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Pope says he is ‘a bit feminist,’ thanks sisters for hard work Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Calling himself “a bit feminist,” Pope Francis praised women religious for always heading to the “front lines” to bring the church’s tenderness and motherly love to those most in need.

“The church thanks you for this, it is a beautiful witness. This is being close. Be close! Close to people’s problems, real problems,” he said during an audience Sept. 17 with young consecrated women and men from around the world, including Iraq and Syria.

He began the audience by directing attention to “our martyrs in Iraq and Syria, our martyrs of today,” revealing that he now keeps on him a small cross that a priest held in his hand while he was being murdered for his faith.

“A few days ago in (St. Peter’s) Square, an Iraqi priest came up to me and gave me a small cross. see pope, page 16

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Pope Francis and former Cuban President Fidel Castro hold hands at Castro’s residence in Havana Sept. 20. See Pages 12-13 for more coverage of the pope’s trip to Cuba and the U.S. and U.N. headquarters on the occasion of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.

Dominican vocations on the West Coast: ‘A real sign of hope’ Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

On the eve of the 800th anniversary of its founding, the West Coast Dominicans are seeing an increase in the number of men entering the Order of Preachers.

“It’s a real sign of hope,” said Dominican Father Stephen Maria Lopez, vocations director for the Dominican Friars of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, which was established during the Gold Rush in 1850 and encompasses Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California. The Order of Preachers was founded by St. Dominic Guzman, the son of a Spanish nobleman, in 1216 in France.

In more than a year, 14 men have entered the formation program of the Western Dominican Province.

There are a total of 27 men between the province’s novitiate in San Francisco and house of studies in Oakland. Six men entered as novices Sept. 3 in San Francisco and eight men professed first vows on Sept.

5 in Oakland.

“These are intelligent, well-educated men, all have at least a bachelor’s degree,” said Father Lopez, who said

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Six young men received the Dominican habit and began their first year of formation as novices in the Order of Preachers at St. Dominic Church on Sept. 3. The novitiate of the Western Dominican Province is located at St. Dominic Priory in San Francisco. Front from left: Brother Damien Dominic Nguyen, Brother Joseph Marie Dinh, Brother Columban Mary Hall. Back from left: Father Mark Padrez, OP, provincial; Brother Patrick Rooney; Brother Scott Norgaard; Brother Andrew Marie McCullough; Father Anthony Rosevear, OP, master of novices.

those entering come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, attracted by a rich intellectual and spiritual tradition that includes the 13th-century doctor of the church St. Thomas Aquinas.

“What attracts them to the order is the Dominican charism of preaching and teaching. They see the great need for it,” said Father Lopez, who was ordained in 2010. “And then the common life. That’s huge for young men. It’s not just about being priests. They want a common life. They want to be with other like-minded men who share that deep desire to preach the Gospel.”

That is true for Brother Damien Lach from Corvallis, Oregon, one of the eight men who professed first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience at St. Albert the Great Priory in Oakland Sept. 5.

“I joined the Dominican Order because I want to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a world that desperately needs to hear it,” said Brother Damien, 25, who entered the Catholic Church while an undergraduate at the University of Oregon where the Dominicans staff the St. Thomas More Newman Censee dominicans, page 7

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Catholic sisters work to stop sex traffickers at Super Bowl Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Bay Area Catholic sisters from more than a dozen religious communities hope to tackle the influx of sex traffickers expected at next year’s Super Bowl by educating the hospitality workers serving its Santa Clara venue, the director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Consecrated Life told Catholic San Francisco.

“The average Bay Area resident is completely unaware of the enormity of human trafficking here,” Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto said during a group interview with other leaders of the Northern California Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking.

Local sisters are imploring hotel and motel managers in the South Bay to train their staffs to recognize and report what Pope Francis earlier this year called “modern-day slavery.”

Major sporting events such as the Super Bowl set for Feb. 7, 2016, at Levi Stadium, are notorious for attracting traffickers who bring large “stables” of women and children to hotels and motels surrounding the venue, Sister Rosina said.

According to UNANIMA International, a non-governmental organization advocating on behalf of women and children living in poverty, sex traffickers see major sporting events as an opportunity for huge profits with little risk of penalty.

For the past six Super Bowls, women religious in host cities have swept in months before kickoff to work with the local business community. Now it’s the Bay Area’s turn.

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Leaders of the Northern California Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, from left, are Sister Frances Tobin, RSCJ; Sister Marie Jeanne Gaillac, CSJ of Orange; Sister Rosina Conrotto, PBVM; Sister Dianne Nixon, SNJM; and Carolina Parrales, far right, coordinator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.

With the big game less than six months away, local sisters are recruiting and training adult volunteers to help them approach hotel and human resources managers, housekeeping staffs, security teams and others in a position to incriminate sex traffickers.

On Oct. 3, the sisters are presenting a one-day training event in Room C of St. Mary’s Cathedral to anyone interested in joining their ministry.

Hospitality workers can be indifferent, said Sister Frances Tobin, RSCJ, one of the day’s three presenters.

“Their whole attention is the day to day,” she said.

“They kind of look at us cross-eyed sometimes, but that’s ok,” Sister Marie Jeanne Gaillac, CSJ of Orange, said.

“What we understand is that we are

just this little piece in everything that it is going to take to change attitudes and to say, you can’t let this go on.”

While avoiding a bad reputation may be the reason some national hotel groups are working to eradicate human trafficking, the faithful only need look to their Catholic faith to do the same.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church “forbids acts or enterprises that, for any reason, lead to the enslavement of human beings – to their being bought, sold and exchanged like merchandise in disregard for their personal dignity.” And in his first Mass of 2015, Pope Francis urged people of all faiths to fight human trafficking, saying that everyone has a “God-given right to be free.”

“There are women and children out there not because they want to be, but

because their pimp has said ‘get out there and make money,’ said Sister Frances. “This is where Christians and other people of faith need to step in.”

After a presentation to the Council of Priests earlier this year, sisters and priests agreed on the need to educate people “from the pulpit and in the pew” about the root causes of human trafficking: poverty, greed and a culture that sees human beings as a commodity.

“When you live in poverty, when you’ve experienced abuse at home, you can become exploited,” said Sister Frances.

Young women and children – some of them foster children or runaways – are conned, often by an older man who promises them he will take care of them and give them a place to stay.

“Within weeks, that child has become what society calls a prostitute,” she said.

Sister Therese Randolph, RSM, said that the training event kicks off a greater effort by the sisters to stop human trafficking of all kinds.

“It will not end with the Super Bowl,” she said.

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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,

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‘Entering into the desert’ St. Dominic parishioner called to monastic life

St. Dominic parishioner Lise Faus is entering the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, a story parochial vicar Dominican Father Isaiah Mary Molano covered in an interview posted on the St. Dominic blog Aug. 26 at http://blog.stdominics. org/2015/08/26/entering-into-thedesert/. Father Molano asked Faus, who begins a path of consecrated life that could culminate in professing vows as an official member of the Order of Preachers, “what led her to this beautiful revelation.” The edited interview is reprinted with permission of St. Dominic pastor Father Michael Hurley, OP.

answering His call. I know deep down this is exactly where I am supposed to be. God is rich and life in Christ offers abundance. It is an opportunity to become a spiritual athlete to exercise the beatitude “Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth.”

Who are the Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery?

Could not a person be holy and pray and all of that while outside the cloister?

From Corpus Christi’s webpage: “We are Dominican Nuns who live a life hidden with Christ in God. We accompany our Dominican Family Friars, Sisters, and Laity in the Order’s preaching mission for the salvation of souls through our silent presence, prayer, contemplation, community life, study, and sacrifice in the heart of the church within the Western Dominican Province of the Order of Preachers.”

In my own words, Corpus Christi is an opportunity to enter into the desert more deeply in order to root out vice and grow closer to God. The daily life is structured around the chanting of the Divine Office. We come together to pray seven times a day. There is also private prayer, work, study and community recreation time. There are regular obser-

How did your family react when you told them that you wanted to enter a monastic community?

They weren’t surprised. They rather expected it and were very happy for me as they sensed my happiness even though some are not supportive of my religious beliefs.

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The cloister courtyard of the Dominican Nuns’ Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park vances of fasting and a life of poverty lived in solidarity with the poor in the world, and much more.

What intrigues you about monastic life?

Where do I start? Asceticism, simplicity, discipline, silence, solitude, community? The most intriguing aspect of the life for me right now is simplicity. I recently emptied my apartment of furniture, my closets of clothes and my desk from useless

stuff I have shoved in there through the years. The purge was exhilarating, like a refreshing bath. To be free of material possessions is true freedom. I surmise in the years ahead the intrigue will change. Of course, the obvious intrigue is Christ and

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Absolutely, that’s exactly what the sacraments are for. Mass, frequent reception of the Eucharist and confession are freely given by God for our aid in growing in perfection. Father Xavier used to say show me your check book and calendar and I will tell you what kind of person you are.

