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St. Augustine Church rededication

Newly renovated St. Augustine Church in South San Francisco was blessed and the new altar consecrated Aug. 26 at a special Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant. The pastor of St. Augustine is Father Rene Ramoso. See story on Page 10.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican obviously is concerned about terrorist threats, “especially for the senseless hatred” it represents, and will continue to remain vigilant, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.

Speaking to reporters Aug. 26, Cardinal Parolin said he had seen the most recent video attributed to Islamic State in which the pope and Vatican are threatened, and “one cannot help but be concerned.” However, he said, he did not believe the video prompted extra security measures beyond those that have been in place for some time.

For the Year of Mercy 2015-2016, the main boulevard see vatican, page 15

Local faith community’s support helped in release of detained refugee Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

A young and ailing Salvadoran refugee languishing in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Bakersfield was released without bond on July 28 by a San Francisco immigration judge who noted the presence of nearly 100 members of the local faith community packing the courtroom.

Immigration Judge Dana Leigh Marks released 29-year-old mother of three Veronica Zapeda more than six months after she was detained at the U.S. border and sent to Mesa Verde Detention Center after attempting to escape her violent husband for the second time, Natalie Terry of St. Agnes Parish told Catholic San Francisco.

“The judge saw that Veronica has a lot of support,” said Terry, director of the St. Agnes-based Ignatian Spiritual Life Center.

Terry and other Catholic parishioners, sisters and clergy from St. Agnes, St. John of God, St. Pe-

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Veronica Zapeda, a 29-year-old Salvadoran refugee and mother of three, is pictured at the Golden Gate Bridge during a visit to the Bay Area after an outpouring of support from the faith community helped secure her release from an immigration detention center.

During her visit she received a blessing at St. Peter Church in San Francisco.

ter, St. Ignatius and St. Dominic parishes were part of a local interfaith campaign led by Faith in Action Bay Area, a faith-based organizing network of more than 40 congregations, and San Francisco-based Pangea Legal Services.

Pangea is a nonprofit law firm created four years ago to provide access to direct representation to immigrant communities, particularly in the area of deportation defense.

“It was a beautiful show of love in action,” Lorena Melgarejo, the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s coordinator of parish outreach, said about the response from the faith community to the plight of a woman they had never met before.

Terry said she and others at St. Agnes learned about Veronica’s situation through Pangea, which helped form a Rapid Response Network in San Francisco earlier this year. The Rapid Response Network is made up of trained volunteers, many of them from Catholic parishes, dispatched to the site of possible immigration see refugee, page 10

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Archbishop announces clergy appointments

Need to know Gracenter fundraiser: Good Shepherd Gracenter will host its largest annual fundraiser, “Journey of Grace,” Sept. 17, noon-2:30, Patio Español, 2850 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco.

The fundraiser is instrumental in helping run the recovery residence, said Good Shepherd Sister Marguerite Bartling, Gracenter’s executive director. Gracenter provides each woman, all of whom are seeking long-term recovery from addiction, and many of whom were formerly homeless, with up to two years of transitional housing, three healthy meals per day and around-the-clock support services. Gracenter measures client outcomes for up to three years after clients complete the program. Remarkably, even after three years, more than 90 percent of program graduates continue to stay in recovery from their addiction. Gracenter credits this to its holistic approach, which includes support finding employment, enrolling in higher education, onsite financial education and nutrition classes, as well as individualized case management – in addition to the 12-step program. Visit www.gsgracenter. org to learn more or to purchase tickets or sponsorships.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone announced the following clergy appointments Aug. 10. Appointments are effective July 1, 2017, unless otherwise noted.

Administrators

Father Moises Agudo St. Charles Borromeo Parish, San Francisco, continuing as pastor of St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, and administrator of St. Anthony of Padua Parish, San Francisco; Father Gael E. Sullivan, SDB, Sts. Peter & Paul Church, San Francisco.

Director

Father Reginald Martin, OP, Vallombrosa Center, Menlo Park.

Parochial vicars

Father Andrew C. Ibegbulem, OSA, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, San Francisco, and Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.

Marian consecration: Updated details for parishes and schools on the consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary are available at www.sfarchdiocese.org/IHM or www.sfarch.org/IHM. The consecration culminates with a Mass and procession at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 7, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presiding.

CEMETERY MASS: Msgr. Michael Padazinski is principal celebrant of first Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, Sept. 2, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum chapel. www.holycrosscemeteries.com, (650) 756-2060.

Chaplaincy ministry

Father John Jimenez, Archbishop Riordan High School (full-time chaplain and teacher), with residence at St. Gabriel Parish; Father Andrew P. Spyrow, San Rafael Police Department, part-time, effective Aug. 1, 2017, continuing with his responsibilities as parochial vicar at St. Raphael Parish.

St. Patrick’s Seminary & University

Father Khoa Nguyen, OFM, assistant director of spiritual life; Father Vito J. Perrone, COSJ, director of spiritual life (part-time); continuing with Contemplatives of St. Joseph and with part-time pastoral responsibilities at Star of the Sea Parish and school; Father A. Yu, director of liturgy (part-time); Religous GiftsAlvin & Books continuing to serve at St. Matthew Parish.

at Pontifical North American College, effective July 16, 2017.

In residence

Father Manuel Curso, living independently in Los Angeles with family; Father Andrew R. Johnson, retired, living at Serra Clergy House, San Mateo; Father Jerome M. Murphy, St. Sebastian Church, effective Aug. 1, 2017; Father Mario Oleo, SVD, St. Kevin Parish, San Francisco; Msgr. John R. Pernia, Glen Terra assisted living, 917 N Louise St., Glendale, CA 91207, effective Aug. 1, 2017; Father Edward J. (“Dismas”) Sayre, OP, St. Dominic Priory, director of the St. Jude Shrine, effective July 9, 2017.

Thank you for your ongoing prayers for vocations to the priesthood, and for the men currently in studies, including beginning this fall.

David Mees, Steven Olujic, Jerick Rea.

Additional updates

Deacon James H. Haug retired from ministry, effective June 19, 2017; Father Martin Mager, OSB, Catholic spiritual director, Cursillo, Archdiocese of San Francisco, effective Aug. 1, 2017 (three-year term); Father Scott Santarosa, SJ, provincial, Jesuits West Province (formerly the California and Oregon Provinces of the Society of Jesus) representing the Jesuits of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington (address: P.O. Box 86010, Portland, OR 97286; Father George T. Williams, SJ, beginning a sabbatical from San Quentin State Prison, effective Jan. 1, 2018-April 30, 2018.

Departures:

Mr. Nicholas S. Case Studying for the priesthood

Reverend John Itzaina, SDB, returning to the Salesians, in retired status and outside the boundaries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Father James Moore, OP, vicar provincial of advancement, Western Dominican Province.

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Sept. 16: Project Rachel Mass, Holy Cross CemOn site meals are available for purchase. etery, 11 a.m.

“One of the strengths of the San Francisco renewal is its diversity and unity,” Deacon Ernie von Emster, a Sept. 16-17: Parish visit, St. Bartholomew St. Carlos Parish, San Carlos, member and an officer of

the renewal, told Catholic San Francisco. “Talks will be presented in Spanish, English and Vietnamese and the three communities come together in the liturgies.”

Catholic Charismatic Renewal celebrates in 2017 its golden jubilee of the launching of the project at a retreat of college students at Duquesne University in 1967. “The impact of the outpouring of the Spirit spread like wildfire throughout the United States and the world,” Deacon von Emster said. “Today over 200 million persons have experienced a baptism in the Holy Spirit.”

Pope Francis has spoken to the world about the renewal, Deacon von Emster said. “Pope Francis is telling us that we are to encourage the whole church to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Visit www.

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"Come after me and I will make you fishers of men." - Mark 1:17

The priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco have generously served the Catholic faithful in the counties of San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo for more than 150 years. Throughout our lives, from baptism to death, through good times and difficult times, our priests have been there to celebrate, counsel, encourage, and bear witness to the power of God’s love for us.

Two opportunities are available to show our gratitude to our retired priests for their many years of faithful service.

1) Make a generous gift to the Priests Retirement Fund Special Collection at Masses throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco on September 16 & 17.

2) Attend and/or sponsor a retired priest to the Seventh Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon to be held on Friday, September 29th at St. Mary’s Cathedral. For more information please contact Florian Romero of the Office of Development at (415) 614 -5537 or email at romerof@sfarch.org.

By participating in one or both of these ways, you help provide financial stability for our retired priests and you can assure future security for our active priests.

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Sisters’ jubilees; Riordan alum elected president Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Congratulations and thank you to Sister Mary Judine Bruch and Sister Eileen McGovern both celebrating 70 years as Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The sisters entered the BVM congregation Sept. 8, 1947, professed first vows March 19, 1950 and final vows Aug. 15, 1955. They are now retired and live at the sisters motherhouse Mount Carmel in Sister Mary Dubuque, Iowa.

Judine Bruch, Sister Judine is from Illinois BVM and taught at San Francisco’s St. Thomas More and Most Holy Redeemer schools.

Sister Eileen was born in Dubuque and taught at St. Paul School in San Francisco.

The votes are in and Angelo Novello has been elected president of the Student Government Executive Council at the University of Eileen Dallas where he is a junior.

McGovern, BVM Angelo is a graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco and a parishioner of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay. Mighty proud are his folks Laura and Dan Novello.

“The Executive Council is responsible for setting Student Government’s annual goals and overseeing the senate and various Angelo Novello boards and committees,” Laura told me in a note to this column. She filled me on the school, too. “The University of Dallas, located in a metropolitan area of nearly 7 million people, is a leading Catholic university widely recognized for academic excellence,” she said, noting its “commitment to shaping principled, well-skilled leaders and academic rigor in the Catholic intellectual tradition.” Angelo’s dad is also a Riordan alum.

Angelo has spent time in Rome “so he is very worldly now, of course,” his mom said. “Right now the career goal is heading toward medicine, pediatrician to be precise, but at this point, all bets are off. He finds things he loves at every turn.”

HELP FOR THE HELPERS: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Marin County and St. Anselm conference in Ross have received a $5,000 grant

ON HIS WAY: Congratulations to Timothy Denterlein on being awarded his Executive Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University May 18. Tim is a graduate of St. Brendan School and Lowell High School and holds an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University. Tim is pictured here on Columbia’s Manhattan campus on graduation day with his parents, longtime St. Brendan parishioners Arti and Tom.

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: Church of the Nativity is loyal to its tower bell with care sometimes from even pastor, Msgr.

Steven Otellini, pictured here oiling the bell mechanism to ensure it remains in good working order. Nativity was established as a parish in 1877, and the bell was installed in the tower in 1888. The bell now has an automatic ringer and rings for the Angelus at noon and 6 p.m.

It also rings at 9 p.m. and before the 5:30 p.m. weekday Masses and five minutes before each Saturday vigil and Sunday Mass. Parishioner Mike Demeter for many years rang the bell by hand. When the bell was automated several years ago he was given the bell’s rope.

