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Pope Francis presented his vision for overcoming the world’s growing divisions, laid bare by the coronavirus crisis, in his new encyclical “Fratelli tutti,” published Sunday.

In the letter, released Oct. 4, the pope urged people of good will to promote fraternity through dialogue, renewing society by putting love for others ahead of personal interests.

Throughout the encyclical, the pope emphasized the primacy of love, in both social and political contexts.

“Fratelli tutti,” the text’s opening phrase, means (PHOTO BY ZAC WITTMER/SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO) “All brothers” in Italian. The words are taken from the writings of St. Francis of Assisi, to whom the pope paid tribute at the beginning of the encyclical, describing him as the “saint of fraternal love.”

Young people from Mission St. Anthony in Pescadero pose with Father Jose Corral in the backyard of the church on Sept. 26, 2020, after The pope said he was struck that, when St. Franreceiving the sacrament of confirmation in an outdoor ceremony. See story on Page 2. cis met with the Egyptian Sultan Al-Kamil in 1219, he “urged that all forms of hostility or conflict be avoided and that a humble and fraternal ‘subjection’ be shown to those who did not share his faith.”

“Francis did not wage a war of words aimed at imposing doctrines; he simply spread the love of God the Blessed Sacrament and the … In this way, he became a father to all and inspired CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO celebration of Mass had to be the the vision of a fraternal society,” the pope wrote. best we could offer: worthy, clean, Pope Francis explained that his new encyclical At the vigil Mass for the feast beautiful, precise,” he said. brought together many of his previous reflections of St. Francis of Assisi, ArchThe archbishop continued that on human fraternity and social friendship, and also bishop Cordileone preached “to live the spirit of St. Francis” expanded on themes contained in the “Document about the zealous Franciscan today means anchoring spirion Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living saint’s reverence for the Euchatual life in prayer, especially the Together,” which he signed with Sheikh Ahmed rist and urged Catholics to imirosary, spending at least an hour el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, in Abu Dhabi in tate his example as they prepare a week in eucharistic adoration 2019. to return to their parishes for and doing acts of penance, in“The following pages do not claim to offer a comindoor Mass. cluding Friday fasts and regular plete teaching on fraternal love, but rather to con“Francis is famous for many confession. sider its universal scope, its openness to every man things, but that for which he was Archbishop Cordileone delivand woman,” he wrote. “I offer this social encyclical most zealous is often overlooked: ered his homily to several hunas a modest contribution to continued reflection, in worthy and fitting worship of the dred Catholics who had gathered the hope that in the face of present-day attempts to one, true God, and reverence for on the grounds of St. Mary’s Caeliminate or ignore others, we may prove capable the Body and Blood of Christ,” he thedral the evening of Oct. 3 for of responding with a new vision of fraternity and said. the tenth annual Rosary Rally. social friendship that will not remain at the level of “Zeal for the Blessed Sacrament The prayer rally began in the words.” and the proper respect due to it Mission District with a procesThe pope signed the encyclical in Assisi Oct. 3. He marked his entire life, right up to sion led by the archbishop from is thought to be the first pope to sign an encyclical the very end,” Archbishop Cordil(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/ OFFICE OF HUMAN LIFE & St. Anthony of Padua Church to outside of Rome for more than 200 years, since Pius eone said, adding that St. Francis DIGNITY, ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO) the cathedral. As they arrived at VII issued the text “Il Trionfo” in the Italian city of strongly condemned treating The 10th annual Rosary Rally in San A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. the cathedral, attendees spread Cesena in 1814.

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Blue Mass, Oct. 11, 2020, 9 a.m. on the plaza of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. The intention of the Mass is thanks and prayer for the safety of first responders including law enforcement, firefighters, paramedics, and others. Concelebrants will be police and fire chaplains. Because of space constraints, inperson attendance is limited to first responders and their families. The Mass may be livestreamed. Visit sfarch.org/BlueMass for updates.

Red Mass, Oct. 15, 2020, 5:30 p.m., Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent’s School for Boys, outdoor Mass, One St. Vincent’s Drive, San Rafael. There will be no dinner following the Mass. Attendance is limited to the first 80 RSVPs. To RSVP, visit www. catholiccharitiessf.org/news-events/redmass2020/ redmass2020.html. Please observe all safety precautions. Attendees are asked to bring their own chair, hat, and/or umbrella or sun/rain protection. Oakland Bishop Michael Barber is homilist. The Red Mass is a seven-century-old tradition of prayer, seeking the guidance of the Holy Spirit for those in the legal professions and all those who seek justice.

White Mass, Oct. 16, 2020, 6 p.m., outdoor Mass, St. Augustine Church, 3700 Callan Blvd., South San Francisco. The intention of the Mass is thanks and prayer for the continued good work of medical professionals.

All medical workers are welcome including doctors, dentists, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physical and occupational therapists, nursing assistants and other health care professionals. All others are welcome to watch the Mass by livestream at www.facebook.com/SACC45thYear/. For complete information, visit sfarch.org/medicalmass.

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Father José Corral anoints Jorge Bernardino Láscarez during the celebration of the sacrament of confirmation, while his godmother, Yolanda Guzmán, places her hand on his shoulder as part of the rite of invocation of the Holy Spirit. Right, Óscar Ortega places a flower arrangement at the foot of the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe during the Mass of confirmation.

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Between the historic building of Mission St. Anthony and the meadows bordering the church’s backyard in rural San Mateo County, a group of young people from Pescadero received the sacrament of confirma‘WE ARE MADE FOR THESE DAYS’: A free morntion under a tent that has served as a church during ing Zoom retreat with psychological and spiritual the pandemic. resources for dealing with the pandemic. Dr. Pamela Father José Corral, pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar Bjorklund, in Half Bay, the parish that includes Mission Church Goods a & licensed Candles clinical psychologist and spiri- Religious Gifts Moon & Books tual director, leads the Oct. 10, 2020, 10 a.m.-noon St. Anthony in Pescadero, received permission from session. She has taught in the Pastoral Ministries Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone to celebrate the Program of Santa Clara University for 15 years. Sponsacrament of confirmation on Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. sored by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose.

Father Corral told the young people to keep the Registration is required. RSVP by Oct. 9, 2020, at light of the Holy Spirit burning in their hearts so http://bit.ly/TheseTimes2020 or call (510) 933-6360. they would never lose faith.

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Epimenio Bernardino, the father of Jorge Bernardino, one of those who were confirmed told San Francisco Católico that these young people received the sacrament differently than prior to the pandemic.

“The important thing was that my son received the sacrament,” he said. “God is everywhere and the place was properly prepared for a Mass of that solemnity.”

Around 50 people participated in the Mass, including godparents, parents and other relatives and catechists Alejandro González and Jorge Guzmán.

About 30 students are eligible to start the confirmation process for next year but only six have registered for fear of participating in groups because of COVID-19, Guzmán said. The catechists are inviting parents to have monthly confirmation classes in the church and become the catechists of their children at home.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 8, 2020

San Francisco Catholic schools begin holding in-person classes NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

After months of silent hallways and screen-based learning, student voices can be heard again at Catholic schools in San Francisco.

Since Sept. 21, San Francisco has approved applications from 28 private schools to reopen on-campus Marguerite Pini classes, including four Catholic schools.

At St. Vincent de Paul School, where inperson classes began Sept. 28, teachers were glad “to have live, cute adorable children in the classroom,” principal Marguerite Pini Thomas White said. “It’s so hard to teach to an empty classroom and screen.

They were ecstatic to have kids in the building and the kids were thrilled.”

In-person attendance is currently limited to students in grades K-2. The school will continue adding grades every two weeks, and hopes to welcome students from eighth grade to in-person classes by the first week of November.

In order to lower the number of students in the building, each grade is divided into two cohorts that attend in-person classes on different days of the week.

One cohort will be on campus Mondays and Tuesdays, while the other will go Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesday is a distance-learning day for all students, and the school continues to provide fulltime distance learning to families who opted out of in-person attendance.

The transition from online-only school to a hybrid of in-person classes and distance learning has gone well, Pini said. Because faculty have been teaching from their classrooms since the start of the school year, the protocols in place for keeping the risk of transmission low are familiar.

“It’s not new to them and they can confidently teach children and teach them the protocols in place,” she said.

Pini hopes the hybrid program of distance and in-person learning can

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Kindergarten students leave St. Vincent de Paul School, San Francisco, after their first day of classes Sept. 28. In-person attendance in San Francisco is currently limited to K-2. mitigate some of the drawbacks with online learning students encountered.

Some students struggled with distance learning and extensive screen time, she said, but “I think the major concern for students is the social aspect of school.

We’re finding it’s so important in their lives, more important than we had possibly anticipated before COVID.” In order to reopen in San Francisco, private schools must submit a safety plan to the city, undergo two reviews and pass a site inspection. Schools need to meet state as well as local safety standards for reopening.

As of Oct. 5, San Francisco had approved reopening plans from Convent & Stuart Hall, St. Anne, St. Finn Barr and St. Vincent de Paul. Twenty-eight applications for K-8 on-campus learning at private schools have been approved by the city in total, and 68 schools have completed applications. High schools cannot open at this time. San Francisco Unified School District has not released a timetable for reopening.

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Pini said St. Vincent de Paul drafted its safety procedures in June, so “when the city sent the application, it was really a checklist to make sure we had all these elements.” In reopening, Pini said the

school focused on student health and safety and “how we could create a learning environment that builds communities as well as keeps children safe.”

At St. Anne School, classes for kindergarten through second grade will resume Oct. 13 on a cohort basis, with more grades added later. School principal Thomas White said about half of students in those grades have signed up for in-person classes and half will continue to learn remotely.

White said the school, which prepared over the summer for reopening with inperson or distance learning, has made technology upgrades that allow them to offer “the same quality of education” to students regardless of where they are learning.

“The interactions will obviously be more personal in the classroom but academically, it will be the same,” he said.

The challenges faced by St. Anne over the past several months have been unprecedented for most administrators and teachers, but White said St. Anne’s staff and faculty continue to have the same goal they always had: “working to make sure kids have the best Catholic education they can get.”

White said he hoped the faculty and staff could show students how to be successful under difficult circumstances.

“When all this is said and done, we’ll be stronger because of it, because we have a commitment that far exceeds the academic program. The kids are successful, and Catholic educators are successful, because they’re committed not just to a strong academic program but to how you deal with life’s ups and downs,” he said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 8, 2020

Parish mental health teams prepping to offer emotional ‘first aid’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Rick Raffo knows what it’s like to be “at wit’s end.”

The 71-year-old lifelong St. Matthew parishioner and sacristan was overwhelmed with the crushing emotional duty of caring for his beloved mother who slowly succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease.

“I saw first-hand what happens when people are having a problem like that,” Raffo told Catholic San Francisco Sept.

28. The support he found in a caregivers’ support group at a local hospital helped sustain him know, “I wasn’t alone in this.”

Raffo’s personal experience brought him together with about a half-dozen others at the San Mateo parish in February to begin training to serve on its firstever mental health ministry team.

St. Matthew and Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame were chosen as sort of beta sites when the archdiocese’s office of pastoral ministry embarked in 2019 upon a plan to respond to the mental health needs of parish communities.

Along with four other California dioceses, the Archdiocese of San Francisco is following a model successfully used in the Diocese of San Diego. It enables parishes to act as an initial resource for discovering professional mental health resources for themselves or family members.

Despite pandemic restrictions that nearly immediately canceled any inperson trainings, teams at the two pilot parishes carried on with Zoom trainings designed by the mental health ministry coordinator, Richard Collyer.

St. Raphael, St. Anselm and St. Hilary parishes in Marin County also completed team trainings this summer.

“I didn’t want to lose the zeal of the people who had come forward,” St. Matthew pastor Msgr. John Talesfore told Catholic San Francisco.

Msgr. Talesfore said the new ministry is intended to help the parish be a source of “spiritual companionship” for community members who are suffering.