Spend your time and money with eyes fixed on heaven and you will become holy. However, it is very hard to do in a world wrought with distractions such as technology, Internet and consumerism. It is necessary to withdraw from the world to hear the voice see monastic life, page 17

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Alumna staffer ‘cherishes sharing Notre Dame High School story’ Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Coming home can be a special thing in fact for Jodie Penner it’s just “wonderful!” she said. “I love walking the halls again – it is a joy,” the 1983 Notre Dame graduate told me via email. “I am inspired by our students and faculty every day.

The students keep me young and impassioned.”

Jodie is the school’s new Director of Advancement and told me Jodie Penner she is one of 14 alumnae at the Belmont school in areas including faculty, staff, and athletics “reflecting our strong community and the special bonds of Notre Dame sisterhood.”

When she heard about the opening “a new path emerged for me, one I had to travel,” she said.

The job is more than fundraising, Jodie told me. “There is substantial opportunity to share the stories and positive impact of Notre Dame High School,” she said. “I cherish the chance to illustrate the transformative power of a Notre Dame education and to seek and secure support for our wonderful mission.”

Jodie is no development novice. “I have been blessed to formally work in the development arena for seven years, in schools and with social services,” she said.

Jodie, her husband, Mark and their children Matthew, a senior at Junipero Serra High School; Gabrielle, a junior at Notre Dame; Ted, a freshman at Serra; and John, a sixth grader at St. Catherine of Siena School, Burlingame are parishioners of St. Catherine’s.

ENERGIZER PADRE: Priests slow down as they get older but very few ever really retire. That’s especially true for Father Dave Pettingill former seminary professor and pastor of St. Gabriel Parish, San Francisco. One place he especially likes to take out his teaching tools is St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco, where he grew up and has lived in residence for more Father Pettingill than a coupla’ years. On four Thursdays – Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29 – he will present a series on Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudito Si” (“On care of our common home”). The talks are

ALL ABOARD: Notre Dame High School, Belmont; Mercy High School, Burlingame and Junipero Serra High School celebrated the new school year with the Tri-School Leadership Summit Sept. 3. Leading the festivities was singer Jesse Manibusan, composer of the popular liturgical song “Open My Eyes.” Mercy’s Summer Ditmer said: “The goal is to inspire inclusion, empower our student leaders to dream, all while surrounding them with impactful worship which serves as a catalyst for leadership throughout the year.” Pictured from left are song leaders: Gabriel Rodriguez, James Bracco, Joseph Villar, Jesse Manibusan, Rebecca Kruljac and Michael Takla. at 7 p.m. and the small sum of $20 for the whole series is suggested. Call (415) 587-7066, email stemydius@sbcglobal.net. The picture here was taken at Father Dave’s 50th ordination anniversary Mass at St. Emydius in 2012.

MEMORIES: Our Lady of Mercy School, class of 1965, reports its recent 50 year reunion was a success. More than half of the 50 grads attended according to classmate Mike Thompson who sent the good news. Reunion committee members included Rita Alberti, Barbara Restivo, Pat Lucido, Dave Spieth and Mike. Jim Churchwell traveled from Ohio to attend.

LIVES REMEMBERED: Honor Society members at Notre Dame High School, Belmont sponsored a blood drive Sept. 10 commemorating the lives lost and people injured Sept. 11, 2001, in the World Trade Center terror attack and the San Bruno explosion and fire Sept. 9, 2010. “Both tragedies relied on blood donations to help those who were injured,” said Notre Dame’s Peggy Brady in a note to this column.

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2 members of Ohlone tribe to play prominent role in canonization Mass Catholic News Service

SAN FRANCISCO – Two members of the Ohlone tribe in Northern California will play prominent roles in the Sept. 23 canonization Mass for Blessed Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan who founded nine California missions.

Andy Galvan Pope Francis will celebrate the Mass in Washington on the east portico of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Andrew Galvan, who is the curator of Mission Dolores in San Francisco, will Vincent Medina carry a reliquary containing a first-class relic of Blessed Serra to a prominent place next to the altar.

Vincent Medina, one of only a few linguists fluent in the Chochenyo language of the Ohlone people of Northern California, will read the first Scripture reading in the native tongue.

Medina is Galvan’s cousin and assistant curator at Mission Dolores. He has dedicated himself to studying and preserving Chochenyo and expanding its use.

As coverage of the Mass will be seen around the world, it will be the first international broadcast of that language.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, was asked Sept. 15

if the pope knew of the controversy surrounding Blessed Serra and his treatment of the native peoples of California.

The priest said the pope is very familiar with debates over “evangelization and colonization,” debates which are similar in areas settled by the Spanish.

However, the spokesman said, there is “great consensus” about Blessed Serra’s importance as a missionary and in the history of California.

Regarding the controversy, Medina in a posting on his Facebook page acknowledged that his decision to take part in the Serra Mass was not made easily.

“After months of thought and soulsearching on a very complex and difficult issue,” he said he decided to attend.

“My first and primary reason (for doing this) is that I am going for my ancestors; the brave people who suffered under the California missions, and survived them,” he wrote. “I am going to discredit misconceptions many have that California Indians are extinct, and to show that we are here – thriving and strong. Secondly, I am going because I am a Catholic. Pope Francis is a hero of mine because of his vision of a more inclusive and just church.”

But he said he remains “clearly and unequivocally” opposed to the canonization of Blessed Serra.

“His policies with the establishment of the California Mission system led to catastrophic conditions my own ancestors had to live under; our voices were silenced, many of our people perished, and our world changed in permanent ways,” said Medina.

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of the past that were imposed on us. As both an Ohlone and a Catholic I see no reason why Junipero Serra should be made a saint, and my attendance at this mass does not change my view on his Canonization,” he added.

“At the canonization, my hope is that I will give a voice to my ancestors who were once silenced.”

Galvan is spearheading a major project for the Franciscans and the bishops in California to review and revise the cultural content and displays at the California missions under church authority

to better reflect modern understandings of the relationship between Spanish civil authorities, Catholic missions and local Indian tribes.

Earlier this summer in an interview with Catholic News Service, Galvan, too, addressed his feelings over the mission system and the legacy that lingers today.

He said he is “outraged” when he walks up to a mission, one that his ancestors likely built, and he is told, “That will be $5 to get in.” Or when a mission guide says, “The padres built the missions.”

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Orange Diocese starts Spanish-language paper

GARDEN GROVE – The Diocese of Orange announced Sept. 16 it is launching a Spanish-language counterpart to the Orange County Catholic, its weekly newspaper. Orange County Catholic En Espanol will debut as a biweekly newspaper beginning Sept. 20.

It will be published every other Sunday and the issue will be made available in digital form through occatholic.com.

Combined, the English- and Spanishlanguage newspapers will reach an audience of more than 100,000. “As the Catholic population continues to grow, our diocese must also expand the ways we connect and communicate with the faithful in our community,” Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Orange said in a statement. “Orange County Catholic En Espanol is an important vehicle to bring inspirational stories of faith and news through a Catholic lens to our Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters,” he said. “It is our hope that the content included within this newspaper will grow understanding and deepen the faith of our community.”

Amid refugee crisis, church agencies offering homes

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News Service that his office is helping a half-dozen dioceses that currently do not have refugee resettlement programs to launch them.

Cincinnati ends annulment fees

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French police evict Syrian refugees from a camp Sept. 13 in a park they set up next to the Church of St. Ouen in Paris. “Do not abandon victims” of conflicts in Syria and Iraq, Pope Francis said. who have flooded European countries this summer have prompted U.S. and international Catholic agencies to respond with both on-the-ground support and longer-term preparations to host them in the United States.

Internationally, Catholic Relief Services and its affiliates such as Caritas Internationalis are providing immediate assistance including food, water, sanitation, medical care and legal

services. At points where refugees are in transit or are awaiting next steps, CRS offers “essential living supplies” that include sleeping bags and mats, hygiene materials, food and water.

Domestically, Migration and Refugee Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has been fielding offers from parishes that are willing to take up Pope Francis on his call for parishes, religious houses and colleges to welcome refugees. William Canny, director of MRS, told Catholic

CINCINNATI – The Archdiocese of Cincinnati is one of the latest U.S. dioceses to heed the call of Pope Francis, announcing that annulment fees would be eliminated effective Sept. 14.

More than once in his pontificate Pope Francis has expressed a desire for the annulment procedure – the church process for determining the validity of a marriage – to be cheaper and more efficient. On Sept. 8, the pope released a “motu proprio” (on his own initiative), in which, among other things, he called for the elimination of fees.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati had been considering ending such fees already, and the pope’s letter provided an opportunity for pulling the trigger.

“We had been discussing for some months the possibility of abolishing the fee for marriage cases” in the archdiocese during the jubilee Year of Mercy, which opens Dec. 8, said Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati. “So when Pope Francis issued his ‘moto proprio’ calling, in part, for eliminating these fees, we decided to do so immediately.”