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The St. Anselm conference is part of the District Council of Marin County with eight active, four on-call and three associate members dedicated to serving those in need, Bill said. The 2014 U.S. Census states that 8.8 percent of Marin County has income below established poverty lines, he said.

This grant was one of 14 distributed through the program around the country. Grant applications are evaluated and awarded quarterly on a regional basis by a Vincentian review committee.

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Catholic grade schools welcome new principals Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City Katie Franco

Franco is a graduate of All Souls School in South San Francisco where she has taught. Her first teaching position was at Our Lady of the Visitacion School, San Francisco. Most recently, she has been part of the administration team at OLPH. Franco said she is “excited to be part of so many changes in the archdiocese and is looking forward to immersing herself in the community at Our Lady of Perpetual Help.”

St. Peter School, San Francisco Sandra Jimenez

Jimenez has worked in elementary education for 17 years, and has served as a teacher at the school she now leads for the past 15 years. She has served in various roles at St. Peter’s including student council moderator, mentor teacher, and parent group liaison. A recent graduate of the Catholic Educational Leadership program at USF, she believes “Catholic schools must continue to help students live their faith, serve others, and gain knowledge to help children grow to become critically thinking and caring contributors to society.”

Nativity School, Menlo Park Maureen Huntington

Huntington served for 13 years as Superintendent of Catholic Schools for

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29 at the St. John Vianney Luncheon at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The afternoon also raises great sums that “help to cover retired priests’ unreimbursed medical expenses, including assisted living and skilled nursing care,” the archdiocesan Office of Development said. In its seven years the luncheon

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the Archdiocese of San Francisco and for 12 years in the same role for the Diocese of Orlando, Florida.

She has also taught and served as principal at the elementary and high school levels. “A Catholic school serves as a partner with parents and the Catholic Church, preparing children for a life of faith, the love of Jesus, and compassion for one another,” Huntington said.

St. Paul School, San Francisco Katie Kiss

Kiss has taught fifth grade and kindergarten at St. Paul’s for 15 years.

She is a graduate of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and the University of San Francisco. She looks “forward to enhancing the relationship between the parish and the school, and values that Catholic school offers had raised more than $1.5 million.

Supporters may buy tickets for the luncheon or donate directly to the Priests’ Retirement Fund. You may donate online at sfarch.org/PRFLunch or mail your gift to: Archdiocese of San Francisco, Priests Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

For more information, contact Florian Romero at (415) 614-5537 or romerof@ sfarch.org.

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a unique opportunity to continually grow in faith while achieving the highest quality academic education” and “working with the wonderful families that are a part of the rich community of St. Paul’s in this new school year.”

St. Brendan School, San Francisco Dianne Lakatta

Lakatta, who calls herself “the proud principal at St. Brendan,” grew up in Los Angeles and has been an educator for 18 years, 13 as a principal, most recently in the public school system in Daly City. She holds two

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graduate degrees. She said she looks “forward to speaking God’s blessings!”

Principals have also been named at the following schools: Chellsea Rivera, DeMarillac Academy, San Francisco Megan Armando, St. Charles, San Carlos James Spray, St. Dunstan, Millbrae Mary Boland, St. Veronica, South San Francisco

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Project Rachel unites all who mourn the lost promise of a life Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Ellen Kelly Daley’s only son Seamus was born and died on Sept. 18, 2008. It’s a date Daley’s family, which now includes 7-year-old Patsy, marks each year in true birthday fashion, with cupcakes, a dinner out and Mass.

“No one should have to plan for the birth and death of their baby at the same time, but that’s what we did,” said Daley, who held Seamus’ funeral four days after his birth at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco, her family’s parish at the time.

Daley will be among other women and families mourning the loss of a child at a special Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery Sept. 16. Archbishop Salva-

tore J. Cordileone will celebrate the Mass in the cemetery’s mausoleum at 11 a.m.

The Project Rachel Mass and healing liturgy is sponsored every two years by the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Project Rachel Ministry to remember babies who have died before, at or after birth.

The event welcomes anyone mourning a life interrupted by abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth as well as other tragedies such as accidents, disease or crib death. As part of the healing liturgy, mourners walk together up to a windy bluff at the Colma cemetery and memorialize their lost children by dropping a leaf into a small open-earth grave at the Rachel Shrine.

The shrine recalls the mourning of the Old see project rachel, page 18 (Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)

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The first non-Sulpician – and the first Jesuit – to lead St. Patrick’s Seminary & University invoked the Holy Spirit after he was installed at a votive Mass of the Holy Spirit to start the new school year, celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Jesuit Father George E. Schultze was appointed in February and assumed the duties of president-rector July 1 at the Menlo Park institution.

“What happens here is great,” said Archbishop Cordileone in his homily at the Aug. 21 Mass in the seminary chapel. The archbishop has made formation of priests one of the hallmarks of his episcopacy, and is known for his close attention to each seminarian during the seven-year process.

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St. Teresa of Kolkata’s priestly protege celebrates Mass in Novato Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

The priest who co-founded the Missionaries of Charity contemplative religious institute with St. Teresa of Kolkata in 1979 and later created and mobilized a lay order of the Missionaries of Charity reflected on the new saint’s love for Jesus during a Mass at Our Lady of Loretto Parish community Aug. 17.

“St. Teresa of Kolkata became a living, walking tabernacle,” Father Sebastian Vazhakula said in a homily that described how completely the “bread of life” sustained her. “When we receive Jesus, we can all be like that – living, walking tabernacles.”

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Father Sebastian Vazhakula, who co-founded the Missionaries of Charity contemplative religious institute with St. Teresa of Kolkata in 1979, is pictured at Our Lady of Loretto Church in Novato on Aug. 17 with pastor Father Brian Costello at his right. At Father Vashakula’s left are Father Joseph Illo, administrator of Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco; and Our Lady of Loretto parochial vicar Father Juan Manuel Lopez.

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The Mass with Father Vazhakula was an “unexpected blessing” according to Our Lady of Loretto pastor Father Brian Costello, closely coinciding as it did with the first anniversary of the canonization of St. Teresa of Kolkata by Pope Francis on Sept. 4, 2016. Father Vazhakula shared the altar with Father Costello; Father Juan Manuel Lopez, parochial vicar; and Father Joseph Illo, administrator of Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco.

Congregants included three dozen lay Missionaries of Charity, several Sisters of Charity and Father Vazhakula’s sister, Leelamma Vazhakula, who works as the director of public relations for St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

Father Vazhakula told parishioners and visitors in the nearly packed church that just as food fuels our bodies, “to live a holy life we must have the Eucharist.”

The 75-year-old priest lives in Rome at Casa Serena, a homeless shelter for men run by the contemplative society of the Missionaries of Charity. He described a conversation he witnessed between an unnamed cardinal and St. Teresa after an early morning Mass in one of the last years of her life.

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Retrofitting of first of Catholic schools in San Francisco is under way Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

If you drive by St. Anne of the Sunset, you can’t miss the crane, the 14 portable classrooms crowding a large portion of the school yard – and the big green sign announcing “St. Anne School Seismic Retrofit – Ensuring Student Safety for Generations!”

“It just ensures the integrity of this building,” said principal Tom White of the $4.1 million seismic retrofit of the three-story building, one of four Catholic school retrofits in San Francisco that will be completed by year’s end, according to the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Real Property Support Corporation’s director of building and construction Steve Kalpakoff.

An ordinance passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2014 required that all private schools be evaluated according to an engineering standard of life-safety–or that everyone in the building can escape in the event of a significant earthquake, said David Finn of David Finn Architects, project manager for the St Anne Seismic Retrofit project.

The engineering standards are far more stringent than those under which the buildings were built. They are similar to code for new buildings, but do not include required compliance with fire and electrical and other portions of the building codes, Finn said. The reports on each building will be available after November, when they are due at the San

(Photos by Valerie Schmalz/Catholic San Francisco)

St. Anne of the Sunset grammar school is undergoing a retrofit that will keep the students out of the school building until November. St. Anne principal Tom White with school office manager Jackie Finnegan and first grade teacher Mily Lam are pictured in a first grade classroom that is under construction.

Francisco Department of Building Inspection. The ordinance, which applies to all private schools in San Francisco, does not require any retrofits.

However, the Archdiocese of San Francisco is encouraging all affected schools to retrofit to the life-safety standard of the ordinance. It commissioned additional seismic engineering reports exceeding the city’s requirements on each school building, with recommended structural changes and costs, and delivered them to pastors and principals between March-June 2016.

According to the archdiocese, the buildings remain safe to inhabit.

However, each of the 24 San Francisco Catholic elementary schools has some recommended seismic retrofit, some sig-

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St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Stephen and St. Philip the Apostle schools were all expected to have completed retrofits by year’s end, with most of the work done by the time school resumed in late August. In addition, Holy Name of Jesus School will have completed Phase 1 of a three-phase retrofit, and will have renovated bathrooms and added ramps for handicap accessibility.

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‘Day of rejoicing’ as renovated St. Augustine’s new altar dedicated the altar and then the deacon incensed the archbishop and the people.

After the incensing, two parishioners cleansed the altar surface and laid an altar cloth. The archbishop gave the deacon a lighted candle and the deacon lit the altar candles for the first time, completing the consecration of the altar.

In an interview, Archbishop Cordileone said the redesign of the post Vatican II church which retained an open sanctuary without an altar rail, was beautiful. “I highly commend Father Rene and the parish here for the design they came up with,” Archbishop Cordileone said, noting that the new design accommodates the crucifix, which has “been here a long time and is part of the parish patrimony” while “keeping the Blessed Sacrament (in the tabernacle) in the center where it is the focus of our prayer.”

In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone told the parishioners “I am very grateful to you and in particular to Father Rene,” for stewardship, or sharing of God’s gifts of time, talent and treasure.

“No one person can accomplish the mission of the church. Rather it requires all of us,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

“We pray in the psalm that ‘God not forsake the work of his hands,” he said. “This building project is a work of his hands, accomplished through the work of your hands.”

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The archbishop consecrated the new altar at St. Augustine Church Aug. 26, the central focus of a transformed building that is now full of natural light, a $2.1 million renovation that capitalizes on the church’s setting upon a hill above South San Francisco.

“This is a truly beautiful space, befitting the worship of the one true God,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told the parishioners gathered at the 4 p.m. Saturday Mass of dedication and blessing. “This is a great accomplishment and a really historical moment in the life of your parish.”

The interior renovation lifted the ceiling of the church. The sanctuary was redesigned, placing the tabernacle at the center, and opening up the altar to the view of every place in the church. The new Italian marble altar was chosen by the archbishop, pastor Father Rene Ramoso said. The large Italian crucifix, a patrimony of the parish, was moved slightly to the side of the tabernacle nearer to the choir and lit from behind. The pews were also refurbished.

“We did not have any difficulty asking for money from the people. The money kept coming in,” Father Ramoso said.

