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Solidarity is God’s plan, pope says in Madagascar CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – God’s plan for humanity involves community, mutual support, sharing and caring for each other and for the earth, Pope Francis said.

“As we look around us, how many men and women, young people and children are suffering and in utter need. This is not part of God’s plan,” he said Sept. 8, celebrating Mass on a dusty, red dirt field on the outskirts of Antananarivo.

Madagascar is one of the world’s 10 poorest countries. According to the World Bank, 75 percent of the population lives on less than $1.90 a day.

Close to 1 million people gathered on the Soamandrakizay field for the pope’s Mass, according to local organizers. Many had spent the night sleeping on straw mats or plastic tarps and bundled up against a windy winter chill.

At the beginning of his homily, the pope acknowledged the sacrifice people made to get to the Mass site and, especially, the discomfort endured by those who camped out.

Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina, a Catholic, and his wife, Mialy, sat near the front of the crowd as Pope Francis preached about the Gospel SEE POPE, PAGE PAGE 18

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School ‘thinks outside the box’

St. Raphael School students lead the morning assembly and prayer Aug. 29 on the first week of the school year. The parish school “thinks outside the box” to make a Catholic school education accessible to students from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds, principal Lydia Collins said. See story on Page page 2.

Chinese community prays for peace in Hong Kong tolic Administrator Cardinal John Tong asking Catholics throughout the world to pray for Hong Kong and China.

This summer, Hong Kong has seen massive and Retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh invoked often violent clashes between protesters and the lothe Beatitudes in offering hope and solace to the cal government, which proposed a bill in February Bay Area’s Chinese community and their supportthat would give China the right to extradite people, ers during an Aug. 26 prayer vigil for “peace, justice including foreigners, to China to stand trial. and the end of violence” in Hong Kong.

Protesters fear the bill, which was indefinitely “In the Beatitudes we hear of a world that is not suspended in June, would place the Hong Kong peoperfect,” said the bishop, who led the evening serple and visitors under mainland Chinese jurisdicvice attended by about 150 people at St. Anne of the tion, undermining the autonomy of the region and Sunset Church in San Francisco. citizens’ rights that were guaranteed in the transfer Bishop Walsh called upon the faithful to turn to of Hong Kong’s sovereignty from the United KingJesus “for providence, guidance and protection, and dom to the Peoples Republic of China in 1997. to pray for the kingdom of God.” Hong Kong was returned to China under a “one The “Pray for Hong Kong” service was coordinatA personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. country, two systems” principle, allowing it its own ed by the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Chinese If you Office have received a flag honoring yourDignity. loved one'sItmilitary service and would like to donate it Ministry and of Human Life and the cemetery be flown as part of anKong’s “Avenue of Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of JulySEE andHONG Veterans' Day, was a to response to to a plea from Hong AposKONG, PAGE PAGE 6 CHRISTINA GRAY

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School ‘thinks outside the box’ to welcome all families CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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San Rafael School second graders are pictured in a reading class during the first week of the school year. Student demographics at the parish K-8 school are diverse, with at least half of the students from Latino families. The school encourages students to be inspired by the words of St. Catherine of Siena: “Be who God meant you to be and you can set the world on fire.” lins went to all Masses and asked families not to dismiss the school outright as an unattainable option for their children.

“This is your church, this is your school,” she told them. “If you want your children to be here, please talk to us.”

Leaders in the Latino community also came forward to say a few words about why they chose St. Raphael School, Collins said.

Collins emphasized that the invitation included all parish families.

“It is not just our Latino families who are concerned about tuition costs,” she said.

Collins was careful to avoid the suggestion that “all Latino families need tuition assistance or that our Caucasian families do not need financial aid.”

Combining scholarships from a number of different sources, Collins put together an assistance package for qualified families that brought the per-student tuition down to almost one-half.

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Some years ago under former pastor Father Paul Rossi, St. Raphael Parish launched an Adopt-a-Student Fund. Collins said the supportive parish community has historically collected $75,000 and often much more toward educating parish children.

St. Raphael has also quadrupled the scholarship money it receives annually from The Basic Fund, a nonprofit organization that partners with private schools serving lowincome populations. It is the secondlargest Basic Fund recipient next to St. Peter School in the Mission District, Collins said.

“Nobody comes for free,” said Collins, who acknowledged that even reduced tuition is out of reach for some families.

Many, though, are thrilled to make great sacrifices to give their children a Catholic education.

It’s not just the nice private school education and academic piece they want, said Collins. “They want God.”

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Deacon Totah: Service, humility key to diaconate CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Five years after his own ordination into the permanent diaconate, Deacon Fuad “Fred” Totah has begun the role of director of diaconate formation for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Deacon Totah, a deacon at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo, began his role July 1, succeeding Dominican Father Michael Sweeney.

Deacon Fred On Sept. 14, Deacon Totah will Totah welcome the 22 men in the archdiocese’s two diaconate formation classes to the new academic year. Eleven men will be ordained in 2020 and the others when their five-year journey is complete in 2022.

“While the men are discerning whether they want to be in the diaconate, I will be discerning whether they have the disposition,” he said.

The word deacon comes from the Greek word, “diakonos,” meaning “one who serves,” Deacon Totah said.

He said a disposition of “humility and putting others first,” is an essential quality of a good deacon – a willingness to be the “unseen one, the one in the background,” providing a service role to pastor and parish.

Deacon Totah said a desire for status is incompatible with being a deacon. He said Jesus, who came “to serve, not to be served,” was “the first deacon.”

There are more than 100 permanent deacons in the archdiocese, the large majority serving in parishes. Two serve in Central America.

For many years, deacons “ascended” from one office to another, culminating in ordination to the priesthood. The Second Vatican Council restored the diaconate as a permanent order of ministry, according to the U.S. bishops’ website.

Bishops, priests and deacons are all ministers of the Word, sacrament and charity, but are called to different functions. Deacons can proclaim the Gospel, preach, and teach in the name of the church. They can baptize, lead the faithful in prayer, witness marriages and conduct funeral services. Deacons are also leaders in identifying the needs of others and marshaling church

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Deacon Fred Totah, director of diaconate formation, formally presented aspirants and candidates during an Aug. 13 Mass celebrated at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Daly City by retired Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. Pictured here are the candidates and readers and their wives with Bishop Justice, center, and Deacon Totah and Deacon Michael Ghiorso, director of the permanent diaconate.

BACK-TOSCHOOL BACKPACKS: Patricia Gutierrez, left, and her daughters Rosa, right, and Joy, center, received new-school-year backpacks filled with school supplies courtesy of the St. Andrew Parish Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Daly (COURTESY PHOTO) City. According to Madeleine Livacoli, president of the parish ministry, generous St. Andrew parishioners donated the funds to purchase 11 backpacks and much-needed school supplies for local families struggling to outfit their children for the new school year. Parents were given a $100 gift certificate for other school necessities such as new shoes and clothing.

resources to meet those needs, often in parish work.

A deacon cannot consecrate, hear confessions or anoint the sick.

Born in Jerusalem and raised in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Deacon Totah moved to San Francisco in his teens, married and raised a daughter while working full-time at a law firm in San Mateo. He said his decision to enter the diaconate in his 50s was sparked 27 years earlier by

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At the baptism, Deacon Bob Bertolani wore a priest’s Roman collar. The new parents were wide-eyed when they heard the man say he was going home to spend time with his wife and children.

Deacon Totah learned about the permanent diaconate from “Deacon Bob,” with whom he shared a decades-long friendship until his death in 2014.

He was ordained a deacon the same year.

“Deacon Bob Bertolani, may he rest in peace, he is the one that planted that seed in me,” said Totah, who tears up at the memory of his mentor.

He said when he was an acolyte at St. Timothy Parish, where he still serves as deacon, his pastor asked him to go to the sacristy to find an alb to wear on the altar. The name stitched into the first one he saw: Deacon Bob Bertolani.

The pastor gave it to him.

Some weeks before Deacon Totah’s ordination, Mike Ghiorso, the director of the permanent diaconate, brought him some stoles to choose from, telling him they had belonged to a deacon who couldn’t use them anymore.

“I picked the white one,” said Deacon Totah, who found out the deacon was Deacon Bertolani.

After looking at photos from his daughter’s baptism, he realized it was the same stole that the deacon wore that day.

“I still wear it every time I do a baptism,” he said.

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Catechists urged to involve parents in faith formation NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Catechists and directors of religious education opened their year with a road map for the “holy grail” of catechesis: getting parents involved in faith formation.

“Family is key to understanding some of the most foundaJoseph D. White tional mysteries of our faith. As the family goes, so goes the parish and so goes the church,” Joseph D. White, a national expert on catechesis, told the archdiocesan Office of Faith Formation’s annual gathering of parish catechetical leaders, held Sept. 4 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

White, a clinical psychologist, catechetical consultant for publisher Our Sunday Visitor and author of numerous books on catechesis and Catholic education, said God created the family as the best means for handing on the faith.

“Programs and institutions support families in their role as primary catechists but they don’t replace the family,” he said. “To better involve families we have to welcome and meet them where they are.”

White said that in a lot of cases, that means meeting people in crisis and struggle, or with hectic schedules and divided attention.

White told a story from his days as a parish director of faith formation about a family who had enrolled their two children in sacramental preparation classes and then stopped coming after a few weeks. Rather than write them off, he called and asked how they were doing. The mother explained her husband had suddenly abandoned her and their children,

leaving them without a way to pay for groceries or housing.

He invited her to come to the parish, so they could figure out how to support her family. In the end, the children finished their sacraments on time and their mom became the parish’s best catechist.

“She said it’s because when her family was going to fall apart, the church became her family,” White said.

For her and many others, the church can become an important social support, he said, especially today when many people report living further away from relatives and having fewer close friends.

White emphasized the importance of helping people understand the importance of meals and eating together as a family, which fewer families report doing. The meals of Cana and the Last Supper are essential to Christianity, and Jesus often got criticized for simply sharing a meal with sinners, White said.

“The Eucharist is the meal we share with our family the church,” he said.

“How can people understand the Eucharist if they don’t have meals with their family?”

White encouraged his audience to get to know the children and parents they serve and what their situations are. That can be done through staying in touch via email, he said, or by preparing activities at the start of each class that children can begin on their own so the catechist has time to talk to parents.

Catechists could also help arrange opportunities for families to meet outside classes, through potluck dinners or going to a movie.

“Education for community is one of the tasks of catechesis,” he said.

“Making connections is an essential part of what it means to be Catholic.”

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Catechists should also consider hosting sessions with parents and children together, so parents can experience the sessions and reinforce lessons at home. Changing behavior does not mean just telling someone what to do, White said, but practicing the behavior with them.

“If you want parents to talk to kids about their faith, you must help them facilitate that in the parish,” he said.

Parents should also understand the way their daily lives connect to their faith, he said, pointing out that the corporal and spiritual works of mercy – feeding the hungry, giving water to the thirsty, instructing the ignorant – are part of the daily fabric of family life.

“Parents should see that even the most mundane, frustrated work of parenthood is an encounter with Jesus Christ,” he said.

White said daily actions like a commute or putting children to bed can be opportunities to sanctify the day, through prayers for safe travels or sleep.

White concluded his talk by emphasizing the paradigm shift that catechesis in the church needs to aim at. Instead of relying only on catechists and directors of religious education to form children’s faith, the church needs to build programs that expect, invite and depend on parents’ involvement.

Brainstorming roles that parents can take on, regardless of their family situation or time commitments, can move a parish toward a model, “where we make all the adults responsible for educating the children of the parish.”

The “Gather at Grand” speaker series sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael hosts Father Diarmuid O’Murchu, MSC, on “The Father Diarmuid Evolution of O’Murchu Adult Faith Maturation,” Sept. 26, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Light refreshments provided. RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org or call (415) 453-8303.

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Assumption Parish celebrates patronal feast

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Father Juan Manuel Lopez, pastor of Church of the Assumption of Mary Parish in Tomales, guides a procession with a statue of St. Mary of the Assumption, on the occasion of her feast Aug. 18.

The rural Marin County church is home to about 150 parishioners, about 80 percent of them Spanish speakers. Many are immigrants who have reconnected with their cultural and religious roots through the parish. The parish, established in 1860, also provides space for catechesis and encounter between cultures. During Mass, Father Lopez preached on the four Marian dogmas of the church: Virginity, motherhood, the Immaculate Conception, and the Assumption, declared by Pope Pius XII in 1950. Posing in front of the church, lower right, are Arturo Martinez and Adriana Macias with their children Emanuel, Diana and Angela.

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legislature and economic system. The Chinese government is accused of influencing the government of Hong Kong and of refusing to allow full democracy in the territory, Catholic News Agency reported.

Residents of Hong Kong currently have significantly more freedoms than Chinese living on the mainland, including religious freedom, the news agency said. There are some 581,000 Catholics in Hong Kong, or 8-percent of the population.