He likened parish-based mental health ministry team members to first responders who might apply first aid to a physical injury that could ultimately require a medical professional.

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St. Matthew Parish sacristan Rick Raffo, far left, is pictured with parochial vicar Father Ben Rosado, Ingrid Pera and pastor Msgr. John Talestore outside the San Mateo church Oct. 4, 2020.

Raffo’s experience caring for his ailing mother led him to join the first-ever emotional support ministry at the San Mateo parish. Father Rosado and Pera co-lead the new ministry team.

“Someone applying first aid may apply a compress or Band-Aid to eliminate immediate suffering to the injured, but they are not going to be doing surgery any more than this group is going to be doing psychological analysis or counseling,” he said.

Msgr. Talesfore said the ministry is not considered nor is it spiritual direction or confession.

“It’s simply someone listening through the ears of faith to someone in the community who is talking about a hardship they are facing right now,” he said.

People whose family members are experiencing mental health issues can feel “isolated and invisible,” but ministers will have resources to offer from inside and outside the context of faith.

Each parish team establishes relationships with local resources and service agencies for possible referral. Each are identified as “responsible, respectful practitioners that honor and respect Catholic teaching on these matters,” Msgr. Talesfore said.

The parish will also incorporate a toolbox of Scripture readings, small verses and other sources of Christian compassion into the ministry.

The parish-based mental health initiative was prompted by the 2018 publication of “Hope and Healing,” a document produced by the Catholic bishops of California asking Catholics and all “people of goodwill” to advocate for mental health support.

Msgr. Talesfore referenced the bishops’ appeal in a May 1 editorial he wrote for the San Mateo Daily Journal for Mental Health Awareness Month.

The succeeding four months have only added to the urgency of his message.

“Just about half of Americans say the coronavirus outbreak has taken a toll on their mental health,” he wrote.

“Disruption to our plans and daily lives can bring waves of anger, depression, anxiety and grief wrapped up in threats of physical illness and financial insecurity.”

He warned of an “emerging mental health crisis” detailed in a report by the Journal of the American Medical Association that suggested communities and organizations consider training nontraditional groups to provide “psychological first aid.”

While St. Matthew will add a mental health ministry page to its website to direct parishioners, Msgr. Talesfore said

the team ultimately functions as “an arm of the pastor’s ministry.”

“It’s all at the discretion of the pastor to provide more than he can,” he said, to those experiencing any kind of emotional pressures.

Msgr. Talesfore said the ministry currently operates primarily through his referral after someone seeks out pastoral counseling.

“If I were speaking to someone in a confessional and it became clear to me that this is something that would be helpful, I could refer them to the ministry,” he said, obviously without breaking the seal.

Msgr. Talesfore said mental health professionals, “unless they are strongly, strongly opposed to religion, which I think is a stereotype,” often advise those seeking mental health help to cultivate strong support systems, the kind that a faith community can provide.

Lara Montoya, a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Angels Parish, is a member of the parish’s fledgling mental health ministry team.

The religious education teacher and confirmation coordinator is an associate mental health therapist at Peninsula High School in San Bruno, an alternative high school.

“In working with our youth and their families, I have found that those people and their caregivers with a strong faith foundation and community are better able to manage the negative symptoms of mental health illnesses,” she said.

The seven-member OLA parish mental health ministry team completed its training and will begin implementation this month led by Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney. Father Mahoney, she said, is a strong proponent of mental health, having studied to be a therapist before finding his vocation as a priest.

Montoya said the parish has expanded the ministry to its youth ministers, working with Chris Mariano, the archdiocesan coordinator of young adult and youth ministry on a youth training to be held this month.

“Everybody is feeling pressure,” said Msgr. Talesfore of the enduring challenges of 2020.

“Without the right spiritual answer made available, there are so many voices out there,” he said. “We’ve got the answer in the church and this is one new portal for people to enter through.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 8, 2020

Archdiocesan class explores church teaching on immigration NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

An archdiocesan sponsored seminar on immigration and Catholic social teaching is sparking conversations about what the church teaches about migrants and refugees and how to put the church’s principles Jeff Marlett into practice.

The six-week online seminar, a collaboration between the archdiocese’s Human Life & Dignity and Pastoral Ministry offices, is taught by Jeff Marlett, professor of religious studies at College of St. Rose in Albany, New York.

Marlett’s hope for the course is that people “come away with a greater sense of the sources of the Catholic intellectual tradition, of Catholic social justice, and the ability to see how it applies to immigration and social issues like abortion or euthanasia.”

The church’s teaching on immigration is not a “special case” but has the same roots as its teaching on abortion and euthanasia, he said. “The person has dignity and worth beyond what they can do.” Persons should not be considered in terms of how useful they are, but what they deserve because of their dignity.

The course discusses immigration as part of the church’s teaching on Catholic social justice, drawing on basic Catholic principles, Scripture, the American Catholic Church and how its history as an immigrant church affects it, the joint U.S.-Mexico bishops’ statement “Strangers No Longer,” and papal documents.

Marlett said he began the first class by showing a video of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone about Catholic teaching on immigration, as a way to show episcopal leadership on the issue and the intellectual tradition behind it.

About 90 students from around the country have registered for the course, with about 45 people on average attending live sessions over Zoom.

Recordings of the classes and notes are also made available after class for people to use.

“The first night of class I was on Zoom, seeing the number of people log in, the different faces, it was humbling but also very encouraging.

Everyone has great questions and they’re very supportive,” he said.

Marlett said it has been a “wonderful experience” to see people earnestly grappling with the church’s teachings and discuss among themselves what kind of policies should result from Catholic social teaching. People have discussed DACA, amnesty, and how border immigration should be handled, he said.

“That kind of willingness to engage spiritual questions about how people view immigrants and the real hardnosed policy issues of what we can get engaged in at the state or local policy level, that’s heartening,” he said, praising it as an example of Catholicism’s emphasis on faith and practical action.

The course is non-partisan and

focused on applying the church’s principles, including that of subsidiarity. A bedrock principle of Catholic social teaching, subsidiarity means that decisions should be made at the lowest possible level or by those who are closest to the relevant issues.

“It’s one thing to read some nice things about immigration or hear me talk about it, but the material itself calls upon people to act where they are. People rightly ask what should I do, and the answer starts with where are you? The Catholic answer and approach to immigration is going to differ depending on whether people are around Dallas or somewhere in San Francisco. The politics and issues are different,” Marlett said.

“There’s an element of practical solution that has to be found on the ground, that can’t be scripted from the outside,” he said.

Catholics continue to be divided about immigration and its effect on the U.S. A Public Religion Research Institute survey in 2019 found about half of white Catholics and a fifth of Hispanic Catholics agreed with statements that “Immigrants threaten traditional American customs and values,” and “Immigrants are invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background,” while about 40% of all Americans agreed with those statements.

The same survey found overall that 68% of white Catholics favored restrictive immigration policies, compared to 39% of Hispanic Catholics and 56% of all Americans.

Marlett expressed hope that Catholics could muster a united response on the issue of immigration, arguing that the search for common ground is part of the Catholic intellectual tradition. “The groundwork is there intellectually and also institutionally, with clerical and lay leadership, but this is a hyper-partisan political environment like no other I’ve known, and there’s an undeniable element of hardening of the ideological spectrum,” he said.

The course on Catholic social teaching and immigration is the fourth online seminar offered by the Office of Pastoral Ministry.

Deacon Fred Totah, who directs that office in addition to the Office of Deacon Formation, said the course was chosen in collaboration with the Office of Human Life & Dignity because “immigration is a very important topic and we wanted to educate people on what the Catholic Church teaches on immigration from a social justice standpoint. We can tell you what the church teaches, but you’re free to make up your mind,” he said.

Deacon Totah said seminars hosted by his office grew out of their work to bring back the archdiocese’s School of Pastoral Leadership. After they suspended their work because of the pandemic, they decided to offer non-credit courses to the public as a way to maintain interest. So far, classes have been on Catholic mystical women, God in the movies and St. Junipero Serra, with more planned to come. The courses cost $20, but Deacon Totah emphasized “we don’t say no to anyone who can’t afford it. We don’t want to turn people away.”

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ROSARY RALLY: Archbishop urges Catholics to imitate St. Francis FROM PAGE 1

out across the plaza and parking lot to maintain physical distancing.

With parishes able to resume indoor liturgies in all counties in the archdiocese after months of being shuttered, Catholics should consider how much reverence they give to the Eucharist, the archbishop said. Too often, behavior toward the Eucharist can be “lax, and even disrespectful,” he said.

“Have we accepted this fast from the Eucharist as an opportunity God has given us to renew our devotion and love for the sacrament?” he asked.

Archbishop Cordileone urged Catholics to prepare for receiving Communion by frequently going to confession, praying and attending eucharistic adoration. In addition, worshippers should be prayerfully silent whenever they are in the presence of the Eucharist and should dress properly for Mass.

Archbishop Cordileone tied St. Francis’s emphasis on reverence to his work reforming the corruption in the church of his day. St. Francis carried out his work as a reformer in communion with the church, not standing outside of it, and obeyed its authority even when it went against his own desires, he said.

“The real work of reform begins within each soul and within the heart of the church,” he said.

Archbishop Cordileone said that can be difficult to do as the church goes through “a time of intense and bitter infighting, of scandals, of opposition between warring factions within the church and of divisions between bishops, priests and lay faithful.”

The temptation for many is to “criticize and do things our own way,” but divisions within the church only help the devil, he said.

“Instead, let us take our lead from the poor man of Assisi, and tend to the inner work: prayer, fasting, love and respect for the Blessed Sacrament, embracing and serving the poor,” he said.

After Mass concluded, attendees lit candles and prayed the rosary together. Five families from the archdiocese were selected to lead the rosary, with one praying each decade in a different language: English, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Latin. At the end of the rosary, Archbishop Cordileone renewed the archdiocese’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which was first done in 2017.

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/OFFICE OF HUMAN LIFE & DIGNITY, ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO)

A candlelit procession led by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone from the Mission District arrives at St. Mary’s Cathedral for evening Mass Oct. 3, 2020, for the vigil of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

In his homily the archbishop urged the faithful to emulate Francis’ reverence in returning to Mass as pandemic restrictions ease. Hundreds of worshippers, including many families from Mission District churches, gathered for the outdoor service on the cathedral plaza.

Celebration will be virtual but retired priests’ salute is real CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocese of San Francisco will honor its more than 50 retired priests in a virtual commendation on Nov. 19, 2020. The celebration is now in its 10th year but its first as a virtual event. In its nine years it has raised more than $2 million for retired priests’ support.

“Although it is not possible this year to hold a Priests Retirement Luncheon in the traditional sense, we all are still eager to celebrate these very special men for their lives of service to the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” said Rod Linhares, archdiocesan director of development. “The week beginning Nov. 15, will be ‘Retired Priests Week.’ These

Father John Greene

Msgr. Michael Harriman

men have been with us for the best and the most difficult times of our lives.”

Linhares called the proceeds from the luncheon a “literally vital” income stream for retired priests well-being.

The Nov. 19, 2020 event will open with a 45-minute livestreamed program at 10.30

a.m. for which an emcee has yet to be named and content is still being planned.

A livestreamed Mass from the chapel in the residence of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone with the archbishop as principal celebrant will follow at 11:30 a.m.

Special honorees and concelebrants of the Mass are Msgr. Michael Harriman, retired pastor of St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco, ordained in 1968, and Father John Greene, retired pastor of St. Robert Parish, San Bruno and chaplain for the San Francisco Fire Department, ordained in 1976. Following Mass, Archbishop Cordileone will host lunch at the residence for the honorees and their guests.

Retired priests will join in the day by livestream from their respective residences.

Gift baskets containing COVID-19 masks and local goodies including chocolate will be delivered to the retired priests in the week before the celebration. Rod Linhares will be among the delivery people. “It will be neat to see their expressions,” Linhares said. “It is a tremendous honor to help put this day together. These men have given their lives to us.”

