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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Catholic Church “stands ready to help” in efforts to assist refugees fleeing war-torn countries in the Middle East, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Sept. 10. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, also that Catholics in the U.S. and “all people of good will should express openness and welcome to refugees fleeing Syria and elsewhere in order to survive.” Tens of thousands of people from Syria and other countries are “fleeing into Europe in search of protection,” he said, adding that images of those “escaping desperate” circumstances “have captured the world’s attention and sympathy.” The archbishop noted that Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency, has been providing humanitarian aid to refugees in the Middle East and Europe, and in the U.S., he said, “nearly 100 Catholic Charities agencies and hundreds of parishes” assist refugees coming into the country each year. Archbishop Kurtz’s statement follows Pope Francis urging Catholics in Eu-
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A Syrian refugee man covered with dust arrives at the Jordanian border with Syria and Iraq, near the town of Ruwaished, near Amman Sept. 10. rope to respond to the needs of refugees entering their countries. He expressed solidarity with the pope, the bishops of Syria, the Middle East and Europe, “and all people who
have responded to this humanitarian crisis with charity and compassion.” The archbishop called on the U.S. see syria, page 16
LOS ANGELES – California’s newly passed measure to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill “is no way for our government to make policy on a life and death issue that will affect millions of individuals and families,” said Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez. “I am deeply disturbed by the California Legislature’s decision to allow doctors to help their patients kill themselves,” he said. He made the remarks in a statement issued the night of Sept. 11, not long after the state Senate approved the bill with a 23-14 vote. The state Assembly passed the bill two days earlier 44-35. It has been sent to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature, but as of Sept. 14, see gomez, page 6
Stephen Colbert, in interview, discusses faith, joy and humor Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Stephen Colbert, who took over Sept. 8 as host of CBS’ “Late Night” program, said in an interview for Canada’s Salt + Light Television that his “Colbert Report” character was intended to be a “well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.” “I would say he’s a fool. And though Christ says, “Call no man fool,’ I am one,” Colbert said. “Willing to be wrong in society or wrong according to our time, but right according to conscience which is guided by the Holy Spirit.” That character, which tickled American funny bones for nine years on Comedy Central, has been discarded for Colbert’s new persona as late-night talk show host. Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, Salt + Light’s founding director, inter-
‘The only way to approach something that is truly hard has got to be with joy, because if you don’t approach it with joy, it’s just a machine. And it will grind you up.’ Stephen Colbert viewed Colbert and said at one point during the interview that the comedian was “bigger than three popes.” But Colbert corrected him. “You can’t be bigger than three popes. You can only be bigger that two popes – that’s the most we’ve ever had at one time,” Colbert said. “Oh! Except during Avignon, I guess there were three popes at one point, right?” Sporting a full beard so white and curly that it could have been worn
by Santa Claus, Colbert, 51, a lifelong Catholic, said he told his “Colbert Report” show staff that their workplace was “the joy machine.” “You don’t want to bank down your ambitions so you’ll do a really hard show in a really hard schedule, and somehow when it was hardest, it would often feel the most joyful or often does feel the most joyful. And that’s when I would sort of jokingly call it the joy machine,” he said.
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“But it’s sort of true because the only way to approach something that is truly hard has got to be with joy, because if you don’t approach it with joy, it’s just a machine. And it will grind you up. And the lesson that I took from that is that: Doing something joyfully doesn’t make it any easier, it only makes it better. And also, it makes it communal – that we’re all doing it together. When you work in fear, or when you work in distress, you often feel alone. But jokes, laughter, humor, joy whatever you want to call it, it connects people.” Asked what he might ask Pope Francis were he to be a guest on his new show, Colbert replied, “I would ask him about how love leads him to joy, or does love lead him to joy?” Colbert added that he would ask the see colbert, page 6
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Religious host picnic in park for homeless Catholic San Francisco
Religious men and women of the archdiocese hosted a picnic for the homeless Sept. 12 in Golden Gate Park. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and sisters, brothers and priests interacted with all who passed through the Panhandle during the 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. hospitality, some having extended conversations. The event was in response to Pope Francis’ call to women and men religious to “Wake Up the World” during this Year of Consecrated Life and to undertake a project to focus on the poor and marginalized in San Francisco. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, director of the archdiocesan Office of Consecrated Life, started spreading the word on Thursday before the Saturday event by delivering flyers to shelters and going to the Civic Center area about 6:30 Saturday morning. The religious made more than 700 sandwiches with drinks and snacks and also provided socks. A local pet store donated canned and dried dog food. About 25 religious men and women participated from communities including the Order of St. Francis, Sisters of Notre Dame, Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady of Peace, Capuchins and the Missionaries of Charity. Jesuit Father Joseph Spieler from St. Ignatius Parish also attended. All the religious interacted with everyone who passed through the area in the Panhandle, some engaging in long conversations. Presentation Sister Sylvia Llerena spent a very long time with a woman huddled under a blanket. After some time she was joined by Sister Eva Camberos, MFP. Sister Dee Myers, BVM, spent some time walking alongside a woman who used a wheelchair to balance her very labored walking. Capuchin Brother Peter Ciolino, pictured with brother Capuchins from the St. Conrad Friary in Berkeley, said each of the orders present at the picnic brought their own charism.
Our Lady of Peace Franciscan Sister Eva Camberos and Presentation Sister Sylvia Llerena assist a woman huddled under a blanket during hospitality for the homeless by religious of the archdiocese Sept. 12 in Golden Gate Park.
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Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Dee Myers spent time with a woman who used a wheelchair to balance her labored walking.
Capuchins from St. Conrad Priory in Berkeley joined the event.
Pope’s US schedule Here is the schedule for the U.S. portion of Pope Francis’ Sept. 19-28 apostolic journey to Cuba and the U.S. and visit to U.N. headquarters in New York, on the occasion of his participation at the Eighth World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia: Sept. 22, 4 p.m.: Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C., official welcoming ceremony Sept. 23, 9:15 a.m.: Welcoming ceremony at the South Lawn of the White House; 11:30, meeting with U.S. bishops at St Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington; 4:15 p.m., Mass and canonization of Blessed Junipero Serra, National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington
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Jesuit theologian looks ahead to synod on family Christina Gray
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The dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of the University of Santa Clara told a group of Marin County parishioners on Sept. 4 that he would not be surprised if Pope Francis welcomes some divorced Catholics back to Jesuit Father Communion followMassaro ing the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome next month. “In my opinion, of all the changes that might happen, that’s the one that’s most likely to be introduced by Francis in his post-synodic exhortation,” said Jesuit Father Thomas Massaro, a longtime moral theologian. Currently, divorced Catholics who remarry outside the church without an annulment cannot receive Communion. Pope Francis may choose to modify this longstanding rule, particularly for marriages that end because of spousal abuse, Father Massaro said. Father Massaro made his remarks as guest speaker at the Marin Breakfast Club, where he was invited to discuss the Oct. 2-25 synod. The lay Catholic club meets at St. Sebastian Parish in Greenbrae. Pope Francis seems to support a “fresh start” with his call for a Jubilee Year of Mercy beginning Dec. 8, said Father Massaro, who was appointed dean of the Berkeley school in 2012.
The Synod of Bishops is a permanent institution of the Catholic Church. It was established by Pope Paul VI in 1965, shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council, to continue the spirit of collegiality and communion that was present at the council. The synod is an assembly of bishops from around the world who assist the pope by providing counsel on important questions facing the church in a manner that preserves the church’s teaching and strengthens her internal discipline. More information on the Synod of Bishops and on this October’s Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, where the bishops will continue their response to the pope’s call to reflect on the critical and invaluable reality of the family, is available from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at http://tinyurl.com/prktkuq and from the Vatican’s website.
The synod is expected to reflect on the topics brought forward in last October’s Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family, with appropriate pastoral guidelines formulated for the care of the person and the family. These points include how the church can be more sensitive to divorced or remarried Catholics and to those in homosexual unions. “If I’m reading the tea leaves right, if you’re asking me today to make one prediction, it would be that I think with Pope Francis there may be some openness to offering Communion to people in what we call irregular unions,” Father Massaro said. He said the church has a “long, august and, I have to say, beautiful tradition” of holding up high standards of virtue for family life, for gender relations and for the beauty of human sexuality in the appropriate way. Pope
Francis, by calling for back-to-back synods on the family, wants to make what the church offers a “clear and attractive invitation” for all generations. But for this pope, Father Massaro said, rules and order don’t come before mercy and reconciliation. “That’s always going to be what we have with Pope Francis,” he said. “On the one hand, he says to us, we must respect and honor the laws of civil governments, the laws of our church, the traditions we have inherited. But on the other hand, we must always seek to be the face of Christ in the world, Christ who never held anyone that was different than him at arm’s length.” Father Massaro said that he believes Pope Francis met plenty of men and
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women in the barrios of South America living in irregular unions because they were too fearful of the retribution of an abusive spouse and sometimes too poor to obtain an annulment. “My hypothesis about Pope Francis is that everything he does is based on his direct observation of the suffering of people,” he said, and not just poor people in the material sense. “I suspect that when Pope Francis sits down to make a decision, the first thing on this mind is, who does this effect?” The pope wants the idea of Communion for some second marriages to be a conversation starter, not a conversation stopper, he said. And he has seen pastoral provisions for the divorced work in the Orthodox Church. Pastoral sensitivity and high principles are two ends of the moral spectrum, according to Father Massaro. He said that Pope Francis will be practicing the virtue of prudence in make decisions on divorced Catholics and perhaps other matters that affect the family. “Behind all of this, we theologians talk in terms about the image of the church and the image of Christ,” he said. Is your image of the church mostly that of rule maker or is it mostly a teacher, or pastor that exercises compassion and sensitivity? “It’s a little bit of both, obviously,” Father Massaro said. “Pope Francis is open to evaluating that.”