Protesters are calling out the excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police, including the use of rubber bullets and tear gas, which have led to injuries. Cardinal Tong has asked the government to eliminate the extradition law completely, and called for an independent inquiry into the excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police.

Bishop Walsh asked the congregation to join in solidarity with the people who Jesus called “the merciful” and “the peacemakers” in his Sermon on the Mount .

“Let our hearts be full of God and the love of his people in Hong Kong and China, and full of faith in our Lord and in the forgiveness of those who are hurting us,” he said.

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Leading a prayer service for peace in Hong Kong, Retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh was joined on the altar at St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco by Deacon Simon Tsui of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Father Peter Zhai, director of the archdiocesan Chinese ministry.

Also participating were St. Anne pastor Father Daniel Nascimento and retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang.

The vigil included scriptural readings, a litany of peace and other prayers sung and read alternately in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Worshippers also prayed the rosary,

followed by eucharistic adoration and Benediction.

Bishop Walsh, who is in residence at St. Anne of the Sunset, was joined on the altar by Father Peter Zhai,

director of Chinese ministry; Father Daniel Nascimento, St. Anne pastor; Deacon Simon Tsui of Chinatown’s Old St. Mary’s Cathedral; and retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang.

Father Zhai told Catholic San Francisco as the service ended that it “brought so much consolation” to see the solidarity and prayer for Hong Kong. ”The people are here from all backgrounds and different communities in the Bay Area, people from parishes that are not from China or Hong Kong,” he said.

Catherine and Philip Chan of Castro Valley were among them. Both were born in Shanghai and lived in Hong Kong for years before moving to the United States.

“Sometimes, the things are out of our control, we have to leave it to God’s will, to God’s plan,” said Catherine, who clutched her rosary beads as she spoke. She said she was praying for the intercession of Mary.

“We pray she will take care of the young people in Hong Kong who are facing a very difficult time at this moment,” she said.

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Women discuss ‘getting out and staying out’ of jail CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Women leaving the prison system after time served need support, “tough love” and each other to stay out of jail, according to a panel of formerly incarcerated women.

“In this transitional time, you really need to be able to focus on yourself, and establish relationships with people of the same gender and get some healthy feedback,” said Jeris Woodson, a recovering drug addict who left prison and now helps women moving out of the criminal justice system as a case manager for Westside Community Services in San Francisco.

Woodson was one of five formerly incarcerated women who participated in a panel discussion Sept. 6 about the unique challenges faced by women leaving prison and what has helped them stay out.

The panel was one of nearly a dozen offered at the annual Restorative Justice and Reentry Conference and Resource Fair at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Sponsored by the Office of Human Life & Dignity, the one-day event was geared toward professionals and volunteers who work for agencies that serve criminal-justice clients, as well as for the ex-offenders themselves.

“When I got out of prison, I was lost,” said Victoria Westbrook, who now works in the reentry division of San Francisco’s adult probation department.

“I didn’t know what my next step was. It was the women who came out before me that actually helped me take the next step.”

The panelists talked in frank terms about what led to their incarceration, which in every case was related to their addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Marilyn Jones, a former crack addict, said she was a “nerd” and gifted child from an abusive home who entered the criminal justice system at age 14. She spent 20 years going in and out of prison before going back to school and eventually earning a doctoral degree in educational leadership at the University of San Francisco.

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Rebecca Jackson, left, and Marilyn D. Jones, right, were part of a panel discussion Sept. 6 at St. Mary’s Cathedral on overcoming a life of incarceration. The panel was part of the Restorative Justice Reentry Conference and Resource Fair sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity.

Jones founded Because Black is Still Beautiful, a Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to “dismantling perceptions, practices and policies that negatively affect criminal justice-impacted black women.”

The women said the challenges they faced after leaving prison included stigma, and the difficulty of staying “clean and sober” after returning out of necessity or temptation to toxic environments and relationships.

“No matter how much I polished myself or whatever schooling I now had, it really all boiled down to that I was looked at only as that box checked on the paper,” said Rebecca Jackson about being an ex-offender applying for jobs or housing.

She is now the director of San Francisco’s Cameo House, where she was able put her past in the justice system to work on behalf of other women looking to change their lives as she did.

“I had to really grieve the streets,” said Shannon Wise, and “say goodbye to folks I considered family.”

Wise said she was arrested some 20-25 times before

finding longtime recovery in two, 15-month stays at Walden House in San Francisco.

She also said she had to “surrender to the concept of support,” and learn to form friendships with women she met in programs like Positive Directions, a recovery support network for African Americans.

Wise ultimately earned a master’s degree in nonprofit administration and founded Solutions for Women, a grassroots organization that supports formerly incarcerated women as they develop life skills and self-esteem while learning to be healthy, law-abiding citizens.

The panelists agreed that women with children facing reentry are at a disadvantage in San Francisco, which Wise called, “not at all family-oriented.”

Jackson described a client with a 13-year-old daughter who did not have a drug problem and could not find any services that would take her.

“That hurts my feelings, that we have women who are the sole person taking care of a family, and they can’t get services and are living on the street or in cars with their kids,” she said.

Women also need more time to recover from the barriers to successful reentry, the women said. Timebracketed services of 30, 60 or 90 days are typical.

“I’m telling you that if you have any of the barriers, of substance abuse, of homelessness, of lack of education, or of not being able to find a job because you have two small babies, 90 days is not enough,” said Wise.

When asked for what advice they would offer other women coming out of prison, the women all spoke of the importance of accountability and women mentors.

“Get an accountability partner,” said Woodson, who found someone to run big decisions by and who will offer her “hard truths,” if needed.

Jackson agreed. “We don’t have a lot of practice coming out making really good choices or we wouldn’t have been in prison,” she said.

Forgiving oneself for past mistakes is also crucial.

“Forgive yourself and accept that this is your life, all of it, and use it as a platform of strength,” Wise said.

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Seattle’s Etienne shuns mansion: ‘Pastor, not prince’ SEATTLE – Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne said he will not live in the 9,000-square-foot mansion that many of his predecessors called home.

In a letter sent to archdiocesan priests and deacons Sept. 3 – his first day as leader of the Archdiocese of Seattle – the archbishop wrote: “While the Connolly House has Archbishop been home to the archbishops since Paul D. Etienne 1920, it will not be home for me.”

“I prefer to live a more simplified life,” he explained, adding that he was “exploring options on church properties” and hoped to find an alternative soon.

“Meanwhile, a prudent discussion will explore the possibility of selling Connolly House to help fund the great many needs across this archdiocese,” he wrote.

The property has an appraised value of $8.4 million, according to the King County Department of Assessments.

“The house doesn’t represent who I am,” Archbishop Etienne said in an interview with Northwest Catholic, news magazine and website for the Archdiocese of Seattle. “I think the days of bishops living in a manner that’s a lot nicer than the majority of their people live, those days are gone, and they should be.”

“I am a pastor, not a prince,” he added, “and I want to live in a manner that’s more reflective of how my people live.”

Archbishop Etienne said the “model and message of Pope Francis” influenced him. After his election

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The names of two bishops appear on a list of clergy with “substantiated abuse of minors allegations” released by the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Sept. 6.

The bishops are retired Bishop Joseph H. Hart of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and now-deceased Bishop Joseph V. Sullivan of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

According to the list assembled by the diocese, which dates back to its founding in 1956, the abuse claims for each bishop took place within the Missouri diocese’s territory. Each bishop also had more than one abuse allegation reported.

A forthcoming Vatican trial was announced in June on charges against Bishop Hart of abuse allegations in the Cheyenne Diocese, where he served as bishop from 1978 to 2001, and as auxiliary bishop from 1976 to 1978. Bishop Hart has maintained his innocence once the Wyoming allegations surfaced.

Bishop Hart, ordained a priest in 1956, had been accused of three instances of abuse dating to the late 1960s and early 1970s in Missouri. In 2008, the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese announced a $10 million settlement with 47 victims of sexual abuse by 12 clergy and former clergy of the diocese. Attorneys for the victims said the group included Bishop Hart, although the diocese, then headed by Bishop Robert W. Finn, did not disclose any of the clerics’ names. A second financial settlement was reached by the diocese in 2014.

Bishop Sullivan, born in 1919, died in 1982 after serving eight years as bishop of Baton Rouge.

SEATTLE – The bishops of the Archdiocese of Seattle reiterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to assisted suicide in response to a news report about a man who used a fatal drug combination to end his own life under Washington state’s Death with Dignity Act. The Associated Press report Aug. 26 included a photo of Robert Fuller receiving a blessing at St. Therese Parish in Seattle a few days before his death and asserts that “Fuller’s decision (to end his life) was widely known and accepted among the parishioners.”

Fuller was terminally ill and administered two syringes into his feeding tube to take his own life, the report said.

The report raised concerns among Archbishop J. Peter Sartain and Coadjutor Archbishop Paul D. Etienne “because it may cause confusion among Catholics and others who share our reverence for human life,” the archdiocese said in a statement.

At the time the photo was taken, “parish leadership was not aware of Mr. Fuller’s intentions,” it said. The priest in the photo, Jesuit Father Quentin Dupont, “was told Mr. Fuller was dying and wanted the blessing of the faith community.”

When parish leaders learned of Fuller’s plans, another priest, Father Maurice Mamba, met with him “to discuss the sacred gift of human life and how we are called to respect and revere that gift as disciples of Jesus,” the archdiocese said.

Catholics believe that all life is a gift from God

“Choose life, so that you and your children may live…”

in 2013, the pope made headlines by opting to live in a Vatican guesthouse rather than the Apostolic Palace.

The archbishop said his decision “is not a reflection upon how the previous bishops lived.”

“It’s not condemning that,” he said, “but we’re in a different age today, and I want people to know that I’m willing to examine everything – including the home that I live in that the people of God provide me – in order to renew this church.”

“Bishops face a challenge today of reclaiming our credibility,” the archbishop added.

Archbishop Etienne said his decision not to live in the mansion reflects who he is, how he thinks a bishop is called to live and his concern for the environment.

“One guy doesn’t need that large of an ecological footprint,” he said.

and that “every person has inherent and inalienable dignity because we are made in God’s image and likeness,” it said.

“Based on this teaching and concern for human life and the common good, the Catholic Church does not support suicide in any form, including medically assisted suicide,” the statement said, noting that those with terminal illnesses must be accompanied “by providing compassionate care and spiritual counsel.”

NEW JERSEY APPEALS COURT LETS ASSISTED-SUICIDE LAW CONTINUE

TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey state appeals court allowed a new law permitting assisted suicide to continue, overturning a lower court decision that temporarily blocked the law.

A pair of judges ruled Aug. 27 that a state Superior Court “abused its discretion” in stopping the law.

The appeals court determined that “the court failed to consider adequately the interests of qualified terminally ill patients, who the Legislature determined have clearly prescribed rights to end their lives consistent with the Act,” the appeals court ruling said.

Attorney Rich Grohmann, representing Dr. Yosef Glassman, who filed the lawsuit against the law, said he planned to file an appeal to the New Jersey Supreme Court, the Associated Press reported.

The law took effect Aug. 1, but a Superior Court judge put it on hold Aug. 14.

Under the law, competent New Jersey residents over age 18 who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and have six months or less to live – and have medical confirmation of their situation – can get a prescription for a lethal medication to end their life.

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Lawsuit filed over asylum directives CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s appointment of Ken Cuccinelli to a top immigration position violated federal law and therefore certain actions undertaken by his office are not legally valid, a federal lawsuit argues.

The complaint was filed Sept. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and challenges three directives from Cuccinelli, who has served as acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services since June.

Filing the lawsuit were seven asylumseekers and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., Democracy Forward Foundation, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services and Proskauer, an international law firm.

Bradley Jenkins, federal litigation attorney at CLINIC, said the directives in combination have the effect of curtailing an asylum-seeker’s access to a lawyer or someone else to prepare for the first government screening interview after arriving in the U.S. This so-called “credible fear” interview determines if an asylum-seeker

will be able to formally file an application for asylum.

“This is an hour of any asylumseeker’s life that will change their life forever. If they pass this interview, they get the ability to submit an asylum application. If they fail it, they immediately get deported,” Jenkins told Catholic News Service.

The lawsuit argues the USCIS directives reduce the time between arrival at a detention facility and the interview from 48 hours to the next calendar day, almost completely bar continuances that would allow more preparation time and end legal orientations for immigrants.

The directives also post difficult obstacles for disabled asylum-seekers and violate the federal Rehabilitation Act, the lawsuit said “All we’re asking for is what the law allows. The reason they want to do it is they want to deport people quickly and without adequate process,” Jenkins said.

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Buffalo’s Malone will not resign, calls recent case ‘convoluted’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo said the majority of priests and parishioners in the diocese supported him and he would not resign over his handling of a situation involving two priests’ relationBishop Richard ship with a seminarJ. Malone ian.

“I’m here because I feel an obligation as the one who was sent here to lead this diocese, to carry on, and once again, if I thought the majority of Catholic people in particular were calling for my resignation, that would be a different story,”

to resign over what he called a “love triangle” involving priests and a seminarian.