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Dominicans: Vocations on the West Coast ‘a real sign of hope’ FROM PAGE 1

ter. “This work of evangelization is the fundamental mission of the Dominicans.”

The eight men who professed first vows are: Brother Richard Berquist, Brother Joshua Gatus, Brother Lach, Brother Joseph Selinger, Brother David Chiavetta, Brother Matthew Heynen, Brother John Bausch, and Brother Martin Maria Nguyen.

In addition, six young men entered as novices in a vestition ceremony Sept. 3 at St. Dominic Church where they were clothed with the Dominican habit.

They will spend a year at the novitiate at the priory at St. Dominic, taking nonacademic classes and living Dominican community life, Father Lopez said.

After the novitiate year, the Dominicans move to the house of studies in Oakland and begin six years of studies at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and also a pastoral year. Cooperator brothers take a slightly different path since they are not called to the priesthood. While they do study some philosophy and theology, they might take on another area of study suited to their future ministry in the order.

The six novices who entered Sept. 3 are: Brother Damien Dominic Nguyen, Brother Joseph Marie Dinh, Brother Columban Mary Hall, Brother Patrick Rooney, Brother Scott Norgaard, and Brother Andrew Marie McCullough.

Dominicans priests and brothers operate parishes, campus ministries and a retreat house as well as the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley. In the archdiocese, Dominicans have St. Dominic Church in San Francisco and staff St. Raymond in Menlo Park.

They also staff the campus ministry at Stanford University. For more information about their ministries throughout the Western Province, go to opwest.org.

(Photos courtesy of Andromeda Abushady/Western Dominican Province)

Eight young men professed temporary vows in the Order of Preachers at St. Albert the Great Priory in Oakland, the house of studies of the Western Dominican Province: Brother Richard Berquist, OP; Brother Joshua Gatus, OP; Brother Damien Lach, OP; Brother Jospeh Selinger, OP; Brother David Chiavetta, OP; Brother Matthew Heynen, OP; Brother John Bausch, OP; Brother Martin Maria Nguyen, OP.

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Pope, Council of Cardinals discuss how bishops are chosen Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has asked his international Council of Cardinals to study the way the church vets, identifies and appoints bishops around the world, looking particularly at the qualities needed in a bishop today.

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Obviously, Father Lombardi said, the key part of the process is formulating the questions and collecting information based on the characteristics essential for a bishop “in the world today, what might be the requirements and, therefore, what questions should one be attentive to in (developing) the questionnaires.”

The need to review the questions and the process as a whole is constant, he said.

A statement issued after the meeting said, “naturally the theme will need to be explored further and developed in collaboration” with the Roman Curia offices assisting the pope in identifying candidates.

The Council of Cardinals also continued an earlier discussion introduced by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, “especially with regard to the possibility of accelerating the resolution of the many cases still pending” of clerics accused of

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The Filipino Ministry Consultative Board (FMCB) and Advisors are gearing up for the celebration of the 5th Annual Filipino Catholic Ministry Gala, scheduled to be held on Sunday, October 18, at the Patrons Hall of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. The theme of this year’s event is the Mission of the Family in the Church and the Modern World, which focuses on the pivotal role a loving marriage and family play in today’s contemporary society. Fr. David Pettingill, a dynamic homilist from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be the keynote speaker.

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Pope appoints 18 couples to attend synod

VATICAN CITY – More than 360 participants, including 18 married couples from around the world, were expected to attend October’s Synod of Bishops on the family. In addition to the 166 synod members elected by their national bishops’ conferences, 22 heads of Eastern Catholic churches, 25 heads of Vatican congregations and councils and 10 heads of men’s religious orders, the pope appointed an additional 45 synod fathers to take part in the Oct. 4-25 gathering.

The ordinary synod will include many more people than last year’s extraordinary synod, which met over the course of 15 days. The ordinary synod will bring together nine additional leaders of Eastern Catholic churches and six more “fraternal delegates” from the Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant communities. The pope also named 45 voting members of the synod – up from 26 last year – and he appointed 51 observers and 23 experts, including a total of 18 married couples.

Filipinos warned against profiting from ‘miracles’

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine church leaders have warned the faithful against making money out of reported “miracles” and “apparitions” of Mary.

Father Melvin Castro, director general of the Confraternity of Mary Mediatrix of All Grace, noted that stories of weeping images of Jesus’ mother had surfaced in the media.

The stories followed a church declaration that a reported apparition of Mary in the province of Batangas in 1948 has a “supernatural character.”

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“It’s possible that some people think that this is some sort of fad that they should join in, but people should also be discerning,” Father Castro said.

The priest told reporters Sept. 16 that what was recognized by the church was the event that took place in 1948 that is “beyond any statue or picture.”

Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines, advised the faithful to carefully consider the reports.

US Jesuit to head Vatican Observatory

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis named U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno to be the new director of the Vatican Observatory.

He replaces Argentine Jesuit Father Jose Funes, 52, who has been on the staff of the observatory since 2000 and had been its director since 2006. The Vatican made the announcement Sept. 18.

Brother Consolmagno is a planBrother Guy etary scientist who has studied Consolmagno meteorites and asteroids as an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since 1993.

He had been serving as president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, coordinator of public relations and curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Castel Gandolfo, one of the largest in the world.

A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brother Consolmagno was a postdoctorate lecturer at Harvard College Observatory and at M.I.T. before serving in the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya where he taught physics and astronomy.

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JERUSALEM – Leaders of the European bishops’ conferences expressed solidarity with people of the Middle East, especially those being forced from their homes, and called on European states to act generously, justly, and respectfully toward the influx of migrants and refugees now reaching their shores.

In a statement released Sept. 16, the last day of their meeting in Jerusalem, the bishops said they met in the Holy Land to “renew their rootedness in Christ.”

“Looking at the joys, sufferings and challenges of the church in the different countries, there emerged a picture of the great movement of peoples: asylum-seekers, refugees, migrants. The anguish knows no bounds,” the leaders said.

“The complexity of this exodus, with its inevitable differentiations, demands great attention from the individual states, whose situations are radically different,” they said, noting that the church in Europe was acting with “great commitment” to collaborate with their states following Pope Francis’ appeal that every parish, religious community, monastery and sanctuary to take in at least one refugee family.

The bishops also called on the United Nations to “reach effective solutions” to stop the violence in the migrants’ countries of origin and work towards peace in each nation.

“Peace in the Middle East and in North Africa is vital for Europe, just as it is crucial that a true peace throughout the continent itself be reached as soon as possible, starting from Ukraine,” they said.

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Pope: Church called to be tender mother, not rigid association Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – If the church loses touch with its maternal side, the only thing that remains is “rigidity and discipline,” Pope Francis said at an early morning Mass with members of the international Council of Cardinals advising him on the reform of the Roman Curia.

Celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows Sept. 15 with the nine cardinals and other guests, Pope Francis focused on Jesus’ words from the cross entrusting Mary to his beloved disciple as mother.

As Jesus was dying, the pope said, Mary “becomes a mother another time,” and her maternity expands to embrace the disciple and all those who will come to follow Jesus throughout history.

Jesus had told his disciples, “I will not leave you orphans,” the pope said, and he kept his promise by giving Mary to be their mother.

“We have a mother who is with us, protects us, accompanies us and helps us even in difficult times and at terrible moments,” the pope said.

The church, too, is called to be a mother to all Jesus’ followers, he said.

“Our ‘holy mother church’” is what Christians are born into at baptism and is the community that helps them grow.

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Pope Francis greets family members while meeting the disabled during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 16.

“Mother Mary and mother church know how to caress their children and give them tenderness,” Pope Francis said.

Referring several times to the writings of the 12th-century, England-born Abbot Isaac of Stella, France, the pope said that while it could shock people, he believes the abbot was correct in teaching that “our soul is mother as well,” and that is seen in both men and women when they demonstrate

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Where there is a sense of the maternal, he said, “there is life, there is joy, there is peace,” but when that maternal instinct is missing, there is just “rigidity and discipline.”

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – The Herald, a Malaysian Catholic newspaper that made international headlines by being banned from using the word “Allah” to refer to God, is finding selfcensorship a necessary part of continued survival in a tumultuous political landscape.

Jesuit Father Lawrence Andrew, who has edited the Herald since its inception in 1994, has good reason to remain cautious, he explained recently to ucanews. com. Current events in Malaysia underscore continuing sensitivities among ethnic and religious groups in the diverse country.

As a result, independent media groups are facing increasing political pressure.

The pressure is best illustrated by the three-month publishing ban authorities recently imposed on The Edge Media Group for threatening “public order” by publishing reports on alleged fraud and misappropriation of funds by the state-owned investment company 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

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‘Why not Green Bay?’

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin – Mayor Jim Schmitt’s 2014 invitation to Pope Francis to visit Green Bay sounded like a lark or pipe dream to some people. It was right around March 1, 2014 – a month before April Fools’ Day – when the city’s mayor wrote his letter to Pope Francis.