The parish of 5,000 people fills the church for six Masses each weekend,

(Photos by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)

Worshippers fill St. Augustine Church on Aug. 26 for rites consecrating the new altar. said Father Ramoso, who has been pastor of the almost entirely Filipino parish for 13 years.

During the six-month construction phase, Mass was held in a tent and in the parish hall.

The archbishop combined the consecration of the altar and the rededication with his parish visit, telling the parishioners, “This is indeed a day of rejoicing.”

The Mass included the dedication and anointing of the altar, the blessing of the new ambo and the blessing of the new tabernacle. As part of the consecration of the altar, the archbishop first extended his hands over the altar and dedicated it, asking that God make

the altar “a sign of Christ,” “a place of communion and peace,” and “the center of our praise and thanksgiving.”

He then removed his chasuble, the vestment for Mass, and put on a linen apron. He poured chrism oil – the oil used in baptism, confirmation and holy orders – on the altar to anoint it for sacrifice and rubbed the oil into the stone surface of the altar.

After Archbishop Cordileone redonned his vestments, a brazier was placed on the altar into which he put incense, praying, “May our prayer ascend as incense in your sight. As this building is filled with fragrance, so may your church fill the world with the fragrance of Christ.” He incensed

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Pangea started a hotline pilot program at Mesa Verde Detention Center in an effort to get legal help to those already in detention and Zapeda called that hotline.

The young mother had a heart condition and had several heart attacks in detention but was not receiving medical attention, according to Terry. Pangea took her case and contacted Faith in Action Bay Area, which rallied the local faith community. Members wrote letters and cards of support to Zapeda and

signed a petition for the judge to release her on humanitarian parole, according to Lisa Marie Wong, solidarity coordinator for Faith in Action.

Information provided to Catholic San Francisco by Wong said Zapeda, who was born in El Salvador, has been a refugee most of her life. She fled her home country in 2005 to escape gang violence and family brutality and ended up in Mexico where she met and married her husband Julio, who beat her regularly.

Her children were her only reprieve, but twice she attempted to cross the border into the U.S. and was deported back to El Salvador where her father beat her for leaving her husband.

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According to a Faith in Action newsletter sent on July 28, the government attorney argued that Veronica was a flight risk because she had no community ties to the U.S. “Do you know any of the people in this courtroom personally?” he asked her. “No,” she replied, “but they have been supporting me and praying for me.” She held up a large manila envelope filled with the letters and cards she had received.

In releasing her, Judge Marks said she trusted that the community would help her get to her sister’s home in Houston and waived bond.

“The community has sacrificed so much of its time here at court today,” said Judge Marks. “I won’t require them to sacrifice their money as well.”

Zapeda’s case has been moved to the Texas immigration court, where Pangea will continue to represent her.

Zapeda told immigration officers that she was afraid to return home which should have earned her a chance toward applying for asylum, but she never got that opportunity and she returned to Mexico.

When she ran again in January, it was her children who convinced her that her life was in danger. She was detained at the border and this time met with an asylum officer. She passed a “credible fear” test, but full asylum was no longer available to her because of the removal order and she was sent to Mesa Verde.

Pangea got an immigration hearing for Zapeda in San Francisco, and the faith community was invited to show up to support her as she appeared by live video stream from Mesa Verde.

“It was an emotional moment for so many of us who had been following her story to see her live for the first time,” said Wong.

The judge told Zapeda that many people from the community were present to

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Bishop at forefront of initiative says racism demands church’s attention Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – By creating a committee to deal with racism, the country’s Catholic bishops are standing up for the American value of equality and for a Gospel that refutes the hatred and violence the country witnessed Aug. 11 and 12 during white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, said the bishop who will Bishop George V. lead the effort.

Murry “When I watched it, I was just appalled. I couldn’t believe that that was going on in the United States and that there was so much disregard for people,” said Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, a Jesuit and the chair of the newly formed Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, during an Aug. 23 interview with Catholic News Service. “I was happy that the bishops responded so quickly, and that many people across our country responded so quickly to say: ‘This is not who we are. This is not America.’”

When something such as Charlottesville occurs, a response is needed, said Bishop Murry. He made the comments shortly after a news confer-

ence announcing the formation of the ad hoc group, which is moving quickly to put together a national summit of religious leaders and others to participate in the effort.

“Unfortunately, it’s not only Charlottesville,” said Bishop Murry. “There have been other instances of discrimination and lack of caring, of outright hate for people who are AfricanAmerican or other people of color, immigrants, newcomers. What the bishops are saying is we need to look at this in a concerted organized way because this is having a negative effect on the life of our country.”

By forming the committee, the bishops have placed racism as a priority they must address and quickly. The last two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ ad hoc committees dealt with religious liberty and marriage, established in 2011 and 2008, respectively.

Bishop Murry said that with this particular effort, the bishops are saying: “Whether you’re Catholic, Muslim, or Jewish, or Protestant, we are Americans and we have American values and one of those values is equality. And when people are denied their opportunity to be equal and are not treated as equal, we need to speak out and stand together as Americans and call for American values, one of the most important being equality.”

During the news conference, Bishop Murry said the church in the U.S. will get the message out through its network of parishes, schools, Catholic charities and all Catholic organizations “that this is an urgent issue that demands our attention and it is a very serious issue because of the fact that racism is contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

When a reporter from the EWTN network asked during the news conference about Confederate statues being taken down, the reason that the rally and subsequent violence started in Charlottesville, he said: “I am much more interested in the underlying issues. ... What I want to focus on is our responsibility as men and women of faith to respect each other.”

That’s what the Gospel calls Christians to do: to love and respect one another, he said.

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Catholic leaders across nation denounce racism, nationalism CAtholic News Service

LOS ANGELES – The United States is seeing “a new kind of racism and nationalism” that is “rooted in fear,” and Catholics must work to overcome such new forms of racism and “every ideology that denies the equality and dignity of the human person,” the archbishop of Los Angeles said.

“There is fear about what is happening in our society. There is fear about what is happening in our economy. Our country has become so angry and bitter, so divided – in so many different areas,” said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez.

He made the remarks in homilies delivered at two Los Angeles parishes the weekend of Aug. 19-20.

“This has been a hard week in our country,” he said, referring to the aftermath of the hate-filled and violent events that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, the previous weekend. He urged prayers for the people of that city and called on Catholics to be “a true sign and instrument of healing and unity.”

In San Antonio, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller echoed those words in his homily at an Aug. 20 Mass for immigrants, saying: “Today, racism is a serious problem in our country. Moreover, millions of people live among us in the shadows of our society.”

“Racism is a sin. Anti-Semitism is a sin. Violation of a person’s human and civil rights is a sin. We need to ask God’s forgiveness and mend our ways!” he said.

In San Diego, Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego joined with several other faith leaders from the area to speak out against bigotry. He joined dozens of religious leaders brought together by the San Diego Organizing Project for a news conference Aug. 18 in the courtyard of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral.

As the event’s final speaker, Bishop McElroy said, “I am proud to stand here today in solidarity with the religious leadership of San Diego to state categorically that the actions, the words and the beliefs of neo-Nazis, the Klan, white militias and all hate

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“We now live in a ‘postpolite’ world where rude and offensive language – that too frequently has led to brutal behavior – has been given free rein.”

groups are blasphemies against the God who is the Creator of the whole human family and looks upon every man, and woman, and child as equal in dignity and in worth.”

The bishop lamented that “one of the most troubling elements” about the incident in Charlottesville was that so many of the participants were young people. He noted that this “puts to the lie” the belief that younger generations will not inherit the racism of the past, and he encouraged his fellow religious leaders to ask parents to discuss this issue with their children.

Bishop McElroy said he had already requested that the diocesan Office for Schools and the diocesan Office for Evangelization and Catechetical Ministry work together on designing an educational module “specifically about the Charlottesville moment” for children through young adults.

Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory called for “the restoration of civil discourse.”

“Hate speech has recently been unleashed in ways that startle many of us and frankly should startle all of us,” he said in an interview with Catholic News Service. “We now live in a ‘post-polite’ world where rude and offensive language – that too frequently has led to brutal behavior – has been given free rein.

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“The peace that the time-honored virtues of civility and respect at least attempted to establish has too often been shattered in ways that would astound our parents and society from the not too distant past,” Archbishop Gregory said. “The rejection of ‘political correctness’ has camouflaged hate speech and entitled itself as truthfulness. There are social and public institutions and individuals who must take a stand against this deterioration of the common good and social decency. And we, sisters and brothers, belong to one of the most important such institutions in the church that we serve.”

In Brooklyn, N.Y., Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio announced a new commission to study the effects of racism in the Catholic Church and on the Brooklyn diocese.

“In the coming months, we will design our commission to deal with the social and religious problems that racism – in all of its forms – presents to us,” he said Aug. 24.

He said that the commission would be named for Msgr. Bernard Quinn, a white Brooklyn pastor who established parishes and services for African-American Catholics in the first half of the 20th century. His cause for sainthood is currently before the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes.

“Racism remains the pre-eminent sin of not only our nation, but also of our church,” said Bishop DiMarzio. “We should not tolerate monuments to people who were racists or tried to destroy our democracy.

We in the United States have our own particular original sin. It is called racism.”

He explained that racism has its origin in a “sense of inferiority. This flies in the face of our God-given knowledge that we are all created as children of God, and, as we profess in our country, we are all created equal. We have yet to put into practice what God teaches us and what our nation professes.”

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conference. “For too long the sin of racism has lived and thrived in our communities and even in some of our churches.”

As a pastor, he has met many who have experienced racism and prejudice, he said, and as an African-American, he, too, walks that path. He recalled an instance when he was a seminarian and someone thought he was the gardener because he is black.

“He didn’t think that an AfricanAmerican could be a seminarian, so he just assumed that I was a gardener. And there have been others instances that have happened over the years,” he told CNS. Faith helps during those moments.

The experiences have helped him comfort others, he said.

“There is no way that a person can be disregarded and disrespected and not feel it,” he said. “You do feel it.

It has a deep ... it’s a deep wound but it is faith in Jesus Christ that helps us overcome that.”

Faith helps people forgive, he said, or at least deal with the situation better.

“I and others have had experiences where you can’t talk it out with someone and you simply have to realize that Jesus died in expiation for our sins,” he said. “All of us are sinners and God is willing to forgive us. We need to forgive each other.”

The work of the committee will address some of those issues, he said, adding that he is aware that

it’s not a quick fix, nor will it end racism. But the Catholic Church has spoken against racism for a long time and will continue to be part of efforts to eradicate it, he said.

“I do not have any sort of unrealistic expectations that America is going to become dramatically different in two weeks, but I think that it is the role of the church to be a moral voice and that’s what the church is doing right now,” he said to CNS. “It is speaking out and saying that all men and women are

created in the image and likeness of God.” Bishop Martin D. Holley of Memphis, Tennessee, said he was encouraged by the announcement of the ad hoc committee in light of the recent “appalling” incidents of violence and hatred throughout the country.

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Sister Patricia Chappell, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, who is executive director of Pax Christi USA, said inserting the word “racism” in the name of the committee is a good and positive step forward and recognizes the problem.

