to survivors to know what they have been doing, what they found helpful, where justice was done and what made them feel safe, respected and “dignified,” Father Zollner, who is a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and the president of the Centre for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, told CNS. Healy said that by asking survivors, “What do you want” and need, people also would see a totally “different world” from the “battlefield” they face in

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litigation, lawsuits and struggles for compensation and care.

The way out of that “nightmare,” he said, would be a world of immediate and ongoing “charitable therapeutic support” in which people acknowledge that survivors, too, have “a dream like everyone else has, to function and attain independence.”

By being a space where survivors air current concerns and propose solutions, the media “could change the game, change the focus” of how the church responds in general, he said.

Healy said the church has to “stop pretending they’re doing it right by saying, ‘Meet us in court.’

This is not an option if the outcome is so damaging.”

The church must recognize its purpose is not to worsen the state and situation of people who were harmed, he said; “Behave as Jesus Christ would. Care for them. Don’t bring them to this arena (of litigation); it is ungodly and not the place of Christ.”

It is not about inviting survivors back to Mass, he said.

“It is a mission. There is real work to do, a new order to go out to meet with survivors, children of the faith who have been scattered, who have either grown in anger or resentment or indifference toward the representatives of the Catholic faith, with but a few who clung on, needing not to lose a faith community despite the challenges of doing so,” said Healy, who was one of six survivors invited to meet privately with Pope Francis in 2014.

The work that needs doing is to help to bring reconciliation and alleviate the pain and distress in victims, in their families and in their community, he said.

Father Zollner said the church “could reach out actively and invite survivors to come forward” to a safe space to talk about their experience; however, it hasn’t been easy to make that work.

For example, the bishops in the Netherlands made that kind of invitation in 2002, right after the huge media coverage of widespread abuse and negligence in the Archdiocese of Boston.

But only few people came forward, Father Zollner said, and it wasn’t until there was a second wave of allegations hitting central Europe in 2010 when “many more victims of abuse came forward in the Netherlands.”

One of many reasons for the delay in coming forward, he said, was people “first need to feel that they are really being listened to, that they are really respected, and that this is not some kind of ‘deal’” or manipulation where they can come forward but are then expected to keep quiet.

Survivors need to feel it is safe to tell the truth about what they experienced, and “they speak out once they come to know you and they come to trust you,” which can be very difficult after their trust has been so shattered, he added.

“People in the church, across all countries, need to listen to the voices of survivors toward developing a ministry with survivors and for survivors. The ‘with’ is important. You cannot, as a church that has harmed these people pretend that you knew (then) and know now what to do. This has to be found out with a group of survivors; survivors – without question – must be instrumental to healing the church,” he said.

The church also should recognize the many skills and the potential survivors have, not just in safeguarding, the Jesuit said; they also should be encouraged to be active participants in everything from parish life to schools and social ministry, even be advisers to bishops and other church leaders.

“They have truly carried the cross; their stories and witness can help priests, seminarians, religious and laypeople who may be associated with the scandal in the church. Many survivors yearn to pass on their faith; the church would be a better church if there were more opportunities for survivors to be part of the evangelization that Pope Francis calls for,” he added.

The measure for knowing whether systems and responses are working, Healy said, is asking, “Are survivors better off? Are there less stressors?”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 19, 2020

SUNDAY READINGS

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe EZEKIEL 34:11-12, 15-17 Thus, says the Lord God: I myself will look after and tend my sheep. As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark. I, myself will pasture my sheep; I, myself will give them rest, says the Lord God. The lost I will seek out, the strayed I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, the sick I will heal, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy, shepherding them rightly.

As for you, my sheep, says the Lord God, I will judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

PSALM 23:1-2, 2-3, 5-6 The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul. He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:20-26, 28 Brothers and sisters: Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through man, the resurrection of the dead came also through man. For just as in Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life, but each one in proper order: Christ the firstfruits; then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ; then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has destroyed every sovereignty and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. When everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

MATTHEW 25:31-46 Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates

The big picture

T

oday’s readings mark the end of the year – the church year, that is. We’ve made our way once more through the yearlong celebration of the Christian mystery. God has so loved the world that he sent his only Son, so that we might have life in him.

Since last December, we have remembered his Son’s birth, life, death and resurrection.

Now we’ve arrived at the end of the cycle. From this vantage point, we can turn and look back.

What, finally, does it all amount to? An uplifting message for a darkening world?

A guide to a decent, moral existence – the Ten Commandments plus grace? A hope for some kind of afterlife?

St. Paul gives us an indicaKEVIN PERROTTA tion that takes me, at least, to the very limits of the capacity to believe.

Paul speaks of the “end” of “all” (1 Cor 15:24, 28).

We don’t know exactly how Paul pictured the universe, but however he thought of it, he was saying that, in its entirety, it will pass away; something new will take its place.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

For us in the 21st century, talking about the “end” of “all” the universe means thinking with measures of time and space that far exceed comprehension.

For a 13-billion-year-old universe, whose extent can be represented only with a mind-glazing string of zeroes, when might the end be? What might it look like?

Whenever or however the end, Paul says, it will not simply be the end. It will be the moment of God’s re-creation in his Son, so that God will be “all in all.” God will be everything for everything, everything for everyone.

“All” will find fulfillment in him. Whatever was crooked will be straightened out. Every tear will be wiped away.

That is what the Christian mystery amounts to.

