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Dolan: Honesty about church’s flaws might win back defectors Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service
NEW ORLEANS – New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan suggested to more than 400 priests of the state of Louisiana that humbly and openly sharing the “wounds” and shortcomings of the church might bring those who are alienated back to the practice of the faith. Using the image of the church as “our supernatural family, which we, as priests, are called to image,” Cardinal Dolan told the opening session of the three-day Louisiana Priests’ Convention that human weakness has been a part of the church from the beginning. “The church is not just our family – it’s also a dysfunctional family,” he said Sept. 19 during what is one of the largest statewide gatherings of priests in the U.S. “Everybody today talks about dysfunctional see dolan, page 12
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Bishop Ramon Castro Castro of Cuernavaca, Mexico, celebrates Mass Sept. 24 outside the city’s cathedral, which dates to the 1500s and was badly damaged by the Sept. 19 earthquake in Mexico. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico especially hard, with the epicenter about 45 miles southeast of Mexico City on the border area of Morelos and Puebla states. In Morelos – served by the Diocese of Cuernavaca – at least 73 people died. Some towns reported more than half the homes there damaged or destroyed.
Granddaughter: Dorothy Day would be marching today Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Rendered from diaries, memories, conversations and a cache of family letters, writer Kate Hennessy’s new biography of her grandmother Dorothy Day reveals a complex, often contradictory woman of action who didn’t hesitate to “throw herself into the fray.” “She believed that not only could she change the world, it was her obligation to do so,” her youngest granddaughter writes in “Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty” (Scribner, 2017), a book published 37 years after her grandmother’s death in 1980. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco at Canticle Farm, an urban enclave in Oakland’s Fruitvale District, Hennessy said that the year that has seen social discord and massive protests around the country over a Muslim travel ban, withdrawal from a climate accord, religious and historical symbols, women’s rights and the inauguration of a controversial new president, would have certainly mobilized her grandmother, one way or another.
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“She believed in hope,” said Hennessy. “She would never say you must do this or that, but rather, examine your conscience and follow it.” She believed you have to “do what you can do,” and everyone is called to that differently, “but you can’t just do nothing.”
Day’s age and a heart condition in the later years of her life limited the momentum that had defined her, and “that was difficult for her,” Hennessy said. “She would also pray because she said a lot of times that what you do can seem to make no difference,” Hennessy said. Day was a journalist, activist and Catholic convert who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement, a now-global network of faith-based hospitality houses established in the depths of the Great Depression to serve the poor in a direct expression of Jesus’ teachings. She transformed a tiny penny newspaper, The Catholic Worker, into an organization that today runs soup kitchens and aid centers in cities around the world. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Day’s disciples operate Catholic Worker houses in San Bruno, Redwood City and Half Moon Bay. Unlike the many books written by historians, theologians and biographers, Hennessy’s book is a frank yet see granddaughter, page 6
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need to know Marian consecration: Updated details for parishes and schools on the consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary are available at www.sfarchdiocese.org/IHM or www. sfarch.org/IHM. The consecration culminates with a Mass and procession at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 7, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presiding. CARING FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: Maryknoll Affiliates invite you to St. Isabella parish hall, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Oct. 17, 7-9 p.m. for an evening of information and planning on ways to welcome immigrant and refugee families. Father Samuel Musiimenta will speak about his experience as a refugee from Rwanda. Francisco Gonzalez of Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant program and Carlos Garcia, Canal Family Support program in San Rafael, will also speak. They will be part of a panel after the presentations along with Marin Organizing Committee and Maryknoll to answer questions. For more information, call Marie Wren (510) 326 0298 or mwren@maryknoll.org. MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER WEEKEND: The next Marriage Encounter Weekend is Nov. 10-12 in San Jose. WWME goes back to 1967 in the U.S. Marriage Encounter Weekends are a special time for a married couple away from all distractions. All sharing between spouses is private, and this is not a weekend to solve problems. The weekend helps couples in good marriages communicate even better. The weekend includes presentations made by the presenting team of three married couples and a priest. Each presentation builds on the last: examining behaviors and attitudes, relationship with spouse and relationship with God. Visit sanjosewwme.org. Contact Ken Claranne, applications@sanjosewwme.org, (408) 782-1413. St. Dunstan FESTIVAL: “Passport to Paradise,” St. Dunstan Parish, 1150 Magnolia, Millbrae, Oct. 6, 5-10 p.m.; Oct. 7, noon-10 p.m.; Oct. 8, noon-6 p.m. Rides, games and food all weekend; bingo Saturday and Sunday. Contact gabrielleoneil@gmail.com.
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Crisis pregnancy resources Abortion-vulnerable women in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Northern California will have wider access to pro-life counseling and mediVisit http://sfarchdiocese.org/home/miniscal services, under a collaborative of pregnancy tries/social-justice-life/respect-life/pregnanresource centers launching Oct. 1, Respect Life cy-resources for a list of resources on the Sunday. Archdiocese of San Francisco’s website. The coalition, Options United for Life Northern California Pregnancy Resource Collaborative Visit optionsunited.com for information on Network, includes Options United, a Pasadenathe new Options United for Life Northern based a nonprofit pro-life digital advertising proCalifornia Pregnancy Resource Collaborative vider and call center. Options United helps crisis Network. pregnancy centers that often feel isolated and overwhelmed by the ever-changing marketing and Visit www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/ communication challenges of today. human-life-and-dignity/abortion/index.cfm for In cooperation with the archdiocese and seven U.S. bishops’ resources on abortion. surrounding Northern California dioceses, the network will bring clients to dozens of local nonprofits serving thousands of families. Currently “If they choose abortion, often we won’t find these clinics operate at about 30 percent capacity. out,” Evans said. “If we do, we offer post-abortion The plan is to build capacity, collaboration and community via digital marketing, while respecting support, knowing we can only do so much.” Usually, the first centers to get a referral are the autonomy of each individual pregnancy center licensed medical clinics with doctors and nurse or clinic. Similar efforts in Southern California practitioners on staff. The centers that offer preghave generated 15,000 inquiries per year with over nancy resources will get a referral if the woman is 5,000 referrals to local ministries. looking for material assistance only, Evans said. “This type of unity and collective marketing is When a call comes in, the Options United counwhat is so needed in our often fragmented efforts,” selor first reassures and calms the client, then Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said. “The asks a few questions: “Are you certain you’re ability to offer local, practical and life-affirming pregnant? Can we guide you to a place for a pregresources in a collaborative spirit is integral to nancy test or an ultrasound? Do you know there our pro-life mission of helping one another and of is a free service-provider near you? Would you helping women choose life.” like to visit a free clinic before making a decision? United for Life, a nonsectarian pro-life educaWould like us to schedule an appointment for tional organization Church Goods & Candles founded in San Francisco Religous Giftsyou & Books you?” The caller is then referred to the nearest in 1971 by Father Francis Filice, is funding the pro-life pregnancy center equipped to meet her network’s first year of operations. needs. The minimum cost to launch the program was “The percentage of women who actually call the $10,000 per month to cover media markets from help line, keep their appointment at the recomFresno to Santa Rosa, with a potential audience of mended pregnancy center/clinic and then choose more than 23 million. Funds generated are used 5 locations in California life is remarkable,” said Thomas Rudkins, execuby Options United to place ads on the Internet and tive director of Options United. operate a call center.Your The adsLocal appear in search Store: Some of the clinics in the network are Catholic engine results and on websites. The call center is 369 Grand Av, S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 (Sacramento Life Center, Bella Women’s Center) Internet-based. Airport - Exit 101 Frwy @ Grand and some are nonsectarian (Support Circle PregCounselorsNear withSF a wide variety of backgrounds nancy Clinics). All are pro-life from the standpoint receive extensive training to enable them to rewww.cotters.com cotters@cotters.com that abortion services are not provided or referred spond to callers, most of whom are abortion-vulfor, Evans said. nerable women asking for help with an unwanted The clinics/centers listed on the archdiocese’s pregnancy and often wanting to terminate it. website go out of their way to stress that they are Lack of financial resources is the top reason women seek an abortion, said Vicki Evans, respect available to provide non-judgmental help, she said. The list can be accessed at http://sfarchdiocese. life coordinator for the archdiocese. org/home/ministries/social-justice-life/respect“If our centers/clinics can offer the medical, life/pregnancy-resources. financial and emotional support needed, the reasons for abortion – which seemed so compelling For more information on Options United, visit optionat first – seem more manageable and women are sunited.com. more likely to choose life. This is the goal.