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Natasha Rivera’s schedule is full but she likes everything she’s doing. A preschool teacher at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Belmont, she also serves as youth minster at St. John the Evangelist Parish where she grew Natasha Rivera up and is a graduate of St. John School. “I would definitely like to stay in this field,” Natasha told me via email about preschool teaching. “I’ve worked with many ages and they have always been my favorite.” Her allegiance to St. John’s is evident. “I went to St. John’s from kindergarten through eighth grade,” Natasha said. “It was a warm, inviting environment of family and faith.” As youth minister she is working closely with the youth at St. John’s to encourage more students to participate as altar servers and in youth ministry. Natasha holds an undergraduate degree in child and adolescent development from San Francisco State. She is also a graduate of Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco. Natasha said choosing teaching as a career flows from her own student experience. “As a child, I admired my own teachers and how they filled each day with learning moments and wonderful memories,” she said. Natasha called her fourth grade teacher at St. John’s, Jeanette Beeler, an “ultimate educator.” Natasha said Jeanette always supported her as a student and wrote letters of recommendation for her when she applied to teach at IHM. “She gave
ANNIVERSARY: Happy 60 years married to Beverly and Leo Ferrara Sept. 17. The couple was married at Church of the Epiphany and have been longtime parishioners of St. Elizabeth’s. They have three children and nine grandchildren all of whom are in on wishing them well. Thanks to Beverly’s sister-in-law Mary O’Keefe for the good news.
WEDDING DAY: Jenna Rose DeCeoursty and Jeff Mortensen were married Aug. 29 at St. Kevin Church, San Francisco. Jenna attended Mission Dolores and St. Elizabeth schools and is a graduate of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. Jenna’s mom is Gail DeCeoursty, who taught for 37 years at schools including Epiphany and St. Elizabeth. She and her husband David both grew up in St. Kevin’s and were married there. Jenna and Jeff were able to share their engagement with her dad in the hospital before he died Sept. 17 of last year. Jeff’s folks are Chris Malone and Bill Mortensen of the East Bay. Father Dan Carter presided over the rite. Deacon Dan Rosen assisted. us opportunities to learn about California, San Francisco, California missions, the faith, music and more!” Natasha said. She spoke of her favorite moments as a teacher: “The best parts are the learning moments where the child connects the concept with the material. We’re the guide that
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St. Francis Youth Club partners with Catholic Charities in East Palo Alto Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
One of the area’s most successful youth programs, St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club in East Palo Alto, began a partnership with Catholic Charities this summer designed to provide a stable future for the club. The administrative change will give the club, located on the grounds of St. Francis of Assisi parish, continuity going into the future at the same time it offers Catholic Charities “a toe in the water” in East Palo Alto, the poorest town in Silicon Valley, said pastor Father Lawrence Goode. It will be Catholic Charities first youth program in San Mateo County, he said.
The youth club offers after school homework help and a place to be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. during the school year, an all-day summer academic enrichment and fun activities, and a Saturday program for high school students to learn about college opportunities. Most the East Palo Alto children who frequent the club live in houses with four and five families residing at one address to save on rent or help with mortgage payments, Father Goode said. The St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club is a “lifeline,” offering academic support with homework, snacks, and recreation in a safe place, said Courtney Johnson Clendinen, division director of
family services and CYO athletics for Catholic Charities. “A lot of these kids, their parents don’t speak English or don’t have the education to help them with their homework,” said Clendinen, Father Goode, who in May had his tenure indefinitely renewed at the parish, was instrumental in founding the club more than 10 years ago. Father Goode is heading into his 13th year as pastor at the church. “We were thinking in terms of, I’m not going to be here forever
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pope “about being a fool for Christ,” because “to be a fool for Christ is to love, because we are made, we are here to dig our brief moment in time. “And I would ask him how he puts that first. Because, how you get to where you are in the church and not to be consumed by the law as opposed to the love that led to the law?” Colbert said the name of “The Colbert Report,” with the “T” silent in each word, came about because “to an American ear anything that sounds French is a little, you know,” using a finger to push up the tip of his nose, “a little snooty, a little frou-frou and so, and I’m ‘coal-BEAR.’ I was born COAL-bert. My father’s a COAL-bert, my brothers and sisters are COALbert. I’m one of 11 kids and half of
us are Coal-BEAR and half of us are COAL-bert because my father says you can choose what you want. So I chose coal-BEAR because I’m essentially a pretentious person.” He also engaged in a bit of wordplay with Father Rosica, needling him for being part of an order founded by St. Basil. “I’m no fan,” Colbert declared. “Why?” Father Rosica asked. “St. Arugula – that’s the saint. That’s the saint, that’s the saint I worship. OK? Delicious. With a little St. Pine Nut and a little St. Reggiano,” he said, pantomiming slicing cheese through a grater. “Delicious.” When Father Rosica suggested “St. Grappa” – an Italian drink – Colbert exclaimed, “St. Grappa! I have worshipped. I have worshipped at the porcelain throne of St. Grappa.”
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he had not indicated whether he will sign it. According to an AP story, the bill requires that a patient with a terminal disease must be physically capable of taking medication that would end his or her life. It says that a patient must submit written requests for the medication, that two doctors must approve the request and that there must be two witnesses. Archbishop Gomez noted in his statement that in early July, a previous bill to allow doctor-assisted suicide was pulled by its primary sponsors hours before a state Assembly hearing on it. The bill had already passed the state Senate, with votes largely along party lines. But the bill’s authors had said it was dead for this year. However, the Legislature called a special session to deal with a number of issues, including the assisted suicide bill and “chose to rush this legislation through in less than three weeks, holding only two hearings,” Archbishop Gomez said. “As a result, lawmakers did not have any chance to consider the deeper issues raised by end-of-life care in the state,” he continued. Those issues, he said, include “the cost of treatments, especially the cost of cancer medications; insurance practices that limit access to hospice care and physicians’ options in providing adequate pain relief; the impact of this legislation on the poor and other underserved populations.” “The people of California – especially the poor, the elderly, minorities and the disabled – deserve much better from their leaders. And make no mistake, it will be these most vulnerable populations who are going to suffer from this legislation.” Archbishop Gomez is a member of the Legislation and Public Policy Committee of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops. He urged the measure be vetoed and said the legislation, as well as the process by which it was passed, “is not worthy of our great state, which continues to do so much to promote
human dignity and equality of access to health care.” “We need to be clear about our language so we can understand what the Legislature is really doing here,” the archbishop explained. “It is not legalizing ‘aid in dying.’ What the Legislature is legalizing is the ability of a doctor to write prescriptions for the express purpose of killing another human being.” Disability rights advocates have campaigned against the bill. Those backing it include the parents and husband of Brittany Maynard, a California woman who, upon learning she had a terminal illness, moved to Oregon last year so she could take advantage of that state’s physician-assisted suicide law. One California woman facing a terminal illness was using her remaining days to fight legalizing assisted suicide. Stephanie Packer, 32, a wife and mother of four, was told in 2012 she had three years to live. She is affected with scleroderma, which is a hardening of the skin and connective tissues. All the scarring caused by the disease has paralyzed her gastrointestinal tract, requiring her now to take all of her nutrients through a tube. “If everyone had a doctor who cared, no one would even consider ending their own life,” she said in a posting on her website, stephaniesjourney. org. “Patients don’t know how to find that doctor or how to navigate the complicated health care system and they don’t have the tools or information they need. They’re so tired and don’t have the strength to deal with the fight. Instead, they’ll take the assisted suicide option because it’s easier.” Archbishop Gomez in his statement said those who will be most affected by doctor-assisted suicide will be poor families, African-Americans, Latinos and immigrants, because they do not have access to quality health care and have limited treatment options when they face a serious or terminal illness. “In a health care system that is cost-conscious and profit-driven, do we really imagine that these vulnerable populations will have a ‘choice’ to receive end-of-life care once we make lethal prescriptions an acceptable ‘treatment option’?” he asked
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On Sunday, September 27 we will honor Salesian Jubilarians from all over the province, including our own Fathers Armand Oliveri and Mario Rosso (sharing the love, above), who are each celebrating 75 YEARS as professed Salesians, and our dear Sr. Antoinette Pollini, FMA, who is celebrating 60 YEARS as a Daughter of Mary Help of Christians. The celebration will be at the 5PM Mass, followed by a reception in the gym. Tickets for the reception are $25, and may be purchased or reserved at: Saints Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert Street, San Francisco CA 94133 Or by calling 415-421-0809.
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Pope Francis challenged to address myriad issues in brief UN address Beth Griffin Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – Pope Francis’ visit to the United Nations Sept. 25 will be an act of validation and appreciation for the organization’s role in minimizing conflicts, scourges and untold suffering in the world through preventive diplomacy and peacekeeping, according to the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio. Nonetheless, the pope’s 30-minute address to the General Assembly will leave some listeners happier than others, because even significant issues may merit only a sentence or two in the speech, Archbishop Bernardito Auza said. Archbishop Auza, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations, spoke at the observer mission’s headquarters in Manhattan Sept. 9. The pope’s two-and-a-half-hour visit will be the shortest of five papal visits to the world body since 1965. In contrast, St. John Paul II spent four and a half hours at the U.N. both in 1979 and 1995. Archbishop Auza said the upcoming papal stay was truncated because of the U.N.’s tight schedule and
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Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, smiles as he speaks during a news conference Sept. 9 at the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the U.N. in New York City.
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overwhelming international participation in opening events for the 70th meeting of the General Assembly and the Sustainable Development Summit. At the United Nations, Pope Francis will meet publicly and privately with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Archbishop Auza said the private meeting may be the “most solid part of the event,” where “they say things they don’t want to say publicly.” The pope and the U.N. chief will have what he described as a “Nine and Nine” meeting – which will include the two leaders and each one’s closest collaborators, Archbishop Auza said. Pope Francis also will hold so-called bilateral meetings with the president of the 69th and 70th sessions of the U.N. General Assembly, Sam Kutesa of Uganda, and Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark, respectively. The final bilateral meeting will be with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is president of the U.N. Security Council for the month of September. In a break with protocol and a nod to complex logistics, Pope Francis will greet U.N. staff at the entrance of the Secretariat Building before he addresses the General Assembly. In the past, visiting popes began with their address to the General Assembly, conducted bilateral exchanges and then met the staff. Without speculating on the specific contents of the pope’s speech to the General Assembly, Archbishop Auza said predictable topics include the importance of the United Nations, the post-2015 development agenda summit that begins immediately after the pope’s address, climate change, eradication of poverty and universal access to health care. “At the same time, everyone knows that Pope Francis is a man of surprises and so I think everyone is going to be listening attentively when the Holy Father comes, since no one except the Holy Spirit knows exactly what he will say,” Archbishop Auza told Catholic News Service in response to questions submitted before the briefing. Archbishop Auza said the pope will deliver his address in Spanish. He will likely decry terrorist groups who claim to commit violence in the name of religion or God, which is “anathema” to the pope. While he may talk about migrants, the pope will probably speak his “most interesting words” on that topic in Philadelphia, where he is “not constrained by protocol,” Archbishop Auza said.