Bishop Malone also expressed concern to Biernat that “this could be the end for me as bishop” if the news media learned about the situation involving the three men and called the situation he was facing “a true crisis.”

The beleaguered bishop has faced questions about how he has handled allegations of abuse against diocesan priests for more than a year.

Bojanowski, who has withdrawn from Christ the King Seminary in suburban Aurora, said he first notified Bishop Malone in November 2018 of the allegation against Father Nowak. The diocese announced in an Aug. 28 statement that Father Nowak had been placed on LAND PILGRIMAGES administrative leave.

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I am always well received when I go ... I do feel enough support, honestly to continue on,” he told reporters gathered at the rectory of St. Joseph’s Cathedral.

Bishop Malone called the news conference to discuss a letter from Father Ryszard Biernat to a seminarian, Matthew Bojanowski, and allegations by Bojanowski that another priest, Father Jeffrey Nowak, harassed him.

Father Biernat began a leave of absence from his position as the bishop’s priest secretary Aug. 14. He had been in his position since 2013.

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The bishop also defended his handling of what he described as “a very complex, convoluted matter.”

The bishop called the content of the letter “a bit concerning” and said he “suggested that Father Ryszard should go on a personal leave of absence.”

The newspaper said the letter suggested that Father Biernat and Bojanowski were involved in a romantic relationship. However, Bishop Malone said he was “not aware at this time of an allegations of sexual impropriety between Father Ryszard and Matthew.”

Attorney Barry N. Covert, representing Father Biernat and Bojanowski, told the newspaper that Bishop Malone was trying to distract people from his failure to remove Father Nowak in a timely manner.

“There’s not love triangle,” Covert said. “That’s a complete deflection.”

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Investigation: McCarrick created seminary ‘culture of fear’ CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

NEWARK, N.J. – Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick created a “culture of fear and intimidation” at the Seton Hall University seminary, according to a report released by the university on Aug. 27.

“McCarrick used his position of power as then-Archbishop of Newark to sexually harass seminarians. No minors or other University students were determined to have Theodore been affected by McCarrick,” said McCarrick the statement.

Seton Hall is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Newark, which McCarrick led from 1988-2000. The Archbishop of Newark serves as president of the university’s board of trustees.

It is one of the oldest diocesan-run Catholic universities in the country and has about 10,000 students, including 6,000 undergraduates. Seton Hall is also home to Immaculate Conception Seminary and St. Andrew’s Hall college seminary.

The “independent, unrestricted review” was announced by interim university president Mary J. Meehan on Aug. 23 last year. It followed an Aug. 17 report published by CNA that detailed a series of allegations made by priests in the Archdiocese of Newark.

Some of the priest’s accounts related to former

archbishop Theodore McCarrick. Others detailed allegations of recent or ongoing behavior at the two seminaries, including a specific allegation concerning a former rector of St. Andrew’s Hall.

The review was conducted by the law firm Lantham & Watkins. It found that while Seton Hall University’s present Title IX policies are “consistent with state and federal law,” they were “not always followed” at Immaculate Conception Seminary or St. Andrew’s Hall.

These policy lapses “resulted in incidents of sexual harassment going unreported to the University,” said the statement.

“Individuals, communities and parishes across the country have been affected by former archbishop McCarrick and others who have profoundly and forever negatively altered so many lives,” the University statement said.

McCarrick, who was archbishop of Washington from 2000 to 2006, was laicized – removed from the priestly state – last February following a Vatican trial into charges of abuse levied against him.

McCarrick, in an interview last month with Slate staff writer Ruth Graham, said he doesn’t believe he committed the acts of which he has been accused.

“I’m not as bad as they paint me,” McCarrick told Graham Aug. 14 at the St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria, Kan., about 90 miles west of Salina, where he resides. “I do not believe that I did the things that they accused me of.”

McCarrick discussed in particular the accusations by James Grein that he had solicited him during confession: “The thing about the confession, it’s a horrible thing. I was a priest for 60 years, and I would never have done anything like that … That was horrible, to take the holy sacrament and to make it a sinful thing.”

The former cleric told Graham that he thinks men who said he abused them while they were seminarians during weekend trips to his New Jersey beach house “were encouraged” to develop similar stories, attributing this encouragement to unnamed “enemies.”

“There were many who were in that situation who never had any problems like that,” he said.

McCarrick also addressed the claims of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, emeritus apostolic nuncio to the US, who said McCarrick’s alleged sexual misconduct had been known to some Vatican officials for years, eventually leading to a restriction on the archbishop’s ministry by Benedict XVI and a subsequent restoration of McCarrick’s place as a papal adviser by Pope Francis.

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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time EXODUS 32:7-11, 13-14 The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once to your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out, ‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’

“I see how stiff-necked this people is,” continued the LORD to Moses. “Let me alone, then, that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation.”

But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, “Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’” So the LORD relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.

PSALM 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19 R. (Luke 15:18) I will rise and go to my father.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

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A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me. Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

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O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise. My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

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1 TIMOTHY 1:12-17 Beloved: I am grateful to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he consid-

ered me trustworthy in appointing me to the ministry. I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant, but I have been mercifully treated because I acted out of ignorance in my unbelief. Indeed, the grace of our Lord has been abundant, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these I am the foremost. But for that reason I was mercifully treated, so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display all his patience as an example for those who would come to believe in him for everlasting life.

To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

LUKE 15:1-32 Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them he addressed this parable.

“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’

I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

“Or what woman having ten coins and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until she finds it? And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.’ In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Then he said, “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between them. After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings

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LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16: Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs. 1 TM 2:1-8. PS 28:2, 7, 8-9. JN 3:16. LK 7:1-10.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: Tuesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Robert Bellarmine, bishop and doctor. 1 TM 3:1-13. PS 101:1b-2ab, 2cd-3ab, 5, 6.

LK 7:16. LK 7:11-17.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 TM 3:14-16. PS 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. SEE JN 6:63c, 68c.

LK 7:31-35.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19: Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Januarius, bishop & martyr. 1 TM 4:12-16. PS 111:7-8, 9, 10. MT 11:28. LK 7:36-50.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20: Memorial of St. Andrew Kim, priest and martyr, St. Paul Chong, martyr, and Companions, martyrs. 1 TM 6:2c-12. PS 49:67, 8-10, 17-18, 19-20. SEE MT 11:25. LK 8:1-3.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21: Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. EPH 4:1-7, 11-13.

PS 19:2-3, 4-5. MT 9:9-13.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22: Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. AM 8:4-7. PS 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8. 1 TM 2:1-8. CF. 2 COR 8:9. LK 16:1-13 or LK 16:10-13.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23: Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest. EZR 1:1-6. PS 126:1b-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. MT 5:16. LK 8:16-18.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24: Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time. EZR 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20. PS 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5. LK 11:28.

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and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation. When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need. So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any. Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger. I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.” ‘So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son. ’But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and slaughter it.

Then let us celebrate with a feast, because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ Then the celebration began.

Now the older son had been out in the field and, on his way back, as he neared the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing. He called one of the servants and asked what this might mean. The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has returned and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and pleaded with him. He said to his father in reply, ‘Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders; yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends. But when your son returns, who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’

He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours. But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”

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hen the Israelites get a moment alone without Moses (without God, they think), their minds, and their hearts, go back to Egypt, filtering out their suffering. Our Lord is unrelenting, and impatient when the chosen people begin to show a marked preference for other gods.

Paganism meant fulfilling a contract: One offers a sacrifice and the god gives what is asked. Other gods make no demands on the Chosen People. In a kind of ennui, the Israelites believe that if they worship pagan gods they will be able to be comfortable.

The God of Moses, on the other hand, is an unfamiliar contrast, a study in relationship and loyalty. In a moment of crisis, God’s desire for SISTER MARIA unequivocal obedience proves CATHERINE to be too challenging. Or, to TOON, OP paraphrase G.K. Chesterton, life with God has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

Sin is an evil, diabolical reality that humanity chooses in preference to God; we want to relish, justify, and cover up our sins. But even a “righteous man falls seven times,” a day, says Proverbs 24. All of us need repentance. As Moses prays with a pure heart, the Lord “relents” on the spot. A quick gesture of authentic intercession, and the crushing blow is avoided. “For you do not desire sacrifice. ... My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a contrite, humbled heart, O God, you will not scorn” (Psalm 51:18-19). Just like Moses, so Jesus offers himself in atonement for our own sins. His Passion renders sin forgivable in a new way. Through

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Confession, we claim the graces Jesus won for us. In an instant, a true examination of conscience and confession of sin to a priest restores us to God’s good graces.

The readings this week give a deep, nuanced call to repentance. Jesus illustrates through three different parables heaven’s perspective: namely that repenting with a contrite heart leads to raucous revelry in the Church triumphant. Jesus invites us to share in this true joy through authentic recognition of our own sins. A true examination of conscience maps the disease of sin in our hearts and lays bare the blueprint of its effect in our lives. Sin is much more far reaching than our modern culture wants to admit. Parting from our sins is painful and to truly repent means allowing God’s grace to reach into the root system of our very being. It means to die to our way of thinking, and our way of making decisions. Like the good Father, only healing, joy, and grace will do for God’s creatures made in his image and likeness. Far from our assumptions that repentance is humiliating and pointless, the Lord demonstrates his relish and delight when his creatures allow him to restore himself to the throne of our hearts.

St. Dominic said, “If you have no sins of your own to weep for still weep … and grieve for the sinners of the world that they may repent.” As Moses’s example proves, all sinners need an intercessor. Similarly, Marian apparitions from the past 150 years beg us to intercede for those who do not know God. Daily habits of prayer (the rosary, Chaplet of Mercy, and are particularly effective), fasting on bread and water, and making sacrifices, are all simple ways that we can ask the Lord for contrition for our own sins and those of others who do not know the love of God. SISTER MARIA CATHERINE is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She has a master’s in theology from Ave Maria University and teaches high school theology in Chicago.

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he Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Christian Education, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965, explains why schools are so critical to society: “Among all educational instruments, the school has a special importance. It is designed not only to develop with special care the intellectual faculties but also to form the ability to judge rightly, to hand on the cultural legacy of previous generations, to foster a sense of values, to prepare for professional life” (n. 5). Our Catholic schools share in the important work that all schools do but they do so with a critical distinction.

Because they educate within a living and vibrant faith tradition that is oriented by the person of Jesus Christ, Catholic schools stand apart.

The Catholic faith is not ancillary to our schools, as if it were some sort of extra feature added onto the “real work” of schools. Quite the contrary: the Catholic faith is constitutive of the very essence of our schools, inspiring and animating them. The Catholic character of our schools is not located in school Masses, religion departments and campus ministry alone. It is integral to all aspects of school life. It is enlivened by faculty and staff who profess the faith and inspire students by witnessing to its importance in their work and in their personal lives. Catholic schools are a vibrant and vital part of the Church’s mission.

In The Spirit of Early Christian Thought, Robert Wilken states: “The church gave men and women a new love, Jesus Christ, a person who inspired their actions and held their affections. This was a love unlike others. For it was not only that Jesus was a wise teacher or a compassionate human being who reached out to the sick and needy, or even that he patiently suffered abuse and calumny and died a cruel death, but that after his death God had raised him from the dead to a new life. He who once was dead now lives. …

After the coming of Christ, human reason had to attend to what was new in history, the person of Jesus Christ.”

That careful attending to the person of Jesus Christ in human history is

ongoing and it is available to us in the depth and breadth of the Catholic Tradition. The Catholic Tradition is, as Father Philip A. Smith, OP, points out, “the record of the dynamic development of the Church’s thought and spirituality, culture and structures over the centuries.” And it is out of this tradition that Catholic schools were born and continue to be nourished. It is the Catholic Tradition that grounds Catholic schools in the present and orients them for the future. It shapes their purpose, their mission, and their character, and illuminates their educational philosophy and practice. The Catholic Tradition also defines what our schools value and the virtues they cultivate in their students.

For two thousand years, the Church has wrestled with what it means that Jesus Christ was born, lived, died and rose from the dead. The record of that two-thousand-year conversation about meaning, purpose, identity, and destiny is available to us in the Catholic intellectual tradition – a rich inheritance and cultural legacy our schools make available to our students.

At the beginning of the academic year it is important to remind ourselves once again why our schools exist. It is equally important to commit ourselves anew to bringing the richness of the Catholic Tradition, especially its intellectual tradition, to bear in every classroom and in all areas of school life. This is the great work of Catholic education. This is what sets it apart from other educational endeavors and it is what we are called by God to do for the sake of our students and for the coming of the Kingdom of God.

Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco

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Letter from Pam Lyons, Superintendent of Schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS3

Archbishop Riordan High School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS11

Marin Catholic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS4

Mercy High School, Burlingame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS12

Notre Dame High School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS5

Woodside Priory School;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS13

ICA Cristo Rey Academy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS6

Graduation Outcomes; Notice of Non Discriminatory Policy

Convent & Stuart Hall and Schools of the Sacred Heart, Atherton. . . CHS7

Why Choose A Catholic High School?;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS14

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatoy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS8

Steps for Applying to Catholic High Schools

Junipero Serra High School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS9

Open House and Application Dates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS15

Mercy High School, San Francisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS10

St. Ignatius College Preparatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHS16

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elcome to the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Catholic High School Information Booklet. I am so proud of the strong Catholic communities, innovative educational programs, and dedicated people we find at each of these schools. As you navigate this booklet, you may be wondering what is it that separates the Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco from the many other schools in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. You may be asking yourself, why Catholic school?

When a student enters one of our Catholic high schools, they are treated as one of God’s beloved children, created in His image and likeness, and as such, inherently good. In other words, all of our students are beloved because they are created by God. Catholic high schools create educational opportunities that not only address the intellect, but of equal importance, the spiritual, moral, and social aspects of every student. We recognize the importance of academic excellence, and are diligent about ensuring that our students are receiving an education on par with, and in most cases, an education that greatly surpasses other local public and private institutions. The difference lies in our pursuit of academic excellence as a pathway to a greater good.

Our curriculum is rooted in the Gospels that inspire a love of learning and the intellectual pursuit of the truth. I always tell our teachers that we are educating our students to change the world, by contributing to the Kingdom on earth, with their ultimate goal being entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Never have our schools been clearer in their purpose of furthering the mission of the Church, by ensuring that our schools are truly grounded in the Catholic faith, and committed to academic excellence, cultivating the virtuous life, nurturing a Christian community and nourishing a Catholic world view. This school year, more than 8,200 students attend Catholic School high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. We welcome those members of our community who are not currently attending a school in the Archdiocese to visit a Catholic school and experience for yourself all they have to offer. I also invite you to visit our new website at schools.sfarch.org. Our goal in creating this site was to provide you with important information about our 22 preschools, 54 elementary schools, and 13 high schools in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. Join us in our mission to grow our students’ understanding that they are God’s beloved so they may fully realize God’s plan for them.

Many Blessings,

Pamela Lyons Superintendent of Schools

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sacredsf.org Convent & Stuart Hall is an independent K–12 preparatory school in San Francisco rooted in the Sacred Heart tradition of Catholic education within a uniquely single-sex and coeducational environment.

Open Houses: Convent High School Thursday, October 10, 6–8 p.m.

Sunday, October 27, 1–3 p.m.

Stuart Hall High School Wednesday, October 16, 6–8 p.m.

Sunday, November 10, 1–3 p.m.

For more information, contact: Bobby Ramos, Director of Enrollment Management & Financial Aid bobby.ramos@sacredsf.org As part of the Sacred Heart Network with over 150 schools worldwide, our students and educators embrace the philosophies of our founders who first arrived in North America in 1818. Spiritually inclusive and with international roots, we are committed to providing excellence in education and preparing graduates to be active and informed members of a global society.

shschools.org A co-ed, Catholic, preschool-through-high school on the San Francisco peninsula, Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton delivers a comprehensive educational experience, guided by its mission to cultivate in each of our students a personal and active faith in God and to lay the foundation for a meaningful life.

Open Houses: Sunday, October 27, 1 p.m.

Sunday, November 17, 1 p.m.

For more information, contact: Wendy Quattlebaum, Director of Admissions & Financial Aid admissions@shschools.org

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CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS CHS9

Visit Serra Serra is located in the heart of the Peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. We strive for excellence in all areas – academics, performing arts, campus ministry, sports and extracurricular activities. Serra’s rigorous academic program is designed to engage and support the ways boys think, learn and grow – heart, mind, body and soul. As a Padre, you will be mentored by committed, caring educators who are genuinely invested in their students.

At Serra, you will thrive in an inclusive community and will be part of a brotherhood that transcends generations. We are proud of our diverse student body and welcome students from all faiths and backgrounds. Do you have a strong academic foundation, a genuine desire to be a Padre and a passion to serve others? If so, you are an excellent candidate.

The Serra Brotherhood At Serra, the tenet of brotherhood is taught, modeled and lived. It is a bond shared among Padres, past and present, based on the values of respect, integrity, inclusion and compassion. Padres hold themselves and each other accountable to these values every day, just as Jesus modeled in his own life.

The significant achievements of our graduates are proof that our empowering culture prepares Serra Padres for life after high school. They become compassionate leaders who care about their communities and make a positive difference in the world.

Affordability Information Night Tuesday, October 22 7 p.m.

Open House

Sunday, November 17 1 p.m.

Padre for a Day 8th Grade Visits September – January

Walk Around Wednesday Tours Parent/Guardian Campus Visits September – December

To register, please visit www.serrahs.com

QUICK FACTS Enrollment: 810 Average Class Size: 23 Student-Teacher Ratio: 14/1 Honors and AP Courses: 30 Faculty with Advanced Degrees: 75% Clubs and Activities: 40+ Sports Teams: 14 team sports, 34 teams Tuition and Fees: $23,500 Financial Aid: $2.5 million awarded to Serra students in 2019 College Enrollment: Ninety-nine percent of Serra graduates go on to college

For more information, visit us online at SERRAHS.COM 451 West 20th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 650.345.8207

College Scholarships: $29.5 million awarded to the Class of 2019 Community Service: The Class of 2019 completed 30,813 service hours Tri-School Program: A formal consortium with our sister schools, Mercy and Notre Dame, the program includes 22 classes on the three campuses, clubs, music and theatre productions, and social events.

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November 3, 2019 | 10 a.m.

Mercy High School 3250 19th Avenue | San Francisco, CA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

@MercyHighSF

www.mercyhs.org

OPEN HOUSE

Mercy Women Take the Lead

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CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS CHS11

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL We are a Catholic high school in the Marianist Tradition where every boy can be successful.

“At Riordan I have found a place that enables me to do my best. The teachers and my Crusader brothers have motivated me to do bigger things than anything I imagined.”

MISSION

Riordan educates students to develop their faith, intellect, and view of the world.

OPPORTUNITIES

EJ ODOCAYEN ’20 Attended Our Lady of Mercy

Students lead in every classroom, club, sport, and activity.

BROTHERHOOD

QUICK FACTS ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

The Brotherhood at Riordan produces life-long friendships.

ALL BOYS

700

The school focuses on how boys learn best, but offers many co-ed activities after school such as band and theatre.

INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS

House System, RSP, Engineering Track, Auto Shop and more are led by a dedicated faculty.

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CLUBS & ACTIVITIES

ON-CAMPUS COACHES

MR. ANDREW CURRIER, PH.D. President MR. TIM REARDON Principal MR. DANNY CURTIN ‘08 Director of Admissions

OPEN HOUSE

CRUSADER FOR A DAY

PARENT TOURS

Sunday, October 27 1:00 -3:30 PM Recommended for grades 5-8

A day-long visit for prospective 8th Graders

Register Online: www.riordanhs.org

175 Frida Kahlo Way, San Francisco, CA 94112 • 415-586-1256 • www.riordanhs.org

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WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL California’s Benedictine College Preparatory School 302 Portola Rd | Portola Valley, CA 94028 650-851-8223 | www.prioryca.org

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ounded in 1957 by seven Hungarian monks, Woodside Priory School is nestled in the rolling hills and redwood trees of Portola Valley. On a campus spanning 50 acres that houses both a middle and upper school, our students come from many communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and from around the globe. At Priory, our mission is to assist all students in creating meaningful and balanced lives, developing as lifelong learners and stewards, and productively serving a world in need of their gifts.

Our roots are grounded in the 1,500-year-old Catholic Benedictine tradition of education. In addition to providing an outstanding college preparatory education, we welcome young people into a tight-knit community where they feel uniquely known and loved. Priory students are free to take intellectual and creative risks, discover their passions, and grow in heart, mind, and soul.

Firmly grounded in our core Benedictine values of individuality, community, integrity, hospitality, and spirituality, the Priory community faces the changing demands of the 21st century with confidence and innovation.

For more information, we invite you to visit us at www.prioryca.org.

GRADUATION OUTCOMES FOR ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS Guided by the mission of the Department of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which is focused on providing quality leadership, offering programs of educational excellence, and preparing students for a truly Christian life, Catholic high schools are an integral expression of the teaching mission of the Church, and are therefore committed to developing persons who are the beneficiaries of the rich heritage and legacy of the Church. In all of our educational endeavors, we believe our high school graduates have been given the skills and tools to adapt to a multicultural society and be productive members of the world community by exercising power and influence for the good of others as Christ-centered leaders of the 21st century.

OUR GRADUATES FORM CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND • Understand the world’s diverse interconnectedness • Collaborate with others to work for the common good • Respect and demonstrate care for the environment as stewards of God’s creation

OUR GRADUATES ARE PERSONS OF FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY WHO • Live the Gospel values • Respect and appreciate the diversity of religious expression • Commit to integrating spirituality with their life work

OUR GRADUATES PROMOTE IN WORD AND ACTION SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INTEGRITY TO • Address injustices and work toward change • Demonstrate a reverence for life and a respect for all traditions, cultures, and peoples • Confront the moral ambiguities promoted by contemporary culture

OUR GRADUATES ARE PERSONS OF INTELLECTUAL STRENGTH AND COURAGE WHO • Communicate effectively in speaking and writing • Demonstrate critical and creative thinking in problem solving • Understand and appreciate the value of lifelong learning

OUR GRADUATES EXPRESS CONFIDENT LEADERSHIP TO • Empower others for positive transformation of society • Lead by the authority of example to embrace change and confront challenge • Take risks and learn from successes and failures

Rooted in the Archdiocesan Graduation Outcomes, these standards reflect the ideas of the individual institutions as well as the collaborative vision of what students must be able to know, do, and understand.

Notice of Non Discriminatory Policy as to Students – Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco; Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco; Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco; Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo; Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield; Mercy High School, San Francisco; Mercy High School, Burlingame; Notre Dame High School, Belmont; Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco; Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton; Saint Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco;

Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco; Woodside Priory, Portola Valley; admit students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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Steps for applying to Catholic High Schools 1.

Consult with your eighth grade teacher/adviser on the high school admissions process. Obtain information and fillable PDF documents from your school.

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Obtain the application packets from all of the Catholic secondary schools to which you plan to apply.

Attend OPEN HOUSES and visit at least two schools which interest you and meet your needs. Look below to view specific schools admissions offices. Seek information about other opporunities for school visitations, Considering your personal strengths and aptitudes, discuss with your eighth grade teacher(s), principal, counselor, pastor, parents, guardians, the high school program that best meets your needs.

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Complete and submit your application on time.

Take the High School Placement Test at one of the schools to which you have applied. The HSPT may be taken only once, but on the form, list all the Catholic schools to which you have applied, so that your test scores can be sent there.

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On March 12, 2020, letters will be sent regarding admissions status for only San Mateo County schools. Decisions can be viewed on the admissions website on Friday March 13, 2020, after 4 p.m. On March 19, 2020, letters will be sent regarding admissions status for Marin and San Francisco County schools. Decisions can be viewed on the admissions website on Friday, March 20, 2020, after 4 p.m. Registration deadline for all schools will be March 27, 2020. Prospective students should contact the school for their registration deadline.

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Pay registration fees to the school you plan to attend.

For further information check, https://schools.sfarch.org.

TEN REASONS WHY CATHOLIC EDUCATION STILL MATTERS

Why choose a Catholic School?

1. AN INCARNATIONAL VIEW OF THE WORLD Catholic School students learn that God is present and active in their lives and in the world. They learn to recognize the “footprints of God” in their daily experiences, especially in the midst of life’s challenges. They develop a sense of “sacramental awareness.” They see the signs of God’s love around them, and become instruments of God’s grace in their own neighborhoods, communities and the world. In an incarnational view of the world, there is no such thing as a secular subject as all learning helps to develop and bring to full bloom that image of God that is in each person.

2. IMMERSION IN THE PASCHAL MYSTERY Our lives are a series of small and not-so-small dyings and risings. In union with the Paschal Mystery, we realize that there is redemptive power in suffering and in the power of the cross. In it lies the answer to the mystery of all of life’s successes and failures. In the experience of the Paschal Mystery, we also realize the need for community. Like Jesus, we encounter our own Simon of Cyrenes to help us along the way. Wins and losses on the athletic field, A’s and F’s in class, and laughter and tears in our lives, are the ways we participate in Jesus’ dying and rising.

3. THE VALUE OF RELATIONSHIPS AS A REFLECTION OF THE DIVINE Catholic school students learn to experience God’s grace and presence in their lives through their relationships with family, friends and teachers. The loving and supportive relationships they experience are reflections of the love and life-giving dynamic of the Trinity. As a community we celebrate our successes and achievements. We share grief and downfalls. We unite together in solidarity, and even challenge each other to become better reflections of the divine. We are made for community.