If in faith we take hold of this cosmic vision, we must ask how we, in our littleness, can manage to find a place in it.

The path is accessible, Jesus tells us in the Gospel.

Show compassion to the people around you. Each person around you, then, is your way into the summing up of everything in God. And if we know ourselves to be weak and wayward, needing strength and guidance along the way? We have our answer in both our first reading and responsorial psalm. “I am your shepherd,” God declares.

KEVIN PERROTTA is the editor and an author of the “Six Weeks With the Bible” series, teaches part time at Siena Heights University and leads Holy Land pilgrimages. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’ And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of the least brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.’ Then they will answer and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?’ He will answer them, ‘Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’ And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

POPE FRANCIS POPE: FAITH REQUIRES RISKS, HELPING OTHERS

VATICAN CITY – Being faithful to God means taking the risk of setting aside one’s own needs and plans in order to serve others, Pope Francis said, celebrating Mass for the World Day of the Poor.

“Today, in these times of uncertainty, in these times of instability, let us not waste our lives thinking only of ourselves, indifferent to others or deluding ourselves into thinking, ‘peace and security!’” the pope said in his homily Nov. 15. Everyone is invited to “look reality in the face and to avoid the infection of indifference,” he said.

The Mass was celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica in the presence of about 100 people, who were representing those around the world who face poverty as well as volunteers and benefactors who assist them.

Because of ongoing restrictions meant to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the Mass was not open to the public and was livestreamed on Vatican news channels.

Instead of the large mobile health clinic, which is usually set up in St. Peter’s Square for the week, a smaller clinic under the colonnade surrounding the square was offering expanded services.

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LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23: Monday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Clement I, pope & martyr; St. Columban, abbot; Bl. Miguel Pro, priest and martyr. Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5. Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Mt 24:42a, 44. LK 21:1-4.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24: Memorial of St. Andrew Dung-Lac, priest and martyr, and Companions, martyrs.

RV 14:14-19. PS 96:10, 11-12, 13. RV 2:10C. LK 21:511.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25: Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr. RV 15:1-4. PS 98:1, 2-3AB, 7-8, 9. RV 2:10C. LK 21:12-19.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26: Thursday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Thanksgiving Day. RV

18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9A. PS 100:1B-2, 3, 4, 5. LK 21:28. LK 21:20-28.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1: Tuesday of the First Week of Advent. IS 11:1-10. PS 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17. LK 10:21-24.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27: Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. RV 20:1-4, 11–21:2. PS 84:3, 4, 5-6A AND 8A. LK 21:28. LK 21:29-33.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2: Wednesday of the First Week of Advent. IS 25:6-10A. PS 23:1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6.

MT 15:29-37.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28: Saturday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. RV 22:1-7. PS 95:1-2, 3-5, 6-7AB. LK 21:36. LK 21:34-36.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3: Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, priest. IS 26:1-6. PS 118:1 AND 8-9, 19-21, 2527A. IS 55:6. MT 7:21, 24-27.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29: First Sunday of Advent. IS 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7. PS 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19. 1 COR 1:3-9. PS 85:8. MK 13:33-37.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4: Friday of the First Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, priest and doctor. IS 29:17-24. PS 27:1, 4, 13-14. MT 9:27-31.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30: Feast of St. Andrew, apostle. ROM 10:9-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. MT 4:19. MT 4:18-22.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5: Saturday of the First Week of Advent. IS 30:19-21, 23-26. PS 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. IS 33:22. MT 9:35–10:1, 5A, 6-8.

OPINION 11

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 19, 2020

LETTERS To salvage hope for all

As I write this, the results of the presidential election are undecided. I face the prospect that “the other side” will win and feel despair. I picture one of “them” – angry, shouting, threatening. Where do I get this image? Trying to understand my feelings, I put into words what I pictured when thinking about “them.”

As I wrote each sentence, I realized uncomfortably that my description of “them” could easily be their description of me. To test it, I replaced proper nouns with placeholder letters.

Below is my result: How I imagine people who voted for XXX: Armed, angry, violent. Seeing everything as “us vs. them,” wanting to pre-emptively attack.

Putting their idea of “right” ahead of law; using the threat of violence to have their way.

Seeing XXX’s election as putting them in position to take what they want (from me!).

Seeing YYY as a threat to their livelihood.

Wanting to push down others because they feel they’ve been pushed down.

Seeing me as a threat that they need to take out. Why? Because I’m from BBB, get my news from DDD, and voted for ZZZ. I think they see me as an enemy, and I feel too weak to defend myself.

If both sides see each other like this, we must change. I don’t know how to begin; I am afraid to reach out, and I don’t know to whom. But it feels necessary to be part of a change. To salvage hope for both of us.

Rachel Avelais Mountain View

A contrasting example

Re “Archbishop seeks justice in Serra statue vandalism,” CSF, Nov. 5, 2020: On Oct. 12, 2020, a group of demonstrators seeking to protest the abuses suffered by indigenous people under the Spanish mission system toppled a statue of St. Junípero Serra on the street in front of the Mission San Rafael.

Archbishop Cordileone has responded by conducting an “exorcism” at the site where the statue stood and demanding that the local prosecutor pursue “hate crime” charges against the alleged perpetrators.

At St. Raphael Parish we have a contrasting example in the late Bishop Frank Quinn, who visited our parish in 2006 to commemorate the founding of the Mission.

