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Retired priests honored

Four retired priests received special honors at the Fifth Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon celebrating retired priests of the archdiocese.

From left: Honoree Father P. Gerard O’Rourke; Bishop William J. Justice; Archbishop Cordileone; honoree Father Ray Zohlen; Father Raymund Reyes; Father Mark Taheny. Not able to attend were honorees Father Thomas J. Burns and Father George Thomas. More on Page 2.

VATICAN CITY – Several hours before the final report of the Synod of Bishops was put to a vote, two U.S. bishops said that what is new is not the church’s message, but the synod’s emphasis and attitude toward the role of the family in the modern world.

Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, and Bishop Kurt Burnette of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey, met with journalists Oct. 24 at the Pontifical North American College.

Bishop Murry was among 45 prelates appointed by the pope to attend the synod. Bishop Burnette was invited to attend as a substitute for Bishop William Skurla, the head of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh five days before the start of the synod.

Both bishops spoke about a perception – an erroneous one, they said – that the final document would introduce change and reform, two words Bishop Murry said should be separated. see synod, page 18

Dominicans celebrate 800 years of preaching, ministry Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

From Nov. 7, 2015, to Jan. 21, 2017, Dominicans worldwide celebrate the 800th jubilee of the approval of the Order of Preachers by Pope Honorius III in 1216, beginning with the opening Mass at the seat of the order at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Nov. 7.

On Oct. 31 in San Francisco, where the Dominicans have been a significant presence since the Gold Rush, the order founded by St. Dominic de Guzman celebrated a little bit earlier with a Celebration of Jubilee 800 – a Mass at St. Dominic Church celebrated by the Master of the Order Dominican Father Bruno Cadoré.

“Let us be sent by the Holy Spirit,” Father Cadoré told the approximately 900 religious, parishioners and friends of the Dominicans, emphasizing founder St. Dominic de Guzman’s “call to let Christ preach in us.”

Father Cadoré is based in Rome but was able to time his West Coast visitation to celebrate the Mass, said Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor of St.

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Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Dominican friars Oct. 31 at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco. See Page 10 for Dominican history in the archdiocese.

Dominic Church in San Francisco. “We are kind of a cultural crossroads,” Father Hurley said, a technology center and a gateway to Asia and the Pacific Rim. “We see a parish not simply as a place to have Mass on Sunday,” and view the order’s charism of preaching as more than giving homilies, Father Hurley said.

The parish is “a center of evangelization, a place for ongoing faith formation for the faithful, who are meant to sanctify the world.”

Parishioner Kathy Folan, who sang in the choir with her son Justin, a sophomore at Bellarmine College Preparatory, said, “St. Dominic’s right now is a parish that is on fire with joy and love and the truth and it just draws me and it just draws so many other people.”

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Dominican friars own and operate St. Dominic Parish, which includes the novitiate for the Western Province of the Dominicans. In 2013, Dominicans signed an agreement with the archdiocese to operate St. Raymond Parish in Menlo Park. see dominicans, page 15

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need to know REUNION: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School all-class reunion Nov. 7 for graduates of St. Anthony School, Immaculate Conception Elementary and SAIC, 6-9 p.m., auditorium, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco.

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Msgr. Jose A. Rodriguez struck a grace note of humor and appreciation for the retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco as the keynote speaker at The Fifth Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon Oct. 30.

“Sooner or later every priest will die, but none will ever retire,” Msgr.

Rodriguez told the more than 500 gathered for lunch at St. Mary’s Cathedral’s Patrons’ Hall. “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

And, said Msgr. Rodriguez, himself retired and in his “wisdom years,” as he put it: retired priests “are priests who have stepped aside for less experienced priests.”

“You are witnesses of the Good Shepherd’s love for his flock. We

‘LOOKING EAST’: Lecture on Eastern Catholicism, Nov. 7, 1 p.m., Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco. (415) 752-2052; www.ByzantineCatholic.org VETERANS DAY PRAYER: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, Star of the Sea Section, Nov. 11, 11 a.m., Msgr.

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Marist Father Phil D’Auby was one of nearly 100 retired priests honored. could not do without you,” said Msgr. Rodriquez.

The annual luncheon honors retired priests while attendees and donors contribute to the priests’retirement fund. This year’s luncheon netted $216,000 for the fund, said Florian Romero, development coordinator for the archdiocese and primary organizer of the luncheon.

This year’s honorary chairperson and major sponsor was Fred Furth.

Dignity Health was the corporate sponsor. There were more than 530 individual donors, said Basilian Father Anthony Giampietro, interim development director for the archdiocese.

To contribute to the Priests Retirement Fund, Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109

SCIENCE TALK: Dr. Maria Elena Monzani, astrophysicist, will speak and answer questions Nov. 15 on black holes and the origins of the universe, Star of the Sea auditorium, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco, 7 p.m., www.starparish.com. (415) 7510450. Admission is free. Suitable for all ages.

Feast of St. Francis Cabrini: All are welcome to a Mass honoring America’s first saint, Frances Mother Cabrini (1850-1917), Nov. 13, noon, Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone as celebrant.

The Mass will honor the humanitarian deeds of sisters from various congregations as well as the memory of immigrant families and the role of women in keeping the family together.

The Sts. Peters and Paul School School Choir, directed by Charles Corum, performed at the luncheon. The Sacred Heart Cathedral High School String Ensemble also performed, and Immaculate Conception Academy students served as volunteers.

SIMBANG GABI: The commissioning and opening rites of the Advent prayer event will be held Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone as Archbishop principal celebrant.

Cordileone Reception follows. Contact Deacon Ven Garcia for Simbang Gabi schedule at vengarcia@ yahoo.com. Sponsored by Filipino Ministry Consultative Board.

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Thanksgiving and Christmas: volunteer with Catholic Charities

As the Holy Year of Mercy announced by Pope Francis unfolds, Catholic Charities provides you, your family and friends with practical ways to demonstrate God’s mercy through concrete acts of compassion during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons.

The Year of Mercy, which officially begins Dec. 8, asks us, among other intentions, to “rediscover” the corporal works of mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger, heal the sick, visit the imprisoned.

Consider these simple ways to bring comfort and joy to your neighbors in need: Fulfill a child’s wish for a gift on your Christmas Giving Tree.

Prepare and serve food at one of our Thanksgiving events.

Host a turkey donation drive benefiting low-income and homeless families.

Lead Christmas-themed activities for children and seniors.

Sponsor a disabled adult to a holiday meal.

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San Mateo SVdP expands thrift sales to e-commerce Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

Its face-to-face ministry technique is based in the 19th century and still works wonderfully today but the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County is modernizing its outreach.

Stifled by the cost of expanding its “brick and mortar” stores, e-commerce became an answer.

“Moving to e-commerce seemed a logical next step expansion opportunity to grow needed revenue as we do not take government funding,” Lorraine Moriarty, SVdP executive director, told Catholic San Francisco.

The SVdP e-commerce address is http://svdpsm.org/shoponline where you can buy books, designer pieces, collectibles and more, according to SVdP. The society’s five iconic and well-run thrift stores remain a very important part of the picture giving away more than $360,000 in merchandise to the poor each year as well as providing income to the program from everyday shoppers.