She said she hoped the bishops would involve Catholic groups that have long worked at the grass-roots level with communities of color in addressing the issue, including the National Black Catholic Congress; Latino organizers for the fifth national Encuentro in 2018, for which preparations are well underway; as well as Catholic American Indians and Asian and Pacific Islanders. She said she also wished to see it become a standing committee with the USCCB, which would make it more of a permanent nature since racism will not go away soon.

But she said people need to be willing to engage in painful conversations, including talking about white privilege and the racial oppression people of color.

“If not, we will never be able to move and dismantle institutional racism,” she said. “As Catholics, we have to be willing to have the hard conversations and be honest with each other, and through prayer, mutual dialogue, reflection and action, we certainly can build the beloved community.”

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ARLINGTON, Va. – A Catholic priest in the Arlington Diocese who wrote a column asking forgiveness for the time he spent as a member of the Ku Klux Klan 40 years ago when he was “an impressionable young man” has never paid court-ordered restitution for cross-burning and other racist actions he pleaded guilty of doing at that time.

“As a young adult I was Catholic, but in no way practicing my faith,” Father William Aitcheson, now 62, wrote in an Aug. 21 op-ed posted on the website of the Arlington Catholic Herald, the diocesan newspaper. “The irony that I left an anti-Catholic hate group to rejoin the Catholic Church is not lost on me. It is a reminder of the radical transformation possible through Jesus Christ in his mercy.”

“While 40 years have passed, I must say this: I’m sorry. To anyone who has been subjected to racism or bigotry, I

am sorry. I have no excuse, but I hope you will forgive me,” he wrote.

The Washington Post reported Aug. 24 that when Father Aitcheson was in his early 20s and a student at the University of Maryland, he was the leader of a KKK lodge in Maryland and was arrested and charged with making bomb threats, manufacturing bombs and burning a cross on the front lawn at the house of an African-American couple, Barbara and Phillip Butler, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, in 1977.

At the time he pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay restitution to the couple of $20,000 but never did so, the Butlers, who are themselves Catholic, said at a news conference Aug. 23.

Some news reports put the amount he owed at $26,000, which included other fines. The priest is not giving interviews.

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Cardinal Pietro Cardinal Parolin spoke to jourParolin nalists in Rimini, Italy, where he was addressing a large summer meeting sponsored by the lay movement, Communion and Liberation.

L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, published a long section of the cardinal’s speech, looking specifically at the phenomenon of antimigrant sentiment.

Cardinal Parolin expressed surprise at how much of the current debate in many countries “is focused on defending ourselves from migrants.”

The public discussions and arguments show a “sharp division between those who recognize God in the poor and needy and those who do not recognize him,” the cardinal said.

Government leaders certainly have an obligation to find alternatives to “massive and uncontrolled migration, (and) to establish programs that avoid disorder and the infiltration of the violent,” he said. In addition, they should be looking for ways to promote development in migrant-sending countries so that people can survive and thrive in their homelands. “But this will take decades to bear fruit.”

The anti-immigrant sentiment, he said, “often is generated by fear” and accompanies a general sense of disorientation and confusion about the changes caused by globalization, especially in economic matters.

People have to realize that “it’s been a long time

since any modern nation-state fully and exclusively controlled its national economy,” he said. In the absence of complete control over one’s national economy, “it is not surprising that there is a general tendency, especially in authoritarian countries, but also by many ‘populist’ leaders and movements – of the right and left – to declare one’s national sovereignty in terms of cultural supremacy, racial identity and ethnic nationalism and to find in these a reason to repress internal dissent.”

The economy is now global, he said, and there is no single nation that can fix the problems of the economy alone. “Various aspects of globalization need to be governed,” which must be done through diplomacy and a joint commitment to the common good.

“On this point, where more profound values like justice and peace are at stake, realities like the United States and the European Union have a decisive role and responsibility,” he said. “But too often their absence is felt.”

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counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord,” Father Schultze said in brief remarks at a celebratory dinner open to all who attended Mass. “We called God for this help as we start this historic academic year. Our community needs these gifts because they produce fruit in our words and deeds.”

“I must say that joy is the fruit of the Holy Spirit that I have most experienced over these last few months,” Father Schultze said. “I am full of the joy of the Lord because God has brought me here to help form good men to become holy priests.”

The seminary, which had been struggling with low enrollment, has the largest entering class since 2013 – 20 men, with a 21st to arrive in January from the Oakland diocese, Father Schultze said. New seminarians are from the Archdiocese of Agaña in

Guam, and the dioceses of Honolulu, Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Spokane and Suwon in South Korea, as well as the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The appointment of a non-Sulpician marked a major turning point for the seminary as the Sulpicians, who held a teaching and administrative role at the seminary since its founding in 1898, departed at the end of June.

At the beginning of Mass, Archbishop Cordileone said he was “deeply grateful” to the provincials of the Jesuit Western Province for allowing Father Schultze to lead the seminary. Father Schultze, who

grew up in the Bay Area and speaks English and Spanish, has served as a spiritual director and adjunct faculty at the seminary since 2005 and prior to that was assistant professor of social ethics at University of San Francisco, 1998-2004.

He has a doctorate in social ethics from the Department of Religion at University of Southern California, a masters of divinity in theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. He earned a master’s in business administration at University of California Berkeley, and a bachelor’s of science in industrial and labor relations at Cornell University.

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Instead of reconsidering the council’s reforms, he said, priests and liturgists should work on “rediscovering the decisions made” in reforming the VATICAN CITY – The Catholic liturgy, “internalizing its inspirational Church must continue to work to unprinciples and observing the discipline derstand the liturgical reforms of the that governs it.”

Second Vatican Council and why they The National Liturgical Week is were made, rather than rethinking sponsored by the Liturgical Action them, Pope Francis said.

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the son of the living God.” With Peter’s affirmation, the pope said, Jesus understands that “thanks to the faith given him by the father, there is a solid foundation upon which he can build his community, his church.”

Christ proclaimed Peter the rock upon which he would build his church, the pope said. And Christ sees every believer, no matter how small, as a precious stone that he can use “in the right place” and continue building up the church.

“Each one of us is a small stone, but in Jesus’ hands we participate in the

throughout its history, including with the Second Vatican Council and the subsequent liturgical reform.

Citing the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, “Sacrosanctum Concilium,” the pope said the reform responded to “real needs and the concrete hope for a renewal,” which would offer a living liturgy where the faithful were no longer “strangers or silent spectators.”

For this reason, he added, the church must continue to rediscover the reasons for the reform and “overcome unfounded and superficial readings, partial revelations, and practices that disfigure it.”

Reflecting on the week’s theme – “A living liturgy for a living church” – Pope Francis said the liturgy is “alive”

through the living presence of Jesus.

Liturgical signs, including the altar, direct the gaze of the priest and the faithful to “Christ, the living stone, who was discarded by men but has become the cornerstone of the spiritual edifice in which we worship.”

“The liturgy is life for the entire people of the church,” he said. “By its nature, the liturgy is ‘popular’ and not clerical, because it is – as the etymology teaches us – an action for the people, but also of the people.”

The liturgy is “not an idea to understand,” but rather a “source of life and light for our journey of faith,” he said. Therefore, the rites and prayers become “a school of Christian life” for the faithful “by what they are and not by the explanations we give them.”

construction of the church,” the pope said. “And all of us, as small as we are, are made into ‘living stones’ because when Jesus takes a stone in his hand, he makes it his own, he makes it alive, full of life, full of the life of the Holy Spirit, full of life from his love.”

to be fruitful,” the pope said, “it must have a horizon of hope, otherwise it remains closed in itself and is just an instrument of torture; it isn’t fruitful.”

The pope’s video message was addressed to inmates taking part in the prison’s university studies program, which he said was one of many programs that provide “a space for work, culture, progress” and are “a sign of humanity.”

Prisoners must be given the hope of social reintegration and empowerment, Pope Francis said. And the prison’s educational studies program will give inmates a chance to be productive members of society despite their crimes.

“It is shame with hope, a punishment with a horizon,” the pope said. “I’ll say it again: There are and will be problems, but the horizon is greater than problems; hope overcomes all problems.”

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VATICAN CITY – Although prisoners must pay a price for their crimes, incarceration must not be used as a method of torture but rather an opportunity to become contributing members of society, Pope Francis said.

Punishment can be fruitful only when inmates are helped to look toward the future rather than only back at a past lived out in shame, the pope said in a video message Aug. 24 to inmates at the Ezeiza federal penitentiary in Argentina.

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VATICAN CITY – Secret negotiations between Heinrich Himmler – the “architect” of the Holocaust – and a Swiss Catholic politician, hired by a Jewish woman and helped by an Italian papal nuncio, may have contributed to ending the mass extermination of the Jewish people, according to a Canadian researcher.

The general view of most historians is that the Nazis destroyed the death camps to hide the evidence of the millions of people they slaughtered.

But Max Wallace, a Canadian historian, author and filmmaker, believes there is more to the story.

The author also hopes that the full opening of the Vatican archives from that period could shed more light on all the reasons Himmler gave orders to end the systematic slaughter of the Jews in the fall of 1944, many months before the Nazis surrendered to the Allies in May 1945. More specifically, eyewitnesses reported Himmler gave orders to blow up the gas chambers and crematoria of AuschwitzBirkenau two months before Joseph Stalin’s Red Army stormed the camp gates in January 1945.

The reasons for Himmler’s directives “may very well rewrite the history of the Holocaust,” Wallace wrote in a new book, “In the Name of Humanity.

The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust.” The author gave Catholic News Service an advance copy of the book, which is being released by Penguin/Random House Canada Aug. 22 and worldwide in the spring of 2018.

The book is based on the insights of other Holocaust historians and more than 15 years of Wallace’s own research – sifting through thousands of documents in archives around the world, he told Catholic News Service in an interview in July.

Much of the book focuses on the work of Recha and Isaac Sternbuch, the Switzerland-based representatives of Vaad ha-Hatzalah, a rescue committee formed by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada in 1939 to promote and actively take part in the rescue of Europe’s Jews.

Recha Sternbuch arranged for the rescue of thousands of Jews and she sent important information around the world about their plight using her connections with the Polish and Vatican embassies in Switzerland and the access they gave her to their couriers.

She worked closely with the Vatican nuncio in Bern, Archbishop Filippo Bernardini, who “was very involved with rescue efforts and support,” Wallace said.

It was the archbishop, he said, who introduced Sternbuch to Jean-Marie Musy, a Fascist and fiercely anti-Bolshevik, devout Catholic and former president of Switzerland, whose father-in-law had

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Three days later, Himmler issued orders to stop the further mass killings of Jews and to destroy the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz; for Wallace, that may not be a coincidence, but may be linked to the negotiations.

The Nazis destroyed death camps to hide the evidence of their heinous crimes, but that usually was done right before Allied forces closed in, Wallace said; the Soviets were still at least another two months away when the extermination apparatus at Auschwitz was dynamited, and the Nazis left behind there more than 7,000 detainees, who would be crucial eyewitnesses.