During his homily, Bishop Quinn offered an apology for the mistreatment of the Miwok people at the hands of the church.

Later, Bishop Quinn recalled the event. “I’ve studied the Miwoks and I regret that they were treated unfairly,” he said in an interview. “They didn’t expect an apology, so some of the Indians even wept. I looked upon it as a time of reconciliation.”

Bishop Quinn’s approach to the indigenous people, which was pastoral and conciliatory in tone, seems more in keeping with the teachings of Jesus.

Frank Lindh San Rafael

Saddened and angered

I was saddened and angered by Archbishop Cordileone’s comments in the “Archbishop seeks justice in Serra statue vandalism” article in the Nov. 5, 2020, issue of Catholic San Francisco.

In the article Archbishop Cordileone asks the Marin County District Attorney to prosecute the accused to “the full extent of the law.”

I am in no way condoning the destruction of property, but I am disap-

pointed that the archbishop did not take this opportunity to express basic tenets of my Catholic faith – forgiveness and reconciliation. We Catholics, especially in San Francisco, hold dear the prayer of St. Francisco “...where there is injury, [let me sow] pardon, where there is hatred [let me sow] love.” Can there be justice without forgiveness? I doubt very much that Jesus would not agree.

Catharine Kalin San Francisco

Vaccination ethics

Father Tad Pacholczyk provides half of the ethical principles involved in vaccination. (CSF, Nov. 3, 2020). Everything he states about human rights is correct and true. Still, a valid decision process is difficult because he omits considering human obligations.

With no conflicts between human rights and human obligations, there is no need for the study of ethics and Father Tad would be out of a job.

Public health officials working on vaccination consider both the rights of all people to be free from a disease, if it is possible, and individual decision rights. There are two parts to that decision process. The first involves human experimentation (now with essential informed consent). If there is potential for eradicating the disease the public health officials, with broad consultation, publish a mandate.

One must note that this has worked worldwide at least for the eradication of polio and smallpox. Today worldwide vaccination to these illnesses is accepted as essential for reducing the carrier state to near zero. There is an individual right to be free of these diseases because the public health officials have means of doing so. As corollary there is an individual obligation to accept vaccination for the common good.

It is not yet known whether such a vaccine will work for COVID-19. When announced, we all have a right to information on safety and effectiveness.

If a mandate is given, we also have an obligation for broad acceptance of vaccination.

A call for wearing face masks, although not a mandate, has similar moral obligations.

Alex M. Saunders, MD Redwood City

Pray for conversion

In view of the endless Islamicist terrorist attacks on Catholic institutions and icons and, even worse, Catholics throughout the world, most recently in France, I suggest that every church pray during the general Intercessions that all Muslims be converted to the Catholic faith. I am sure there are many petitions we can borrow from the great French Catholic saints. Maybe we can add a prayer for the unborn child while we are at it. I would rather hear these true petitions than the seamless garment issues (environment, immigration, poverty, etc.), whose only redeeming factor is a good yawn. If you agree, please cut this letter out from this paper and give to your priest. And remember: “Be not afraid”!

Tony Morgan Mill Valley

Questions for a divided flock

In all of my many years of life I’ve probably seen no greater a division

between the citizens of our nation than what I have seen during this last national election cycle, and as a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who has seen and experienced the cost of serving this great nation during time of war I find that quite disturbing. But, as a Catholic what I find even more disturbing is the apparent split that I believe to exist between those who profess commitment to the teachings of our church and the rebuke I have seen directed toward our Catholic leaders who’ve had the courage to speak out so that their alleged faithful parishioners can better understand the position of our Catholic Church on issues regarding political agendas or party positions that are contrary to Catholic teachings.

In the beginning during the founding days of our church didn’t Christ and his disciples do likewise, and can we not agree that the parish priests and other leaders of our church have the same fundamental obligation even when we may disagree with what is being said? Should we as Catholics align ourselves with institutions political or otherwise that include within their platform ideas and practices that are not in line with what we profess to have faith in, and if we do so can we in good conscience and without being hypocritical profess our devotion to our Catholic faith?

Mike Belmessieri South San Francisco

The right to life is preeminent

Re “Nation’s leaders must now ‘come together’ with election of new president,” statement by Archbishop Gomez, posted online Nov. 7, 2020: The archbishop’s statement that we should all unite behind Joe Biden because he is a Catholic troubles me, a cradle Catholic educated in catholic schools. Joe Biden, along with all the other Catholic Democratic politicians, believes in abortion, even late-term abortion. Some of the church’s hierarchy and parish priests talk more about the need for more social justice. The first right in this country’s declaration is the right to life, followed by the right to liberty and then the right to pursuit of happiness. Life is a precious gift from God and when life is treated in such a cavalier manner, what really do the other rights mean. You must have life to enjoy the other rights.

We always hear about the financial waning of the church. evangelicals, Pentecostals, and other religions have no problem about preaching against abortion from the pulpit. This is not done in many parishes. My humble opinion is that the hierarchy of the church over time has cut these politicians such as Joe Biden slack by saying, “He or she really want to help the poor, etc.” The Catholic Church is going through some tough times and it will take the laity, aided by brave bishops and priests, to get it back on the proper track.

I am an American of Italian descent and Archbishop Gomez’s message for Catholics to unite behind Joe Biden because he is a Catholic would be like me saying I should vote and support any Italian American running for office.