“During your visit to the United States for the World Meeting of Families in 2015, I invite you to extend your visit to the Greater Green Bay community and make (a) pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady (CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass) of Good Help,” wrote Father Carl Schmitt and his Schmitt. The letter brother, Green Bay Mayor Jim was just the beginSchmitt, stand with a cardboard ning. In an interview cutout of Pope Francis. with The Compass, two days after emailing his letter to the Vatican, Schmitt said the invite was anything but a pipe dream.

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Pope urges Cuba’s youths, consecrated people to love and hope

Jesus’ love changes people, enables them to love others HOLGUIN, Cuba – Celebrating the feast of St. Matthew, a day he considers a turning point in his own journey of faith, Pope Francis told thousands of Cubans that Jesus knows who they really are and calls them to walk with him.

Arriving in the eastern city of Holguin from Havana Sept. 21, the pope went directly to the city’s Revolution Square for the feast day Mass. People had the day off work and off school so they could attend.

The pope explained to the people in the square that Matthew was a tax collector for the Roman occupiers, which meant that he was seen as a traitor to be shunned. But Jesus “looked at him with the eyes of mercy; he looked at him as no one had ever looked at him before.”

“And this look unlocked Matthew’s heart,” the pope said. “It set him free, it healed him, it gave him hope, a new life,” just as Jesus’ merciful gaze gives new life to men and women today.

The story of St. Matthew’s call and conversion is one the pope talks about often. The feast day is the first day of spring in Argentina, a day students have free from school. It was the day in 1953 that a 17-year-old Jorge Mario Bergoglio felt a strange urge to enter a church and go to confession. He often recounts the story and his feeling that the priest in the confessional was waiting just for him; it was the beginning of his vocation to be a Jesuit and a priest.

When Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civilta Cattolica, conducted the first long interview with Pope Francis in 2013, the pope told him Caravaggio’s painting of “The Calling of St. Matthew” reminds him of himself.

“That finger of Jesus, pointing at Matthew. That’s me. I feel like him. Like Matthew,” he told Father Spadaro. “It is the gesture of Matthew that strikes me: he holds on to his money as if to say, ‘No, not me! No, this money is mine.’ Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff.”

Father Spadaro wrote that the pope then whis-

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People await the arrival of Pope Francis in Revolution Square in Holguin, Cuba, Sept. 21.

Matthew was seen as a traitor to be shunned but Jesus ‘looked at him with the eyes of mercy; he looked at him as no one had ever looked at him before.’ pered in Latin the words he said to the cardinals: “I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.”

Preaching under bright, sunny skies in Holguin, Pope Francis told the people, “Jesus’ love goes before us, his look anticipates our needs. He can see

“It comes back to why not Green Bay?” Schmitt told Green Bay’s diocesan newspaper.

Music for canonization to exude ‘joyful spirit’

WASHINGTON – How do you choose the music for the first canonization in the United States?

First of all, slowly, said Grayson Wagstaff, dean of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America.

The selection process began back in February, and all of the music had to be approved by Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington. “It’s his vision for the Mass,” Wagstaff observed in an interview with Catholic News Service. There will be as much original music as the schedule permits.

The outdoor crowd at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Sept. 23 will hear 19 works either newly commissioned or arranged, including a Communion antiphon and two other works composed by Catholic University professor Leo Nestor, conducting the university’s Chamber Choir and University Singers.

app offers exclusive coverage of papal visit

WASHINGTON – U.S. Catholic Church leaders have launched the USA Catholic Church mobile app offering exclusive coverage of Pope Francis’ visit.

“This is the most comprehensive virtual connection to the Catholic faith available,” said Bishop

beyond appearances, beyond sin, beyond failures and unworthiness.”

Jesus, he said, sees “our dignity as sons and daughters, a dignity all of us have, a dignity sometimes sullied by sin, but one which endures in the depth of our soul.”

Pope Francis asked people in the crowd to find a

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quiet time at home or in a church to remember in silence and with gratitude an occasion when they felt that merciful gaze of Christ.

Jesus’ love, his mercy and his call to follow are also calls to love others, respect their dignity and show them mercy, the pope said. “Jesus’ love heals our shortsightedness and pushes us to look beyond, not to be satisfied with appearances or with what is politically correct.”

Pope Francis asked the crowd to practice gazing upon Jesus in the Eucharist, in confession and “in our brothers and sisters, especially those who feel excluded or abandoned. May we learn to see them as Jesus sees us.”

day Mass at St. Christopher Church in the Somerset section of the city.

Rick and Bernadette and their children typify a solid Catholic family, and family is the focus of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. The international gathering was the initial impetus for the pope to visit the U.S. He will attend the closing events, including the celebration of Mass Sept. 26 on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Christopher J. Coyne, chairman-elect of the Committee on Communications of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which created the app.

The USA Catholic Church app, available for use in the U.S., is free to download at Google Play and Apple iTunes in English and Spanish. It also can be downloaded for free via the site www.USACatholic. church using a smartphone or tablet device.

US Latinos, Latin Americans to get special welcome

ST. PAUL, Minnesota – The director of the Office of Latino Ministry for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis will have a key role in welcoming to the World Meeting of Families Spanish-speaking delegates from 14 regions around the U.S. and delegates from the 21 Latin American countries.

Estela Villagran Manancero, who also is president of the National Catholic Association of Diocesan Directors for Hispanic Ministry, has been charged with leading pre-conference events for Latin American Catholics Sept. 21 in Philadelphia, ahead of the World Meeting of Families’ opening event Sept. 22.

More than 130 Catholic Latino leaders who work in family ministries are expected to attend the pre-conference events, called Primer Encuentro Hispano-Latino Americano de Familias, or First Encounter of Hispanic and Latin American Families. The Latin American bishops’ council, known as CELAM, selected the delegates from each country, Manancero said.

HAVANA – In a hot and steamy cathedral after listening to a Daughter of Charity talk about her work with people with severe disabilities, Pope Francis set aside his prepared homily and spoke about serving those the world considers “useless.”

“Serving ‘the useless’ makes Jesus shine,” the pope said at an evening prayer service Sept. 20 with religious, priests and seminarians gathered in Havana’s cathedral.

Pope Francis thanked women religious around the world who dedicate themselves with love to caring for people the world ignores or would like to forget.

“Thank you for what you do and through you, thank you to all of these women, so many consecrated women, for their service to the ‘useless,’” he said. The religious “are not building an empire, you can’t make any money off of it, you can’t carry forward anything absolutely ‘constructive’ in quotes with those brothers and sisters of ours – the smallest, the least of these.

That’s where Jesus shines.”

Those “who try to kiss you and cover your face with drool,” he said, “speak of Jesus.”

The pope said he knew the priests present, who work in normal parishes, were probably wondering what they should be doing to serve Jesus in the smallest, the weakest and the least of society.

Start with the 25th chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, he said, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and welcoming the stranger. And, he begged them, spend time offering the sacrament of reconciliation, patiently and tenderly welcoming all.

Jesus did not berate sinners, the pope said, “he embraced them.”

The confessional, he said, is where every man and woman reveals his or her misery.

“If you are without sin, throw the first stone, but only on that condition,” the pope told the priests. “And think, you could be in that position and remember that in that moment, you hold a treasure in your hands,” the ministerial power to forgive sins in God’s name.

Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana introduced the congregation to the pope, telling him, “the church in Cuba is a poor church,” and the way that Cuban priests and religious and foreign missionaries embrace that poverty “is admirable.”

Pope Francis said the cardinal “used an uncomfortable word: poverty. The spirit of the world does not know that word, doesn’t seek it, hides it.”

Poverty, he said, can be a person’s greatest wealth, but the search for wealth can destroy a person’s life.

Quoting the Jesuit founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the pope said he wasn’t giving his order publicity, but

‘the queen’ will lift souls at Festival of Families

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Bernadette Bowes and family will greet Pope Francis upon his arrival in Philadelphia.

Philly family surprised they’ll meet pope

PHILADELPHIA – Rick and Bernadette Bowes and their children – Matthew, Riley and Gabrielle – got quite the surprise Sept. 13 at their parish church: They learned they’ll get to meet Pope Francis. When he alights from his plane in Philadelphia Sept. 26, the family will be right there to officially greet him.

Donna Crilley Farrell, executive director for the World Meeting of Families, announced the family had been chosen at the conclusion of the 10:30 a.m. Sun-

PHILADELPHIA – When Pope Francis visits America, he’ll meet a president, governors, Catholic prelates and ordinary folks. He’ll also meet a queen.

Aretha Franklin, the “queen of soul,” will belt out quintessentially American music at the Festival of Families the night of Sept. 26 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. She will lead a slate of entertainers offering the pope a glimpse of American pop culture, in all its artistic diversity.

The World Meeting of Families, taking place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Sept. 22-25, announced Sept. 15 that Franklin and a host of other singers, dancers – even a comedian – will perform on two stages all day and into the evening Sept. 26, plus more entertainers preceding the Sept. 27 papal Mass on the parkway.