Corporate partners are now also part of the landscape most recently Bank of America on “SVdP Books 4 Hope” through Nov. 30. The company has allowed receptacles for book donations in its 18 Peninsula locations.

“This is a new and very exciting program for us,” Moriarty said. “Bank of America is our first corporate partner with this initiative and we are in conversation with many other companies.”

Bank of America employees were first volunteers with SVdP becoming interested in their work and how the organization battles poverty head-on.

“The result is we will receive donated books from Bank of America branches

Oscar Perez, SVdP stores director of distribution, speaks with Alicia Rangel, stores operations administrator, at the San Bruno thrift store.

and Bank of America clients will get to know more about SVdP’s mission,” Moriarty said. “This venture is a shining example of creative partnerships with organizations who know the local issues and want to make a difference.”

Many of the donated books will be sold online and in the thrift stores.

“Others, particularly children’s books, will be distributed by Vincentian volunteers when they go out on their home visits to bring food or rent or utility assistance to the precariously housed,” Moriarty said.”

SVdP conference-based volunteers make over 10,000 home visits annually in San Mateo County and last year SVdP served 28,000 individuals including children. SVdP homelessness prevention assistance in the form of rent and utility payments annually exceeds $500,000.

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Laurin Toegemann has been part of the fabric of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School for 37 years. Today, she is vice principal, junior high science teacher, liturgical music coordinator and accompanist and religion coordinator. In other times she has taught third, fourth and fifth grades and taught music to all grades.

Laurin holds undergraduLaurin ate and graduate degrees from Toegemann Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.

I asked Laurin in an email, Why teaching? “It was a calling since I was a very young child. I just knew that I wanted to teach,” she said. It’s run through the family. Laurin’s husband chose teaching as a second career, a son is working toward his credential and their other son works in special education.

“Absolutely,” was Laurin’s reply when I asked if she’d choose teaching again as a career.

“During the earlier years when I could have used more money, I did think that I should have become an accountant, a career that I had considered,” Laurin said. “But I’ve known for many years that I made the right choice.”

Has it been what she expected? “I remember thinking as a young child that it would be so much fun to be a teacher and correct papers,” Laurin said. “Ha! So, no, it has not been everything I expected. Other than that, it’s been wonderful and rewarding.”

In fact she said: “It’s been one long best moment. I’ve loved the community: the children, the supportive families, the cooperative staff and faculty, all two principals of my career. It’s telling about the specialness of Mount Carmel, I think, that I now work with six former students, three as teachers and three as aides.”

Is retirement in the picture? “I think about it off and on, but I still have a few years in me,” Laurin said. “Even when I do retire, I’d like to go back to teaching music part time in a school.

“Do it,” is Laurin’s advice to anyone considering teaching. “Follow your heart and do what you are being called to do. There are many personal rewards in serving young people, especially in a Catholic school where you can share your faith.

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FORE AND MORE: Now into its second decade the Hurley Ladies Golf Tournament went off Oct. 3 at Sisters of Mercy Marian Oaks Life Center in Burlingame. A simple course is mapped out for the contest and the fun begins. Taking home the first place spot was Mercy Sister Edith M. Hurley, a religious for 76 years. “The Hurleys are celebrating my 95th birthday with me Nov. 15,” Sister Edith said. Pictured are all the golfers: sitting from left, Anne Vosper, Gail Ruxton, Noel Hurley, Sister Edith, Kathy Hurley, Danielle Bishop; standing from left, Christine Hurley, Brianne Bishop, Mary Provence, Julia Hurley, Bernadette Hurley, Peggie Eaton.

EVERYONE’S HERO: The Knights of St. Francis of Assisi were out in number, several with the statue of beloved St. Francis of Assisi on their shoulders, for the San Francisco Columbus Day Parade Oct. 11. The Knights are keepers of the Porziuncola Nuova right next door to the church of The National Shrine of St. Francis at Vallejo and Columbus. Remember Francesco Rocks Gift Shop, 1351 Grant Ave. between Vallejo and Green and open seven days a week, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

GAME ON: Immaculate Conception Academy celebrates 132 years of “Education That Works,” Nov. 12 at the Grand Hyatt, San Francisco. Celebrity host is Amy Gutierrez of Comcast SportsNet. Evening begins at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $175. Rhonda Hontalas (415) 824-2052, ext. 40; rhontalas@icacademy.org.

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Looking to raise awareness and understanding of religious life especially in this Year of Consecrated Life, men and women religious from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of San Jose spoke on the topic Oct. 24 with seminarians at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

Prayer began the day with Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens, seminary rector and president presiding.

The workshop proceeded with panelists detailing their present and past ministries and their hopes for future collaboration with seminarians after ordination, according to Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, director of the Office of Consecrated Life for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Sister Dee Myers, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, told of her time as a pastoral associate at St. Matthias Parish in Redwood City as well as her years as an educator in segregated Tennessee and with a Catholic Charities outreach program to pregnant teens in New York. Sister Dee presently is a spiritual director and prayer leader at burial services.

Gillian Wallace, a member of the faculty at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, is in discernment to join the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She shared her struggle of accepting God’s call to religious life and her peacefulness once she made the decision to begin the process.

Holy Names Sister Molly Neville shared her experiences as vocation director for the Diocese of Monterey

and her present ministry as retreat director and director of associates for her congregation.

Marianist Brother David Betz spoke about his vocation as a brother noting it is not a stepping stone to priesthood but the culmination of his discernment to become a religious. Brother David is activities director at the Marianist Retirement Center in Cupertino.

Sister Elizabeth Avalos, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, facilitates discussion on nonviolence and human trafficking. She also spoke of the growing associate movement providing lay women and men the opportunity to deepen their spiritual lives and engage in social justice activities with men and women religious.

Small group discussions with “questions, concerns and experiences of serving in ministry with today’s church” ended the day, Sister Rosina said.

SUNDAY, NOV. 22 Mass marking the close of the Year of Consecrated Life, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant and Archbishop John R. Quinn as homilist. Mercy Sister Mary Waskowiak will offer a reflection on consecrated life. Mass will be followed by a reception in the cathedral’s Patron’s Hall.

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Hospice patients have much to teach about facing death, doctor says Maria Wiering Catholic News Service

ST. PAUL, Minnesota – Americans’ skittishness about death is not lost on Dr. Wayne Thalhuber, a retired longtime hospice doctor.

It’s about goals, he said.

“If our goal is to pray, reverence and serve God in this world and the next, why are people so reticent about going there and being with him?” he asked.

Wayne “If your goals are wealth, presThalhuber tige, fame, relationships – well, then you’re in trouble.”

A “wise doctor” told him in medical school that it’s not unhealthy to think about one’s own death.

He recalls finding the advice morbid at the time, but said over the years it has helped to sharpen his focus on what’s important. And working in hospice care helped him further embrace it, he said.

A parishioner of Assumption in downtown St. Paul, Thalhuber, 77, spent 40 years practicing hospice care, although he said it was a specialty he “backed into.” When he was a medical resident at the University of Minnesota, a colleague invited him to a St. Paul hospice home now known as Our Lady of Peace.

A year later, in 1968, he began serving as its medical director, a position he held until 2009, eight years after retiring from his private practice.

