December 20, 2018

Scout helps homeless vets: Parish effort fills 75 backpacks with winter needs PAGE 2 Relics tour: Exposition of 150 saints’ relics ‘a special blessing’ PAGE 3 ‘Sacred sleep’: Gubbio Project’s second church refuge marks third year PAGE 6

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Archbishop cordileone’s schedule Dec. 20: Chancery meetings Dec. 24: Christmas Eve Mass, cathedral, midnight Dec. 25: Christmas morning Mass, cathedral 11 a.m.

Dec. 26-29: Christmas Break Dec. 29: Young Adults Mass, cathedral. 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 1-7: U.S. bishops’ retreat, Chicago Jan. 9-10: Presbyteral Council and chancery meetings Jan. 11-23: Priests visits (Rome); Acton Institute bishops’ conference (Portugal)

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Boy Scouts of Troop 101 stand Dec. 9 in front of 75 backpacks that will be distributed to local homeless veterans.

Scout brings homeless vets winter gear Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

A local Boy Scout helped put winter gear in the hands of homeless veterans in time for Christmas. Cole Smolinski, a freshman at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco and a Life Scout in Troop 101 at Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame, organized the event as part of his Eagle Scout Service Project.

Smolinski asked parishioners at weekend Masses at Our Lady of Cole Smolinski Angels to donate to his project and raised a total of $8,000. The funds went to purchase 75 backpacks and fill them with useful, durable

items like socks, down jackets, flashlights and waterproof blankets. Each backpack also contained a handwritten card for its owner. The backpacks will be distributed directly to local homeless veterans and also to the Veterans Administration.

Smolinski said the project helped him with his leadership and public speaking skills, and looked forward to distributing the backpacks Dec. 22.

“It’ll be nice to see how happy you can make people,” he said.

An Eagle Project is a necessary step in becoming an Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank. The project should demonstrate planning skills, leadership, and benefit a local organization or community. Nearly 2.5 million Boy Scouts have earned the award since it was established more than 100 years ago.

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to our readers A blessed Christmas season and New Year to all from the Catholic San Francisco team. We return next year with a bimonthly schedule starting on Jan. 17.

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San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White and Mercy Sister Gloria Miller are pictured with more than 800 toys collected at St. Mary’s Medical Center for the SFFD Toy Program and accepted for the campaign by the chief Dec. 11. “Sister Gloria gave Chief Hayes-White a special blessing for her years of service to St. Mary’s Toy Drive and to the San Francisco community,” St. Mary’s said. The toys “were donated by staff, patients, and visitors” of the San Francisco hospital. Chief HayesWhite, who has been a firefighter since 1990 and chief for almost 15 years, has announced her retirement from the Fire Department effective this spring. She is an alumna of the Sisters of Mercy’s Mercy High School, San Francisco.

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Relics exposition ‘a special blessing’ for Bay Area Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

Three years ago, Church of the Epiphany parishioners Bea Zamora and her husband, Deacon Chito Zamora, first approached a priest about bringing his traveling relics exposition to the Bay Area. This December, their hope was fulfilled, as Companions of the Cross Father Carlos Martins visited three parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco with 150 relics of the saints.

“It’s a very blessed event, and an opportunity for many graces,” Bea Zamora told Catholic San Francisco.

“We want the whole world to be able to go.”

In presentations at St. Bruno, St. Francis of Assisi and Church of the Epiphany, Father Martins discussed the church’s teaching on relics and their place in the Christian life. There are three classes of relics: fragments of the body, something a saint personally owned, and something a saint touched or that touched a relic of the saint.

Relics show the holiness of the body, Father Martins said, and also reflect the early history of the church, when Mass would be said over the tombs of saints.

Relics have long been linked to miracles, like in the Gospels where a woman was healed by touching Christ’s cloak. Father Martins said the Bible illustrates that “God brings about healing using a material object that is touched.”

But relics do not have any intrin-

sic power. “They are not magic,” he said. Instead, they are one means God uses to heal people, and draw attention to the saints.

Even without bringing physical healing, venerating the relics can bring emotional or spiritual healing, Bea Zamora said.

“We need all kinds of healing, even the people who look fit and healthy. There’s a lot of brokenness out there,” she said.

Father Martins also included a call for spiritual revival, asking his listeners to live closer to Christ and making them a promise.

“If you permit God to be lord of your life – and every part of your life – then you will experience the

presence and power of God today in a way you never have before,” he said.

Father Martins discussed four common obstacles preventing God from entering into people’s hearts: refusal to attend Sunday Mass, to go to confession, to make a complete disclosure of sins in confession, and to extend forgiveness.

Each, he said, involved a rejection of God’s power to work in human hearts, and he asked his listeners to examine their consciences for any ways they refused God’s help.

Extending forgiveness is the most difficult change to make, Father Martins acknowledged, but was important to faith.

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“No one deserves forgiveness,” he said, but it should be offered to let God work in every person’s life.

People also need to extend forgiveness to themselves, he said, since “we can’t fully receive God’s grace if we don’t forgive ourselves.”

Demetrius Montano, a Holy Angels parishioner, said he liked the discussion on forgiveness.

“It’s a big aspect of the Catholic faith, being able to go out and forgive those who have wronged you so that one day they might have the chance to have their life transformed by forgiveness,” he said.

After the talk finished, the collection of relics brought by Father Martins – including fragments of Christ’s cross, the Blessed Virgin’s veil, St. Joseph and the Apostles – was available for veneration. In the parish hall at St. Bruno, people touched rosaries, prayer cards, and pictures to relics or placed the reliquaries against their foreheads or lips.

Catholic school teacher Annette Belmessieri said it was “amazing to see all the saints I’ve taught students about.” She said she was thankful to come and have rosaries blessed, adding that “I can’t wait to share this with the kids.”

Bea Zamora said she was grateful Father Martins came to the Bay Area, and hoped it would lead “to a mighty release of miracles for people in the Bay Area.”

“It’s a beautiful Christmas gift from the Lord to all of us who were able to attend,” she said.

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St. Anthony’s helping forever and again Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Rachel Ball joined St. Anthony’s as marketing and communications director in July. In her email conversation with me, she said she was glad to come aboard: “I welcomed the opportunity to join the St. Anthony’s family,” Rachel told me. Rachel met St. Anthony’s while she was involved with a pilot program to reduce hunger and diet-related chronic disease at UCSF’s Center Rachel Ball for Vulnerable Populations.

Along the way, Rachel has also worked in design, advertising, marketing, and communications at forprofit and nonprofit organizations.

St. Anthony’s has grown tremendously in the ways it helps its “guests” but has never left its roots behind, Rachel affirmed: “ St. Anthony’s provides free meals, clothing, health care, shelter, tech access, addiction recovery, workforce development and social work services to those in our San Francisco community who need it the most,” she said.

“Guests who access our programs are people experiencing homelessness, the working poor, veterans, recent immigrants, the mentally and addictively ill, and seniors.”

Volunteers are invited to assist in the good done on Golden Gate Avenue. “St. Anthony’s has an urgent need for volunteers in our Dining Room during the days immediately after Christmas, and in January,” Rachel said. “Although we are grateful for the outpouring of holiday volunteer service every year, we hope to spread the word that postholiday volunteers are needed and appreciated.”

St. Anthony’s Winter Shelter will open Dec. 17.

“Our Winter Shelter provides a safe place for those experiencing homelessness to find refuge from San Francisco’s winter chill and rains,” Rachel said.

“St. Anthony’s will open its Dining Room doors on Christmas Day for a special Christmas lunch, serving thousands in our community who are most in need of food, warmth, and holiday cheer.”

St. Anthony’s annual Christmas Curbside donation drive is Dec. 20 through Christmas Eve and collects food for its Christmas meal usually bringing more than 3,000 people to its dining room’s tables. Also welcomed at curbside are gloves, mittens, coats, underwear, shoes and other cold weather gear.

Contact St. Anthony’s: stanthonysf.org/donate; stanthonysf.org/volunteer; stanthonysf.org/curbside.

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HELPING HANDS: Families in need were welcomed by St. Andrew Parish’s St. Vincent de Paul Society Conference Nov. 17 receiving holiday assistance including packed bags with nonperishable food items and fresh produce. “Grateful families were warmly greeted and wished a Happy Thanksgiving when they came to pick up their food along with Safeway gift cards to purchase perishable items,” Madeleine Licavoli, conference president, told me in a note to this column. Helen’s Table, named for a deceased conference member, was filled with calendars, greeting cards, books, and other items for the visiting families to choose from.

THAT IS A LONG TIME: While I will be up to 35 years as a chancery grunt mighty soon, it pales in comparison to the 50 years St. Mary’s Cathedral music director, Christoph Tietze, has been a church organist. Chris and all lucky enough to hear it will celebrate the half-century with a special concert by Chris Dec. 23 at the cathedral. Music is always in good hands with Chris who played his first Mass on ChristChris Tietze mas Day in 1968. The serenade starts at 4 p.m. Freewill offerings benefit the cathedral music program. (415) 567-2020. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

ALWAYS NEW: The Baltimore Catechism was my book of faith as a youngster and among the elements it shares with today’s catechism are the corporal works of mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, visit the homeless, bury the dead, give alms to the poor. Rick Flynn has a special devotion to the seven simple rules. “The poor drew me to the works of mercy,” Rick told me via email. He said he was moved by the suffering of the poor on the streets of San Francisco. His first steps were to volunteer at St. Anthony’s Dining Room and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Rick, who grew up

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Feeding the hungry and visiting those in prison are at the top of Rick’s list. Even with all the help available for the hungry “it seems there is still not enough,” Rick said. He said visiting jails may be “the least popular of the works of mercy but where the need may be the most.” Rick encourages all to think about practicing the corporal works of mercy. His journey has him dropping off food at St. Anthony’s regularly and conducting a prayer service at a local jail monthly. Rick exhorts us with Christ’s words of encouragement that whatever we do for each other we do for Christ.