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Ahead of papal visit, US Catholics’ attitudes weighed in polls Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
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Assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll commissioned its own poll of 1,000 Catholics in August. Among the results, 95 percent say their faith is important to their everyday life, 83 percent approve of Pope Francis’ job as pontiff, 79 percent say he has changed things for the better, and 68 percent say their commitment toward their church hasn’t been altered “in any significant way” in “the recent past,” perhaps an allusion to the clerical sexual abuse scandal that rocked the U.S. church more than a dozen years ago but whose aftershocks are growing more faint. Asked if the church should stick to its founding principles and beliefs, 52 percent said yes, but 38 percent said it should change. “In other words, some are conflicted,” said an article in the September issue of Catalyst, the Catholic League’s monthly newsletter. By contrast, a Pew Research Center report released Aug. 31 on Catholic attitudes and their presence in U.S. society found strong majorities of Catholics supporting certain changes in church practice: 76 percent to allow the use of birth control, 62 percent to allow priests to marry and to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion, 61 percent to allow cohabitating Catholics to receive Communion, 59 percent to allow women priests, and 46 percent to recognize same-sex marriage. Although expectations that the church will actually change its position by 2050 on
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WASHINGTON – As part of the Walk With Francis Pledge campaign to benefit the local community and reach out to those in need in the days leading to Pope Francis’ Sept. 22-24 visit to Washington, a group of Christian leaders is advocating for “a fair and more welcoming” criminal justice system in this country. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington joined with other Christian leaders Sept. 11 to advocate for a criminal justice system that “aids those who have paid their debt (to society) and are ready to rejoin us.” “Criminal justice reform is something that we’ve talked about. It’s been on our radar screen for a while,” the cardinal said. “We want a system that says, ‘We welcome you back into our society. We welcome you back into our community. We welcome you back to be a productive member of society.’” The Christian leaders, in a news conference organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Pope Francis’ visit to the United States is an opportune time to advocate for sentencing reform laws and laws to counter recidivism. Pope Francis is a frequent visitor to those in prison, and will visit prisoners at a Philadelphia correctional center Sept. 27. Catholic News Service (CNS photo/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier)
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Seminarians Andrew Tsui, left, and Anthony Giacona spin a drum barrel filled with collection envelopes as sacristan Julio Batista looks on following Mass at St. John-Visitation Church in the Bronx borough of New York Sept. 13. A special drawing was used to select parishioners who will receive tickets to Pope Francis’ Mass at Madison Square Garden in New York City Sept. 25.
Cardinal calls for solidarity with Middle East’s persecuted Christians
WASHINGTON – Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington called for solidarity with the persecuted Christians of the Middle East during a Sept. 9 prayer service at a Roman Catholic church on Capitol Hill. The Sept. 9-11 summit is the second for the organization, which Cardinal Wuerl noted in his reflections during the prayer service. “All of us came together (in 2014) so the people could ... express solidarity with our brothers and sisters,” he said, “and bear prayerful witness to the suffering of so many ... especially our Christian brothers and sisters.” This year, Cardinal Wuerl said, “we are gathered in solidarity and witness” again to support the region’s Christians who face “tragedy” every day. “Much, much needs to be said about what continues to happen in the Middle East,” he added. “After the prayer service, we can walk out and enjoy freedom. So many of our brothers and sisters cannot do that.”
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PHILADELPHIA – If you were on the proverbial fence about joining the hundreds of thousands of people in Philadelphia during Pope Francis’ visit to the city, the invitation just got sweeter. Two papal parades will allow virtually every onlooker a glimpse of the pope as he passes by along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, site of the Festival of Families Sept. 26 and the papal Mass Sept. 27. In addition, 30,000 tickets were being made available to people throughout the Philadelphia region and beyond who wish to get good lines of sight on the parkway for the historic events.
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12 opinion Letters Reflection on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kent Grealish (letter, Aug. 28) is upset and angry with Tony Magliano for reporting the article on Father Zebelka, the A-bomb chaplain who indicated remorse for blessing the A-bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that resulted in the death of thousands of civilians and children. In my opinion, Tony Magliano did not endorse or condemn the statement of Father Zebealka, nor did he make any comments on the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kent Grealish has also misleadingly asserted that Magliano spread slander about U.S. servicemen. However, at the end of the article, Tony Magliano did write a meaningful and apt statement: “We can choose to rationalize and condone violence and war or we can build a kingdom of hope and love.” Kent Grealish recommends that Magliano read the essay on “Thank God for the Bomb” by the historian Paul Fussell. In this direction, I refer Grealish to the statement made by the co-pilot Robert Lewis on Enola Gay,- who wrote “as the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded we saw an entire city disappear. I said, ‘Oh God, what have we done.’” I also recommend he read the statements made by the senior military American officers – Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, Gen. George C Kenney, Adm. William D. Leahy – on “Was the use of the atomic bomb against Japan justified?” Gen. Eisenhower stated, “I had been conscious of a feeling of depression so I voiced my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary … It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of face.” Adm. Leahy said that the use of the barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender; his own feeling was that in being the first to use it. We had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. He was not taught to make war in that fashion and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children. Gen. George Kenney told Gen. “Hap” Arnold that Japan will not last long. Clearly Japan was defeated and ready to surrender before the bomb was used. Lenny Barretto Daly City
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Workers, unions and ‘Caritas in Veritate’
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hat is the responsibility of Catholic school teachers with regard to the spoken and lived representation of Catholic moral values? Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” is a helpful point of departure for some observations about the recent contract negotiations between the San Francisco FATHER George archdiocese and E. Schultze, SJ its unionized Catholic high school teachers. “Caritas in Veritate” means “charity in truth”; in effect, to believe that “God is eternal love” and “absolute truth” means that charity and truth are inexorably linked. Pope Benedict XVI teaches that we discover truth within the foundational awareness of charity, and charity can authentically occur only within the presence of truth. The Catholic Church must necessarily speak on social questions such as the right to life, the family, marriage, racism, immigration and work life as part of its mission, and therefore the teaching of Catholic morality at its schools and other institutions will always address the lives of Catholics and all men and women of good will. How do Catholics fully become the people God calls them to be? How do they help others to achieve that same end? “Caritas in Veritate” begins by stating, “Each person finds his good by adherence to God’s plan for him, in order to realize it fully: In this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf John 8:22).”
Catholics are taught that each person has a call and, while others may not believe in God, we recognize by our common humanity that every person has human dignity and a purpose in his or her life. In the first few paragraphs of “Caritas in Veritate,” Benedict XVI points out that unfortunately, in this era, charity has often lost its meaning because it is detached from God’s love, and truth has become relative for many men and women. Modernists – the intellectual pacesetters for culture – mistakenly believe that love is what people decide it is based on their autonomous feelings, and that the only truth is one’s own ego and desires, or, in other words, the absence of objective truth. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, quoting Dei Verbum and St. Irenaeus, states: “In order that the full and living Gospel might always be preserved in the church the apostles left bishops as their successors. They gave them ‘their own position of teaching authority’” (paragraph 77). It is by obligation and responsibility that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has sought fidelity to church teaching in the Catholic high schools, and for that matter, in all of the other Catholic educational institutions of the archdiocese. In the area of personal morality, one would expect Catholic administrators, faculty, and staff to teach and adhere to the morality of the church even if at times failing in their own right. To promote views or to intentionally live a public life in a manner contrary to the church’s teaching, while, at the same time, representing one’s institution and oneself as Catholic, is to reject the mission and vision of the church. Such a living witness of contradiction also denies students and their parents
a right to clear teaching and witness about church teaching on fundamental moral truths, and to dismiss the teaching authority the bishop has received through apostolic succession. The focus of the disagreement between the San Francisco archdiocese and the archdiocesan high school teachers (represented by the Archdiocesan Federation of Teachers, Local 2240 of the American Federation of Teachers), was not wages or working conditions, but a concern that the archdiocese would require the dismissal of employees who publicly oppose or reject the church’s teaching on artificial contraception, abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and other similar morality concerns. Yet, church teaching requires the archbishop to guide schools, workers, administrators, and others to the truth in charity. When the public witness of employees intentionally undermines church teaching, the archbishop has a duty to restore clarity to the mission of church schools. A person with a well-formed conscience will have developed the will and reason necessary to live in such true freedom, and the presentation of the church’s moral teaching in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is an essential resource for developing such a conscience. The proposed morality language of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the recent contract negotiations was simply the fundamental teaching of the Catholic Church within the bounds of the collective bargaining agreement and employee handbook. Jesuit Father Schultze is a professor at St. Patrick Seminary & University. A longer version of this essay was published originally in Catholic World Report on Sept. 6. For the complete essay, go to catholicworldreport.com.