Mel Figoni Santa Rosa

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The law of gravity and the Holy Spirit

“G

od is erotically charged and the world is achingly amorous, hence they caress each other in mutual attraction and filiation.”

Jewish philosopher Martin Buber made that assertion, and while it seems to perfectly echo the opening line of St. Augustine’s autobiography, “You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our FATHER RON hearts are restROLHEISER less until they rest in you,” it hints at something more. St. Augustine was talking about an insatiable ache inside the human heart which keeps us restless and forever aware that everything we experience is not enough because the finite unceasingly aches for the infinite, and the infinite unceasingly lures the finite.

But St. Augustine was speaking of the human heart, about the restlessness and pull toward God that’s felt there.

Martin Buber is talking about that too, but he’s also talking about a restlessness, an incurable pull toward God, that’s inside all of nature, inside the universe itself. It isn’t just people who are achingly amorous, it’s the whole world, all of nature, the universe itself.

What’s being said here? In essence, Buber is saying that what’s felt inside the human heart is also present inside every element within nature itself, in atoms, molecules, stones, plants, insects, and animals. There’s the same ache for God inside everything that exists, from a dead planet, to a black hole, to a redwood tree, to our pet dogs and cats, to the heart of a saint. And in that there’s no distinction between the spiritual and the physical.

The one God who made both is drawing them both in the same way.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was both a scientist and a mystic, believed this interplay between the energy flowing from an erotically charged God and that flowing back from an amorous world, is the energy that undergirds the very structure of the universe, physical and spiritual. For Teilhard, the law of gravity, atomic activity, photosynthesis, ecosystems, electromagnetic fields, animal instinct, sexuality, human friendship, creativity, and altruism, all draw on and manifest one and the same energy, an energy that is forever drawing all things toward each other. If that is true, and it is, then ultimately the law of gravity and the Holy Spirit are part of one and the same energy, one and the same law, one and the same interplay of eros and response.

At first glance it may seem rather unorthodox theologically to put people and physical nature on the same plane.

Perhaps too, some might find it offensive to speak of God as “erotically charged.”

So, let me address those concerns.

In terms of God relating to physical nature, orthodox Christian theology and our Scriptures affirm that God’s coming to us in Christ in the incarnation is an event not just for people, but also for physical creation itself. When Jesus says he has come to save the world he is, in fact, talking about the world and not just the people in the world. Physical creation, SEE ROLHEISER, PAGE 12

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SURVIVORS: ‘We need to look this evil in the eye’ FROM PAGE 8

Among the sisters, we didn’t know as much,” Harber said, but added that she was not surprised when the revelations came out.

“This is a man we shared meals with … I think what disgusted me the most and probably what triggered me the most was watching the coverup that happened.”

With her own experience of abuse, the diocese’s initial response was even more hurtful than the rape itself, she said. Her abuser remained at Harber’s parish for several months, and as far as Harber knows he remains a priest today in Nigeria.

Harber said she had a similar feeling reading the McCarrick Report and seeing how many people heard the rumors surrounding him, yet did not take action. In both cases, a fear of scandal prevented the truth coming to light, she said.

“I don’t think there’s the fullness of the truth in that report. If history has taught us anything, it’s that they have not been forthcoming. And it’s just been incredibly sad,” she said.

Several survivors noted to CNA with sadness that McCarrick’s denials of allegations against him appeared to go relatively untested.

Cardinal John O’Connor of New York in 1999 wrote a letter to the U.S. apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, objecting to McCarrick’s potential appointment to higher office, on the basis of existing allegations of misconduct, including incidents involving sharing a bed with seminarians at a New Jersey beach house.

In mid-2000, the report states, McCarrick wrote a letter meant to rebut O’Connor’s allegations, stating that “In the 70 years of my life, I have never had sexual relations with any person, male or female, young or old, cleric or lay, nor have I ever abused another person or treated them with disrespect.”

“McCarrick’s denial was believed and the view was held that, if allegations against McCarrick were made public, McCarrick would be able to refute them easily,” the report says.

Harber said she was unsurprised by McCarrick’s apparent lie, saying it is common that an abuser’s denial will be taken at face value, as happened with her abuser.

Ruidl agreed. “They certainly didn’t extend that same belief to the victims who dared to complain,” she said.

Harber echoed Barthel and Ruidl saying that the church needs to pay more attention to adult abuse victims. Between any priest and any layperson, a power difference exists that can be exploited for abuse, she said.

“What McCarrick took from those victims, the seminarians, and the adults that he abused, he can never give back.”

Ruidl said she believes a culture of lawsuits and bankruptcies has also made interactions between the church and survivors more contentious.

In her opinion, meetings between bishops and survivors should be “human being to human being” and should, as much as possible, de-emphasize the power differential.

“Any time you put the power differential into play, you’re putting the survivor, the person who’s been harmed, in a defensive posture, and probably a posture of fear,” she said.

Awake Milwaukee, a lay organization that supports survivors of abuse, sent out materials to Milwaukee parishes via email to help pastors address the news of the McCarrick Report in their parishes and from their pulpits in a manner sensitive to survivors.

“Your parishioners are likely to approach Mass this weekend with hard questions and heavy hearts, and we are reaching out to offer resources to help you respond,” an email from the group read.

Catholic News Service contributed.

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no less than humanity, is God’s child and God intends to redeem all of his children.