TILL THEN: This is Catholic San Francisco’s last issue for 2018 and while the Christmas break is always welcomed and enjoyed, we are very excited to get back for what will be CSF’s 20th year of publication. Should you have any memory with CSF you’d like to recount just send it my way. Thank you for a wonderful two decades. Merry Christmas from all of us at CSF. Email items and electronic pictures – hi-res jpegs – to burket@ sfarch.org or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. Street is toll-free. Reach me at (415) 614-5634; email burket@sfarch.org.

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Left, parish children Julian Martinez and Camila Joaquim pass through the front doors of St. Dominic Church as Joseph and Mary during the annual Las Posadas celebration Dec. 16. The familyoriented day included a petting zoo and dozens of singing angels.

St. Dominic children reenact Holy Family’s journey to Bethlehem processed around the perimeter of the church, live donkey in tow, until they arrived back at the

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Dozens of St. Dominic families and visitors turned out to watch parish children dressed as gold stars, sheep, angels and centurions animate the Christmas story during the parish’s Las Posadas celebration Dec. 16.

Las Posadas is a centuries-old Advent celebration in many Latin countries. For nine days from December 16-24, the faithful prepare for Christmas by reenacting the Holy Family’s pilgrimage to Bethlehem for a census where they were continually rejected by innkeepers. The celebration typically includes a nighttime procession in which participants follow pilgrims dressed as Mary and Joseph as they knock on doors asking for shelter.

Kathy Folan, coordinator of the parish’s faith formation and youth ministry programs produced the program with a cast of 32 children ages 3-14 from those programs and told Catholic San Francisco the bilingual event has been an annual tradition at St. Dominic. The family event included a petting zoo in the church parking lot complete with a llama, bunnies, goats, geese and a miniature pig.

Stormy weather forced the crowd to abandon its original plan for participants to follow the Holy Family through the neighborhood accompanied by Spanish musicians singing traditional Las Posadas songs until they arrived back at the door of the church to be greeted by Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor. Instead the group

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An average of 100 unhoused guests sleep on the floor of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church each day, according to The Gubbio Project, which was launched by former St. Boniface pastor Franciscan Father Louis Vitale and Shelly Roder as a response to the increased number of homeless people needing refuge from the streets.

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Gubbio’s Mission location marks third year of ‘co-ministry’ to homeless Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Christina Alvarez secured a makeshift rain poncho fashioned from a plastic bag around a man about to step out Dec. 14 from the warmth of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church into a wintry downpour. Water streamed from a hump of possessions tented on his back as he walked out the door.

Hours earlier, he had been among several dozen homeless men and women stretched out or curled up on padded mats on the wood floors of the Mission District church. Before he left he was offered a rare treat: breakfast.

Alvarez is executive director of The Gubbio Project, a nonprofit ministry offering refuge, rest and personal provisions to the city’s unhoused within the walls of church buildings. A federallymandated census of the homeless done by the city of San Francisco counted that population as 4,353 adults, youth and children in 2017.

“We are usually at capacity and on rainy days we are overflowing,” Alvarez told Catholic San Francisco during a visit that day. “The need is greater than we can serve.”

Starting in March of this year when she replaced longtime leader Laura Slattery, Alvarez splits her days between St. Boniface Catholic Church in the Tenderloin, where The Gubbio Project was cofounded 14 years ago, and St. John’s at 15th and Valencia streets, which opened three years ago this month.

Each weekday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., more than 200 unhoused people on average find what the nonprofit has coined “sacred sleep” on the pews of St. Boniface, according to its website.

At St. Boniface, Gubbio guests use the back two-thirds of the sanctuary while the church uses the front one-third to celebrate the daily midday Mass.

Gubbio Project executive director Christina Alvarez talks with guest Brian Haley after breakfast at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church Dec. 14. The Mission District church opened as the second center of “sacred sleep” for the homeless run by the Gubbio Project, a nonprofit that began at St. Boniface Catholic Church in the Tenderloin 14 years ago.

At St. John’s, where there is no daily service, an average of 100 people a day bed down in the sanctuary where the prismatic light of stained glass puts into soft focus the harsh evidence of life on the streets.

Virginia transplant and guest Brian Haley, 48, was up before most and chatted eagerly with Alvarez and Catholic San Francisco.

“I always wanted to go to Catholic school,” he said, sharing that his mother had been Italian-Catholic. “I think I didn’t make it in life because I didn’t go to a good school.”

Alvarez said that a voluntary census of Gubbio guests done every two years lined up with the results of a federally-

required city census of the homeless completed in January 2017 that said San Francisco’s homeless population is “older, sicker and more chronically homeless that those in other major cities.”

The Episcopal church became a Gubbio Project host after now-retired vicar Father Richard Smith met Slattery at an event he attended in 2015.

The congregation had been struggling with how to deal “in a Christian way” with the increasing number of unhoused people in the Mission, said parishioner Elizabeth Orbison, who chairs the parish’s Gubbio Project advisory council.

“There really wasn’t any pushback,”

said Orbison. “Gubbio is a well-established organization and our congregation was excited to find a solution to our need to do more.”

Alvarez said the partnership began as a pilot program to make sure it was what the church and neighborhood was looking for. The parishioners, neighbors, local businesses and homeless population had to be as enthusiastic as the pastor, she said, and it proved it was.

“We see Gubbio as entering into a coministry with the church, and a church is everyone in community with the church,” she said.

At both the Tenderloin and Mission locations, the core purpose is to provide a clean, safe and quiet place for the unhoused to be restored from the rigors of homelessness.

Guests are also offered cushions and blankets, socks and personal hygiene kits, and the spiritual support of volunteer chaplains three days a week. Foot care specialists and massage therapists offer their services during select hours and a mobile health clinic arrives every two weeks.

Alvarez and Orbison said The Gubbio Project has also bolstered the sense of community among the homeless and the parish community.

Since the site opened, she said, St. John parishioners have volunteered during the weekly sacred sleep hours.

“Traditionally, this has included providing Friday morning breakfasts, stopping by for conversations or prayers or being a hospitality host for a few hours,” she said.

Hospitality hosts help serve coffee, monitor the room, and help with cleanup at the end of the day, she said.

“Being in partnership with The Gubbio Project helped clarify our priorities and builds actual community that helps members grow,” Orbison said.

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Guadalupe feast highlights Mary’s role in culture Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

Punctuated by shouts of “Viva Guadalupe,” St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco celebrated the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 12.

The evening began with a candlelight rosary procession around the parish property, led by two parishioners carrying a larger than life picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In between decades of the rosary, the parish sang cheerful hymns, led by Bay Area mariachi band Mariachi Mexicanisimo.

The Mass and reception also featured performances by Teokalli, a local Aztec dance group. Dancers wore the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe as they danced down the aisle to honor Mary.

Mass was celebrated by Father Charles Puthota, the pastor of St. Veronica, and Father Mario Olea and Father Darwin Estrada. Father Olea thanked the parish for coming, and noted the diversity of the crowd attending Mass to honor Our Lady.

Father Puthota told Catholic San Francisco Our Lady of Guadalupe is popular because of her appearance in Mexico and because she is the patroness of the Americas.

“There’s a special love for our Blessed Mother of course, which drives people to Mary, and Mary leads people to Christ. Especially in this advent season, the feast is so beautifully placed,” Father Puthota said.

But the feast day is also a special cultural celebration for Mexico and Latin America. The evangelization efforts of Spanish missionaries had struggled in

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St. Veronica parishioners pray the rosary during a candlelight pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Pope Francis said Mary’s life encourages Catholics “to live the audacity of faith and hope.” the wake of the conquest of Mexico.

When Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to St. Juan Diego outside the old capital of the Aztec empire, as Aztec royalty, and spoke to him in Nahuatl, his native language, she opened room for the spread of Catholicism across Mexico. The popular hymn “La Guadalupana,” sung by parishioners at St. Veronica, says “from then on for all Mexicans being Guadalupan is essential.” In later revolts against the colonial government of Spain, Mexican rebels carried the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on their flags.

Father Puthota said Mary’s appearance at Guadalupe is an example of “inculturation,” or entering into a culture to proclaim the Gospel.

“You have to be within the culture to be able to evangelize,” he said. “Jesus

became part of our human culture to draw us closer to God.” In his homily for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Francis said the Blessed Mother’s life “is marked by the ability to make others protagonists.

It gives courage, teaches us to speak and above all encourages us to live the audacity of faith and hope,” he said.

“With the heart of a mother, she seeks to raise and dignify all those who, for different reasons and circumstances, were immersed in abandonment and oblivion,” Pope Francis said.

Because of the continental devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, he continued, she is remembered as “Mother of a fertile and generous land in which we all can find ourselves playing a leading role in the construction of the Holy Temple of the family of God.”

Archbishop’s Midnight Mass will be livestreamed

Christmas Midnight Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant and homilist will be livestreamed from St. Mary’s Cathedral on the homepage of the archdiocesan website. sfarchdiocese. org/events/christmas-midnightmass.

Caroling by the cathedral choir will begin at 11 p.m. with Mass at midnight.

This is the second year the Midnight Mass will be aired.

“The first event we streamed was March 15, 2017,” said Jan Potts, assistant director of the archdiocesan Department of Communications. “It was Mass for the Western Regional Canon Law meeting, with Cardinal Burke presiding. Quite a high-stakes premiere.”

Potts said: “The most-watched stream so far was the ordination Mass for Auxiliary Bishop Robert Christian, OP. Next were the funerals for Archbishops Quinn and Niederauer. Viewers are mostly in the United States but many are watching from Europe and Australia, too.”

Upcoming livestreamed events from the cathedral include World Day of the Sick Feb. 2; Wedding Anniversary Mass and Chinese New Year Mass Feb. 9; Respect Life Mass Feb. 10; and Ash Wednesday rites March 6. “If anyone is interested in assisting in this effort, we welcome qualified adult volunteers,” Potts said. “Email comms@sfarch.com and someone will be in touch.”

Livestreamed events are embedded in the archdiocesan website at sfarch.org, click the YouTube icon at the top.