Popes in these United States
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he history of popes in these United States is full of surprises. And one of them, to begin at the beginning, includes the little-known fact that Blessed Paul VI was not the first pontiff to set foot on American territory, when he landed at newly renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport Oct. 4, 1965. No, the george weigel first pope to plant a papal slipper on the sovereign territory of the United States was Blessed Pius IX, way back in 1849. 1848 was a year of upheaval throughout Europe; in November of that year, Pius IX fled Rome and took refuge at Gaeta, a harbor town south of Naples. A month later, U.S.S. Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” sailed for Europe to show the flag and protect American interests and citizens amid the political turmoil. After stops in Tripoli and Alexandria, the big frigate cruised into Italian waters and in August 1849 was berthed in Gaeta. The ship’s surgeon invited the pope and Kind Ferdinand II of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to visit Constitution, where the two rulers were duly welcomed with all honors. Pius IX blessed the Catholics in the crew, who were lined up on the gun deck, and after being entertained by
the captain in his quarters, was seen off with another 21-gun salute. Pius later sent rosaries to all the Catholic tars on “Old Ironsides,” and gave the ship’s captain, John Gwinn, a medal with the papal image and coat-of-arms. John Paul II’s first papal pilgrimage to the United States was, I think, a surprise for him. He had previously visited the U.S. on two occasions, but his exposure to Catholic life in America was rather limited on those trips. That changed in October 1979, when everything that happened during John Paul’s visit – from the cheers of raucous teenagers in Madison Square Garden to the piety of Iowa farmers gathered around the Bishop of Rome in a cornfield – testified to the vitality of American Catholic life. America was not, it seemed, a trans-Atlantic version of Western Europe: religiously dessicated, vaguely guilty about its impiousness, and thus aggressively secular. And as the church in the United States continued to pay far more serious attention to John Paul II’s challenging teaching than the church in Great Britain, France, the Low Countries, and the German-speaking lands of western Europe, John Paul began to encourage the new democracies of central and eastern Europe to look to the United States for one important model of how to be Vatican II’s “church in the modern world,” after the Wall came down. And speaking of surprises, who could have imagined, in 1945, that a former German prisoner-of-war, held briefly
by American forces as the Nazi regime crumbled, would be welcomed as pope on the South Lawn of the White House by the President of the United States and the U.S. Army band? Or that that same pope, long pilloried in the more ignorant sections of the American press as reactionary and authoritarian, would, in New York, make the gothic beauties of St. Patrick’s Cathedral the central metaphor in a stunning homily on the openness and spaciousness of the church when viewed “from inside”? Lots of people were surprised by the joy and warmth of Benedict XVI’s visit to the U.S. in 2008; but a German pope who could thank the British people for winning the Battle of Britain during World War II proved capable of far more surprises than his cultured detractors imagined. The popes in America have spoken words of both challenge and encouragement, and that will surely continue with Pope Francis’ visit this month. Unlike Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, however, Francis will be visiting the United States for the first time. Here he will find the church that, for all its difficulties, is the best example of his “church permanently in mission” in the developed world. As Francis encourages his American flock – and likely challenges us, too – my hope is that he is also challenged, encouraged, and perhaps even instructed by the vibrant faith he experiences among us. Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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St. Junipero Serra California’s ‘tireless missionary’
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On Sept. 23, Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Junipero Serra, the Spanish Franciscan who founded the first nine of the 21 California missions established between 1769 and 1833. He will be the first Hispanic saint canonized here, and the first saint canonized on American soil. This statue of Blessed Serra stands outside Mission San Gabriel.
Pope to canonize Junipero Serra amid controversy Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Pope Francis’ decision to canonize Blessed Junipero Serra, calling him the “evangelizer of the western United States,” and “one of the founding fathers of the United States,” shocked those who view the Spanish Franciscan as a symbol of oppression of the California native peoples and who blame Christian conversion for their virtual extinction. Pope Francis announced his plans to canonize Blessed Serra during the airplane trip in January from Sri Lanka to the Philippines. In his May 2 homily at the Pontifical North American College, the pontiff laid out more explicitly his reasons for canonizing Blessed Serra. “He ushered in a new springtime of evangelization in those immense territories,” Pope Francis said in his homily at the Mass during a day devoted to exploring research about Blessed Serra. “This was long before the Mayflower reached the North Atlantic Coast.” Blessed Serra is “a saintly example of the church’s holiness and special patron of the Hispanic people of the country,” Pope Francis said. “There are three key aspects to the life and example of Friar Junípero: his missionary zeal, his Marian devotion and his witness of holiness.” Those aspects of Blessed Serra are almost lost in the controversy that has whirled around the 5 foot 2 Franciscan friar from the island of Mallorca, controversy which has included demonstrations outside California missions, a Moveon.org
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Pope Francis kisses a relic of Blessed Junipero Serra presented by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles at the conclusion of Mass celebrated at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 2. It was the first papal visit to the U.S. seminary since 1980. The pope said that while some people seem to relish the idea of listing Blessed Serra’s defects, he wondered how many would have the courage he had to leave everything and preach the Gospel. petition against his canonization, and a failed attempt by some California lawmakers this summer to remove Blessed Serra’s statue from the U.S. Capitol. What was the role of Blessed Serra and the California Missions for Native Americans? A group of historians gathered in Rome in the spring and presented documentation of Blessed Serra as a “tireless missionary” who placed his evangelization of Native Americans
under the patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
‘The ultimate martyrdom’
Ruben Mendoza, an archaeology professor at California State University in Monterey Bay, called the association of Blessed Serra with the crimes and abuses of the latter half of the 19th century “the ultimate martyrdom Serra has suffered.” While not a descendant of the coastal California Mission Indians, Men-
doza is Yaqui Indian and Hispanic Catholic. He testified in July before a California State Assembly committee in favor of keeping Blessed Serra’s statue in the Capitol. Mendoza, along with other historians, said that although colonization eventually brought an end to the hunter-gatherer way of life of California’s native peoples, their great decimation occurred 100 years later as Americans settled the territory of California during the Gold Rush and afterward. In fact, said Robert Senkewicz, Santa Clara University history professor and author of a new heavily documented biography of Blessed Serra, the Franciscan sacrificed and fought for the native peoples against the Spanish military, who accompanied the missionaries to California. “(Serra) constantly ended up at odds with a whole series of military leaders on how the Indians should be treated,” said Senkewicz, who co-wrote with his wife, Santa Clara professor Rose Marie Beebe, “Junipero Serra: California, Indians and the Transformation of a Missionary” (University of Oklahoma Press, $34.95). Despite being near death due to illness, Blessed Serra completed an agonizing, months-long journey from San Diego to Mexico City to push for the replacement of the military governor of what is now California because of the abuses suffered by the California Native Americans, including the rape of a Native American woman by a Spanish soldier, said Senkewicz. see pope, page j4
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Grade school California Mission curriculum to be reviewed The president of the California Catholic Conference announced an ambitious 18-month program to review and revise the cultural content and displays at the California missions under Catholic Church authority and to undertake Bishop Jaime a similar effort to Soto review the third and fourth grade curriculum in Catholic schools to better reflect modern understandings of the Mission Era and the relationship between Spanish civil authority, the Catholic Missions and local Indian tribes. “The Mission Era gave rise to modern California, but it also gave rise to controversy and to heartache when seen through the eyes of the first Californians,” said Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto in a Sept. 4 announcement. “For many years, the Indian experience has been ignored or denied, replaced by an incomplete version of history focused more on European colonists than on the original Californians.”
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A mural by Frank A. Martinez greets people entering the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California. The rendering depicts figures from early 18th-century California, including Blessed Junipero Serra (right) and native people building the missions and harvesting crops. The central figure at top is Mary.
San Mateo high school teacher pens Junipero Serra book Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Christian Clifford teaches theology at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo. He has written a short book about the soon to be canonized Franciscan friar, titled “Saint Junipero Serra: Making Sense of the History Christian and Legacy.” Clifford The book is already on the shelves at the bookstore in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, where Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Junipero Serra on Sept. 23, Clifford said. Fifteen years of presenting Blessed Serra to his students, who have heard over and over again that the missionary was instrumental in the destruction of the Native American way of life in California, prompted him to write the book, said Clifford. But the catalyst was a hike along the Devil’s Slide Trail in Pacifica in 2014, where he came upon a County of San Mateo Parks sign that read: “Missions used
newly baptized natives as captive labor.” After a prolonged back and forth correspondence with the country parks department the sign was replaced – with one about birds, he writes. “He’s become the symbol of the oppressor. And it’s inaccurate. It’s dishonest,” said Clifford, who graduated from Serra High School in 1989. He described his book, in part, as “sharing my personal quest
to know Junipero Serra.” Among the points that Clifford makes: the encyclical of Pope Paul III in 1537 stated that slavery and abuse of native peoples was contradictory to the Catholic faith. The book’s foreward is written by the pastor of St. Boniface Church in San Francisco, Franciscan Father Tommy King, who was a missionary for 11 years in Latin America. “Amid a new wave of criticism against Serra for his style of evangelization, Christian Clifford shows in his work that those of us who want to faithfully live the Gospel have a lot to learn from Serra. He clearly points out that Spanish colonialism must not be confused with the evangelization techniques of Serra and his brother Franciscan missionaries in New Spain in the 18th century,” Father King wrote. Blessed Serra “would persevere against all odds to bring Western civilization to this corner of the world,” said Clifford. “Governor Jerry Brown nailed it when he called Serra ‘a very courageous man, and one of the innovators and pioneers of California.’” For more information, saintserrabook. com.
“Today, on the verge of Blessed Father Serra’s canonization, the time has come to confront that incomplete history and to work with Native American educators, respected historians, Catholic school officials and others to change that and to reflect the best scholarship we can about that era,” said Father Ken Laverone, provincial vicar of the Franciscan Province of Santa Barbara, a partner with the Catholic bishops of California in this effort. The committee overseeing the curriculum review will be led by the Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles Edward Clark and a longtime liaison with California’s Native American communities. The cultural study of the Missions will be led by Andrew Galvan, curator of Mission Dolores in San Francisco and a member of the Ohlone tribe. It will include a review of displays and signage, updates to materials used to train docents and guides, and similar updates to artwork and presentations on Mission and related websites.