While no tickets are being sold for the event, the program and Mass will be available to all at http://bit.ly/PRFLunch.

Donations are welcome to the day and can be sent to Priests Retirement Fund 2020, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Visit www.sfarch.org/ giving.

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In final drive to the election, campaigns go all out for the Catholic vote DENNIS SADOWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CLEVELAND – It’s a little more than five weeks from Election Day and the campaigns of Democrat Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump are making a final push for Catholic votes.

Through online events, phone banks aimed at Catholic-heavy counties and specific digital messages and emails citing each candidate’s appeal to Catholics, the campaigns are ensuring that voters who make up the country’s largest religious group know where Trump and Biden stand on key issues.

The Catholic vote is significant. Catholics make up about 23% of the U.S. population.

Current estimates are that upward of 80% of Catholic voters have made up their minds, with the count being evenly split between the two major candidates.

That leaves a minority of Catholic voters up for grabs, according to political observers, who estimated that 10% to 20% of Catholics have not yet made up their minds about which candidate will get their vote.

Even then, it is Catholics in a handful of swing states who are being targeted, said Vincent Stine, adjunct professor of political science at George Washington University.

Key battleground states with significant Catholic populations include Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Stine told Catholic News Service.

Stine said that in nine of the past 10 presidential elections, Catholics have sided with the winner, illustrating how the country’s largest religious group is truly a swing voting bloc, making them of particular interest to the major party campaigns.

That said, the Catholic vote is not monolithic. A survey by the Pew Research Center conducted from July 27 to Aug. 2 shows that 59% of white Catho-

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President Donald Trump walks on stage(CNS before PHOTO/TOM delivering BRENNER,remarks REUTERS) during a Latinos For Trump campaign event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Florida, Sept. 25, 2020. Right, a woman in a Miami restaurant listens to Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris during a campaign event Sept. 10, 2020. lics planned to vote for Trump and 40% for Biden.

Meanwhile, among Hispanics, 65% planned to vote for Biden and 33% for Trump.

Two-thirds of Catholic registered voters are white while about 25% are Hispanic, according to data collected by the Pew in 2018 and 2019.

It’s unlikely that having a candidate who shares their religious beliefs will sway Catholic voters to a great extent. A February 2020 Pew survey found that about 62% of Catholics said it is very important to them to have a president who personally lives a moral and ethical life and that they are not necessarily seeking a president who shares their religious beliefs.

Both major campaigns run operations focusing on outreach to Catholics through initiatives respectively known as Catholics for Trump and Catholics for Biden.

Catholics for Trump was introduced in April. It has

six co-chairs: former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; Republican consultant Mary Joe Matalin; Mick Mulvaney, former acting White House chief of staff; Alfonso Aguilar, president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles; and Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union. The board includes 28 other prominent Catholics.

CNS scheduled interviews with Schlapp three times in late August and early September, but Schlapp did not return calls.

“Catholics for Trump will energize and activate the Catholic community in reelecting President Donald J. Trump by sharing the many successes of the Trump administration,” the group’s mission statement says.

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POPE: Calls for unity, deplores ‘verbal violence’ in new encyclical FROM PAGE 1

Pope Francis noted that, while he was writing the letter, “the COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly erupted, exposing our false securities.”

“Aside from the different ways that various countries responded to the crisis, their inability to work together became quite evident,” he said. “For all our hyperconnectivity, we witnessed a fragmentation that made it more difficult to resolve problems that affect us all.”

The pope divided his third encyclical, after the 2013 “Lumen fidei” and 2015 “Laudato si’,” into eight chapters.

In the opening chapter, he laid out the challenges facing humanity amid the coronavirus crisis, which has killed more than a million people worldwide. He cited wars, the “throwaway culture” that includes abortion and euthanasia, neglect of the elderly, discrimination against women, and slavery, among other threats. He also offered a critique of contemporary political debate, as well online communication, which he said was often marred by “verbal violence.”

“In today’s world, the sense of belonging to a single human family is fading, and the dream of working together for justice and peace seems an outdated utopia,” he wrote. “What reigns instead is a cool, comfortable and globalized indifference, born of deep disillusionment concealed behind a deceptive illusion: thinking that we are all-powerful, while failing to realize that we are all in the same boat.”

In the second chapter, Pope Francis reflected on the parable of the Good Samaritan, presenting the Samaritan who helped a traveler who had been left for dead as a model of human fraternity, in contrast to others who simply passed by.

“We need to acknowledge that we are constantly tempted to ignore others, especially the weak,” he said.

“Let us admit that, for all the progress we have made, we are still ‘illiterate’ when it comes to accompanying, caring for and supporting the most frail and vulnerable members of our developed societies.”

He noted that devout men failed to help the traveler, saying: “Paradoxically, those who claim to be unbelievers can sometimes put God’s will into practice better than believers.”

He urged readers to follow the teaching of Jesus by not setting limits on who they regard as their neighbors. He added that he sometimes wondered why “it took so long for the church unequivocally to condemn slavery and various forms of violence.”

“Today, with our developed spirituality and theology, we have no excuses. Still, there are those who

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This is a quote from Pope Francis’ new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship.”

appear to feel encouraged or at least permitted by their faith to support varieties of narrow and violent nationalism, xenophobia and contempt, and even the mistreatment of those who are different,” he wrote.

In chapter three, the pope stressed the importance of a fundamental attitude of love in the face of poverty and inequality.

He said that “the spiritual stature of a person’s life is measured by love,” but “some believers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon everyone else, or in a violent defense of the truth, or in impressive demonstrations of strength.”

He continued: “All of us, as believers, need to recognize that love takes first place: love must never be put at risk, and the greatest danger lies in failing to love.”

The pope underlined that racism remained a threat, comparing it to a virus that “quickly mutates and, instead of disappearing, goes into hiding, and lurks in waiting.” He also said that “hidden exiles,” such as people with disabilities, should be encouraged to participate fully in society.

He argued that individualism “does not make us more free, more equal, more fraternal.” What is needed, he said, is a “universal love” that promotes the dignity of every human being.

This love should be applied also to migrants, the pope wrote, quoting the U.S. bishops’ 2018 pastoral letter against racism, “Open Wide Our Hearts,” which said there are fundamental rights that “precede any society because they flow from the dignity granted to each person as created by God.” In the fourth chapter, devoted to the theme of migration, the pope appealed to countries to “welcome,

protect, promote, and integrate” newcomers. He urged governments to take a series of “indispensable steps” to help refugees. These included “increasing and simplifying the granting of visas,” as well as “freedom of movement and the possibility of employment,” and “supporting the reuniting of families.”

But even these steps would prove insufficient, he said, if the international community failed to develop “a form of global governance with regard to movements of migration.”

In the fifth chapter, the pope called for states to adopt policies that promoted the common good, critiquing both an “unhealthy” populism and an excessively individualistic liberalism. He said that populism could conceal a lack of concern for the vulnerable, while liberalism could be used to serve the economic interests of the powerful.

He also criticized the conviction that the market can resolve every problem, calling it the “dogma of neoliberal faith.”

The pope lamented that the world had failed to seize the opportunity presented by the financial crisis of 2007-2008 to develop new ethical principles governing the economy. What followed instead was “greater individualism, less integration and increased freedom for the truly powerful, who always find a way to escape unscathed.”

He urged reform both of the international financial system and multilateral institutions such the United Nations, saying it was vital for countries “to establish shared goals and to ensure the worldwide observance of certain essential norms.”

Setting out his proposal for renewal, Pope Francis said that leaders should focus on the long-term common good, imbuing their work with what he called “political love.”

“Recognizing that all people are our brothers and sisters, and seeking forms of social friendship that include everyone, is not merely utopian,” he insisted.

He also highlighted the “urgent need to combat all that threatens or violates fundamental human rights,” especially hunger and human trafficking, which he called a “source of shame for humanity.”

In the sixth chapter, the pope encouraged people to engage in authentic dialogue, which he said was not the same as arguments on social media, which were often “parallel monologues.”

He suggested that, in a pluralistic society, dialogue is the means by which society identifies those truths that must always be affirmed and respected. He quoted SEE POPE, PAGE 9

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ELECTION: Campaigns go all out for Catholic vote FROM PAGE 7

victories in pro-life issues, judicial appointments and religious freedom.”

Catholics for Biden held a kickoff event Sept. 3.

Josh Dickson, national faith engagement director for the Biden campaign, said the outreach to Catholic Americans is focusing on how the former vice president’s Catholic faith aligns with the common good and “their common values.”

As a Catholic, Biden supports legalized abortion. He has said he accepts the Catholic Church’s teaching “in my personal life” but that he refuses to impose his belief on others.

If elected, Biden also plans to seek repeal of the Hyde amendment, which bans the use of federal funds for abortion except when a woman’s life is in danger.

Until the 2020 primary season, Biden had supported the amendment.

According to Dickson, Biden “has a comprehensive view when it comes to women’s health” and that he supports expanding access to health care for women. “He has an approach that doesn’t take abortion or any other issue lightly, Dickson said.

In determining who they will support for president, Dickson said he believed, the majority of Catholics are multiissue voters who are concerned about racism, health care, the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and the economy in addition to abortion.

“Catholics in particular are called to this idea of loving our neighbor and working for justice and peace and opportunity for everyone,” he said.

Catholics for Biden has 36 co-chairs, including Carolyn Woo, former president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services; Samantha Power, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, his party’s nominee for vice president in 2016; Victoria Reggie Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.

The co-chairs, Dickson said, are planning to do more than lend their name to the campaign and are expected to participate in traditional outreach activities

in “getting the message out to as many Catholics as possible that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the clear moral choice in this election.”

Other efforts with no direct ties to the campaigns also are working to gain the Catholic vote.

Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, a political action group with no ties to the Catholic Church, has put much of his organization’s energy into turning out voters for Trump.

The organization unveiled a $9.7 million campaign Sept. 15 by releasing a report purporting to “expose” Biden’s “anti-Catholic record and policy agenda.”

It details Biden’s stances on abortion, judicial appointments, the dignity of work, religious freedom, health care, marriage, school choice and immigration, and contrasts them to statements from Catechism of the Catholic Church, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, popes and church documents.

CatholicVote plans to send the 93-page report and a shortened voter guide to up to 5 million voters.

A digital advertising campaign was introduced at the same time in Michigan and Pennsylvania, states that Burch said hold the key to the president’s reelection.

Other buys are planned for Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona and North Carolina, primarily around Charlotte, he said.

Burch said CatholicVote is operating under the age-old adage that all politics is local and it is spreading its message to regular Massgoers because they tend to be more conservative and thus are more likely to vote for Trump.

“Our goal is to have Catholics talking to members of their own parish and at a base level making sure they are going to vote,” Burch said. “We want to make sure those who regularly attend Mass, at least were (before the pandemic hit), to make sure they go out to vote.”

Biden has gained support from Catholic outreach efforts through Vote Common Good and a group called Pittsburgh Catholics for Biden, which is independent from the Biden campaign’s Catholic group.

Kevin Hayes, a member of the Pittsburgh group’s steering committee, said the organization is looking to reach as many uncommitted voters as possible.

“We feel like the Catholic vote is going to be critical,” he told CNS. Volunteers from various parishes will discuss Biden’s commitment to his Catholic faith as they contact voters to initiate one-on-one conversations. Among the messages they will share is the importance of reconciliation in a deeply polarized political environment, Hayes said.

Patrick Carolan, director of Catholic organizing for Vote Common Good, has been working since early 2020 on building support for Biden among Catholics.

He said the organization recognizes that Catholics hold wide-ranging political views across the political spectrum, but that their message has been one of finding common ground when addressing differences, including views on abortion.

“We should be focused on the ways we can come together, whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, and decide what we can do to make abortion rare and safe,” Carolan said.

Among other groups supporting Trump’s reelection include the Susan B. Anthony List, whose president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, is a member of the Catholics for Trump advisory board. Since its founding in 1993, SBA List has worked for the election of pro-life women candidates and the passage of pro-life legislation.