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Late Trappist monk still has impact on people of all faiths, says priest Ruby Thomas Catholic News Service

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Fifty years after his death, Father Thomas Merton is still helping to draw others nearer to Christ through his writings and the communities they tend to create, said Father Lawrence Morey.

Trappist Father Like the late monk, Thomas Merton Father Morey is a member of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance, known as Trappists.

Father Merton lived and wrote from his order’s Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown. He died Dec. 10, 1968, near Bangkok, where he was attending a conference for monks from the Order of Cistercians and the Order of St. Benedict.

Father Morey gave the homily during a Mass of remembrance honoring Father Merton Dec. 10 at the Cathedral of the Assumption in downtown Louisville. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville presided.

The priest said the support of a community is essential in finding Christ and most of Father Merton’s writings show how important community was to him.

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Father Morey shared with his listeners that the burial of a brother monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani is a “community affair.” All the monks take part by singing and praying. Six are chosen as pallbearers with the responsibility of lowering the body into the ground.

“We all participate at this point by holding our breath,” he said. “What if one of the brothers slip and loses his grip? But we’ve always managed to get our brother to his final resting place without any major accident.”

The paralyzed man from the Gospel of Luke, whose friends lower him through the roof so he could see Jesus, is somewhat like “our deceased brother,” said Father Morey. He needed the support of his friends and a community to reach Christ.

Like the paralyzed man in the Gospel, “we all need community in order to find Jesus,” Father Morey explained.

Community, however, is often missing in today’s world, he said, noting that people often use their differences to separate themselves from others.

Though he sometimes had “problems with his community, Father Merton was a good community member” who recognized its value, said Father Morey. He was conscientious and obedient, and though sometimes he murmured about it, “the community provided him with the opportunity to write, gave him a solid perspective from which to see the world and eventually constructed his hermitage for him.”

During his years at Gethsemani, Father Merton also formed a larger community through correspondence with people from around the world – people of different religious backgrounds, said Father Morey.

While the late monk’s community helped him find Christ, in return, Father Merton has touched many through his writings, said Father Morey. “He’s helped many people to see their own true face.”

He went on to explain that in one of Father Merton’s “most famous pieces, he described seeing ordinary people going about their business on an ordinary day as ‘walking around shining like the sun.’ He said, ‘It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation.’

He saw himself and others as they truly were, fellow members of race in which ‘God himself became incarnate.’”

This has been Father Merton’s gift to many, said Father Morey – “to show them who they truly are. To show them the face of Christ in themselves and others.”

Those who’ve been touched by Father Merton often want to share their experience, added Father Morey.

“He makes people seek others out to form various kinds of communities. We’ve only to look around this very church to see this,” he said, referring to the group of young, old and middle-age people who’d gathered to remember Father Merton half a century after his death.

The Mass was one of several events sponsored by Bellarmine University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Trappist monk’s death.

One event was the building of a Tibetan sacred sand mandala inside the Merton Center on Bellarmine’s campus, the week of Dec. 3 by the monks of the Drepung Gomang Monastery in the Louisville metro area. The sand mural is a Buddhist religious teaching tool, according to information from the monks. It was dismantled during a ceremony Dec. 10.

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Panel: ‘Seamless garment’ aims for unity on all life issues Beth Griffin Catholic News Service

NEW YORK – Since Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin introduced the “seamless garment” approach to life issues 35 years ago, the notion has been both divisive and formative for the church, according to speakers at a Dec. 11 panel in New York.

The event, “A Consistent Ethic of Life 2.0: An American Catholic Dialogue Rebooted,” was held at Jesuit-run Fordham University, the site of Cardinal Bernardin’s 1983 speech.

The cardinal was the chair of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee when his seminal talk connected poverty, euthanasia, nuclear war, abortion and other life issues into a single “consistent ethic of life at every stage and in every circumstance.”

The cardinal’s presentation “ushered in a new way of viewing moral living which emphasized the protection of the unborn, care of the poor, the elderly and the environment as interrelated and intertwined,” said retired Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona, who currently is apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

“This ‘out of the box’ thinking is just what was needed to move beyond the impasse that had formed within the church and in society around life issues,” he said. Some ignored the unborn focusing their passion for those on the margins. Others upheld the right to life of the unborn without any consideration for the degradation of human life found in the plight of the poor and even less for the care of creation.”

Cardinal Bernardin, who was Chicago’s archbishop from 1982 until his death in 1996, used the consistent ethic to “bring warring factions within the church who feel passionately about one or another life issue to come together in support and defense of everything that upholds life and its God-given dignity,” Bishop Kicanas said.

The “consistent ethic” has been resisted from the time it was first presented.

Bishop Kicanas said critics thought it made all

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moral issues equivalent, and some felt the approach was not aggressive enough in confronting a secular society that dismissed the rights of the unborn.

Others said Cardinal Bernardin watered down the church’s clear teaching by linking life and social issues in a consistent ethic.

Bishop Kicanas said, “The separation of the broad range of life issues has resulted in a red/blue world where affiliation with one’s political party trumps one’s faith. The camps have been formed and allegiance to one camp in opposition to the other is expected, even required. Party allegiance becomes the frame by which truth is determined.”

As a result, “the rich, comprehensive social teaching of the church has been blemished by the cherrypicking approach of too many today,” he said.

Bishop Kicanas said the consistent-ethic approach has ripened and matured in the Catholic church

since 1983, and become part of the teaching of each pope, through word or example.

“There has been a consistency and continuity of magisterial teaching on the interrelatedness of the life issues from John Paul II to Benedict XVI to Francis,” he said.

Dialogue and discussion are the keys to healing the polarizing rift within church and society, Bishop Kicanas said. He quoted Pope Benedict: “Dialogue without ambiguity and marked by respect for those taking part is a priority in the world and the church does not intend to withdraw from it.”

He said Cardinal Bernardin envisioned dialogue that led to “common ground” where participants discover unity amid diversity and diversity amid unity.

In response to Bishop Kicanas, Katelyn Beaty said the consistent ethic remains both prophetic and urgent. “The beauty of its vision is to connect each person’s flourishing with every other person and each person’s degradation with every other person.”

Beaty is an evangelical Protestant and founding editor of Her.meneutics, the Christianity Today blog for women.

Beaty said evangelical witness in the public square has been compromised in recent years by partisanship and political alignment. In focusing almost exclusively on the unborn, evangelicals “identified with a political vision that blames the poor for their own struggle, shrugs at gun violence and degrades the environment,” she said.

Beaty said embrace of a consistent ethic could set evangelicals “free from political binaries” and restore the original meaning of their name: “good news.”

Rabbi Jill Jacobs said the consistent ethic is built on a framework familiar in Judaism, where any injury to a human is an injury to God, and God’s human creations have an obligation to stewardship.

Jacobs is executive director of T’ruah, The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.

Although Catholics and Jews differ on when life begins and the morality of abortion, there is significant see seamless, page 16

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US bishops move to address abuse, cover-up claims Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – 2018 will no doubt be remembered as a dark time for the U.S. Catholic Church.

Catholics felt betrayed by church leaders accused of sexual misconduct and cover-up revealed this summer and this cloud still hung over the church at the year’s end.

In June, allegations were made against then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, accused of sexually abusing a minor almost 50 years ago and having sexual contact with seminarians while he was a bishop in New Jersey.

A month later, Pope Francis accepted Archbishop McCarrick’s resignation from College of Cardinals and suspended him from public ministry, ordering him to a “life of prayer and penance” until the accusations against him were examined in a canonical trial.

The archbishop, who has denied the allegations, now lives in a Capuchin Franciscan friary in Victoria, Kansas.

Since these allegations came to light, Catholic laity and church leaders, including bishops, have been asking who knew about the archbishop’s alleged misconduct and how was it possible for him to move up the ranks in church leadership.

Open letters to the pope asked him to investigate

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Suzanne Emerson, from Silver Spring, Maryland, holds a sign during a Nov. 12 news conference held by Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Baltimore for the annual fall general assembly. The growing abuse crisis facing the U.S. church in 2018 topped the meeting agenda.

what happened and a fury of speculation was fueled by unsubstantiated allegations made by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former papal nuncio to the United States, who accused the Vatican hierarchy and Pope Francis, in particular, of being complicit in covering up accusations against Archbishop McCarrick.

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Amid church turmoil over Archbishop McCarrick, the church was dealt another blow in midAugust with the release of a Pennsylvania grand jury report covering 70 years of abuse allegations in six of the state’s Catholic dioceses, starting in 1947. The report detailed allegations of abuse by 300 clergy and other church workers and involving 1,000 minors. It also claimed a church cover-up of abuse in some instances.

The report particularly shined a spotlight on Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl in reporting a mixed picture of how he handled some abuse cases when he was Pittsburgh bishop from 1988 until 2006.

Amid renewed calls for the cardinal to resign, Cardinal Wuerl, who had submitted his resignation two years earlier after he turned 75, as required by canon law, met with the pope about stepping down.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation in mid-October, while keeping the now-78-year-old prelate on as apostolic administrator for the Archdiocese of Washington until a successor archbishop is named.

Another result of the Pennsylvania grand jury report was that 13 states and the District of Columbia announced their own investigations into church records. Several dioceses also started see us bishops, page 15

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WASHINGTON – The death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl “represents an egregious disregard for the safety and care of persons in the custody of U.S. officials,” the National Council of Churches said.

The Washington-based organization said it joined “in prayer for this girl’s family members who grieve her loss.

“We also pray for all of those making the treacherous journey across the desert and are reminded of Abraham, Sarah, Mary, Joseph and countless others who made similar journeys in the light of hope,” it said in a statement issued Dec. 14, the day news reports circulated about the girl, identified by the Guatemalan government as Jackeline Caal, who died the first week of December.

The Washington Post reported that she and her father, Nery Caal, 29, were taken into custody Dec. 6 around 10 p.m., south of Lordsburg, New Mexico.