Archdiocese brings visit to downtown Cincinnati

CINCINNATI – When Pope Francis becomes the

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Pope Francis blesses a boy with a disability at the Father Felix Varela cultural center in Havana Sept. 20.

found wisdom in St. Ignatius’ teaching that poverty “is the wall and the mother” of consecrated life. It stimulates trust in God and blocks out worldliness.

“Love poverty the way you love your mother,” he told them.

A wise old priest once told him, the pope said, that when a religious community becomes too attached to money, God usually sends a disastrous treasurer – “it’s a blessing.”

Daughter of Charity Sister Yaileny Ponce Torres, who works at a large government-run home for people with severe handicaps, spoke before the pope about her ministry. When she was about to begin her work, she said, another sister told her she would not be able to help “staring at Jesus” present in her patients.

“The place I live is beautiful,” she told the pope. “It is beautiful because there, God lives and shows himself in his weakest children.”

Pope Francis said Sister Ponce’s testimony was an illustration of responding to Jesus’ teaching that whatever one does for the least of his brothers and sisters is done for him.

Leaving the cathedral, the pope went outside to meet young people – Catholics, followers of other faiths and nonbelievers – at the Father Felix Varela cultural center.

“Dream that you can make the world different.

Dream that you can make it better,” he told them.

“Don’t forget to dream.”

first pope to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress Sept. 24, many will be watching on television or online. In downtown Cincinnati, residents, workers and tourists will be able to watch on a 30.5-by-42.5-foot giant television at the city’s central gathering space, Fountain Square.

Though the pontiff won’t be coming to Cincinnati, it hasn’t stopped the 19-county archdiocese in southwestern Ohio from welcoming him. In July, the archdiocese launched “Food for All: Be Multiplied,” a campaign to collect 1 million donated food items to honor the pope’s desire to end world hunger and a letter-writing campaign to ask Congress to fund child nutrition programs all in honor of Pope Francis’ visit.

Pope to celebrate ‘simple weekday Mass’ for 20,000

NEW YORK – A “simple weekday Mass” is in the works when Pope Francis celebrates the Sept. 25 liturgy with 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden during his U.S. visit.

“In substance, every Mass is the same. This one is a little bit more elaborate,” New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said.

The liturgical option for the day is the Mass for Peace and Justice, Cardinal Dolan said, explaining that the choice reflects the “high emphasis Pope Francis puts on this, and because that day he will be at the United Nations and also visit two sites in the archdiocese devoted to that.”

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Annulments: What is really changing?

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n Sept. 8, 2015, Pope Francis issued “Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus” (“The Lord Jesus, Gentle Judge,”) a document revising the marriage nullity process. The mass media, including even some Catholic news outlets, have reported a great deal of misinformation about the changes. What follows is a reflection on the new legislation in question-and-answer form that was composed mainly by a fellow canonist in the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin. I have adapted parts of this series to fit our local circumstances. It is my msgr. Michael hope that this will help to Padazinski clarify some misinformation about the new legislation while reassuring the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco that our own metropolitan tribunal, which is comprised of wonderful canonists and other canonical officials, will do all it can to ensure the proper, just and timely implementation of these new norms governing our universal church.

It is important to state at the outset, that there are still questions abounding among canonists and what follows will hopefully be of assistance to any who are interested in the new laws regulating the marriage nullity process while acknowledging that further guidance from Rome to assist local tribunals with the new praxis is anticipated.

1. What is the marriage nullity process and why does it exist?

Jesus taught that marriage is indissoluble. Once people get married, they are married until one of them dies, even if they someday separate, justifiably or otherwise. Since they remain married for life, if one of them goes on to live in the manner of husband and wife with someone else, then he or she is living in an ongoing state of adultery.

A married person’s vocation is to lifelong fidelity to the marital covenant, even when (in cases of abandonment or necessary separation) that means living as though celibate. Christ knew our human nature and he knew that this was a hard teaching. He was already challenged and ridiculed for it in his own time, but he did not back down from it one bit.

With that being said, there are certain marriages that are invalid from the start. They have the outward appearance of a marriage and are usually entered into in good faith, but because of some impediment, some defect of consent, or some problem in the form of the marriage celebration, they are never really marriages at all. If there was really no marriage at all, and if that fact is publicly proven, then those two parties are free to marry someone else. The Church and society as a whole have the responsibility to uphold and support couples in their marriage vows even when (especially when) one or both of them no longer want to be married, which is why there has to be proof of nullity before a new marriage could be recognized.

The spouses themselves, let alone one of them, cannot simply decide privately that the marriage is invalid and that they are free to move on. The marriage nullity process is a judicial process developed over the centuries to allow people who believe that their marriage was invalid to attempt to prove that fact, all the while safeguarding the rights of both parties and upholding the dignity and indissolubility of marriage. A declaration of nullity does not and cannot dissolve an existing marriage; rather it is an official declaration by the Church that it has been proven with moral certitude (more than beyond a reasonable doubt) that a given marriage was invalid from the start. When a marriage is actually invalid, declaring the nullity of the marriage is a good and just thing.

2. Why is Pope Francis changing the marriage nullity process?

Pope Francis teaches exactly what Christ taught:

that marriage is indissoluble. Indissolubility is part of the Good News! It tells us that God wants us to love and be loved unconditionally, and that he made us capable of that kind of love. Nothing that Pope Francis has said or done has changed or could change any of that. There is nothing merciful in finding a pretext for calling a marriage invalid when it is really just broken or failed marriage; or in declaring that a marriage is probably invalid even when real doubt remains, which is why Pope Francis very prudently retains the principle that a marriage cannot be declared invalid unless it has been proven by the judge achieving moral certitude of the fact. His concern is not to have more “annulments” regardless of the truth of the matter, but to eliminate any unnecessary, artificial, or unduly burdensome barriers toward obtaining a just and expeditious judgment. He also wants to minimize as much as possible the amount of time people spend in a state of uncertainty while their case is pending. The existing marriage nullity process, when followed faithfully, is both effective and (under ideal circumstances and considering the complexity of the matter) relatively expeditious. But like any fallible, human process it can and should be reformed when necessary. Pope Francis, working with a commission of experts, has reformed the process in order to make it as accessible as possible, without in any way undermining the integrity of the process.

Msgr. Padazinski is the chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and judicial vicar of the metropolitan tribunal of the archdiocese.

Editor’s note: The entire article containing 21 questions and answers has been posted online at www.catholic-sf.org – click on “Digital Paper.” This is the first of five installments scheduled to appear in the print paper. Later installments will cover how the marriage nullity process is going to change; elimination of automatic appeal; the abbreviated process; and fees and implementation of the new law.

Letters Dorothy Day a voice for our times

Father Ronald Rolheiser writes about Dorothy Day in your Sept. 11 issue, calling her truly an example for our time.

He writes “she … was able to wed together the Gospel and justice,” and that she took strong positions on both “private morality” and “social justice.” Yes, you can be pro-life and care for the poor.

However, he neglects a third side of Dorothy Day. She loved beauty.

Dorothy Day In a speech earlier this year, Archbishop Cordileone recounted a story from the early ‘60s, when our St. Mary’s Cathedral had just opened. A meeting was held in the rooms beneath the cathedral, where many complained the money ought rather to have been spent on the poor. Dorothy Day vocally dissented from the chorus.

Dorothy Day said: “The church has an obligation to feed the poor, and we cannot spend all our money on buildings. However, there are many kinds of hunger. There is a hunger for bread, and we must give people food. But there is also a hunger for beauty – and there are very few beautiful places that the poor can get into. Here is a place of transcendent beauty, and it is as accessible to the homeless in the Tenderloin as it is to the mayor of San Francisco.”

Yes we need to care for the poor, but we also ought honor our blessed Lord with truly sacred music, beautiful art and architecture that brings the faithful together to glorify God. Truly Dorothy Day is a voice for our times.

Michael Stallman San Mateo

Moral line crossed long before Hiroshima

The debate over whether our dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945 ended the war, and whether the Japanese were about to surrender anyway, will probably never be resolved.

However, I suggest that critics of our decision read

“Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire” (1999), by Richard B. Frank, which explains how American leaders learned in the summer of 1945 that their alternative strategy to end the war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the dismal prospects of negotiation.

Japan’s leaders were willing to risk complete annihilation to preserve the nation’s existing order.

They not only wanted to preserve the emperor, but the imperial-militaristic system itself. They were not about to give up, but rather were about to implement Operation Ketsugo, which included arming civilians, old men, women and even children, with sharpened bamboo stakes. The alternatives to the bombs, which were either blockade and/ or the B-29 bombing of railway lines – Operation Starvation – or an invasion, would have resulted in even more Japanese deaths, not to mention many American deaths.

The USAF Strategic Bombing Survey was completed soon after the war ended and did not have the benefit of later scholarship or sources. The survey’s conclusions were criticized in “Enola Gay and the Court of History” (2004) by Robert P. Newman, who found that contrary to the survey’s conclusions, all but one of those interviewed in the survey actually claimed that “Japan would have fought to the bitter end” (see American Heritage Magazine, September 2004, p. 14).