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Longtime San Francisco treasurer Mary Irene Callanan died Sept. 11 at the age of 86. Mary was a lifetime parishioner of St. Paul’s in San Francisco and graduated from St. Paul School going on to the University Mary Callanan of San Francisco for an undergraduate degree and MBA. Mary belonged to the Young Ladies Institute, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the United Irish Cultural Center and served on the board of regents for St. Ignatius College Prep. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice remembered Mary, a former member of the Finance Committee and other advisory bodies of the Archdiocese of San Francisco: “Mary was a wonderful person. She could light up a room with her smile and laughter. Her great Irish American singing and her incredible public service was a gift to her beloved City of San Francisco. Her faith in the Lord called her to share her gifts also with her parish St Paul in the Noe Valley and with the Archdiocese of San Francisco on the various boards she served. She was an inspiration to the joy of life and to the service of others. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be at your back. And may God hold you in the palm of his hand. Thank you Mary.” A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 18 at St. Paul Church with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Burlingame, wishes a happy 101st birthday to longtime parishioner Carroll Schmitz, pictured here with his son Michael and great-granddaughter Eliza Ayala, at a family birthday party Sept. 9 He was born in Burlingame Sept. 7, 1916, and attended McKinley school and Burlingame High School. Carroll and his wife Charlene were married in 1955 and continue to attend daily Mass together at St. Catherine’s where for years he was an usher and extraordinary minister of holy Communion. Carroll received a letter of congratulations from the White House signed by then-first lady Michelle Obama on his 100th birthday in 2016: “As you mark this milestone, please know how grateful our nation is for your service and sacrifice,” the letter told the Army veteran. Burlingame issued a proclamation in note of the century natal day signed by then-Mayor Ann Keighran with congratulations on “living a full life.” Carroll, a crossword puzzle fan, is a retired engineer with a degree in chemistry from UC Berkeley. I don’t think I am overstating it when I say with great respect that long before it became ICA Cristo Rey, Immaculate Conception Academy might have been called ICA Patty Cavagnaro. Patty was always Patty Cavagnaro
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‘Oldest altar boy’ honored by parish with papal blessing Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
His pastor and many of the parishioners at Most Holy Redeemer Parish refer fondly to 84-year-old Carlos Rodriguez as the “world’s oldest altar boy” although there are no statistics kept on the oldest person serving at Mass. “He’s here seven days a week. Every day he faithfully opens up the church,” said pastor Father Matt Link, a priest of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. “He is my daily sacristan. I’m grateful for him.” In the parish, “They lovingly refer to Carlos as the world’s oldest altar boy. He just smiles. It’s very sweet, very endearing. He’s faithful, he’s loving, he’s kind and he is present. He is so present,” the pastor said. “I’ve always considered it a privilege,” said Rodriguez. “I am very happy to do it.” “You can’t help fall in love with this person,” said parishioner Dennis Callahan, “so kind for years upon years.” On Sept. 1, the parish’s staff and
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Most Holy Redeemer pastor Father Matt Link presents the papal blessing to Carlos Rodriguez. daily Mass group decided to surprise Rodriguez at the 8 a.m. Mass and presented him with a papal blessing, specially requested by the parish. “He was totally surprised, kind of blown away,” recalled Father Link, who
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told Rodriguez, “I am grateful for the blessing that is you and I see that Pope Francis agrees with me.” Rodriguez happened into his role as
an altar server when he joined the parish in 1982, when the pastor was Father Anthony Maguire, who just recently retired as pastor of St. Matthew Parish. “Father Maguire was the reason I came to Most Holy Redeemer,” said Rodriguez, who also remembers the other priests of the time with affection including now-Reno, Nevada, Bishop Randy Calvo. “I was going around church hopping to different parishes and then finally came to Father Maguire at Most Holy Redeemer. I was very impressed.” “Way back then, they didn’t have a regular group of altar servers,” Rodriguez recalled, but another parishioner happened to be a classmate from Sacred Heart Grammar School, the now-closed Catholic elementary school on Fillmore Street. “He saw me attending Mass; he asked Father Maguire if I could be one of the altar servers.” A native San Franciscan, Rodriguez joined the Air Force in 1951 during the see ‘oldest altar boy’, page 27
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The San Francisco Bay Area was surprised by a thunder and lightning storm that damaged a PG&E transformer and roof tiles at Holy Name of Jesus School the evening of Sept. 11. Principal Natalie Cirigliano cancelled classes Sept. 12. School was back in session the day after. In a follow-up note to Catholic San Francisco, principal Cirigliano said systems are in place to reach students’ families in cases such as this: “We have an emergency alert system that allows us to text, email, and leave voicemails for families so it was very easy to get the message out and fewer than five families showed up for school. It was great to see that our program was a success and dependable in an emergency!” The school had generators on the
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Holy Name of Jesus neighbor Tanya Lewis took this photo of lightning breaking over the Sunset District church in San Francisco on the evening of Sept. 11. first day back: “We had generators for a day. PG&E was great. They
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in thinking of the kids before they transitioned us back to a new transformer” waiting until after 3 p.m. to turn off the electricity and make the switch, Cirigliano said. Cirigliano said the roof was repaired quickly. “Steve Kalpakoff and Derek Gaskin were very helpful in the process. They both responded immediately. Steve came to do a walk-through to assess the safety Tuesday morning. Derek assisted me in getting the message to Steve.” Kalpakoff of the property department and Gaskin of safety and emergency procedures are headquartered in archdiocesan offices on Peter Yorke Way. Onsite help also played a part Cirigliano said. “Vince DeLucca, our maintenance coordinator, was huge in getting the school back and running. He worked all day coordinating with roofers, PG&E and the archdiocese.”
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nuanced portrayal of her “granny,” the woman Pope Francis singled out along with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Merton in a 2015 speech to Congress as one of four examples of “great Americans.” “Her social activism, her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed were inspired by the Gospel, her faith and the example of the saints,” the pope said. Day’s cause for sainthood was accepted in 2000 and the Dorothy Day Guild was founded in 2005 to support the cause. “Laywomen like Dorothy Day represent a type of vocation not often seen in the canon of saints,” according to an article on the canonization process at http://dorothydayguild.org/. Eileen Egan, a lifelong friend and colleague of Day’s, saw her as someone who “shows that ordinary people can live by the Sermon on the Mount. She tried
to relate the Sermon on the Mount to everything she did. This makes her a tremendous inspiration for lay people. Most saints appear to be hedged in by vows or life style, but Dorothy wasn’t hedged in by anything.” Day also “transcended the divisive boundaries of right and left, pointing to the common ground of discipleship,” the website states. “In ‘Saints as They Really Are,’ the Orthodox theologian Michael Plekon observes ‘it is precisely the clash of characteristics, the flash of radicalism and traditional piety, that reveals Day’s singular character. Her complex personality and rich life, focused however on love for God and for neighbor, make her very much a saint for our times.’” Before her conversion at age 30, Day lived what she herself called a “disorderly life.” She had an abortion and conceived and bore a child out of wedlock. By all accounts her conversion and life path resulted from the arrival of that child, Tamar, in 1926, and her deep but impossible love for Tamar’s phlegmatic, atheist father who didn’t believe in marriage. Hennessy is the youngest of Tamar’s nine children. She was 20 when her grandmother died. Tamar died in 2008. “My book is labeled an ‘intimate portrait of my grandmother,’ but that
is actually not correct,” she said. “It’s actually an intimate portrait of my mother and my grandmother because my mother is at the foundation of who my grandmother is.” In many ways Tamar was the first Catholic Worker, said Hennessy. So different than her mother, Tamar struggled to find her own path under the weight of Day’s legacy, as has Hennessy herself. In the book’s preface, Hennessy writes: “I felt the weight and the miracle of their lives, and I wondered if I were strong enough to tell this story. But haven’t I been working on it all my life, living in their wake and stumbling along trying to make my own way?” The Dorothy Day revealed in the book’s 354 pages is many-sided: chatty and charismatic, driven and demanding, lovelorn and vulnerable, powerful and pious. “I wanted to show her as the complex person that she was,” said Hennessy, who said she worries about her grandmother turning into a “cardboard cutout saint,” not the paradoxical human being she was. In 1917, Day was beaten and jailed for picketing with other suffragettes to win a woman’s right to vote. But according to Hennessy, Day never took advantage of the right she fought for, believ-
ing that change was more effectively brought about in other ways. She appreciated beauty, especially in nature, and surrounded herself with beautiful things, the book reveals. But she had no attachment to them and would pass them along or lose sight of them. Because she had a loose sense of what you needed materially, she “didn’t quite understand that my mother was very different in that way,” Hennessy writes. “My mother had her treasures she wanted to keep hold of.” Day wrestled with the patriarchal, hierarchal structure of the church. But “her genius was that she never lost sight of the heart of the church,” Hennessy said. Throughout her life, people asked Day to take up certain causes against the church but the church was the one thing she would not rise up against, Hennessy said. Hennessy said putting Day on a pedestal is a “great disservice to her and to yourself.” “You can’t examine my grandmother’s life without being challenged and changed yourself, you just can’t, because of what she asks us,” Hennessy said. “Open your eyes, be aware of what’s happening in the world, examine your conscience and find out what you are meant to do.”
October week of prayer and action to support immigrants and refugees
Pope Francis and bishops around the world are beginning a global campaign to support immigrants and refugees. Sept. 27 was the official launch in Rome by Pope Francis of the two-year campaign, called ‘”Share the Journey.” Participants include Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities USA, Caritas Internationalis, and Migration and Refugees Services-USCCB. Following the launch, the U.S. bishops’ conference is calling for a week of prayer and action from Oct. 7-14. An online toolkit has been created to help promote the program across each diocese, parish, and school. It is available at https://justiceforimmigrants.org/caritas-share-the-journey-campaign/. Social media users are encouraged to follow and share the hashtag #ShareTheJourney.
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A gospel choir led a celebratory crowd of about 250 in singing “We’ve Come This Far By Faith” during the entrance procession of an outdoor 75th anniversary Mass for Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in San Francisco on Sept. 24. Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice celebrated the Mass held under a tent in a field between the parish hall and the church, which was built as a chapel for workers at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and dedicated in 1942. He was joined by pastor Father Dan Carter; former pastor Father Kirk Ullery; Deacon Larry Chatmon; and Augustinian Father Andrew Ibegbulem, parochial vicar.
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Dominican to lead novena participants to greater ‘spiritual health’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Dominican Father Emmerich Vogt believes the unhealed wounds of original sin and personal sin can lead the rich, the famous, and yes, even the faithful into sinful, self-destructive behavior. The former director of the St. Jude Shrine in San Francisco and preacher for the annual St. Jude Novena at St. Dominic Parish Oct. 20-28 told Catholic San Francisco Dominican that this year’s novena on “SpiriFather tual Healing” can help participants Emmerich Vogt find “that peace which the world cannot give,” which is the peace that comes from a life lived in union with Christ. “I will try to make people aware of how they contribute to their own misery,” he said. “I hope to open their eyes to the necessity of growing morally and spiritually.” In a flyer for the novena on the St. Dominic website, Father Vogt, a priest of the Holy Name
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Father Vogt offered a long list of names – actors, singers, athletes, musicians and other “successful” people who have died of drug overdoses, alcoholism or suicide. “Why do some people who have every imaginable form of giftedness and success drink or drug themselves into oblivion and failure?” he said. Philip Seymour Hoffman, he noted, was a rich, Academy Award-winning actor with small children to care for who “died with a needle in his arm.” He believes individuals who lack “moral and spiritual antibodies” in their system find it more difficult to resist the dehumanizing influences of an addiction-prone culture. But being faithful or devout does not necessarily provide immunity from spiritual dis-ease and unsaintly behavior, said Father Vogt. There’s an old saying, he said: “Mr. Business went to Mass, he never missed a Sunday. Mr. Business went to hell for what he did on Monday.” A spiritually healthy person knows and loves God and demonstrates that by their love for others. “A genuine spiritual life manifests itself in compassion, mercy and forgiveness,” he said, in short, a genuine love of neighbor. “Otherwise, it’s what St. Frances de Sales called a ‘pharisaical phantom of virtue.’”