“It was there that I learned about the dying patient,” he told The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. “What they taught me about my own mortality is to trust and be grateful. And trust trumps all. When patients trusted, and were grateful for what they had ac-

The first aim of hospice is controlling a patient’s symptoms, he said, after which a person can focus on reaching acceptance through accepting the ‘four gifts.’ complished and who they were, and knew who they were, it was a very powerful experience.”

Hospice – in its contemporary form – emerged in the U.S. in the 1960s, and it felt like cutting-edge medicine to the young doctor, because it defied what he had been taught was medicine’s goal: curing the sick. In 1983, Thalhuber also became the hospice medical director at Midway Hospital, a position he continued with HealthEast after Midway merged with other area health care facilities to create the health care system in the late 1980s.

Hospice allows people the opportunity to offer what one of Thalhuber’s HealthEast colleagues termed the “four gifts”: The opportunity to say “I’m sorry,” “I love you,” “thank you” and “goodbye, I’ll be OK.” Based on the work of psychiatrist Elisabeth KublerRoss, known for identifying the five stages of grief, the “four gifts” are monumental for patients and families preparing for death, Thalhuber said.

The first aim of hospice is controlling a patient’s symptoms, he said, after which a person can focus on reaching acceptance through accepting the “four gifts.”

The order is important, Thalhuber said, noting the final “I’ll be OK” is crucial. “For the dying patient to tell their kids or their spouse, ‘I’m going to be OK’ – wow, dynamite,” he said.

Hospice “was hands down the most fulfilling aspect of my practice of medicine,” he said.

“The best. I learned so much. I was so privileged.”

It taught him “how positive death can be,” he said.

“It sounds strange, but it’s as positive as being born, it’s as positive as being a teenager, it’s as positive as getting married — probably more so because you’re fulfilling your purpose in life.”

He encourages people to think about their own death, and for people with terminal illnesses, to consider hospice sooner rather than later.

“It’s going to happen,” he said of death. “To deny dying is to deny humanness, and that’s what causes the frustration.”

He added: “To leave the tests, and the CAT scans and the MRIs, the IVs, you go from high tech to high touch,” he said. “Hospice is high touch. A marvelous program.”

Thalhuber is disturbed by the traction euthanasia has gained in the U.S. in recent years, not only because his Catholic faith forbids it.

“What they miss out on is growth at the end of life,” he said. “Every stage of life has growth that’s essential. ... Dying is a part of life. There is an opportunity there for growth. How can you grow if you kill yourself ?

“The reason people do that is because they’re afraid and they want to be in control,” he added. “But if you accept what’s going on, there’s just so many examples of how people grow at the end of life.”

A few years before retiring, Thalhuber began praying with his patients, a practice he wishes he would have started earlier. He says it’s one of the best things he did.

“That had nothing to do with religion. The key was finding out where the patient was spiritually, what their values were spiritually. Almost all had a degree of spirituality, and if you could tap into that, and then just join them in praying along that vein, the floodgates opened up,” he said.

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WASHINGTON – When Antonio Guterres, former prime minister of Portugal, became the 10th U.N. high commissioner for refugees in 2005, the world was a different place.

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even speculation, he said, about the need for the agency. “Now, unfortunately, things have changed quite dramatically,” he told participants at an Immigration Law and Policy Conference Oct. 29 at the Georgetown University Law Center.

He illustrated the shift with a list of numbers including the overall figure that there were nearly 60 million refugees worldwide in 2014.

But what is even more dramatic, he said, is the “staggering escalation of displacement by conflict in the past few years.” In 2011, 14,000 people were forced to flee their homes each day. This figure rose to 23,000 in 2012, 32,000 in 2013 and 42,500 in 2014. The numbers are astounding enough, but as Guterres added, the conflicts these people are fleeing are not ending so they have no homes to go back to.

Panelists explore Planned Parenthood alternatives

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Afghanistan refugees on their way to central Europe ask for information in Athens, Greece, Oct. 1.

WASHINGTON – As a panel convened at the Heritage Foundation’s Capitol Hill headquarters to focus on alternatives to Planned Parenthood for women, one potential alternative to Planned Parenthood stole the show. It was Sister Mag-

dalene Teresa, a Sister of Life who is director of her order’s Visitation Mission in New York City.

“After 40 years of Roe v. Wade, we know that we don’t want this to happen one more time,” she said during the Oct. 29 panel discussion.

The Heritage event comes after a series of undercover videos released this summer showed physicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood describing the harvesting of fetal tissue and body parts during abortions at their clinics and discussing the sale of post-abortion fetal tissue. For the women who go to the Visitation Mission -- and Sister Magdalene said 1,000 pregnant women a year do -- “pregnancy shatters her identify, her sense of who she is. The woman before us needs to know she is someone who is decent, trustworthy, and can look out for other people,” she said. “Experience has informed our work. We know how deeply abortion fails women at every level.”

to community health centers. The provision is part of a reconciliation bill -- H.R. 3762 -- that voids some major provisions of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Law. Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act passed in a 240-189 vote along party lines.

“Planned Parenthood now commands about one-third of the total abortion ‘market,’” said Carol Tobias, National Right to Life president.

“For far too long, federal taxpayer dollars have been funneled to the nation’s abortion giant, and it’s time for that to stop. We applaud passage of the reconciliation bill and we urge the U.S. Senate to act quickly.”

The Senate cannot block the bill with a filibuster, but even if it were to pass, it will face a guaranteed veto by President Barack Obama.

According to its most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood received at least $528 million annually from the federal government and state governments.

The House vote “is an important step forward in ending the massive, unnecessary and immoral funding of Planned Parenthood,” said Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life.

House bill holds up funds for Planned Parenthood for a year

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted Oct. 23 to block federal funding for a year to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and redirect the money

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Women’s right to maternity must be protected, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Businesses are called to promote harmony between work and family for their employees, especially for women with children or who are starting families, Pope Francis said. In an audience Oct. 31 with the Christian Union of Italian Business Executives, the pope said that many times, women who announce their pregnancy are fired from their positions, when instead they “must be protected and helped in this dual task: the right to work and the right to motherhood.” He said “the challenge is to protect their right to a job that is given full recognition while at the same time safeguarding their vocation to motherhood and their presence in the family.”

Catholic men and women in the world of business are called to live faithfully “the demands of the Gospel and the social doctrine of the church,” he said, and become “architects of development for the common good.”

Pope: God weeps for sinners, waits for conversion

VATICAN CITY – God loves his children so much that he does not condemn them – he weeps when they stray, commit evil or refuse his love, Pope Francis said at morning Mass. God will wait until the final moments of a sinner’s life, like he did for the good thief on the cross, who mocked and derided Christ, but then repented and was saved, the pope said in Pope Francis his homily Oct. 29 during the Mass at his residence. “The worst person, the worst blasphemer is loved by God with a fatherly tenderness,” he said. No matter how reluctant or defiant people are, God “waits, he does not condemn, he weeps. Why? Because he loves.”

