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VATICAN CITY – Christians must put their mark on history, transforming the world every day driven by the joy of proclaiming God’s love, Pope Francis said.

“We are not prophets of gloom who take delight in unearthing dangers or deviations,” handing down “bitter judgments on our society, on the church, on everything and everyone, polluting the world with our negativity,” he told catechists Sept. 25.

Instead, “whoever proclaims the hope of Jesus carries joy” and can see both far-off new horizons and see pope, page 14

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House superior Sister Catherine Maree Rea, CSN, and Sister Teresa Grant, CSN, are all smiles at a 50th anniversary luncheon for the Nazareth House Auxiliary Sept. 21.

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VATICAN CITY – In an effort to ensure transparency as well as historical and scientific accuracy, Pope Francis has approved revised norms for the Congregation for Saints’ Causes regarding medical consultations on healings alleged to be miracles.

Among the regulations published by the Vatican Sept. 23 was the requirement that the medical panel have a quorum of six experts and that a two-thirds majority is needed to approve a statement declaring a healing has no natural or scientific explanation.

Previously, the declaration – a key step in a pope’s recognition of a miracle attributed to the intercession of a candidate for sainthood – required the approval of a simple majority of the consultation team members present.

“The purpose of the regulation is for the good of the (saints’) causes, which can never be separated from the historical and scientific truth of the alleged miracles,”

It is said that it’s love that makes a house a home, and that’s what the volunteers of Nazareth House have helped furnish it with for 50 years.

On Sept. 21, the nonprofit Catholic retirement home in San Rafael owned and operated by the Sisters of Nazareth toasted its auxiliary for bringing five decades of “sunshine” to its residents.

“These wonderful women and men offer a great benefit to our residents, both materially and spiritually,” Sister Catherine Rea, superior, said during an anniversary luncheon in the facility’s event center. The anniversary party doubled as a farewell to Sister Catherine who moves to the Nazareth House in San Diego in October after six years in San Rafael.

The aim of the Sisters of Nazareth is to provide for the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of Nazareth House’s 125 or

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so senior residents, which include some married couples, mostly widows and widowers and currently about 11 retired priests.

The six sisters in residence at Nazareth House have their hands full with direct care and spiritual support to residents including coordination of the religious services and activities (Nazareth House has a priest), said Claire Miller, a 30-plus year member of the auxiliary and past president.

She said volunteers support them by offering an added “human touch” that can mean so much to the daily lives of seniors who can feel isolated. They may linger for a bit of idle conversation after delivering resident mail or at the counter of the gift shop. They answer telephones and direct visitors and deliver get well, birthday and sympathy greetings they call “sunshine” to residents. They also organize birthday parties, bingo games, stitchery and crafts, continental breakfasts and other activities. The men haul see nazareth house, page 3

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‘Amoris Laetitia’ III: Responsible parenthood

Need to know Blessing of the Animals: At St. Mary’s Cathedral, 11 a.m., Oct. 1.The event honors the creator of all things and traditionally takes place on or near the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Please bring pets on a leash or otherwise under control, and be prepared to clean up after them if necessary.

Deacon Christoph Sandoval, (415) 567-2020.

PRO-LIFE LUNCHEON: United for Life, Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard, San Francisco, Oct. 16, 12:45 p.m., gathering with lunch at 1:30 p.m., speakers are Victoria Evans, respect life coordinator for Archdiocese of San Francisco on California’s new assisted-suicide law, and David Daleidan will update the recent Planned Parenthood undercover video project in which he was a principal. Tickets are $25. Call (415) 567-2293.

CLERICUS BASKETBALL: Priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco tip-off against seminarians from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Oct. 21, 7 p.m., Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco; (415) 614-5684; vocations@ sfarch.org; www.sfarch.org/basketball. Bring family and friends for an exciting and fun evening; $10 adults, $5 students (under age 5 free). Tickets at door or contact above.

TRANSITUS: Secular Franciscans of Our Lady of Angels Fraternity, Burlingame commemorate the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi, his passage from earthly life into everlasting life, Oct. 3, 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 Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame; Diane Creedon (650) 678-6449; dianecreedon@sbcglobal.net.

Faithful citizenship: “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,’ the U.S. bishops’ teaching document on the political responsibility of Catholics, is available to download at www.usccb.org/ issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship/index.cfm.

The statement represents the bishops’ guidance for Catholics in the exercise of their rights and duties as participants in our democracy. “We urge our pastors, lay and religious faithful, and all people of good will to use this statement to help form their consciences; to teach those entrusted to their care; to contribute to civil and respectful public dialogue; and to shape political choices in the coming election in light of Catholic teaching,” the bishops state on their Forming Consciences For Faithful Citizenship web page.

This is the third in a series of six articles by Archbishop Cordileone on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (the Joy of Love).

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n “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis notes the difficulties as well as the joys facing couples and families today. In this article I would like to address one of the most common questions of married life in our time, namely, that of the spacing of children within the spouses’ years of fertility in their marriage.

As discussed in my previous article, Christian marriage is intended for the spouses to make a complete gift of self by honoring their vows of exclusive fidelity, permanence, and openness to life. The final vow, of Archbishop openness to life, is often misSalvatore J. understood in the strongly Cordileone subjective and relativistic culture in which we live, which tells us that sexual union has whatever meaning one chooses to assign it. In contrast, Pope Francis reminds us that “the conjugal union is ordered to procreation ‘by its very nature’” and that “no genital act of husband and wife can refuse this meaning” (AL, n. 80).

The Christian call to married couples, then, is that of “responsible parenthood,” that is, openness to any new life God may wish to give them but also prayerfully discerning if and when “there are wellgrounded reasons for spacing births, arising from the physical or psychological condition of husband or wife, or from external circumstances” (“Humanae Vitae,” n. 16). The Holy Father encourages “the use of methods based on the ‘laws of nature and the incidence of fertility.’” “Such methods,” he says, “are to be promoted,” since they “respect the bodies of the spouses” and “encourage tenderness” (AL, n. 222).

Modern methods of natural family planning (not the outdated rhythm method) are up to 99 percent effective in postponing pregnancy if the couple discerns that need for serious reasons. They are also highly effective (up to an 80 percent success

rate) in helping couples who have fertility difficulties – an increasingly common phenomenon – to conceive. The Church recognizes the great difficulty and anxiety that infertility can cause couples, and supports these methods which work with a woman’s natural fertility. Indeed, the discovery of the natural methods of family planning resulted from scientific research aimed to help couples struggling with infertility to attain pregnancy in the natural way.

Artificial reproductive technologies such as IVF, on the other hand, do not treat infertility. Rather, they introduce a third party into the conception of the child, and do so in a way that eliminates the marital embrace. As Pope Francis says “a child deserves to be born of that love” between husband and wife, but artificial methods have the unintended effect of treating the child as a “right” instead of a gift (AL, n. 81).

Of course, every child is to be received with love and welcomed as a gift from God with equal dignity, no matter how the child comes into the world. And yet, still another problem with such technologies is that they usually create “unwanted” embryos. (In addition, it should be noted that these methods are very expensive and often have a low rate of success.) For these reasons the Church has determined that these artificial technologies are not in keeping with God’s plan for marriage and family life.

Whether in seeking to attain or postpone pregnancy, the Church approves of the natural means for doing so, and great scientific progress has been made in both of these areas. The archdiocese offers many resources for couples struggling with infertility or seeking a method to regulate births in agreement with Pope Francis’ teaching. I encourage all couples who find themselves in either of these situations to familiarize themselves with the resources that are available to them by visiting our website, www.sfarch.org/familyplanning.

Please know, too, of the love and concern the Church has for you, and the readiness of our pastoral ministers to assist and support you in the awesome mission you have as married couples of being co-creators with God of new human life, life made in the image and likeness of God with an immortal soul, created for living in happiness with God in this life and forever in heaven.

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Long-time Nazareth House Auxiliary members Claire Miller, Peggy Walker and Pola Martino laugh as they point to a board of photos of auxiliary activities spanning 50 years of Nazareth House history. Right, Nazareth House in San Rafael includes a chapel where residents can attend daily Mass.

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in the Christmas tree and decorations and provide transportation to outside medical appointments.