In a Sept. 10 online opinion piece for Fox News, Dannenfelser said she did not immediately embrace Trump when he ran for president in 2016 or even after he won, but now after his nearly four years in office, she feels “he has earned the designation he has today: ‘the most prolife president in history.’” Among other actions, she cited his efforts to stop taxpayer funding of abortion and to appoint judges “who respect the Constitution and life.”

The window to garner votes is quickly closing, with early voting already underway in some states. On average nationwide, early voting by mail or in person begins in mid-October.

POPE: Calls for unity, deplores ‘verbal violence’ FROM PAGE 8

a line from the song “Samba da bênção,” by Brazilian artist Vinícius de Moraes: “Life, for all its confrontations, is the art of encounter.”

It is also necessary to form a “covenant” between all members of society, rich and poor, which obliges everyone to give up some things for the common good.

“No one can possess the whole truth or satisfy his or her every desire, since that pretension would lead to nullifying others by denying their rights,” he wrote.

Above all, he said, we need to rediscover kindness.

In chapter seven, he discussed the conditions for peace and reconciliation, deploring the injustices of war and calling for an end to the use of the death penalty worldwide.

He noted that the Catechism of the Catholic Church recognizes the possibility of legitimate defense by military force. But he said this was often interpreted too broadly, arguing that “it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a ‘just war.’”

An accompanying footnote said: “St. Augustine, who forged a concept of ‘just war’ that we no longer uphold in our own day, also said that ‘it is a higher glory still to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.’”

The pope appealed to governments to give money allocated to weapons to “a global fund that can finally put an end to hunger and favor development in the most impoverished countries.”

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Catholic voters urged to consult church’s social teaching for guidance on issues TIM SWIFT CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BALTIMORE – As early voting begins in some states for the coming presidential election, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori is urging his parishioners to be guided by the principles of Catholic social teaching as they complete their ballots.

“Casting our votes is not only a privilege but also a solemn duty and responsibility,” Archbishop Lori wrote in a column for the Catholic Review, the archdiocesan news outlet.

Stressing the principles of human dignity, the common good, subsidiarity and solidarity, Archbishop Lori acknowledged that today’s politics has become increasingly partisan and contentious.

He challenged parishioners to look beyond party labels and consider the “real-life consequences” of each candidate’s positions.

Similarly, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, pointed to many issues at stake in this year’s election, issues that “are vitally important to the health and well-being of our society.” “They must be considered carefully in the exercise of an informed conscience whether in a voting booth or in completing a mailin ballot,” he said in the Sept. 29 issue of his “Rejoice in the Lord” newsletter that goes out to the entire archdiocese.

Both presidential campaigns have made efforts to woo Catholics voters, seen by political analysts as one of the few voting blocs with a sizable number of undecided voters.

The Trump campaign touts its stance against abortion and its efforts to appoint pro-life judges to the courts. The Biden campaign has stressed other issues important to Catholics, including greater access to health care and a more welcoming stance toward immigrants and refugees.

Biden, a Catholic himself, supports legalized abortion, saying he is personally opposed but doesn’t want to impose his view on the electorate.

Archbishop Lori highlighted these issues in his column.

He wrote that we are called to have

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We are called to have ‘a special love for the unborn as well as for those who are poor, vulnerable or oppressed, and those who are victims of racism, prejudice, brutality or deprivation of life’s necessities, both at home and abroad. This includes those who have arrived recently on our shores and who are trying to create a better life for themselves and their families.’

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While the archbishop, like most clergy, refrained from making an endorsement, he had advice for voters.

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He recommended Catholics look to Jesus’ teachings, specifically the beatitudes’ message of peace.

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“These traits, which Jesus personified and which we can only approximate, do not constitute a voter’s guide, but they should prompt us to do everything possible to ameliorate our bitterly divisive political environment – or at the very least, not to contribute to the rancor,” Archbishop Lori wrote.

Jenny Kraska, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, said the conference has been working to ensure Catholics cast their ballot come November.

It has sent kits to pastors across the archdiocese to help local parishes promote voting, including ideas for features in church bulletins and social media posts. The conference, which is the public policy arm of the Catholic bishops serving Maryland, also has produced a voter’s guide for the state’s congressional races.

In Maryland, people can vote in person on Election Day, Nov. 3. Early in-person voting will also be held from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, all voters also are eligible to vote by mail-in absentee ballot. The last day to request a ballot by mail is Oct. 13; voted ballots must be received by election officials postmarked by 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted.

In Newark, Cardinal Tobin reminded Catholics of the U.S. bishops’ quadrennial statement titled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” saying it provides “valuable guidance regarding the exercise of our rights and duties as participants in our democracy.”

He quoted section No. 35 of the document: “A Catholic who rejects a candidate’s unacceptable position on policies promoting an intrinsically evil act may decide to vote for that candidate for other morally grave reasons. Voting in this way would be permitted only for truly grave moral reasons, not to advance narrow interests or partisan preferences or to ignore a fundamental moral evil.”

“This means that a candidate’s position on one or more fundamental moral issues must be considered seriously, but it does not automatically determine how we should vote,” he explained. “’Other morally grave reasons’ may persuade us to vote for someone even if his or her position on an important issue is unacceptable to us,” he added.

Cardinal Tobin said Catholic social teaching “provides an excellent framework for reflecting on fundamental social principles,” including: – The sanctity of human life (including abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, capital punishment, respect for strangers.)

– The dignity of family life (based on marriage between a man and a woman) and “the protection and formation of our children.”

– Immigration reform and care for migrants and their families; the protection for the poor and vulnerable through health care, housing and just wages.

– Racial equality and special concern for the rights of minorities.

– The dignity of work and the rights of workers.

– The pursuit of peace and social justice “here at home and internationally.”

– Religious liberty for people of all faiths and cultures both in the United States and throughout the world.

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“The fact is that as faithful Catholics and responsible citizens we must make difficult choices,” Cardinal Tobin said.

“That’s why we turn to Mary, Mother of the Church, and to all the saints to show us the way.”

“There are no easy solutions to the dilemmas we face today,” he added.

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WASHINGTON – The head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said Sunday that he is praying for a full recovery for President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, who both tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, Oct. 2.

“I am praying for President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. May God grant them full healing and may he keep their family safe and healthy,” Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. bishop’s conference, said in an Oct. 4 statement.

“Let us keep praying for all who are suffering because of the novel coronavirus, especially the sick and dying and their families, and all those who have lost loved ones. May God give them hope

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Central American asylum seekers detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are seen inside an enclosure in El Paso, Texas, March 27, 2019.

Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington said they “continue to be disappointed by the Trump administration’s diminishment of the U.S. refugee resettlement program.”

and comfort, and may he bring an end to this pandemic,” the bishop concluded.

Several other bishops offered their prayers for the president’s recovery on social media.

This news is a sobering reminder of our shared vulnerability, but also our common responsibility for the good of one another,” Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago tweeted on Oct. 2.

BISHOP: FAITHFUL ‘LISTENING’ CAN HEAL SOCIAL ILLS

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Late Sept. 30, the administration announced it would bring the refugee cap – the maximum number of displaced people the country decides to resettle in a federal fiscal year – to a historic low: 15,000.

The average during presidencies of both Republicans and Democrats had been around 95,000. But the announcement on the new cap doesn’t mean the bad news for refugees, or organizations that help them, ended there.

“It’s not official, the president still has to sign it,” so no refugees can enter the country until that happens, said Ashley Feasley, director of policy for Migration and Refugee Services at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “I have no idea when he’ll sign it.”

Feasley said there’s a “pause” until Oct. 26, which means nothing will happen until then.

In a joint statement released Oct. 2, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and

“These decisions have a tangible impact on those fleeing religious persecution and other vulnerable families in need of refuge,” they said, calling on Congress to encourage the president to eventually admit more refugees. “While refugees will thankfully be allowed to seek refuge here in the United States in 2021, the low number of admissions, given the global need and the capacity and wealth of the United States, is heartbreaking.”

The low refugee number was a gut-punch to those who already were bracing for bad news, but now they worry the administration’s stalling action could put even more lives in danger as people who need refuge will be left out.

“The number is terrible,” said Feasley, in an Oct. 1 interview with Catholic News Service. “It’s a continued cutting of refugees allowed to come to the U.S. in a moment of global need. We’re seeing increase refugee flows from a number of places including places that the administration is very much taking an active policy role in, like Venezuela.”

The announcement is a continuation a downward trend, one starkly visible in a graph by the Migration Policy Institute that shows the ebbs and flows of the 40-year-old program, with a steep drop starting in fiscal 2017, when President Donald Trump took office.

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World Mission Sunday 2020

October 18, 2020 | 18 de Octubre de 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We celebrate World Mission Sunday on October 18th this year. This annual, worldwide Eucharistic celebration emphasizes our shared baptismal call to mission.

Pope Francis, in his message for World Mission Sunday, implores us, “In this year marked by the suffering and challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the missionary journey of the whole Church continues in light of the words found in the account of the calling of the prophet Isaiah: “Here I am, send me” (6:8). This is the ever-new response to the Lord’s question: ‘Whom shall I send?’ This invitation from God’s merciful heart challenges both the Church and humanity, in the current world crisis.”

During the Mission Month of October, Pope Francis reminds us that, as baptized Christians, we are called personally to mission – especially at this time – to bring Christ’s love to those most forgotten around the world. Jesus is God the Father’s own Missionary; He asks us to respond to this call to mission, this invitation to “step out of ourselves for love of God and neighbor.” What will your answer be? “Here I Am, Send Me” is the response we will all endeavor to live out this World Mission Sunday, through prayer, participation in the Eucharist, and generosity to the collection for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

The Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States Las Obras Misionales Pontificias en los Estados Unidos

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Through the Pope’s own missionary society, you too can be sent out to all the ends of the earth – sent through your support of missionaries and those they serve. Your gifts sustain priests, religious and lay pastoral leaders in more than 1,100 mission dioceses in Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and parts of Latin America and Europe as they proclaim the Gospel, build the Church, and serve the poor. With them, you answer, “Here I Am, Send Me.” This year, in response to the challenges to the Mission Church from the pandemic, I invite all of us in this Archdiocese to respond in the most generous way you are able. As you do, I offer my sincere personal gratitude for your kind missionary heart, reaching out in love throughout Mission Month.

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PRAY THE WORLD A Sunday to Help the Whole World…

Your prayers and generous help on World Mission Sunday help the mission Church – places where there is great zeal and enthusiasm for the faith but where schools can’t pay salaries, the parish halls can’t keep the lights on, and where missionaries lack the means for transportation. Specifically, such help keeps the following going day in and day out:

• 9,000 clinics caring for the sick and dying • 10,000 orphanages, providing a place of safety and shelter • 1,200 schools, educating children in some of the poorest parts of the world • 80,000 seminarians preparing for the priesthood • 9,000 religious Sisters and Brothers in formation programs … all of these operating in 1,100 mission dioceses, where the poor receive an education and health care, while experiencing the loving heart of our Lord through the service of priests, religious and lay faithful.

Mission Rosary When the World Mission Rosary is completed, one has embraced all continents, all people in prayer.

- ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time ISAIAH 25:6-10A On this mountain the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations; he will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face; the reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken. On that day it will be said: “Behold our God, to whom we looked to save us! This is the Lord for whom we looked; let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!” For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain.

PSALM 23:1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6 I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose, beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake.

Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

PHILIPPIANS 4:12-14, 19-20 Brothers and sisters: I know how to live in humble circumstances; I know also how to live with abundance. In every circumstance and in all things I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of living in abundance and of being in need. I can do all things in him who strengthens me. Still, it was kind of you to share in my distress. My God will fully supply whatever you need, in accord with his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father, glory forever and ever. Amen.

MATTHEW 22:1-14 OR 22:1-10 Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and

elders of the people in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.