Pope: God feels compassion for all

VATICAN CITY – God has compassion for everyone, which is why he sent his only son to

heal and renew humanity, Pope Francis said in a homily. There is a difference between compassion and pity, he said at the Mass in the chapel of his residence Oct. 30. “I can feel pity for a dog that is dying,” he said, but compassion, especially God’s compassion, is a whole different thing. It is putting oneself in the other’s place “with the father’s heart.” That is why God sent his only son to live and dwell among humanity – to be close to them and their problems, he said.

“Jesus healed people, but he was not a ‘shaman.’

No. He healed people as a sign, as a sign of God’s compassion, to save them, to bring the lost sheep back” to the fold, the pope said.

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BEIJING – China’s Communist Party leaders announced they would change the nation’s onechild policy, which most strictly applied to Han Chinese living in urban areas of the country. The Oct. 29 announcement was contained in a Xinhua news agency report on the Communist Party’s Central Committee in Beijing. It said China would allow all couples to have two children, but did not provide additional details. The Chinese government imposed its one-child policy in 1979 to curb the growth of the population that, at that time, was reaching 972 million people. The policy most strictly applied to Han Chinese, but not to ethnic minorities around China.

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HONG KONG – Authorities overseeing religion in China told a group of Catholic bishops and leaders to insist on “sinicization,” in a gathering that took place soon after Beijing concluded closed-door meetings with a Vatican delegation.

It comes as Vatican officials publicly confirmed that China and the Holy See were engaged in dialogue, which included an Oct. 11-16 visit to Beijing. “Loving the church and the country is manifested through ... sinicization and deepening the extent of managing the church in a democratic way,” said Chen Zhongrong, vice director of the religious affairs administration.

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First San Francisco archbishop was a Dominican The first archbishop of the newly created Archdiocese of San Francisco in the U.S. territory of California was a Spanish Dominican, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, whose “evangelical poverty” amid the excesses of the Gold Rush included living in a little two room metal shack behind St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

“He dressed in his Dominican habit all the years he lived in the archdiocese and young members of the flock used to count the patches on it, which were said to have been some 40 or more,” wrote pioneer historian, Jesuit Father Henry Walsh, according to “A History of the Archdiocese, Vol. 1, 1776-1884, From Mission to Golden Frontier,” by Jeffrey M. Burns.

Bishop Alemany at first refused the

appointment – which was initially as bishop of Monterey- - but Pope Pius IX “would hear none of it,” Burns writes.

“In an audience on June 16, Pope Pius told Alemany ‘You must go to California…Where others are drawn by gold, you must carry the cross.’” Bishop Alemany was consecrated June 30, 1850, in Rome. Before he left, he enlisted another Dominican, Father Francisco Vilarrasa, to accompany him and establish a province of the Order of Preachers in California. He also recruited two Dominican sisters in France, notably the Belgian novice Sister Mary Goemaere.

They established the first community of women in the state, the Dominican Congregation of the Holy Name, later the Dominicans of San Rafael.

Within a short time Bishop Alemany

moved the seat of the diocese from Monterey to San Francisco. On July 29, 1853, Rome confirmed his judgment by establishing the Archdiocese of San Francisco and appointing Alemany as its first archbishop. With barely 40 priests, the archdiocese stretched to the Oregon border and in the beginning included Baja California. Bishop Alemany, who spoke Spanish, English, French and Italian fluently, was bishop during the silver rush of 1859, the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, and saw his archdiocese grow to over 200,000 Catholics, 175 priests and more than 125 parishes before he retired Dec. 28, 1884, handing the reins of office to Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan. The following year, Archbishop Alemany returned to Spain, where he died in 1888.

(Photo from Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francico)

Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany came to California during the Gold Rush in 1850.

From Nov. 7, 2015 to Jan. 21, 2017, Dominicans worldwide will celebrate the 800th Jubilee (anniversary) of the approval of the Order of Preachers by Pope Honorius III in 1216. See Page 1 for a story on the opening celebration Oct. 31.

Dominicans in the archdiocese

(Photo courtesy Matthew Tominaga/ Dominicans of Mission SJ)

Sister Dulce Sarai Aguilar Rodriguez, a Dominican of Mission San Jose at Immaculate Conception Academy. Four Dominicans are actively involved at ICA, including President Sister Diane Aruda. The order arrived in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1876. In 1883, the order established Immaculate Conception Academy, which in 2009 it converted to a Cristo Rey Network school. The order also administers St. James parish school, has staff at Mission Dolores Accademy and St. AnthonyImmaculate Conception in San Francisco.

(Photo courtesy the Dominicans of San Rafael)

(Photo courtesy Dominican Contemplative Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery)

The Dominican Contemplative Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park with the novice brothers of the Western Dominican Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus during a visit in October. The novice brothers, who spend their first year at the novitiate at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco, visit the nuns early in their novice year. St. Dominic established the Dominican cloistered nuns in 1206 in Prouille, France as an essential part of the order. They pray for the life and apostolate of the friars. The Corpus Christi Monastery was founded in 1921. Its purpose is to honor and promote devotion to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

Some Dominicans of San Rafael on the grounds of the Dominican Sisters Center in San Rafael. Originally from France, they and the Dominican friars came to California with Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany in 1850.

They sponsor the Santa Sabina Center in San Rafael, San Domenico School, and Rose Court, an affordable housing complex in San Francisco as well as co-sponsor the Dignity Health System.

(Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary)

(Photo courtesy Dominicans of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist)

Founded in 1997, the Dominicans of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist arrived in the archdiocese in 2011 to teach at Marin Catholic High School. The four sisters pictured teach at Marin Catholic.

From left to right: Sister Teresa Benedicta, Sister Maria Frassati, Sister Rose, and Sister Mariana.

Dominican Sister of the Most Holy Rosary Leonarda Montealto, principal of Holy Angels School, and Sister Cecilia Fabular, second grade teacher. Eleven Dominicans of the Most Holy Rosary administer and help staff Holy Angels School in Colma and St. Charles Borromeo School in San Francisco’s Mission District. The congregation was founded in 1925 in the Philippines and arrived in the archdiocese in 1982.

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18 men studying for priesthood in archdiocese, including 5 who enrolled this year Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

This year there are 18 men studying for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Patrick Seminary & University, five of them enrolled just this year. The number of seminarians is heartening, said archdiocesan vocations director Father David Schunk: “It is an encouraging sign for us and more reason to continue to pray for vocations.”

Catholic San Francisco asked a few of the seminarians to respond to the question: “Why did you decide to study for the priesthood?

Ben Rosado, Theology 1

I see how God prepared me for this vocation. Above all, I wanted to do God’s will in my life. So when he asked me if I would be willing to become a priest, I said yes. It is as simple as that!

Kyle Faller, Theology 2

My time as a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville revealed to me my deep yearning and love for the Eucharist, a love which brings true rest to my soul. My next question was where ought this love be lived out?

Through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes, St Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic Savio I heard the voice of Jesus calling me to offer my life for the sake of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the most holy sacrifice of the Mass and the shepherding of souls in the parish. “Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well;

(Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)

St. Patrick Seminary & University seminarians assist Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as he carried the Eucharist in a monstrance during the Oct. 10 rosary rally procession from St. Mary’s Cathedral to United Nations Plaza in San Francisco. who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him” (St. Dominic Savio).