While the Holocaust claimed as many as 11 million lives, “the Nazis could have killed all the remaining Jews,” especially as they were losing the war, but negotiators tricked Himmler into preventing the continued slaughter, Wallace said.

“That’s why there are survivors,” he said, estimating that as many as 300,000 Jews may have been saved in efforts linked to the secret negotiations.

While Wallace said there has “never been smoking gun evidence definitely proving Himmler’s motive,” he believes more details or insight might be found in the Vatican Secret Archives.

Documents of Pope Pius XII’s pontificate from 1939 to 1958 have not been opened to scholars, although the Vatican has said for years that it was making the necessary preparations to open them.

A source told CNS in July the preparations have been completed and the archives likely will be opened in 2018. However, Pope Francis must approve the opening and set the date.

Even though Wallace’s book does not focus on the Vatican’s work during the war, he said that with his extensive research, “I saw the efforts of the church behind the scenes and how they were incredibly influential,” especially in saving the remaining Jews in Hungary. “I gained a lot of respect for the Vatican and the church,” said Wallace, who was raised Jewish.

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been a Swiss Guard and a “papal count,” giving him a close connection to the Vatican.

Because Musy knew Himmler and could have great influence over him, Wallace said, Sternbuch quickly enlisted Musy’s help negotiating with the Nazis on the group’s behalf to save the Jews.

Based on evidence gleaned from archives and recorded testimonies, Wallace details (CNS) the secret deals, bribes This is the cover of “In The and false promises Name of Humanity: The Secret Musy and others used Deal to the Holocaust” by Max to manipulate HimWallace. Wallace presents mler over the course evidence in a new book that of several months, “exArchbishop Filippo Bernardini, ploiting his desperate papal nuncio in Switzerland, desire for a separate may have played a key role in peace with the Westhelping end the Final Solution. ern Allies.”

“Musy and the Sternbuchs exploited this delusion by convincing him that such an alliance (with the Allies) was only possible if he ended the extermination of the Jews,” Wallace said.

The “first significant deal” with the Germans involved freeing Jews in exchange for tractors, a deal that started taking concrete shape in November 1944, he said.

The Germans promised that once the deliveries of tractors began seriously, they would “blow up the facilities at Auschwitz,” Wallace said, citing archival evidence.

A cable dated Nov. 20, 1944, from Sternbuch to the Vaad in New York, says, Musy, “our delegate,” had returned from Berlin with a proposal “for a gradual evacuation of Jews from Germany.”

“In interim secured promise to cease extermination in concentration camps,” the cable reads. “On basis of intervention by nunciature in Bern the German government confirmed this promise to the Vatican.”

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Testament’s Rachel for her children who died as described in Jeremiah 31:15-17.

Project Rachel was founded almost 35 years ago specifically to offer peace, reconciliation and healing to those suffering post-abortion anguish. The archdiocesan ministry provides a network of specially trained priests, religious, counselors and laypersons who provide a team response to those suffering in the aftermath of abortion, including the hope of sacramental reconciliation.

According to longtime San Francisco Project Rachel coordinator Mary Ann Schwab, the lost promise of a child can leave a “hole in the soul” that is difficult to recover from no matter what the cause.

“We come together to pray whatever the circumstances of our loss,” said Schwab.

Four months into her pregnancy Daley learned that Seamus had a serious chromosomal disorder that virtually ensured a very short life if he survived the full term.

Despite the fatal diagnosis, termination was “not an option at all,”

said Daley, so she hung her hopes on a different set of dreams.

“My prayer was to just be able to go to full term, to go into labor naturally, to hold him in my arms and to have him baptized,” she said. “I feel very blessed that all those things occurred.”

The pastor of St. Ignatius Parish had given the couple some baptismal water, and Seamus, who was delivered stillborn after his heart stopped beating during labor, was immediately “baptized.”

Seamus doesn’t have a baptismal certificate, “but in my heart he is baptized,” said Daley, a lifelong Catholic.

The days, months and years that followed were “some of the saddest and darkest days” of her life, but Daley said that her faith helped her bear five months of pregnancy with the knowledge her child would not live.

She went to daily Mass before Seamus was born and continued to after he died.

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Daley has a Masters in Counseling and works at the University of San Francisco counseling students how to prepare for success after graduation. Years before Seamus’ birth and death, she trained to become a mentor with the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Project Rachel Ministry.

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The power of ritual

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don’t always find it easy to pray.

Often I’m overtired, distracted, caught up in tasks, pressured by work, short on time, lacking the appetite for prayer, or more strongly drawn to do something else. But I do pray daily; despite the fact that I often don’t want to and despite the fact that many times prayer FATHER ron can be boring rolheiser and uninteresting. I pray daily because I’m committed to a number of rituals for prayer, the office of the church, lauds and vespers, the Eucharist and daily meditation.

And these rituals serve me well.

They hold me, keep me steady, and keep me praying regularly even when, many times, I don’t feel like praying. That’s the power of ritual.

If I only prayed when I felt like it, I wouldn’t pray very regularly.

Ritual practice keeps us doing what we should be doing (praying, working, being at table with our families, being polite) even when our feelings aren’t always onside. We need to do certain things not because we always

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feel like doing them, but because it’s right to do them.

And this is true for many areas of our lives, not just for prayer. Take, for example, the social rituals of propriety and good manners that we lean on each day. Our heart isn’t always in the greetings or the expressions of love, appreciation, and gratitude that we give to each other each day.

We greet each other, we say goodbye to each other, we express love for each other, and we express gratitude to each other through a number of social formulae, ritual words: Good morning! Good to see you! Have a great day! Have a great evening!

Sleep well! Nice meeting you! Nice to work with you! I love you! Thank you!

We say these things to each other daily, even though we have to admit that there are times, many times, when these expressions appear to be purely formal and seem not at all honest to how we are feeling at that time. Yet we say them and they are true in that they express what lies in our hearts at a deeper level than our more momentary and ephemeral feelings of distraction, irritation, disappointment, or anger. Moreover these words hold us in civility, in good manners, in graciousness, in neighborliness, in respect, and in love despite the fluctuations in our energy, mood, and feelings. Our energy, mood, and feelings, at any given

moment, are not a true indication of what’s in our hearts, as all of us know and frequently need to apologize for. Who of us has not at some time been upset and bitter towards someone who we love deeply? The deep truth is that we love that person, but that’s not what we’re feeling at the moment.

If we only expressed affection, love and gratitude at those times when our feelings were completely onside, we wouldn’t express these very often.

Thank God for the ordinary, social rituals which hold us in love, affection, graciousness, civility, and good manners at those times when our feelings are out of sorts with our truer selves. These rituals, like a sturdy container, hold us safe until the good feelings return.

Today, in too many areas of life, we no longer understand ritual. That leaves us trying to live our lives by our feelings; not that feelings are bad, but rather that they come upon us as wild, unbidden guests. Iris Murdoch asserts that our world can change in 15 seconds because we can fall in love in 15 seconds. But we can also fall out of love in 15 seconds! Feelings work that way! And so we cannot sustain love, marriage, family, friendship, collegial relationships and neighborliness by feelings. We need help. Rituals can help sustain our relationships beyond feelings.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer used to give this instruction to a couple when he was officiating at their wedding. He would tell them: Today you are in love and you believe that your love can sustain your marriage. But it can’t.

However your marriage can sustain your love. Marriage is a not just a sacrament, it’s also a ritual container.

Ritual not only can help sustain a marriage, it can also help sustain our prayer lives, our civility, our manners, our graciousness, our humor, our gratitude, and our balance in life.

Be wary of anyone who in the name of psychology, love, or spirituality tells you that ritual is empty and you must rely on your energy, mood, and feelings as your guiding compass.

They won’t carry you far.

Daniel Berrigan once wrote: Don’t travel with anyone who expects you to be interesting all the time. On a long journey there are bound to be some boring stretches. John of the Cross echoes this when talking about prayer. He tells us that, during our generative years, one of the biggest problems we will face daily in our prayer is simple boredom.

And so we can be sure our feelings won’t sustain us, but ritual practices can.

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

Motown and the turbocharged church

etroit hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in recent decades as it’s struggled to cope with the myriad problems of rustbelt American cities in the age of globalization.

But the church in Detroit is not playing defense. Under the leadership of Archbishop Allen Vigneron, it’s going on offense, george weigel challenging itself to become a diocese of missionary disciples.

The plan is laid out in Archbishop Vigneron’s recent pastoral letter, “Unleash the Gospel,” issued from the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament on the Vigil of Pentecost (http://www.unleashthegospel.org/).

The letter synthesizes the conclusions and convictions of a remarkable process that began three years ago. Thus, in March 2014, the archbishop announced a year of prayer for a “new Pentecost,” a new outpouring of the Spirit. In 2015-16, missions were held throughout the archdiocese in order to give its people a new experience of the Lord Jesus – which is always the beginning of radical, missionary discipleship. In 2016, parishes were challenged to reimagine themselves as launch pads for mission, with parishioners coming together to discuss openly and candidly the future of the archdiocese under dramatically changed circumstances. In 2016, the archdiocese also held a Mass for Pardon in which the bishops, priests, and people of Detroit publicly repented the sins that had impeded the proclamation and reception of the Gospel, asking the Lord’s forgiveness so as to walk

(CNS photo/Jonathan Francis, Archdiocese of Detroit)

Members of the Detroit archdiocesan synod and others pray during Mass on the vigil of Pentecost June 3 at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit. into the future with clean hearts and renewed courage.

Finally, in November 2016, clergy, religious, and laity from across the archdiocese met in synod to pray together and discuss together how to become, in a phrase that recurs throughout Archbishop Vigneron’s pastoral, “a joyful band of missionary disciples.” This was not the kind of diocesan synod often seen in the United States: An administrative exercise, internally focused on the church-as-institution. Detroit’s synod had a different goal: In Archbishop Vigneron’s words, “nothing less than a radical overhaul of the church in Detroit, a complete reversal of our focus from an inward, maintenance-focused church to an outward, mission-focused church.”

Archbishop Vigneron and the priests and people of the Archdio-

cese of Detroit have faced the facts: Catholicism-by-osmosis – Catholicism passed along by the old ethnocultural transmission belt – is over in America. In 40 years, perhaps in 20, no 30-something Catholic in the United States is going to answer the question, “Why are you a Catholic?” with the answer, “Because my great-great-grandmother came from County Cork” (or Palermo, or Munich, or Cracow, or Guadalajara).

The cultural air of the early 21st century is too toxic to be a carrier of the faith. The faith has to be proposed, and future generations must meet and embrace the Lord Jesus, if Catholicism in America is to flourish, being salt and light in the world and offering healing to a deeply wounded and fractured society.

As I’ve watched the Detroit process over the past several years, I’ve been

struck by its parallels to the Synod of Cracow, called by Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, the future John Paul II, to help his archdiocese receive the Second Vatican Council and implement its reforms. Like Cracow, the Detroit process began with an extended period of intensified prayer. Like Cracow, the Detroit process was aimed, not at more efficient administration, but at more effective evangelization.