A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’ Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.’ The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. The king said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’

Many are invited, but few are chosen.”

With no one left behind

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alking from St. Elizabeth Church last week to anoint a parishioner in the neighborhood, I saw a long line of people winding around Dr. MLK Jr. Academic Middle School campus on Girard Street.

They were waiting to pick up food bags distributed by San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.

Talking to the organizers, I came to know that they distribute once a week over 900 food bags at this location as they do in other places as well. Anyone could receive food or donate or volunteer.

Aren’t we well aware of organizations like the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa Sisters), Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services, and St. Vincent de Paul doing commendable works of charity? St. FATHER CHARLES Anthony Foundation on Golden PUTHOTA Gate Avenue over decades has served over 42 million hot, sitdown meals, averaging about a million meals every year, among their other works of charity. There are other organizations like the Good Shepherd Sisters’ Gracenter on Bacon Street helping women in addiction recovery. Charities like the Catholic Worker Hospitality House in San Bruno offer food, shelter, and affordable housing.

When we scan the gamut of God’s work going on in the church and the world – especially in terms of help-

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ing the poor and vulnerable – it is absolutely astounding and uplifting. There is so much goodness and generosity in our hearts that overflows – in aid of others who are so much in need, especially these days of the pandemic, when so many have lost so much. Wouldn’t it be wise and timely if all organizations, businesses, and churches could set aside a budget, however small, despite their own diminished revenues, to help those in most need these sad days?

In doing all these works of charity, no doubt, we reflect our Father, who is the God of the poor and the downtrodden. He speaks to us in the word of God this Sunday and inspires us to be like him – and sends us out to do more to alleviate suffering. The Eucharist that we so fondly and devoutly celebrate week after week, day after day, impels us to share bread with the hungry because Jesus himself has shared with us his body and blood. Having been fed with the bread of life, we are to go out to feed others. Our faith is love that does justice.

In the poetic reading from Isaiah, God “will provide for all peoples” abundant, sumptuous, delicious food.

He doesn’t stop with the gift of extraordinary food. He “will wipe away the tears from every face.” Imagine the blessing of a person who can stretch out one’s hand to the face of someone weeping in suffering or loss or grief – and wiping away the tears. This gesture says: Please do not weep, I’m with you. I share your sorrow. I’ll do anything in my power to take away your pain. Do not worry.

That’s what Jesus said and did to the widow of Nain who had lost her only son: “Do not weep” (Luke 7:13).

God’s blessings don’t stop there. He will remove our “reproach,” all the humiliation and indignities we face in life. Our failures, hurts, and diminishments are

placed in the heart of God. He will demolish every power contriving to rob us of the glory of being the children of God. Not only that. “He will destroy death forever.”

A sign of sin and evil, death will be vanquished so that we could be born into eternal life. Here in this world already, we shall battle the death-dealing forces, all those powers arrayed against God and the grandeur of human existence.

All this can be expressed in one ultimate blessing: salvation. We will be filled and fulfilled. We will be saved from suffering, reproach, and death. We will also be saved from ourselves because we could be our own worst enemies at times because of our harmful tendencies acting against God. The Gospel parable of the messianic wedding feast draws our attention to those who do not want to be part of the lavish blessings of God. They not only decline the invitation but also indulge in violent deeds against the spirit of the banquet. But God includes everyone, though the “wedding garment” reminds us that nothing can be taken for granted on account of the need for a continuous, non-complacent response to God’s blessings. Reflecting on the spiritual blessings, in the second reading, Paul knows how to navigate through poverty and plenty because “God will truly supply whatever you need, in accord with the glorious riches in Christ Jesus.” These glorious riches that God showers on us through Jesus Christ inspire us to go out of ourselves to make the same blessings – material and spiritual – accessible to all peoples, with no one left behind.

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Elizabeth Church, San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 12: Monday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. GAL 4:22-24, 26-27, 31–5:1. PS 113:1B-2, 3-4, 5A and 6-7. PS 95:8. LK 11:29-32.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13: Tuesday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. GAL 5:1-6. PS 119:41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48. HEB 4:12. LK 11:37-41.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14: Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Callistus I, pope and martyr. GAL 5:1825. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. JN 10:27. LK 11:42-46.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15: Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, virgin and doctor. EPH 1:1-10. PS 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4, 5-6. JN 14:16. LK 11:47-54.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16: Friday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St.

Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin. EPH 1:11-14. PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 12-13. PS 33:22.

LK 12:1-7.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr. EPH 1:15-23. PS 8:23AB, 4-5, 6-7. JN 15:26B, 27A. LK 12:8-12.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18: Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. IS 45:1, 4-6. PS 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10.

1 THES 1:1-5B. PHIL 2:15D, 16A. MT 22:15-21.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19: Memorial of Sts. Isaac Jogues and John de Brebeuf, priests and martyrs and companions, martyrs. EPH 2:1-10. PS 100:1B-2, 3, 4AB, 4C-5. MT 5:3. LK 12:13-21.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20: Tuesday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Paul of the Cross, priest. EPH 2:12-22. PS

85:9AB-10, 11-12, 13-14. LK 21:36. LK 12:35-38.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21: Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. EPH 3:2-12. IS 12:2-3, 4BCD, 5-6. MT 24:42A, 44. LK 12:39-48.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22: Thursday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John Paul II. EPH 3:14-21. PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 1819. PHIL 3:8-9. LK 12:49-53.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23: Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John of Capistrano, priest. Eph 4:1-6. PS 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6.

See MT 11:25. LK 12:54-59.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24: Saturday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret, bishop. EPH 4:7-16. PS 122:1-2, 3-4AB, 4CD-5. EZ 33:11. LK 13:1-9.

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LETTERS Critical thinking and Catholic citizenship

Several letters in CSF of Sept 24 are worth readers’ attention. One of great value is from Dr. Alex Saunders quoting from Pope Francis: “As Catholics we are not single- issue voters.” We cannot “isolate some element to the detriment of the whole Catholic doctrine.” In the same Sept 24 issue Mr. Heckert provides persuasive arguments defending the unborn, and I cannot agree more with him. Pro-life means a regard for the sanctity of life from inception to natural death How then do the death penalty, the expelling of DACAs, the separating young, even ailing children from families, a cavalier attitude about a deadly viral pandemic fit that imperative?

Which present administration actions are acceptable, and which can we hope may improve under a new administration? Are Americans prepared to eschew our Constitutional process? What history and positions by a Democratic candidate alarm us?

We will need to make concessions in reaching our decision, as Dr. Saunders quotes Francis, urging us to make “critical thinking” our priority.

While Roe v. Wade might be reversed, one has to accept that closing clinics will not stop people from asking for and performing abortions. Laws do not change hearts, only consequences. Having volunteered for years at pregnancy agencies, I can say that changing a person’s attitude about sanctity of life is only achieved one person at a time with education, friendship and support.

Perhaps the donations to surveys that stigmatize voters could be better spent on educating, cultivating respect for life in all its conditions, and finding ways to counter the pervasive lack of moral themes seen today in the media. The multiple Catholic fundraising organizations and the Catholic Church could be working with their donor bases to reach our young people, to awaken in them the wonder and celebration of life. Sending these funds to politicians is not going to accomplish this.

Donna Boyd San Rafael

Speaking out against executions

I’m a product of 13 years of Catholic school in San Francisco. I met most of my close friends in Catholic school and we graduated from high school in ‘04. We don’t go to church anymore and we never even talk about why. It seems the Catholic Church failed to keep almost an entire generation of young Catholics in this city engaged. But we still care about the community and carry the values instilled in us by the school system and teachers we had. We care about equality for the LGBTQ community and the BLM movement. We were taught that killing humans is wrong.

The political environment in this country feels like a fight right now and dangerously close to a war. We don’t look to the Catholic Church for help. Attorney General Bill Barr is the most powerful Catholic in the country at the moment. Last year he reinstated the federal death penalty and the government is executing its seventh prisoner since July this week.

Recently he was honored at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast as one of “Christ’s People of Faith.”

As we fight for what we believe in and think about where our kids should learn these same values, we might think of the schools we went to and the teachers we had. But we don’t expect anything from the leadership of the Catholic Church as one of “Christ’s People of Faith” oversees the scheduling of more executions. A church that includes Bill Barr does not align with our values. A church that throws its weight around and tries to stop a killer would get our attention. It could bring us back.

Zack Brown San Francisco

Executions and the election

Every time I get a new copy of Catholic San Francisco, I have been looking for some response by the church to the resumption of federal executions by the Catholic attorney general, William Barr, after a 17-year hiatus. And yet, I haven’t found one word on the topic up to now. Is there any explanation why the resumption is happening now? Are prisons getting too weak to hold dangerous criminals serving life imprisonment? Is there any connection between the executions and the presidential election? Are executions serving a political agenda?

Some people may say that only the worst of the worst are being executed. Really? I would say that the man in New Zealand who killed 50 people in cold blood is right up there with the worst of the

worst, but he was sentenced to prison for life without parole, and the survivors and the families of the victims are satisfied with this. What does this nation get from resuming the practice of execution? So far, seven people have been executed.

What strength does Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have in criticizing Iran for executing a wrestler when the U.S. executes someone who was 19 when he committed the murders? And the executed man was at the time three years developmentally behind his peers. How does the church’s silence fit into a genuine pro-life belief ?

Richard Morasci San Francisco

Melancholy and suicide

I was literally stunned and delighted after reading Father Ron Rolheiser’s truly powerful opinion piece titled “Suicide and melancholy” in the Aug. 20 issue of Catholic San Francisco. He masterfully explains the nature of melancholy and how it is intertwined with suicide. He delves into history to give us a perspective as to what melancholy truly is: a force that resides in the soul and overwhelms an individual to incredible creative heights or to utter despair and grief that leads to suicide.

The example of Leo Tolstoy (which I did not know) was truly powerful. This is exactly how I feel: a force that is so strong that it is leading me to the opposite direction of life itself. It is not depression. He convincingly explains that neither drugs nor therapy can cure melancholy because it is a profound sadness that emanates from deep within the soul itself.

People in ancient times understood this much better as he so convincingly explains it.

Suicide is a very complex issue as he explains it and we cannot as a society continue to judge people in the manner that we have been doing for a very long time now. I completely agree with his analysis that people in this category are the new “lepers” and we as a society must change our attitudes about this.

I owe Father Rolheiser a deep gratitude for this opinion piece. This piece should be read by every mental health professional and all of the myriad of social organizations, charities and hotlines that deal with mental health.

Rene Del Prado San Francisco

Archbishop correct to chastise government

Heartfelt appreciation to our archbishop for taking on the political powers that be, including Mayor London Breed and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Our archbishop is absolutely correct in his chastisement of government placing handcuffs on the faithful. We belong at our churches for Mass and reflection.

Speaker Pelosi responded to the archbishop by saying we must follow science. Well, Madame Speaker, why isn’t your version of science being applied to MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL play? Sweaty men hitting and athletically mingling with each other is safer than 500 people worshipping in a 2,500-seat cathedral? No wonder the public has no faith in its political leaders.

The archbishop speaks for me.

Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

The healing must start deeper

“We are Essential: Free the Mass”: On its face, this message is seemingly harmless, if not encouraging to see advocacy of the importance of spiritual wellness, particularly during a time of much uncertainty. I presume this was the intent behind the message.

However, every message needs to take into account the context and circumstances in which it is being received. I urge you to ask yourself these questions: How might our message be received? And what does this message say about our values?

As of today, more than 200,000 Americans have died as a result of the coronavirus. Yet you encourage the opening of churches (and in-person gatherings), ultimately putting your congregations at risk.

Many parishes across the diocese have managed to engage their congregations in spiritual connection without putting their health at risk. Faith, prayer and community are no doubt essential. Participating in person, en masse, however, is not essential (Matthew 18:20).

It seems odd that your goal in the call to reopen is to be “at a level consistent with other [non-religious] activities.” Many of these small businesses have opened because of the economic strain caused as a result of the pandemic; people can choose to participate in these activities on their own volition and based on their own risk assessment of their health.