4. A NUANCED VIEW OF SCRIPTURE Catholic school students are given the opportunity to explore the beauty and richness of Sacred Scripture seen through the lens of faith and lived out in daily practice. They experience the ongoing revelation of God in Scripture as the One who leads the Israelites through the promised land, and who redeems them through His cross and resurrection. They also come to view the human person as created in God’s image and likeness, and destined for eternal life. They learn to apply Scripture to their own lives as a tool for prayer and the true guide for virtuous living.

5. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT In recent research, it has been reported that private school graduates are significantly more likely to actively participate in civic activities than their public school counterparts. Catholic Schools were ranked #1 in the percentage of graduates who actively participate in civic and community activities such as voting, volunteering, letter-writing to legislators, Catholic Concerns Day, and donations to charity, not just for a tax write-off, but out of a sense of the requirements of justice.

6. SERVICE FOR THE COMMON GOOD Catholic schools promote service as an essential component of their curriculum. Many Catholic schools have service programs from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Higher education programs such as the Jesuit or Dominican Volunteer Corps promote service at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Diocesan organizations provide resources and help to people from all walks of life. Catholic school students learn that since community is at the heart of who we are, there are no strangers, only brothers and sisters in the Lord. We have a responsibility to respond to the needs of others because we are all part of God’s family.

7. DISCIPLINE AS A FAITH EXPECTATION Catholic schools promote self-discipline through clarity of moral vision that is based on the Gospel. Students are challenged to be Christ-like in word and action. They are asked to examine their choices and actions in light of the Ten Commandments and the Gospel law of love. They are given a theological foundation for ethical behavior. Students are not good because they act in accord with rules and expectations. Rather, because students are good, i.e., sons and daughters of God, they are expected to act and make choices that are in keeping with this dignity.

8. THE CENTRALITY OF ARTS, RITUAL, DRAMA, MUSIC TO THE LIFE OF FAITH Through Catholic education, students are exposed to the richness of the religious tradition. Music, Art, Literature, Drama and Ritual are rooted in the rich history of the Church, and find their truest glory as an expression of divine praise.

9. THE FULLNESS OF THE CATHOLIC IDENTITY AT THE HEART OF THE CHURCH Catholic education has always been at the heart of the Catholic mission.

Catholic education, and the students who are the product of it, have been called the “greatest work of the Church.” They have been entrusted with the fullness of faith and have been charged with the mission of evangelization. They are to go out into the world and share the gifts they have received as doctors, lawyers, policemen, firemen, businessmen and women, teachers, priests and religious, all as Catholic school graduates. Catholic school graduates are a leaven in society, helping the broader community to be the best that it can be.

10. PERSONAL EXCELLENCE AS A SPIRITUAL GOAL Catholic school students learn that excellence is a response to God’s blessings. Academic excellence is not a Gospel value in and of itself.

The Sermon on the Mount doesn’t say “Blessed are you who get all A’s.”

Education must have an altruistic orientation. Students learn so as to help others, and make a difference in the world around them.

WRITTEN BY REVEREND RONALD J. NUZZI, PH.D., ALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION , THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, SOUTH BEND INDIANA .

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CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS CHS15

ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOLS

Open House & Application Dates OCTOBER

Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley 5 www.prioryca.org

Open House - Middle School, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Open House - Upper School, 2-5 p.m.

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Convent High School, San Francisco www.sacredsf.org Open House, 6-8 p.m.

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Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton www.shschools.org Open House, 1 p.m.

Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo www.serrahs.com Open House, 1pm

Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco 29 Sacred www.shcp.edu

Application Priority Deadline

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Mercy High School, Burlingame www.mercyhsb.com Open House, 6-8 p.m.

DECEMBER

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Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco www.sacredsf.org Open House, 6-8 p.m.

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco www.shcp.edu Open House, 9-11 a.m.

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Marin Catholic, Kentfield www.marincatholic.org Open House, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

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Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco www.riordanhs.org Open House, 1 p.m.

Notre Dame High School, Belmont www.ndhsb.org Open House, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton www.shschools.org Open House, 1 p.m.

Convent High School, San Francisco www.sacredsf.org Open House, 1-3 p.m.

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ICA Cristo Rey Academy, San Francisco www.icacademy.org Open House, 9-11 a.m.

Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley www.prioryca.org Open House - Middle School, 2-5 p.m.

Open House - Upper School, 10 a.m.-1 p.m

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Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo www.serrahs.com Application Courtesy Filing

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ICA Cristo Rey Academy, San Francisco www.icacademy.org Application Priority Filing

Notre Dame High School, Belmont www.ndhsb.org Application Courtesy Filing

Marin Catholic, Kentfield www.marincatholic.org Application Deadline

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Mercy High School, San Francisco www.mercyhs.org Application Priority Deadline Mercy High School, Burlingame www.mercyhsb.com Early Bird & AMES Application Deadline

St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco www.siprep.org Application Priority Deadline

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St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco www.siprep.org Open House, 1-3 p.m.

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Mercy High School, Burlingame www.mercyhsb.com Open House, 5-7 p.m.

JANUARY 2020

Notre Dame High School, Belmont www.ndhsb.org Open House, 7-9 p.m.

Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco www.riordanhs.org Application Deadline

Mercy High School, San Francisco www.mercyhs.org Open House, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco www.sacredsf.org Open House, 1-3 p.m.

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Convent High School, San Francisco www.sacredsf.org Application Deadline

Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco www.sacredsf.org Application Deadline

Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton www.shschools.org Application Deadline

Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley www.prioryca.org Application Deadline

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Mercy High School, Burlingame www.mercyhsb.com Application Deadline Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo www.serrahs.com Application Deadline Mercy High School, San Francisco www.mercyhs.org Application Final Deadline

Notre Dame High School, Belmont www.ndhsb.org Application Deadline

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

LETTERS A country of ‘legal’ immigrants and of laws

Re “Catholic talk about immigrants and refugees,” (Hosffman Ospino, Aug. 22): How ironic Professor Ospino writes an entire opinion column on communication, about not remaining silent, but never really defines what he means by “immigrant.” I can only assume he means “legal” immigrants. All Catholics welcome “legal” immigrants. What is the issue?

No one is silent on this legality, contrary to what he implies.

Full disclosure: my wife is a “legal” immigrant. It took her over a year to get her into the country … “legally.”

Now, if he is writing about “illegal immigrants,” that is a whole different issue. (He never distinguishes his true meaning).

We are a nation of laws; I can’t imagine he is advocating breaking the law.

We will never know because he never defines immigrant. He says he has immigrant relatives; I’m sure they are “legal” immigrants. Professor Ospino writes a coded message. If he is writing about illegal immigrants, he should use that word so we can know what he is talking about.

He is ambiguous and definitely not forthcoming in what he actually means. I guess he could be talking about illegal immigrants? (Of course he is).

PS My wife and I drove through India with people knocking on our car windows begging to come to America. We drove through the favelas (slums) in Rio de Janeiro where people longed to come to America, and think about Africa where people are being shot to death, and Syria where people are being gassed to death. Everybody wants to come to America. Catholics welcome all “legal” refugees, as do all Americans. However, everybody has to apply through a process to be admitted to the greatest nation on earth.

Tom C. Johnson San Francisco

Solidarity with all immigrants

Hosffman Ospino corresponded with Tom C. Johnson privately and approved this excerpt for the paper.

The short article raises awareness about some toxic rhetoric in our society and political world that tends to vilify immigrants, especially immigrants of color. I do not differentiate between irregular and regular immigrants in the piece, mindful that in 600 words I cannot attend to the many nuances of what these categories imply. Most irregular immigrants in the United States have lived in this nation for more than 10 years. They have families, children, and grandchildren born in the U.S.; they are the backbone of the agricultural industry; many make possible that the construction and service industries thrive the way they do; they are giving new life to thousands of Catholic parishes throughout the United States, etc.

I worry about policies and practices that will separate families and cause havoc in the lives of these people who are already here and are part of the fabric of this society. I do not want to see children growing up without parents, or spouses not being able to live with their loved ones for many years and then see their relationships destroyed because of the distance. This is not a justification for “undocumented migration.” Neither is this an appeal to emotions. I do not write as a legal scholar or a politician. I am a pastoral theologian who is concerned about how we see the face of Christ in every human being, regardless of who they are or what they have done. I am concerned about how Catholics can help people to form strong families and strong communities, which in turn will lead to a strong society.

The truth is that the worlds of regular and irregular immigrants, citizens and non-citizens intertwine in myriad ways. As indicated above, most irregular immigrants have already been here for one or two decades, including the nearly 1 million DACA young women and men who came when they were children. This is their country. I echo the invitation of the Catholic bishops of the United States to all Catholics to engage in serious immigration reform.

Such reform should prevent that millions of people in the future end up living in the shadows of our migratory system and of a society that seems not to have a problem hiring them, using their labor, receiving their taxes, etc., yet treating them as pawns when the political wars ensue.

I have met countless irregular immigrants living in this country for a long while, and my heart

breaks at witnessing how vulnerable they and their young families are, many of them exploited in abundant ways. I have also met countless regular/ documented immigrants whose lives are miserable because of the poor ways they are treated by others in our society, simply because they are immigrants.

Regardless of my politics, as a Christian I am moved with compassion (meaning, “suffering with”) when seeing my neighbor (in the biblical sense) not treated as a human being.

By not differentiating between regular and irregular immigrants, I also want to highlight the fact that the toxic rhetoric against immigrants and other groups, usually groups of color, affects everyone.

The El Paso tragedy a few weeks ago is a reminder that anyone could target a particular group violently, in this case Latinos, regardless of whether members of that group are documented, undocumented, citizens, tourists, etc. Not denouncing the distortions and the rhetoric that can encourage such actions makes us complicit. Hence the emphasis on breaking the silence as Catholics.

I think that Catholics can lead the way in conversations that engender compassion for and solidarity with all the immigrants, regular and irregular, and refugees currently living in our society. They are already here, they are part of who we are. Looking ahead, compassion and solidarity entail making sure that future generations of immigrants and refugees arrive in this country in the best possible legal conditions so we do not have anyone labeled and treated as “undocumented” or “illegal.”

Hosffman Ospino, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Theology and Education Director of Graduate Programs in Hispanic Ministry Boston College – School of Theology and Ministry Boston, Mass.

Disservice to legitimate immigrants

It’s unfortunate when Catholic voices spread alarmist misrepresentations of issues and feed hysteria. Prof. Ospino says “silence has consequences” so I will speak against the “excesses of those who demonize” supporters of lawfulness, national security and the common good. Let us cut the semantic obfuscation and slanderous implications. There are no loud prejudiced voices against immigrants. (I’m the grandson of an immigrant and married to one, which shouldn’t matter.) There are voices calling for a solution to massive unchecked illegal entry and the overburdening of our asylum system – concerns that were bipartisan until an administration needed to be vilified. There is no bias in this, and only those obsessed with race will read into it racism.

America is a very welcoming country, whose citizens appreciate the historic contributions of immigrant groups. An immigrant applies to reside in his country of choice and after receiving a visa enters properly at a legal port of entry; trespassers and invaders do otherwise. “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber” (John 10:1).

A refugee is defined as someone forced to leave his country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster. This clearly does not apply to the bulk of those flooding across our border. Falsely labeling them such and encouraging all to apply for refugee status does a grave disservice to legitimate refugees awaiting a hearing in a backlogged system. Similarly, the word game of referring to illegal aliens as “immigrants” does a disservice to legitimate immigrants, unfairly associating them with this national problem, and facilitates reckless, unfounded accusations of xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Emotional media spin and false outrage can gravely pervert one’s perception of reality. May our Catholic media provide a sober and charitable perspective and not falsely imply that Catholics must take a particular side in prudential matters of state.

Christopher Nantista Redwood City

Sisters condemn ‘divisive, disrespectful language’

The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary have been ministering in the Bay Area since

1868. As the leadership team for the Holy Names Sisters’ U.S.-Ontario Province, we ask you to share with your readers the urgent call to action issued last week by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. We were proud to be present and to give our wholehearted support as the LCWR Assembly called on President Trump to end his use of divisive and disrespectful language, and to use his moral authority to “defend and preserve the dignity of your fellow citizens in the tireless and demanding pursuit of the common good.” We implore all Americans to work and pray for the healing of this country, and to demand the same from the president.

Mary Breiling, SNJM; Maureen Delaney, SNJM; Guadalupe Guajardo, SNJM; Margaret Kennedy, SNJM; Mary Rita Rohde, SNJM U.S.-Ontario Province Leadership Team Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

Trump is the price of change

It’s everywhere – Trump’s a white supremacist, Trump’s a hater, Trump’s anti-Semitic, Trump’s crazy. The archbishop of Washington, D.C., Wilton Gregory, joined the chorus, calling President Trump “racist and divisive.” He follows other Catholic bishops who have labeled Trump similarly. The loaded term “racist” is for another day, but “divisiveness” requires challenge now.

If any group of sages is expected to understand the core necessities of leadership, it should be the Catholic bishops. Their lives dedicated to following Jesus Christ and his teachings, the brethren of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops learned probably as little boys that Christ told his disciples early on: “Do you think that I came to give peace upon the earth? No, I tell you, but division.”