Like Cracow, the Detroit process had extensive lay involvement. Like Cracow, the Detroit process faced squarely the challenges of preaching the Gospel and witnessing to it in a hostile cultural environment. (And like Cracow, the Detroit synod process was led by a philosopher-bishop whose thinking and leadership are nourished and informed by prayer, the Bible, and the sacraments.)

The extraordinary contention that has followed Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on marriage, “Amoris Laetitia,” has created a lot of problems; perhaps most gravely, that contentiousness has impeded what the pope still insists is his grand strategy, laid out in “Evangelii Gaudium”: the transformation of Catholicism into a communion of missionary disciples. That is precisely the challenge that the Detroit synod process accepted. The follow-through plans – along with their biblical and doctrinal rationale – are laid out in detail in Archbishop Vigneron’s extraordinary pastoral letter.

Motown may no longer be the epicenter of the global automobile industry. The Archdiocese of Detroit, however, is well on the way to becoming a shining model of how to gather and organize a local church for the new evangelization.

Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time JEREMIAH 20:7-9 You duped me, O Lord, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed. All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the Lord has brought me derision and reproach all the day. I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more. But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.

PSALM 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory, for your

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hich is it? Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? It no doubt goes both ways.

What’s interesting is the regularity with which certain themes come up time and again. Take, for example, death.

Can you guess what story I’m thinking of if I give you this brief description: the protagonist of this story has a keen awareness that death is on the march and it won’t spare anybody. He goes around trying to get people to take the reality of death seriously, but nearly everyone he speaks to is too caught up in petty pursuits and squabbles.

They put up ‘enchanted’ walls of distraction to keep from having to listen to and heed the protagonist’s warnings that they should quit squabFather Mark bling over fading crowns and Doherty face the real music, the sound of death on the march.

Your first guess at an answer may point in the direction of a certain television program that’s currently wrapped up its next to last season. The clues do indeed point in this direction. But you may also be thinking of Plato’s “Re-

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kindness is a greater good than life; my lips shall glorify you.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus will I bless you while I live; lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name. As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy. My soul clings fast to you; your right hand upholds me.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. ROMANS 12:1-2 I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.

Making a good death public,” where the philosopher Socrates, fresh from attending festivals “down below” that highlight the reality of Hades, seeks to get his interlocutors, especially Thrasymachus, to treat the question of death, well … with deathly seriousness. Life, Socrates tries to persuade Thrasymachus, is all about preparing to make a good death. Needless to say, Thrasymachus is not persuaded.

Maybe you were brought to mind of the Gospel narrative, wherein Jesus, who seems to have an uncanny awareness and steely-eyed view of the reality of death, attempts time and again to get his apostles, disciples, and all the regular Joe’s and Jane’s with whom he interacts to take seriously the reality of death and judgment. Count the number of times Jesus makes mention of death and judgment. You may be surprised at just how often he brings the topic up.

Then go and take another look at the behavior and attitude the apostles and others manifest along the way. You have the apostles bickering over who gets to sit on what throne; you have a rich young man who’s too preoccupied with his possessions to accept an invitation to follow Jesus. There’s the kings and governors who are so preoccupied with their positions that they completely miss the drama playing out right before their eyes. Then you have a whole cast of characters that’s so busy obsessing and squabbling over other people’s sins that they don’t seem to have any time left over to take a look at their own. And then there’s Peter, who hears what Jesus

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, September 4: Monday of the Twentysecond Week in Ordinary Time. Bl Dina Bélanger.

Bl. Mary Stella and Her Ten Companions, virgins & martyrs. 1 Thes 4:13-18. Ps 96:1 and 3, 4-5, 11-12, 13. See Lk 4:18. Lk 4:16-30.

Tuesday, September 5: Tuesday of the Twentysecond Week in Ordinary Time. St. Teresa of Calcutta.

1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11. Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14. Lk 7:16. Lk 4:31-37.

Wednesday, September 6: Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:1-8.

Ps 52:10, 11. Lk 4:18. Lk 4:38-44.

Thursday, September 7: Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:9-14.

Ps 98:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. Mt 4:19. Lk 5:1-11.

Friday, September 8: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30. Ps 13:6ab, 6c. Mt 1:1-16, 18-23.

Saturday, September 9: Memorial of St. Peter Claver, priest. Col 1:21-23. Ps 54:3-4, 6 and 8. Jn 14:6. Lk 6:1-5.

Sunday, September 10: Twenty-third Sunday in

MATTHEW 16:21-27 Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay all according to his conduct.”

Ordinary Time. Ez 33:7-9. Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. Rom 13:8-10. 2 Cor 5:19. Mt 18:15-20.

Monday, September 11: Monday of the Twentythird Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:24–2:3. Ps 62:67, 9. Jn 10:27. Lk 6:6-11.

Tuesday, September 12: Tuesday of the Twentythird Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Col 2:615. Ps 145:1b-2, 8-9, 10-11. See Jn 15:16. Lk 6:12-19.

Wednesday, September 13: Memorial of St. John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor. Col 3:1-11.

Ps 145:2-3, 10-11, 12-13ab. Lk 6:23ab. Lk 6:20-26.

Thursday, September 14: Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Nm 21:4b-9. Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38. Phil 2:6-11. Jn 3:13-17.

Friday, September 15: Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. 1 Tm 1:1-2, 12-14. Ps 16:1b-2a and 5, 7-8, 11. Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35.

Saturday, September 16: Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, pope and martyr and Cyprian, bishop and martyr. 1 Tm 1:15-17. Ps 113:1b-2, 3-4, 5 and 6-7.

Jn 14:23. Lk 6:43-49.

has to say and straight-up rejects it. No clarifying questions; no effort to understand. Just walls, very high walls, going up.

Or maybe you’re brought to mind of your own life, and the multitudinous ways by which you seek to deflect, dodge and deny the fact that death is coming for you, too, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. There are so many enchanted fantasies we cultivate to dodge reality. So many walls go up. None will be high enough to keep death out.

But that’s good news, because Jesus both tells us and shows us that it is precisely by making a good death, by, paradoxically enough, making a genuinely good life, that he will transform our death into a newer and deeper life than we could fathom.

Jesus does not simply promise to resuscitate us. He declares that those who accept his Lordship will be resurrected on the last day and brought to a kind of life the depth of which no eye has seen or ear heard.

The Lord offers us eternal life if we trust him and lay our lives down for love of him and our fellow man. Let us not let another day pass without putting aside the deflections, tearing down our walls, and inviting the Lord to take full possession of our lives.

Let us say yes to him today, for maybe death may come a-knocking this night.

Father Doherty, who serves at St. Peter and St. Anthony parishes in San Francisco, is studying moral theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

pope francis God gives hope for the future despite present-day suffering

VATICAN CITY – While the world reels from terrorism, natural disasters and division, God weeps with those who suffer and offers the hope of a future full of joy and consolation, Pope Francis said.

“Think of the faces of children frightened by war, the cry of mothers, the broken dreams of many young people, the refugees who face terrible journeys and are exploited so many times,” the pope said Aug. 23 during his weekly general audience.

Continuing his series of audience talks on Christian hope, Pope Francis said that in moments of suffering, Christians can find comfort in knowing they have a heavenly father, who “weeps tears of infinite pity for his children” and “has prepared for us a different future.”

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Ending one’s life in New Zealand New Zealand Catholic Bishops

This is an excerpt from the New Zealand Catholic bishops’ submission to a government inquiry on public attitudes toward the introduction of legislation to permit medically assisted dying in the event of a terminal illness or irreversible condition. The inquiry published its report Aug. 2 with no formal recommendation.

More than 75 percent of submissions to the inquiry opposed legalized euthanasia.

Normalization of euthanasia

In countries and states which have legalized either euthanasia or assisted suicide, or just assisted suicide, there have been startling increases in the number of people choosing to die in this way. The increase in numbers is out of all proportion to population increase and can only be properly accounted for in terms of an ongoing expansion of the parameters surrounding eligibility – a phenomenon referred to as “bracket creep.”

As noted in a 2010 Report on Euthanasia in Belgium by the European Institute of Bioethics: “Initially legalized under very strict conditions, euthanasia has become a very normal and even ordinary act to which patients are deemed to ‘have a right.’ In the face of certain highprofile cases, the evident relaxation of very strict conditions has caused many reactions but also a total absence of any sanctions on the part of the commission, and a very conciliatory silence from the political establishment has given rise to a feeling of impunity on the part of some concerned medical practitioners and a feeling of powerlessness in those worried about where things are leading.”

The increase in numbers indicates that assisted suicide and/or euthanasia have been normalized and are now even expected in some circumstances.

Effect on the medical profession

When assisted suicide and euthanasia are considered to be rights, they cease to be the exceptions most laws originally envisaged. The normalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia and their definition as rights has imposed obligations on doctors to take part in assisting people to die, which are in direct opposition to the nature and ethos of the profession.

The elderly and sick have reason to fear doctors who can propose and even subtly persuade vulnerable people to consider ending their lives.

The normalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia and their definition as rights has imposed obligations on doctors to take part in assisting people to die, which are in direct opposition to the nature and ethos of the profession.

The status of a doctor can easily make a suggestion into an obligation, given the power imbalance between a vulnerable person and their doctor.

The original safeguards built into the Belgian and Dutch legislation have in practice over the years become ineffective. The narrow target group of the terminally ill has expanded to include those suffering from psychiatric conditions, dementia and those who are simply old, lonely or have been bereaved. The expansion to include teenagers, children and babies is particularly horrifying.

In theory in Oregon those eligible for assisted suicide must have less than six months to live. A footnote in the Oregon annual report for 2014 relating to the category “other illnesses” (16.9 percent of lethal prescriptions) describes these other illnesses as “benign and uncertain neoplasms, other respiratory diseases, diseases of the nervous system (including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease), musculoskeletal and connective tissue diseases, viral hepatitis, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease and alcoholic liver disease.” These may be illnesses which shorten life, but it is hard to believe that the people concerned were all terminally ill.

Support for euthanasia or assisted suicide among the general population is often contingent upon strict controls being in place, and controls which are seen as being strong may be the swing factor for some politicians in voting upon this issue. Belgium and the Netherlands began with what were thought to be strict controls, but over the years there has been a progressive widening of eligibility through changes to the legislation. In Oregon the controls remain in place in the legislation, but there has been a widening in the interpretation of the legislation and in the practice of physicians which has effectively undermined the strict controls on eligibility.

Climate of fear

The normalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in places where it has been legalized change the soci-

etal perception of those who are ill, disabled or elderly. Rather than being valued members of the community, they are more likely to be seen and to see themselves as a burden. The fear of being a burden is well documented as a reason for people choosing assisted suicide or euthanasia.