Dropping the atomic bombs was horrible. But they were the last bombs in a “rain of ruin” on Japan that began with the firebombing of Tokyo

in March 1945. If the Allies crossed a moral line in dropping bombs on civilians – and I believe we did – then the line was crossed, not in August 1945, but in the summer of 1943, when the RAF and the USAAF bombed Hamburg. After that we saw massive bombing of both Germany and Japan as the only way to win the war.

Roger Ritter San Francisco

A-bomb lesson

In condemning the atomic bombing of Japan, letter writer Richard Morasci (Sept. 11) says Japanese diplomats were trying to end the war and “did not want to fight to the last man standing.” Unfortunately, the Japanese military was willing to do just that. How appropriate his letter appeared in CSF on 9/11. The lesson from this is that the best way to end a war is not to start one.

James O. Clifford Sr. Redwood City

The county clerk in Kentucky

There is definitely a mixed reaction to the county clerk in Kentucky who took a personal stand against signing same-sex marriage licenses. But, isn’t it interesting that the liberals in America – with lightning speed – condemn her actions and chastise her for not conforming to the law yet not a peep from them to criticize politicians who pass “sanctuary city” ordinances that blatantly violate federal law?

Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

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Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.’

MARK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48

NUMBERSCrosiers 11:25-29 The Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses.

Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, r. According to Greek the Lord bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as as the first to bring the the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied. the first bishop of men, one named Eldad and the other Now two of Egypt and of Venice, Medad, were not in the gathering but had been left n the ninthincentury. the camp. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the spirit came to rest on them also, © 2001and CNS they prophesied in the camp.

So, when a young man quickly told Moses, “ Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp, “Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses’ aide, said, “Moses, my lord, stop them.” But Moses answered him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!”

PSALM 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14 The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the Lord is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever;

the ordinances of the Lord are true, all of them just.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

Though your servant is careful of them, very diligent in keeping them, yet who can detect failings?

Cleanse me from my unknown faults!

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

From wanton sin especially, restrain your servant; let it not rule over me. Then shall I be blameless and innocent of serious sin.

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.

JAMES 5:1-6 Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire. You have stored up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened

your hearts for the day of slaughter. You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous one; he offers you no resistance.

MARK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 At that time, John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.”

Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”

God’s most amazing surprise

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t the Mass on Oct. 13, 2014 at St. Martha guesthouse in the Vatican, Pope Francis reflected on the God of surprises. Referring to the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ time, the pope said: “They had perfectly organized the law, a masterpiece. All of the Jews knew what one could or could not do, how far they could go. Everything was organized. And they were safe there.” The pope went on to say that when they witnessed Jesus’ table-fellowship with the sinners and tax collectors, they considered that the doctrine of the law was in danger: “They forgot that God of the law is also the God of surprises…. They father charles did not understand that puthota God is always new…that he always surprises us. And they did not understand, and closed themselves in this system created with the best of intentions….They forgot that they were a people on a journey. And when we set out on a journey, when we are on a path, we

scripture reflection

Pope Francis Pope talks confession, friendship

A pope needs friends, needs mercy and needs to reach out to all people, the pope said in two radio interviews, Catholic News Service reported Sept. 14. He told Portugal’s Catholic Radio Renascenca that he goes to confession “every 15 days, 20 days. I confess to a Franciscan priest, Father Blanco, who is kind enough to come here and confess me.” Laughing, the pope said, “I’ve never had to call an ambulance” to carry him away “in shock over my sins!”

always discover new things, things we did not know before.”

The word of God this Sunday inspires us to look at our God as infinitely capable of surprising us.

This quality of God stems from his deep abiding love, infinite mercy, genuine interest in our happiness, desire for our fulfillment, incredible generosity, and his sense of humor. As Rick Warren says, “What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.” Often our attitude may be: “Dear God, what do you have in store for me next? Please no more surprises! Love, Me.” Pope Francis reminds us that we are to be ready for God’s surprises.

In the reading from the Book of Numbers, God bestows the spirit not only on Moses, not only on the 70 elders, but also on the two men who do not even make it to the tent! Unhappy, Joshua hopes that Moses will stop them. But Moses understands the God of surprises, the God of marvelous deeds in Egypt and of the Exodus journey, and wishes that everyone became a prophet and anointed by the spirit.

The Gospel continues the theme of the God of surprises. John is upset that an outsider is driving out the demons and prevents him from doing so.

Jesus’ surprises John: “Whoever is not against us is for us.” God gives everyone the power and grace to be good and to do good. Only many of us do not

channel it effectively for the service of others.

James’ strong letter about wealth and injustice stirs us up about the need for using God’s blessings in a spirit of service and stewardship. God has surprised us with incredible gifts and blessings, which we are to share with others for the glory of God, the building up of the church, and the transformation of the world.

God’s most amazing surprise is Jesus who became one with us so we can become one with God. He knows our feelings and thoughts, our struggles and temptations. The resurrection of Jesus and the Pentecost were astounding surprises only God could fashion for our freedom and power, now and forever.

Are we perceptive of God’s surprises? Through our personal salvation history and in the life of the church and the world, we cannot miss our God who loves us with love beyond telling. Are we not surprised by how God has cared for us and led us safely to this day despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles? Pope Francis’ current apostolic visit to the United States inspires us to experience God who surprises us with his love and grace.

And let us surprise ourselves and others by being surprised by God! Father Puthota is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

Therese ofreadings Lisieux Liturgical calendar, daily Mass 1873-1897

Thursday, October 1: Memorial St. Therese of the Child Jesus, virgin and Doctor of the Church. Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Mark 1:15. Lk 10:1-12.

Monday, September 28: Monday of the Twentyfeast –Time.

October 1 sixth Week in Ordinary Optional Memorial of St. Wenceslaus, martyr; St. Lawrence Ruiz and CompanLeft motherless at 4, 19-21, she 29 ions, martyrs. Zec 8:1-8.

PS 102:16-18, and 22-23. Mk 10:45.

Lk 9:46-50. followed two older sisters

into the Carmelites,

Friday, October 2: Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. Bar 1:1522. PS 79:1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9. Ps 103:21.

Mt 18:1-5, 10.

Tuesday, September 29: Feast of Saints Mientering at archangels.

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Things beyond our imagination

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ecently, at an academic dinner, I was sitting across the table from a nuclear scientist. I asked him this question: Do you believe that there’s human life on other planets? His answer surprised me: “As a scientist, no, I don’t believe there’s human life on another planet.

Scientifically, the odds are strongly against it. But, as a Christian, I believe there’s human life on other planets.

Why? My logic is this: Why would God chose to have only one child?”

Why would God choose to have only one child? Why FATHER ron indeed would an infinite God, rolheiser capable of creating and loving beyond all imagination, want to do this only once?

Why would an infinite God, at a certain point, say: “That’s enough.”

Put this way, my scientist friend’s hunch makes a lot of sense. Given that God is infinite, why would God ever stop doing what God is doing? Why would God favor just us? By what logic, other than the limits of our own mind, might we posit an end to creation?

We struggle with this because what God has already created is too much for our imagination to grasp. There are billions and billions of plan-

ets, with trillions of processes happening on each of these every second. Just on our planet, Earth, there are now more than 7 billion people living, millions more have lived before us, and many more are being born every second. And inside of each of these persons there is a unique heart and mind caught up in an infinite and complex array of joys, heartaches, and moral choices. Moreover, all of these trillions of human and cosmic processes have been going on for millions and billions of years.

How can we imagine a heart and a mind somewhere that knows and loves and cares intimately about every individual person, every individual joy, every individual heartache, every individual moral choice, and every individual planet, star, and grain of sand, as if it were an only child?

The answer is clear: It cannot be imagined! Any God worth believing in has to be able to know and love beyond human imagination, otherwise the immensity of our universe and the uniqueness of our lives are not being held inside the loving care of anyone’s hand and heart.

But how can God know, love, and care for all of this immensity and complexity? Moreover, how will all these billions and billions of people go to heaven, so that all of us end up in one body of love? That’s beyond all imagination but my hunch is that heaven cannot be imagined not because it is too complex but because it is too simple, simple in the way scholastic philosophy affirms that God is simple: God so embodies and encompasses all

complexity so as to constitute a reality too simple to be imagined.

Our universe, in so far as we know it, had a beginning and scientists believe (the big bang theory) that everything originated from a single cell of energy too tiny to measure or imagine. This single cell exploded with a force and an energy that is still going on today, still expanding outward and creating billions and billions of planets in its wake. And scientists believe that all of this will come back together again, involute, sometime in a future which will take billions of more years to unfold.