The people of your church are not a commodity that can be compared to the participation of other businesses. When you as a religious leader, encourage people to participate in the celebration of Mass in person, it creates an unnecessary quandary of whether to follow the guidelines set up by knowledgeable health care professionals or their trusted parish priest.

If you are concerned about our spiritual well-being during a time of isolation, might I suggest we take a broader look at where we place our priorities. The healing must start deeper than physically showing up to church.

Allison Cox South San Francisco

Churches are the safest places

In the state of Minnesota the bishops pushed the governor by coming up with a plan that they worked out and presented to the governor. Some adjustments were worked out with him such as no singing except by soloists, etc. It was accepted in May and we cordoned off our churches to keep social distancing of six feet, sanitized our buildings, and asked people to wear masks and much more.

We have not had any cases of COVID coming from our churches. Churches are the safest places. People have been given the dispensation from the bishops to not attend Mass on the weekends. We have been doing this since the end of May. At first we cordoned off the pews at every third pew. Now, almost all are at every other pew. Since COVID is spread via respiration, I push for all parishioners to wear their mask coming and going to church when they will be in close contact, but if some people feel the need to take off their mask during Mass when they are all distanced apart I do not get upset. All wear their mask when coming to Communion. If people were uncomfortable about coming on the weekend we encouraged them to come to a weekday Mass where there is always much room.

Many are still remaining away, but soon we will be ending the dispensation for Sunday Mass and asking people to come to Mass every week – if not on Sunday, then on a weekday – all with exceptions for those with fragile health and those caring for them. I cannot believe that we are now in September and you still do not have your churches open. It is probably time to present a reasonable plan to the governor and just go ahead and start opening the churches.

The bishops of California need to come together and speak with one voice and not give in to this block of church attendance.

Father John Kleinwachter Sacred Heart Catholic Church Roseau, Minnesota

Forbearance and patience

Re “Archbishop to SF: Ease ‘excessive limits’ on worship services” (Sept. 10): As a family physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, my co-workers and I have seen first-hand how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected our most vulnerable patients, especially our Latino brothers and sisters.

As Catholics practicing social justice, we are called to protect the vulnerable from COVID-19 and assist those suffering from it. The archbishop has acknowledged the seriousness of COVID-19, and that lax adherence to loosened shelter-in-place restrictions led to a larger surge of infections this summer.

But I disagree that the city’s timeline for reopening has been too slow, or that religious organizations are being discriminated against. The nature of social interactions in businesses compared to places of worship are markedly different. Typical interactions in places of worship have higher risk of viral transmission, which can occur even when infected persons are asymptomatic.

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God is happy

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hristianity, Judaism, and Islam ultimately all believe in the same God. Interestingly, too, in the popular mind they also all tend to conceive of God in the same way, namely, as male, celibate, and not being particularly happy.

Well, the gender of God is not something we can ever conceptualize. God is neither male FATHER RON nor female, nor ROLHEISER some androgynous mix of gender. So how can we conceptualize God’s gender?

We can’t, pure and simple. Classically we’ve spoken of God as male, even as we know that this isn’t exactly true because we affirm, dogmatically, that God is ineffable, incapable of ever being captured in any concept. That also holds true for our notion of God as celibate, as not having a wife. How masculinity and femininity interrelate in God is also ineffable, incapable of being conceived of, but we know God is not simply a male celibate.

But what about that other popular notion, namely, that God is not particularly happy, especially with us?

Here we have a clear answer: God

is happy. How can God not be? If God is perfect oneness, perfect goodness, perfect truth, perfect beauty, and perfect fullness in every way, how then can God not be perfect happiness? An unhappy God would not be God for such a God would be lacking the power to make himself (pardon the pronoun) happy. Not a minor inadequacy for God. So a perfect God is also a perfectly happy God. But that’s a metaphysical statement. We can still ask, is God happy emotionally and is God happy with us? Mustn’t God frown at times and shake his head in disappointment at our behavior? Surely God can’t be happy with a lot that goes on in our world. God can’t be happy in the face of sin.

Well, just as in every other thing about God, there are things here we cannot comprehend. However, this much must be affirmed, both from what’s deepest in revelation in our Scriptures and from the testimony of countless good people: God is happy!

God is not habitually disappointed with us, frowning at our weaknesses, and sending the majority of us to hell. Rather, God is like the loving parent of a little child, forever luring us forward, delighting in our energy, wanting us to flourish, saddened when we act in ways that bring unhappiness to others and to ourselves, but understanding of weakness rather than angry and unhappy.

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Julian of Norwich, the famed mystic, describes God this way: God sits in heaven, smiling, completely relaxed, his face looking like a marvelous symphony. When I first read this passage some years ago, I was taken aback both by the concept of God as smiling and by the image of God as relaxed. I had never thought of God as “relaxed.” Surely with all that’s happening in our world and surely with all the betrayals, large and small, in our lives, God must be tense, frustrated and anxious. It’s difficult but easier to picture God as smiling (at least sometimes), but it’s exceedingly difficult to picture God as relaxed, as not being tense about all that’s wrong with us and our world.

Here’s my journey in grappling with that. I was wonderfully blessed in my religious background. From my parents and family, through the parish community I grew up in, through the Ursuline nuns who taught me in school, you couldn’t have ordered a more ideal faith milieu. I experienced faith and religion being lived out in real life in a way that gave it credibility and made it attractive. My seminary training and theological studies strongly reinforced that. But, all that time, underneath, there was a picture of a God who wasn’t very happy and who smiled only when the occasion

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According to Ed Hopfner, director of the Office of Marriage and Family Life, the day’s sponsors, the Nov. 7, 2020, sessions are designed to help moms and daughters “explore God’s special gift of human fertility together. Help her see the beauty and wonder of God’s plan for growing up as a young girl or teenager and becoming a woman.”

merited it, which wasn’t very often.

The consequence of that in my life was an anxious attempt always to measure up, to be good enough, to not make God unhappy, and to earn God’s approval and affection. But of course, we can never be good enough, never measure up, and so it’s natural to believe that God is never really happy with us and never really happy at all.

In theory, of course, we know better. We tend to have a healthier concept of God theoretically; but the heart is not so easy to bring onside.

It’s hard to feel inside myself that God is happy, happy with us, happy with me. It has taken me 70 years to realize, accept, take consolation in, and finally bathe in the fact that God is happy.

I’m not sure what pulled all the triggers inside me that helped me make that shift, but the fact that God is happy comes to me now whenever I’m praying whole-heartedly, nakedly, and sincerely. It’s also what comes to me when I look at the saints in my life, those men and women whom I most look up to in faith, who reflect the face of God for me. They’re happy, relaxed, and not perpetually frowning in displeasure.

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

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There is a morning program for girls 10-12, and an afternoon program for girls 13-15. All presentations are pure and affirming.

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This time around, we must move more deliberately, as the city has laid out in its Path Forward to Reopening.

If it seems like it’s too slow, it’s being done right.

I echo what Ms. Wiater stated in her letter (Sept. 10): Knowing that God is always with us, we must live differently during this pandemic. Let us promote ways as a community to continue to develop spiritually and witness to the Gospel, without putting others at undue risk. Let us be forbearing and pray for a godly patience and a deliverance from this plague.

Ronald Labuguen Brisbane

Restrictions are discriminatory

You can laugh, chew food with your mouth wide open, drink, sneeze, propel spray while opposite each other at a tiny restaurant table (indoors or out), without a mask. You can blatantly disregard distancing guidelines in any Costco aisle. You can be an unruly crowd in the streets and spew your protests without respecting those close by. Yet, in gatherings where individuals don’t face each other, can typically double the distancing guidelines, wear their masks, invoke their various beliefs to positively pray for recovery and nourish their mental and spiritual

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John McCord San Francisco

Restrictions are not unreasonable

In the Chronicle Sept. 19, 2020, I learned the archbishop wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post. I learned that he was resisting and complaining about the restrictions imposed on services in churches.

He was taking the position that the restrictions were unfair. I couldn’t help but wonder why, if this was on his mind, he was writing to The Washington Post instead of the San Francisco Chronicle. His people are here, not in Washington, D.C. Why is he not writing to the newspaper in our city if his concern is so great?

As to the issue itself, the alleged unfairness to churches, the Catholic Church has already been a source of problems by disobeying restrictions.

South Korea, which was having good control of the virus, had a relapse traced to large groups in churches.

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who know to be too short and should be more like 12 feet. So, the restrictions are not unreasonable to me. Add on the danger of singing or touching.

Charles Leyes San Francisco

Taking the long view

While I understand the desire for autonomy, and I am a woman, and I have adult daughters; the autonomy to destroy life will not bring women what they are looking for.

A woman is by nature sensitive and nurturing. She may also be ambitious, highly intelligent and gifted. I contend that a sensitive, intelligent woman cannot and will not forget the baby to whom she denies life.

Sen. Pelosi, Sen. Feinstein, Sen. Harris, the fallout from state sanctioning of abortion is not taken care of by government. When you presume to help by destroying life, you show no compassion for the woman who eventually comes to evaluate her life decisions and realizes that what she hoped to gain in denying life to her own child doesn’t measure up. I beg you to take the long view. There is nothing surer than that we will all die. Those of us who believe in the afterlife will meet our babies. We will be without all our worldly goods at that time. We will be women as our Creator made us bereft of all worldly glory, power and acclaim. It is neither intelligent nor prudent to ignore this reality.

Maureen O’Riordan Lundy San Francisco

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Although the cardinal was talking about crackdowns in Hong Kong, he could have just as easily have been advising American prelates. I have seen several Catholic priests focus on single-issue homilies and their homily seemed like a diatribe barked out by a rabid dog.

Most people are naturally interested in both politics and religion, but great care must be taken to retain civility.

Separation of church and state doesn’t mean that ethical statesmen cannot have guiding religious principles: They can and should. But, they shouldn’t be so narrowly sectarian that members of other faith communities feel abandoned, shunned or discriminated against.

Our nation is facing not only a dangerous pandemic but also a toxic political atmosphere. There’s no need to tempt a second American civil war.

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Post-pandemic world must not return to selfish ‘normality,’ pope says JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – In the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, the world must aspire to be better and not return to its previous “sickened” normality of injustice, inequality and environmental degradation, Pope Francis said.

“The normality we are called to is that of the kingdom of God, where ‘the blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor,’” the pope said Sept. 30 during his weekly general audience.

And it is a situation where “no one acts the fool by looking the other way. This is what we must do to change,” he said at the audience, which was held in the San Damaso courtyard of the Apostolic Palace.

Continuing his series of talks on “healing the world,” the pope said Christ came to heal both the physical and “social” ailments that plague the world and gave the “necessary gifts to love and heal as he did, in order to take care of everyone without distinction of race, language or nation.”

Applying those gifts today, he added, will “renew society and not return it to the so-called ‘normality,’ which is a sickened normality.”

“In the normality of the kingdom of God,” the pope said, “bread comes to everyone and there is

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The COVID-19 pandemic, the pope continued, exposed the world’s “physical, social and spiritual vulnerabilities” and “laid bare the great inequality that reigns in the world: the inequality of opportunity, of goods, of access to health care, technology, education.”

POPE: AUTHORITY IS ACT OF SERVING, NOT EXPLOITING

VATICAN CITY – Those in positions of authority, especially in the Catholic Church, would do well to remember that their responsibility is to serve those in their care and not exploit them for their own selfish interests, Pope Francis said.

Speaking to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square during his Angelus address Oct. 4, the pope said that throughout the ages, “those who have authority, any authority, also in the church, in God’s people, may be tempted to work in their own interests instead of those of God. Authority is a service, and as such should be exercised, for the good of all and for the dissemination of the Gospel. It is awful to see when people who have authority in the church seek their own interests,” he said.