They were among 163 migrants who turned themselves in at the border.

“Some seven hours later, she was put on a bus to the nearest Border Patrol station but soon began vomiting (and having seizures). By the end of the twohour drive, she had stopped breathing,” the Post reported. Border Patrol agents administered CPR and she was flown to a hospital in El Paso, Texas, where she later died.

Officials said the girl initially appeared healthy and that an interview raised no signs of trouble, according to the news story. Her Spanish-speaking father signed a form indicating she was in good health, authorities said, but critics of the Border Patrol and the Trump administration later said the father speaks a Mayan dialect

that officials supposedly didn’t really understand.

“It’s heart-wrenching, is what it is.

And my heart goes out to the family, for all of DHS,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen said in an interview with Fox News. This is just a very sad example of the dangers of this journey. This family chose to cross illegally.

“What happened here is that they were 90 miles away from where we could process them. They came in such a large crowd that it took our border patrol folks a couple times to get them all,” she said. “We gave immediate care.

We’ll continue to look into the situation. But again, I cannot stress how dangerous this journey is when migrants choose to come here illegally.”

The DHS inspector general said Dec. 14 it would investigate the circumstances of the child’s death.

Archbishop Nienstedt’s ministry restricted in Minnesota archdiocese

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis said Dec. 14 that until “all open allegations are resolved,” his predecessor, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt, is not free to exercise public ministry in the archdiocese.

Archbishop Hebda released a letter to the faithful of the archdiocese to clarify the status of the prelate.

The 11-member Archdiocesan Ministerial Review Board, which addresses allegations of clergy misconduct, was consulted and recommended that Archbishop Hebda publicly clarify that Archbishop Nienstedt, like any priest facing similar allegations, is not free to engage in public ministry in this archdiocese until pending allegations are resolved. Archbishop Hebda said

he agrees with the recommendation.

The restriction took effect Dec. 13.

“While this may cause some pain, my hope is that this decision prompts further action by those with authority over Archbishop Nienstedt to resolve this question,” Archbishop Hebda said in the letter, which also announced new steps the archdiocese is taking to minister to clergy sexual abuse survivors.

The action “is not intended to convey an indication or presumption of guilt,” Archbishop Hebda said.

The clarification of Archbishop Nienstedt’s local public ministry restrictions refers to a 2014 investigation into allegations that he had engaged in sexual misconduct with adults as a priest in Detroit and Rome, and as a bishop of New Ulm. Archdiocesan leaders engaged two separate law firms in the investigation.

Archbishop Nienstedt, who resigned his position as leader of the Archdiocese St. Paul and Minneapolis in June 2015, has maintained that he is innocent of the allegations.

LA archdiocese to seek charges against two nuns for embezzlement

WASHINGTON – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has changed its mind about not seeking charges against two women religious who were found to have “misappropriated” a “substantial amount” of money, perhaps up to half a million dollars, from one of its Catholic schools.

Various news stories say that after archdiocesan officials disclosed in a Dec. 3 meeting with parents from St.

James Catholic School in Torrance that Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper and Sister Lana Chang had perhaps embezzled as much as $500,000, the school community expressed outrage.

A spokeswoman later told various news outlets after the meeting that the archdiocese would no longer be just seeking restitution from the nun’s religious order, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, but it would cooperate with authorities in an investigation against the women religious that could result in leveling charges against them.

Earlier, the archdiocese had said in a letter it agreed to a “full restitution” of money used for personal matters by the two women, but it would not seek criminal charges. But after officials at the Dec. 3 meeting revealed that they may have used the money for gambling and also disclosed the amount, parents began speaking out against the decision.

Sister Kreuper was a former principal of the school and Sister Chang was a former teacher there and also served as vice principal. Both retired at the end of the 2017-18 school year. An examination of financial records undertaken after the women left revealed the discrepancies.

In a Dec. 10 statement on a website, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet confirmed that they were notified by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles about its intention to file a criminal complaint with the Torrance Police Department against its two members for misappropriation of funds.

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Sunday readings

Fourth Sunday of Advent MICAH 5:1-4A Thus says the Lord: You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel; whose origin is from of old, from ancient times. Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the time when she who is to give birth has borne, and the rest of his kindred shall return to the children of Israel. He shall stand firm and shepherd his flock by the strength of the Lord, in the majestic name of the Lord, his God; and they shall remain, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth; he shall be peace.

Once again, O Lord of hosts, look down from heaven, and see; take care of this vine, and protect what your right hand has planted the son of man whom you yourself made strong.

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

May your help be with the man of your right hand, with the son of man whom you yourself made strong. Then we will no more withdraw from you; give us new life, and we will call upon your name.

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

PSALM 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

O shepherd of Israel, hearken, from your throne upon the cherubim, shine forth. Rouse your power, and come to save us.

Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved.

HEBREWS 10:5-10 Brothers and sisters: When Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight. Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, behold, I come to do your will, O God.’” First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings,

you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law. Then he says: Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

LUKE 1:39-45 Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

Visitation and Christmas: In-between times

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t’s probably not historically exact: The scenic image of Mary setting out alone from Nazareth astride a donkey, concerned to visit her older cousin, six-months pregnant Elizabeth, in the hilly village of Ain Kerem, outside Jerusalem. The journey, straight as the crow flies, is 65 miles or 104 kilometers.

In Mary’s day, the road would have detoured along the western edge of Israel, closer to the Mediterranean, to avoid passing directly through unfriendly Samaria.

No single woman – old or young – would have traveled four or five days alone, exposed to danger like the man who fell victim to thieves, memorialized in Luke’s parable of the good samaritan. sister Eloise Like the migrants from Rosenblatt, RSM Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala, who have traveled by foot, truck, bus, or cart in a caravan for safety, passing through Mexico, north to Tijuana, Mary would have traveled in a caravan. She would have “caught the caravan” from Nazareth in Galilee to Jerusalem in Judea. She endured the physical ordeal of walking several days, sleeping in hostels with other women, apart from the men, perhaps paying a fee to ride on a donkey drawn cart.

scripture reflection

The Gospels describe several of these “in-between times” in Mary’s life, traveling between two places, such as Egypt and Galilee. On this particular trip, Mary left a familiar place, her home in Nazareth, confident in what she would find in Ain Kerem – the comfort of her cousin’s welcome.

The real “between time” journey was interior.

Her life has been profoundly altered from its predictable path toward marriage with Joseph. Now pregnant, she doesn’t know what comes next. What will Joseph decide? This journey in haste to visit Elizabeth provides a “time out.” Mary needs to get away from immediate family, prying neighbors, shopkeepers and village gossips.

After Luke’s account of the Annunciation, did she feel any change in her body, signaling that she was now pregnant? How did she explain her trip to her traveling companions, the women she knew and didn’t know? How did she answer the usual questions about Joseph her betrothed, what he was like, what he did for a living, what preparation the families were making for her marriage ceremony, what dowry her family was providing, where she would live? How did she fend off the questions and explain why she was getting out of town? Was her announced plan to visit and assist her pregnant cousin Elizabeth, the wife of a notable Temple priest, plausible? We can empathize with her discomfort, her feeling of turmoil, the desperation of a single mother who feels her future is out of control.

In Matthew’s Gospel, the emphasis is on Joseph’s crisis of conscience. He discovers she is with

child, and his inner debate is whether to divorce her quietly or to take her as his wife. How would Mary have explained her pregnancy to Joseph?

What couldn’t she explain? What could he say to her? The truth is that the situation was out of her hands. She had to entrust it to God. Feeling powerless has integrity – words alone can’t explain complexities. In Matthew, the angel comes in the night to assure Joseph. But here in Luke’s Gospel, the reassurance to Mary comes from Elizabeth. She welcomes Mary, blesses her, consoles her, honors her. It’s familial, womanly comfort.

The birth of Jesus, like the birth of John the Baptist, comes in “woman time.” We know the nine-month period of gestation, but we don’t know the season the Visitation takes place. More historically reliable is that Mary knew the same Scriptures we read today. In her turmoil, she would have remembered the comforting words of Micah, who spoke of Bethlehem as the birthplace of King David. “He shall stand firm and shepherd his flock” inspired placing her confidence in God. She would have known the psalmist’s petition, “Give us new life, and we will call upon your name.” She could not have known all that would happen to her child as he grew up. Christmas, the birth of Jesus, marks the end of Advent. But bringing a child into the world is an “in-between” time, as the Madonna knew, and every mother knows.

Sunday, December 30: Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or 1Sm 1:20-22, 24-28. Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 or Ps 84:23, 5-6, 9-10. Col 3:12-21 or COL 3:12-17 or 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24. Col 3:15a, 16a or Cf. Acts 16:14b.

Lk 2:41-52.

Friday, January 4: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, religious. 1 Jn 3:7-10. Ps 98:1, 7-8, 9. Heb 1:1-2. Jn 1:35-42.

Eloise Rosenblatt is a Sister of Mercy, a Ph.D. theologian and a practicing attorney with a family law practice.

She lives in San Jose.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, December 24: Monday in Fourth Week of Advent - Mass in the Morning. Christmas Eve. 2 Sm 7:15, 8b-12, 14a, 16. Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29. Lk 1:67-79.

Tuesday, December 25: Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord. The Nativity of the Lord – Christmas - At the Vigil Mass. Is 62:1-5. Ps 89:4-5, 16-17, 27, 29.

Acts 13:16-17, 22-25. Mt 1:1-25.

Wednesday, December 26: Feast of St. Stephen, first martyr. Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59. Ps 31:3cd-4, 6 and 8ab, 16bc and 17. Ps 118:26a, 27a. Mt 10:17-22.

Thursday, December 27: Feast of St. John, apostle and evangelist. 1 Jn 1:1-4. pS 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12. Jn 20:1a and 2-8.

Friday, December 28: Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs. 1 Jn 1:5—2:2. pS 124:2-3, 4-5, 7cd8. Mt 2:13-18.

Saturday, December 29: The Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas. Optional Memorial of St. Thomas Becket, bishop and martyr. 1 Jn 2:3-11. pS 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6. Lk 2:32. Lk 2:22-35.