Santino Ambrosini, College 1

I decided to study to become a priest because I truly believe that

the priesthood is what the Lord is calling me to. The life of a priest is one of sacrifice and of service, ultimately to bring souls to salvation in Christ. To act “in persona Christi”, in the person of Christ, to bring the faithful God is truly amazing and

awesome, in the deepest meaning of the word.

Ian Quito, Theology 1

I study to be a priest to be a face of Christ – mercy and love – to the world.

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New study highlights family influences on religious vocations Valerie Schmalz

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in parish life, religious articles and art in the home, discussion of faith and the openness of family members to the possibility of a religious vocation as well as spending time together having fun are all factors in nurturing vocations to religious life, according to a new study from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate commissioned by the National Religious Vocation Conference.

“The study confirmed what we’ve known instinctively: Families are the seedbed of vocations,” says conference executive director Holy Cross Brother Paul Bednarczyk. “Our goal is to help Catholic parents understand their crucial role in the future of religious life and ordained ministry and encourage them to create a culture of vocations within their families.”

“What surprised me was that close to half of these men and women religious and priests said that starting a conversation with their fam-

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Father Angel Quitalig didn’t learn until after he was ordained that his father had started praying specially for him right after his younger self called his parents to notify them he was leaving seminary studies.

After three years, Father Quitalig returned to the seminary and was ordained in 1998. “I learned after my ordination, my father really prayed for my vocation,” said Father Quitalig, now a canon lawyer for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, in residence at Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco. Father Quitalig, the fifth of six children, remembers sleeping on the pews as his mother and grandmother attended early morning Mass in the Philippines. But the discovery about his father, who he did not see as particularly religious, was “my greatest story, in my vocation story. My dad really prayed.”

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Vocations: New study highlights family influences on call to priesthood FROM PAGE 12

ily member about their vocation was not easy for them,” said Mary Gautier, a study author and CARA senior researcher.

“But if a family member had already brought up the subject in some previous conversation, it was not hard to start a conversaFather Angel tion.”

Quitalig “How many parents even think to say, ‘Maybe God is calling you’? Parents typically don’t even think about that,” Gautier said.

The “2015 NRVC/CARA Study on the Role of the Family in Nurturing Vocations” focused on the influence of families on the discernment of a vocation to religious life and the priesthood. The goal of the research was to provide information to help families promote vocations to religious life and the priesthood.

CARA surveyed 2,174 men and women religious and 4,140 diocesan priests and seminarians who entered since 2000 and asked for contacts for family members. CARA received completed responses from 1,279 men and women religious and 1,352 diocesan priests and seminarians for a response rate of 59 percent

and 33 percent, respectively, and 892 family members, for a response rate of 58 percent. Another 15 family members participated in one of two focus groups, held in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago in May 2015 The Faller family of Novato’s experience appears to bear out anecdotally the importance of family.

“We really didn’t do much. I swear the Blessed Mother took over and helped a lot. Thank goodness,” said Bonnie Faller, whose son Cameron Faller was ordained to the priesthood in June. Another son is discerning his vocation at St. Patrick Seminary & University. The other two sons are married.

“They were busy and physical and they were all in sports,” Faller said.

“The boys made their choice on their own. Were they raised Catholic? Yes. We never pushed though that they had to be priests. I would tell the boys that they had to love, honor and obey God. We didn’t say we want one of you to be a priest.

We just said we want you to love God and obey him.”

“I was lucky,” she said, because her husband Joel “was always in Mass with us. The boys saw their father active in church. Boys will listen to their mothers for a while but they are always watching their fathers.”

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Major findings of national study Here are the major findings of the “2015 NRVC/ CARA Study on the Role of the Family in Nurturing Vocations.”

considering a vocation. Six in 10 say the family was attending Mass together weekly and a quarter say the family typically prayed at home together daily, apart from prayers at meals.

Start with a strong Catholic foundation – Family members of seminarians, priests and religious are usually Catholic themselves and are more likely than Catholics in general to have attended a Catholic school. They are more likely than other Catholic adults to say that their Catholic faith is the most important part of their daily life. One in five had a priest or a religious already in their extended family.

– These family members report a more engaged prayer life than do other Catholic parents or other Catholic adults in general. Nearly nine in 10 pray daily, compared to just over half of U.S. Catholic adults and just over a third of Catholic parents. They also feel more strongly than Catholic adults in general that it is important that younger generations of the family grow up Catholic.

Build a culture of vocation in families – Religious faith was at least “somewhat” important to these families at the time their family members were

– Family members were engaged in their faith in public ways. Eight in 10 were active in parish life, two in three say the family participated in eucharistic adoration, and three in five say the family prayed the rosary together.

– Families typically ate dinner together daily and two in three report that the family gathered together at least once a week for a game or movie night, family discussion or family prayer.

– More than half report that Catholic media, such as books, movies and TV, were important religious activities in the family. About the same proportion say that volunteer or charitable service in the community were important to the family.

Support and promote vocations in families – More than half of responding family members say they have encouraged a family member to consider a vocation to priesthood or religious life. Most often, it is parents or grandparents who encourage vocational discernment.

– Family members recommend acceptance, encouragement, and support for those considering a vocation. They suggest that families should uphold priesthood and religious life as options for young people when they are exploring and considering their future.

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Religion, secular thought, and health and happiness

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here is no such a thing as pure objectivity, a view that is free of all bias.

Yet that’s the claim often made by nonreligious, secular thinkers in debates about values and public policy.

They argue that their views, unlike those who admit that their views are grounded in religious principles, are objective and free from bias. Their underlying assumption is that a purely rational argument, a view in effect from nowhere, is objective in a way that religious arguments, based upon FATHER ron someone’s faith and religious perspective, can never be, as rolheiser if there was such a thing as a purely objective starting point.

There isn’t.

We all have a bias. The late Langdon Gilkey used to put this in a gentle, more palatable way. We don’t have a bias, he says, but rather a “pre-ontology,” a subjective stance from which we look at reality. And that stance includes both the place where we stand, outside, when we look into any reality, as well as the software through which we perceive and reason as we look at anything. He’s right. There’s no view from nowhere, no view that’s unbiased, and no view that’s purely objective. Everyone has a bias. The religious person and the secular person simply stand at different subjective

places and process things through different subjective, mental software.

Does this mean then that all views are equally subjective and that everything is relative? Can we not then distinguish between science and superstition?

No. There are clearly degrees of objectivity, even if no one can claim absolute objectivity. To admit that even the strictest empirical scientific research will always contain a degree of subjectivity is not to put science on the same level as superstition or even of faith.

Empirical science and rational thought must be given their due. It is medical doctors, not faith healers, who cure physical diseases. Likewise, the scientific theory of evolution and the fundamentalist religious belief that our world was made in seven days are not to be given an equal claim. Much as religious thinkers are sometimes irritated by the absolutist claims of some secularists, science and critical rational thinking must be given their due.

But religious thinking must also be given its due, especially in our debates about values and politics.

Religious opinion also needs to be respected, not least with the more explicit acknowledgement that secular reasoning too operates out of a certain faith, as well as by the acknowledgement that, like its scientific and philosophical counterparts, religious thinking also brings invaluable and needed perspectives to any debate. A lot of the world’s knowledge is contained within science and philosophy, but most of the world’s wisdom is contained in its religious and faith perspectives.