Some resources about Blessed Junipero Serra Junipero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary; by Rose Marie Beebe & Robert M. Senkewicz; University of Oklahoma Press in cooperation with The Academy of American Franciscan History, 2015 Contested Visions: Fray Junípero Serra, Native Californians, and the Legacy of the Franciscan Missions; by Ruben G. Mendoza; Ancient Editions, 2013 The California Missions Source Book; by David McLaughlin with Ruben G. Mendoza; Pentacle Press, 2012 Saint Junipero Serra: Making Sense of History and Legacy; by Christian Clifford; Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2015 Blessed Fray Junipero Serra: An Outstanding California Hero; Francis Weber; Editions Du Signe, 2008 The Life and Times of Fray Junipero Serra; Msgr. Francis Weber; Ez Nature Books, 1988 Website: stjunipero.org
Did you know? • While in Mexico City as a professor at the university there, Blessed Junipero Serra volunteered to minister to the Pames people of Sierra Gorda where the missions were in collapse. During the years he was there, 1751-1758, he learned the language of the Pames and subsequently preached and translated Christian doctrine and prayers into the people’s native language. He worked with his fellow laborers to construct a church in Pames that is still used for worship today. • After a raiding Indian party murdered
Blessed Junipero Serra’s close friend Friar Luís Jayme and razed the San Diego mission in late 1775, Blessed Serra visited to help with the rebuilding in 1776. He wrote to the viceroy in Mexico City, expressly forbidding retaliation for the murder, writing that if he were killed, whoever killed him should be pardoned. Once in San Diego, Blessed Serra devoted himself to completing Jayme’s work, inscribing a new baptismal register and translating a catechism into the Diegueño language for the Indians. While there, Blessed Serra received a letter from the
viceroy formally pardoning the Indians associated with the murder of Jayme, preventing the Alta California military governor from taking measures to punish the Indians. • When Blessed Junipero Serra died Aug. 28, 1784, after 30 sleepless hours, he whispered “Let us go to rest.” He was cradling the cross of Caravaca, with the Blessed Virgin Mary at its base and the tiny relics of Raymond Lull held in its wood. He asked his old friend Francisco Palóu to bury him next to his former student Juan Crespi. He is
buried at Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo in Carmel. • Blessed Junipero Serra dedicated his mission in the New World to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Her image was in each of the 21 missions and is now the patroness of the Americas. Pope Francis has also dedicated his trip here to Our Lady of Guadalupe, saying, “You cannot separate her from the hearts of the American people. She represents our shared roots in this land, the shared roots of this continent.” Information courtesy stjunipero.org
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Celebrating canonization, traveling to see the pope
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) – Here is a timeline of key points in the life, ministry and sainthood cause of Blessed Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish missionary to California. Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize the Franciscan friar Sept. 23 during his visit to Washington.
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The excitement is building as the canonization of Blessed Junipero Serra and the visit of Pope Francis to the United States draws near. The president of Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo will be attending the canonization Mass Sept. 23 at the National Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. At the high school the canonization will be live-streamed into the classrooms, said president Lars Lund. On Sept. 24, a Mass of the Holy Spirit will be held in honor of the canonization, celebrated by Franciscan Father Tommy King, pastor of St. Boniface Church – and a graduate of Serra, class of ’74. The theology department is revamping its unit on Blessed Serra to incorporate his new status as an official saint of the church, said theology department chair Gary Meegan. Later in the semester, the school will install a time capsule to honor the new saint to be opened up Nov. 24, 2044, Blessed Serra’s 310th birthday and the centennial year of Serra High School, said Lund. Archdiocesan Catholic Charities executive director Jeff Bialik and board president Simon Manning will be attending the canonization Mass, will be present at the White House when the pope visits the president and during his visits to Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C. St. Peter pastor and vicar for Spanish speaking ministry Father Moises Agudo is leading a group of 150 pilgrims to Washington, D.C. for the Mass. The next day Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving in a chapel at the Basilica for the group, said one of the organizers, Rosario Haro. A group of 17 seminarians from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University are traveling with archdiocesan vocations director Father David Schunk to
1713: Born and baptized Miquel Joseph Nov. 24 in Petra on Mallorca Island in the Mediterranean Sea. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
Andrew Galvan leads students on a tour at Mission Dolores.
the canonization and will be at the Mass with other seminarians from around the country. Old Mission Dolores curator Andrew Galvan will carry the reliquary into the Mass. His cousin, Vincent Medina, assistant curator at the mission will do the first reading at the canonization Mass in the Chechenyo language of their ancestors. The seminary gala on Sept. 19 also will honor the Serra clubs of the area. Serra International is a lay apostolate to support priestly vocations, with more than 20,000 members in 40 countries. In East Palo Alto, the Spanish Bible study group studied “Joy of the Gospel” to prepare for the pope’s visit, said St. Francis of Assisi pastor Father Lawrence Goode. Father Goode is going with a group to the canonization. At St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco, pastor Father Paul Warren has been using the bulletins for the past five weeks to write about the papal encyclical “Laudato Si’”, as well as information about Pope Francis’=8 visit and information about the canonization of Blessed Serra, Father Warren said. St. Stephen parishioner and organizer of Simbang Gabi Christmas novena Nellie Hizon is attending the canonization with a group of Filipinos from the archdiocese.
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Historic El Camino Real
San Juan Bautista (1797)
San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (1770) Nuestra Señor de la Soledad (1791)
California Missions
San Antonio de Padua (1771) San Miguel Arcangel (1797) San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (1772) La Purísima Concepción (1787)
Santa Inés (1804) Santa Bárbara (1786)
San Buenaventura (1782)
El Presidio de Santa Barbara
El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles
San Fernando Rey de España (1797) San Gabriel Archangel (1771)
San Juan Capistrano (1776) San Luis Rey de Francia (1776)
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1731: Joins the Franciscans, taking the name Junipero, after a companion of St. Francis of Assisi admired by young Serra as the “greatest exemplar of holy simplicity.” 1740: Appointed professor of theology at the Convento de San Francisco in Palma. 1744: At age 33, assumes the Duns Scotus chair of philosophy at Lullian University, Palma. 1749: Receives call to report for missionary duty in the New World. Arrives in Veracruz, Mexico, Dec. 6. He and another Franciscan walk to Mexico City, a 240-mile journey. 1750: Is appointed to the Sierra Gorda missions. Works there for nearly eight years. Oversees the construction of new churches. 1752: Becomes commissioner for the office of the Inquisition, with authority to investigate witchcraft, sorcery and heresy. 1758: Assigned to San Saba in region now known as Texas, but his transfer is retracted and he heads back to Mexico City. Works at the College of San Fernando teaching novices and travels the countryside preaching and holding popular missions. 1767: King Charles III abruptly expelled the Jesuits from Spain and its colonies. Serra assumes responsibility of the former Jesuit missions of Baja California.
El Presidio de San Francisco
Santa Clara de Asís (1777) Santa Cruz (1791)
Timeline of key events in life and ministry of Blessed Junipero Serra
San Diego (1769)
1768: Is instructed to leave Baja and move north to establish missions in Alta (Upper) California. 1769: Arrives in San Diego, erects the first in a string of missions that would stretch north to Sonoma. 1770: Establishes Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel, the headquarters for Franciscan efforts in California. 1773: Journeys to Mexico City and successfully appeals to the Spanish viceroy for more autonomy in California mission affairs, hoping to curtail problems he had with Spanish forces about mission development and operations and treatment of the Indians. He lays out a Bill of Rights for Native Americans to the viceroy. 1778: Secures permission to administer sacrament of confirmation among mission Indians. Confirms 1,716 people at five southern missions. 1782: Mission San Buenaventura is established 70 miles north of present-day Los Angeles. It’s the ninth and last Alta California mission founded under Serra’s leadership. 1784: Dies Aug. 28 at age 70 at San Carlos in Carmel. Sources: New Catholic Encyclopedia; “Junipero Serra: California’s Founding Father,” by Steven W. Hackle; “Guide to Serrano,” Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. Information from stjunipero.org also included.
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Chronology of Junipero Serra’s Path to Canonization
1784
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When Father Junipero Serra died, he was mourned by the friars and Indians, who referred to him for generations after his death as “el santo” – the saint.
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1980-1985
The Diocese of Fresno officially handed these pages over to the Vatican in order for the next stage of scrutiny over Serra’s life to begin. Serra was accorded the title “Servant of God.”
Franciscan Province of St. Barbara opened the formal investigation of Father Serra’s canonization. The first step in the process of canonization is to gather all historical writings about the candidate, including his or her own writings. This scholarly research was conducted by Father Maynard J. Geiger in the 1940s, who amassed nearly 7,500 pages of writings by and about Father Serra. Additionally, around the same time Father Eric O’Brien interviewed more than 200 descendants of California settlers, Indians, and Spanish, who knew Padre Serra. Along with the written evidence gathered, these testimonies amounted to 8,700 pages.
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Junipero Serra was declared “Blessed” by Pope John Paul II after a thorough medical investigation found that there was no explanation for a nun’s healing from lupus. The pope affirmed that the sister’s healing was miraculous through the intercession of Father Serra. Declared “Venerable”. In the summer of 1980, after extensive research by the Vatican, a document of around 1,000 pages containing further research into Father Serra’s life was presented to Vatican officials and scholars. This summarium served as a legal brief advocating for Serra’s canonization. After much examination and deliberation, the document was found to have met the standards of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, and Pope John Paul II declared Father Junipero Serra to be “Venerable” on May 9, 1985.
2015 Jan. 15, 2015 – Pope Francis surprised the world by announcing that he would canonize Father Serra when he comes to the United States in September. Sept. 23, 2015 – 4:15 p.m. Pope Francis to celebrate Mass of Canonization of Junipero Serra, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
(Information courtesy stjunipero.org)
Pope: Blessed Junipero Serra canonized amid controversy impact of Spanish colonizing and missionary activity on the native communities with the decimation of the native peoples after California became a U.S. territory in 1848. The California legislature over time appropriated more than $1 million to pay for bounties for killing California Indians and paid $5 a scalp, said Mendoza, citing “Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide 1846-1873,” by Brendan C. Lindsay (University of Nebraska Press, $35). Another objection to Blessed Serra’s canonization involves reports that California Indians at the missions were beaten, but Mendoza said there is no documentation that Blessed Serra abused anyone although corporal punishment was common at the time.
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“In that regard, we can say Serra was ahead of his time,” said Senkewicz.”He was proactive for the civil rights of native peoples.”