Monday, December 31: The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas. Optional Memorial of St. Sylvester I, pope. 1 Jn 2:18-21. PS 96:1-2, 11-12, 13.

Jn 1:14a, 12a. Jn 1:1-18.

Tuesday, January 1: Octave of Christmas.

Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. Nm 6:22-27. Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8. Gal 4:4-7. Heb 1:1-2. Lk 2:16-21.

Wednesday, January 2: Memorials of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors. 1 Jn 2:22-28. Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. Heb 1:1-2. Jn 1:19-28.

Thursday, January 3: Christmas Weekday. Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. 1 Jn 2:29–3:6. Ps 98:1, 3cd-4, 5-6. Jn 1:14a, 12a. Jn 1:29-34.

Saturday, January 5: Memorial of St. John Neumann, bishop. 1 Jn 3:11-21. Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5.

Jn 1:43-51.

Sunday, January 6: The Epiphany of the Lord. Is 60:1-6. Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13. Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6. Mt 2:2. Mt 2:1-12.

Monday, January 7: Monday after Epiphany.

Optional Memorial of St. Raymond of Penafort, priest; St. Andre Bessette, religious. 1 Jn 3:22– 4:6. Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a. See Mt 4:23. Mt 4:1217, 23-25.

Tuesday, January 8: Tuesday after Epiphany. 1 Jn 4:7-10. Ps 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8. Lk 4:18. Mk 6:34-44.

Wednesday, January 9: Wednesday after Epiphany. Venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot. 1 Jn 4:11-18. Ps 72:1-2, 10, 12-13. See 1 Tm 3:16. Mk 6:45-52.

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Catholic san francisco | December 20, 2018

The double message of Christmas

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’ve never been happy with some of my activist friends who send out Christmas cards with messages like: “May the Peace of Christ Disturb You!” Can’t we have one day a year to be happy and celebrate without having our already unhappy selves shaken with more guilt? Isn’t Christmas a time when we can enjoy being children again? Moreover, as Karl Rahner once said, isn’t Christmas a time when God gives us permission to be a happy? So why not?

Well, it’s complex. Christmas is a time when God FATHER ron gives us permission to be rolheiser happy, when the message from God speaks through the voice of Isaiah and says: “Comfort my people. Speak words of comfort!” But Christmas is also a time that points out that when God was born two thousand years ago there wasn’t any room for him to be born in all the normal homes and places of the day. There was no room for him at the inn. Peoples’ busy lives and expectations kept them from offering him a place to be born. That hasn’t changed.

But first, the comfort of his birth: A number of years ago, I participated in a large diocesan synod.

At one point the animator in charge had us divide into small groups and each group was asked to answer the question: What’s the single most-important thing that the church should challenge the world with right now?

The groups reported back and each group named some important spiritual or moral challenge:

“We need to challenge our society towards more justice!” “We need to challenge the world to have real faith and not confuse God’s word with its own wishes.” “We need to challenge our world towards a more responsible sexual ethos. We’ve lost our way!” Wonderful, needed challenges, all of them.

But no group came back and said: “We need to challenge the world to receive God’s consolation!”

Granted, there’s a lot of injustice, violence, racism, sexism, greed, selfishness, sexual irresponsibility, and self-serving faith around; but most of the adults in our world are also living in a lot pain, anxiety, disappointment, loss, depression and unresolved guilt. Everywhere you look, you see heavy hearts. Moreover, so many people living with hurt and disappointment do not see God and the church as an answer to their pain but rather as somehow part of its cause.

So our churches, in preaching God’s word, need first of all to assure the world of God’s love, God’s concern, and God’s forgiveness. Before doing anything else, God’s word is meant to comfort us; indeed, to be the ultimate source of all comfort.

Only when the world knows God’s consolation will it accept the concomitant challenge.

And that challenge, among others, is to then make room for Christ at the inn, that is, to open our hearts, our homes, and our world as places were Christ can come and live. From the safe distance of two thousand years we too easily make a scathing judgment on the people at the time of Jesus’ birth for not knowing what Mary and Joseph were carrying, for not making a proper place for Jesus to be born, and for not recognizing him as Messiah afterwards. How could they be so blind?

But that same judgment is still being made of us.

We aren’t exactly making room in our own inns.

When a new person is born into this world, he or she takes a space where before there was no one.

Sometimes that new person is warmly welcomed and a cozy, loving space is instantly created and everyone around is happy for this new invasion.

But that isn’t always the case; sometimes, as was the case with Jesus, there is no space created for the new person to enter the world and his or her presence is unwelcome.

We see this today (and this will constitute a judgment on our generation) in the reluctance, almost all over the world, to welcome new immigrants, to make room for them at the inn. The United Nations estimates that there are 19.5 million refugees in the world today, persons whom no one will welcome. Why not? We are not bad people and we are capable most times of being wonderfully generous. But letting this flood of immigrants enter our lives would disturb us. Our lives would have to change. We would lose some of our present comforts, many of our old familiarities, and some of our securities.

We are not bad people, neither were those innkeepers two thousand years ago who, not knowing what was unfolding, in inculpable ignorance, turned Mary and Joseph away. I’ve always nursed a secret sympathy for them. Maybe because I am still, unknowingly, doing exactly what they did. A friend of mine is fond of saying: “I’m against more immigrants being allowed in … now that we’re in!”

The peace of Christ, the message inside of Christ’s birth, and the skewed circumstances of his birth, if understood, cannot but disturb. May they also bring deep consolation.

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

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ake a stand against the electronification of everything – give (real) books this Christmas.

Some recommendations: “Paul: A Biography,” by N.T. Wright (HarperOne): Dr. Wright’s remarkable ability to explicate the New Testament gives familiar passages new depths of meaning. His reconstruction of what Saul of Tarsus experienced on the Damascus road is deeply moving, even thrilling. And in this season of Catholic anger and grief, Wright’s analysis of Paul’s pastoral struggles george weigel is a helpful reminder that the church has always been something of a mess.

“Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church,” by John W. O’Malley, SJ (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press): Father O’Malley completes his conciliar trilogy (which includes works on Trent and Vatican II) with a nicely rendered account of Vatican I that’s fair to all those involved in some serious ecclesiastical elbow-throwing. Now that ultramontanism – an excessively Petrocentric concept of the church – has migrated from the starboard to the port side of the Barque of Peter, Vatican I is also useful in explaining why that 19th-century council’s work had to be completed by Vatican II’s “Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.”

“The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II: Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine,” by Thomas G. Guarino (Eerdmans): As the church continues

to debate the legacy of the Second Vatican Council, Father Guarino’s carefully crafted argument that Vatican II was a council of development, not rupture, is a much-needed antidote to some current oversimplifications. It’s the perfect gift for both the Tradinista millennial who has no idea why Vatican II was necessary and for those who believe the Catholic Church does “paradigm shifts.”

“The Last Homily: Conversations with Father Arne Panula,” edited by Mary Eberstadt (Emmaus Road): Want a window into why the new evangelization has engaged hundreds of young professionals in the nation’s capital over the past decade or so? Eberstadt’s conversations with the leader of that effort, recorded in the months before his death, introduce those who never met Father Arne to a model priest and spiritual director – and remind those who knew and loved him how privileged we were to enjoy his company and to glimpse sanctity and intelligence working in tandem.

“How Catholic Art Saved the Faith: The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art,”

by Elizabeth Lev (Sophia Institute Press): You’ve never really seen a painting or a sculpture until you’ve “seen” it through the discerning eye of Elizabeth Lev, a master teacher and guide. In our confused culture, beauty just might create new pathways to truth and goodness; Lev’s story of how something like that happened 500 years ago is thus evangelically challenging and pastorally suggestive for missionary disciples today.

“In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown,” by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking): At a moment in which American public officials too often act like petulant

toddlers, it’s good to remember that character counts in politics and that insight, courage and selflessness can rally the confused, the cowardly, and the self-centered to act for the common good.

That was Washington’s great accomplishment in the months leading up to the decisive American victory at Yorktown in October 1781: By force of character, he held together a tottering revolution even as he displayed a shrewd understanding of how sea power shapes history.

“Vatican Flags: Keys & Crowns Since 1800 – The Flags of the Papal States and Today’s Vatican,” by William M. Becker (North American Vexillogical Association): I’ve been a flag buff since childhood.

But until a few months ago, I hadn’t known there was a discipline called “Vexillology” (the study of flags), or that it had an association. I’m glad I found out, as Father Becker’s beautifully illustrated book is full of wonderful flags (like the naval ensign flying on a papal warship), even as it offers a brief course in modern Vatican history. Get it from the association by going to the “Shop” tab at the website: http://nava.org.

“Corduroy Mansions, The Dog Who Came in from the Cold, and A Conspiracy of Friends,” by Alexander McCall Smith: This series of charming novels features a winsome Pimlico terrier named Freddie de la Haye and a cast of human characters whose foibles McCall Smith treats with humor and deep sympathy. It’s the literary equivalent of comfort food. And as this year has taught us, we all need that from time to time.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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Catholic san francisco | December 20, 2018

Tolkien, Chesterton and the adventure of mission

The great poinsettia decorating challenge Lisa M. Petsche

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couple of Christmases ago, the world’s biggest poinsettia landed on my Canadian parents’ doorstep. At least that was their perception, given its gargantuan size. Indeed, they had trouble getting it through the doorway.

But they love poinsettias, and they were optimistic. Perhaps once we get all the wrapping paper off, it will turn out to be smaller than it appears, they thought. But no, it still looked gigantic – larger than life, in fact. They had never seen one that size, not even at the local concert hall they frequented, where jumbo poinsettias were always part of the holiday decor.

The mammoth plant was a gift from my sister and her spouse in the United States. It turns out they had emailed my parents’ hometown florist with their poinsettia request, providing a price range in U.S. dollars. Translated into Canadian currency, this allowed for close to 50 percent more foliage than they were anticipating. They spent the same amount of money they would have spent on a poinsettia for an American friend or relative, without considering the Canadian exchange rate at the time.