Miller said the first and foremost reason she joined the auxiliary was “to do his work and be his hands whenever and wherever possible.”

Nazareth House was built in 1962 on a then-isolated hill in Terra Linda, a subdivision of San Rafael. Four years later the auxiliary was born when two San Francisco women whose daughters became Sisters of Nazareth, organized a committee to help them in their care for the elderly.

Pola Martino, 85, has been a volunteer for 47 of the auxiliary’s 50 years. She began supervising the “Nazarettes,” a group of local girls between the ages of 12 and 14 who volunteered with the nursing staff in the infirmary at the time.

“I don’t know why I did it, I had

Top, Pola Martino. Pat Gallagher had a family member in residence at Nazareth House. “The sisters, the staff are so great you just feel you want to do something to give back in some way,” she said.

Auxiliary president Marlene Farber toasts the “loving service” of members past and present after a blessing before its 50th anniversary luncheon on Sept. 21.

five kids at the time,” she said with a smile. She has just “kept going,” since then, serving as past president and treasurer of the auxiliary. These days she and her husband host a weekly bocce ball game for residents and staff.

The auxiliary’s boutiques and bake sales, gift shop proceeds and other fundraising activities enable the sisters to do these “extra little things” not included in an operating budget, according to Sister Catherine – though last year they went all out and raised the money for a beautiful new organ for Nazareth House’s in-house chapel.

But Miller says the auxiliary’s fundraising is a “secondary thing” to the sisters.

“They have always stressed to us that the money is icing on the cake,” she said. “What they tell us they appreciate most is the personal contact with residents so vital to their wellbeing.”

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‘Truth brings youth,’ OLA youth minister says Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Youth ministry has been touching young lives for decades. It was a gift to me as a kid in Wildwood, New Jersey, 50 years ago and is an active front for youth in the Archdiocese of San Francisco today.

Chris Mariano Chris Mariano leads the effort at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. Chris has been active professionally in youth ministry for almost 20 years, the last four at OLA where he is coordinator of youth ministry and confirmation director.

“I truly feel they are attracted to truth,” Chris told me about young Catholics. He said youth develop wide-eyed ideas of the world from “information inundating their world through the multitude of media sources.” Youth ministry can help focus the vision, Chris said. “We reveal the truth of the church and the Gospel. We can have mature debates and discussions on the issues.”

Having a program as a base and support from their own youth community is what keeps youth coming back, Chris said. “We train them to help each other be accountable until we meet again,” Chris said. Service is also a major plank. “They love helping in retreats and sharing their faith, gifts and most of all investing their time in their peers.”

Chris said it’s not enough for youth ministers to hold meetings and give advice.

“I truly feel that youth ministry is family ministry,” Chris said. “We cannot engage with our youth until we have a relationship with their family. It is truly a team sport. We do our best to involve parents in our ministry.”

Some of a youth minister’s job is to get out of the way, Chris said.

1956 ‘PIONEER’ CLASS: Women of the first graduating class from Mercy High School, San Francisco gathered for a 60th reunion Sept. 17 in Millbrae. Organizers included Anne Marra Doran, Pat Keller and Carol Phelan Quigley.

BIRTHDAYS SHARED: St. Matthew School fifth graders J.T. Hanson and Trevor King, both 11 and who share the same birthday, made celebration of the event a day to benefit the Peninsula Humane Society SPCA. San Mateo’s Beresford Park was the site Sept. 10 with all of the boys’ classmates invited and adding up to 65 kids and their families. A trip to the SPCA helped the boys see the need and the contribution they could make for animals there. They raised over $1100 and presented the donation on behalf of the entire St. Matt’s fifth grade class. Pictured from left are the boys and their moms: Kristy Valverde Hanson, J.T. Hanson, Trevor King, and Shirley Bovone King.

“As a minister I love using retreats because now I become a connector.

I can’t have all the answers for the youth and their families but I can bring them or show them where the answers could be found. I let me be me and let God be God.” Chris said youth ministry has to be more than a sidebar to parish life and it is vital to make attempts to reach all youth in the parish.

Chris said he is “humbled” to be called to youth ministry and the work he gets to do on behalf of youth.

An Archdiocese of San Francisco Youth Mass will be celebrated Oct. 16.

Chris said it is a day U.S. bishops have set aside to pray for youth.

“Not only are we celebrating our youth but we are closing out the Year of Mercy. We will be having a social outreach fellowship to follow Mass.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. –Demanding justice in the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, protesters marched through uptown Charlotte the evening of Sept. 21 and confronted police in riot gear. Justin Carr, 25, was among them.

“I need to make a stand,” he told his mother when he called her from the scene. He said wanted to follow in the footsteps of his grandmother, who had marched during the civil rights era.

Less than an hour later, Vivian Carr learned her son was in the hospital, clinging to life.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have charged Rayquan Borum, 21, in Carr’s death.

Vivian Carr recounted her last memories of her son during a special prayer service Sept. 23 at Our Lady of Consolation Catholic Church, where the Carr family has worshipped for three generations.

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“I know that my son died for a cause,” Vivian Carr said.

During the prayer service, people spoke of their fear of getting stopped by police or their sons getting racially profiled. Others begged people to get involved in the community.

Deacon Curtiss Todd challenged people to “think and talk and act just like Jesus.”

He recounted his own experiences with racism while growing up in segregated Winston-Salem, including one incident at the local country club pool, which at one time was limited to white people only. He recounted how a little boy was allowed to bring his dog into the pool, but when a black employee accidentally fell into the pool that same day, “they immediately closed the pool, drained it, scrubbed it, disinfected it, before they would let people back in to it. What’s the lesson I learned? That many whites see blacks as less than animals.”

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WASHINGTON – The findings of a recent Georgetown University study on how Catholics regard Muslims show an “urgent need” to “cultivate positive dialogue” not just among Catholics and Muslims, but with other faith traditions as well, according to Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago.

“Experience has shown that when people of different faith traditions build personal relationships and engage in dialogue to learn about one another, they develop the capacity to work together; and they come to appreciate the positive elements in one another’s traditions,” said a Sept. 21 statement by Archbishop Cupich, the Catholic co-chairman of the National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue.

According to a survey of 1,027 Catholics, nearly half of Catholics can’t name any similarities between Catholicism and Islam. When asked about the overall impression of Muslims, three in 10 Catholics admit to having unfavorable views, and Catholics are less likely than the general American public to know a Muslim personally. The survey results were published Sept.

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Catholic advisory group named for Trump campaign

NEW YORK – The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Sept. 22 that it has formed a group of Catholic leaders to advise him “on those issues and policies important to Catholics and other people of faith in America.”

A news release said the Catholic Advisory Group “is a key element of the Faith and Cultural Advisory Committee to the campaign.” The 34-member group includes two former U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican, Francis Rooney and Jim Nicholson; former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum; Joseph Cella, founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast; Mary Matalin, former counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney; several members of Congress; Lisa Bourne, a journalist with LifeSiteNews; and a number of pro-life leaders, including Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, Janet Morana, co-founder of the Silent no More

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Ad campaign: Most Americans favor abortion restrictions

WASHINGTON – March for Life Action has launched a public awareness campaign through digital and television outlets saying that candidates running for public office who promise to expand women’s access to abortion “are out of touch with American voters.”

“With this ad, we encourage Americans to take a deeper look at their candidates,” said Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, in a statement Sept. 22, the day the campaign began.

“Politicians who claim to be ‘pro-choice,’ essentially advocate for abortion-ondemand up until the time of birth, paid for by your taxpayer dollars,” she said.

“This radical position is out of touch with the large majority of Americans.”

The first phase of the campaign was to run Sept. 22 through Sept. 26 as a lead-in to the first in a series of presidential debates. The campaign cites results of a Marist Poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus that found Americans strongly support abortion restrictions.

‘Zeal’ urged in defending religious liberty

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Recent court and legislative moves in Washington state, Colorado and California reflect a decreasing ability for people in this country to exercise their constitutional right to religious freedom, according to John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington.

“This political and cultural climate has become increasingly hostile toward people of faith,” Garvey, one of the nation’s leading scholars on religious liberty, told a gathering of approximately 300 people during his presentation, “The New Religion Wars,” at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester.