Understanding Serra
Blessed Serra’s commitment to evangelize rather than destroy the native peoples was evident from the beginning of his life as a missionary, according to Senkewicz. “In our book we try to understand Robert Father Serra in his Senkewicz own time and from his own values and from his own identity as a Catholic missionary priest,” Senkewicz said. “Junipero Serra left a ‘cushy’ job as a theology profesRuben Mendoza sor on (the island of ) Mallorca, never to return, living a hard life on the frontier.” The friars came as part of the colonial expedition, and Spain’s strategy was that by bringing the native peoples into its settlements and way of life, it would cement its hold on the California territory. However, the objective of Blessed Serra and the Franciscan missionaries was evangelization, Mendoza and Senkewicz said. “Serra spent the final half of his life, from the moment he arrived in Mexico City on Jan. 1, 1750, until his death at Carmel on Aug. 28, 1784, struggling to live out his own beliefs in the midst of that complex and bloody reality,” Senkewicz and Beebe write in their 2015 biography. “The manner in which he did so was controversial in his own day and remains no less controversial today.” The worst abuses of the California Indians, however, came much
Serra as scapegoat?
Painting of Blessed Junipero Serra hangs in the Santa Barbara Mission Archives-Library in California. It is one of two known copies of a lost original by an unidentified artist. The inscription signed by Franciscan Father Jose Mosqueda reads: “Portrait of Father Friar Junipero Serra, apostle of Alta California, copied from the original preserved at the Convent of the Holy Cross in Queretaro.”
Andrew Galvan, who is descended from an Ohlone Indian and is curator of the Mission San Francisco de Asis, or old Mission Dolores, in San Francisco, said Pope Francis’ decision to canonize Blessed Junipero Serra without the standard second miracle is because the Franciscan “lived the life of a miracle.” However, Galvan, who worked for decades on Blessed Serra’s sainthood cause, hopes that the pontiff will apologize in the U.S. for the Catholic Church’s involvement in colonialism as he did July 9 in Bolivia. “The ones who oppose canonization, it is more a symbol than the real Serra. Serra becomes responsible for everything that happened during the mission era,” said Jeffrey Burns, director of the American Academy of Franciscan History in San Diego, who said the Spanish destroyed the native peoples’ huntergather way of life by establishing farms and cattle ranches. But Burns said of Blessed Serra: “He is the one who brought the faith to California.”
later, said Mendoza, who believes the antagonism toward the mission-
Much of this story was originally published in Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly.
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Blessed Junipero Serra adopted the motto ‘Always go forward and never turn back’
ary is based on the fact that many of Blessed Serra’s critics confuse the
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Millions of refugees have no place to call home
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he heartbreaking photo of the little Syrian refugee boy washed up dead on the shore of Bodrum, Turkey (see picture: http://bit. ly/1PZHvDV) strikingly illustrates the tragic plight of desperate refugees – mostly Syrian – fleeing for their lives from the Islamic State and other tony magliano violent groups in the Middle East and Africa. The 3-year-old boy, named Aylan, along with his 5-year-old brother, Galip, and their mother, Rehan, drowned after the raft carrying them capsized near the Turkish coast. Millions of refugees are scrambling to escape from the life-threatening civil wars plaguing several countries from Nigeria to Pakistan. According to the British newspaper The Independent, half of Syria’s population – approximately 11 million people – have been forced to flee; with four million living as refugees in foreign nations. And approximately 2.6 million Iraqis have been displaced, both due to civil wars and the barbarism of the Islamic State. Matt Wilch, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops refugee policy advisor for Migration and Refugee Service, told me that of the 4 million Syrian refugees, 1.8 million are being hosted by Turkey, Jordan has 1 million, Egypt has
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A Syrian refugee woman cries as she carries her baby through the mud to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni Sept. 10. 200,000, tiny Lebanon is hosting over 1 million, and ironically even war-torn Iraq has opened its doors to 200,000 Syrians. But according to U.S. State Department figures, since March of 2011 – when the Syrian conflict started – only 1,554 Syrians have been admitted through the U.S. refugee resettlement program. This is shameful. Wealthy Europe and the U.S. have a moral obligation to offer far more help. Germany is providing an excellent example here. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said that any Syrian arriving in Germany would be granted asylum.
With 800,000 refugees expected to arrive in Germany before year’s end, Merkel has been urging Germans to rise to the challenge. She said, “There can be no tolerance of those who question the dignity of other people.” Wilch said if the U.S. and other wealthy nations would provide much more aid to Syria’s neighboring nations, not only would refugees be able to benefit from improved services, but most would not feel compelled to take the long dangerous journey to Europe. Wilch said only 37 percent of the needs of refugees are being funded in these neighboring host countries.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, approximately 2,500 people have perished en route to Europe since the beginning of this year alone. The USCCB is urging Congress to increase the number of refugees allowed in the U.S. to 200,000 annually – 100,000 from Syria and 100,000 from other nations. Please contact your congressional delegation urging them to honor the bishops’ plea. And urge them to greatly increase aid to the Middle East nations hosting millions of refugees. The resources of these generous nations are stretched to the limit. Also, to be of further help please go to this link http://bit. ly/1LZxENG at the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA to easily submit (click submit twice) a letter to your senators and congressperson on behalf of our suffering refugee brothers and sisters. And to go the extra mile, kindly consider making a donation to Catholic Relief Services by going to this link www.crs.org/stories/european-migrant/crisis/grows, and clicking “European Migrant Crisis Grows.” Then click “Donate Now.” Pope Francis has strong words for those who would turn away refugees: It is “violence to erect walls and barriers to block those seeking a place of peace. It is violence to push back those fleeing from inhuman conditions in the hope of a better future.” MAGLIANO is a regular guest on Immaculate Heart Radio’s “Bay Area Catholic” magazine show and is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.
Our overstimulated grandiosity, our impoverished symbols
here are now more than 7 billion people on this earth and each one of us feels that he or she is the center of the universe. That accounts for most of the problems we have in the world, in our neighborhoods, and in our families. And no one’s to blame for this, save God perhaps, for FATHER ron making us this rolheiser way. Each of us is created in the image and likeness of God, meaning that, each of us, holds within a divine spark, a piece of infinity, and an ingrained knowledge of that unique dignity. We are infinite souls inside a finite world. To paraphrase St. Augustine, we are made for the divine and our hearts aren’t just dissatisfied until they rest there again, they’re also grandiose along the journey, enflamed by their own uniqueness and dignity. God has made everything beautiful in its own season, Ecclesiastes tells us, but God has put timelessness into the human heart so that we are out of sync with the seasons from beginning to end. We’re overcharged for this planet, and we know it. Moreover that sense of specialness
lies at the center of our awareness: I think, therefore I am! Descartes was right: The only thing we can be absolutely sure of is that we exist and that our own thoughts and feelings are real. We may be dreaming everything else. We awake to selfconsciousness aware of our specialness, frustrated by the fact that the world cannot give us what we crave, and insufficiently aware of the fact that everyone else on this earth is also equally unique and special. That’s human nature and it’s always been this way. Today however a number of things are conspiring together to exacerbate both our grandiosity and our restlessness. In brief, today we are mostly overstimulated in our grandiosity and are not generally given the tools to handle that inflammation of soul. How are we overstimulated in our grandiosity today? Various factors play together here, but contemporary media and information technology need to be highlighted. Through them, in effect, the whole world is being made available to us during every waking minute of our lives. We are not easily equipped to handle that. While information alone is mostly neutral, and at times even morally inspiring, the downside is that contemporary media overstimulates our grandiosity and restlessness by inundating us with the intimate details of the lives of the rich, the famous, the beautiful,
the talented, the powerful, the superintelligent, the mega-achievers, and the perverted in a way that titillates, seduces, and at times assaults our interior balance so as to leave us cultivating private fantasies of grandiosity, of standing out in a way that makes the world take notice. We see this in an extreme and perverted form in some of the mass shootings that occur in our society, where a lonely, deranged person randomly kills others out of sick vision of grandiosity. We see it too in the growing phenomenon of anorexia. These examples may be atypical, but we’re becoming a society within which most everyone is perilously overstimulated in his or her grandiosity. And today we are generally without sufficient personal tools to handle this. Human beings have always been restless and grandiose, but in previous generations they had more tools – religious and societal – to handle restlessness, grandiosity, and frustration. For example, in previous generations the cultural ethos gave people much less permission to cultivate ego than it does today. Previous to our own generation, one had to be more apologetic about selfpromotion, self-canonization, overt greed, and crass self-centeredness. Humility was espoused as a virtue and no one was supposed to get too big for his or her britches. That threw a lot of cold water on ego, crass self-assertion and greed, in
effect dampening grandiosity. The message back then was clear: You’re not the center of the universe! By and large, that’s no longer the case today. Society, more and more, gives us license to be grandiose, to set ourselves up as the center and proudly announce that publicly. Not only are we allowed today to get too big for our britches, we aren’t culturally admired unless we do assert ourselves in that way. And that’s a formula for jealousy, bitterness and violence. Grandiosity and restlessness need healthy guidance both from the culture and from religion. Today, we generally do not see that guidance. We are dangerously weak in inculcating into the consciousness of society, especially into the consciousness of the young, a number of vital human and religious truths: To God alone belongs the glory! In this life ultimately all symphonies remain unfinished. You are not the center of the earth. There is real sin! Selfishness is not a virtue! Humility is a virtue! You will only find life by giving it away! Other lives are as real as your own! We have failed our youth by giving them unrealistic expectations, even as we are depriving them of the tools with which to handle those expectations. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas; www.ronrolheiser.com.
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(Courtesy Marie Venner)
California state Sen. President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon addresses a forum at the state Capitol Aug. 31 where legislators and their staffs and Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento and Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton to discuss climate leadership in light of Pope Francis’ encyclical.