Just as we cannot live on religion alone, we too cannot

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n Sept. 8, 2015, Pope Francis issued “Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus” (“The Lord Jesus, Gentle Judge,”) a document revising the marriage nullity process. The mass media, including even some Catholic news outlets, have reported a great deal of misinformation about the changes. In question-andanswer format over the next few weeks, I would like to reflect on various aspects of this new “motu proprio” responding to some logical questions which have been raised since publication. It is my hope that this will help to msgr. Michael clarify some misinformation Padazinski about the new legislation while reassuring the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco that our own metropolitan tribunal, which is comprised of wonderful canonists and other canonical officials, will do all it can to insure the proper, just and timely implementation of these new norms governing our universal church.

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

The entire article containing 21 questions and answers has been posted online at www.catholic-sf. org. This is the fourth of five installments scheduled to appear in the print paper. Previous installments covered the definition and purpose of the marriage nullity process; and elimination of automatic appeal. The final installment will concern fees and implementation of the new law.

19. Why does our tribunal currently charge for a declaration of nullity?

We don’t! Justice can’t be bought or sold. What many tribunals do as a matter of fairness, fully in keeping with canon law, is pass on some portion of their expenses (salaries, supplies, office space) to the parties who request their services, and this is what we have done here in the past. If the costs are borne by the parties involved in the case, it has to be borne by the church, which ultimately means by the other people in the pews. As far back as I can recall, our metropolitan tribunal has always asked the parties

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live on science and philosophy alone. Wisdom needs knowledge and knowledge needs wisdom. Science and religion need to more deeply befriend each other.

More important however than having a proper apologetic about the place of faith and religion inside of public policy is an understanding of this for our own health and happiness. We need to understand how subjectivity colors everything, not so much so that we might eventually convince secularists that religious perspectives are important in any discussion, but so that we can more deliberately choose the right preontology so as to see the world through better eyes and make better judgments on the world.

The 12th century mystic, Hugo of St. Victor, gives us, I believe, the right pre-ontology out of which to operate: Love is the eye! For Hugo, we see most accurately when our eyesight works through the lens of love and altruism, just as we see most inaccurately when our eyesight is colored by suspicion and self-interest.

And this isn’t an abstract idea. Experience tells us this. When we look at someone in love, beyond of course those periods when love is overly obsessed with romantic attraction, we see straight. We then see the other as he or she really is, with full recognition of his or her virtues and faults.

Jesus says as much with the first words that comes out of his mouth in the synoptic Gospels. Love, indeed, is the eye.

of the case to assist in defraying the actual costs of the process. However, no one is ever denied their rights due to difficulty or inability to pay. Anyone who demonstrates the need for a partial or total reduction of fees receives one and the fee we request only covers a fraction of the actual costs to process the case. Church tribunals operate at a heavy loss.

20. What did Pope Francis change with regard to tribunal fees and why?

Pope Francis didn’t exactly eliminate all tribunal fees, but he said that the process should be gratuitous whenever that can be done without harming the right of tribunal workers to a just wage. He is asking bishops’ conferences and local bishops to do their best to make them gratuitous to the parties (of course, they are never free; the costs are just made up from elsewhere). He has two reasons for this. First, he wants to make sure that nobody is ever discouraged from exercising their rights due to cost. Even though partial or total reductions have always been granted liberally in our diocese (and many others) to anyone who needs them, Pope Francis doesn’t even want the misconception about expense to be an obstacle. Second, he wants to be sure that tribunals are immune from even the slightest suspicion of financial corruption. There is no doubt that that suspicion sometimes exists among the faithful, even though (in our country at least) it is unfounded almost to the point of absurdity.

21. When and how is the new law going to be implemented in the Archdiocese of San Francisco?

As already noted, the law comes into effect on Dec. 8. Our tribunal will do its best to implement it fully by that time, but there are a lot of adjustments to be made. In the meantime, our heavy caseload continues to progress at full speed. Feel free to call or email the tribunal with general questions or questions about your case and we will respond as quickly and fully as we are able, but please be patient with us. If you have a case pending, trust us to contact to you if these changes in the law will have an important bearing on your case.

It is my hope that this short article has helped to assuage any anxiousness surrounding the revision of the marriage nullity process. May these new regulations be seen as an invitation to others who may be in an irregular marriage to consider availing themselves to the nullity process if they believe that there are canonical grounds which may have affected the validity of their marriage.

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

Hungarians’ wounded memories Here is a comment on Lenny Barretto’s letter (“Prelate’s remarks intolerant,” Oct. 22). He asks, “Why then single out Islam and Muslims as a threat to Europe?”

To make my point of view clear, I am a first-generation immigrant. My parents left Hungary just before the onset of World War II. I am completely grateful to both Canada and the United States for hospitality and opportunity. It gives me both appreciation and insight on the present issue. The source of the apparently shocking statement by Hungarian Bishop Laszlo Kiss-Rigo has an important historical explanation.

The answer to Barretto is that in a previous invasion Muslims devastated much of Europe. Especially in Hungary, where the Turks held power for 150 years, it was an attempted racial elimination by religious fanaticism, murder, enslavement and constant war. When the Islamic Turks left, there was a population vacuum in the fertile plains of Hungary that was filled by immigrants from adjacent countries because there were no Hungarians to populate the land. It is a curious quirk of history that Hungary assimilated these immigrants, who rapidly became Hungarian in attitude and nationality.

The historical effect of Muslim enslavement of Hungarians is no different than the historical enslavement of people in America. Victims have wounded memories that last for many generations.

Remaining attitudes are most difficult to understand if one’s ancestors were not the victims.

History does not excuse Bishop Laszlo KissRigo, but does help us understand the origin of his remarks.

Alex M. Saunders, MD San Carlos

Passing God by

On a family trip to Las Vegas this summer, I observed something that moved me.

Located on “the strip” is a seemingly tiny Catholic church that you might miss if you didn’t realize it was there. It’s a shame that a visit to the Guardian Angel Cathedral would take a lower priority to the shows, slots and card tables. It did in my case since I kept on driving.

You would think I would spend a few minutes with God but no: The feast at the buffet beckoned.

We Christians should never forget that all that we have ever and will ever need and want is available in the tabernacle in that church and every Catholic church. The buffet can wait.

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Sunday readings

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets …’

MARK 12:38-44 1 KINGS 17:10-16 In those days, Elijah the prophet went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the entrance of the city, a widow was gathering sticks there; he called out to her, “Please bring me a small cupful of water to drink.” She left to get it, and he called out after her, “Please bring along a bit of bread.” She answered, “As the Lord, your God, lives, I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jar and a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting a couple of sticks, to go in and prepare something for myself and my son; when we have eaten it, we shall die.”

Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid. Go and do as you propose. But first make me a little cake and bring it to me. Then you can prepare something for yourself and your son. For the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of flour shall not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, until the day when the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” She left and did as Elijah had said. She was able to eat for a year, and he and her son as well; the jar of flour did not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, as the Lord had foretold through Elijah.

PSALM 146:7, 8-9, 9-10

Praise the Lord, my soul!

The Lord keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord raises up those who were bowed down; the Lord loves the just. The Lord protects strangers.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations.