CARDINAL: B16 HAD APPROVED VATICAN-CHINA DEAL

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican-China agreement on the appointment of bishops was a pastoral, not political agreement, that also had been approved by Pope

There are “millions, millions of children who cannot go to school (today) and the list goes on,” he said. “These injustices are not natural nor inevitable. They are the work of humankind, they come from a model of growth detached from the deepest values.”

The pope denounced today’s “great human and socioeconomic viruses,” including “trickle-down” economics, the theory that tax breaks and other government programs helping the wealthy eventually will benefit the rest of the population.

“We certainly cannot expect that the economic model that is the basis of an unfair and unsustainable development will solve our problems. It did not and it will not, even if some false prophets continue to promise ‘the trickle-down effect,’ which never comes,” he said.

Departing from his prepared remarks, the pope said the theory holds that when the “glass” held by the wealthy is full, it will overflow, spreading economic benefits to everyone. But, he said, in reality “the glass begins to fill up and when it is almost full, the glass grows and grows and grows and never trickles down. Never! Be careful,” the pope warned.

Pope Francis called on all men and women to build a society founded on solidarity where “the last are taken into consideration like the first are.”

“A society where diversity is respected is much more resistant to any type of virus,” the pope said.

Benedict XVI, the Vatican secretary of state said.

Every pope, from St. Paul VI to Pope Francis, has tried to resolve what Pope Benedict described as a difficult situation “of misunderstandings and incomprehension” that did not benefit “either the Chinese authorities nor the Catholic Church in China,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin said, according to Vatican News Oct. 3.

Pope Benedict himself, the cardinal said, approved “the draft agreement on the appointment of bishops in China,” which was signed in 2018 by the Holy See and Chinese officials and is due for renewal this month.

The cardinal was speaking at a conference in Milan, marking the 150th anniversary of the presence of missionaries of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in China. Vatican officials repeatedly have said that the agreement with China deals only with the appointment of bishops, a question essential for the unity and survival of the Catholic Church in the country.

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‘Fratelli Tutti’ shows need for dialogue in the church, speaker says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The pre-publication controversy over the title of Pope Francis’ new encyclical illustrates how the Catholic Church itself needs to engage in dialogue and listening, just like society does, said a theologian invited by the Vatican to help present the document.

Anna Rowlands, professor of Catholic social thought and practice at the University of Durham, England, told Catholic News Service, “We live in a world that is still structured by gender inequality, and the church has to wrestle with that as much as the world has to wrestle with it.”

The document, “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship,” was released by the Vatican Oct. 4.

The Vatican chose Rowlands and four men to present the document at a conference the same day.

The phrase “fratelli tutti” is taken from St. Francis of Assisi’s “sixth admonition” to the friars, all of whom were men. In Italian, “fratelli” means “brothers” or “brothers and sisters” since, like with many Romance languages, the masculine form of nouns is traditionally used when referring to males and females collectively.

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Rowlands said the text itself makes it clear that the pope was speaking to all men and women. But with some Vatican officials and media outlets translating the title in English as “Brothers All” in the weeks

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANCERY – FINANCE OFFICE ROLE: Internal Audit Manager RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform financial control and compliance reviews of the 145+ parishes and schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco • Review, update and maintain the Parish and School Finance policy manual located on the Archdiocese of San Francisco website

ACTIVITIES:

• Develop new or adjust current compliance review procedures used for parish and school reviews • Perform review of each parish and school every three years. About 35 locations a year • Review preliminary findings with Pastor, Principal and finance council • Issue Letter of findings and recommendations report to the Pastor or Principal • Follow-up with parishes and schools on completion of review recommendations • Maintain and update Parish and School Finance Policy manual • Provide updates and present to the Audit Committee of the Archdiocese

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: • • • • •

Retired Senior finance executive; CFO or Partner of a CPA firm Comfortable working independently and interacting with parish and school leadership Hands-on, individual contributor, can navigate through QuickBooks On-Line Knowledgeable of the workings and Mission of the Catholic Church Experience as member of a Parish Finance Council

OTHER:

• Flexible hours, part-time role. 20 hours a week • Available to visit Parishes and Schools • Supports the CFO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

Please submit resume and cover letter to:

Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Human Resources, Attn: Christine Escobar One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Or e-mail to: escobarc@sfarch.org All candidates applying for the volunteer position will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin.

before the text’s publication, many people urged the pope to adopt a clearly inclusive title. They suggested using a form of “fratelli e sorelle,” literally “brothers and sisters,” which is what the pope says when addressing large groups of people.

Andrea Tornielli, editorial director for the Dicastery for Communication, wrote Sept. 16 that “the formulation of the title in no way intends to exclude women, that is, more than half of the human race,” but is merely a direct quotation from the admonitions of St. Francis, and “the pope has obviously not changed it.”

Rowlands told CNS “one of the things that is so striking about the document is that it’s all about the power of naming,” of recognizing each other as “brothers, sisters, neighbors, friends – and those are scriptural namings, not just warm fuzzy ways of referring to each other.”

The document emphasizes how “we are brothers and sisters in the light of our common creation,” Rowlands said, and “that has a radical equalizing effect. And it means that’s a permanent binding: You know you can choose not to speak to your brother or sister, but they remain your brother and sister; it’s a lifelong, indissoluble bond.”

help wanted FACILITIES MANAGER, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish The Parish Facilities Manager (PFM) takes the lead role in maintaining all parish facilities, including their maintenance and repair. The PFM reports to the Pastor and will be the lead person for parish volunteers in this area. The PFM will: Inspect the property to identify safety issues, needed cleanings, upgrades, and repairs, and emergency situations, and to handle each need appropriately; Perform hands-on repair and construction, and engage and supervise outside vendors, as appropriate; Manage and coordinate rentals and other usage of all facilities; Supervise cleaning, upkeep, and opening and closing of the church and the safety and security of all items in the church; Attend trainings for facilities managers and bring best practices back to the parish staff and volunteers; Perform related duties as described in the full job description available at: stpauloftheshipwreck.org.

Please submit inquiries/resumes to spswoffice@aol.com or call 415-860-3238.

All employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered.

Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2021-2022 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment.

The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to:

Christine Escobar Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Salary will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental, and retirement benefits are included.

ARCHDIOCESAN STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION

The Archdiocese of San Francisco adheres to the following policy: “All school staff of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 8, 2020

OBITUARIES Notre Dame Sister Barbara Hamm died on Aug. 29, 2020, at Mercy Retirement & Care Center in Oakland. In 2019, she celebrated her 75th anniversary as a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. She was 93 years old.

Sister Barbara Sister Barbara held (Anthony) an undergraduate Hamm, SNDdeN degree in history and graduate degrees in education administration and religious education, all completed at her congregation’s Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.

Sister Barbara spent 30 years as an elementary school teacher and administrator in schools including Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City, and Notre Dame des Victoires and Mission Dolores in San Francisco.

“From her earliest years, she loved to dance; even in her recent years at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland, she often used her cane to tap dance her way through the halls,” the Notre Dame Sisters said in a statement.

A former student remembered Sister Barbara: “Her presence exuded both discipline and religious devotion. I admired her and never forgot her.”

A memorial Mass will be celebrated for Sister Barbara when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

Survivors include Sister Barbara’s sister, Marilyn Hooton, nephew Bill Hooton and niece Carolyn Strang.

Remembrances may be made to Sisters of Notre Dame, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.

ALICE BOLAND ASTURIAS, 105, REMEMBERED FOR PRO-LIFE LEADERSHIP

Alice Boland Asturias, a well-known

voice in programs of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the first woman president of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, died Sept.

21, 2020. She was 105 years old.

Born Feb. 18, 1915, in San Francisco, she was an alumna of St. Anne Elementary School, St. Brigid High Alice Boland School and San FranAsturias cisco State University.

Mary Ann Schwab knew Alice for 50 years. The two met in 1970 when Schwab of St. Brendan Parish was president of the San Francisco County Council of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women and Asturias was named a delegate to the council from St. Anne of the Sunset Parish by Msgr.

John Foudy.

Asturias would go on with the support of then-Archbishop Joseph McGucken to help found the archdiocesan Respect Life Commission in 1973 after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal.

“She was mom of 11 children and could not conceive of anyone taking the life of unborn children,” Schwab told Catholic San Francisco. “Family and children were most important to her.”

The two were close friends, Schwab said. “Alice was brilliant,” she said.

“I admired her tenacity. She could cut through red tape with the best of them. Family and church were her hallmarks.”

Alice also served with St. Anne’s Mother’s Club and Mercy High School and Archbishop Riordan High School fundraisers. She also supported the archdiocesan Chinese Ministry, Birthright , Golden Gate Heights Neighborhood Association and Asociacion

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Among her favorite works was helping farm families of the La Reforma area of Guatemala. Through her efforts roads were built, a health center and church were built and staffed, and medicine was made available to families at no cost.

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Survivors include children Mary, Esther, Patricia, Christina, Lisa, Louise, Anita, Francis, Teresa and Carla, and their families. Asturias was predeceased by her husband Mario, and their daughter Rita.

In compliance with COVID-19 protocols, Asturias was remembered in private rites at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

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After a lengthy pandemic hiatus, Catholic San Francisco is resuming event listings. The following events are online only unless otherwise noted. CSF newsletter subscribers receive a weekly Catholic events email. Subscribe at catholic-sf. org/free-email-newsletter. Email csf@ sfarch.org with submissions and updates.

VIRTUAL FAITH FORMATION CLASSES

The Office of Faith Formation invites you to visit https://sfarchdiocese.org/ooff for information on the upcoming virtual religious education institute and adult confirmation classes in November as well as other opportunities.

ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE IS INVITING CATHOLIC CHILDREN TO PRAY THE ROSARY

LEARNING WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14: Gather@Grand Speaker Series on Racism: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael continue their speaker series online, this year focusing on the topic of racism. On Oct. 14 a virtual guided film discussion of the 1997 film “Amistad.” Visit sanrafaelop. org/events.

MONDAY, OCT. 19: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: Third Monday of each month, currently on Zoom led

by Father Cameron Faller. Register at sfpriest.org/events.

FRIDAY, OCT. 23-25: Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery “Come and See” Retreat: A virtual discernment event for single, Catholic women ages 18-38 years. Visit opnunsmenlo. org/come-and-see-virtual-retreat or contact vocations@opnunsmenlo.org.

The Dominican Sisters of Adrian are hosting an online discernment retreat for young Catholic women ages 18-38. years. Visit adriandominicans.org/Become.

MONDAY, NOV. 2: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: First Monday of each month, currently on Zoom led

by Father Thomas Martin. Register at sfpriest.org/events.

THURS.-SAT., NOV. 12-14: Catechetical Ministry Conference: Eight Catholic dioceses embark on an online journey with families, friends and colleagues to proclaim Christ’s message of hope and His desire to heal and renew us for mission. Visit sfarch.org/events/ministryconference.

The Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery are pictured on their Menlo Park grounds. The order is offering a virtual discernment retreat Oct. 23-25.

LITURGY SUNDAY, OCT. 11 - PUBLIC EVENT: Blue Mass for First Responders: Annual Mass honoring the sacrifice of all first responders in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. 9 a.m. Visit sfarch.org/ bluemass THURSDAY, OCT. 15 - PUBLIC EVENT: Red Mass for Legal Profession: Join Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Oakland Bishop Michael Barber and the St. Thomas More Society at Most Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael, 5:30 p.m.Visit sfarch.org/red-mass-2020.

FRIDAY, OCT. 16 - PUBLIC EVENT: White Mass for Medical Profession: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate a 6 p.m outdoor Mass for medical professionals. St. Augustine Church, South San Francisco.

Livestream also available. Visit sfarch. org/medicalmass.

MUSIC & ART SUNDAY, OCT. 11: Livestreamed from

St. Mary’s Cathedral, “Musical Meditation” mandolin and piano, 4 p.m.: Visit sfarch.org/events/livestream-cathedralmusic. Mission Dolores Basilica Organ Concert Series. Angela Kraft Cross, 4 p.m. livestreamed on Fa-cebook. Visit tinyurl.com/2ndSunBasilicaLive or missiondolores.org.

