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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
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July 27, 2017
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Border bishop: ‘Broken system’
‘Destination parishes’ offer a sense of home for seeking Catholics Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
In San Francisco, many Catholics travel miles past their local church to find a parish where they feel most at home, part of a national movement that observers attribute to a mobile society and a church structure that no longer requires Catholics to attend church within their parish boundaries. “Today’s Catholic experience is not governed by where you live. That’s just a reality,” said Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor of St. Dominic in San Francisco, which attracts people from throughout the Bay Area. “The trend is for more parish-shopping,” said Charles Zech, co-author of “Catholic Parishes of the 21st Century,” (Oxford University Press, 2017) with Mary Gautier of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. The researchers found that more than 30 percent of parishioners and 40 percent of millennials attend Mass at a parish they choose, rather than the church closest to them. That
Destination parishes These three San Francisco parishes illustrate the national trend of “destination” parishes that attract followers from beyond parish territorial boundaries. The three, which are among many in the Archdiocese of San Francisco that could be termed destination parishes, offer different but complementary styles of liturgy and spirituality and each has its own characteristic mix of ministries. Profiles of the three appear on Pages 14-16. St. Dominic: Home to 10 Dominican friars, the parish has more than 70 ministries.
St. Ignatius: Ignatian spirituality draws from afar to this Jesuit-run parish formed in 1994.
Star of the Sea: A neighborhood parish recently transformed with traditional liturgy and music.
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WASHINGTON – The bishop of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, issued a pastoral letter calling for a stop to militarization along the border with Mexico and showing compassion for migrants. Bishop Mark J. Seitz followed with a passionate plea for understanding of the danger that prompts migrants to flee home. Bishop Seitz, in a video conference hosted by the Hope Border Institute in El Paso after the July 18 release of his letter on migration titled “Sorrow and Mourning Flee Away,” spoke of a parishioner in his diocese in his 30s, a husband and father of two, who had been a successful businessman in his native Mexico until narcotraffickers began extorting money from him.
see destination parishes, page 13
see border, page 8
Journal: Strip religious garb, fundamentalist tones from US political power Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
Editor’s Note: Opinions by commentators on both sides of this issue appear on Pages 21 and 22. VATICAN CITY – U.S. politics have become increasingly colored by an apocalyptic worldview, promoted by certain fundamentalist Christians, that fosters hatred, fear and intolerance, said an influential Jesuit magazine. In fact, this worldview shares some similarities with Islamic fundamentalism since “at heart, the narrative of terror shapes the worldviews of jihadists and the new crusaders” and is drawn from wellsprings “that are not too far apart,” said La Civilta Cattolica, the Jesuit journal reviewed by the Vatican before publication. The article, appearing in the mid-July/August edition and released online July 13, was written by
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A peace activist holds a sign saying “Resist Islamophobia!” during a prayer service in early March outside the White House in Washington.
the journal’s editor, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, and Marcelo Figueroa, an evangelical Christian, who is the director of the Argentine edition of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Written in Italian, an English version was released on www. laciviltacattolica.com. Titled: “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism: A surprising ecumenism,” the article looks at the growing similarities in the rhetoric and worldviews adopted by evangelical fundamentalists and some “militant” Catholic hardliners. More specifically, it also looks at how this rhetoric and mindset have seeped into U.S. culture and politics, including in some electoral campaigns and government administrations, such as that of U.S. President Donald Trump. One feature of this “ecumenism of hate” is a clear “Manichean” delineation between absolute see journal, page 26
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