In Belgium and the Netherlands these vulnerable people rightly fear euthanasia itself, and there is documented evidence of persons being killed without their consent. Family and societal pressures are exercised subtly rather than overtly, which compounds the fear of those whom others might view as a burden. The question becomes who a vulnerable person can trust to act in their best interests if family and doctors cannot be trusted. That is a point of utter loneliness which no elderly, ill or disabled person should have to experience.

Potential increase in suicides

In the Oct. 10, 2015, edition of the Southern Medical Journal, research titled “How Does Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide Affect Rates of Suicide?” was published. The aim of this study was to examine the association between the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and statelevel suicide rates in the United States between 1990 and 2013. In particular it aimed to test claims that legalization of physician-assisted suicide could lead to a reduction in total suicides and to a delay in those suicides that do occur.

The conclusion from the study was: “Legalizing physician-assisted suicide has been associated with an increased rate of total suicides relative to other states and no decrease in nonassisted suicides. This suggests either that physician-assisted suicides does not inhibit (nor acts as an alternative to) non-assisted suicide or that it acts in this way in some individuals but is associated with an increased inclination to suicide in other individuals.”

In our experience suicide creates deep emotional wounds and does huge relationship damage in families. We lose more than 500 people to suicide every year, leaving behind networks of

friends and family who can take years to recover. Apart from the real loss of so many of our people to suicide, there is a loss to the community in the very real devastation suffered by those close to the person who committed suicide.

Research such as that outlined above indicates a need for great caution in doing anything which might give those contemplating suicide a greater impetus to act.

Conclusion

The precautionary principle is widely used by the New Zealand government in policy areas such as fisheries, environmental management, public health, conservation and biosecurity.

Risk management is integrated into every area of public policy. The experience of countries and states which have legalized euthanasia or assisted suicide, or both, clearly shows that it poses considerable risks.

We are deeply concerned about the risk to the vulnerable people we work with every day, those who are elderly, disabled, chronically ill, depressed or suicidal. Our concern includes those who think that there is no way to deal with their terminal or incurable illness other than by assisted suicide and those who are not ill but who have a great fear of dying, perhaps because of an experience in the past.

We like to think that as a country we are independent and courageous enough to go against an international trend or pressure from other countries.

Why do we need to follow an overseas trend riddled with risks to vulnerable groups in our society when there is a practical alternative?

Quality accessible palliative care addresses the underlying problems which lead people to believe their only option is kill themselves and helps people to die well. In terms of good risk management, it eclipses the easy and dangerous route of legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide.

In the light of our experience with the ill and dying, it is our considered view that euthanasia and assisted suicide are both unnecessary and dangerous. We strongly recommend that the Health Select Committee rejects the possibility of changing the current legislation, and instead recommends that more resources are made available across New Zealand for services to support those with chronic and terminal illnesses.

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In the first seven months after California’s new physician-assisted suicide law went into effect, 111 Californians legally committed suicide with state approval.

The first annual report by the state Department of Public Health shows that 191 people received lethal prescriptions from doctors between June 9, 2016, California’s End of Life Option Act became effective, and Dec. 31, from 173 physicians.

Of the people who died with the assistance of doctors, nearly 90 percent were older than 60, and nearly 60 percent were suffering from cancer. Some 90 percent were white and 54 percent were female.

Virtually all 111 had health insurance.

That is an ominous aspect of the state’s death med legalization, since it gives insurance programs, including the state of California which offers physi-

cian assisted suicide as a Medi-Cal benefit, the opportunity to cut their costs when a patient chooses death meds rather than continue their medical care.

The state paid for four Medi-Cal recipients to receive the legal drugs, allowing it to save money as well. In fact, the Governor increased the amount available for lethal drug prescriptions.

Since those on Medi-Cal who request assisted suicide also get access to second opinions and psychiatric evaluations (something not covered by the physician-assisted suicide law) the option can appear attractive to some terminally ill Medi-Cal recipients who aren’t normally allowed such treatment.

If medical insurance providers and Medi-Cal agree to help a member end their life quickly, it cuts the insurance providers expenditures for longer, more extensive life-protecting care.

A Reno doctor extensively involved

in late-in-life care warned the Nevada Legislature recently that two of his California patients had been refused care by their insurance companies, yet the companies had advised the patients that they would pay for death meds.

Catholic teaching is that all human life is sacred and should be protected from birth to natural death. We are called to accompany each other and the caregivers during chronic and terminal illnesses.

Suicide is a widespread problem throughout the United States. More than 44,000 people end their lives each year, and twice as many die by suicide than by gunfire. About one in 10 of those who attempt to end their own life are successful.

In California, 4,167 died by suicide in 2015.

California’s legalization of assisted suicide is likely to increase the problem

of assisted suicide, and Californians can expect efforts to broaden the option by such methods as allowing someone else to authorize or request assisted suicide for an incapacitated patient.

In Oregon, where assisted suicide has been legal since 1997, the legislature this year barely halted an expansion that would have allowed people to be put to death without their direct consent. The measure would have allowed a surrogate to authorize the killing of a person who earlier had requested death med authorization but subsequently lost the capability to make that decision, most commonly from loss of consciousness or dementia. The Oregon measure would have enabled a surrogate to authorize the death med for the incapable person.

For more information on Catholic teaching at the end of life, visit www.cacatholic.org/embracing-our-dying.

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ouples who struggle to get pregnant are turning with greater frequency to the in vitro fertilization industry for assistance. In some cases, they can end up feeling they are “too pregnant” when twins, triplets or quads arise. This occurs from the practice of implanting more than one embryo at a time to improve pregnancy success rates. A multiple pregnancy can involve significant risk, both for the children in utero, and for the mother. Because of these risks, the pregnant mother will sometimes be advised to opt for a “selective reduction,” where potassium chloride is injected into one or two of the growing babies, to cause their hearts to seize, followed by death and the gradual re-absorption of their bodies during the remainder of the pregnancy. This can allow father tadeusz the one or more remaining brothers or sisters to grow more pacholczyk safely and avoid further complications during the pregnancy.

Given the incredible effort expended by the couple to become pregnant in the first place, these lethal practices often draw gasps of disbelief from others.

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A New York Times Magazine article from 2011 chronicled the saga of a woman who selectively reduced her pregnancy from twins to a single. Even though she tried to not think too much about the two ultrasound shadows within her, she was forthright about her justification for doing it: “If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn’t have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there’s a natural order, then you don’t want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner — in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me — and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.”

Her devastatingly honest appraisal of IVF and the way it devalues the lives of children offers an important opportunity for reflection. When we take it upon ourselves to manufacture new human life in test tubes, it indeed becomes another “thing we can control,” an object for our own willful manipulation, another means to realize our own goals. This “command and control mentality” over procreation sets up a glide path for us to begin treating our own offspring like raw material, even tempting us to exercise an absolute, death-dealing dominion over them. As they are produced in the laboratory and transferred to the womb, our children can become an abstraction, mere pawns to be played in the end game of seeking what we want.

This attitude of seeing our offspring as expendable is becoming more widely accepted not only among IVF customers, but also among biomedical researchers themselves. In August, a highly troubling report was published describing the first successful editing of DNA in human embryos. The experiments were carried out in the laboratory of Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon Health and Science University and involved the generation of many dozens of embryos

by IVF. The experiments utilized a new and highly precise DNA-editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9 to fix a defective, disease-causing gene that some of the embryos carried. While research into understanding and eliminating serious diseases is certainly good and praiseworthy as a goal, the techniques we employ as we pursue good research goals need to be good as well. Doing evil that good may accrue, is, after all, still doing evil.

These research experiments performed on human embryos at OHSU were morally objectionable on a number of counts. If such genetically modified embryos had been allowed to grow up, there may well have been unintended effects from modifying their genes, unanticipated defects that they and future generations would bear. The problems and risks associated with this kind of “germ-line therapy” raise such serious concerns as to make it doubtful it should ever be attempted in humans. Even more see in vitro, page 23

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Coping with anxiety and depression Father Ed Dougherty, MM

Anxiety and depression are common problems today. A sense of isolation tends to heighten these problems, yet it seems the more advanced society becomes, the more it is a challenge for people to stay connected in meaningful ways. Mother Teresa said, “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.”

The Christopher News Note titled “Mental Illness: Healing the Unseen Wounds” addresses the modern dimensions of anxiety and depression.

It tells the story of David Mandani, whose mental illness led him to start an organization that provides free mental health resources. David found help for his own problems through the use of medication and other therapies, but he also credits his faith with sustaining him. He says, “Because I entrusted my life and my disease to Jesus, so many of the predictions people said to me never happened. I was told I would never finish college, but God gave me the grace to complete graduate school. I was told I’d never hold down a job, but God gave me a vision and purposeful ministry. I was told I should never get

married or even have kids, but God gave me three big blessings, a loving wife and two incredible kids.”

Faith can provide a beacon of hope in the darkest times and can help us remember that we are called to pursue health of mind and body so that we can better serve God and others. In his book “Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones: Spiritual Answers to Psychological Questions,” Father Benedict Groeschel highlights the importance of realizing God’s love for us, writing, “If I tried to link the struggle for mental health with the struggle for holiness, I would say it is most clearly seen in the terrible battle against selfhate in the depths of the soul. Once the chain of self-hate is broken, the individual becomes free to love others, to be generous, to escape from his own darkness. This is part of the mystery of God’s love. God has first loved us; let us begin now to love Him.” Discovering God’s love can help us form better connections with people, and this creates an environment for healing during times of trial. We can also look to the saints for intercession and as a model for healing. St. Francis of Assisi coped with feelings of depression and self-hate by plunging himself into service to the poor, the sick and the outcast. During adolescence, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton experienced depression and even thoughts of suicide, but she coped by finding joy in

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St. Padre Pio’s motto was “Pray, hope, and don’t worry.” What a simple yet profound insight from a saint who battled the mental anguish that came from bearing the stigmata as well as the persecution that arose from his condition. Prayer keeps us grounded in God’s love, which gives us hope to make the world around us a better place. And when we immerse ourselves in this mission, what need is there for worry? As Christ says, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me” (John 14:1).

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Maryknoll Father Edward Dougherty, a former superior general of Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, is a member of The Christophers board of directors.

The mission of The Christophers is to encourage people of all ages, and from all walks of life, to use their God-given talents to make a positive difference in the world.

distressing from the moral point of view is the fact that very young humans were treated not as ends, but as mere means to achieve particular investigative goals. They were created in laboratory glassware, experimented upon, their genes were tinkered with and they were killed and dispatched as research fodder into biohazard waste containers.

The purported darkness of medieval times was never as dark as the remarkable ethical blackness that is descending upon contemporary “enlightened” man as he exploits and destroys his own offspring.

Vigilance and care are required when dealing with vulnerable research subjects, and human embryos are among the most vulnerable of God’s creatures, entrusted to us as our children, calling for stringent measures to ensure their protection and safeguard their human dignity.

For free copies of the Christopher News Note “Mental Illness: Healing the Unseen Wounds,” write The Christophers, 5 Hanover Square, New York, NY 10004, or mail@christophers.org.