My parents were in a predicament. They wanted to keep the poinsettia, but where in heaven’s name could they put it?

They live in an older home – the traditional, closed concept kind with modest size rooms that is fully furnished after decades of occupancy. There are no empty corners, no cavernous foyers or great rooms in which to properly feature such a prominent decoration.

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here is a common, and I’ll admit somewhat understandable, interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that sees the great work as a celebration of the virtues of the Shire, that little town where the hobbits dwell in quiet domesticity. Neat, tidy hobbit holes, filled with comfortable furniture, delicate tea settings, and cozy fireplaces are meant, this reading has it, to evoke the charms of a “merrie old England” that existed before the rise of modernity and capitalism.

As I say, there is undoubtBISHOP Robert edly something to this, for Barron Tolkien, along with C.S. Lewis and the other members of the Inklings group, did indeed have a strong distaste for the excesses of the modern world.

However, I’m convinced that to see things this way is almost entirely to miss the point. For the ultimate purpose of Lord of the Rings is not to celebrate domesticity but rather to challenge it. Bilbo and Frodo are not meant to settle into their easy chairs but precisely to rouse themselves to adventure. Only when they leave the comforts of the Shire and face down orcs, dragons, goblins, and finally the power of evil itself do they truly find themselves. They do indeed bring to the struggle many of the virtues that they cultivated in the Shire, but those qualities, they discover, are not to be squirreled away and protected, but rather unleashed for the transformation of a hostile environment.

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a denizen of the pubs of Fleet Street, where he rubbed shoulders with the leading journalists, politicians, and cultural mavens of the time. He loved to laugh and argue with even the bitterest enemies of the religion he held dear. Most famously, over the course of many years, he traveled the country debating with the best-known atheist of the time, his good friend G.B. Shaw, with whom he typically shared a pint after their joint appearances. The point is that Chesterton didn’t hide his Catholicism away; he launched it into the wider society like a great ship onto the bounding main.

Paul Tillich was a quiet and serious student of Lutheran theology, preparing for a life as a preacher, when he was called to serve as a chaplain in the German army during World War I. In the course of five years, the young man saw the very worst of the fighting and dying. He said in one of his letters to his wife that it was like witnessing the collapse of an entire world. In the wake of that horrific experience, he sought a new way of articulating the classical Christian faith for the twentieth century, which is to say, for people whose world had fallen apart. He did indeed spend countless hours with his books, hunkering down to learn the great Christian intellectual tradition, but he insisted that the ultimate purpose of the theologian is to go out to meet the culture “mit klingendem Spiel,” which means, roughly, “with fife and drum.” Like his onetime colleague Karl Barth, who said that Christians ought never to crouch defensively “behind Chinese walls,” Tillich felt that believers in Christ ought to meet the culture head-on.

This general attitude is present from the beginning of Christianity. From the moment the Lord gave the great commission – “Go and preach the Gospel to all nations” – his disciples knew that the Christian faith is missionary by its very nature.

Though it exhibits contemplative and mystical dimensions, it is, at heart, a faith on the move, one that goes out. How fascinating that the Holy Spirit first fell in the heart of a city, and that the greatest figure of the apostolic age, Paul of Tarsus, was an urbane fellow, at home on the rough and tumble streets of Antioch, Corinth, Athens and Rome.

This, by the way, is why I have a particular affection for YouTube, on whose forums I am regularly excoriated and attacked, and Reddit, where secularists, agnostics and atheists are happy to tell me how stupid I am. Well, why not? Chesterton faced much worse in Fleet Street bars; Paul met violent opposition wherever he went; Frodo and Bilbo looked into the abyss. Good. We Christians don’t stay in hobbit holes; we go on adventure, “mit klingendem Spiel”!

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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publicly releasing names of priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse, with most allegations decades old.

Although the Pennsylvania grand jury report fueled strong outrage, it also raised questions about its intentions, especially since it focused on what happened decades ago rather than on the changes in church protocols on addressing abuse that have occurred in more than two decades, said Frederick Thieman. The former U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania has served on the Independent Review Board in the Pittsburgh diocese for 20 years.

While a full accounting of child sexual abuse “is a story that needs to be told,” Pennsylvania’s use of grand juries that publicly disseminate accusations, but bring no indictments, can be problematic, he told the Pittsburgh Catholic, diocesan newspaper.

“Unlike a trial, there is no opportunity for cross-examination and very limited opportunity for those accused to challenge evidence or present evidence of their own,” he added.

But as this process is more closely examined, the public shaming of Catholic Church leadership has already been in full swing.

Catholics across the country, many of whom thought the church dealt with abuse 16 years ago after the Boston Globe highlighted the issue, expressed raw frustration and anger at listening sessions throughout the summer and fall asking church leaders what went wrong and how the church could move forward.

Catholics also gathered in cathedrals and parishes across the country for healing Masses said by bishops who have often prostrated themselves before the altar in a posture of repentance. Several bishops individually issued statements on the crisis and many urged Catholics to pray and fast for the church to find healing and restoration.

In mid-September, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, had a long-awaited private meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss the growing sexual abuse crisis in the United States.

Between Aug. 1 and that Sept. 13 meeting, the cardinal issued five statements responding to various aspects of the sexual abuse crisis and called for greater transparency and accountability in the church, particularly on the part of the bishops.

In early October, while they were in Rome for the Synod of Bishops, Cardinal DiNardo and Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, USCCB vice president, had a private meeting with the pope, again about the abuse crisis.

Abuse was a major focus of the bishops’ June meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as well as at subsequent meetings of their Executive Committee and Administrative Committee.

The issue also was front and center at the bishops’ annual fall assembly in Baltimore Nov. 12-14 where protesters, including abuse victims, gathered outside.

The meeting, which many hoped would be a decisive response to the abuse crisis in the church, began with an announcement by Cardinal DiNardo that the Vatican wanted the bishops to

delay any vote on new procedures in response to clergy abuse until after a February meeting with the pope and presidents of the bishops’ conferences around the world focus on the issue.

The Congregation for Bishops, which made the FROM PAGE 14 request, also said the delay was needed to better evaluate the bishops’ proposals in light of canon Actually, it couldn’t really be considered a law. home accent, as poinsettias usually are. It was So instead, the bishops heard details about more like a piece of furniture about the size of establishing standards of episcopal accountabiltheir living room coffee table, in fact. ity; forming a special commission for review of Dad decided to call up the florist and see if complaints against bishops for violations of the he could exchange the pithy plant for someaccountability standards; and establishing a prothing more modest in size. The fellow he spoke tocol regarding restrictions on bishops who were with was empathetic to my parents’ plight. removed or who resigned over claims of sexual So dad loaded the poinsettia into his vehicle misconduct made against them or for grave negli(thank goodness he owns a van) and drove off gence in office. to arrange for a trade-in.

And the end of the meeting, Cardinal DiNardo He could only trade down so far, however. said he was more hopeful than he was at the Having been given a specific price range–rathmeeting’s start. er than a size range – and wanting to respect “We leave this place committed to taking the the senders’ wishes, the florist did not feel it strongest possible actions at the earliest possible was within his scope to go below the bottom moment,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “We will do so figure. Consequently, dad returned home with in communion with the universal church.” a plant slightly smaller but still oversized for He said the discussion throughout the meeting my parents’ humble abode. provided direction and consensus and also would So what became of the giant poinsettia? serve as a “springboard for action.”

Rather than give it away, mom and dad got Since the Baltimore gathering, more dioceses creative. have publicized list of priests accused of sexual The brilliant beauty was prominently disabuse of minors. On Dec. 6, the Archdiocese of played in the tub of their main floor bathroom, Los Angeles released an updated list that includpropped on a footstool to keep it high enough ed two cases of alleged abuse of current minors so it could spread its leaves in all their fiery in the archdiocese since 2008. glory. No need for the usual red bows on the In remarks posted on the archdiocesan website mirror or the seasonal fingertip towels that along with the listing, Archbishop Gomez said Christmas. A giant poinsettia in the bathtub is that “every case of child sexual abuse is one too as festive as any washroom can get; anything many, a crime committed against an innocent else pales in comparison. soul, a sin that cries out to heaven for justice, I wonder if Martha Stewart has thought of reparation, and healing.” that one yet.

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Cardinal Pell found guilty of sex abuse, expected to appeal Catholic News Service

MELBOURNE, Australia – Australian Cardinal George Pell reportedly has been found guilty on five charges related to serious sexual misconduct involving two boys at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in the 1990s.

The trial, the specific charges, the testimony and almost all other details involving the accusations against the 77-year-old cardinal are covered by a court-issued “super injunction,” which forbids all media in Australia from reporting on it.

Cardinal Pell is expected to appeal the conviction.

Sources said Cardinal Pell pleaded not guilty to all charges but was found guilty Dec. 11 by a jury of 12 people, who delivered a unanimous verdict, as required by Victoria state statutes; the jury had deliberated for more than three days.

The trial took place before Judge Peter Kidd of the County Court of the State of Victoria; it was one of two trials Cardinal Pell is reportedly facing on accusations of abuse that allegedly occurred in the 1970s and in the 1990s.

Following a monthlong pretrial hearing in May, the court ordered Cardinal Pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse of minors, charges the cardinal consistently denied. The trial was split in two: one for the events in Melbourne in 1990s and one for the events in Ballarat in 1970s.

The first trial, for the Melbourne events, began in August, but resulted in a hung jury, sources said.

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overlap in other life issues, including capital punishment, social justice and the treatment of immigrants and people at the margins of society, she said.

“The consistent ethic inspires us to think more broadly about the world we want to create,” Jacobs said.

Herb Geraghty, director of communication for Rehumanize International, said commitment to a consistent ethic does not require belief in a higher power.

A self-described pro-life atheist, Geraghty said, “The consistent ethic is an incredibly basic line that can be accepted by people with radically different beliefs.”

“The ‘consistent’ part is important,” Geraghty said.