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Blessed Rother ‘an authentic light’ for church and world, says cardinal Catholic News Service
OKLAHOMA CITY – If the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother “fills us with sadness,” it also “gives us the joy of admiring the kindness, generosity and courage of a great man of faith,” Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said Sept. 23 in Oklahoma City. The 13 years Blessed Rother spent as a missionary in Guatemala “will always be remembered as the glorious epic of a martyr of Christ, an authentic lighted torch of hope for the chturch and the world,” the cardinal said in his homily during the U.S. priest’s beatification Mass. “Formed in the school of the Gospel, he saw even his enemies as fellow human beings. He did not hate, but loved. He did not destroy, but built up,” Cardinal Amato said. “This is the invitation that Blessed Stanley Francis Rother extends to us today. To be like him as witnesses and missionaries of the Gospel. Society needs these sowers of goodness,” he said. “Thank you, Father Rother! Bless us from heaven!” The cardinal was the main celebrant of the beatification Mass, joined by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City and his predecessor, retired Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran, who formally opened the Rother sainthood cause 10 years ago.
St. Rita pastor: Mass ‘deeply spiritual’
Father Ken Weare, pastor of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, was in Oklahoma City to participate in the beatification Mass for Father Stanley Rother. Father Weare, who served Communion during the Mass, was invited in connection with St. Rita’s longtime support of Father Rother’s former parish and surrounding villages in Guatemala. Since 2001, the St. Rita Guatemala Mission Program has funded the construction of a preschool, elementary school, high school, two churches, a rectory, a convent and a multipurpose room in or near Santiago Atitlan. The mission has also helped rebuild a hospital and developed a carpentry school, and each year sends a cargo container of school and household supplies. A parish delegation visits mission sites each summer to celebrate Mass with the community. “The beatification ceremony was a deeply spiritual celebration of the social justice ministry of Blessed Stanley Rother, who served the poor, and gave his life for them,” Father Weare told Catholic San Francisco in an email.
An overflow crowd of 20,000 packed the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City for the beatification of Father Rother, murdered in 1981 as he served the faithful at a mission in Guatemala sponsored by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. The evening before a prayer service was held at St. Benedict Parish in Broken Arrow. In Rome, Pope Francis said Sept. 24: “May his heroic example help us be courageous witnesses of the Gospel, dedicating ourselves in supporting see blessed rother, page 19
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California nursing board denies continuing-ed credit for abortion pill reversal course Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Heartbeat International can no longer offer nurses continuing education credit for a course that teaches the procedure for saving the baby after a woman has taken the first of the abortion pills for a chemical abortion. “This is a huge thing. It demonstrates the fact that is not about choice and the abortion lobby is not about choice. They are about abortion,” said Jay Hobbs, executive director of Heartbeat International, a pregnancy help network with 2,600 affiliates in the U.S. and 2,000 worldwide. The Columbus, Ohio based network sought and received California certification for its 34 continuing education courses in 2012 because California’s standards are accepted throughout the U.S. Heartbeat on Sept. 15 filed a state public records request, a preliminary step toward appealing the decision and the state has 10 business days to respond so Heartbeat should receive a response by Sept. 29, Hobbs said. Approximately 270,000 medication or chemical abortions occurred in 2014, 31 percent of all abortions in the U.S.,
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according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research institute. “My heart really breaks for those girls who are going to walk out of an abortion clinic and change their mind or at least have a second thought about what they just started,” said Rebekah Buell, whose son Zechariah, now 4, was saved through the abortion
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In its letter, the California nursing board demanded that Heartbeat International “cease and desist” from offering nurses continuing education units for Abortion Pill Reversal classes or lose California certification to offer continuing education credit for nurses. Heartbeat has stopped offering the online course for credit, but continues to offer it as a video course for no credit, Hobbs said. In response to a query from Catholic San Francisco about why the board reversed itself, state Department of Consumer Affairs deputy director of communications Veronica R. Harms wrote in an email Sept. 21, “Additional questions have been raised regarding whether the course satisfies the board’s requirements for continuing education. The board will be discussing its continuing education requirements at an upcoming board meeting.” Harms said a date has not been set but she expects the meeting to be in early October. Women undergoing medical, rather than surgical, abortions in the first nine see nursing board, page 12
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A Mass in Spanish celebrating the Peruvian Catholic heritage will be celebrated Oct. 15 at 1:30 p.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco. The Mass is one of several with a Peruvian theme celebrated in the Bay Area every year. The liturgy draws some 500 people to Mission Dolores and all are invited, Father Francis Garbo, pastor, said.
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Dolan: Honesty about church’s flaws might win back defectors FROM PAGE 1
families. Have you ever met a functional one?” Cardinal Dolan, who spoke on the theme of “Shepherding Today as Priest, Prophet and King,” said in the jubilee year of 2000, St. John Paul II “apologized publicly” 54 times for “the specific sins of the church.” “That’s more than once a week,” Cardinal Dolan said. “And Pope Francis surely has done so.” The cardinal said while the world is “ever ready to headline the flaws of the church,” the dynamic changes when “her loyal members are more than willing to own up to them.” If that happens, people estranged from the church “might just take a second look,” he said. “Their favorite caricature of the
church is as a corrupt, arrogant, self-righteous, judgmental hypocrite,” Cardinal Dolan said. “I sure don’t have any problem admitting that, at times, it can be tough to love the church because of her imperfections. The mystical body of Christ has lots of warts.” However, Cardinal Dolan noted, it is clear from the Acts of the Apostles, in particular the conversion of St. Paul, that “Jesus Christ and his church are inseparable.” “My brother priests, as we consider the priesthood, preserving the unity of Christ and his church is perhaps the most significant pastoral challenge we shepherds face today,” Cardinal Dolan said. “I’m not telling you anything (new) – you’re all on the front lines. The dominant opinion and sentiment that we face today is, ‘We want Christ; we want nothing to do with that stupid church.’”
Cardinal Dolan said Pope Francis has made it clear that a Christian cannot be “a nomad” but is someone who “belongs to a people, the church. A Christian without a church is something purely idealistic.” Cardinal Dolan suggested to the 435 priests that they evangelize by developing “a theology and a practice of the church as a family.” He said it’s not a new idea; it’s one that also resonates with the Jewish community, which is experiencing similar challenges of keeping young people within the practice of their faith. Cardinal Dolan said the late New York newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin once wrote: “We Catholics might not be very good at being members of the church, but we never leave. We’re all just one chest pain away from going back.” “Not anymore, I’m afraid,” Cardinal
Dolan said. “I don’t know about you, but every time the Pew Research Center puts out a new study, every time CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate) announces more statistics, I, as a priest, a shepherd, a prophet and a king, hold my breath because the percentage of people who claim to be ex-Catholic or ‘none’ rises a couple of points.” If people with a cynical or jaded view of the church experience priests who “prize honesty and humility” and are “contrite and eager” to reform the flaws of the church, then they may begin to view the church as “a warm, tender, inviting family.” “If we’re not afraid as priests to show our wounds – the wounds of the church, the wounds of our family – maybe the other wounded will come back,” Cardinal Dolan said.
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weeks of pregnancy take two courses of the pill 48 hours apart. For the reversal, doctors administer mega-doses of progesterone to act as an antidote to mifepristone, replacing the progesterone that the mifepristone blocks, Delgado said. Progesterone is necessary for pregnancy. Delgado is co-author with Bay Area
obstetrician Dr. Mary Davenport of a medical journal article on RU-486 reversals, “Progesterone Use to Reverse the Effects of Mifepristone,” published in the December 2012 issue of The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. The paper looked at a small sample and found four of six women’s pregnancies were saved with the therapy. Delgado developed the protocol now in use. Over 350 doctors nationally have
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joined the Abortion Pill Reversal network, while 300 mothers have successfully rescued their children from abortion through the medical intervention most in the last five years since the procedure has been publicized more widely, Delgado said. The flap over continuing education credits is just the latest battle in a struggle encapsulated in a July 18 New York Times article headlined “New Front in the War Over Reproductive Rights: ‘Abortion-Pill Reversal.” Pro-abortion advocates say the newly developed procedure is unproven scientifically, a position supported by the American
Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Amy Everitt, state director of advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice California, contended abortion reversal therapy “is another vehicle for putting pressure and shame on women,” in a May 23 Sacramento Bee article. “I would call it new science, not junk science,” said Delgado. Biologically, it makes sense because when “two molecules compete for a receptor, if you increase the concentration of one it will win out,” he said. He also cited an animal study on rats in Japan that demonstrated the effects of mifepristone are reversed by progesterone.
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Catholics need ‘profound renewal’ of catechesis, archbishop tells sisters Simone Orendain Catholic News Service
CHICAGO – The head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization said Catholics “need a profound renewal of our catechesis.” Archbishop Rino Fisichella told dozens of religious sisters, mostly teachers of the faith, gathered in Northwest Chicago Sept. 17 that there is wrong thinking among the faithful that once they receive the sacraments, they no longer have to learn their catechism. He said, “By its nature, catechesis is to support believers to understand every day more the mystery of faith.” Archbishop Fisichella said Catholics could learn this with the help of catechists who are “witnesses” and said that “witness is the sign of a genuine work of evangelization.” Referring to Pope Paul VI’s 1975 apostolic exhortation on evangelization, “Evangelii Nuntiandi,” the prelate emphasized what he called a “very important” section of the document that said people nowadays are more apt to listen to someone who lives out the faith and speaks of it than to teachers of it and that if they do listen to teachers, it’s because the teachers are themselves witnesses of the faith. “The world of today needs witnesses,” he said. “And we have got to be there. But don’t misunderstand the word ‘witness.’ It is true that witness, it makes, first of all, our life. But to be a witness, it means also to be a preacher of the word of the Lord.”
Archbishop Fisichella pointed out that being a witness means using one’s mouth to tell others about one’s encounter with Jesus Christ and share what Jesus told them. However, he also noted the challenge of doing this in a secular age when people are constantly on their mobile devices and, he said, becoming more isolated from one another. “Everybody in the profound (depths) of his heart feels the desire for God,” the archbishop told Catholic News Service after the talk hosted by the Washington-based Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. “And for this reason, the mission of the church is the new evangelization. New evangelization doesn’t mean a new way to oblige people to believe in God, absolutely not. ... It means only a new step in the world of today, to announce Jesus Christ in the world of today.” He said, “(It) means to be aware of the changes that we have, the new culture that we have, for instance the digital culture. The internet is creating a new language, a new way of thinking. It has created new behaviors and, paradoxically speaking, is creating new pathologies. And so we need to understand all of that and the new culture how to support believers and how to announce and to challenge people without God to think about him.” Dominican Sister JoseMaria Pence teaches ninth- and 12th-graders in Carmel, Indiana. She told CNS she was concerned about young people
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Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, talks to women religious gathered in Chicago Sept. 17 about the church’s need for “a profound renewal of our catechesis.”
getting caught up in the proliferation of technology. “When the archbishop was talking about the digital age and the vocabulary that we use, it seems like we have to give a space to the young people, of silence. So that they can hear the word of God and it can take root,” said Sister Pence. She also said she loved the idea of teaching as a witness. “I found that very helpful to know that our duty as a catechist is to speak about Christ,” she said.