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The St. Anne retrofit, among other structural changes, will include reinforced shear walls, but also threaded steel dowels at least every four feet, connecting floors and walls. The roof and foundation will also be tied to the supporting interior and exterior walls. In addition, three heavily reinforced concrete shear walls will be built into the structure from the ground to roof to stiffen the building, said project manager Finn.

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things organized and they did it,” Father Piderit said.

While St. Anne survived past earthquakes without damage, including the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, the seismic engineering report found if the quake had zigged instead of zagged, the school’s structure could have collapsed upon itself because the floors are wood but the walls are concrete and they would respond at different rates of movement, according to Finn.

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POSITION OVERVIEW The Director of Facilities reports to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and supervises physical plant operations including all buildings and grounds, utilities, energy management systems and safety/security systems in order to provide a safe, healthy, and comfortable environment for students, faculty and staff. The individual in this position is responsible for the scheduling and supervision of maintenance and repair activities, contracted services, and custodial services, and ensuring the physical operation of the school meets budgetary and strategic objectives.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Responsible for all day-to-day operations related to maintenance, janitorial and gardening aspects of the school plant.

SUPERVISION: Schedules and supervises maintenance workers engaged in building and grounds upkeep and repair; responsible for safety and security, electrical, plumbing, and heating services • With assigned maintenance staff personnel walk through of campus that fall under the night crew (outsourced) responsibility to ensure work is completed satisfactorily • Supervise daily cleaning of campus perimeter: parking lots, sidewalks, gym building, etc.

• Manage and maintain recycling program • Coach and counsel as needed to encourage excellent performance and create a respectful working environment for maintenance staff.

• Develop and carry out an on-going preventative maintenance program • Review, approve and execute work requests for school-wide events and rentals

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: • Directs, schedules, and oversees external contractors (electricians, plumbers, excavators, roofers, painters, landscapers, etc.)

• Prepares specifications for physical plant projects; estimates costs of equipment, materials, labor, and supplies; prepares bid specifications for projects, equipment, and contracted services; oversees site and building projects performed by outside contractors • Contributes to strategic planning by evaluating and projecting future facility needs and proposing options to achieve them • Develops, implements, and supervises preventative maintenance and renovation programs for buildings, grounds, mechanical and electrical, utility, and safety and security systems o Serves as administrator responsible for facility safety and meeting physical ADA compliance standards • Serve as primary contact with outside vendors (i.e. plumbers, arborist, electricians, HVAC, etc.) Order supplies and equipment for custodial, maintenance and gardening functions

SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE: • Ensures the proper disposal of hazardous and controlled wastes in compliance with regulations and guidelines; works directly with outside agencies such as OSHA, and local and state health departments as required o Evaluates the need for and arranges physical plant training sessions (bloodborne pathogens, OSHA, MSDS, and other job-related training) both in-house and off campus o Develops, implements, and supervises preventative maintenance and renovation programs for buildings, grounds, mechanical and electrical, utility, and safety and security systems • Responsible for security of the plant and all emergency apparatus such as exit lighting, fire extinguishers, emergency (earthquake) supplies. Serve on Safety Committee in preparation for crisis management • Coordinate, develop and conduct safety training sessions for maintenance department personnel

BUDGET AND ADMINISTRATION: • Monitors department budget; oversees assigned maintenance staff personnel who orders equipment and supplies and monitors inventory; makes requests for capital outlay expenditures as needed • Approve time cards and submit to the Business Office as required • Conduct annual performance reviews. Performs other related tasks as requested

QUALIFICATIONS: • Dedication to the mission and charism of Mercy High School San Francisco.

• Passion for the empowerment of young women a must.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, building trades, or related field • Five or more years of progressively more responsible experience in physical plant maintenance, with three or more years of supervisory experience, or; combination of education and experience commensurate with the requirements of this position • Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with faculty, staff, and administrators • Experience in operational and strategic planning as well as budget development • Ability to effectively communicate ideas and information in written and oral format to administrative staff, professional colleagues, governing boards • Flexible and willing to work some evenings and/or weekends

TO APPLY: • To apply for this position, or ask for additional information, email a copy of your resume, a cover letter, and 3 references to jobs@mercyhs.org. Your cover letter should explain why you are interested in the position and what unique qualities you would bring to the role.

• Strict confidentiality will be maintained for all applicants and only finalists’ references will be contacted.

Mercy High School San Francisco is an equal opportunity employer.

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‘Together in Holiness’ conference emphasizes centrality of family Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

The family is the key “to just about everything,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in his homily at the Mass that kicked off the second annual Together in Holiness family life conference Aug. 5 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont.

The conference drew about 200 people and featured nationally known speaker Dr. Ray Guarendi and local theology of the body speaker John Hamlon and Mary Caprio, St. John Paul II Foundation fellow.

“Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict, and especially Pope Francis have emphasized the centrality of the family in evangelization, since it is where we first learn about God, about the faith, about love and forgiveness. This conference is part of our archdiocesan effort to support families in this endeavor, particularly following the U.S. bishops’ convocation in July,” said Ed Hopfner, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Marriage and Family Life ministry.

The unprecedented U.S. bishops’ convocation on evangelization organized around Pope Francis encyclical “The Joy of the Gospel” brought together thousands of leaders, bishops, laity, priests and religious in Orlando, Florida July 1-4.

In Belmont Aug. 5, Archbishop Cordileone emphasized the importance of marriage and family to

(Photos by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)

Young families were among the 200 attendees at the “Together in Holiness” conference Aug. 5 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Belmont. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone emphasized the importance of marriage and family to children, to the good of the individual and to society, saying the family is central. children, to the good of the individual and to society, saying the family is central. However, he said, “For society to function well, families don’t need to be perfect. Our family wasn’t perfect. Our parents weren’t perfect.”

But, he said, growing up, “We always knew that our parents would be together and we always knew they would do what was necessary to take care of the family.” What is important, Archbishop Cordileone said, is “Families exist so children grow up

being loved and learning to love in turn.”

The Together in Holiness conference was cosponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the St. John Paul II Foundation in Houston.

“The theme of the day was the family as a school of love,” said Suzie Lopez, conference coordinator, from the St. John Paul II Foundation. The foundation describes itself as “a Catholic apostolate dedicated to building a culture of life and love, through integrated education initiatives that proclaim the gospel of life and form families as intimate communities of love.”

In addition to Mass, the conference included noontime eucharistic adoration and opportunities for confession that kept seven priests busy, Hopfner said. Complementary child care was provided to allow young couples to attend.

“Dr. Ray delighted the crowd with his humorous style and insights on family life, drawn from his clinical practice, as well as his own experience raising 10 children, while John Hamlon spoke on St John Paul II’s brilliant updating of Catholic teaching on love, marriage, sexuality and the human person,” Hopfner said.

The Aug. 5 conference was the second annual conference and Hopfner said a third conference is tentatively planned for September 2018.

Visit www.sfarch.org/marriage, www.facebook.com/ SFMarriage/, www.forlifeandfamily.org

Mercy Volunteer Corps members serving locally A team of Mercy sisters, associates and a former corps member supports the volunteers throughout the year with spiritual and social events: Sister Judy Carle, Sister Joan Marie O’Donnell, corps alumnus Katie McGeehan, Sister Sheila Devereux, Sister Marian Rose Power, Sister Eileen Pazmino and associate Kelsey Connolly.

“All the Mercy volunteers are anxious to begin a new chapter in their journey,” said Sister Joan Marie. “They look forward to exploring what it means to live a simple life in community, and to deepen their own faith and spirituality through the experience of serving others.”

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 2 PEACE MASS: Star of the Sea Church, Eight Avenue and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 8:30 a.m., Father Joseph Illo, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com CEMETERY MASS: Msgr. Michael Padazinski is principal celebrant of first Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum chapel. www.holycrosscemeteries.com, (650 756-2060.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 9 2-DAY FLEA MARKET: All Souls Church hall, Sept. 9, 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. both days, vendors and shoppers invited. Vendors need to register by Sept.

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JPII TALKS: The Dominican cloistered nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery offer a five-session series based on the groundbreaking “Love and Responsibility” by St. John Paul II. What makes a true friendship? How does attraction lead to either selfless love or a relationship in which someone is being used? If everyone is made for spousal love, how is this desire reconciled with vocations to the priesthood, religious life or dedicated singlehood? 9:15-11:30 a.m., Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Cost $45 includes books, materials. For more information or to register, visit www.nunsmenlo.org or contact Sister Joseph Marie, O.P. at DominicanNuns@nunsmenlo.org. Talks continue Oct. 14, Nov. 11, Dec. 9, and Jan. 13.

REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of 1977, luncheon, 1 p.m., Il Fornaio Restaurant, 1265 Battery St., San Francisco. Save the date and spread the word. RSVP to Vivian Rescalvo, vrescalvo@gmail.com; Liz Garduno Herrera, lizh1059@gmail.com.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com.

REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of 1987, Don Ramon Restaurant, San Francisco, 6 p.m. Joy Liu MercySF1987@gmail.com; joy@ joyliu.com.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 10 ON THEIR JOURNEY: “Walking the Camino” with Dominican Sisters Mary Susanna Vasquez and Frances Clare Fisher, 2-4 p.m., Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. RSVP by Aug. 27 at http://bit.ly/2017CESCamino or call (510) 933-6334. Part of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education & Spirituality.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 12 ‘GOSPEL’S JOY’: Dominican Father Mark Padrez, Western Dominican provincial, speaks on his recent participation in USCCB gathering on “the challenges and opportunities of our time, particularly in the context of the Church in the United States,” 7-8:30 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Free admission. RSVP CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453-8303.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 14 YMI DINNER: If you are an adult Catholic male (18 or older) you are invited to South San Francisco Council # 32 dinner to learn about membership in the Young Men’s Institute, All Souls School cafeteria, 479 Miller Ave. South San Francisco, no host bar 6:30 p.m. with hosted dinner at 7 p.m. RSVP by Sept 5, Steve Cresci (650) 589-3961, www.YMIUSA.org.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 15 GRIEF SUPPORT: Monthly Grief Support Program, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Msgr.

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MASS FOR BABIES LOST: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presides at the annual memorial and healing liturgy for babies and children who died before, during Archbishop or shortly afCordileone ter birth, Holy Cross Cemetery, Rachel Knoll, Colma, 11 a.m., all are invited especially parents who have lost children. . All who attend are also invited to a reception and light lunch near Holy Cross Mausoleum adjoining the Rachel Knoll following Mass.

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Remembering our babies who died before, at, or after birth.

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Mass and Healing Liturgy in memory of our Little Ones Sponsored by The Archdiocesan Project Rachel Ministry and Holy Cross Cemetery

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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, principal celebrant Holy Cross Mausoleum, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, CA Parents, family and the community are welcome.

A gathering and light luncheon will follow Mass at the Rachel Shrine.

For further information, please contact the Respect Life Program at 415-614-5570 or Project Rachel Ministry at 415-717-6428 To reach the Mausoleum, please enter by the Main Gate at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma.

Signs will be posted to direct you.