Garvey, who delivered the second annual Catholic Courier lecture Sept. 15, described a trend of increasingly coercive actions toward those who, because of their religious beliefs, refuse to submit to the established order – even though, he said, our nation’s Founding Fathers emphasized the freedom to practice such beliefs.

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3 Mexican priests murdered within days; motives unknown Catholic News Service

MEXICO CITY – A priest abducted from his parish residence in the Mexican state of Michoacan has been found dead, the Archdiocese of Morelia confirmed Sept. 25. He was the third priest murdered in Mexico within days.

State prosecutors say Father Jose Alfredo Lopez Guillen, pastor in the community of Janamuato, 240 miles west of Mexico City, died of gunshot wounds shortly after being abducted Sept. 19. His body was found wrapped in a blanket alongside a highway.

Family members, meanwhile, discovered personal items strewn across the floor of his home, and one of two vehicles stolen from his parish was found flipped over along a highway, Mexican media reported.

A motive for the crime is still uncertain, though family say they received no ransom calls as might be expected in a kidnapping case.

State Gov. Silvano Aureoles Conejo erroneously told Radio Formula that Father Lopez was last seen on video in a local hotel with a teenage boy. The boy’s family subsequently said the governor confused the priest with the boy’s father.

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The bodies of Fathers Alejo Nabor Jimenez Juarez and Jose Alfredo Juarez de la Cruz are seen along a roadside Sept.

19 in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The priests were found murdered that day, just hours after they were kidnapped from the low-income neighborhood where they served.

Cardinal Alberto Suarez Inda of Morelia also called the information false.

“We pray for his soul,” the Archdiocese of Morelia wrote on its Twitter account, confirming the death of Father Lopez.

The abduction and murder in Michoacan continued a disturbing trend of attacks against priests

VATICAN CITY – The root of all evil lies in greed, pride and vanity, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. Vanity, in fact, compels people to hide their mistakes and cover up what’s real with a facade, he said Sept. 22 during an early morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

All that masquerading “sickens the soul,” he said.

“Vanity is like osteoporosis of the soul, the bones on the outside look good, but inside they are all ruined.” Reflecting on the day’s readings, the pope talked about the fruitless path of vanity (Ecclesiastes 1:2-11) and Herod’s growing anxiety and worry about being usurped (Luke 9:7-9). There is a healthy kind of unease the Holy Spirit causes to prompt people to do what is right and good, he said. But then there is a bad kind of unease, like Herod the Great and his son, Herod Antipas, experienced, which “stems from a dirty conscience.”

ers must never let their words become “a weapon of destruction” against people or nations, he told representatives of Italy’s national association of journalists.

About 400 people attended the audience in the Apostolic Palace Sept. 22. Despite the major shifts in how news is produced and distributed, journalists who follow professional standards “remain the mainstay, a fundamental element for the vitality of a free and pluralist society,” the pope said.

Journalists have a great responsibility in writing what is in some ways “the first draft of history,” in deciding what news goes out, he said, and, “this is very important,” in spreading an interpretation of events to people. Being honest, respectful and professional is especially crucial for journalists because “their voice can reach everyone, and this is a very powerful weapon,” he said. If a person is unjustly slandered, “he can be destroyed forever,” the pope said.

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Fight hatred with love, pope tells Nice survivors

VATICAN CITY – Journalists must not foment fear when covering issues or events such as forced migration due to war or famine, Pope Francis said.

While criticism and exposing wrongdoing is “legitimate and, I would add, necessary,” report-

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Rocks from bishop’s crypt focus healing prayer

TORONTO – Bits of broken brick and limestone from the basement of St. Michael’s Cathedral, all taken from near the crypt of Toronto’s founding Catholic bishop, Bishop Michael Power, have made their way into the hands of at least 18 seriously ill people across Canada. Some of them are now claiming miraculous cures.

Bishop Power was buried beneath his cathedral in 1847, two years before it was consecrated. He was just shy of his 43rd birthday when he died after weeks of ministering to sick Irish refugees.

The idea that stones unearthed from below Toronto’s Catholic cathedral might hold the power to cure started with Carol Bragagnolo, project manager for Angelus and Associates and an inveterate rockhound. As she kept the cathedral’s restoration project on schedule and on budget, Bragagnolo found herself thinking about how the very stones of the cathedral have absorbed generations of prayer.

“There are years’ worth of prayers in each stone of the cathedral,” said Bragagnolo. “The closer I collected them to Bishop Power’s crypt, the more powerful they would be.”

“Power ministered to the sick and dying without concern for his own health and safety, so it makes sense for those who are sick to seek his intercession,” said Father Michael Busch, St. Michael’s rector.

“It’s not the actual object that saves,” he wrote in an email. “It serves only as a focal point of prayer.”

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VATICAN CITY – With some stoic and others sobbing, survivors and family members of the victims of the July terrorist attacks in Nice met Pope Francis during a special audience at the Vatican.

After expressing his condolences to the families of the 86 people who died and his prayers for the recovery of the more than 400 people who were injured in the attack July 14, Pope Francis greeted each and every one of the more than 800 people who traveled from France for the audience.

“To establish a sincere dialogue and fraternal relations among all people, particularly among those who confess belief in one merciful God, is an urgent priority that all leaders, both political and religious, must seek to promote and which each person is called to establish” with his or her neighbors, the pope said.

across Mexico, though Catholic leaders are at a loss to explain the motives, which have included robbery, organized crime activity and possible conflicts with drug cartel leaders. The Catholic Multimedia Center has documented the murders of 15 Mexican priests in less than four years.

On Sept. 19, two priests were kidnapped and killed in the Mexican state of Veracruz, though the stated motive of the crime has caused controversy.

Veracruz state attorney general Luis Angel Bravo Contreras told reporters Sept. 20 that the “victims and the victimizers knew each other” and added that the attack was “not a kidnapping.”

“They were together, having a few drinks, the gathering broke down due to alcohol and turned violent,” he said.

Catholic officials in Veracruz rejected the explanation, calling it “an easy out” and saying it ignored the reality of a state notorious for crime and corruption.

“We are hoping for more professional and careful inquiry, because this declaration the prosecutor is giving generates more doubts than responses to the issue of the murder of these two priests,” said Father Jose Manuel Suazo Reyes, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Xalapa.

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Respect Life Essay Contest focuses on end-of-life issues Vicki Evans

On June 9, California’s physician-assisted suicide law went into effect. Generally law is a teacher of what is right and what is wrong. But a bad law like this one, giving vulnerable individuals the power to end their lives prematurely with help from a doctor, can best be counteracted with education.

This is why our 28th Annual Respect Life Essay Contest is focusing on the value of human life at its end, not overtly addressing the complexities of this issue, but asking students to consider topics concerning respect for the elderly and the dying.

Our younger students are being asked to think about what their older relatives, friends and neighbors have taught them in times they may have spent together. They are asked to consider how they can help older people by showing them kindnesses that Jesus might show them.

One question focuses on the sacrament of anointing of the sick and how sacramental graces are available in every state of life to help us on our journey. Our junior high school students will address redemptive suffering in the context of Jesus’ suffering as he died on the cross for us.

High school students will tackle this issue a little more directly by writing about how something can be legal and still be wrong, and the reasons assisted suicide is not the way we should be accompanying our elderly and dying at the end of their lives.

The California bishops have called this law a “travesty of compassion.” Hopefully, our students will become equipped to understand what real compassion is and point society in that direction as they become adults.

The contest starts Oct. 3, when schools will receive essay contest materials, and runs through Dec. 5.

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Contest questions Here are excerpts from the questions for this year’s archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest.

Grades 1-2: Think of an older person you know and write a letter to them. You can thank them for the love they’ve shown you or for taking care of you or for the fun times you’ve had together. You could also draw a picture they might enjoy.

Grades 3-4: Think about how kind Jesus was to everyone he met. Name some things you can do to bring the blessings of Jesus to people who are old or sick or lonely or injured.

Grades 5-6: Write about this sacrament that the church offers people who are very ill or near life’s end. Why would it be important for someone to receive this final sacrament?

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Priests listen to a presentation at a workshop on post-abortion healing on Sept. 17 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Rachel, the post-abortion healing ministry of the Catholic Church, provided a condensed version of the training used today by over 100 U.S. dioceses. She was joined by Father Kenneth Metz, formerly of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, who was on the formation team of Project Rachel with Thorn.