Sister Pence said, “How do you be a preacher without being preachy? I think you have to be rooted in Christ, and do you actually love Christ? Are you living a life for him? And the young really pick up on any duplicity, any lies. If you’re not really praying, they know. They can sniff it out.” Franciscan Sister MaryGrace Richey also attended the archbishop’s talk. She teaches third-graders in an impoverished Chicago suburb and said she was struck by the concept of being a witness rather than a teacher. Sister Richey told CNS, “I go in front of my children everyday and I want them to learn this but I have to be that witness about how excited I am for them to learn what I want to teach them and pass on that faith ... because the kids are from the inner city and a very poor area, so witnessing to them that God is alive and that he wants to have a personal relationship with them. And I foster that and show that by me wanting to have a personal relationship with them.” Archbishop Fisichella also told the sisters one of the problems of “our big crisis of faith of today” is that people do not have an answer when they are asked why they are believers.” “We cannot be afraid in our catechesis to say the choice of faith makes you free because it allows you to enter in the deepest (parts) of your life,” he said. “Open your mind. Open your heart and you become able to love. You become able to understand your life and future, where you are going.”
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Bishop Braxton calls action to end racism imperative for every American Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
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Young people listen as Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Ill., addresses students, faculty, and social workers during a “teach-in” on fighting racism held Sept. 21 at The Catholic University of America in Washington. our school, our community and not become a part of the conspiracy of silence. “It’s one thing to admit, ‘Oh, I can’t do anything about Charlottesville. I can’t do anything about what’s going on in St. Louis.’ What can you do on the street where you live? What can you do with the people who are your co-workers? What can you do to advance all the efforts that have already been made?” Bishop Braxton said. The bishop offered the audience a brief review of church history regarding racism, saying Catholics and the Catholic Church are not above reproach. He noted that the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott case affirming the right of slave owners to take enslaved people into the West-
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WASHINGTON – Every person “must do something,” whether big or small, to address racism in the United States, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois, told an audience at The Catholic University of America. From taking a public stance at a rally to reaching out to a neighbor, racism can be addressed and overturned, the bishop said during a presentation at a Sept. 21 “teach-in” on fighting racism sponsored by the university’s National Catholic School of Social Service. “We must expand the horizon of possibilities to ourselves by listening, learning, thinking, praying, acting,” he said. Recalling that Catholics in public life and leaders in the U.S. Catholic Church once supported slave ownership and widely denied the civil rights of enslaved African-Americans early in the country’s history, Bishop Braxton said much remains to be accomplished to heal the sin of racism and the “flaw at the foundation” of past teaching. He pointed to a series of events, including the killing of black men by white police officers in places such as St. Louis, the rise in white supremacy and even the language of President Donald Trump, who did not specifically call out white supremacists after clashes during rallies and counterprotests Aug. 11 and 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia. “I believe first of all we must open our hearts to the Holy Spirit and the healing grace of true conversion,” the bishop told more than 200 students, faculty and professional social workers. “We must start with ourselves, our families, our neighbors, our parish, our co-workers,
ment in 1854, reflecting the concerns of Irish Catholics who feared they would be forced to flee the city, to the detriment of the church, if emancipated Africans headed northward. “’Those involved in the abolitionist movement are up to nothing but dangerous mischief,’” Bishop Braxton quoted Archbishop Hughes as writing. “He took the view that the church’s basic stance concerning slavery (was) that so long as slavery was legal in the South, owning slaves is not a sin, but it would not be good to treat them in a harsh way.” He asked, “Is there a flaw at the foundation? Could it be that at the very beginning of the racial divide in the post-Civil War era, there were individuals who simply did not see the need to have the bright light of the Gospel shining on their decisions about the fate of free human beings, made in the image of God, who were enslaved?” Bishop Braxton expressed hope that the pastoral letter on racism being drafted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will be embraced throughout the U.S. church and become a teaching document for all Catholics. He said the bishops’ 1979 pastoral on racism, “Brothers and Sisters to Us,” was intended to address the racial divide but was never fully implemented. “We must continue our efforts where we can have hope toward the publishing of the pastoral letter to undo a century and more of shameful, painful history,” he said.
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Pope says church was late fighting abuse, promises ‘zero tolerance’ Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has endorsed an approach of “zero tolerance” toward all members of the church guilty of sexually abusing minors or vulnerable adults. Having listened to abuse survivors and having made what he described as a mistake in approving a more lenient set of sanctions against an Italian priest abuser, the pope said he has decided whoever has been proven guilty of abuse has no right to an appeal, and he will never grant a papal pardon. “Why? Simply because the person who does this (sexually abuses minors) is sick. It is a sickness,” he told his advisory commission on child protection during an audience at the Vatican Sept. 21. Members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, including its president – Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston – were meeting in Rome Sept. 21-23 for their plenary assembly. Setting aside his prepared text, the pope said he wanted to speak more informally to the members, who include lay and religious experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, theology and law in relation to abuse and protection. The Catholic Church has been “late” in facing and, therefore, properly addressing the sin of sexual abuse by its members, the pope said, and the commission, which he established in 2014, has had to “swim against the tide” because of a lack of awareness or understanding of the seriousness of the problem. “When consciousness comes late, the means for resolving the problem comes late,” he said. “I am aware of this difficulty. But it is the reality: We have arrived late.” “Perhaps,” he said, “the old practice of moving people” from one place to another and not fully facing the problem “lulled consciences to sleep.” But, he said, “prophets in the church,” including Cardinal O’Malley, have, with the help of God, come forward to shine light on the problem of abuse and to urge the church to face it. Typically when the church has had to deal with new or newly emerging problems, it has turned to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to address the issue, he said. And then, only when the problem has been dealt with adequately does the process for dealing with future cases get handed
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over to another dicastery, he added. Because the problem of cases and allegations of abuse are “grave” – and because it also is grave that some have not adequately taken stock of the problem – it is important the doctrinal congregation continue to handle the cases, rather than turning them over directly to Vatican tribunals, as some have suggested.
However, he said, the doctrinal congregation will need more personnel to work on cases of abuse in order to expedite the “many cases that do not proceed” with the backlog. Pope Francis told commission members he wants to better balance the membership of the doctrinal team dealing with appeals filed by clergy accused of abuse. He said the majority of members are canon lawyers, and he would like to balance out their more legalistic approach with more members who are diocesan bishops and have had to deal with abuse in their diocese. He also said proof that an ordained minister has abused a minor “is sufficient (reason) to receive no recourse” for an appeal. “If there is proof. End of story,” the pope said; the sentence “is definitive.” And, he added, he has never and would never grant a papal pardon to a proven perpetrator. The reasoning has nothing to do with being mean-spirited, but because an abuser is sick and is suffering from “a sickness.” The pope told the commission he has been learning “on the job” better ways to handle priests found guilty of abuse, and he recounted a decision he has now come to regret: that of agreeing to a more lenient sanction against an Italian priest, rather than laicizing him as the doctrinal team recommended. Two years later, the priest abused again, and Pope Francis said he has since learned “it’s a terrible sickness” that requires a different approach.
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Group issues what it calls ‘filial correction’ of pope’s teaching The best-known name among the signatories is Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the traditionalist Priestly Society of St. Pius X, a group still involved in talks with the Vatican aimed at regularizing its status within the Catholic Church. The letter originally was signed by 40 people and delivered to Pope
Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Several dozen priests, scholars and writers have published what they described as a “filial correction” of some of Pope Francis’ teachings about marriage – particularly about access to the sacraments for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.
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As recently as August, Cardinal Burke spoke in an interview about issuing a “formal correction” of Pope Francis if he refused to respond to the “dubia.” The correction, he said, would be a declaration of church teaching, rather than a set of questions. The new letter accuses Pope Francis of “the propagation of heresies effected by the apostolic exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and by other words, deeds and omissions of Your Holiness.” “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”) is the document Pope Francis released in 2016 reflecting on the discussions and conclusions see ‘filial correction’, page 17
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‘filial correction’: Group challenges pope on teaching FROM PAGE 16
of the meetings in 2014 and 2015 of the Synod of Bishops on the family. In the document, Pope Francis affirmed church teaching that the sacrament of marriage is the bond of one man and one woman united for life and open to having children. However, the document also encouraged parishes and priests to reach out to couples whose marriages have failed, reminding them that they have not been excommunicated. In “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis asked pastors: to accompany those who have remarried civilly; to check if their sacramental marriage was valid or if they could receive a decree of nullity; and to lead them in a process of discernment about their responsibility for the breakup and about their current situation in light of church teaching. The document seemed to open the
possibility – in certain cases and after the discernment process – of allowing them to receive absolution and Communion even without promising to abstain from sexual relations with their new partner. The “filial correction” lists what its authors see as seven “false and heretical propositions” in “Amoris Laetitia,” including: a belief that God’s grace does not give a believer the strength to meet “the objective demands of divine law”; that divorced and civilly remarried persons “are not necessarily in a state of mortal sin”; that a person can break divine law and not be in a state of sin; that a person can decide in good conscience that sexual relations are morally permissible or even good with someone other than the person they married sacramentally; and that “our Lord Jesus Christ wills that the church abandon her perennial discipline of refusing the Eucharist to the divorced and remarried.”