Climate leadership: Finding the ‘insight and courage’ to move forward Marie Venner
Climate change threatens public health
Global Catholic Climate Movement
Nearly every state around the country has activities underway related to Pope Francis’ ecology encyclical “Laudato Si’”. California’s are some of the most interesting, as the state has tended to be the test bed for policies and new technologies that are later considered for implementation by other states. California has made notable progress in the past 15 years. For example, California spurred the advent of electric vehicles in the U.S., which sold 58 percent more units in the U.S. in 2014 than in 2013. Half of those are in California. Now most car manufacturers market them and 90 percent of owners of partially or fully electric cars said they would never go back to a gas-only car, as EVs are cheaper to operate and maintain, are quieter and faster, and always have a full tank in the morning. States from the Southeast (Georgia) to the Northwest later copied California’s incentives. California also has shown other interested states how to create a framework to grow GDP (now more than 30 percent higher than in 2006) while lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The economy is now 28 percent less carbon-intensive per dollar of economic activity than in 1990. Although California is the seventhlargest economy in the world and the 20th-largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, California ranks fifth-lowest emitter per capita among U.S. states. California Sen. President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) has been championing SB 350, the “Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015.” The bill would create or expand three related clean-energy goals to be achieved by 2030: A 50 percent reduction in petroleum used in motor vehicles; generating 50 percent of total retail sales of electricity from renewable resources; and a doubling of the energy efficiency of existing buildings. Sen. de Leon said he heard the pope’s call “with urgency” for policymakers to “develop policies so that, in the next few years, the emission of carbon dioxide and other highly polluting gasses can be drastically reduced.” At a recent Capitol Forum discussing the encyclical, he added that for him the most important part of the encyclical “might be that man is not separate from nature but a part of it … Ancient cultures understood what modern man has forgotten or chooses to ignore.” The California Catholic Confer-
(Courtesy Marie Venner)
California has shown other states a path to manage climate impacts in a way that allows for substantial economic growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Bishop Stephen Blaire
‘We feel we have a right, like any other organization, to support values for the common good. The role of the church in public policy is to lift up values. I believe it is appropriate for the church to be a voice that calls for truly addressing these issues that affect the Earth so much.’
ence says SB 350 is an important step in implementation of “Laudato Si’”, which “reminds us of urgent moral imperatives and valuable policy implications that must be considered to address environmental issues impacting the health of our communities, especially for our most vulnerable Californians and developing countries worldwide.” Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto, president of the California Catholic Conference, and Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire expressed their support for the bill in the Capitol Forum on climate leadership – an effort by the bishops and legislators and their staff to implement the pope’s call for “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet.” Bishop Soto said the session was to help provide policymakers with “the insight and the courage to move forward legislation that serves the common good.” “We feel we have a right, like any other organization, to support values for the common good,” Bishop Blaire said. “The role of the church in public policy is to lift up values. I believe it is appropriate for the church to be a voice that calls for truly addressing these issues that affect the Earth so much.”
“The encyclical states that there is an urgent need to develop policies so that in the next few years the emission of carbon dioxide and other highly polluting gasses can be drastically reduced,” Bishop Blaire said at a press conference.” The Ventura County Star reported that a news conference preceding the dialogue was covered heavily by Spanish-language media and conducted in Spanish, as Latinos make up the great majority of California’s Catholic population. In addition, the two bishops leading the dialogue were both from the Central Valley, and spoke of how the drought, wildfires and other climate-related effects have degraded the quality of life in the Valley. Bishop Soto noted that “Pope Francis places the poor and the marginalized at the center of renewing the face of the Earth. Pope Francis also reminds us of our moral responsibility to be stewards of the common good of creation, as well as brothers and sisters of one human family with room at the table for everyone,” he said. “What has long been our tradition on the culture of life, he’s really now proposing what we would call the ecology of life.”
The California Nurses Association says California’s clean transportation policies will save more than $8 billion on health care costs due to fewer asthma attacks, cardiac hospitalizations, and premature deaths from poor air quality. Doing nothing leaves all state residents at risk, and especially the most vulnerable, as 8 in 10 Californians live in areas with unhealthy air. California is home to the five most polluted cities in the nation for ozone and particulate matter, which come primarily from vehicle tailpipe emissions. Twice as many Californians die early deaths from the health impacts of vehicular pollution than from motor vehicle accidents every year, the association says A 2008 study by CSU Fullerton researchers found that air pollution costs Californians $28 billion in added healthcare costs and lost income each year. Residents of the San Joaquin Valley suffered the most, losing roughly $1600 per person per year. The drought has deprived some communities of water, an additional health concern. The state is spending several billion dollars responding to our historic drought; and UC Davis scientists estimate that the toll on our agriculture industry will approach $5 billion for 2014 and 2015. Fires and smoke also threaten health. Seven of the 10 largest wildfires in California history have occurred since 2001. Marie Venner
Visit http://catholicclimatemovement.globa for a wealth of resources on advocacy; awareness, education and discussion; diocesan and parish initiatives; climate change impact; liturgy, prayer and spirituality; how to reduce environmental harm Venner is a National Academies researcher and the chair of the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board Subcommittee on Climate Change Impacts, Energy, and Sustainability on Transportation Infrastructure. She also serves as the Movement Sharing and Resource Development Coordinator for the Global Catholic Climate Movement.
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Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.’ MARK 9:30-37
Crosiers WISDOM 2:12, 17-20 The wicked say: Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself r. According to Greek against our doings, reproaches us for transgresas the first to bring the sions of the law and charges us with violations the first bishop of ouroftraining. Let us see whether his words of Egypt and of Venice, be true; let us find out what will happen to him. n the ninthFor century. if the just one be the son of God, God will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes. With©revilement and torture let us put the 2001 CNS just one to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience. Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own words, God will take care of him.
PSALM 54:3-4, 5, 6, 8 The Lord upholds my life. O God, by your name save me, and by your might defend my cause. O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth. The Lord upholds my life. For the haughty men have risen up against me,
the ruthless seek my life; they set not God before their eyes. The Lord upholds my life. Behold, God is my helper; the Lord sustains my life. Freely will I offer you sacrifice; I will praise your name, O LORD, for its goodness. The Lord upholds my life. JAmes 3:16-4:3 Beloved: Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace. Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask. You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
MARK 9:30-37 Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.” Taking a child, he placed it in the their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”
God’s hand in our struggles
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aving grown up in a house full of boys (I am the third of four) I can easily picture the argument the Apostles were having along the road to Capernaum about who among them was the greatest. The arguments in the Doherty house were (and still are) almost entirely centered on athletic accomplishment, and because I was clearly the least accomplished athlete in the bunch I often felt like I was bringing up the rear in our little platoon. Maybe the main reason why I was a far less accomplished athlete than my brothers is that I was born with two important ocular handicaps. I was born with nystagmus – a constant Father Mark shaking of the eyeball Doherty brought on by an insufficient maturation of the central focusing mechanism of the eye; and strabismus – the inability for both eyes to be directed at the same object at the same time (in layman’s terms: cross-eyed). In early childhood I underwent three major surgeries aimed at cor-
scripture reflection
Pope Francis Pope to bishops: Don’t tame Holy Spirit
Never try to tame the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis told new bishops. Let the Spirit “continually turn your life upside down” and inspire you to challenge faithful Catholics, seek out those who have left the church and boldly meet with nonbelievers. The pope made his comments in Vatican City Sept. 10 in a written address to some 130 recently appointed bishops from around the world. In the lengthy text, Pope Francis said he didn’t want to dwell too long on the “dramatic challenges” the bishops would have to face “because I don’t want to frighten you. You are still on your honeymoon” as newly ordained or newly appointed bishops.
recting some of the pronounced problems. While the surgeries certainly helped, they could only do so much. The result of all of this was that I felt cursed, and I often wondered why I and not my brothers had to live with the limitations of this handicap. I never felt more cursed than the day I was cut from college soccer. I would be the only man in my family to get cut from college ball. My father had played college football and baseball; my brother Philippe played basketball; Kevin football; and Paul played football and basketball in college. In hindsight, some 17 years after having been cut from college sports, I look back on that day, and on my handicap in general, as a key to the great blessings the Lord has worked in my life the past decade and a half. Getting cut from college ball marked the beginning of a turning point for me. My own dreams and plan having been swept away, I finally began to give God a chance, a hearing in my life. The void created by my failure to make the roster allowed God to establish a beachhead in my life. I doubt that I would be a priest today, the happy and fulfilled man that I am, if I had not been born with a handicap. God has manifested his love for me by transforming my curse into the source of his greatest blessing upon me. In last week’s Gospel and in today’s, we find the Apostles rebuffing Jesus’ assertion that the Messi-
ah must suffer great things, die, and be raised from the dead. They don’t want a suffering Messiah; they want a conquering Messiah. But the truth is that if God were not able or willing to enter into our deepest sufferings, to take upon himself the burden of our curses, and transform them into newer and greater life than would have been possible without the curse, then he’s just not worth it. Jesus is worth following and worshipping precisely because he takes upon himself the burden of my curse and transforms it into greater life. By doing so he manifests that God is the magis, the always greater: His love, goodness and power are always greater than anything else, even the curse of death, and for those who would allow him to, he would transform all of our wounds and curses into newness of life, life that would not have been possible without the curse. There is no curse, no suffering or wound that falls outside the purview of God. Through God’s transformative grace I have gone from the back of the pack to the front. I boast not in myself but in the power of God’s mercy, and I proclaim full-throated: “O blessed fault! O blessed curse! For through you God has worked something even greater in my life.” Father Doherty is parochial vicar at St. Peter and St. Anthony churches and chaplain for Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, September 21: Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and evangelist. Eph 4:1-7, 11-13. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. Mt 9:9-13. Tuesday, September 22: Tuesday of the Twentyfifth Week in Ordinary Time. EzR 6:7-8, 12b, 14-2. PS 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5. Lk 11:28. Lk 8:19-21. Wednesday, September 23: Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, priest. Ezr 9:5-9. Tobit 13:2, 3-4a, 4befghn, 7-8. Mk 1:15. Lk 9:1-6. Thursday, September 24: Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Hg 1:1-8. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. Jn 14:6. Lk 9:7-9. Friday, September 25: Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Hg 2:1-9. PS 43:1, 2, 3, 4. Mk 10:45. Lk 9:18-22.
Matthew 1st century One of the Twelve Apostles, this tax collector is called Matthew in one Gospel (Mt 9:9) and Levi in two others (Mark 2:14 and Luke 5:27). Scripture scholars believe they are the same man because the call and shared meal with Jesus are similar in all three accounts. He sometimes is credited with writing the Gospel of Matthew, but most scholars think this unlikely. There is no evidence that he evangelized in Judea, Parthia or Ethiopia, or was martyred in Persia. Saturday, September 26: Saturday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, martyrs. Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a. Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12ab, 13. See 2 Tm 1:10. Lk 9:43b-45.