Christian theology has never taught that the world will be destroyed at the end of time, but rather (as St. Paul says)

physical creation will be transformed and enter into the glorious liberty of the children of God. How will the physical world go to heaven? We don’t know; though we can’t conceptualize how we will go there either. But we know this: The Christ who took on flesh in the incarnation is

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also the cosmic Christ, that is, the Christ through whom all things were made and who binds all creation together. Hence theologians speak of “deep incarnation,” namely, of the Christ-event as going deeper than simply saving human beings, as saving physical creation itself.

I can appreciate too that there will be some dis-ease in my speaking of God as “erotic,” given that today we generally identify that word with sex. But that’s not the meaning of the word. For the Greek philosophers, from whom we took this word, eros was identified with love, and with love in all its aspects. Eros did mean sexual attraction and emotional obsession, but it also meant friendship, playfulness, creativity, common sense, and altruism. Eros, properly understood, includes all of those elements, so even if we identify eros with sexuality, there still

should be no discomfort in applying this to God. We are made in the image and likeness of God, and thus our sexuality reflects something inside the nature of God. A God who is generative enough to create billions of galaxies and is continually creating billions of people, clearly is sexual and fertile in ways beyond our conception. Moreover, the relentless ache inside of every element and person in the universe for unity with something beyond itself has one and the same thing in mind, consummation in love with God who is Love.

So, in reality, the law of gravity and the gifts of the Holy Spirit have one and the same aim.

OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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of representation of African American Catholics. “So how can we as a church move into the community and reach African American youth when we aren’t as represented as we need to be?” he asked.

Reese also brought up his experience of being shunned by some fellow Catholics at the sign of peace during Mass as an example of how the church needs to address racism among its members. “If you want to cure racism in the community you have to cure it in the churches too, or make it clear that it is not acceptable,” he said.

Christopher Major, the archdiocese’s African

UK ABUSE INQUIRY: LONDON CARDINAL, VATICAN DID NOT SHOW LEADERSHIP

MANCHESTER, England – The Catholic Church in England and Wales and the Vatican failed to show compassion or leadership in the fight against child abuse, a U.K. inquiry concluded.

“The Roman Catholic Church: Investigation Report” was part of a national inquiry – set up by the British home secretary – into abuse in a range of institutions, including social care, government and the Church of England.

The report on the Catholic Church, released Nov. 10, accused Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, of putting the reputation of the church ahead of the welfare of vulnerable children.

“As the figurehead and the most senior leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Catholics look to Cardinal Nichols to lead by example,” the report said. It noted that “Catholics look to Cardinal Nichols to lead by example” but added that “it is difficult to exercise good leadership if you engage in bad practice.”

American ministries director, moderated the meeting and reminded everyone that Christians are called to participate in the world, in our salvation and to help others. “I hope through these listening sessions more and more people can connect with each other and learn from each other,” he said.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone spoke at the end of the session, responding to the themes repeatedly brought up by speakers. Family love is transformative, he said, and needs to be strengthened and protected from threats. The archbishop continued that racism can be overcome by building up intentional friendship between people. The Catholic Church is well positioned to do this because it con-

tains the traditions and spiritual practices of many ethnicities and cultures, he said.

The archbishop said he was “horrified” by the stories Black speakers had shared of being shunned or ignored in church and said “we do have our own backyard to clean up.” If the church does that, it can do a better job of serving its local community, he said.

The archbishop said family, community and the church are important foundations for society and are necessary parts of overcoming racism.

“We need to strengthen these foundations if we want to build something that can withstand social turmoil,” he said.”

The report said it found “no acknowledgment of any personal responsibility to lead or influence change” on the part of the cardinal. “Nor did he demonstrate compassion toward victims in the recent cases which we examined,” it said.

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the importance of perseverance in prayer.

Reflecting on Jesus’ parable of the tenacious person who knocks unceasingly at his friend’s door asking for bread, the pope said that unlike the friend who relents after constant insistence, God “is more patient with us and the person who knocks with faith and perseverance on the door of his heart will not be disappointed.”

“Our Father knows well what we need; insistence is necessary not to inform him or to convince him, but it is necessary to nurture the desire and expectation in us,” the pope said.

Jesus’ parable of the widow who persistently sought and eventually obtained justice from an unscrupulous judge, he continued, serves as a reminder that faith “is not a momentary choice but a courageous disposition to call on God, even to ‘argue’ with him, without resigning oneself to evil and injustice.”

Finally, the parable of the Pharisee who boasted his merits during prayer while the publican feels unworthy to enter the temple reveals that “there is no true prayer without humility,” he said.

Pope Francis said the Gospel encourages Christians to pray always, “even when everything seems in vain, when God appears to be deaf and mute and it seems we are wasting time.”

“There are many days of our life when faith seems to be an illusion, a sterile exertion,” the pope said. “But the practice of prayer means accepting even this exertion. Many saints experienced the night of faith and God’s silence, and they were persevering.”

True Christians, the pope added, do not fear anything but instead “entrust themselves to the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us a gift and who prays with us.”

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Vatican report reveals omissions in Archbishop Vigano’s ‘testimony’ JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s extensive report on Theodore E. McCarrick revealed several crucial details that call into question the 2018 “testimony” of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, including that he did not investigate the former cardinal when ordered to do so by the Vatican in 2012.