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How to have hope: Pope Francis gives point-by-point guide Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Young people should love, believe and follow their dreams, never despairing because Jesus is always with them, Pope Francis said. When life hits hard, they should try to get up again, letting others help them, and if they are bored, they should concentrate on doing good things for others, the pope said Sept. 20 during his weekly general audience. Continuing his series of audience talks on Christian hope, the pope gave extensive advice on how to teach people, especially young people, to remain full of hope. No matter “where God has planted you, hope. Always hope,” he said, explaining: – Enemy No. 1 is not out there somewhere, but inside oneself. “Don’t make room for bitter or dark thoughts.” – “Believe in the existence of the most noble and beautiful truths” and trust that God, through the Holy Spirit, is ushering everything toward the good, toward “Christ’s embrace.” – Believers are not alone in their faith. There are others who hope, too. “The world goes on thanks to the vision of many people who created an opening, who built bridges, who dreamed and believed, even when they heard words of derision around them.” – Never believe the struggles here on earth are “useless.” God never disappoints and he wants that seed he planted in everyone to bloom. “God made us to flower, too.” – “Wherever you are, build!” – When life gets hard, and “you have fallen, get
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uring the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke for many self-identified progressive Catholics when she told syndicated columnist Michael Kelly, “This is our church, all of us, and we need to take it back.” Mr. Kelly, a thoughtful george weigel liberal columnist who died tragically in Iraq a year later, agreed. But they were both mistaken. The church is not “ours;” the church is Christ’s. As I wrote at the time, the church “was not created by us, or by our Christian ancestors, or by the donors to the diocesan annual fund – a point the Lord made abundantly clear himself in the gospels: ‘You did not choose me, but I chose you’” (John 15:16). As a friend put it at the time, “the church is not ours to take back because it never belonged to us, and the instant we make it ‘our own’ we are damned. No merely
human institution, no matter how perfectly pure and gutsy and dutiful to its members, can take away even a venial sin. That’s the point St. Paul takes 16 chapters to get across to the Romans.” In a fine example of the maxim that what goes around comes around, this familiar progressive trope of a church that “we” must “take back” has now migrated to the opposite extreme of the ecclesiastical spectrum, as exemplified in a Remnant TV video, “Catholics Rising,” announcing a “Catholic Identity Conference” to be held in late October in Pittsburgh. The call-to-arms is identical to that which the Catholic left was broadcasting in 2002: “Many Catholics have had enough. They want their church back. ... Join us and let’s take our church back.” The strange symmetry at the opposite poles of the 21st-century church is neatly demonstrated by the messaging tactics of this brief video. The woolier parts of today’s Catholic Left insist, in a false and exaggerated way, that the reform of the liturgy has been hijacked by reactionaries; the Remnant TV video, in a similarly false and exaggerated way, suggests that sacrilegious, goofball liturgy is the norm wherever the
Novus Ordo Mass is celebrated. The Catholic left is nostalgic for the days when Catholic Lite ruled the roost, and somehow imagines that the 1970s can be recreated; those who made the Remnant TV video manifest a deep nostalgia for the Catholic 1950s, which they, too, seem to imagine can be recreated, and not just in bunkers and catacombs. The Catholic left has long indulged in the conspiracy-theorizing encoded in secular progressivism’s DNA; the unstated but unmistakable subtheme of “Catholics Rising” is that malign and clandestine conspirators have hijacked “our church.” Moreover, both polar extremes in the church today seem locked into the same meta-narrative of Catholicism and modernity, in which the paramount question is, “How much should the church concede to modern culture?” The farther reaches of the Catholic left are willing to surrender a lot, to the point where Catholicism fades into the dull incoherence of liberal Protestantism; the farther reaches of the Catholic right aren’t willing to surrender an inch. Neither side seems much interested in the real question, which is, “How does the church convert the modern world and the postmodern world – like it converted the
world of classical antiquity, similarly beset by the collapse of ancient truths and venerable institutions?” The Pittsburgh “Catholic Identity Conference” promises that “two bishops and priests from every major traditionalist fraternity in the world” will address the question, “Where do we go from here?” Were I asked (which I won’t be), I’d suggest that “where we go from here” is back to the 15th chapter of John’s Gospel and Paul’s letter to the Romans. No authentic renewal of Catholic life, and no effective response to the untruths that bedevil Catholicism today, will begin from the premise that “this is our church and we must take it back.” It is Christ’s church, and if any of us proceeds from any other premise, we are part of the problem, not the solution. I hope someone among those “two bishops and priests from every major traditionalist fraternity in the world” makes that point in Pittsburgh – and then links it to the imperative of missionary discipleship in the church of the New Evangelization. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
Blessed Rother: ‘Authentic light’ for church and world, says cardinal “If they asked for a few more cents for picking coffee beans, they were considered communists, and a truck would come into the village that night, stop at the home of the man or woman who asked for a few more cents, take them out to the country, torture them, kill them, and then throw their bodies into a well to poison that well,” said Archbishop Flynn. Father Rother described the situation “with a passion,” Archbishop Flynn recalled. “It was haunting him. He said, ‘If I speak, they’ll kill me, but if keep silent, what kind of a shepherd would I be?’” The friends shared meals together that week, but Father Rother spent his days praying at the historic Lourdes grotto at Mount St. Mary’s
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Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, a place he had loved while he and Archbishop Flynn were seminarians. At the end of the week, he told thenFather Flynn, “I know what I must do. I must go back and speak.” “But,” Archbishop Flynn recalled, “he also said this: ‘They’re not going to take me out and kill me somewhere in the country and then throw my body into a well.’ He said, ‘I’ll put up a fight like they’ve never seen before.’” Archbishop Flynn took Father Rother to the airport and said goodbye. He knew it would be the last time he would see him alive. Two years later, in 1981, Archbishop Flynn opened a newspaper to read that an American priest had been killed in Guatemala. He didn’t have to read further to know it was Father Rother.
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Our struggle with riches
number of years ago I attended a funeral. The man to whom we were saying goodbye had enjoyed a full and rich life. He’d reached the age of 90 and was respected for having been both successful and honest. But he’d always been a strong man, a natural leader, a man who took charge of things. He’d had a good marriage, raised a large family, been successful in business and held leadership roles in various civic and church organizations. He was a man who commanded respect although he was sometimes feared for his strength. FATHER ron His son, a priest, was presidrolheiser ing at his funeral. He began his homily this way: “Scripture tells us that 70 is the sum of a man’s years, 80 for those who are strong. Now, our dad lived for 90 years. Why the extra 10 years? Well, it’s no mystery really. It took God an extra 10 years to mellow him out! He was too strong and cantankerous to die at 80! But during the last 10 years of his life he suffered a series of massive diminishments. His wife died, he never got over that. He had a stroke, he never got over that. He had to be moved into an assisted living complex, he never got over that. All these diminishments did their work. By the time he died, he could take your hand and say: ‘Help me.’ He couldn’t say that from the time he could tie his own shoelaces until those last years. He was finally ready for heaven. Now when he met St. Peter at the gates of heaven he could say: ‘Help me!’ rather than tell St. Peter how he might better organize things.” This story can help us understand Jesus’ teaching that the rich find it difficult to enter the kingdom of see rolheiser, page 24
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letters Hate speech and the First Amendment
I read the letter to the editor by P. Roscelli from Sept. 14 (“Hate speech and the First Amendment”) and was confused. What was the desired response by the Catholic Church that the writer wanted? I never read anywhere that the Catholic Church wanted the Nazis, KKK or white supremacists banned. Isn’t that enough to support the First Amendment? (I wonder how anyone can’t quickly “rush” to condemn the members of these groups as haters. After all, we are talking about Nazis (remember WWII, the Holocaust?), the KKK (burning crosses, lynching?), and white supremacists (the white race above all others?). The Catholic spokespeople were exercising their First Amendment right of free speech by criticizing or even condemning the ideas and the behavior of these groups. I would not have expected less. Wouldn’t it have been a good idea if the Catholic Church had spoken out earlier in Nazi Germany when the real Nazis were coming to power? Richard Morasci San Francisco
Defending Sen. Feinstein
The Sept. 14 article by Kurt Jensen (“Catholic judicial nominee grilled by senators on her religious views”) is a hatchet job against U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the best California senator ever – certainly the best representative in Washington that San Francisco ever had. What shouldn’t be a political situation was turned into one by Trump and the alt-right. And, our Catholic San Francisco joined right in or was so naive they just followed lockstep.
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Every senator is duty-bound to investigate and determine the qualifications of all nominated federal judges. This is done in open hearing by the judicial committee of which Dianne is a member. Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, a law school professor, for a judgeship. She is a Catholic, has never been a judge and has no record of decisions on which senators could rely. She did, however, write a law review article in which she said, “Judges cannot – nor should they try to – align our legal system with the church’s moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should ... conform their own behavior to the church’s standard. Perhaps their example will have some effect.” And also, “... the general public are entitled to impartial justice, which may be something a judge who is heedful of ecclesiastical pronouncements cannot dispense” [81 Marq. L. Rev. 303 (1997)]. What does this mean for Barrett deciding capital punishment cases, LGBT issues, gay marriage issues, immigration, etc.? If ever there was a need to ask questions of a nominee, this was the one. The questions Dianne asked were softball questions to allow Barrett to put her position on the record and clear the air. I can only say good job, Dianne, and “blah!” to the Catholic San Francisco and the publisher/editor who failed to leave this article on the printing room floor. God bless us all – we will survive. Will Silverthorne San Francisco
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Sunday readings
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time EZEKIEL 18:25-28 Thus says the Lord: You say, “The Lord’s way is not fair!” Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair? When someone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, it is because of the iniquity he committed that he must die. But if he turns from the wickedness he has committed, he does what is right and just, he shall preserve his life; since he has turned away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. PSALM 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 Remember your mercies, O Lord. Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths, guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior. Remember your mercies, O Lord. Remember that your compassion, O Lord, and your love are from of old. The sins of my youth and my frailties remember not; in your kindness remember me, because of your goodness, O Lord.
Remember your mercies, O Lord. Good and upright is the Lord; thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, and teaches the humble his way. Remember your mercies, O Lord. PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11 Brothers and sisters: If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but also for those of others. Have in you the same attitude that is also in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to
the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. MATTHEW 21:28-32 Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: “What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.’ He said in reply, ‘I will not, ‘but afterwards changed his mind and went. The man came to the other son and gave the same order. He said in reply, ‘Yes, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the two did his father’s will?” They answered, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him.”
Is the will of God a guessing game?