Mary Ann Schwab, coordinator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Project Rachel ministry, spoke about what makes Project Rachel different than healing in “secular circles.”

“Without the forgiveness of Christ, people are not really able to be healed,” she said.

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The training is the archdiocese’s way of responding to the Holy Father’s call in the Year of Mercy to forgive women who have had an abortion.

“The whole Catholic community, from the pope on down, is very interested and very committed to helping people who regret their abortions return to the church and through the peace of the church, find peace in their lives again,” she said.

Schwab said the pope’s call is an affirmation to post-abortive women who may feel “unworthy” of forgiveness, that the church loves them.

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About a dozen priests from around the Archdiocese of San Francisco learned about the breadth of abortion’s destructiveness and how they can better be an instrument of Christ’s healing and peace during this Jubilee Year of Mercy.

The Sept. 17 training at St. Mary’s Cathedral, coordinated by the archdiocesan Respect Life Program, held separate trainings for priests, deacons and parish community members to help each learn how to recognize, respond to and reconcile the myriad symptoms of post-abortion trauma that can appear not only in women but also in men, grandparents, siblings, friends and others.

“I was aware that some women experience difficulties for many years, even decades, after having had an abortion,” said Father Roger Gustafson, pastor of St. Brendan Parish in San Francisco. “What I didn’t understand until this workshop was how frequently women suffer these negative effects and how many different and serious problems can emerge.”

Abortion-related disorders can include low self-esteem, denial, anger, withdrawal and alienation from others, flashbacks, hallucinations, marital and family difficulties, unspoken grief and suicidal intention.

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St. Dominic Church to offer course on Theology of the Body Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

No academic experience required – just a desire to learn more – is what’s required for an 18-hour, three-Saturday course on St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body that begins in October at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.

The course, “St. John Paul II and the Meaning of Love” taught by author and educator John Hamlon, uses almost entirely original sources, Hamlon said, including some of the philosophers such as Edith Stein who the pontiff drew upon.

Two of the three six-hour seminars will be taught at St. Dominic Church on Oct. 15 and Oct. 29 and one will be at St. Cecilia Church on Oct. 22, he said.

The course is free although a free-will offering of $75 per person or $125 for a married or engaged couple is suggested. Coffee and pastries provided each morning, but participants are asked to bring their own lunch.

Theology of the Body infuses many of St. John Paul’s apostolic exhortations and encyclicals, such as the apostolic exhortation “Familiaris Consortio” or “On the Christian Family in the Modern World,” but was first presented by St.

‘St. John Paul II says when one person and another person become man and wife, the communion of persons reflects God more than each one does by self – because God is a community of persons in the Trinity.’

John Hamlon John Paul on and off in a series of Wednesday audiences from 1979 to 1984, Hamlon said.

Hamlon says what makes Theology of the Body revolutionary is St. John Paul’s teaching that God created marriage as part of the creation of the world, that it is a “primordial sacrament” that also draws its meaning from the doctrine of the Trinity, which is the community of three persons in one God. In the past in the Catholic Church, marriage was described as “a natural institution raised to a

higher level by Jesus Christ when he took six jars at the wedding at Cana” and turned them into wine.

“John Paul II says marriage is a primordial sacrament” damaged by original sin of Adam and Eve and “when sin comes he sends his Son to repair the crack in the engine block,” taking on the sins of humanity “and therefore all of humanity is going to be redeemed,” Hamlon said.

“You have an intellect and will that reflects the spiritual nature of God. St. John Paul II says when one person and another person become man and wife, the communion of persons reflects God more than each one does by self – because God is a community of persons” in the Trinity, Hamlon said.

“He is putting marriage center stage,” Hamlon said.

The course is free but a freewill offering of $75 per person or $125 per married or engaged couple is suggested. The text will be “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body,” Pauline Books & Media, 2006, which costs about $30. Selected readings will be provided free via email to registrants.

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Sunday readings

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time HABAKKUK 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O Lord? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord. Then the Lord answered me and said: Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets, so that one can read it readily. For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint; if it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late. The rash one has no integrity; but the just one, because of his faith, shall live.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.”

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

PSALM 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

2 TIMOTHY 1:6-8, 13-14 Beloved: I remind you, to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your

share of hardship for the Gospel with the strength that comes from God. Take as your norm the sound words that you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard this rich trust with the help of the Holy Spirit that dwells within us.

LUKE 17:5-10 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. “Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’? Would he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat. Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink. You may eat and drink when I am finished’? Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded? So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’”

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f what use is a mulberry tree planted in the sea? What is the significance of such an arbitrary example? Why doesn’t Jesus say he will give his disciples increased faith? They have asked for it, after all. Jesus’ example of the mulberry tree followed by a story about a persevering but unenterprising servant, seems puzzling. Instead Jesus illustrates the effects of faith.

Jesus demonstrates in the analogy of the mulberry tree that faith possesses a certainty that changes the created order. Faith, which can appear so abstract and incorporeal to us, can be sister maria just as real as what is concatherine, op crete, i.e., asking a tree to plant itself where it cannot survive. In writing about this passage Augustine says that faith pertains

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Or do we silently allow the seed of that fruit to return to the soil of our souls and nourish other virtuous acts? to things that men and women believe but cannot see. St. John Chrysostom also says “the least part of faith can do great things.” Faith begins with believing, rather than logic.

Jesus quickly follows this illustration with the story about the servant who is obedient to the impulse of duty that faith demands. This excellent servant keenly grasps that the virtue of faith prompts a twofold humility: performing actions with faith should not be a source of pride, and it is only through grace that one is able to complete one’s duty, at all. Faith means waiting obediently for what one needs, and pursuing the duties of state without the certainty of what one wants.

Jesus levels an implicit accusation when he says, “Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?” So we ask ourselves, do we wait for someone to pat us on the back because we’ve done an act of charity? Or do we silently

allow the seed of that fruit to return to the soil of our souls and nourish other virtuous acts? Even better: Do we offer this to Our Lady so that she can dispense with the grace as she sees fit (being the Mediatrix)? Jesus is demanding: He can ask his servants to give more, and often does ask them to give more, even when they expect to be able to rest. Faith gives us the grace to obediently fulfill Christ’s command however taxing.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “Faith is man’s response to God, who reveals himself and gives himself to man” (CCC 26). As Jesus indicates above, man’s response to God moves more than just mulberry trees. God made man to be like God and to do greater things beyond what man is naturally capable of.

In my next examination of conscience (many holy saints recommend doing this once a day), I should ask myself, how have I responded to God’s revelation of himself today? Where is Jesus asking me to live creative fidelity rooted in the virtue of faith?

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VATICAN CITY – God wants people to be merciful, which means forgiving others and giving freely with love, Pope Francis said.

“We don’t have the power to condemn our brother who makes a mistake, we are not above him. Rather we have a duty to return him to the dignity of a son of the father and to accompany him on his path of conversion,” the pope said Sept. 21 at his weekly general audience.

In his talk, the pope focused on a reading from the Gospel of Luke (6:36-38) in which Jesus tells the disciples to stop judging others and be merciful just as God is.

The motto for the Year of Mercy, “Merciful Like the Father,” comes from this biblical verse, the pope said.

But more than a pithy catchphrase, the motto is a lifelong commitment to give to others the love one has received – without merit – from God, he said. It is a call to reflect upon all that God does for humanity so as to be inspired “to be like him, full of love, compassion and mercy,” he said.

But what does it mean to be merciful, the pope asked his audience. Jesus said it means to forgive and to give, he said.

Mercy is shown by forgiving and not judging and condemning, the pope said.

“A Christian must forgive,” he said. “Why? Because he was forgiven! All of us here in the square have been forgiven, not one of us never needed God’s forgiveness in life.”

“If God has forgiven me, why shouldn’t I forgive others? Am I greater than God?” the pope said, underlining that “judging and condemning one’s brother who sins is wrong.”

“Not because one doesn’t want to recognize the sin, but because to condemn the sinner breaks the bond of fraternity with him and ignores the mercy of God, who does not want to give up on any of his children.”

By asking his disciples not to condemn, “Jesus does not mean to undermine the course of human justice,” Pope Francis said, rather he shows that suspending judgment is needed to hold together a Christian community and maintain fraternal ties.