(Luke 12: 51-52). One knows theologians grapple over Scripture with a fine-tooth comb, but what they cannot do is rescue the USCCB from their aghast view that Donald Trump is unworthy to lead the nation because he is “divisive.”

Love or hate Trump, what should be discouraging to the faithful Catholic is the apparent ignorance among the USCCB that what Christ forewarned 2,000 years ago has no application in modern civilization. Of course it does. As the “deep state” and entrenched political system that the American voters hired businessman and man of action Donald Trump to clean up requires a housecleaning of unprecedented boldness, Trump’s “divisiveness” is not only tolerable as a leadership trait in 2019 America, but the necessary price of transformation.

Yes, we know that Donald Trump is not Jesus Christ. However that in no way negates – indeed it validates – that the “division” and “chaos” Trump is bringing to Washington is exactly the recipe needed to restore a broken system of corrupt politics, debt, unfair trade, out-of-control borders and evil regimes that threaten their neighbors.

I’ll give Archbishop Gregory and the other Catholic bishops a break, and assume they really don’t understand the leadership principle of “cleaning house” when that is required.

Donald J. Farber San Rafael

Gate too narrow

Re “The tragic teaching of the narrow gate,” Scripture reflection, Father William Nicholas, Aug. 22: I am an 81-year-old widow who went through 12 years of Catholic school and suffer crippling scrupulosity in my youth due to fear tactics taught by the Baltimore Catechism and the poor, well-meaning nuns. I was helped by two very kind priests.

I am now and have for some time been very devoted to the Divine Mercy of Jesus and believe in his promises of hope and love and mercy. Father Nicholas’ article on the narrow gate is so disturbing to me. I feel it diminishes hope and salvation and reduces the view of Jesus as our loving and merciful savior.

I have no idea what Father Nicholas’ message is but I find it a message of doom.

Maureen Nunes Pacifica

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Contradictory suicide messaging

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n July 2014, police found the body of 18-year-old Conrad Roy inside his truck in Fairhaven, Mass., having died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

As the case unfolded, it became apparent that a friend of his, 17-yearold Michelle Carter, had encouraged him toward suicide. In a series of texts, she repeatedly pressured him to go through with it by sending messages like, “You keep pushing it off FATHER TADEUSZ and say you’ll PACHOLCZYK do it but u never do. It’s always gonna be that way if u don’t take action.”

As he sat in a remote spot in the Kmart parking lot, the truck’s cab filling up with fumes, he got cold feet and stepped out of his makeshift death chamber, seemingly conflicted about what he was doing. He then spoke with Michelle by phone, who coaxed him to continue the suicide. The call was not recorded, but

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months after his death, she texted another friend and recounted how Conrad had grown scared at the last moment, climbing out of the truck, and that she had told him to get back in. She then listened over the phone as he succumbed to the fumes 47 minutes later.

Following a high-profile trial that received extensive media coverage, Michelle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 2½ years behind bars, of which she has to serve a minimum of 15 months. Prosecutors claimed that her motive may have been to gain attention and sympathy as the “grieving girlfriend.”

The case drew intense national and international attention, partly because it involved a relationship that had played out mostly through texts and Facebook messages. Even though Michelle and Conrad lived less than an hour apart, they rarely met in person.

As Michelle was led away from the trial in handcuffs, the court of public opinion was virtually unanimous in condemning her actions as reprehensible. Her actions and the trial proceedings, however, also opened up broader questions about provocation toward suicide in a society like ours that increasingly devalues human life. In fact, the public reaction to Michelle’s behavior reveals a strik-

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ing irony at the heart of Conrad’s suicide.

The irony involves the moral outrage that surfaced regarding Michelle’s text messages. Similar indignation about encouraging someone to commit suicide is, paradoxically, almost entirely absent when it comes to “physician-assisted” suicide.

Michelle’s text messages embraced the same key ideas that lawmakers in nine states have now enacted through legislation, namely, that it’s sometimes allowable to encourage and participate in suicide. Most legislation, however, only permits those in the medical field, those dressed in white lab coats, as it were, to be involved.

This requirement seems quite arbitrary, of course, if the real goal is to alleviate suffering by eliminating the sufferer. After all, Michelle was convinced she was acting compassionately by assisting Conrad to escape from what she claimed was his misery, depression and intense emotional and psychological suffering. Who is to say that Michelle was wrong if the white lab coats are right? If it were deplorable for Michelle Carter to facilitate Conrad Roy’s suicide, how can it be good for physicians and other health care workers to facilitate the suicides of their ailing patients who are at least as fragile and vulnerable as Conrad was?

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Society really can’t have it both ways, glamorizing the act of suicide in some cases and demonizing it in others. By yielding to the proposition that suicide is not an evil to be repudiated, but a form of “relief” to be conferred on those who suffer, we effectively abandon our neighbors, the Conrads and countless others, in their moment of greatest need.

FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK, PH.D., is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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A lesson in aging

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e live in a culture that idealizes youth and marginalizes the old. And, as James Hillman says, the old don’t let go easily either of the throne or the drive that took them there. I know: I’m aging.

For most of my life, I’ve been able to think of myself as young. Because I was born late in the year, October, I was always younger than most of my classmates, graduated from high school at age seventeen, entered the seminary at that tender age, was ordained to the priesthood at age 25, did an advanced degree within the next year, and FATHER RON was teaching graduate theolROLHEISER ogy at age 26, the youngest member on the faculty. I was proud of that, achieving those things so early. And so I always thought of myself as young, even as the years piled up and my body began to betray my conception of myself as young.

Moreover, for most of those years, I tried to stay young too in soul, staying on top of what was shaping youth culture, its movies, its popular songs, its lingo.

During my years in seminary and for a good number of years after ordination, I was involved in youth ministry, helping give youth retreats in various high schools and colleges. At that time, I could name all the popular songs, movies,and trends, speak youth’s language, and I prided myself in being young.

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But nature offers no exemptions. Nobody stays young forever. Moreover, aging doesn’t normally announce its arrival. You’re mostly blind to it until one day you see yourself in a mirror, see a recent photo of yourself, or get a diagnosis from your doctor and suddenly you’re hit on the head with the unwelcome realization that you’re no longer a young person. That usually comes as a surprise.

Aging generally makes itself known in ways that have you denying it, fighting it, and accepting it only piecemeal, and with some bitterness.

But that day comes round for everyone when you’re surprised, stunned, that what you are seeing in the mirror is so different from how you have been imagining yourself and you ask yourself: “Is this really me? Am I this old person? Is this what I look like?” Moreover you begin to notice that young people are forming their circles away from you, that they’re more interested in their own kind, which doesn’t include you, and you look silly and out of place when you try to dress, act, and speak like they do. There comes a day when you have accept that you’re no longer young in in the world’s eyes – nor in your own.

Moreover gravity doesn’t just affect your body, pulling things downward, so too for the soul. It’s pulled downward along with the body, though aging means something very different here. The soul doesn’t age, it matures. You can stay young in soul long after the body betrays you. Indeed we’re meant to be always young in spirit.

Souls carry life differently than do bodies because

bodies are built to eventually die. Inside of every living body the life-principle has an exit strategy. It has no such strategy inside a soul, only a strategy to deepen, grow richer, and more textured. Aging forces us, mostly against our will, to listen to our soul more deeply and more honestly so as to draw from its deeper wells and begin to make peace with its complexity, its shadow, and its deepest proclivities – and the aging of the body plays the key role in this.

To employ a metaphor from James Hillman: The best wines have to be aged in cracked old barrels.

So too for the soul: The aging process is designed by God and nature to force the soul, whether it wants to or not, to delve ever deeper into the mystery of life, of community, of God, and of itself. Aging takes us to a deeper place, whether we want to go or not.

Like most everyone else, I still haven’t made my full peace with this and would still like to think of myself as young. However I was particularly happy to celebrate my 70th birthday two years ago, not because I was happy to be that age, but because, after two serious bouts with cancer in recent years, I was very happy just to be alive and wise enough now to be a little grateful for what aging and a cancer diagnosis has taught me. There are certain secrets hidden from health, writes John Updike. True. And aging uncovers a lot of them because, as a Swedish proverb puts it, “afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”

OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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In praise of today’s seminarians

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have watched with admiration as seminary formators – not unlike the relatively junior officers who reformed the U.S. military after the debacle of Vietnam – have taken a set of severe problems in hand and put a venerable institution, essential to the Catholic future, on a much more solid foundation.

Is there more to be done, in refining recruitment of students for the priesthood and reforming American seminaries? Undoubtedly (and a few suggestions will follow below). But a great deal has in fact been accomplished in the last 15 years, and it’s important that the people of the Nchurch C Tknow I Vit. E L Y U N I Last month, I had the pleasure of working with two seminarians in the 28th annual meeting of the seminar on Catholic social doctrine I am privileged to lead in Cracow.

Like other future priests who have been part of the program over the past quarter-century, these men were impressive: intellectually alert and engaged; deeply pious without being cloyingly sentimental; able to interact with (and offer a real witness to) fellow-students in a multinational context of Catholic men and women; much more mature than I remember seminarians being

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Lord Jesus – and knowing what that friendship means. Biblical studies must focus on biblical theology far more than textual dissection, so that future homilists know how to invite their congregants to “see” the world through a Scriptural lens. Lay professionals should be further incorporated into priestly formation and seminarian evaluation – especially orthodox, joyful Catholic women (including wives and mothers) who may be able to spot problems, and help young men address them, that more traditional formators may miss. Bishops must invest more personal time with their seminarians (as they should invest more time with their priests), inviting them into a fraternity of mutual support – and, if necessary, correction.

The seminarians I work with know that, in seeking the priesthood of the Catholic Church under 21st-century cultural and political circumstances, they’re taking a great risk, including the risk of martyrdom (which comes in many forms). Their happy embrace of, and their determination to prepare well for, a life of risk is perhaps the most impressive thing about them.

They deserve our thanks, our support, and our solidarity in prayer.

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If you see one movie this year, see ‘Peanut Butter Falcon’ MAGGIE GALLAGHER

“Is that your movie?” I texted an old friend, whose name flashed across the long closing film credits of Peanut Butter Falcon. Movies, like success, have many fathers, so don’t make too much of that.

“Yes!” he told me. “What did you think?”

What did I think? “It’s the best buddy movie since ‘The Lion King,’” I told him. “Zack Gottsagen deserves an Oscar!”

Two young men on the lam, learning about love and life and manhood from one another: An old, great plot made deeply, inventively fresh by the casting of the fabulous Zack Gottsagen, an actor with Down syndrome, as the costar with Shia LaBeouf.

It’s a long road to manhood in this crazy world of ours with fewer signposts, and fewer fathers to offer them, it seems. Zak has been abandoned by his family and placed by the state in a nursing home. “They are old,” he tells The Girl, social worker Eleanor (played

by Dakota Johnson) after a foiled escape attempt.

“I’m young. We’re different.”

Zak may be different but he has a dream: to become a “badass” wrestler by travelling down the Carolina Outer Banks to the school once offered by a TV wrestler “The Saltwater Redneck.”

His elderly nursing home roommate (played by Bruce Dern) sees a young man with a dream and helps him escape.

That old codger is only the first of many good, rough men who help Zak, including Tyler, a young

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The question every boy seeking manhood has to face is what kind of man will I become? The hero or the villain? Along the way a blind, backwoods pastor tells them, “There are sheep in this word and there are wolves in this world. I know that you two boys are just two weary travelers who have lost their way. So,

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No one wants to disappoint Zack.

Certainly not Shia LaBeouf who was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct (including a racist rant at cops and resisting arrest) while filming: “To hear him say that he was disappointed in me probably changed the course of my life,” LaBeouf told Esquire.

“I don’t believe in God. ... But did I see God? Did I hear God? Through Zack, yeah. He met me with love, and at the time, love was truth, and he didn’t pull punches.”

I could share a few reservations, all involving the last 30 seconds of the show, in which the filmmakers clearly punt. But why dwell on a poor final 30 seconds in one of the finest films of the year?

Review call it “poignant,” “heartwarming” and “feel-good” and yes, but it is something more: It is a great film that asks us to consider: What makes us worth loving? The profound commitment of the filmmakers and the actors, to the equal dignity of every human soul is what makes this film shimmer.

This deeply told story will make you cry. It will make you laugh. It will challenge your own sense of who you are and who God wants you to be.

Peanut Butter Falcon is on the cusp of breaking out into profitability. Go see it before you lose the chance to show Hollywood: We need more films like this.

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The lawsuit proposes that Mark Koumans, a longtime Department of Homeland Security employee, should be the agency’s acting director under federal law. The USCIS website page for Koumans lists him as the agency’s acting director. Another website page also lists Cuccinelli as acting director.

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The legal filing also challenges Cuccinelli’s appointment within USCIS, saying it violates the appointment clause in the U.S. Constitution that requires Senate confirmation of principal officers within a presidential administration.