Archbishop Vigano, who served as apostolic nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016, published his testimony in August 2018 and called on Pope Francis to resign, claiming the pope knew about McCarrick’s sexual misconduct and yet eased restrictions on McCarrick’s ministry and travel.

Though informed that the report on McCarrick was being compiled, “he never came forward” to be interviewed or give evidence, a Vatican official said Nov. 10, the day the report was released.

According to the report, in August 2012, Archbishop Vigano received a letter from “Priest 3,” which detailed the sexual abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of McCarrick.

A week later, Archbishop Vigano reported the accusations to Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and sought instruction on how to proceed.

Cardinal Ouellet replied in September 2012, asking Archbishop Vigano to investigate the accusations, first by verifying “the personality and the reliability of (Priest 3) by inquiring of the vicar general or vicar for the clergy of Metuchen” and “to reply to (Priest 3), requesting that he clarify his accusations against the aforementioned ecclesiastics in order to determine their truth or lack thereof.”

The Vatican said it interviewed both the vicar general and vicar for clergy of the Diocese of Metuchen, as well as Priest 3. All three testified that they were never contacted by the former nuncio.

“Priest 3 stated that he was ‘disappointed’ by (Archbishop) Vigano’s failure to respond, and that he ‘felt that the nuncio was not paying attention to

something that to me was very important,” the report said.

In his August 2018 “testimony,” Archbishop Vigano claimed several members of the Roman Curia, including Cardinal Ouellet, were aware of alleged “sanctions” imposed on McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI. However, in an August 2018 interview with Lifesite News, Archbishop Vigano said the sanctions were “private.” Then in an October 2018 letter, the archbishop said that the alleged measures were “not technically ‘sanctions’ but provisions, ‘conditions and restrictions.’”

However, he did not mention in his testimony or subsequent open letters his correspondence with Cardinal Ouellet, nor Cardinal Ouellet’s request that he investigate.

Several sections of the Vatican’s report were devoted to McCarrick’s activities during Archbishop Vigano’s tenure as nuncio to the United States.

In his 2018 “testimony,” Archbishop Vigano said that then-Cardinal McCarrick continued to actively travel and appear at public events despite “sanctions” imposed by Pope Benedict in which he “was to leave the seminary where he was living, he was forbidden to celebrate (Mass) in public, to participate in public meetings, to give lectures, to travel, with the obligation of dedicating himself to a life of prayer and penance.”

However, the Vatican’s report revealed several messages and correspondence between Archbishop Vigano and then-Cardinal McCarrick, indicating that despite his awareness of those restrictions, the former nuncio participated and even invited McCarrick to several events.

In a 2011 message to Archbishop Vigano, the report said, McCarrick wrote, “I wanted to express my deepest gratitude to you for your kindness in including me and my secretary in the invitations to the splendid dinner which we enjoyed very much at the nunciature.”

It also states that McCarrick would often keep Archbishop Vigano “informed of his activities.”

Archbishop Vigano’s “decision not to take action during the first six months of 2012 in response to McCarrick’s

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detailed reports of his travel is also inconsistent with the former nuncio’s claim that he had told McCarrick that the cardinal was subject to canonical sanctions issued by Pope Benedict XVI that prohibited McCarrick from traveling and that required him to dedicate ‘himself to a life of prayer and penance,’” the Vatican’s report stated.

The report also stated that in June 2012, Archbishop Vigano was forwarded a letter sent by a parishioner in Maryland who described McCarrick as “a predator.” The nunciature’s copy of the letter included notations written by the former nuncio stating that it contained “serious accusations” against McCarrick.

Despite receiving the accusations, “there is nothing in the file to suggest that Archbishop Vigano followed up on this letter by contacting the sender, McCarrick, the archdiocese or the Holy See.” Furthermore, the report published a message sent by McCarrick to Archbishop Vigano one month later in which the former cardinal thanked the former nuncio for inviting him and his priest secretary to dinner.

“To be with you and your colleagues is a great honor and I am truly thankful for your kindness in letting us become part of your house,” McCarrick wrote.

Most notably, the report states that Pope Francis was questioned regarding Archbishop Vigano’s statement that he informed the pope about the accusations against McCarrick in June 2013.

“Pope Francis did not recollect what (Archbishop) Vigano said about McCarrick during these two meetings,” the report stated. “However, because McCarrick was a cardinal known personally to him, Pope Francis was certain that he would have remembered had Vigano spoken about McCarrick with any ‘force or clarity.’”

The pope was also certain that the former nuncio “never told him that McCarrick had committed ‘crimes’ against any person, whether adult or minor, or described McCarrick as a ‘serial predator,’ or stated that McCarrick had “corrupted generations of seminarians and priests,” the report added.

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One of the most extroverted Sisters of Mercy in San Francisco, Sister Mary Edith Hurley is celebrating her 100th birthday on Nov. 15, 2020. “A great people person, loving and gracious to everyone,” as her friend Mercy Sister Mary Kilgariff describes her.

Part of her charm is that Sister Mary Edith has been close to her Irish heritage all her life. The first daughter in her Irish American family to be born in San Francisco, she began as a young girl to learn Irish step dancing and in her senior years added her membership in the Rebel Cork Ladies Association as well as in the Ladies Auxiliary of Hibernians.

After attending St. Peter School in San Francisco, she received her Bachelor of Arts in education at Holy Names College.