Monday, October 3: Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Gal 1:6-12. Ps 111:1b-2, 7-8, 9 and 10c. Jn 13:34. Lk 10:25-37.

Tuesday, October 4: Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi. Gal 1:13-24. Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15. Lk 11:28. Lk 10:38-42.

Wednesday, October 5: Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time.

St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin. Gal 2:1-2, 7-14. Ps 117:1bc, 2. Rom 8:15bc. Lk 11:14.

Thursday, October 6: Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time.

Optional Memorial of St. Bruno, priest; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, virgin. Gal 3:1-5. Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. See Acts 16:14b.

Lk 11:5-13.

Friday, October 7: Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. Gal 3:7-14. Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. Jn 12:31b-32. Lk 11:15-26.

Saturday, October 8: Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Gal 3:22-29. Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Lk 11:28. Lk 11:27-28.

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Leaving our values at the door of the strip club

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was recently talking to a Massachusetts family with a 21-year-old son on the autism spectrum.

Because of the Asperger syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder that have affected him since childhood, he is only about 13 or 14 in his understanding and behaviors. Jimmy (not his real name) has been in and out of mental institutions and recently had to be placed into a group home because his single mom could no longer manage him at home. Jimmy came from a good family, conscientious and Catholic, raised in a clean environment by his mother and grandmother, who hoped to see him cared for in a protected and secure setting at the group home. father tadeusz Soon they saw, however, pacholczyk that there were issues: The residents had unlimited TV access in their private rooms; there seemed to be high worker turnover; and some of the tattooed staff were not only heavy smokers but used foul language.

Things took an unexpected turn as Jimmy prepared to celebrate his 21st birthday. Others at the group home started pushing him to visit the strip club in a nearby town now that he was “going to be an adult.” Always guileless, and never hesitant to talk openly about whatever was going on around him, Jimmy blurted out to his grandmother that the group home staff were going to drive him the next weekend to the Foxy Lady Club. A series of phone calls ensued. When the grandmother spoke with a staff member at the home, she was informed there was nothing she could do to prevent it, that the group home routinely offered transportation to the strip club not only for their residents, but for residents of the other group homes run by the same company in nearby towns. The staff member said that Jimmy was now 21 and the group home had to let him do what he wanted.

A second phone call to the staff supervisor resulted in the same song and dance: The group home had no choice but to cater to his wishes;

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he was within his legal rights now that he was 21; they would drive others at the home to the strip club, etc. Finally, the grandmother called the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services, which had contracted with the company running the group home, and spoke to the woman in charge of Jimmy’s case. She noted that Jimmy was not only within his legal rights, but it was, she asserted, a matter of basic human rights to allow him go to the strip club.

His grandmother replied it would be a failure to care for persons with mental disabilities if caretakers facilitated sexually addictive practices, which such persons were prone to engage in anyway, often struggling with self-control and masturbatory behaviors, and this might set them up for a trip back to the mental hospital.

When she continued to protest that visiting such a club was not a good or moral activity, the official replied, “Well, if you’re concerned about ‘values,’ I leave my values at the door every time I go to work in order to get my job done.”

Cases like Jimmy’s serve as a disappointing reminder of how low the bar has come to be set in certain segments of our society. The misappropriation of public tax money by state agencies to subsidize damaging behaviors in a vulnerable patient population is also regrettable and fundamentally unjust. The family’s struggles further highlight an astonishing cultural misunderstanding around the idea of “human rights.” To suggest that the activity of leering lecherously at the bodies of naked women is a “basic human right” is itself a profound perversion, and represents a lamentable instance of outright moral bankruptcy.

Probably the most striking element of a case like Jimmy’s is the remarkably well-honed ability of some who serve in positions of authority and leadership – while professing to be “good” or even “religious” people – to jettison their values and beliefs the moment they are called upon to stand up and defend what is right.

Because individuals like Jimmy are consistently unable to make good decisions on their own behalf, it goes without saying that they require a guardian to attend to their interests and protect them. Yet legal guardians, like Jimmy’s grandmother, are finding themselves in the unenviable position of being ignored on see pacholczyk, page 13

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hen Pope Francis launched the Holy Year of Mercy, he promised that Christians could gain a special indulgence during this year.

That left a lot of present-day Roman Catholics, and even more Protestants and evangelicals, scratching their heads and asking some hard questions: Is Roman Catholicism still dealing in indulgences? Didn’t we learn anything from Luther and the Reformation? Do we really believe that certain ritual practices, like passing through designated church doors, will ease our way into FATHER ron heaven? rolheiser These are valid questions that need to be asked: What, indeed, is an indulgence?

Pope Francis in his decree “The Face of Mercy” (Misericordiae Vultus), says this about indulgences: “A Jubilee also entails the granting of indulgences. This practice will acquire an even more important meaning in the Holy Year of Mercy. God’s forgiveness knows no bounds. In the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God makes even more evident his love and its power to destroy all human sin. Reconciliation with God is made possible through the paschal mystery and the mediation of the church. Thus God is always ready to forgive, and he never tires of forgiving in ways that are continually new and surprising. Nevertheless, all of us know well the experience of sin. We know that we are called to perfection (Matthew 5, 48), yet we feel the heavy burden of sin. Though we feel the transforming power of grace, we also feel the effects of sin typical of our fallen state. Despite being forgiven, the conflicting consequences of our sins remain. In the sacrament of reconciliation, God forgives our sins, which he truly blots out; and yet sin leaves a negative effect on the way we think and act. But the mercy of God is stronger even than this. It becomes an indulgence on the part of the Father who, through the bride of Christ, his church, reaches the pardoned sinner and frees him from every residue left by the consequence of sin, enabling him to act in charity, to grow in love rather than to fall back into sin.

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Listening at the keyhole: Loving better, learning more

hen two 20-somethings slung a wire across rooftops in Boston, they were hoping to hear each other’s voices transmitted across that line. It worked, and they did, but in the process, they also picked up a far more exotic sound: Powerful radio waves emitted from the sun.

Alexander Graham Bell was 26 and working in a fifthfloor attic when he spoke those famous words into a mouthpiece: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”

The message to his assistant was transmitted, Bell Christina wrote in his journal: “To my Cappecchi delight he came and declared that he had heard and understood what I said.”

Any charged wire becomes not only a transmitter but an antenna, and Bell’s assistant, Thomas Watson, an earnest 22-year-old he had plucked from a machine shop, spent hours listening to the strange chirps and whistles coming from their accidental antenna. Using the first telephone, it turned out, the young men were actually dialed into the sun.

Watson correctly guessed that he was picking up activity on the surface of the sun through its radio waves.

Fifty years later Bell hired an engineer to study those noises, ushering in a new age of space exploration – radio astronomy – and prodding astronomers to scale up their antennas, connecting them to loudspeakers, and catch the radio waves made by stars and planets. New insights into the solar system were unlocked not through looking but listening.

Space, they discovered, makes a hissing noise.

Jupiter, when carried through short waves of radiation, sounds like pebbles thrown on a tin roof.

The sun roars like the sea. And a pulsar, which is a pulsating radio star, beats like a drum – the faster the star spins, the faster the beat.

To hear these celestial structures is to know them in a new way, to render them “a little more tangible,” said Honor Harger, a New Zealand sound artist who spoke about this field of study on a TED stage. “It’s through listening that we’ve come to uncover some of the universe’s most important secrets,” she said.

Her words came through my iPhone last Friday, via a podcast, and resonated deeply with the lost art I have been pondering this autumn: Listening.

This is a season that calls us to quiet, to hear the crinkling of leaves and the clapping of wind whipping through cornfields.

The Holy Father has charged us to be a “listening church,” but our noisy information age makes it hard to listen well, and my generation may suffer

the most. We consume sound bites and snapchats, headlines and thumbnails. We are stuffed so full that we forget how to be empty and attuned: To listen to each other, to the Mass, to ourselves and to God. How embarrassing to think of the many times I missed out on really hearing others because I talked over them or missed the question they were begging to be asked, because I made it about myself or reinforcing something comfortable rather than challenging myself to go somewhere new.

When we set down our phones and set aside our agendas, we can listen in a transformative way: We can love better and learn more.