Jenkins said the appointment also violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, “Acting director Cuccinelli is not currently confirmed by the Senate and he didn’t come from a Senate-confirmed position,” Jenkins said.

As a result, Jenkins said, Cuccinelli’s directives hold no force or effect.

Jenkins said that the directives from Cuccinelli’s office have not gone through the established process of public notice and a comment period. “They just put them out there without justification,” he said.

The lawsuit also argues that Trump created the position of principal deputy director at USCIS to establish a different order of succession at the agency and to get around the Federal Vacancies Reform Act so Cuccinelli could be appointed to

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POPE APPOINTS THREE CARDINALS TO HELP LEAD SYNOD ON AMAZON

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis appointed three delegate presidents for the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon.

The pope named as delegate presidents for the Oct. 6-27 assembly Cardinals Baltazar Porras Cardozo, 74, of Merida, Venezuela; Pedro Barreto Jimeno, 75, of Huancayo, Peru; and Joao Braz de Aviz, 72, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

The Vatican announced the appointments Sept. 7.

Though Pope Francis, as pontiff, is president of the synod, the three cardinals will take turns presiding over the synod’s daily sessions. The delegate presidents are also responsible for guiding the work of the synod and assigning special tasks to certain members, when necessary.

The special assembly on the PanAmazonian region will discuss the theme, “New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.”

SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHBISHOP COMPARES NATION’S XENOPHOBIA TO NAZI GERMANY

LUSAKA, Zambia – Zambia’s bishops urged South African leaders to do more to stop xenophobic attacks, and a South African archbishop warned of a rising tide of hatred and violence in the country.

“Xenophobia and its resultant chaos are not just criminal but cruel, barbaric and abominable,” Zambia’s bishops said in a Sept. 7 statement titled, “You were once foreigners in a foreign land.”

At least 10 people were killed, two of them foreign nationals, in a wave of riots and xenophobic attacks that began in late August in Pretoria and spread to nearby Johannesburg.

“We are facing a rising tide of hatred and intolerance, no different to the

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Dorian leaves thousands homeless

A man sits inside a damaged church serving as a shelter in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, Sept. 8, 2019, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. Archbishop Patrick C. Pinder of Nassau, Bahamas, celebrated Mass Sept. 8 for evacuee families and Catholic school staff members a week after the storm slammed into the islands. He said most of the stories he is hearing are of “terror, fear, pain, loss and so on.” The Bahamas government estimates that Dorian affected 70,000, and 60% of those affected may have lost their homes.

rising tide of hatred in Nazi Germany,” said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg, noting that, “If we do not take urgent action to stop it, there will be nothing left.”

Zambia’s bishops said they were “deeply saddened” by the attacks.

“We fear that if this trend is not curtailed, it may lead to ... alienation of the citizens of South Africa from the rest of the continent,” they said in a statement signed by Bishop George Lungu of Chipata, president of the Zambian bishops’ conference.

In early September, students in Zam-

bia’s capital, Lusaka, protested outside the South African high commission and also targeted South African-owned shops. In Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, and largest city, Lagos, South Africanowned businesses were targeted by protesters, who started fires and looted properties.

POPE TELLS FRENCH REPORTER HE’S HONORED BY ATTACKS ON HIS MINISTRY

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO MOZAMBIQUE – Pope Francis told a reporter that it is “an honor when Americans attack me.”

The pope made his comments to Nicolas Seneze, a reporter from La Croix, the French Catholic daily newspaper, during the flight Sept. 4 from Rome to Maputo, Mozambique.

Seneze is author of “Comment l’Amerique veut changer de pape,” which can be translated as “how America wanted to change popes.”

Seneze gave Pope Francis a copy of the book during the flight.

Pope Francis said he had heard about the book, but had not been able to find a copy. The volume, currently available only in French, went on sale the day of the papal flight.

The book presents the long list of accusations against Pope Francis made in August 2018 by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States, as one part of a concerted effort, led mainly by Catholics in the United States, to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Pope Francis’ ministry.

Seneze’s thesis is that “rigorist” Catholics, mainly wealthy, are opposed to Pope Francis’ emphasis on mercy over clear rules, his teaching on ethical problems with the way the world’s economy is working, and his overtures to Cuba and China.

After telling Seneze that he had not yet read the book, the pope told him, “It’s an honor when the Americans attack me.”

And handing the book on to an aide, the pope commented, “It’s a bomb.”

Papal spokesman Matteo Bruno later provided journalists with a statement.

“In an informal context, the pope wanted to say that he always considers criticisms an honor, particularly when they come from authoritative thinkers – in this case from an important nation,” Bruni said.

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Pope visits quarry, prays for Madagascar’s working poor CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – Standing where the phrase “by the sweat of their brow” is a daily reality for hundreds of Madagascar’s poor, Pope Francis prayed for those whose daily bread is earned by hard physical labor and for the unemployed longing to earn a living for their families.

“Before this rock, split by human labor, we pray to you for workers everywhere,” the pope intoned Sept. 8

at the Mahatazana granite quarry on a hill above Antananarivo.

“We pray for those who work with their hands and with immense physical effort: soothe their wearied frames, that they may tenderly caress their children and join in their games,” he continued in the prayer.

The pope had moved up to the quarry after visiting Akamasoa – “The Community of Good Friends” – which was founded by the Argentine Vincentian, Father Pedro Opeka, to provide work, housing, education and health care to some of the country’s poorest people.

Instead of picking through garbage, which is what the families were doing before Father Opeka came along, now some earn a living breaking granite, while others are involved in construction or work for the community or its schools or clinics.

“This had been a place of exclusion, suffering, violence and death,” Father Opeka told Pope Francis, whom he first met 50 years ago in Argentina. Thirty years ago, he continued, “divine providence created an ‘oasis’ of hope where children reacquired their dignity, young people

went to school, and parents began working to prepare a future for their children.”

Speaking in the Akamasoa auditorium, Pope Francis said the community and its various activities are a sign of the reality that God lives among the poor, and it is a “tangible sign” of his love for them.

Every corner of Akamasoa, all of its schools and clinics are “a song of hope that refutes and silences any suggestion that some things are ‘inevitable,’” he said. “Let us say it forcefully: poverty is not inevitable.”

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call to solidarity and the joy that comes from putting faith before power or possessions.

He urged the nation’s people “to make your beautiful country a place where the Gospel becomes life and where life is for the greater glory of God.” The Sunday Gospel reading from Luke included the line: “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”

Pope Francis said Jesus was explaining that “bonds of blood or membership in a particular group, clan or particular culture” have no bearing on who is blessed, whose dignity should be honored or who, finally, will enter heaven.

“When ‘family’ becomes the decisive criterion for what we consider right and good,” he said, “we end up justifying and even ‘consecrating’ practices that

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Women are pictured before Mass celebrated by Pope Francis at the Soamandrakizay diocesan field in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sept. 8, 2019.

lead to the culture of privilege and exclusion: favoritism, patronage and, as a consequence, corruption.”

The Gospel passage also condemns any ideology that would “abuse the name of God or of religion to justify acts of violence, segregation and even murder, exile, terrorism and marginalization.”

Jesus’ teaching emphasized that “one of the worst forms of enslavement” is “living only for oneself,” the pope said. People who focus only on themselves might feel safe for a while, but they end up “becoming bitter, grumbling, without life.”

What God wants, he said, is for people to extend a helping hand to others and to let them know that they are loved by God and have a dignity that cannot be taken away and should not be attacked.

The Gospel calls Christians to work for social justice, Pope Francis said. “Together we can resist all those forms of idolatry that make us think only of the deceptive securities of power, career, money and of the search for human glory.”

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New cardinals: Pope’s choices stress dialogue, care for poor CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – After the consistory to create new cardinals in early October, Pope Francis will have chosen more than half of the men who will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect his successor.

And despite what critics of Pope Francis filled social media with Sept.

1 about him setting up the college to elect a successor just like him, it should be remembered that then-Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was created a cardinal by St. John Paul. And he was elected pope in 2013 in a conclave where 42 percent of the cardinal electors were created cardinals by St. John Paul and the remaining 58 percent of the voters were named by Pope Benedict.

Personal opinions about the needs of the church at any given moment and about who would be the best person to lead obviously are at play in a conclave. But the cardinals also invoke the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and make a very solemn oath in casting their ballots: “I call as my witness Christ the Lord, who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who before God I think should be elected.”

After arriving late for the midday recitation of the Angelus prayer Sept. 1 because he was stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes, Pope Francis announced he would create 13 new cardinals Oct. 5.

Ten of the prelates he chose are under the age of 80 and, therefore, would be eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a pope. A cardinal who has turned 80 before the papacy is vacant participates in pre-conclave meetings to discuss the needs of the church but does not process into the Sistine Chapel and does not cast ballots for a new pope.

Barring any deaths or resignations, once the new cardinals receive their red hats in early October, the College of Cardinals will have 128 members eligible to vote in a conclave. Within 10 days of the consistory, four cardinals will celebrate their 80th birthdays, leaving 124 electors.

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Cardinals attend a consistory led by Pope Francis to create new cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this June 28, 2018, file photo.

Of those 124, Pope Francis will have made 66 of them cardinals, which is 53 percent of the electors. The other electors will include 16 cardinals created by St. John Paul II and 42 made cardinals by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI. While a majority in the next conclave will have Pope Francis to thank for their red hats and new responsibilities, to be elected pope a candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.

Announcing the new cardinals, Pope Francis said they illustrate “the missionary vocation of the church that continues to proclaim the merciful love of God to all men and women of the earth.”

A commitment to the poor, to caring for migrants and refugees and to dialogue with all people are characteristics many in the group of 13 share.

Among the over-80 cardinals is Lithuanian Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevicius, who, a year ago, joined Pope Francis on a prayerful tour of the former KGB headquarters in Vilnius.

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The archbishop had been imprisoned from 1983 to 1988 for “anti-Soviet propaganda.” As a Jesuit priest, in 1972 he began publishing the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, an underground newsletter documenting communist repression of the church.

Despite repeated questioning by the KGB, he managed to publish and distribute the chronicle for more than 10 years and, once he was arrested, others continued his work.

One of the new cardinal electors will be Guatemalan Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of Huehuetenango, a human rights defender whose support

for environmental activists has earned him death threats.

Two Roman Curia officials tapped to become cardinals hold positions that would have been considered automatic red-hat posts before Pope Francis came on the scene: Spanish Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, 67, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; and Portuguese Archbishop Jose Tolentino Calaca de Mendonca, 53, Vatican archivist and librarian.

The surprising Curia pick was Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, one of two undersecretaries for migrants and refugees in the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Cardinal-designate Czerny, who was born in 1949 in what was Czechoslovakia and who migrated with his family to Canada when he was 2, worked in a variety of social justice ministries in Canada, Central America and Africa before coming to the Vatican.

Pope Francis’ choices continue to pay little attention to the large archdioceses traditionally led by cardinals, such as Milan and Venice. But he will give a red hat to Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Italy, where all but one of the archbishops in the last 400 years had been a cardinal. The only exception was Archbishop Enrico Manfredini, who led the archdiocese for only eight months in 1983 before he died at the age of 61.

Pope Francis has made it a point to increase the geographical profile of the College of Cardinals. The conclave that elected him included participants from 48 nations; the 128 electors in the expanded college will include prelates from 68 countries.

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Praying the Rosary The rosary is prayed at the following locations on days and times specified.

St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, Monday through Saturday, 8:35 a.m.

Star of the Sea Church, 8th Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco: Tuesdays 7pm before the Blessed Sacrament in the Church; Saturdays 3:20pm right after Divine Mercy Devotion in Church; 2nd Sundays 3:15pm for Priest and Vocations in the Church; 3rd Sundays @ 11am Holy Rosary Sodality in our St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 1st Sunday before the 9:30am Mass; 2nd Saturdays right after the 8:30am 2000 Hail Mary Devotion in the School Cafeteria (415) 751 0450; www.starparish.com.; admin@starparish.com.;Facebook: starparishsf.

St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco, Monday through Friday after the 8:30 a.m.

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Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, San Francisco, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/.

Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Avenue, San Francisco, weekdays and Saturdays, 8:35 a.m. before the 9 a.m. Mass in the chapel; (415) 664-8590 National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco, Porziuncola Chapel, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy; www.ShrineSF.org, info@shrinesf. org, (415) 986-4557.

St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church, 1801 Octavia Street, San Francisco, rosary in sign language, all Sundays except June, July and August, 9:45-10:15 a.m.; stbenz1801@gmail. com; www.sfdeafcatholics.org. Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stbenedictparish.

St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, Monday through Friday, following the 12:05 p.m.

Mass; Saturday, before the 8 a.m. Mass, (415) 422-2188.

St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco, Fridays after 9 a.m. Mass, (415) 648-5751.

St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, Monday thru Saturday following the 8 a.m. Mass; info@SaintStephenSF.org.

St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St., San Francisco, Monday through Saturday after 8 a.m. Mass; (415) 468-0820, www.stelizabethsf.org.