“You can’t believe in a consistent ethic for the preborn while throwing others under the bus.”

Geraghty said although young people are becoming less aligned with religious groups, they are not losing their pro-life ethic. In a secular age, “pro-lifers need to position ourselves as a progressive movement for human rights and not a regressive movement against women’s rights.”

In response to a question from the audience, Bishop Kicanas said applying the consistent ethic to the issues of genocide and war requires “continual discernment and the wisdom of Solomon to know when, where and how to respond to the taking of human life. How do we stand up against huge injustice? And where does action on our part to protect others begin and end?”

The event was organized by the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture and moderated by David Gibson, the center’s director.

PRIESTHOOD DISCERNMENT RETREAT

The archdiocesan Office of Vocations offers its annual weekend discernment retreat, Jan. 18-20 at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park, for men wanting to know more about becoming a priest.

The event is open to single men, 21 years or older, to explore the meaning of priesthood, with conferences given by Spokane Bishop Thomas A. Daly, a former priest of the archdiocese.

Lodging and meals provided, and attendance does not imply further obligation. Visit www.stpsu.edu/ is-god-calling-you or contact Father Patrick Summerhays, director of vocations, (415) 614-5683; summerhays.patrick@sfarch.org.

(CNS photo/Mark Dadswell, Reuters)

Australian Cardinal George Pell leaves the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court Oct. 6.

One of the alleged survivors has died since the events and the other gave evidence via video link to the court. Neither has been named.

Lawyers for Cardinal Pell, led by Robert Richter, are understood to have indicated they will appeal, but that would take place after the cardinal is sentenced in February. The second trial, focusing on the alleged events in Ballarat, reportedly will begin in March.

Catholic News Service was told that Australian media organizations are petitioning the court to release details of the trial and verdict. The court had issued the gag order to “prevent a real and substantial risk of prejudice to the proper administration of justice.”

Although some of the initial charges brought by prosecutors were dismissed, including what Cardinal Pell’s lawyer described as the most “vile,” Magistrate Belinda Wallington announced May 1 that she believed there was enough evidence presented in connection with about half the original charges to warrant a full trial.

Cardinal Pell was appointed head of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy by Pope Francis in 2014 but took a leave of absence from his position in mid-2017 to face the charges. His lawyer told the court May 1 that he had already surrendered his passport.

Before leaving Rome, Cardinal Pell had told reporters at a Vatican news conference, “I’m innocent of these charges. They are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me.”

“These matters have been under investigation now for two years,” Cardinal Pell told the press.

“There’s been relentless character assassination, a relentless character assassination.”

Following his time as archbishop of Melbourne, 1996-2001, Pell was named archbishop of Sydney in 2001. He was made a cardinal by St. John Paul II in 2003 and is, at present, the only Australian cardinal.

Cardinal Pell has been an important and, at times, polarizing figure in Australia. Supporters say his opposition to abortion and gay marriage have made him many enemies, and they believe that while he was archbishop of Melbourne he was the first bishop in the country to proactively address the clergy sex abuse issue.

help wanted Business Manager, Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption Reports to: Pastor FLSA Status: Full Time Exempt POSITION SUMMARY: The Cathedral Business Manager serves as a key resource in support of the pastor, fulfilling administrative needs in managing finances, overseeing buildings, grounds, property maintenance and personnel. Works independently while advising the Pastor and collaborating with the Chancery offices. Responsible for developing and managing to the annual operating and capital budgets.

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Manages operations of offices, event center, gift shop and team of five employees • Administers cash flow management system and is responsible for recording and depositing of all Cathedral Revenue • Purchasing and inventory • Monthly, quarterly and year-end financial reporting • Prepares and presents financial and operational performance reports for Pastor, Finance Council and ADSF Finance Department • Negotiates contracts with suppliers, vendors and construction firms in coordination with Archdiocesan Finance Department.

• Maintains the premises and anticipates needed repairs and replacements as part of facility maintenance and capital Improvements plans • Develop and update a three-five year Capital improvement and maintenance plans for the Cathedral. These should be prepared in collaboration with the Archdiocesan Real Property Support Corporation (RPSC), Pastor and Moderator of the Curia • Maintenance of Cathedral membership and sacramental records • Administers archdiocesan salary, hiring and benefit policies as directed by the pastor in coordination with the Archdiocesan Human Resources Department.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s degree; two to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Must be a practicing Roman Catholic who upholds and understands the teaching and traditions of the Catholic Church.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial statements, general business periodicals or governmental regulations.

• At least three years of management experience and strong knowledge of finance and budgeting and should have knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Outlook. Proficiency with QuickBooks Desktop and On-line sotware Please submit resume and cover letter to: Attn: Christine Escobar-Human Resources Manager Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 E-mail: escobarc@sfarch.org Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

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Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2019-2020 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/ employment The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to:

Christine Escobar, Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602

Salary will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental, and retirement benefits are included.

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

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To work with the present Youth & Young Adult ministries in parishes to strengthen and guide them toward an increase in membership and activities in terms of spiritual, pastoral, and social events.

To help individual parish groups interact and network with Youth and Young Adult Ministry groups in neighboring parishes within the local deanery and with groups in deaneries.

To recruit, train, and create effective faith-filled, talented youth ministry leaders to animate both the Youth and Young Adult Ministry groups.

To accompany the youth actively and creatively in their faith journey by way of spiritual, liturgical, scriptural, sacramental events.

To be engaged in target-based, result-oriented invigoration of Youth Ministry in parishes and deaneries in terms of increasing number of youth, number of parish ministries, and various events organized, including at least one countylevel event per county and one Archdiocesewide event annually.

6. Help prepare youth for the Sacrament of Confirmation and organize Archdiocesan Confirmation retreats in collaboration with the Youth Council.

7. Develop and maintain database of addresses and contact information for youth and young adult ministry members of the Archdiocese and the progress of this ministry.

8. Facilitate “Theology on Tap” program.

9. Organize World Youth Day participation and maintain informational and financial database of participants.

10. In order to bring focus and dedication to this parish-based work, the coordinator will be exclusively working within the boundaries of parishes and deaneries within our Archdiocese and NOT outside of the Archdiocese for events, seminars, and conferences, except with prior approval of the Director of Pastoral Ministry.

Qualities & Qualifications: • Strong interpersonal and problem resolution skills.

• Excellent English verbal, written and communication skills (Spanish Language helpful) • Organized, reliable, flexible, pleasant, affable, timely; and with effective planning skills • Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and Excel • Practicing Catholic in good standing with a deep love for the Church • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree

• Experience in youth/young adult ministry, faith formation or related fields • 4-6 years of experience in parish and diocesan ministry • Valid California driver’s license with clean driving record and car for work • Able to work evenings/nights and weekends • Able to work collaboratively with the pastors, deans, and other parish-based organizations in helping start new youth and young adult ministry groups in parishes and deaneries.

Send cover letter, resume and three references to Christine Escobar escobarc@sfarch.org at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

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English cardinal shocked to learn vicar sent two pedophiles to US Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service

LONDON – An English cardinal has told an inquiry into child abuse of his shock at learning that a vicar general of his former archdiocese tried to help two pedophile priests escape to the United States.

The Independent Cardinal Vincent Inquiry into Child Nichols Sex Abuse revealed for the first time that Msgr. Daniel Leonard, a former vicar general of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, ordered a priest to tip off Father Samuel Penney that he was about to be arrested and to give him cash to flee to the United States.

It also revealed that Msgr. Leonard, who is now deceased, provided Father James Robinson with a good character reference so he could transfer to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, even though the priest was facing allegations of child abuse in the U.K. Giving evidence to the inquiry, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster said: “This comes as a shock to me that such a course of action could have been in the mind of the then vicar general.

“It is shocking. If I understand things correctly, it is criminal intent,” said Cardinal Nichols, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, at the Dec. 13 hearing in London.

The cardinal, who served as archbishop of Birmingham from 2000 to 2009,

said Msgr. Leonard was in a nursing home when he took over as archbishop, and he met him only once. Cardinal Nichols said he found a “much-diminished old man who was clearly incapable of remembering much.”

Father Gerard Doyle, a parish priest in Stone, England, said in the early 1990s that he received a call from Msgr.

Leonard, who instructed him to dress in plain clothes and visit Father Penney at the Gracewell Institute, Birmingham, where he was undergoing therapy following child abuse allegations.

Father Doyle said he was ordered to inform Father Penney that his arrest was imminent, to give him “several hundred pounds” and to tell him to leave for Ireland and from there to travel to America.

“I was in shock, I couldn’t believe what I was being told to do,” said Father Doyle, in a statement read by Jacqueline Carey, legal counsel for the inquiry.

“I was upset and stunned by Msgr.

Leonard’s request. When the conversation ended, I put the phone down in a state of shock and confusion,” he said.

Msgr. Leonard changed his mind and called Father Doyle again to tell him to tip off Father Penney’s sister instead, which he did.

“I would not have carried out the vicar general’s first instructions,” Father Doyle said. “I felt it was fundamentally wrong.”

Father Penney was jailed for sevenand-a-half years in 1993 for the abuse of children on camping trips and in his rectory.

Father Robinson, however, moved to

California in 1985, the year the archdiocese learned of abuse allegations against him, on the recommendation of Msgr. Leonard.

U.S. church authorities revoked his faculties in 1993, when the Birmingham Archdiocese made the allegations known to them, with the intention of sending Father Robinson back to England.

But the priest disappeared; a decade later, British Broadcasting Corp. journalists found him managing a trailer park in California.

He was extradited to the U.K., where in 2010 he was sentenced to 21 years in jail for the abuse of six boys.

During the inquiry hearing, Cardinal Nichols faced tough questions over his handling of claims of child abuse allegedly committed by Father John Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

The cardinal was criticized for failing to disclose to the complainants the existence of a note showing that Father Tolkien had been sent for treatment following allegations in 1968 that he had ordered some Boy Scouts to strip naked.