“When it’s God who is speaking,” St. John Vianney once said, “the proper way to behave is to imitate someone who has an irresistible curiosity and who listens at keyholes. You must listen to everything God says at the keyhole of your heart.”

I love the image of a curious child, snooping and sleuthing, pressing his ear to a keyhole in hopes of picking something up. That’s how we should lean in and listen to God, eager to discern every whisper. That’s how we should approach the world around us, observing and appreciating – neighbors, grandparents, colleagues, cashiers – and listening at all the keyholes.

Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and editor of SisterStory.org.

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Apologists, catechists, theologians: Wake up!

fter perusing the latest Pew Study on why young people are leaving the active practice of Christianity, I confess that I just sighed in exasperation. I don’t doubt the sincerity of those who responded to the survey, but the reasons they offer for abandoning Christianity are just so uncompelling.

Any theoloBISHOP Robert gian, apologist, Barron or evangelist worth his salt should be able easily to answer them. And this led me (hence the sigh) to the conclusion that “we have met the enemy and it is us.”

For the past 50 years or so, Christian thinkers have largely abandoned the art of apologetics and have failed (here I offer a “j ’accuse” to many in the Catholic universities) to resource the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition in order to hold off critics of the faith. I don’t blame the avatars of secularism for actively attempting to debunk Christianity; that’s their job, after all. But I do blame teachers, catechists, evangelists and academics within the Christian churches for not doing enough to keep our young people engaged.

Many evidently felt that modern science somehow undermines the

claims of the faith. One respondent said: “Rational thought makes religion go out the window,” and another complained of the “lack of any sort of scientific evidence of a creator.” Well, I’m sure it would come as an enormous surprise to St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Robert Bellarmine, Blessed John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and Joseph Ratzinger – all among the most brilliant people Western culture has produced – that religion and reason are somehow incompatible.

To focus on the issue of “scientific evidence,” the sciences cannot even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all. There simply cannot be “scientific” evidence or argument that tells one way or the other in regard to God. This is by no means to imply that there are no rational warrants for belief in God. What these arguments have lacked, sad to say, are convinced and articulate defenders within the academy and in the ranks of teachers, catechists and apologists.

One of the young people responded to the survey using the formula made famous by Karl Marx: “Religion just seems to be the opiate of the people.”

Marx’s adage is an adaptation of Ludwig Feuerbach’s observation that religion amounts to a projection of our idealized self-image. Sigmund Freud, in the early 20th century, further adapted

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Feuerbach, arguing that religion is like a waking dream, a wish-fulfilling fantasy. It all comes down to a dismissive, patronizing psychologization of religious belief. But it is altogether vulnerable to counterattack. I think it is eminently credible to say that atheism amounts to a wish-fulfilling fantasy: If there is no God, no ultimate moral criterion, I can do and be whatever I want.

A third commonly cited reason for abandoning the Christian churches is that, as one respondent put it, “Christians seem to behave so badly.”

God knows that the clergy sex abuse scandals of the last 25 years have lent considerable support to this argument, already bolstered by the usual suspects of the Inquisition, the Crusades, the persecution of Galileo, witch hunts, etc., etc. Yes indeed, over the centuries, lots and lots of Christians have behaved wickedly. But why, one wonders, should this tell against the integrity and rectitude of Christian belief ?

A number of young people said that they left the churches because “religion is the greatest source of conflict in the world.” One hears this charge so often today – especially in the wake of 9/11 – that we tend to take it as selfevident, when in fact it is an invention of Enlightenment-era historiography.

Voltaire, Diderot, Spinoza and many others in the 17th and 18th centuries wanted to undermine religion, and they could find no better way to achieve this end than to score Christianity as the source of violence.

In fact, the bloodiest wars in history, those of the 20th century, which produced over 100 million dead, had practically nothing to do with religion.

An earlier Pew Study showed that for every one person who joins the Catholic Church today, six are leaving, and that many of those who leave are the young. This most recent survey indicates that intellectual objections figure prominently when these drifters are asked why they abandoned their faith. My “cri de coeur” is that teachers, catechists, theologians, apologists and evangelists might wake up to this crisis and do something about it.

Examples of reasons why people are unaffiliated Don’t believe

“Learning about evolution when I went away to college.”

“Too many Christians doing unChristian things.”

“Religion is the opiate of the people.”

“Rational thought makes religion go out the window.”

“Lack of any of sort of scientific or specific evidence of a creator.”

“I just realized somewhere along the line that I didn’t really believe it.”

Dislike organized religion

“I see organized religious groups as more divisive than uniting.”

“I think that more harm has been done in the name of religion than any other area.”

“I no longer believe in organized religion. I don’t attend services anymore. I just believe religion is very personal conversation with me and my creator.”

“Because I think religion is not a religion anymore. Its a business … it’s all about money.”

“The clergy sex scandal.”

“The church’s teachings on homosexuality.”

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Rolheiser: Indulgences revisited FROM PAGE 11

saints. In the Eucharist, this communion, which is a gift from God, becomes a spiritual union binding us to the saints and the blessed ones whose number is beyond counting (Revelation 7, 14). Their holiness comes to the aid of our weaknesses in a way that enables the church, with her maternal prayers and her way of life, to fortify the weakness of some with the strength of others. Hence, to live the indulgence of the Holy Year means to approach the Father’s mercy with the certainty that his forgiveness extends to the entire life of the believer. To gain an indulgence is to experience the holiness of the church, who bestows upon all the fruits of Christ’s redemption, so that God’s love and forgiveness may extend everywhere. Let us live this Jubilee intensely, begging the Father to forgive our sins and to bathe us in his merciful ‘indulgence.’’’

What’s the pope saying here? Clearly, he’s not teaching what has been for so long the popular (and inaccurate notion) that an indulgence is a way of shortening one’s time in purgatory. Rather he is tying the idea of indulgences to two things: First, an indulgence is the acceptance and celebration of the wonderful gratuity of God’s mercy. An indulgence is, in effect, the more-conscious acceptance of an indulgence, that is, the conscious acceptance of a love, a mercy, and a forgiveness, that is completely undeserved. Love can be indulgent. Parents can be indulgent to their children. Thus whenever we

do a prayer or religious practice with the intent of gaining an indulgence the idea is that this prayer or practice is meant to make us more consciously aware of and grateful for God’s indulgent mercy.

We live within an incredulous, ineffable mercy of which we are mostly unaware. During the Holy Year of Mercy, Pope Francis invites us to do some special prayers and practices that make us more consciously aware of that indulgent mercy.

Beyond this, Pope Francis links the notion of indulgences to another concept, namely, our union and solidarity with each other inside the body Christ. As Christians, we believe that we are united with each other in a deep, invisible, spiritual, and organic bond that is so real that it forms us into one body, with the same flow of life and the same flow of blood flowing through all of us. Thus inside the body of Christ, as in all live organisms, there is one immune system so that what one person does, for good or for bad, affects the whole body. Hence, as the pope asserts, since there is a single immune system inside the body of Christ, the strength of some can fortify the weakness of others who thereby receive an indulgence, an undeserved grace.

To walk through a holy door is make ourselves more consciously aware of God’s indulgent mercy and of the wonderful community of life within we live.

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

Pacholczyk: Leaving our values at the door of the strip club FROM PAGE 11

certain issues by those entrusted with the care of institutionalized residents, apparently determined to bypass the guardian’s will whenever specific sexual agendas or views about “rights” need to be duly imposed. Good parents never drive their children to strip clubs, and neither should any institution entrusted with a protective parental role; on the contrary, such institutions should erect appropriate boundaries and limits on harmful behaviors, so their residents can grow and flourish, contribute positively to society, and perhaps one day become good and mature moral agents themselves.

Father Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia; www.ncbcenter.org.

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Pope: Christians must make history, never proclaim doom FROM PAGE 1

pressing needs under their nose, driving them to help and “go out from themselves to write history.”

The pope’s homily came during a special Mass for a Year of Mercy jubilee for catechists in St. Peter’s Square.

Nothing is more important for catechists – and all Christians who are likewise called to give witness and share God’s word – than to keep the core, essential message of the faith “front and center: the Lord is risen,” he said.

“The Lord Jesus is risen, the Lord Jesus loves you, and he has given his life for you; risen and alive, he is close to you and waits for you every day.”