So here’s my hunch: Maybe the billions and billions of people, living and dead and still to be born, in both their origins and in their eventual destiny, parallel what has happened and is happening in the origin, expansion, and eventual involution of our universe, that is, just as God is creating billions and billions of planets, God is creating billions and billions of people. And, just as our physical universe will one day come back together again into a single unity, so too will all people come together again in a single community within which God’s intimate love for each of us will bring us together and hold us together in a unity too simple to be imagined, except that now that union with God and each other will not be unconscious but will be known and felt in a very heightened, self-conscious gratitude and ecstasy.

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

Pope: Pope says he is ‘a bit feminist,’ thanks women religious for work FROM PAGE 1

It was the cross being held by the priest who was beheaded for not renouncing Jesus Christ,” he said.

The Vatican press office had no information about the priest mentioned by the pope.

About 5,000 people gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall for the hourlong papal audience; they were taking part in the World Meeting for Young Consecrated Men and Women Sept. 15-19.

At the pope’s request, members of the audience asked him questions, which he said he received in advance. The questions came from a Salesian priest from Aleppo, Syria; a member of the Sisters of Charity from India; and a cloistered nun not in attendance but whose question was read aloud. In response, the Jesuit pope spoke 40 minutes off-the-cuff about living out a religious vocation in today’s world.

When talking about how successful evangelizers have a heart filled with fire and are driven to warm other people’s lives with Christ, the pope said he wanted to add something to that.

“Here I would like to – forgive me if I’m a bit feminist – give thanks to the witness of consecrated women. Not all of them though, some are a bit frantic!” he said to laughter and applause.

Women religious “have this desire to always go to the front lines. Why? Because you’re mothers, you

have the maternal instinct of the church, which makes you be near” people in need, he said.

He told a story of three South Korean sisters who went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to help staff a Catholic hospital in the archdiocese he once led, but “they knew as much Spanish as I know Chinese – nothing!”

Nonetheless, the three sisters immediately went to the wards, helping patients, holding them, giving them a smile, and the patients kept praising how wonderful the sisters were even though they never said a word.

“It was the witness of a heart on fire. It is the motherhood of nuns,” he said.

“You truly have this function in the church, to be the icon of the church, the icon of Mary, icon of the church’s tenderness, the church’s love, the motherhood of church and the motherhood of Our Lady.

Do not forget this. Always on the front lines, but like this.”

Evangelizing, in fact, is all about showing “with your flesh, with your life” that Jesus Christ is alive, Pope Francis said.

“We are not a soccer club looking for members or supporters,” he said.

Religious men and women can take courses on evangelization and deepen their studies, which “is good, but the ability to warm hearts doesn’t come from books, it comes from your heart!”

Men and women living in religious communities, he said, need to guard themselves against “narcissism,” gossiping and never forgiving one another, which is “one of the sins I often find in communal life.”

Open dialogue and discussion, including with superiors, can lead to arguments, the pope said, but being open to the Holy Spirit means also being able to forgive and not seek revenge, especially by badmouthing the other.

“Gossip in a community hampers forgiveness” and draws people further away from each other.

The pope told his audience to go to confession if they were guilty of gossiping because “it’s a sin.”

Gossip is a form of “terrorism” because the person causing the damage is hiding in the shadows, never letting the victim defend him or herself, he said.

“Gossip always happens in the darkness, not in the light,” the pope said. “And darkness is the kingdom of the devil. The light is the kingdom of Jesus.”

The best approach if someone feels slighted or disagrees with someone, he said, is to pray about it first in order to achieve some kind of inner peace and then go directly to the person involved to clearly state the problem.

“Never, never throw the bomb of gossip. Never. It is the plague of communal life,” he said

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Monastic life: St. Dominic parishioner called to ‘enter into the desert’ FROM PAGE 3

of God above the racket. Frequent retreats such as a few days at the New Camaldoli Hermitage Big Sur can be helpful in refocusing priorities. If not the time or money, then spend more time in adoration; it is like putting Miracle-Gro on your soul.

Do you not think that you will be isolated or confined by living on the same property with the same people for the rest of your life?

The thought has crossed my mind. However, there is a room with a changing view; it is the journey into the heart. Instead of journeying into the world or finding space in the material plane there is space to be found in the broad heart of Christ.

It is the paradox of the narrow way. It really isn’t narrow.

What do you think your 20-year-old self would say to you today about this decision?

“Stop in the name of fashion, don’t do it!” I loved clothing and style, shopping, looking good and worldly honors. I would have never in a million years dreamed of giving it up for a life of wearing the same thing every day, which is how I would have summed the monastic life up back then.

However, I suspect somewhere deep down my inner 20-year-old would secretly respect my choice.

What is the one thing that you are most looking forward to?

What is the one thing you are most dreading?

The one thing I am looking forward to is resting in Christ without the constant worldly distractions and dizzying busyness of money and materialism. I am looking forward to just being rather than doing.

There is nothing I dread, really. The only thing I know will be a challenge, but one I am actually looking forward to for the fruit it produces, is the rising of my appetites and sinful will. The life demands a renouncing of the world. The world creeps into our being in ways we are not aware. The desert exposes these hidden pockets of clings, shadows and desires. The cross is the way out, but it is

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certainly not easy. There is plenty of time to work out these struggles in the time provided for private prayer and the solitude of our cells.

Can you comment on how and who you can contact from the “outside world”?

The first couple of years of life at the monastery are about entering into the desert. Therefore, our outside communications are limited. We are allowed to write four letters a year and receive monthly visits with immediate family either via Skype or in person at the monastery. We are allowed to receive regular mail from friends and family.

What are the top five books that you are bringing inside and why those five?

We are not really allowed to bring any books into the monastery with us. All books are considered common property. Therefore, I am donating five boxes of books in true Dominican spirit, I’m told.

There are some books on my bedside right now that I was hoping to read sometime in the next few months. However, I am sure my Novice Mistress, Sister Joseph Marie, will put a stack of engaging books on my desk leaving me to abandon my current reading list. There are classics I can draw repeated strength and wisdom from such as Jean Pierre de Caussade’s “Abandonment of Divine Providence,” “St. John of the Cross’ “Ascent of Mount Carmel” and St. Catherine of Siena’s “Dialogue,” to name a scant few.

Why should a person discern their call in life?

I’m not sure how to answer this question. I think it should be answered in “Jeopardy” style as in: “What is the Called and Gifted Workshop at St. Dominic’s?”

On a serious note, I once heard a Dominican homily about the movie “La Strada” and the pebble. The idea that even a pebble has a purpose in this world and if even a tiny rock has significance, then every life has passionate purpose. To find that purpose is the great drama, the real work we are to undertake.

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Bishops: Pope, Council of Cardinals discuss how prelates are chosen FROM PAGE 8

With more than 150 new bishops being named each year in the Latin-rite church, identifying suitable candidates is a normal part of the governance of the universal church.

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As for the planned reorganization of the Roman Curia, the cardinals discussed a possible preamble to the papal constitution setting out a new structure for the church’s central offices, but Father Lombardi said it appeared that the project as a whole is not approaching completion.

On the other hand, he said council members gave Pope Francis a formal proposal for establishing a Congregation for Laity, Family and Life, which would bring together the current pontifical councils for the laity and for the family and would place the Pontifical Academy for Life under the new office’s jurisdiction.

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Pope Francis asked Italian Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, the retired archbishop of Milan, to do a feasibility study on the idea. The council’s proposal to the pope was made after they had heard from Cardinal Tettamanzi, Father Lombardi said.

Discussion is continuing about

also establishing a new Congregation for Charity, Justice and Peace, which would bring together three existing pontifical councils responsible for promoting Catholic charity, promoting justice and peace and providing pastoral assistance to migrants, refugees and other itinerant peoples.

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of Cardinals had not yet reached the point of making a definitive proposal about that new congregation.

The council will meet again Dec. 10-12, he said.

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Cancellations underapplied this program only agents of the railroads, car rental the organizer, accept no responsibility for any damage or delay contractors, steamship lines, hotels, bus operators, sightseeing e of tickets that can made from time of reservation to within 61 days prior to departure – and others that provide the actual land arrange-due to sickness, pilferage, labor The disputes, machinery breakdown, s international contractors plusfor any air penalties noted above. Indelay, the injury, ments$100 andprocessing are notcharge liable any act, omission, loss, damage or nonperformance in connectionquarantine, government restraints, weather or any other cause event of a cancellation from 60 to 8 days ofoccurring departure – $150 with these land arrangements. United and other IATA carriers,beyond their personal control. No carrier shall be responsible for processing charge plus up to 50% of the land cost, plus any air steamship lines and other transportation companies whose elected hotels services are featured these are not toservices be held penalties noted above.inThere cantours be no refund for any for respon-any act, omission or events during the time passengers are not on ngle Room sible for any act, omission or event during the time passengersboard its own conveyance. The right is reserved to cancel or change cancellations received 7 days of departure.

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It is available in both English and Spanish.