St. John the Evangelist Church, 19 St. Mary’s Avenue, San Francisco, Monday through Saturday at 9:30 a.m. after 9 a.m. Mass; (415) 334-4646; www.saintjohnparish.com.

Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Monday through Friday following 8 a.m.

Mass, Saturday following 8:30 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m.

St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Monday through Saturday 7:50 a.m.

St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152.

Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Monday through Saturday approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass, (650) 755-0478.

St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Monday through Saturday, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass.

St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m., Monday and Wednesday 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net.

St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Monday through Saturday following the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 300 Fulton St., Redwood City, Monday through Saturday, 7:50 a.m. before 8:15 a.m. Mass; (650) 366-3802; www.mountcarmel.org.

St. Mark Church, 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; (650) 591-5937; www.saintmarksparish.com.

St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Monday, 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration; (415) 479-1560.

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Monday through Saturday after 9 a.m. Mass.v

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

OBITUARY ANNICE CALLAHAN, RSCJ

Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Annice Callahan, who published a number of articles on spirituality, especially on devotion to the Sacred Heart and the spirituality of the Society of the Sacred Heart, and lectured widely on these topics, died Aug. 10 in Atherton. She was 74.

Born on Feb. 5, 1945, in Fairborn, Ohio, to John Gualbert Paul Annice Callahan, Callahan and Marie Bernadette RSCJ Callahan, she earned a BA in theology, philosophy, and French and entered the Society of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood in Albany, N.Y. Two years later, she made her first vows at Kenwood.

After a career teaching religion and English in the U.S. and abroad, she made her final profession at the Sacred Heart novitiate in Manila, Philippines, going on to earn a Ph.D. in systematic theology at Boston College in 1984. She wrote her dissertation on Karl Rahner and spent seven months in Innsbruck, Austria, having lengthy conversations with him.

She served as a theology lecturer at Boston College for a year, and was a Leo John Dehon Research Fellow at the Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology at Hales Corner, Wis. From 1985-1998, she was a tenured associate professor at Regis College in Toronto, Ont., and later at the University of San Diego for 12 years.

Among her published works were four books, “Karl Rahner’s Spirituality of the Pierced Heart: A Reinterpretation of Devotion to the Sacred Heart,” her doctoral dissertation published in 1985; “Spiritualties of the Heart: Approaches to Personal Wholeness in Christian Tradition” (1990); “Spiritual Guides for Today: Evelyn Underhill, Dorothy Day, Karl Rahner, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen” (1991); and “Evelyn Underhill: Spirituality for Daily Living” (1997).

Sister Callahan is survived by her sisters, Clare Callahan from Cincinnati, Ohio; Aileen Callahan from Cambridge Mass.; and her brother, John Callahan, from Wimbledon, England; and her sisters in the Society of the Sacred Heart.

A memorial Mass for Sister Callahan was held Sept. 7 in the Oakwood Chapel in Atherton. A sharing of memories followed Mass.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63108.

NATIVITY TO HOST RETREAT ON ANGELS AND DIVINE MERCY

Michaelite Father Peter Prusakiewicz will visit the Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park at the end of September to lead a retreat on angels.

From Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, Father Prusakiewicz will offer a parish mission on the angels, archangels and guardian angels, discussing their role in the spiritual life and their connection to Divine Mercy.

The mission will include Mass, daily talks, confession, Holy Hour and veneration of a relic of St. Maria Faustina.

“Having him preach in the diocese is a rare gift for our times that will energize and encourage the faithful,” Patsy Gonzalez, a Nativity parishioner, said. Gonzalez added that the Polish priest is “a messenger of mercy for our times.”

Father Prusakiewicz began his priestly ministry as a chaplain to the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, the order of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska. A mystic who recorded the apparitions of Jesus Christ to her, St. Maria Faustina emphasized God’s divine mercy and love toward all, encouraged trust in God, and urged people to become channels of God’s mercy toward others. She was canonized in 2000.

In 1996, the sisters asked him to travel around the world preaching about the Divine Mercy, sending him forth on a mission that has brought him to nearly every continent. Gonzalez said his explanations of the theology behind the Divine Mercy devotion and understanding of St. Maria Faustina’s writings have been inspirational in her faith.

For more information on attending Father Prusakiewicz’s parish mission, go to www.stmichaelthearchangel.info or email Patsy Gonzalez at patsygee@ yahoo.com.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 12 CRIME SURVIVORS HEALING: Spanish language support for those who have been affected by violent crime. 6:30-8:30 p.m. at St. Anthony Church, 3215 Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco. Child care available. Julio Escobar, (415) 614-5572.

SEX ED AND PARENTS’ RIGHTS: Learn about what rights parents have in their children’s sex education programs in public schools. 6:30-8:30 p.m. at St. Dominic Parish, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. Visit sfarch.org/myfamilyrights.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 13-15 PRAYING THE GOSPEL OF LUKE: An opportunity to pray with the major themes of Luke, which offer a blueprint for living the faith. Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. jrlosaltos.org, (650) 917-4000.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 14 HANDICAPABLES MASS: A monthly Mass, lunch and fellowship for the disabled and their caregivers. Noon Mass followed by lunch, both in St. Mary’s Cathedral lower hall, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Date subject to change.

RSVP Diane Prell, (415) 452-3500, or visit handicapables.com.

NORCAL JAM FOR YOUTH: A oneday Catholic event with concerts, talks, Mass and more at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, 1001 Fairgrounds Drive, Vallejo. Tickets at onfirenorcal.com, or contact Amanda George, (415) 614-5595.

CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSN.: Catholic physicians, nurses, health professionals and interested members of the clergy are invited to the first general meeting of the San Francisco chapter of the Catholic Medical Association, 10 a.m.-noon, St. Dominic Parish Hall, 2390 Bush St.,

San Francisco. RSVP SanFranCMA@ gmail.com or visit sfguild.cathmed.org.

Jennings St., San Francisco. Child care available. Julio Escobar, (415) 614-5572.

LIFE LUNCHEON: United for Life hosts its 47th annual luncheon, 11:30 a.m., United Irish Cultural Center, 1600 45th Ave., San Francisco. $20 per person, $180/table of 10. Reserve by calling (415) 567-2293.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 20

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPT. 14-15 POST-ABORTION HEALING: Project Rachel helps women and men heal from the pain of abortion find peace and reconciliation. Held at a confidential site by Father Vito Perrone with the Contemplatives of St. Joseph and the Daughters of Carmel. Visit sfarchdiocese.org/rachel to sign up, or email Projectrachel@sfarch.org.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 15 CATHEDRAL CONCERT: Free, Sunday 4 p.m. recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, celebrating the 175th birth year of Charles Marie Widor. Ugo Sforza (Italy), Organ, Symphony No. 6. Freewill offering graciously accepted at door. Visit smcsf.org.

GRACENTER FUNDRAISER: The Good Shepherd Sisters’ Gracenter fundraiser benefits women without resources as they break free of drug and alcohol addiction. 12-3 p.m., Gracenter’s Patio Español, 1310 Bacon St., San Francisco.

Visit gsgracenter.org or contact Sister Marguerite Bartling, sr.marguerite@gsgracenter.org, or call (628) 224-2050.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 19 RESTORATIVE CIRCLE: Free support for all those affected by the incarceration of a loved one on the third Thursday of each month, 6:30-8:30 p.m., St. Paul of the Shipwreck Francis Center, 3333

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GOSPEL PEOPLE: Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose Catherine Marie Bazar shares her experience as a chaplain ministering inside California’s prison system. “The ‘Other’ Gospel People” will run from 2-4 p.m. at the Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $15. msjdominicans.org; (510) 933-6360.

CATHEDRAL CONCERT: Free, 4 p.m. recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Celebrating the 175 birth year of Charles Marie Widor. Jonathan Dimmock, organ, performing Widor’s “Symphony No. 5.”

Freewill offering graciously accepted at door. Visit smcsf.org.

WHAT IS TAIZÉ?: In 1962, almost 20 years after the end of WWII, young German students came to the monks of Taizé, France, with an offer to build a chapel there as a sign of peace and reconciliation.

Since that time, young people throughout the world keep the Taizé spirit alive by gathering to share their faith in community prayer and solidarity with those who suffer.

MONDAY, SEPT. 23 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Sept. 25-Nov. 3 at Planned Parenthood’s 1650 Valencia St. site in San Francisco and at its upcoming site at 1522 Bush St. Sign up for vigil hours at www.40daysforlife.com/san-francisco. Email sf40daysforlife@gmail.com or leave a message at (408) 840DAYS (3297).

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ST. PADRE PIO BLESSING: The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi will celebrate a special Mass to mark the blessing and dedication of a new statue of St. Pio of Pietrelcina in the historic church at 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco. Reception to follow. shrinesf.org; (415) 986-4557.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 26 ADULT FAITH MATURATION: The “Gather at Grand” speaker series sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael hosts Father Diarmuid O’Murchu, MSC, on “The Evolution of Adult Faith Maturation,” 7-8:30 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Light refreshments provided. RSVP CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org or call (415) 453-8303.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 27 ‘GREATNESS’ WORKSHOP: Speaker Jonathon Fanning presents an event based on Matthew Kelly’s book “The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic,” 6:30-10:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. Registration $25 at dynamiccatholic.com/ sanfrancisco or call (859) 980-7900.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 28 BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS: St. Mary’s Cathedral invites all pet caretakers to bring their pets to the plaza on Geary Boulevard between Laguna and Gough streets at noon to have them blessed by the pastor in the tradition of San Francisco’s patron St. Francis of Assisi. Dogs must be on leashes and cats in carriers. Small animals and birds in cages are welcome. (415) 567-2020.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 29

MERCY HIGH SF REUNIONS SEPT. 25, 11:30 A.M.: Class of 1959’s 60th reunion at Original Joe’s Westlake, 11 Glenwood Ave., Daly City. $75. Andi Thuesen Ibarra, andi49ers@yahoo.com.

OCT. 2, 10:30 A.M.: Class of 1964’s 55th reunion at Mercy High School, 3250 19th Ave, San Francisco. $64. Charlotte Watson Kiesel, Mercy64Reunion@gmail.com.

SEPT. 28, 3 P.M.: Class of 1974’s 45th Reunion at Park Chalet, 1000 Great Hwy., San Francisco. $45.

Sylvia Romero, sylromero5@gmail. com.

OCT. 5, 11:30 A.M.: Class of 1969’s 50th reunion at Mercy High School, 3250 19th Ave., San Francisco. $85. Fran Guassardo Veal, mercyclass69@gmail.com.

SEPT. 28, 12 P.M.: Class of 1984’s 35th Reunion at Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco. Georgina Guerrero Fox, georginafox@comcast.net.

OCT. 13, 11 A.M.: Class of 1979’s 40th reunion at Petaluma Women’s Club 518 B St., Petaluma. Holly Cirimele Camozzi, hcamozzi@ sbcglobal.net.

CATHEDRAL CONCERT: Free, 4 p.m. recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, celebrating the 175th birth year of Charles

Marie Widor. Ugo Sforza (Italy), organ, performing Widor’s “Symphony No. 6.”

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SVDP FUNDRAISER: Composer concert featuring Father Rick Manalo, CSP, and Janet Sullivan Whitaker benefitting Larkspur and Corte Madera neighbors in need, St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur. Concert, $35, begins 5 p.m. followed by no-host beer and wine tasting, $25. Tickets may be purchased at the door. Contact cplocki@ gmail.com or call (415) 717-0172.

ANGELIC PARISH MISSION: Father Peter Prusakiewicz, CMSA, a speaker on the Holy Angels, the Divine Mercy and St. Faustina, will lead a three-day parish mission at Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park.

Includes daily Mass, talks, recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, confession, adoration and veneration of a first-class relic of St. Faustina. Visit stmichaelthearchangel.info or contact Patsy Gonzalez, patsygee@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 5 ROSARY RALLY: Mass, eucharistic procession to U.N. Plaza, adoration and confessions are all part of the family rosary rally this year. 10 a.m.-12:45 p.m. starting at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Visit rosaryrallysf.com or call (415) 419-9477.

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RED MASS: The annual Red Mass blesses those in the legal profession.

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BRAZILIAN WORSHIP MUSIC: Brazilian Catholic musician Guilherme de Sa will play acoustic guitar and a piano duet in a two-hour concert beginning at 9 p.m. at St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco. $20. Doors open at 7. Includes finger food and soft drinks. Tickets available at the door or on Eventbrite.

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PAX CHRISTI SPEAKER: Marie Dennis will talk about how the institutional Catholic Church can adopt active nonviolence as its Gospel-based default approach. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Newman Hall/Holy Spirit Church, 2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley.

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YOUNG ADULT BALL: A semi-formal young adult (20-39) dance sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Santa Rosa from 7-10 p.m. at St. Hilary parish hall, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon. $20 in advance, $30 at the door. Amanda George, georgea@sfarch.org, (415) 624-5595.

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CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP: A free workshop to learn how people and groups are working in coalitions to respond to the climate change challenge, globally, nationally, locally.

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