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A diminutive figure, she taught her classes using an elevated chair to keep a good view of the kids. She was famous for fearlessly leading field trips for her 50 student classes.

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Sister Marie Bride Walsh, baptized Therese Rita Walsh, died on Sept. 26, 2020, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She Sister Marie was 100 years Bride Walsh, OP old and in the 81st year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Marie Bride held an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Siena Heights College in Adrian and a graduate degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Sister Marie Bride spent 67 years ministering in elementary and secondary education in Catholic schools including Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland. Since 1962, the school has been in the Diocese of Oakland but at the time, 1953-57, Oakland was still part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Sister Marie Bride became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in Adrian in 2010.

A livestreamed funeral Mass was celebrated on Sept. 30, 2020 in the congregation’s St. Catherine Chapel with interment in the Congregation Cemetery.

Due to COVID-19 protocols, the Dominican Life Center is closed until further notice to all guests or visitors Remembrances may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI 49221.

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“I loved the spirit of it all and the people there,” Sister Mary Edith said looking back.

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Always eager to gather family and friends, Sister Edith originated the Hurley Ladies Golf tournament that began as miniature golf. All contestants are Hurleys or married to a Hurley.

“Edith’s energetic personality is one of kindness, happiness, Irish wit, and acceptance, and she maintains a strong desire to be fully alive each day – even at 100,” said Sister Mary Kilgariff. In her 90s another of her favorite activities has been riding in the Rebel Cork Ladies float at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Disappointed that COVID-19 has prevented a gathering for her 100th, she is praying for that safe time when she can join her family and friends for outings and celebrations.

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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.

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MONDAYS, NOV. 30, DEC. 14, JAN. 4, 18: Only Amazement Knows, online Zoom course with Dr. Maria Elena Monzani: A Stanford astrophysicist, Dr. Monzani, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and others will examine how together, science and faith paint a coherent picture of humanity’s relationship with the cosmos.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 24: Connect and Communicate Workshop for Parishes: The ADSF is hosting a free webinar, “Communications in a Time of Pandemic” to help parish staff and volunteers learn how to leverage communication technologies during this time. 9 a.m.12:30 p.m. Visit sfarch.org/covidconnections.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2: Fourth Annual Women Shaping the Catholic Social Tradition: 12-1 p.m. Zoom webinar hosted by the Joan and Ralph Lane Center at USF. Carolyn Yauyan Woo, who served as president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States will lead the lecture. Visit usfca.edu and search for Lane Center events.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 2021: Human Trafficking Talk Series: The Office of Human Life and Dignity is offering a series of free Zoom talks and prayer on human trafficking beginning in January, National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month. 6:30 p.m. Visit sfarchdiocese.org/seminars.

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Guadalupana de San Francisco será virtual para agradecer por milagros relacionados a COVID-19 LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

La Cruzada Guadalupana de San Francisco este año será virtual el 5 de diciembre y con un motivo especial nunca imaginado, dar gracias a Dios y a la Virgen por tantos devotos que lograron sobrevivir al COVID-19 y suplicar que termine la pandemia, dijeron los fundadores de la peregrinación, Pedro y Marta García.

“La Virgen no se puede quedar sin su fiesta”, dijo Marta García.

Ella echó mano de su ingenio para ofrecerle a los devotos de San Francisco y los que vienen de otros estados, una Cruzada Guadalupana virtual.

“Para nosotros es muy importante no dejar pasar esta fecha para venerar a la Virgen y pedirle a Dios por todo lo que está pasando con la pandemia. Así que se nos vino esta idea de hacer la cruzada virtual, aunque es un reto por la tecnología”, dijo.

Agregó que quieren que la Virgen sepa “que estamos suplicando por los que están sufriendo, sabemos que, muchos de los que en años anteriores han venido a la cruzada han estado enfermos de COVID, que han estado intubados en los hospitales y que se han recuperado por la gracia de Dios, y la intercesión de la Virgen de Guadalupe”, dijo García.

La Cruzada Guadalupana fue una inspiración de Pedro García. La

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En una escena de la aparición de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, se ven los actores y productores en el Golden Gate Park el 8 de noviembre.

La Cruzada Guadalupana se transmitirá en YouTube, Instagram y Facebook el 5 de diciembre de 8 a.m. a 2 p.m.

Abajo, Juan Madriz se ve en una escena interpretando a san Juan Diego, el 8 de noviembre en el Golden Gate Park. organizó por primera vez en 1993 con la intención de pedir por los inmigrantes y su estado legal en los Estados Unidos.

Desde entonces cada año, el sábado antes del Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, que es el 12 de diciembre, los peregrinos recorren 12 millas desde la iglesia Todas las Almas en South San Francisco hasta la Catedral Santa María de la Asunción en el bulevar Gary y la calle Gough.

Pedro García piensa que la peregrinación “es un vehículo muy fuerte, muy grande para poder entre todos pedirle a la Virgen de Guadalupe que interceda por nosotros y por todo el mundo porque la situación está muy grave”.

“En momentos difíciles, a la primera que volteamos a ver es a ella (la Virgen) para que por medio de su intercesión llegue nuestra petición a papá Dios, de que nos mande el remedio para este mal tan grande que está en el mundo”, dijo García.

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“Todo esto es una experiencia nueva. Si no fuera por la gran colaboración que hemos tenido, Pedro y yo no hubiéramos sabido que hacer”, manifestó Marta García sin desanimarse.