“Everything in the faith becomes beautiful when linked to this centerpiece,” he said; from that proclamation all other teachings of the faith gain meaning and force, especially when Jesus’ commandment of loving one another is followed.

“It is by loving that the God-who-is-love is proclaimed to the world: not by the power of convincing, never by imposing the truth, no less by growing fixated on some religious or moral obligation,” he said.

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Because God “is not an idea, but a living person,” Pope Francis said, he is proclaimed by an actual encounter with another person, accompanied by listening, welcoming and caring for the other’s past and journey forward.

Also, since God is love, goodness, joy and hope, then God must be proclaimed by living that way “in the present moment,” he said. “We do not speak convincingly about Jesus when we are sad; nor do we transmit God’s beauty merely with beautiful homilies.”

The pope highlighted the day’s Gospel reading in which Jesus tells the story of the poor man named Lazarus who went to heaven, while the rich man who ignored his plight, ended up in hell.

This parable in the Gospel according to Luke tells people “what it means to love,” the pope said.

The rich man did nothing overtly bad or evil, the pope said, he was just indifferent – an illness worse than whatever caused Lazarus’ sores.

The rich man suffered from being self-centered, materialistic and superficial, he said.

“This worldliness is like a ‘black hole’ that swal-

lows up what is good and extinguishes love,” and anaesthetizes the soul, the pope said.

The rich man’s obsession with appearances also means he suffered from a kind of blindness that kept him from seeing anything that did not interest him.

This blindness makes people act “cross-eyed,” the pope said, with one eye looking “with adulation at famous people of high rank, admired by the world,” and the other shifted “away from the many Lazaruses of today, from the poor, from the suffering who are the Lord’s beloved.”

The rich man remains nameless and, therefore, forgotten in history, he said, while “Lazarus is the only one named in all of Jesus’ parables,” and is welcomed to the banquet in the divine kingdom.

“Whoever lives for himself does not write history,” Pope Francis said. “And a Christian must write history.”

With so much worldliness, indifference and selfishness in the world, he said, Christians “must go out from themselves to write history,” which means being disturbed by the pain they see and seeking ways to help without procrastinating or delegating the task to others.

Miracles: Vatican revises norms FROM PAGE 1

Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, secretary of the congregation, said in a Sept. 23 statement.

Archbishop Bartolucci presided over a seven-member commission that began revising the regulations in September 2015 to update the norms established by St. John Paul II in 1983. Except in the case of martyrs, in general two miracles are needed for a person to be declared a saint – one for beatification and the second for canonization.

The new regulations, which were approved with the pope’s mandate Aug. 24 by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, also state that an alleged miracle “cannot be re-examined more than three times.”

For each alleged miracle, the Medical Consultation team is comprised of a maximum of seven experts; when the promoter of a cause appeals a negative judgment, a new team of physicians and medical experts

must be appointed, the new norms say. The members of each consultation will remain unknown to the postulator, as the promoter of the specific cause called.

A presumed miracle is first reviewed by two medical experts within the congregation, and with their recommendation is then sent to the Medical Consultation team.

While the medical experts receive compensation for their work, the new regulations state that they will only be paid through wire transfer. Prior to the approval of the new norms, experts were given the option to receive cash payments for their work.

Archbishop Bartolucci said the regulations will further ensure that the consultations will be carried out with “serenity, objectivity and complete security” by the medical experts.

“This regulation obviously concerns only the proper functioning of the Medical Consultation, whose task is always more delicate, demanding and, thank God, appreciated inside and outside the church,” he said.

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Thorn said that there have been 56 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1972 decision that legalized abortion.

“The healing after an abortion can take a long time,” she said. “My guess is that many of you have had women come repeatedly to confession because she doesn’t feel forgiven.”

She said that it’s important that priests recognize all who are hurt by an abortion, not “just the dead baby.”

Men can suffer greatly from the wound of an abortion decision, according to Thorn.

“In our society, we call men sperm donors,” she said. “We say, ‘it’s not your body it’s mine,’ or ‘it’s none of your business.’ It leaves a man, with a need to protect, without a way to.”

There are many men who would have saved that baby any way they

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could, if they could, she said. “And those men are angry and hurting,” Thorn said abortion makes people afraid, and they stay away from the church and remain in pain.

She urged priests to help create a safe environment for all who might be suffering, to seek healing through Vicki Thorn the church.

“You can gently introduce the topic of forgiveness in homily or other pastoral messages without breaking any seal of confession by talking about who is touched,” she said.

Father Kenneth “Priests often tell Metz me that when they do that, people always come up afterward to talk,” she said.

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V Encuentro: Hispanic/Latino leaders in archdiocese prepare for 4-year evangelization project Lorena Rojas San Francisco Católico

Pastoral leaders of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties gathered at the University of San Francisco on Sept. 17 to discuss the V Encuentro – the Fifth National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Jesuit Father Ministry in the U.S. Arturo Araujo Catholic Church that will take place in 2020.

The leaders received preparation on the documents of the V Encuentro, which will arrive in parishes at the beginning of 2017. With the given information and workbooks, the leaders will be able to manage the process in their parishes, pastoral movements, schools, universities and other Catholic organizations.

The event was coordinated and led

by Jesuit Father Arturo Araujo and Cecilia Arias-Rivas, both members of the Committee Pro V Encuentro of the archdiocese.

“The V Encuentro is a four-year process of ecclesial reflection and action that invites all Catholics in the United States to intense missionary

(Photo by Lorena Rojas/San Francisco Católico)

Hispanic Catholic leaders from the three counties of the archdiocese light candles and pass the light to share the light of Christ as a symbol during a meeting about the V Encuentro at the University of San Francisco on Sept. 17. activity, consultation, leadership development and identification of best ministerial practices in the spirit of the new evangelization,” according to the V Encuentro website.

The process has been proposed as a priority of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Strategic Plan for 2017-2020.

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“It starts at the grass-roots level and calls for the development of resources and initiatives to better serve the fast-growing Hispanic population in dioceses, parishes, ecclesial movements, and other Catholic organizations and institutions in light of its theme: Missionary Disciples: Witnesses of God’s Love,” the website states.

The process of Encuentro has been the catalyst for developing ministries among Hispanics/Latinos during the past 50 years. “Each of the previous Encuentros has been a watershed experience that has significantly changed the way in which the church responds to the Hispanic/Latino presence, and the way in which His-

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panics/Latinos respond as church,” according to the website.

The I Encuentro in 1972 led to the creation of the Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs, The V National Pastoral Encounter Hispanic/Latino is a process of reflection and action of the church that will take place over four years starting in 2017, and by which the church invites all Hispanic/Latino Catholics in the U.S. to participate through their parish groups.

The project was created as a priority to help Hispanic/Latino Catholics reinforce their missionary activities as well to “discern the way in which the church responds to the presence of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, and strengthen the way in which Hispanics/Latinos respond to the church.”

This initiative also will help in leadership development and in creating a more standard method for the new evangelization.

In the archdiocese, the preparation of pastoral leaders began early, with informational meetings in Half Moon Bay, at the pastoral center in San Francisco and at USF. Parish representatives from throughout the three counties attended.

The leaders and others who will join the project will take the information provided to their parishes, to diocesan and regional meetings and eventually to the national event in 2020.

Nationally, the V Encuentro includes 1 million pastoral leaders, 175 dioceses, 14 episcopal regions, 13 lay movements, 42 organizations and 5,000 parishes.

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St. Brendan Catholic Church (San Francisco, California) has an opening for a full-time Finance Manager. The Finance Manager will oversee and be responsible for the administration of the financial affairs of the church and school, including all bookkeeping functions, the preparation of financial reports and statements, end-of-year closing, and administration of payroll and benefits of all church and school employees.

An undergraduate degree in accounting or a related field is required. A successful candidate will be well-organized and have 3-5 years related experience, strong communication skills, the ability to collaborate with volunteers and other staff members, and possess a working knowledge of QuickBooks, Word, Excel, and other relevant computerrelated programs. An ideal candidate will also share a passion for the mission of the Church and have prior experience in the financial management of a non-profit organization. This is a full time, benefited position and will report directly to the Parish Manager. Salary is commensurate with experience and education. Please send cover letter and resume to Lisa Rosenlund at 29 Rockaway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127, or lisa@stbrendanparish.org.