Alleluia.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

HEBREWS 9:24-28 Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf. Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacri-

fice. Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.

MARK 12:38-44 In the course of his teaching Jesus said to the crowds, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets. They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.” He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.

A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.”

Making room for more of God’s gift

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uth Burrows, a little known but noteworthy contemporary author of spiritual books, stresses time and again in her small, powerful books and essays (one thinks especially of her masterpiece “Guidelines for Mystical Prayer”) that God is always looking to share with us as much of his grace as we can receive.

She even goes so far as to say that God is actively “pressing down” on us as he seeks to fill us with his life. The obstacle to deep communion with God is not in God, but rather in ourselves, for there is often so little “room” within us for God. St. Augustine of Hippo, in his “Letter to Proba” (one of the greatest treatises Father Mark on prayer), makes a simiDoherty lar point. “(God’s) gift is very great indeed, but our capacity is too small and limited to receive it.

That is why we are told: Enlarge your desires, do not bear the yoke with unbelievers. The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger will be our capacity to receive that gift, which is very great indeed.”

But how do we increase our desire for the gift so as to receive it more fully? Another way to

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The world expects all people of religious faith to work with everyone for a better future, Pope Francis told representatives of major religions.”We can walk together taking care of each other and of creation” in joint projects that fight poverty, war and corruption and help people live in dignity, he told them in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 28 during a special general audience dedicated to interreligious dialogue.

We find ourselves, fists on hips, telling God that it is absolutely unreasonable for him to ask that we sacrifice good things. put the question is: How do I make more room within me for God to pour more of his gift in?

Using this spatial imagery has its limitations given that what we are talking about, namely God’s gift, is a spiritual, immaterial principle, but the image is still useful, especially in that it clearly conveys that in order to receive I have to clear something out to make room. And the things I ought to be ready to clear out are not just or even primarily evil, sinful things, but rather genuinely good things, even really good things.

But what does that look like concretely? How do I really make room? When we get down to the brass tacks of the matter it becomes evident that to really make room for God requires us to sacrifice something from our needs rather than just our wants. Moreover, to sacrifice means, well, to sacrifice … which is to say that in clearing it out, offering it to God, the thing I am sacrificing is given up for good. I will not get it back. It is truly “burned” as a fragrant offering to God. This, of course, is why we balk at the whole idea, and why today especially, in a culture dominated by catchphrases such as “I’m meant to realize all my dreams,” and “I deserve to have it all,” the inner logic of the Christian way of

life is a hard sell. It’s also why so many today turn away from lifelong commitments such as marriage, because such commitments necessarily imply closing the door permanently on many other good possibilities, such as life with another person, career opportunities, experiences. We find ourselves, fists on hips, telling God that it is absolutely unreasonable for him to ask that we sacrifice good things, even really good things.

Isn’t it God who made this or that thing so good?

Isn’t it God who placed this good need within me? How can he now ask me to offer it up, burn it up, such that I will never see it again or realize and experience its fruits?

Because for as good as the thing is, and as genuine the need, they are still but lowly creatures. In their place God wants to give us his very self. God doesn’t want to leave us poor and destitute. He wants us to be wealthier, more full of life than we can fathom. God is the always greater. What he gives us is always greater than what we’ve offered up.

The poor widow in today’s Gospel gave from her need, two small coins. What did she get in return? Life in the kingdom and a shout-out in the most read book in history. Not bad for a little old lady. Where and how is God inviting me to sacrifice from my need so that he can give me himself in exchange?

Father Doherty is parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, and chaplain for Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, November 9: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12. Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17. 2 Chr 7:16.

Jn 2:13-22.

Tuesday, November 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor of the church. Wis 2:23–3:9.

PS 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19. Jn 14:23. Lk 17:7-10.

Wednesday, November 11: Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, bishop. Wis 6:1-11. PS 82:3-4, 6-7. 1 Thes 5:18. Lk 17:11-19.

Thursday, November 12: Memorial of St. Josaphat, bishop and martyr. Wis 7:22b–8:1. PS 119:89, 90, 91, 130, 135, 175. Jn 15:5. Lk 17:20-25.

Friday, November 13: Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin. Wis 13:1-9. Ps 19:2-3, 4-5ab.

Lk 21:28. Lk 17:26-37.

Saturday, November 14: Saturday of the Thirtysecond Week in Ordinary Time. Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9.

PS 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43. See 2 Thes 2:14. LK 18:1-8.

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The synod report, Bishop Murry said, has a “new emphasis and a new focus” on the role of the family to remind them “of their essential role in passing on faith, in passing on culture and in being a symbol of God’s ongoing love and forgiveness.”

“To bring that together in one place, to articulate that clearly and unambiguously, I think is new,” the bishop said.

As for changes in procedures, for example, with regard to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Bishop Murry said, “That is not there, that was not the direction that the synod went.”

“The synod fathers recommended to the Holy Father that the expedited annulment process be used,” he said, “that it be more commonly used by people rather than saying we’re going to create a completely new way of handling these marriages where there is divorce and civil remarriage.”

Bishop Burnette agreed the report shows a “new

attitude, a new emphasis” in facing the challenges in ministering to families. The Byzantine bishop said that it is not enough to tell people what’s wrong, rather a minister must tell them “that there is a way out” and “that God is open to them.”

“It’s not a different message, it’s a different emphasis, he said. “And I really believe that’s what Pope Francis is trying to tell people.”

“You don’t have to tell people they have something wrong; they know. Telling them that there is a way out is what they don’t know. That’s why they stay where they are instead of moving on,” he added.

The Byzantine Catholic Church is one of 23 self-governing Eastern churches in communion with the pope.

Bishop Burnette said that in certain pastoral matters, the Eastern churches can serve as a model of unity in diversity for the Roman Catholic Church.

The word “catholic,” he said, refers to parts of the faith that are universal and that “had come from Christ and the apostles,” and not the parts “expressed in individual cultures and traditions.”

The Eastern churches in union with Rome have a great deal of diversity and that “in that diversity there is a sense of unity,” Bishop Murry said. “I think that we can all learn something from that.”

Pope Francis said the synod tried to find better ways to convince the world of the importance of the family based on the lifelong marriage of one man and one woman, knowing that it should not be afraid to shake “anesthetized consciences or to dirty its hands animatedly and frankly discussing the family.”

“The experience of the synod,” the pope said, “has made us understand better that the true defenders of doctrine are not those who defend its letter, but its spirit; not ideas, but people; not formulas, but the free gift of God’s love and forgiveness. This is in no way to detract from the importance of formulas, laws and divine commandments, but rather to exalt the greatness of the true God, who does not treat us according to our merits or even according to our works, but solely according to the boundless generosity of his mercy.”

Strength in adversity: When families are everything Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church has long defended the family as the basic unit of society and as a “school of humanity.” The family as a bastion of love and protection in times of war and disaster is a reality, not a pious platitude, said two members of the Synod of Bishops.

Ukrainian Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kiev-Halych and head of the Ukrainian

Catholic Church, saw the reality as a youth when Ukraine was under the Soviet Union’s communist rule and he sees it today as hundreds of thousands of people are displaced by the fighting in his country’s Eastern region.

Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila said he sees it every time an earthquake or typhoon hits his country and also in the relationships of refugees forced to flee violence.

Archbishop Shevchuk and Cardinal Tagle participated in the Synod of Bishops on the family Oct. 4-25.

“Ukraine today is going through the experience of war,” the archbishop told Catholic News Service. Especially at times when political and social structures are weak and “ideologies are crashing, family remains the last fortress, the last hope, the last protection of human dignity.”

“In this period of adversity,” he said, the family “is becoming stronger and manifesting its true identity.”

The United Nations estimates more than 1.5 million Ukrainians have been displaced by the fighting in the East, he said, but only about 400,000 of them are receiving assistance from international humanitarian organizations, the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian religious or volunteer organizations. The remaining 1.1 million people are being taken care of by their extended families.

Those extended families are Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant and nonbelievers. The phenomenon is not religious, Archbishop Shevchuk said; it simply demonstrates that families remain the foundation of a society’s existence even when the bigger units of society fail. What is more, the family shows itself to be “an outstanding source of solidarity.”

In their final report to Pope Francis, synod members also showed their special concern for families fleeing violence, especially Christian families fleeing “violent religious persecution,” which has launched a mass exodus from some countries, most notably Syria and Iraq.

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Pictured from left Oct. 8 are St. Rita parish council president Jack Stewart; Father James McSweeney, pastor of St. Joseph Church, Middletown; and St. Rita pastor Father Ken Weare.

Parishioners of St. Rita Parish, Fairfax, donated $10,000 to St. Joseph Church, Middletown, where 41 parish families lost their homes in September’s Valley Fire. Four of the families are now living in the parish rectory.

“St. Rita parishioners were shocked and saddened by the devastation and decided to take action,” said Father Kenneth Weare, St. Rita pastor.

Father Weare said parishioners were inspired by the well-known words and actions of Pope Francis, and his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, responding with a special collection that yielded the $10,000 gift.

Almost 2,000 structures were destroyed in the blaze including almost 1,300 homes, more than 65 commercial properties and almost 600 minor structures. The fire burned more than 76,000 acres.

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Archdiocesan youth rally at Our Lady of Mercy

Youth of the Archdiocese of San Francisco gathered for a rally Oct. 18 at Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City. The day included praise and worship, a Mass with all youth liturgical ministers celebrated

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St. Andrew Parish, Daly City: The parish embraced the “Operation I Do “ mass wedding for the first time, with eight couples renewing their vows Oct. 23. “We hope most parishes will start offering free mass weddings,” said organizer Joel Espinueva. “It helps a lot of couples to receive the sacrament of matrimony.”

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SATURDAY, NOV. 7

MONDAY, NOV. 9

REUNION: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School all-class reunion for graduates of St. Anthony School, Immaculate Conception Elementary and SAIC, 6-9 p.m., auditorium, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco; Constance Dalton, (415) 642-6130; dalton_constance@yahoo.com.

DOMINICAN STORY: An evening with Dominican Sister Toni Harris, 7 p.m., “Dominic’s Dream Continues – 800 Years and Counting,” the Gathering Space, Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453-8303.

REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of 1970, 4 p.m., cocktail reception, $75, in school’s Rist Hall, amagnusen@mercyhs.org, (415) 337-7218.

TUESDAY, NOV. 10

‘LOOKING EAST’: Lecture on Eastern Catholicism, 1 p.m., Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, (415) 752-2052; www.ByzantineCatholic.org.

PEACE MASS: Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square, San Francisco, Salesian Father John Itzaina, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist; (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy, 3 p.m., all welcome; www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com

SUNDAY, NOV. 8 RECITAL: Mission Dolores Basilica Centennial Organ Series, 4 p.m., Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th and Dolores streets, featuring Angela Kraft-Cross performing sacred works, free admission, donations encouraged.

3-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Mary’s Medical Center auxiliary holiday sale, Tuesday, 4-7 p.m. includes refreshments and free parking with a $10 entrance fee; admission free Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in hospital main lobby; (415) 750-5646.

SATURDAY, NOV. 11 VETERANS DAY PRAYER: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, Star of the Sea Section, 11 a.m., Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski colonel, USAF, chancellor, Archdiocese of San Francisco, presides, (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

THURSDAY, NOV. 12 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, DEC. 12 CHRISTMAS REMEMBRANCE: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m., Msgr.

John Talesfore, pastor, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo and Msgr. John has led this Talesfore rite every year since its inception at Holy Cross, presides, (650) 756-2060, www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

ning’s host is Amy Gutierrez, Comcast SportsNet, tickets $175, Rhonda Hontalas (415) 824-2052, ext. 40; rhontalas@icacademy.org.

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SCIENCE TALK: Dr. Maria Elena Monzani, astrophysicist, will speak and answer questions on black holes and the origins of the universe, Star of the Sea auditorium, 4420 Geary Blvd. at 8th Avenue, San Francisco, 7 p.m., www.starparish.com; (415) 751-0450. Admission is free, suitable for all ages.

SATURDAY, NOV. 14

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18

2-DAY BAKE SALE: St Stephen DIVORCE SUPPORT: First and third Women’s Guild sponsored, pies, Irish Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen O’Reilly P soda U bread, B cookies, L bars I and C more Aaf- T Parish I O NCenter, S 23rd Avenue at ICA GALA: “Education That Works,” ter Mass 4:30 p.m. Saturday; Sunday 8, Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated celebrates Immaculate Conception 9:30, 11 a.m. and 6:45 p.m., St. Stephen and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the Academy’s “132 years of educating Church, Eucalyptus at 23rd Avenue, San archdiocese, drop-in support group. young women in San Francisco,” 5:30 Francisco; landrini@sbcglobal.net or Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422p.m., Grand Hyatt San Francisco, evefrancescaDDS@gmail.com.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 15

2-DAY BOUTIQUE: Sisters of Mercy, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. both days, homemade jams, handcrafted items, baked goods, and sweets, Marian Oaks 2300 Adeline Drive, Bldg. D, Burlingame, Debbie Halleran, (650) 340-7426.

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CRAFTS FAIR: St Sebastian’s Church, Bon Air Road, Greenbrae Arts and Crafts Fair with jewelry, ceramics, knits, flowers, jams, baked goods, (415) 461-0704 for hours or reserve a table, $30 or $35.

FAITH FORMATION: Fromm Hall, north of St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Golden Gate avenues 10:50 a.m., Good Shepherd Gracenter with Good Shepherd Sister Marguerite Barling; free and open to the public; free parking in all USF lots; jacoleman@ usfca.edu; faloon@usfca.edu; (415) 422-2195.

FRIDAY, NOV. 13

the professionals When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk

REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of 1990, 6:30 p.m., Villa D’Este Restaurant, Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, $25, Francesca Felizzatto Moore francescafm@comcast.net, Amy Courtney Feasey, amymichael28@ hotmail.com.

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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA

VETERANS’ DAY MEMORIAL SERVICES ~ STAR OF THE SEA SECTION - OUTDOOR SERVICE ~ Msgr. Michael Padazinski, Presider Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 AT 11:00 A.M. TO HONOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM Please join the Military Chaplains of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard for this memorial cememony.

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

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

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

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

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

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