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ow do we know what God’s will for us is? Do we have to guess what God wants – what we should do or choose? What if we guess badly? Will we suffer awful consequences? Some imagine a distant God who is testing us and presenting us with dilemmas. We recall the scene in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) where the Knight says to Indiana, “You have chosen wisely.” He confirms the hero’s correct choice of the Holy Grail from an array of cups and goblets. So is the will of God like that, keeping us in suspense? How can we possibly be sure we have “chosen wisely”? The scriptures for today reflect on what God’s will is, without giving a pat answer. sister Eloise Ezekiel says we do God’s will Rosenblatt, RSM when we turn away from wickedness and do what is right and just. This counsel seems to take for granted that we know the difference between cruelty and kindness, torture and healing, murder and saving life, bullying and protectiveness, humiliation and respect, exclusion
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and inclusion, addiction and sobriety, cheating and honesty, arrogance and humility, selfishness and generosity, narcissistic manipulation and respect for another’s dignity. So God’s will does not take much guessing. We have suffered from people who “commit iniquity.” Thus, we already know what is right and just. We don’t have to wonder which cup to choose – or what God’s will is. Philippians describes a community spirit and atmosphere which feels extraordinarily harmonious, gentle and light, like Christ of Gluck’s flute composition, “Dance of the Blessed Spirits.” What marriage, what family, what parish, what community would not dream of replicating Paul’s celebration of the union, compassion, respect, and care that he encourages the Philippians to continue showing each other? Paul’s description of community relations is another way of describing the “will of God” – doing what creates a peaceful, joyful contentment that unites people who feel consoled, cared about, respected and included. Paul’s model for doing the will of God is the humility of Jesus who lets go of divine authority, greatness, omnipotence and privilege to become identified as a human being. The human Jesus serves others, endures human sufferings, without rejecting anything that belongs to the human condition, even death, even violence. Jesus is the “will of God” – how God wants to be with us. It’s encouraging that to do
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, October 2: Memorial of the Guardian Angels. Zec 8:1-8. Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 2223. Ps 103:21. Mt 18:1-5, 10. Tuesday, October 3: Tuesday of the Twentysixth Week in Ordinary Time. Zec 8:20-23. Ps 87:1b3, 4-5, 6-7. Mk 10:45. Lk 9:51-56. Wednesday, October 4: Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi. Neh 2:1-8. Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6. Phil 3:8-9. Lk 9:57-62. Thursday, October 5: Thursday of the Twentysixth Week in Ordinary Time. St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin. Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12. Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Mk 1:15. Lk 10:1-12. Friday, October 6: Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bruno, priest; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, virgin. Bar 1:15-22. Ps 79:1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9. Ps 95:8. Lk 10:13-16. Saturday, October 7: Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. Bar 4:5-12, 27-29. Ps 69:33-35, 36-37. See Mt 11:25. Lk 10:17-24. Sunday, October 8: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Is 5:1-7. Ps 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20. Phil 4:6-9. Cf. Jn 15:16. Mt 21:33-43.
Monday, October 9: Monday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Denis, bishop and martyr and companions, martyrs. St. John Leonardi, priest; Bl. John Henry Newman. Jon 1:1–2:1-2, 11. Jonah 2:3, 4, 5, 8. Jn 13:34. Lk 10:25-37. Tuesday, October 10: Tuesday of the Twentyseventh Week in Ordinary Time. Jon 3:1-10. Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4ab, 7-8. Lk 11:28. Lk 10:38-42. Wednesday, October 11: Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John XXIII, pope. Jon 4:1-11. Ps 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10. Rom 8:15bc. Lk 11:1-4. Thursday, October 12: Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Mal 3:13-20b. Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. See Acts 16:14b. Lk 11:5-13. Friday, October 13: Friday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Jl 1:13-15; 2:1-2. Ps 9:2-3, 6 and 16, 8-9. Jn 12:31b-32. Lk 11:15-26. Saturday, October 14: Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Callistus I, pope and martyr. Jl 4:12-21. Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12. Lk 11:28. Lk 11:27-28.
the will of God we don’t have to be God-like, or perform extraordinary feats as individuals. We just have to be fully human ourselves, empathizing, listening, attending and responding to human beings like ourselves – being “obedient” like Christ Jesus. In the gospel parable of the two sons, all of Jesus’ listeners got the right answer. The first son is the one who did God’s will, not the second, the loose-lipped yes-man. Doing the will of the father means actually, eventually, going to work in the vineyard – even if you said No to begin with. What is missing in the command? The father doesn’t tell the son exactly what to do. Just “go out and work in the vineyard.” How do we know who is doing what God wills? Jesus defends people who look bad on the outside – prostitutes and tax collectors – who are actually fulfilling the father’s command. They must be doing something right. Why didn’t the first son get detailed instructions on what his father wanted? Because this vineyard is his family business, his inheritance. He knows what’s needed because he’s familiar with the rhythm of its cultivation, pruning, tending and harvesting each year. The vineyard is the people of God. What’s needed is already evident. Doing what’s needed in the family vineyard is doing God’s will. Eloise Rosenblatt, RSM, is a Sister of Mercy, a Ph.D. theologian, and a family law attorney in private practice. She lives in San Jose and works across the Bay Area.
Pope: Mercy can scandalize those who don’t see their own sin Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Celebrating the feast of St. Matthew, the anniversary of the day when as a 17-yearold he said he was overwhelmed by God’s mercy, Pope Francis said it was interesting how many Catholics today seem to be scandalized when God shows mercy to someone. In his homily at Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae Sept. 21, Pope Francis looked in depth at the day’s short Gospel story of the calling of St. Matthew. The story, the pope said, has three parts: “the encounter, the celebration and the scandal.” Jesus sees Matthew, a tax collector – “one of those who made the people of Israel pay taxes to give to the Romans, a traitor to his country” – and calls him to follow. Jesus looks at him “lovingly, mercifully” and “the resistance of that man who wanted money, who was a slave to money, falls.” see pope, page 25
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Be not afraid – we’re all in this together
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ach October we observe Respect Life Month in dioceses around the United States. This year’s theme is “Be Not Afraid,” but of what, or whom, are we supposed to not be afraid? Pondering this question, I recalled an experience I had while attending the Convocation of Catholic Leaders in Orlando last summer. Sister I met a young constance woman and her veit, lsp mother from my diocese. The daughter, who had an obvious disability and was using a power wheelchair, had been chosen as a delegate to the convocation; her mother, a college professor, was there as her assistant. As we got acquainted, we chatted about accessibility issues in the church. The young woman told me that while most parishes have rem-
edied architectural barriers such as curbs and restrooms, the seating area designated for wheelchairs is often still found way off to the side or at the very back of the sanctuary – evidence, she believes, that handicapped individuals are still not fully embraced as an integral part of parish life. What she said next cut right to the heart: “It’s fine to be able to get in and out of church, but it would be nice if someone smiled at me once in a while, or spoke to me as if I actually knew what was going on.” I was stunned. All too quickly we wrapped up our conversation, traded business cards – yes, my new friend has a college education and a meaningful job – and went our separate ways. But I haven’t been able to get this conversation off my mind. When I got home I did a bit of research on attitudes toward the disabled and was shocked by a recent study in the U.K. that found that two thirds of adults are afraid of people with disabilities and feel so awkward around them that they go out of their way to avoid them. Another study indicated that 1.4 million senior citizens
in the U.K. feel lonely and cut off from society, many going for over a month at a time without talking to another human being. Since these were not American studies, it would be easy to dismiss this data, but I suspect that we have a lot in common with our British brothers and sisters. Scholars in the field of disability studies suggest that disabled people mirror a certain kind of personal loss or death. They remind us of our own limitations and mortality – and that is what frightens us. As long as we can avoid those who are handicapped or elderly, we can keep our fears about our own fragility and eventual death at bay. But we are all broken in some way – if we were honest, we would admit that we each experience areas of weakness or disability every day, and none of us is really more than one accident or illness away from losing our cherished independence. The church proposes a different approach. In the face of suffering and death she tells us, “Be not afraid.” With words that echo through salvation history into the depths of our hearts, the Lord says to us, “Do not
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fear: I am with you” (Isaiah 41:10). He speaks these words not as one who merely observes our pain, but as one who experienced intense suffering and death in his own flesh before triumphing over death itself. Reflecting on the wounds of the risen Christ, we see that even our most difficult trials can be the place where God manifests his victory. He is always with us. Jesus promised this when he gave the disciples the same mission he gives to each of us: Go out to all the world! So if we run toward our most vulnerable brothers and sisters rather than running away from them, marginalizing them or excluding them from our lives, we will experience the love of God in a powerful new way as we contribute to the building up of a society that witnesses to the beautiful, profound reality that God has created each of us in his own image and likeness, that he loves us infinitely, and that he has confided each person to the love of all. Sister Constance Veit is director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Sex in accord with reason
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n article published in 2012 in The Atlantic described the sexual practices of the Aka and Ngandu people who live in the tropical forests of central Africa. Researchers Barry and Bonnie Hewlett, anthropologists from Washington State University, found that married Aka and Ngandu men and women consistently reported having sex multiple times in a single night. They also discovered that practices of, and even the concepts of, homosexuality and masturbation appeared to be largely unknown to the groups: “In both cultures, men and women view sexual intercourse as a kind of ‘work of the night.’ The purpose of this work is the production of children – a critical father tadeusz matter in an area with a pacholczyk very high infant mortality rate. Semen is understood by the Aka and Ngandu to be necessary not only to conception, but also to fetal development. A woman who is already pregnant will see having intercourse as contributing to the health of her fetus. The Aka and Ngandu speak of sex as ‘searching for children’… Said one Aka woman, ‘It is fun to have sex, but it is to look for a child.’ Meanwhile, a Ngandu woman confessed, ‘after losing so many infants I lost courage to have sex.’ Is the strong cultural focus on sex as a reproductive tool the reason masturbation and homosexual practices seem to be virtually unknown among the Aka and Ngandu? That isn’t clear. But the
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Hewletts did find that their informants – whom they knew well from years of field work – ‘were not aware of these practices, did not have terms for them,’ and, in the case of the Aka, had a hard time even understanding about what the researchers were asking when they asked about homosexual behaviors.” Modern-day Western societies, meanwhile, have adopted an alternative understanding of sexuality, one that leans heavily on adjectives like “pleasure-seeking” or even “recreational,” quite distinct from the category of a “search for children.” They feature practices of contraception, male and female sterilizations, abortions, and the sanctioning of homosexual, masturbatory, and other non-procreative sexual behaviors. In earlier times, however, Western views more closely resembled those of the Aka and Ngandu, especially in recognizing the fundamental orientation of sexuality toward the good of offspring. The Catholic Church has long affirmed that married love has a twofold significance, being ordered both toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring. St. Thomas Aquinas once noted that nature intends, in broad strokes, not only the generation of children, but also their “carrying forth and promotion all the way to the perfect state of man as man” – in other words, both the engendering and conscientious raising of children. Recognizing this natural ordering toward “mature offspring” also points to certain natural inclinations that prompt men and women to protect and care for their children: We are inclined to have sexual relations; we are inclined to be certain that the child we are going to be committed to is our own, and to care for that child continually; and we are inclined to remain with the mother/father of that child, sharing a life of mutual assistance marked by true friendship in