Cardinal Nichols argued, however, that he received no legal advice to disclose the letter and said police were in possession of the full file on Father Tolkien.

He said he also had to take into account representations made by lawyers acting for the Tolkien family, who were concerned that the priest was, at the time, in such poor health that he could not defend himself.

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VATICAN CITY – The death penalty is an inhumane form of punishment that ignores the primacy of mercy in the name of justice, Pope Francis said.

Meeting a delegation from the International Commission against the Death Penalty Dec. 17, the pope set aside his prepared remarks and spoke off the cuff, the Vatican said.

In his prepared text, which was handed to the delegation, the pope said his recent revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching against capital punishment was an important step in recognizing that the death penalty was “a consequence of a mental-

laws lacking in humanity and mercy.”

“The church could not remain in a neutral position in the face of today’s demands to reaffirm personal dignity,” the pope said.

Pope Francis ordered a revision of the catechism’s paragraph on capital punishment, 2267, in August to assert that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide.

The development of the church’s teaching, he said, is consistent with “defending the dignity of human life”

“As has happened in the heart of the church, a similar commitment must be made by all nations,” the pope said.

“The sovereign right of all countries to define their legal system cannot be exercised in contradiction with their obligations under international law, nor can it represent an obstacle to the universal recognition of human dignity.”

Countries that have not abolished capital punishment but have adopted a moratorium on executions also should ban the death penalty as a possible punishment for crime, Pope Francis said.

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A temporary moratorium, he said, “cannot be lived by the condemned person as a mere prolongation of the waiting period for his or her execution.”

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One of the complainants, Christopher Carrie, who said he was abused by Father Tolkien in 1957 as an 11-year-old, was nevertheless later awarded 15,000 pounds by the archdiocese in an out-ofcourt settlement.

Cardinal Nichols told the inquiry he was “still learning” about how to address the “terrible evil” of child abuse.

The inquiry noted that he had met victims of abuse on 17 occasions.

“I should have made it easier for more people to come, but some who came I learned to know well and among them I count as friends,” said Cardinal Nichols.

“What I learned most of all was the lasting, corrosive, destructive influence, effects and impact of child sex abuse,” he said.

He continued: “Any abuse committed by someone who represents the Catholic faith is destructive of the trust that the victim might have found in the truths of faith.

“It is destructive of one of the places were many people find succor and encouragement and comfort, and that is why the abuse of children in the context of a church and in the context of faith is such a terrible, terrible thing. In a way, it poisons the very wells of our salvation, and it indeed breaks my heart and will forever mark ministry as a priest.”

The Birmingham archdiocese is one of the worst afflicted by clerical abuse in England and was nominated as a case study to represent the church at the inquiry, which is investigating child abuse throughout a range of U.K. institutions.

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TURKEY DRIVE: Bring turkeys and hams to St. Emydius Church parking lot, 350 DeMontfort Ave., San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon. All donations benefit St. Anthony’s Dining Room. Contact Pierre at SFPierre@aol.com, www.

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ORGAN CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m. featuring artists of local and wider acclaim. Freewill offering at door. (415) 567-2020. www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

PAULINE SISTERS CHRISTMAS: Celebrate Christmas with Daughters of St. Paul at their new location 3250 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., for Christmas crafts and snacks, and storytelling. www.pauline.org; NorCal@paulinemedia.com, (650) 562-7060.

MONDAY, DEC. 31

‘RICHES OF CHRISTMAS’: Laura Bertone, director of worship for the archdiocese, visits with host J.A. Gray on Mosaic, Dec. 23, 5:30 a.m., KPIX Channel 5. The two unwrap “some of the forgotten or neglected treasures and tales of the sacred season when God became man,” producers said.

The Christmas season offers a rich array of feasts and remembrances from Dec. 25 through Jan. 13, the baptism of Jesus. sfarch.org/mosaic-tv.

ORGAN CONCERT: Christoph Tietze, music director and organist for St. Mary’s Cathedral, celebrates his 50th year as a church organist, in concert, 4 p.m., at the cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.

Chris notes that he played for his “first Mass Dec. 25, 1968.” The program will feature the works of Bach, Pachelbel, Daquin, Franck. Freewill offerings at door. (415) 567-2020. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

LIVE NATIVITY: Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo and Columbus, San Francisco, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Presented by The Knights of St. Francis. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

VOCATION MEETINGS: Prayer, dinner and discussion for men considering the priesthood continue Jan. 3, Feb. 7, March 7, 6:15-8:30 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 826 Vienna St., San Francisco. For information or to RSVP, Father Patrick Summerhays, (415) 614-5684; summerhays. patrick@sfarch.org. Meetings with similar format take place Jan. 7, Feb. 4, March 4: 6:15-8:30 p.m., St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. For information or to RSVP, Father Tom Martin, martin. thomas@sfarch.org.

ORGAN CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m. featuring artists of local and wider acclaim. Freewill offering at door. (415) 567-2020. www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

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ORGAN CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m. featuring artists of local and wider acclaim. Freewill offering at door. (415) 567-2020. www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

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MONDAY, JAN. 7 VOCATION MEETINGS: Prayer, dinner and discussion for men considering the priesthood continue Jan. 3, Feb. 7, March 7, 6:15 – 8:30 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 826 Vienna St., San Francisco. For information or to RSVP, Father Patrick Summerhays, (415) 6145684; summerhays.patrick@sfarch.org.

Meetings with similar format take place Jan. 7, Feb. 4, March 4: 6:15-8:30 p.m., St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. For information or to RSVP, Father Tom Martin, martin. thomas@sfarch.org.

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‘CARNIVAL’: San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women Annual Luncheon, fashion show and silent auction, Olympic Club, Lakeside.

Fashions by Simi’s, 11 a.m., no-host cocktails, silent auction, 12:30 p.m. lunch. Tickets $85. Reservations required by Jan. 16. Cathy Mibach, (415) 753-0234; dcmiback@aol.com.

SATURDAY, FEB. 9 ANNIVERSARY MASS: Mass for Couples with five-year anniversaries, 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Ed Hopfner, (415) 614-5547; hopfnere@sfarch.org. Couples who in 2019 will celebrate anniversaries ending in 5 or 0 (5 years, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40) and all couples married more than 40 years, are invited. Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, principal celebrant, homilist.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE RETREAT “Divine Encounters: Embracing the Spirit of God,” with Paulist Father Bart Landry, 7 p.m.-10:30 p.m., Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Chapel, 43326 Mission Circle Fremont. Festive desserts. Freewill offering. Register by Dec. 28 at http:// bit.ly/2018NewYearRetreat or (510) 933-6360.

pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, leads the day. Registration fee $10, bring a bag lunch, coffee, tea, dessert provided. Helga Zinck, (650) 871-8389.

Register by Dec. 29.

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Catholic san francisco | December 20, 2018

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

Facundo Antaran Abello Carmela Diana Addiego Fe P. Aquino Betty Arnold Bianca Guadalupe Valdivia Avendaño George Robert Ayoob Martha Araj Ayoub Ann Baardson Simplicio Fabian Balibag Remedios M. Barabad Raymond D. Borello Raymond L. Bozzini Elizabeth Marie Camacho Richard Cardelli Rose Castro George H. Childs Patricia B. Childs Maryellen Cosgrove Mary Ann Culpeper Matthew P. Curtis Alphonse John Czapowski Nancy A. D’Amico Eugene B. D’Amico Jr. Jane M. Dabovich Yvonne Delaplaine Janet Marie Dickson Isabel H. Dominguez John Francis Duffy Marilyn C. Dunleavy Gordon Thomas Egan Dolores P. Eggert Barbara A. Elward Lidia (Tanchito) Flores Philomena Folan James Francis Foley Marilyn J. Fraser Dorothy George Alice M. Gomez Nestor S. Guerzon Sheila Marie Ryan Green Mary F. Lydon Guheen Meki P. Hall Nancy Marie Halloran Patrick Hanley

James A. Harding Stanley Howell Sook Hui Hyun Abel David Jacques Arliss V. Johnson Elaine Mercedes Berger Johnston George Karwatt Robert L. Keefe William Kenna Jr. Juanita Jimenez Lacayo Ellie Sunga Lagman Thomas W. Leach William E. Leary, Jr. Justina M. Lee Emma Lew Graciela Gloria Luna Sr. Constance Madden, PBVM Harold M. Maffei Raymer Vargas Manlapaz Maria Angela Martinez Chuck Matthews Marjorie A. McCarthy Marilyn McGrath-Osborn Loretta A. Merat Gregorio M. Millares Robert Moore Kevin Michael Mullaney Carlito (“Lito”) M. Non Patricia Anne O’Hara Therese Ann O’Neill Warren “Ozzie” Osborn Sara T. O’Sullivan Zacarias “Jun” R. Ortua Jr. Catherine J. Parac Louise Marie Parenti Frank Caralde Payongayong Ernestine L. Pearson Josefino B. Peralta Queen Esther Pitre Sara Puentes

Emma Guadalupe Quintana Carlos E. Rocha A. LaVonne Sarmento Frank A. Scammon Wanda M. Sheehan Rita Marie Solis Anita Giuli Spinetti Barbara E. Steiner Florence L. Stone Mary B. Stratton Martha V. Tenney Rodolfo R. Tiri Robert Tisnado Matilda E. Tomasello Miriam Roselani Kaheaku Tortolero Tina Marie Totah-Nazzal Danny Twomey Kathleen L. Vennemeyer Nimia S. Visperas Richard J. Wall Kevin R. Walsh Lucille J. Walsh Anna Kwan Wong Mary Catherine Zerrilla

HOLY CROSS, menlo Park Siaosi Cook Jack Lucier Charlotte M. Murphy

Our Lady of the pillar Eda M. Adreveno

Mt. olivet, san rafael Regina Chulla Mary Anne Collin Mary J. Fahy Eileen M. Seifert Rose Christine Tannlund

HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma First Saturday Mass – Saturday January 5, 2019 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Father Tony La Torre – St. Stephen Parish

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021