Uno de los colaboradores que destaca en la producción de la cruzada virtual es Raúl Chávez, un especialista en tecnología.

Chávez asumió en julio el reto de hacer la cruzada virtual y desde entonces ha dedicado jornadas de hasta ocho horas diarias a preparar el proyecto, ya aprobado por los miembros de la mesa directiva de la Cruzada Guadalupana de San Francisco.

Para Chávez la producción de la Cruzada Guadalupana virtual es más que un acto de agradecimiento hacía los García, a quienes aprecia como si fueran sus tíos. Él cree en la aparición de la

Virgen, desde el punto de vista científico y por la fe que ha visto en tantos devotos que llegan cada año a la peregrinación, dijo al San Francisco Católico.

“Cuando voy a la peregrinación veo y siento esa energía”, dijo Chávez, dijo.

Este año debido al COVID-19 y a la posibilidad que no se llevara a cabo la peregrinación, Chávez se dijo asimismo, “si hay algo que puedo hacer, voy a hacerlo de corazón. Servir es algo me hace sentir bien”.

Chávez ha colaborado con cruzada por más de 15 años, aunque no creció con tanta devoción guadalupana como la mayoría de los mexicanos. Él diseñó el traje que viste la intérprete de la Virgen y su esposa Edith Chávez lo confeccionó, en el 2018 diseñó la moneda alusiva al 25 aniversario de la Guadalupana.

Para la edición de la Guadalupana 2020 tiene la mayor responsabilidad de la producción y proyección virtual del evento.

Independientemente del esfuerzo que implica la producción de esta cruzada virtual, la mayor satisfacción de Chávez es la oportunidad de desarrollar este proyecto con su familia.

Su hija Edith de 24 años, quien trabaja para el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts colaboró con el diseño de la moneda de este año y su hija menor Ardith, estudiante de negocio en la Universidad de California en Berkeley ayuda con aspectos relacionados a la mercadotecnia del evento.

¿Dónde y cómo vivir la cruzada?

La Cruzada Guadalupana se va a celebrar este 5 de diciembre con el mismo programa que en años anteriores, pero la forma de participar será a través de Facebook, Instagram y también YouTube.

La transmisión comienza a las 8 a.m. en la iglesia Todas las Almas en South San Francisco con el mensaje pregrabado de bienvenida por parte del párroco de esta iglesia, el padre Kazimierz Abrahamczyk. El obispo emérito William Justice, quien abrió las puertas a la primera peregrinación cuando era el párroco de Todas las Almas, ofrecerá una bendición filmada y una oración de envío previamente filmada para los guadalupanos que estarán viendo el evento desde sus casas.

Desde el cementerio Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) en Mission Road, Colma se presentará un video de la dramatización de la primera aparición de la Virgen representada por Geisy Torrez, y Juan Madriz interpretando a san Juan Diego. También se ofrecerá el mensaje de la directora de Holy Cross Mónica Williams y se presentará la grabación del rezo de un misterio del Rosario por parte del moderador de la curia de San Francisco Mons. John Piderit.

Desde la iglesia San Juan el Evangelista en San Francisco se grabará el mensaje del párroco padre Agnel De Heredia, y otra dramatización filmada de la segunda aparición de la Virgen.

En la catedral Santa María se filmará la aparición de la Virgen a san Bernardino, el tío de san Juan Diego.

La cruzada terminará con la misa en la Catedral Santa María de la Asunción, presidida por el arzobispo Cordileone que se transmitirá en vivo a las 2 p.m.

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Sobreviviente de COVID puso su vida en manos de la Virgen al salir para el hospital Cuando Mario Ayar de 53 años se enteró que tenía COVID-19, se dirigió al hospital Seton en Daily City el 21 de agosto, antes de salir de su casa se detuvo frente al cuadro de la Virgen de Guadalupe en la sala de su casa y le dijo: “Estoy en tus manos madrecita. Tú sabrás si me vas a traer de nuevo a casa”.

Internado en el hospital, la salud empeoró al punto que ni los doctores ni las enfermeras daban esperanza de vida por la gravedad de la neumonía y la deficiencia respiratoria, narró Ayar.

Durante un mes hospitalizado, Ayar no pudo tener la compañía de su familia aunque rezaban por él desde sus casas.

“Solo una enfermera, quien iba a misa y rezaba el rosario por mí tenía fe de que yo iba a vivir”, narró Ayar.

“Yo estaba tan mal que hasta vi a mi suegro quien murió hace tres años. Me acogí a la Virgen de Guadalupe. Durante una semana entera yo solo sabía que estaba vivo, pero mire aquí estoy otra vez, primeramente Dios y mi virgencita”, narró.

El primero de noviembre Ayar recibió los resultados de los rayos X de sus pulmones que mostraban que está sano.

Ayar ha sido colaborador de la Cruzada Guadalupana por varios años, ayudando en la seguridad, financieramente y en los eventos de recaudación de fondos, también en la decoración de los carros alegóricos.

Este año, aunque no habrá peregrinación en las calles, Ayar va a caminar desde la iglesia Todas las Almas hasta la catedral Santa María donde espera poder asistir a la misa para cumplir con una promesa que le hizo a la Virgen.

“Para mí va a ser una bendición poder estar ahí con ella (la Virgen), si antes lo hacía con gusto, imagínese ahora con más razón lo voy a hacer”, dijo.

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