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ne of the greatest heroes of the social justice wing of the church is, quite rightly, the 17thcentury “slave of the slaves,” St. Peter Claver. Born in Barcelona, Claver joined the Society of Jesus and was known, even as a young man, as a person of deep intelligence and piety. Spurred by what he took to be the direct prompting of the Holy Spirit, the young Spaniard volunteered to work among the poor in what was then known as “New Spain.” Arriving in Cartagena, he saw the unspeakable degradation of the BISHOP Robert captives brought in chains Barron by ship from Africa, and he resolved to dedicate his life to serving them. We have a wonderful letter that Peter Claver wrote to his Jesuit superior in which he vividly describes apostolic work that he did among the slaves, just after they came ashore in Cartagena. He speaks of hopeless people staggering off the ships, stark naked, starving, and disoriented. Many were so sick that they were barely able to stand. Peter and his colleagues brought them fruits and water, and then, he tells us, they contrived to build a crude shelter,
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heaven while little children enter it quite naturally. We tend to misunderstand both why the rich find it hard to enter the kingdom and why little children enter it more easily. Why do little children enter the kingdom quite naturally? In answering this we tend to idealize the innocence of little children, which can indeed be striking. But that’s not what Jesus is holding up as an ideal here, an ideal of innocence which for us adults is impossible in any case. It’s not the innocence of children that Jesus praises; rather it’s the fact that children have no illusion of self-sufficiency. Children have no choice but to know their dependence. They’re not selfsufficient and know that they cannot provide for themselves. If someone doesn’t feed them they go hungry. They need to say, and to say it often: “Help me!” It’s generally the opposite for adults, especially if we’re strong, talented, and blessed with sufficient wealth. We easily nurse the illusion of self-sufficiency. In our strength we more naturally forget that we need others, that we’re not self-reliant. The lesson here isn’t that riches are bad. Riches, be that money, talent, intelligence, health, good looks, leadership skills, or flat-out strength, are gifts from God. They’re good. It’s not riches that block us from entering the kingdom. Rather it’s the danger that, having them, we will more easily also have the illusion that we’re self-sufficient. We aren’t. As Thomas Aquinas points out by the very way he defines God (as Esse Subsistens – Self-sufficient Being) only God does not need anyone or anything else. The rest of us do, and little children more easily grasp this than do adults, especially strong and gifted adults. Moreover the illusion of self-sufficiency often spawns another danger: Riches and the comfort they bring, as we see in the parable of the rich man who has a beggar at his door, can make us blind to the plight and hunger of the poor. That’s one of the dangers in not being hungry ourselves. In our comfort, we tend not to see the poor. And so it’s not riches themselves that are bad. The moral danger in being rich is rather the illusion of self-sufficiency that seems to forever accompany riches. Little children don’t suffer this illusion, but the strong do. That’s the danger in being rich, money-wise or otherwise. Riches are good, but only if they’re shared. In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus praises the generous rich but warns the hoarding rich. Generosity is Godlike, hoarding is antithetical to heaven. And so from the time we learn to tie our own shoelaces until the various diminishments of life begin to strip away the illusion of self-sufficiency, riches of all kinds constitute a danger. We must never unlearn the words: “Help me!” Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
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Hurricane Harvey and the kayaking priest
urricane Harvey stranded Father David Bergeron in his pick-up the night it ripped through Houston. The 38-year-old priest had been visiting his brother and had to pull over on an overpass three miles from his home in the floodravaged southeast side. He couldn’t make it any farther or go back, so he curled up in his truck and tried to sleep as thunder and sirens alternated – rain pounding, wind howling, his beloved city churning in despair. The next morning was Christina eerily quiet. Capecchi Father David’s kayak was in the back of the truck – he’d used it just the day before – and he felt compelled to venture out in search of wine so he could celebrate Mass with some families stranded in a nearby apartment building. It made quite the sight: A red kayak slithering through the gray flood waters, a handsome man in a red baseball cap pulled over his dark, curly hair. There had been no sun for three days, and here was a smiling priest rowing down South Loop.
“It was a surprise to see a kayak in the street,” Father David told me. “It brought a smile to people – not only outwardly, but in their hearts as well.” The closest gas station refused his request for wine; Texas law forbids the sale of liquor before noon on Sundays. The priest bought some food and headed back out. He spotted a man trying to cross a fast-moving current and escorted him. Then came the newsman from ABC 13 reporting from the wet overpass. He squatted beside the kayak and held up a microphone. Father David identified himself and chronicled his morning. The iPhone in his life vest began pinging. He knew what that meant. Here was his chance. “I guess we’re live,” Father David said, “and the Lord is alive, and the Lord is always with us.” Before long the interview wrapped, and Father David rowed off. He helped rescue a frail older priest from a hotel. He celebrated Mass. And he ministered to dozens of stranded Texans in his midst – greeting children, leading prayer and listening to their harrowing tales. He had just preached about Our Lady, Star of the Sea, an ancient title that resonated with him, and he found himself calling on the Blessed Mother as he waded through the waters, fearing snakes. The story of the kayaking priest went viral, and Father David gave 17 interviews in the following
24 hours. The chapel at his residence, the Catholic Charismatic Center, which managed to avoid flooding, became his operating base. He rose early for a BBC interview, slipping out of the chapel to speak then returning to prayer. It was a dizzying chain of events, but the priest felt sustained by grace. “This is not something you can prepare for,” he said, “but if the Lord calls, He will equip.” The parallel was not lost on him, he told reporters: “The New World was evangelized through the waters, crossing from Europe to America and then using canoes.” Father David is still busy helping victims of Harvey and reflecting on the experience. “My greatest pulpit was the kayak,” he said. “Evangelization is just being present to the Lord – sometimes with words, sometimes with attitudes, wherever we are. You need to be who you are. For me, I am a priest who kayaks – and the Lord used that for his great purpose, something I could not have planned or staged.” The key, he says, is to be attentive – rooted in prayer and open to others. “The Gospels were written 2,000 years ago, but they’re still being written by us today saying yes to the Lord as best as we can.” Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
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Bishop Barron: Peter Claver vs. Immanuel Kant FROM PAGE 24
and delight before they died. He adds the touching detail that they employed friendly gestures and signs to communicate concern to those with whom they shared no common language: “This is how we spoke to them, not with words but with our hands and our actions.” I cannot imagine any decent person today who wouldn’t understand and deeply sympathize with everything that Peter Claver did on behalf of these poorest of the poor. They would be justified in seeing him as a 17th-century anticipation of Mother Teresa. However, as we continue to peruse Claver’s letter, we discover something that many today would find puzzling, even off-putting. Immediately after caring for their physical and psychological needs, the saint commenced to instruct the slaves in the rudiments of the Christian faith. Once the new arrivals demonstrated a fundamental under-
standing, Claver continues, “we went on to a more extensive instruction, namely, about the one God, who rewards and punishes … We asked them to make an act of contrition … finally … we declared to them the mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Passion.” In other words, just after ministering to their bodies and their troubled minds, he ministered to their souls. Now don’t get me wrong: I wouldn’t exactly recommend that one move to evangelization quite as quickly as Peter Claver did! And I don’t think it’s either wise or fair to propose the Christian faith to those who are physically weak and psychologically traumatized. Nevertheless, it is eminently clear that the great saint, the slave of the slaves, did not drive a wedge between the church’s “social justice” ministry and its evangelizing outreach. He most certainly did not think that his care for the marginalized began and ended with attention to their worldly needs. In fact,
Peter Claver was proudest of the fact that, in the course of his work with the slaves, he baptized upward of 300,000. I bring this up, because I’m concerned that afoot in our society and even in our church today is the unhappy tendency to separate what Peter Claver kept very much together. How often we hear some version of this: “Well, it doesn’t really matter what people believe, as long as they are decent and tolerant,” or of this: “Being a Christian finally comes down to helping the poor.” Ideas, doctrines and dogmas seem to be at best private convictions and at worst sources of division and oppression. But all of this reflects, not the church’s authentic self-understanding, but the Kantian prejudice that has formed the modern consensus. The massively influential philosopher Immanuel Kant held, of course, that religion is basically resolvable into ethics, that everything else that preoccupies religious people is all finally about making us morally upright people.
But as Pope Benedict XVI reminded us, the church has three fundamental and mutually implicative tasks: To care for the poor, to worship God, and to evangelize. Each of these calls out to the other two, and all forms of reductionism in their regard ought to be avoided. Keep in mind, too, that Pope Francis, whom no one could ever accuse of indifference to the physical and psychological suffering of the poor, also speaks of those on the “existential margins,” which is to say, those who are alienated from God and unacquainted with the Gospel. The “field hospital” of the church – and how vividly that image calls to mind Peter Claver’s work – is meant for those who need care in body, mind and soul. Therefore, yes to social justice! And yes to evangelizing! And down with Kantian reductionism! Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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“When I was working at Wells Fargo downtown, I used to go to St. Patrick to stop by for a visit,” said Rodriguez. “I’ve always enjoyed to either make a visit or go to the Mass. Then, when I retired I decided I would like to do it every day.” “He’s been driving the same car since 1962,” Father Link said. “A Chevrolet Corvair he drove off the lot in 1962. He drives that car to Mass every single day. It’s in perfect shape. It shines almost like the day he drove it off the showroom floor.” Rodriguez is “a faithful loving presence every day. I count on it. I count on his presence and I also count on his prayers,” Father Link said.
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“The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis – and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance” by Ben Sasse. St. Martin’s Press (New York, 2017). 306 pp., $27.99. There are two subjects U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, deems off-limits while analyzing what he calls “America’s coming-of-age crisis”: sex and politics. Everything else, seemingly, is fair game. Contemporary approaches to education, the workplace, media consumption, travel, child rearing and more come in for critique for contributing to a culture of “endless adolescence.” Sasse worries we’ve become less intentional about inculcating a sense of personal responsibility or work ethic – something he sees as dangerous for a nation built on self-governance. “Leaving childhood ... (used to be) a gift that older generations gave to the younger,” he writes. “No longer.” One-half cultural analysis, one-half parenting manual, “The Vanishing American Adult” avoids becoming the kind of anti-millennial jeremiad it could have become in the hands of a less optimistic writer. To be sure, Sasse worries plenty about the habits and ethics of the next generation. Yet he stresses the fault is not theirs alone. Ever since the rise of the baby boomers, he argues, America has placed more emphasis on consumption than production, families are no longer incubators of material and moral stability, and the fractured transience of pop culture has replaced any unifying narrative or sense of the permanent. These changes call for “alternative ways of building long-term character in an era when the daily
pursuit of food and shelter no longer compels it,” Sasse writes. The corn-fed heartland values that he sees as being fundamental to the American character until the end of the 20th century can no longer be assumed. “This time really is different. This is almost a re-founding moment in American life.” If there was an award for most interesting man in the Senate, Sasse would be on the short list. Holder of a doctorate in history from Yale, the consultant-turned-college-president-turnedsenator went viral online after spending a Saturday night getting to know his constituents by working as an undercover Uber driver. His decision, detailed in the book, to send his 14-year-old daughter to a cattle ranch for a summer also led to national attention. His golden-retriever-type earnestness is infectious as he gleefully questions the conventions of modern-day childrearing. Homeschooling parents, in particular, will appreciate his rigorous attacks on John Dewey, age-based segregation and the industrial model of public education. At other times, readers may not be on-board. A sitting senator will undoubtedly find it easier to take his 10-year-old to work with him than a middle manager in corporate America. The example of Sasse and his wife observing a friend give birth just for the educational experience seems unlikely to catch on. And
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OUR LADY OF THE VISITACION SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The school’s student council participated in the coastal cleanup Sept. 16 at Ocean Beach. The council is made up of students in grades four-eight and is led by fifth grade teacher Danny Ballesteros and teacher aide Lucia Hernandez.