SUNDAY, OCT. 18: Livestreamed from St. Mary’s Cathedral, 4 p.m.: Organist David Hatt playing Vierne’s Sym-phony No. 5. Visit sfarch.org/events/livestreamcathedral-music.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 8, 2020

Jóvenes de la Misión S. Antonio en Pescadero confirman su fe en una ceremonia al aire libre SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Entre el histórico edificio de la Misión San Antonio y las praderas que colindan con el patio trasero de la iglesia, un grupo de jóvenes de Pescadero recibió el sacramento de la Confirmación bajo una tienda que ha servido de templo durante la pandemia debido a la restricción de no congregarse adentro de las iglesias.

El padre José Corral, párroco de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, iglesia que administra la Misión San Antonio en Pescadero celebró la misa de confirmación, el 26 de septiembre a las 10 de la mañana.

El padre Corral pidió a los jóvenes que mantengan encendida la luz del Espíritu Santo en sus corazones para que nunca pierdan la fe.

Epimenio Bernardino el papá de Jorge Bernardino, uno de los confirmados dijo al Catholic San Francisco que a estos jóvenes les tocó recibir el sacramento de forma diferente a los años anteriores

debido a la pandemia, pero se hizo lo que se pudo. “Lo importante era que mi hijo recibiera el sacramento, dijo.

“Donde quiera está Dios y el lugar se preparó adecuadamente para una misa de esa solemnidad, agregó Bernardino.

En la misa participaron unas 50 personas, entre ellos los confirmados, los padrinos, los papás y familiares de los jóvenes y los dos catequistas Alejandro González y Jorge Guzmán.

De acuerdo a las proyecciones de los catequistas para la confirmación del próximo año deberían tener ya inscritos unos 30 muchachos para la formación que comienza este mes, pero sólo se han inscrito seis por temor a participar en grupos debido al COVID-19, dijo Guzmán.

Por esta razón la formación para el año entrante en San Antonio va a ser diferente. Están invitando a los padres de familia a que reciban ellos las clases de la confirmación en la iglesia, una vez al mes y sean ellos los catequistas de sus hijos en las casas.

Jóvenes de la Misión San Antonio en Pescadero posan junto al padre José Corral en el patio trasero de la iglesia, el 26 de setiembre después de recibir el sacramento de la Confirmación.

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Óscar Ortega coloca un arreglo floral a los pies de estatua de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe durante la ceremonia de confirmación en la Misión San Antonio.

El padre José Corral unge a Jorge Bernardino Láscarez durante la administración del sacramento de la Confirmación. La madrina de Bernardino, Yolanda Guzmán le impone las manos.

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Domingo 18 de octubre, 4p.m.: órgano con David Hatt. Vierne: Sinfonía núm. 6. Esta actuación es parte del Festival Vierne / Tournemire de la Catedral Santa María.

Domingo 25 de octubre, 4p.m.: órgano con Angela Kraft Cross.

Domingo 1 de noviembre, 4p.m.: Coro de la Catedral Santa María, director Ash Walker, y órgano con Christoph Tietze. Réquiem de Maurice Durufle.

Domingo 8 de noviembre, 4p.m.: violín con Agnieszka Peszko (Polonia) y Piano con Astghik Sakanyan, piano.

Domingo 15 de noviembre, 4p.m.: órgano con Crista Miller (Houston).

Domingo 22 de noviembre, 4p.m.: órgano con Jin Kyung Lim. Domingo 29 de noviembre, 4p.m.: órgano con Jonathan Kroepel (Peoria, IL).

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 8, 2020

Exprisioneros de la Bahía reciben ayuda contra el racismo por parte de los obispos LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

El combate del racismo es una de las luchas de la Iglesia Católica por la dignidad humana. Con este fin, la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos (USCCB por sus siglas en inglés) dirigió un paquete de recursos económicos a la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco para que a través del programa Excell Net se ayude a los exprisioneros en el proceso de reingreso a la sociedad a través de la educación.

Excell Net es un programa de ayuda financiera y consejería para las personas que han salido de la prisión y están en un periodo de prueba. Comenzará en octubre del 2020.

Julio Escobar, el fundador de Excell Net, programa que funcionará bajo la administración de la organización sin fines de lucro San Dimas, dijo que Excell Net es una extensión del programa Avenidas de Esperanza que ayuda a los menores de edad que salen de los centros de detención juvenil, pero ahora incluirá a los adultos.

Escobar, quien es también el coordinador del ministerio Justicia Restaurativa de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco, es a su vez el fundador de San Dimas y de Avenidas de Esperanza. Él ha trabajado por muchos años con estos programas de ayuda a las personas privadas de libertad y con sus familias. La mayoría de las personas con las que trabaja en los tres condados de la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco pertenecen a grupos que han sido víctimas de discriminación como son los afroamericanos y los latinos, entre otros.

Los obispos de Estados Unidos quienes están aportando estos fondos para combatir el racismo, escribieron en la carta pastoral contra el racismo, “Abramos nuestros corazones” que con frecuencia los hispanos y afroamericanos enfrentan discriminación en diversos escenarios entre ellos el encarcelamiento.

“En nuestras prisiones el número de reclusos de color, especialmente morenos y negros es sumamente desproporcionado a pesar de las grandes bendiciones de libertad que ofrece este país”, dicen en su carta pastoral.

Un estudio del Centro de Investigación Pew afirma que en el 2016 la población adulta negra en Estados Unidos era del 12% y representaba un 33% de los condenados en las cárceles. Mientras que la población adulta blanca en el país era 64% y representaba el 30% del total de los prisioneros. Los hispanos significaban el 16% de la población adulta en EE.UU. y un 23% de los prisioneros.

Dentro de esta realidad de incidencia de algunos grupos étnicos en las prisiones se encuentra Lilliana González, una mujer de 38 años de San Francisco que salió de la prisión de Dublin en California, en abril del 2019 con un período de prueba de tres años.

Gonzalez es una mujer de padres mexicanos nacida en Los Ángeles y es una de las primeras personas adultas que se beneficiarán con el programa Excell Net. “Este programa me ayuda a hablar más de mi experiencia, a no sentir tanta vergüenza por lo que hice y a no sentirme juzgada” dijo González al San Francisco Católico, al referirse a las reuniones de orientación previas en las que ha participado para ser parte del programa.

Otro de los primeros beneficiados de Excell Net es Bobby Jones, un hombre de 43 años quien vive en San Francisco. Él ha estado en prisión 14 años cumpliendo tres condenas diferentes.

Jones es hijo de un padre afroamericano y una madre anglosajona.

Desde los 14 años comenzó a vivir en las calles y ha estado entrando y saliendo de la prisión, debido a que su familia estaba afectada por problemas sicológicos y drogas.

Descubrir el programa Excell net en este momento es de gran ayuda para Jones. “El programa puede ayudarme y yo puedo ayudar a otros y ayudar a la comunidad. Esto es algo en lo que todos salimos ganando. Yo me beneficio y la comunidad puede ganar también”, dijo.

Jones estudia estadísticas en el San Francisco City College y el próximo semestre continuará en la Universidad de California en San Francisco (UCSF por sus siglas en inglés) donde espera graduarse en administración de negocios.

(FOTO ZAC WITTMER/SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO)

Julio Escobar fundador de Excell Net, y coordinador de Justicia Restaurativa de la Arquidiócesis se ve junto a dos beneficiarios de los programas de reingreso a la sociedad durante la conferencia anual Reentry, en los salones en la parte baja de la Catedral Santa María de la Asunción.

El plan operativo de Exell Net incluye una estrategia administrativa que consiste en captar fondos para las becas. Parte de ellos vienen de donaciones como el fondo que ofreció la USCCB, otros vendrán de la venta de tiquetes para desayunos mensuales en las iglesias de la Arquidiócesis, y de la venta de ropa y otros artículos que se ofrecerán en la tienda en línea de la marca Excell Net. El plan del programa también incluye a un equipo de apoyo de 15 consejeros (Strategy Advice Team), y 50 embajadores que ayudarán y supervisarán en el avance de cada becado.

Los becados deben cumplir con algunos requisitos, entre ellos ingresar a un programa formal de estudio académico, estar dispuestos a crear su propio plan de metas a corto y a largo plazo y a compartir el proceso de esas metas en reuniones mensuales. Tanto Jones como González están ya trabajando en algunos de estos requisitos.

El becado tiene que comprometerse a un mínimo de cuatro entrevistas por mes con los consejeros y con los embajadores. De estas entrevistas depende en parte que puedan obtener recomendaciones.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 8, 2020

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of September HOLY CROSS, COLMA Thomas D. Alexander Mara Balanesi Amato Eric Majano Aparicio Conrado V. Arenas John Bacoka Lawrence Bondad Berroya Ruth M. Biedenbach Elaine Black Azucena Cabrera Antonio Tirona Cahilig Vivian M. Cannon Gladis Z. Castillo Solon Castillo Oswaldo Daisog Cedillo Juan Coronado Liam Corry Edida P. Cortez Irene Patricia D’Aquino Leonel Henrique D’Aquino Daniel K. Davis Sylvia A. Deluca Noreen D. Dunn Joseph E. Eberle Alejandro Antonio Escobar Sr. Gloria Florin Florence A. Fraga Juliet Franco Leona P. Freddie Carolina Garcia Peter Garcia Hermelina T. Gargaritano Catherine A. Gawronski Daniel S. Gawronski Carolina Gaytan Manuel G. Gratuito Gustan M. Gutierrez Agnes E. Molinelli Hambley Thomas D. Harvey, Jr. Monte Charles Hernandiz Jr. Nerio R. Hernandez Patricia Hildebrand

Evelyn A. Jablonski Anne Kidd Gerald T. Lehane Robert G. Lenardon Benjamin Chapman Leonardo Erlinda Espina Mandap Antoinette Marracq Carlo Alberto Martini Pierina A. Maso Rena M. Mattman Rosemarie A. McAulay Ruth L. Mellinger Rudy S. Meraz Elizabeth Morales Rosangela Moresi Katherine Anne Munter George J. Mutto John D. Muzio Suheil Naber Rodolfo Padilla Nabong Arlene Ellen Naegelin Robert E. Nava Betty Ann O’Connell Gloria O’Reilly Margaret Mart Onzo Robert Padilla Bernardino M. Palacio Nisifolo ‘Oto’ota Paunga Evangelina C. Pelayo Jerry Peralta Shanthi Placid Prabhu Loreto G. Quimbao Maureen Rebecca “Becky” Robleto Roberto Rodriguez Hildegard Rolfes Marian Doyle Ruggiero Benjamin S. Salvan Helen Flanagan Samuelsen Warren J. Schiechl David Sellai Lena D. Sendner Ernesto L. Sequeira Ronaldo L. Sinigayan Adis Sozzi

Liupua Talivaa Hannah Tapia Anne Marie Tassone Albin J. Uhrich Fidela M. Valbuena Aaron Rich Montemayor Valenzuela Martha A. Vazquez Dolores G. Vidovich James M. Wilson Rodolfo D. Zapanta

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL John P. Cunningham Lawrence K. Hulse Madeline Piccione Jay A. Nelson Patricia Bates Rossoni James V. Schulz Phyllis Marie Trieber Barbara Ewart Turrentine

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Joan M. Feeney Patrick Foote Magdalena Andras Lakatos Catherine K. Lee Joseph A. Merkert Rosa Elvira Reyes Dr. Joseph Stieber Iseli Taukeiaho

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Madalena Brazil

ST. ANTHONY Carl J. Madson

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA

While we will not have a First Saturday Mass in November, we encourage you to remember in prayer all our beloved dead at rest in our Catholic Cemeteries.

Veterans Day Remembrance Service

Monday November 11 at 11am at the Star of the Sea Veterans Section.

Presider: Rev. Msgr. Michael Padazinski Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve Ret.

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