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Faith leads to freedom, pope tells prisoners
VATICAN CITY – The Christian journey is not a pursuit of earthly success, but of obeying God’s will, knowing that at the end of time one will be with God, Pope Francis said. Before reciting the Angelus prayer Sept. 14, Pope Francis told people in St. Peter’s Square – and a group of about 50 inmates from Rome’s Rebibbia prison – that the Christian journey leads “to real freedom, freedom from selfishness and sin.” The inmates were treated to a special morning at the Vatican, touring the Vatican Gardens and museums, arriving in the Sistine Chapel to listen to the pope’s Angelus address. Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, led the tour. One of the inmates, identified only as Carmine, told Vatican Radio, “We were welcomed so beautifully, which usually does not happen in society.” At the Vatican, he said, “we were treated like important guests. This was moving for all of us. It was something indescribable.”
Shortcut to sainthood: Never speak ill of another, pope says
VATICAN CITY – Someone who has never ever spoken ill of another could be declared a saint right away, Pope Francis said. The Catholic Church’s sainthood process is long, complicated and usually requires the recognition of a miracle attributed to the candidate’s intercession, Pope Francis said Sept. 11 at his early morning Mass. “But if you find a person who never, never, never spoke ill of another, you could canonize him or her immediately.” The pope’s homily focused on
all, the question of a common solution to the refugee crisis is also an issue that directly affects the values and the future of Europe,” said the statement issued Sept. 10.
Vatican upholds bishop’s refusal to allow transsexual to be godparent
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‘Ladies in White’ rally in Havana
Members of “Damas de Blanco” (Ladies in White) shout during their weekly anti-government protest march in Havana Sept. 13. Cuban authorities detained about 50 dissidents in Havana when they attempted to march down a street in the capital a week ahead of Pope Francis’ visit. Jesus saying, “Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?” In other passages of the Bible, he said, Jesus tells his disciples, “judge not and you will not be judged; do not condemn and you will not be condemned.” The pope told the small congregation in the chapel of his residence that he could imagine them saying, “Father, that’s beautiful, but how do you do it, where do you start?” The first step, he said, is to learn how to “accuse yourself,” to look honestly at your own faults, ask the
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European bishops say migration needs a continent-wide solution
MANCHESTER, England – The European Union must adopt a common asylum policy “without delay” because it is unacceptable for refugees to “drown and suffocate” at the fringes of the bloc, said the European bishops. A statement issued by the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, COMECE, said a common policy would prevent countries from keeping out migrants. “If we can solve an economic crisis at an overnight EU extraordinary summit, then it should be just as easy with this crisis, especially when the fate of so many people is at stake. After
government “to assist more robustly the nations of Europe and the Middle East in protecting and supporting these refugees and in helping to end this horrific conflict, so refugees may return home in safety.” The Obama administration announced that it was planning to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming fiscal year. However, an AP story said
Canonization of St. Therese's parents to coincide with the Synod on the Family in Roma, October 18, 2015.
Preachers Rev. Matthew Williams, O.C.D. and Rev. Robert Barcelos, O.C.D. Daily Masses 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Daily Rosary: 5:30 p.m. If your are unable to attend, you may send your prayer intentions to: Carmelite Monastery of Cristo Rey 721 Parker Ave. San Francisco CA 94118
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Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin will be the first married couple canonized together.
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s doctrinal congregation upheld a Spanish bishop’s refusal to allow a transsexual person to be a godparent. Bishop Rafael Zornoza Boy of Cadiz and Ceuta said in a written statement that the Catechism of the Catholic Church says godparents must be “firm believers, able and ready to help the newly baptized ... on the road of Christian life” (1255). The church teaches that sponsors must live a life of faith that is in keeping with their function as someone who must “seriously assume” responsibility for the development and safeguarding of the grace given at baptism, he said in the statement that was published on the diocese’s web site Sept. 1. If it is not possible to find a person who has all of “the necessary qualities,” the priest can confer the sacrament of Baptism without godparents, he said. Given “the confusion” among some of the faithful concerning this decision, the bishop said, he also formally consulted with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which reaffirmed the “impossibility” of allowing an openly transsexual person to be a godparent. Transsexual behavior represents a public display of an attitude that goes against “the moral requirement to resolve the problem of one’s own sexual identity according to the truth of one’s own biological sex,” the bishop cited the doctrinal congregation as saying.
they are “already in the pipeline” waiting to be admitted to the U.S. and are not part of the flood of people currently entering Eastern Europe to make their way to other countries. “In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus, Mary and Joseph flee the terror of Herod,” Archbishop Kurtz said in his statement. “Let us pray that the Holy Family watches over the thousands of refugee families in Europe and beyond at this time.”
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Interfaith action at City Hall on eviction issue: Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, archdiocesan priests Father Jose Corral, Father John Jimenez and three Episcopal priests, along with 20 Catholic parishioners among a total of 300 participants, joined a day of action at City Hall Sept. 10 to support a proposed eviction protection law. The day included a rally and visits with San Francisco supervisors to urge them to support the proposal, which was scheduled to be heard in committee this week before moving to a full vote. “Clergy and lay leaders did their own round of visits to the supervisors to let them know that the issue
of evictions, affordable housing and homelessness is a concern for the faith community,” said Lorena Melgarejo, community organizer for the archdiocese.
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STS. PETER AND PAUL SCHOOL: The North Beach school honored firefighters and police officers in a prayer service Sept. 11 commemorating the World Trade Center tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. Retired San Francisco police officer Cindy O’Neill is at far left. She is the mom of eighth graders Elsa and Payton Hagstrom. Principal Lisa Harris stands next to SFPD Capt. Joseph McFadden, SFFD firefighter Kendrick
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Father Quinn named provincial director Vincentian Father Bernard Quinn is new provincial director for The Daughters of Charity, Province of the West. Father Quinn was welcomed to his new post in July at the Daughters Provincial House in Los Altos Hills. “We are blessed to have Father Quinn Father Bernie with us,” said Quinn Sister Marjory Ann Baez, province visitatrix. “He has been affiliated with the Daughters for many years and embraces our mission of serving those living in
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Sister Helene McBride, PBVM Presentation Sister Helene McBride, died Aug. 31 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Born in San Francisco, Sister Helene was a Sister of the Presentation Sister Helene of the Blessed McBride, PBVM Virgin Mary for 67 years. Sister Helene held a graduate degree in American History from
poverty.” Father Quinn has three sisters who are Daughters of Charity. As provincial director, he will serve the Daughters for the next six years in a ministry of presence, collaboration and support in numerous areas such as ongoing formation and discernment, the Daughters said in a statement. . “I look forward to supporting the Daughters in whatever way they need my assistance,” Father Quinn said. “My life has been a reflection of everything I have learned from the Daughters of Charity throughout my life, especially service to the poor.”
Sister Gertrude Patch, RSCJ Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Gertrude Patch died Aug. 24, at Oakwood, the Society of the Sacred Heart’s elder care center in Atherton. Sister Gertrude was 87 years old and a religious for 68 years. Sister Gertrude Sister Gertrude Patch, RSCJ held doctorates in English and American literature from Stanford University and is remembered by many for her 12 years
68th annual Police/Fire Memorial Mass The 68th annual San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco Fire Department memorial Mass will be held Sunday, Oct. 18, 10:30 a.m., at St. Monica Church, 3470 24th Ave., San Francisco, with police chaplains Father Michael Healy and Father Michael Quinn and fire chaplain Father John Greene, who will celebrate Mass. Members of
all faiths, and their families and neighbors, are welcome. Reception follows. Sponsored by the San Francisco Police Officers Association and San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798. Ursuline Sister Lillian Repak also is a police chaplain. Father Tom Hamilton is chaplain to the San Francisco’s Sheriff ’s Department.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 ICF DINNER: San Mateo District 50th anniversary, 2 p.m. Mass at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1761 Hillside Drive, Burlingame, followed by dinner, adults $25, children $12.50; Dorene Campanile (650) 344-7870. HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass followed by lunch, in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www.Handicapables.com. PROJECT RACHEL MASS: A memorial Mass for children who died before, during or shortly after birth whatever the cause, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant and homilist. Sponsored by Project Rachel Ministry and the cemeteries; (415) 614-5570, (415) 717-6428. PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy, 3 p.m. All welcome; www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com. ‘NORCAL JAM’: All day at Six Flags Theme Park in Vallejo, joint youth event with Northern California Dioceses with Mass, speakers, rides, adoration, confession, a vocations carnival, and evening praise and worship concert; information and tickets online at www. onfirenorcal.com/. SPIRIT SESSIONS: Sept. 19-26, Oct. 3, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, San Francisco, Life in the Spirit workshops, 8:30-noon, admission
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SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., various artists; freewill offerings accepted; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org. GRACENTER DAY: “A Taste of Autumn” luncheon, silent auction benefiting Good Shepherd Sisters’ Gracenter, 11 a.m., Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco, www.gsgracenter.org; (415) 337-1938. CHAMPAGNE BINGO: Holy Name Society, Sts Peter and Paul Church gymnasium, 666 Filbert St., North Beach, free parking, $25 ticket includes, hot lunch, champagne, two bingo cards; Gig (415) 421-2441, (415) 370-5851. FAITH WALK: WinterFaith Shelter Walk 2015 benefiting the Interfaith Winter Shelter, 1:30 p.m., Lake Merced, meet at parking circle at intersection of Sunset and Lake Merced boulevards, free, register for the walk and/or donate http:// winterfaithshelterwalk.dojiggy.com/. FAITH FORMATION: Fromm Hall, north of St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Golden Gate avenues, 10:50 a.m., learning to pray with Brett McLoughlin; free and open to the public; free parking in all USF lots; jacoleman@usfca. edu; faloon@usfca.edu; (415) 422-2195.
RETIRED PRIESTS LUNCH: St, Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Patrons’ Hall, St. Mary’s CaFather Craig thedral, Gough Forner Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. with tickets at $125 and larger sponsorship opportunities also available; (415) 614-5537. Ordained in 1975, Father Craig Forner is retired pastor of St. Matthias Parish, Redwood City.
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