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ST. ANTHONY PARISH, NOVATO: The parish’s annual rummage sale held Aug. 3-6 raised $96,000 “our highest ever,” Father Felix Lim, pastor, told Catholic San Francisco. More than 100 volunteers donate “time and energy for days and weeks for this event,” Father Lim said. Pictured are the people behind the successful effort at a “thank you dinner held recently to celebrate the success, hard work, and camaraderie,” Father Lim said. Beth Livoti was chairperson.
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STS. PETER AND PAUL SCHOOL: Second graders adopted a second grade class at a school in Houston, Texas, affected by Hurricane Harvey. The students sent 55 notebooks, 670 pencils, 410 pens and 26 Post-it packs as well as markers, erasers, crayons, folders and $50 in Target gift cards. “The second graders were very excited to send their donations and have new pen pals at the same time. The students hope that their letters and donations can help to brighten this difficult time,” the school said.
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SEMINARY GALA: Walk for Life West Coast founders Eva Muntean and Dolores Meehan, pictured with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, were honored at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University’s “Under the Stars” gala Sept. 9 on the school’s Menlo Park campus. More than 600 people attended with the evening raising more
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 30 ‘NIGHT WITH ELVIS’: Dinner and show, St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae, Doors open 5:45 p.m., dinner 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. $50 per person, no-host bar. Ann Woolen, (650) 6974730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org.
SUNDAY, OCT. 1 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org. LIFE CHAIN: An annual event with demonstrators lining San Francisco’s Park Presidio Boulevard between Clement and Geary proclaiming prolife messages with signs and chants beginning at 2 p.m. Leave message at event sponsor United for Life, (415) 567-2293. IHM CONSECRATION: Join host J.A. Gray, Father Joseph Illo and Claire Herrick on Mosaic, 5 a.m., KPIX Channel 5, for a look at Marian events in the Archdiocese of San Francisco Oct. 7: Rosary Rally, Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and celebration of Our Lady at Fatima. The show will later be posted for viewing permanently on the archdiocesan website.
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SATURDAY, OCT. 21 ACCW FALL CONFERENCE: Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Brendan Parish Hall, San Francisco. Speakers include Sacred Heart Sister Barbara Fran Tobin McGuigan and Presentation Sister Rita Jovick, Northern California Sisters against Human Trafficking; EWTN’s Barbara McGuigan; San Quentin volunteer Jean Ann Hostetter Ramirez. Cathy Mibach, (415) 753-0234, dcmibach@aol.com.
TRANSITUS: Secular Franciscans of Our Lady of Angels Fraternity, Burlingame, commemorate the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi, 7 p.m. The rite includes a candlelight procession, Scripture readings, writings and stories of St. Francis, hymns, and a litany of Franciscan saints. Light refreshments and information follow. Our Lady of MALTA AWARDS: Silver Chalice Angels U Church, B L1721IHillside C Drive, A T Awards I ODinner, N6 p.m., S St. Francis Burlingame. Diane Creedon, (650) 678Yacht Club, 99 Yacht Road, San 6449; dianecreedon@sbcglobal.net. Francisco, honoring founding board
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FRIDAY, OCT. 6 ILLNESS SUPPORT: Strength for the Journey, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 1-2:30 p.m., for people with life threatening illness, free admission, Deacon Christoph Sandoval, facilitates. Sister Elaine Stahl, (415) 567-2020 ext. 218; estahl@stmarycathedralsf.org.
SATURDAY, OCT. 7 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. REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy, class of 1967, noon, Il Fornaio Restaurant, San Francisco, Trudy Moesch May may@usfca.edu; (415) 254-7286. STEAK BARBECUE: YMI Council #32, All Souls Church, Festival Cafeteria, South San Francisco, 6 p.m., $ 20 with RSVP before Oct. 4, $ 25 at the door, Janet Vergara ssfallsoulsfestival@ yahoo.com or text (650) 333-0128 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11 CATHOLIC CHARITIES: The agency’s Refugee & Immigrant Services arm celebrates its fifth anniversary helping immigrant families and individuals in San Mateo County, Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 5-7 p.m., with a program at 5 p.m. The event is also a time to meet new CEO Jilma Meneses, Catholic Charities said. (415) 972-1246, events@CatholicCharitiesSF.org.
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LAUDATO SI’ PROGRESS: Where we are two years later, a conference led by Dominican Sister Patricia Siemen, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $30 includes lunch. RSVP by Oct. 1, http://bit.ly/LaudatoSi; (510) 9336334.
SUNDAY, OCT. 15 FILIPINO GALA: “Heal the World Through Music,” 5 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Patrons Hall featuring the spiritual significance music plays in bringing people together transcending boundaries, culture, language, religion, gender, age, color and politics. Hear the voices of the Choral Group of Youth and Young Adults of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. $60 per person, $600 per table. For tickets and additional information, email filipinoministrysf1@gmail.com or text (415) 595-9248. 50TH ANNIVERSARY: St. John of God Parish, 1290 Fifth Ave. at Irving, San Francisco continues the celebration of its 50th anniversary, 10:30 a.m. Mass followed by reception. Limited parking. Church is on N Judah Muni. stjohnofgod-sf@sbcglobal.net.
TUESDAY, OCT. 17 SACRED HEART 65TH REUNION: Class of 1952, Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco, Original Joe’s Westlake, Frank Noonan, fnoonan@ zaentz.com; (415) 497-1286. Almost 30 classmates already attending, Frank said. Last time the group got together was for 60th five years ago. RIORDAN CLASS OF 1959: Reunion, Westlake Joe’s, 11 Glenwood Ave, Daly City, 11 a.m. cocktails, noon-2 p.m. lunch. $40 per person. To register, contact Director of Alumni Relations Paul Cronin, pcronin@riordanhs.org.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August HOLY CROSS, COLMA
Mary M. Kamai Nathan James Kaufman Beverly J. Kellner Wai Choi Kong (James) M. Roberto Aceituno Marlene Lainez Victorine Acosta John Lazaneo Krista Lynn Acosta Roberta C. Leonor Clara Armanini Teresa Mo-Lui Leung Catherine F. Barbaria Luisa Z. Llanos Mary E. Barr Dominic Lucia Ida L. Basta June Lucia Carol B. Baumann Joseph G. Ludi Amar Amais Bell Dr. Efren S. Mangundayao, DDS Antonio S. Bernardo, Jr. Telma Marcal Sr. Christine Blondel, LSP Kathleen I. Martinez John M. Bolts, Sr. Dolores McAdam Marcelle Y. Breitner David McIntosh Robert Brengolini Regina Josephine McKenna Fredy Buitrago Myrna Pama McKenzie Aurea Burgos Bunoan Lily Mejia Rosita Valdez Cabanag Cecile N. Montalvo Jaime A. Cabrera Frances M. Morch Lorraine M. Callan Richard Moreno Pauline Carter Bartolome Moreto Lydia G. Castro Thomas Moore Mullen, Jr. Maryalice Clare Friedel Murphy Helen L. Coats Juliet Navarro Beatrice Cocciolone Bruno M. Nebres Edwin M. Conner Ermelinda Neeley Philip Paul Contino, Sr. Anita O’Neill Edward J. Corrigan Carlito Ong Jose Antonio U. Cruz Joseph D. Palazzolo Petra G. Cruz Martin M. Palter Louis Paul DeAngelis LeRoy Pappas Rose Marie Dietzen Bonifacio B. Pedroarena Mary Rose Donohue Robert E. Penna Raul Duran Frances M. Pesely Sr. James Marien Dyer, CSJ Sister Mary Paschal Elvin, PBVM Hildegard Plagge Joseph C. Presti Abel Enrique Esquivel, Jr. Robert James Rakish Ramon Alberto Fernandez Morris Suncin Ramos Henry “Bud” Fields Carol L. Rengstorff Karen Fitzgerald Artemio Rodriguez Susana P. Galatierra Bienvenida L. Romero Efrain E. Galeano Annie Teresa Roonan Lydia Garcia Blanca Rosa “Chita” Salazar Alicia M. Giddings Mary E. Santana Consolacion Gonzalez Margaret Mary Scholl James “Gugie” Guglielmoni Mary J. Seffens Maria E. Guzman John Shanley Jackie Harney Oscar G. Simon Dr. Francis A. Healy Lucille Smith Mary Louise Idiart Mary V. Sodervick Felicidad P. Jaballa Br. Patrick R. Souza, S.M. Bernard J. Jordan Mary C. Taylor Gladys Jurgens
Gloria J. Thibeaux Susan Thompson Dorothy M. Thorsen Frances Ting Lillian Tufo Jose Leonardo Urroz Anita H. Venegas Anita A. Vicerra Barbara R. Voelker Joyce M. Wall Mary Zugar Barbara Zukowski
HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK
Mary P. Aldrich Elizabeth “Peggy” Kinzie Buckley Antonio C. M. T. John Conomos Irma Beatrice Crowley John “Jack” James Crowley Cathryn Frances Robert F. Glockner J. Guadalupe Velasco Guzman James A. Kaval Mason Anthony Page Dyani Rosales Margaret Miller Tomei
MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL
Robert Lee Arnold Mary Jane Redmond Ball Delphine “Skip” Clippinger Norman C. Estes Genevieve Mary Faustine Alfred M. Garland Jean M. Garland Janet Leonardi Iannessa Joan M. Loberg Christopher L. Mahoney Mary Ellen Maurer Dottie Mazzina Patricia R. Pearson Istvan Szentgyorgyi Mary Elizabeth Vilter Michael Jeffrey Ward
TOMALES Ann Matteri
HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma first saturday mass Saturday, October 7, 2017 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021
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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021