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On Sept. 17, religious of the archdiocese held their second “Picnic in the Park” for homeless men and women. Gathering for a group photo were helpers who greeted guests, distributed food and clothing, and ate with guests. A couple model scarves and hats hand-crocheted especially for men and women who are homeless.

Religious of archdiocese hold 2nd annual ‘Picnic in the Park’ for homeless On Sept. 17, religious of the Archdiocese of San Francisco held their second “Picnic in the Park” for homeless men and women. However, there was a twist to this year’s event. The Golden Gate Park panhandle was unavailable, and thanks to the generosity of Father Moises Agudo, the picnic turned into lunch in the parish hall of St. Anthony of Padua Church.

Before the event, men and women

religious prepared sandwiches and provided beverages, chips, fresh fruit, new socks, T-shirts and sweatshirts, pet food, toiletries and gift cards.

On the day of the event, chairs and tables with tablecloths were set up in the parish hall. Helpers served as greeters and distributed food, clothing and toiletries. Those who were able sat at tables to enjoy lunch with the guests and engage them in conversation.

Food that was not consumed was distributed in Golden Gate Park, at the 24th and Mission streets BART station and in the Tenderloin to men and women living on the streets. All in all, about 300 people (and some pets) who ordinarily would not be served enjoyed food, clothing and conversation.

Helpers included women and men religious representing the Capuchin

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 30 PARISH FESTIVAL: St. Andrew Parish, Daly City begins its weekend fair with a dinner dance Sept. 30, 6 p.m., $25; fun continues Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; enjoy food talent show, karaoke, vendor booths, raffle; (650) 756-3223; www.standrewdalycity.org; standrew1968@att.net.

SATURDAY, OCT. 1 PEACE MASS: St. Augustine Church, 3700 Callan Blvd., South San Francisco, Father. Rene Ramoso, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., retired Sulpician Father Michael Strange, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries. com.

EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES: Vatican’s international exhibition, Our Lady of the Pillar parish hall, Half Moon Bay, Oct. 1, 3-8 p.m.; Oct. 2, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Oct. 3-7, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; live presentations, after weekend Masses and Oct. 7, 7 p.m.; www.FaithBasedComm.com; (650) 726-4674.

DOCENT TOUR: St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 10 a.m., focusing on the church’s St. Jude Shrine. The tour is free and everyone is welcome: ourlabs@mac.com.

SUNDAY, OCT. 2 RESPECT LIFE: “Life Chain” in San Francisco, 2 p.m., Park Presidio Boulevard between Geary Boulevard and Clement Street, signs to hold will be provided; konopaski@yahoo.com.

MONDAY, OCT. 3 TRANSITUS: Secular Franciscans of Our Lady of Angels Fraternity, Burlin-

SATURDAY, OCT. 8 ROSARY RALLY: The Rosary Rally begins with Mass at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco with Archbishop Salvatore Archbishop J. CordilCordileone eone principal celebrant. A rosary procession from the cathedral to U.N. Plaza 11:15 a.m. accompanied by the National Pilgrim Virgin Statue from World Apostolate of Fatima where Our Lady of Fatima appeared in 1917. The rally begins at noon with the rosary and a keynote address from the archbishop commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions to be celebrated in 2017. The day concludes with Benediction: Visit www.RosaryRallySF.com; call (415) 272-5837.

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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 Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame; Diane Creedon (650) 6786449; dianecreedon@sbcglobal.net.

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THURSDAY, OCT. 6 KNIGHTS’ B’DAY: Celebration of the Knights of St. Francis and the Porziuncola Nuova at Bimbo’s 365 Club, 1025 Columbus, San Francisco, 6 p.m., with cocktails, dinner and entertainment, Alan Wong, master of ceremonies; tickets call (415) 434-8700; www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

MONDAY, OCT. 10 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Separated and Divorced Catholics, 7:30 p.m., Aquinas Room at St Dominic’s Church, Bush and Steiner street, San Francisco, Diana Wild (415) 340-3355; dianamwild@ gmail.com. Meetings continue on second and fourth Mondays of the month.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 LUNCHEON: St. Vincent de Paul Society North Marin Auxiliary fashion show and luncheon, Marin Country Club, Novato, doors open 11 a.m., no host bar, lunch at noon, $35; Gwen Johnson, (415) 883-3055.

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SECULAR FRANCISCANS: Learn about the Secular Franciscans at Our Lady of Angels Fraternity, Burlingame, 9-10 a.m., Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Drive, Burlingame, lower I Hillside O N S hall on Cortez Avenue. See how Secular Franciscans live joyfully in the world and celebrate God’s creation in the spirit of peace, humility, and simplicity; Diane Creedon (650) 678-6449; dianecreedon@sbcglobal.net.\

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Since the current death penalty was enacted in California in 1978, over 900 individuals have received a death sentence. As of October 2015, 15 have been executed, 102 have died prior to being executed, 747 are in state prison with death sentences, and the remainder have had their sentences reduced by the courts. Most of the offenders who are in prison with death sentences are at various stages of the direct appeal or habeas corpus review process.

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All life is sacred – innocent or flawed – just as Jesus Christ taught us and demonstrated repeatedly throughout His ministry. This focus on the preciousness of human life is fundamental to Christianity and most eloquently expressed in the two great commandments: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart … love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mk. 12.30-31) Jesus makes clear that to love God we must love our neighbor. Each of us holds an inherent worth derived from being created in God’s own image. Each of us has a duty to love this divine image imprinted on every person. “Whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.” (I Jn. 4.20) Our support to end the use of the death penalty is also rooted in our unshakeable resolve to accompany and support all victims of crime. They suffer the very painful consequences of criminal acts. With the violent loss of a loved one, a sword has pierced their heart. Their enduring anguish is not addressed by the state-sanctioned perpetuation of the culture of death. As we pray with them and mourn with them we must also stress that the current use of the death penalty does not promote healing. It only brings more violence to a world that has too much violence already. We will continue to promote responsibility, rehabilitation and restoration for everyone impacted by the criminal justice system. Only through their healing will the entire community be healed.

The Bishops of the United States have long opposed the use of capital punishment.

In the past, it was sometimes morally justified in order to protect society, but those times have passed. Proposition 62 provides voters with the opportunity to end this practice in California, just as 19 other states have already done.

Capital punishment has repeatedly been shown to be severely and irrevocably flawed in its application. In the long – but absolutely necessary – process of ensuring an innocent person is not put to death, we have seen many accused persons being exonerated as new forms of forensic investigation have enabled us to better scrutinize evidence. The high cost of implementing the death penalty has diverted resources from more constructive and beneficial programs both for rehabilitation and restoration of victims and offenders.

Finally, repeated research has demonstrated that the death penalty is applied inconsistently along racial, economic and geographical lines.

For all of these reasons, we must also oppose Proposition 66 which will expedite executions in California. The search for a fair and humane execution process and protocol has failed for decades. Any rush to streamline that process will inevitably result in the execution of more innocent people. Neither the proponents nor the opponents of the death penalty wish this result.

As Catholic Bishops we are heartened by the growth of Catholic lay movements aimed at ending the use of the death penalty. The faithful have heard the words of St. Pope John Paul II, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis to stop this practice around the world. As Pope Francis has stated: A spreading opposition to the death penalty, even as an instrument of legitimate social defense, has developed in public opinion, and this is a sign of hope. In fact, modern societies have the ability to effectively control crime without definitively taking away a criminal’s chance to redeem himself. The issue lies in the context of a perspective on a criminal justice system that is ever more conformed to the dignity of man and God’s design for man and for society. And also a criminal justice system open to the hope of reintegration in society. The commandment “thou shall not kill” has absolute value and pertains to the innocent as well as the guilty. (2/21/16 – Angelus)

In November – the concluding month of the Year of Mercy – Californians have the opportunity to embrace both justice and mercy (cf. Ps. 85.11) in their voting. We strongly urge all voters to prayerfully consider support for Proposition 62 and opposition to Proposition 66.

If you would like to volunteer in the campaign to abolish the Death Penalty, please contact Julio Escobar at 415 614-5572 CSF 9.15.16 issue – Full Page