The Program is based on St. Louis de Montfort’s book True Devotion to Mary. It consists of 33 days of prayer and includes 6 Marian Talks by Priests of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) and Religious Sisters of the Virgin of Mátara (SSVM.) Prayers can be recited at one’s home if one is unable to go to the church. Participants will consecrate together on November 22, the Solemnity of the Feast of Jesus Christ King of the universe at the 12 noon mass at Our Lady of Peace Church & Shrine.

To register for the program, or for more information go to www.consecrationgroup.org, or send an email to info@consecrationgroup.org.

Each year, the Shrine welcomes visitors from the area, across the state and even across the nation. Families, prayer groups, and youth groups from across the nation are urged to join the program. Our Lady of Peace Church & Shrine is open 24/7, offers perpetual adoration, a thriving gift shop, a treasure-filled Library, and more! For additional information, contact Our Lady of Peace Church & Shrine, located at 2800 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA, visit www.olop-shrine.org or contact us during regular office hours (408-988-4585).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities • Knowledge and experience in cemetery practices, preferred • Knowledge and experience in engineering, plant management, building and property maintenance, turf maintenance or related fields, essential • Ability and experience in hiring, supervising, and coaching employees; experience in managing union employees, preferred • Ability to plan, organize, set schedules, prioritize tasks, and work with other members of the staff in a collegial and cooperative manner Competencies and Education • College degree in business administration or engineering, preferred (may be substituted for experience and past work performance) • Five years of increasingly responsible supervisory experience, including a minimum of two years’ experience as a supervisor • Bilingual English/Spanish, preferred • Valid California Driver’s License with an insurable driving record • Active practicing Roman Catholic who understands and supports the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, preferred.

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Around the archdiocese NOTRE DAME, MERCY, BURLINGAME AND SERRA TRI-SCHOOL EVENT: More than 150 students from the three schools walked nearly five miles for Catholic Worker House, San Bruno Sept. 12 raising more than $5,500 and more than 100 pairs of socks in the effort. Catholic Worker House is a refuge for the homeless and hungry.

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Filipino ministry gala: On the heels of Pope Francis visit to the U.S. for the meetings on families, thee Filipino Ministry Consultative Board announced their Annual Filipino Catholic Ministry Gala with a Mission of the Family theme for Oct. 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. The event “focuses on the pivotal role a loving marriage and family plays in today’s contemporary society,” the group said in a statement. Estelle Oloresisimo estelle.oloresisimo@gmail.

com, (415) 595-9248; Edgar Estonina eestonina@comcast.com, (415) 370-9879.

Pictured from left are members of the board: Deacon Ven Garcia, Father Ray Reyes, Loy Bañez, Peter Chan, Estrelle Chan, Freda Motak, Estelle Oloresisimo, Father Eugene Tungol, Richie Almendrala, Father Arnold Zamora and Father Francis Garbo. Edgar Estonina, Nellie Hizon and Deacon Nestor Fernandez were unavailable for the photo.

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CONSECRATED LIFE: Men and women religious spent Sept. 12 with the poor and homeless in Golden Gate Park serving more than 700 sandwiches, drinks and snacks, new dry socks and food for anyone who had a pet. Flyers detailing the day were distributed at shelters during the days preceding the event.

Congregations taking part included Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary;

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 3-DAY FESTIVAL: St. Andrew Parish, Daly City, Friday 6011 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-2 p.m., with Friday committed to dinner and dancing, $25, Saturday a mix of food sales from a variety of sources and dessert contest, open mike on karaoke, bingo and $5 spaghetti dinner, and Sunday barbecue and karaoke. http:// standrew-dalycity.org/calendar.html.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 26 CENTENNIAL: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish. 100th anniversary gala, 6 p.m., South San Francisco Conference Center, (415) 468-3434, shipwreckalumni@gmail.com, www. stpauloftheshipwreck.org.

FUNDRAISER: Evening benefits Our Lady’s Ministry of Union City that assists the poor, $35, www.ourladysministry.org; (415) 467-4747.

2-DAY FOOD FEST: St. Thomas More Church and school International Food Festival, free parking; for times and costs visit stthomasmoreschool.org.

MONDAY, SEPT. 27 FEAST MASS: St. Lorenzo Ruiz, 12:15 Mass, St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, Rowena Lawson (415) 860-4085; Betty Duran (415) 933-3742.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 1 ‘INTEGRAL ECOLOGY’: Concern for environmental and economic justice, 7 p.m., Fromm Hall, University of San Francisco, parking at Koret, covers the work of Pope Francis and other religious leaders, the UN negotiations for a new climate treaty and what we can do in our homes and communities. More info at http://interfaithpower.org/integralecology/.

FRIDAY, OCT. 2 KNIGHTS GALA: Knights of St. Francis Gala, Vallejo between Grant and Stockton, San Francisco. Evening begins at 6 p.m. with cocktails followed by dinner, Franc auction and live D’Ambrosio performance

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SATURDAY, OCT. 3 PEACE MASS: St. Augustine Church, 3700 Callan Blvd., South San Francisco, 9 a.m., Father Rene Ramoso, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

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DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@ usfca.edu.

FRIDAY, OCT. 2 ‘SEXUAL ETHICS’: The Goretti Group, Mass, 6:30 p.m., followed by social and dinner, and 8 p.m. talk by Trent Horn of Catholic Answers, “Made for Love: Understanding Sexual Ethics,” St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Palo Alto, Goretti Group supplies main dish; please bring a side, salad, dessert to share, RSVP GorettiRSVP@gmail.com; www.facebook.com/gorettigroupbayarea/events.

HIBERNIAN ANNIVERSARY: Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Father Peter Yorke Division #3, 113th anniversary lunch, 1 p.m., Holy Name Convent Function Room, 1555 - 39th Ave., San Francisco, $20, reserve by Oct. 1, Chris Del Carlo (415) 648-4522; Kathleen Manning (415)664-0828; Rosemarie Azinheira (415) 753-5680.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August

Catholic san francisco | September 24, 2015

HOLY CROSS COLMA Amor G. Abaja Leocadio “Ron” Alinea Guadalupe Alvarez Lisa L. Amato Lucia G. Apodaca Josephine Armanini Richard Thomas Atwood Richard D. Bacigalupi Abundia O. Baugh Domingo Bobila, Sr. Elsie H. Bogdan Henry D. Boock Judith Burke Florence M. Cannon Dottie Carriera Mary Janette Charles Mary Ciardi Ruth Elizabeth Coyne Angeles S. Cubing Daniel Edward Cummins Paul William Curtis Peter Czerkies Mary Rita De Scala Luella Denofrio Isabell C. Di Giulio Daisy Diaz Eulogia S. Dychitan Therese A. Emran William Andrew “Andy” English Sally Fambrini Robert Patrick Farrelly Nellie Ferraris Evelyn C. Filiberti Juanita Flores Frank Paul Flynn Jane Walsh Flynn Douglas G. Foss Rosa Del Carmen Galeano

Josephine “Andy” Gallegos, Jr. Marie A. Gamma Ermila Badillo Garduno Michael William Germano Patricia “Pat” Gonzales Esther Gonzalez Barbara Jean Greaves Maria Asuncion Guerrero Leobardo R. Guitron Frances Cruz Hinojosa Ruth T. Jauregui George W. Johnson Agnes Ansel Kurnick Jane Lau Anthony John Lavulo Donald Carl Leonard Sam C. Lima Genuina G. Llaguno Teresa DeJesus Lopez Louis N. Malvino Maria Luisa Angeles Mantuano Andrew Kui Marte Zenaida N. Masangcay Thomas Joseph Mayer James Joseph Mayo Frederick McCann Carol Neva Cowles Merry June Virginia Murphy Gavino L. Naguita Wilfredo Z. Navarro Taumaoe Niumata John “Jack” Noonan Richard Norwood Kenneth Ortega Anthony Pardi Pauline Pearce Louise Perez Maria Calagos Ramirez Manuel C. Regala Charlene Robbins Johnnie Lee Rollins Joseph George Salameh

Edgard L. Santa Maria Anneliese Semeniuk Sidney S. Shaw Aladdin Craig Soto Lysla A. Surian Lawrence S. Thompson Joan Davis Thurston Margaret Jeanne Vayssie Cinia Vialpando Felix Villafuerte, Jr Celestina Villanueva Daniel “Danny Walsh Mary Ward Ann M. Willis Josephine Yu Marguerite M. Zipse

HOLY CROSS menlo Park Joseph L. Giarrusso Joseph R. McLoughlin James R. Purpura

Mt. olivet, san rafael Carmen Rosa Garcia de Galindo Lola Annita Legnitto Ricardo L. Montes Rosa M. Quiñaonez Catherine J. Rufer

tomales Phillip H. Pfaendler

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma FIRST SATURDAY MASS – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 ALL SAINTS MAUSOLEUM CHAPEL – 11:00 AM | Rev. Joseph Landi, Celebrant ALL SAINTS DAY, TODOS LOS SANTOS MASS – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 HOLY CROSS MAUSOLEUM – 11:00AM Most Rev. William Justice, Celebrant | Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco Refreshments and fellowship following Mass

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.