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Mercy Burlingame’s holistic mental health approach

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Cathedral funeral set Oct. 24 for Cardinal William J. Levada, seventh archbishop of San Francisco

Synod is a time to listen, discern, not despise, pope says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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VATICAN CITY – Funeral services for Cardinal William J. Levada, who died Sept. 26 in Rome at age 83, will be held Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Santa Fe, New Mexico, Archbishop John Wester as homilist. Doors open at 9:30.

Visitation, also at the cathedral, is scheduled Oct. 23 from 5-7 p.m., with a 45-minute vigil at 7. Bishop Stephen Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter will preside and give the homily.

All events are open to the public. Those attending are advised that no parking will be available at the cathedral for the funeral.

The services will be livestreamed and may be viewed on the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s YouTube channel.

The Vatican held a funeral Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica the day after Cardinal Levada’s unexpected death, with Pope Francis presiding at the committal. The cathedral funeral will fulfill the cardinal’s wishes to hold a funeral Mass in the archdiocese.

The pope joined brother bishops and fellow clergy in remembering Cardinal Levada for his influence and example. Many highlighted his dedication to church unity, his work ethic and his pastoral spirit seasoned in service as archbishop of Portland, Oregon, and later San Francisco – qualities that recommended him to Pope Benedict XVI for one of the Vatican’s most high-profile jobs, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in 2005.

Pope Francis sent “heartfelt condolences” to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and the people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and remembered with “immense gratitude the late cardinal’s years of priestly and episcopal ministry among Christ’s flock in Los Angeles, Portland and San Francisco, his singular contributions to catechesis, education and administration, and his distinguished service to the Apostolic See.” Archbishop Cordileone said he had known the cardinal “ever since he was my seminar moderator in my first year of theology. I always appreciated his guidance and his commitment to the integrity of the church’s faith.”

As archbishop of San Francisco, Cardinal Levada was a “careful planner, but he also very much enjoyed meeting and dining with a wide variety of people,” often at the archbishop’s residence, Archbishop Cordileone said.

Msgr. Harry Schlitt, a longtime San Francisco pastor who served as vicar general of the archdio-

VATICAN CITY – The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is a time of reflection, dialogue and listening to the needs and sufferings of indigenous people, Pope Francis said.

“The Holy Spirit is the primary actor in the synod.

Please, do not kick him out of the room,” the pope said, opening the gathering’s first working session Oct. 7.

Speaking off-the-cuff, the pope said he was saddened to hear a “sarcastic” remark from a synod participant about an indigenous man wearing a feathered headdress who presented the offertory gifts at the synod’s opening Mass Oct. 6.

“Tell me: What difference is there between having feathers on your head and the three-cornered hat worn by some officials of our dicasteries?” he asked, eliciting applause from synod participants.

Instead of becoming a series of reductive discussions that only undermine “the poetry” of indigenous people and their cultures, he said, the synod is a way for the church to walk with them “under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.”

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Cardinal William J. Levada, who served as Archbishop of San Francisco from 1995-2005, died Sept. 26 in Rome at age 83.

cese and moderator of the curia under Cardinal Levada, told Catholic San Francisco that the cardinal’s most important contributions to the church, in San Francisco and globally, were “his spirituality and his ability to take a task and see it through.”

The cardinal had a tireless work ethic, Msgr. Schlitt said. After dinner, the two would say evening prayer and then the cardinal would return to his desk.

Cardinal Levada would “take up tasks no one else wanted to do and complete them,” Msgr. Schlitt said.

“That’s why the Holy Father called on him to take up such an important position in Rome, because he knew Cardinal Levada would put his nose to the grindstone and get the job done.”

‘Ya Gotta Believe!’: Met’s ’69 miracle can inspire evangelization, bishop says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – The New York Mets’ improbable World Series championship in 1969 can inspire the Catholic Church to a new era of evangelization, Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Center wrote in a new pastoral letter.

Drawing on the example of the once hapless Mets who faced long odds and deep skepticism to rise to the top of the baseball world, Bishop Barres said the Catholic Church on Long Island “can experience a

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2019

NEED TO KNOW HOLY HOUR FOR VOCATIONS: An archdiocese-wide Holy Hour for Vocations and Religious Life will be held Sunday, Nov. 3, 3-4 p.m., at St. Sebastian Church, 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae; Star of the Sea, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco; and St. Pius, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. The archdiocese asks all to join in praying for an increase and strengthening of vocations of the priesthood, the diaconate and consecrated life.

Priest-author challenges Catholic adults to ‘grow up’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

An Irish priest with the Sacred Heart Missionary order challenged a roomful of white-haired, lifelong Catholics in San Rafael to “grow up” if they want to FATHER TOLTON EVENT: An event celemature in the faith of their childhood. brating the country’s first African-American “Faith in our time requires us to grow up and learn priest, Father Augustus Tolton, Saturday, to relate with God in a new way,” said Father Diarmuid Nov. 9, 7-8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, O’Murchu, who was invited by the Dominican Sisters 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. Includes a of San Rafael to speak on “Adult Faith Maturation” special preview screening of “Across: the for the community’s Sept. 26 Gather on Grand speaker Father Tolton Movie” and a performance series event. by the Our Lady of Lourdes Men’s Gospel Father O’Murchu is a social psychologist whose Choir, followed by a reception. Contact vocation has been spent primarily in social ministries fic@stdominics.org for more information. in the United Kingdom. He is also author of more than a dozen books. His most recent, “When the Disciple DOMINICAN SISTERS BOUTIQUE: The Comes of Age; Christian Identity in the 21st Century,” Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose will (Oribis, 2019) was released Sept. 12. hold their annual holiday boutique with loThe Dublin-based priest believes that a rich and cally produced Christmas gifts and goodenduring faith in our time requires adults to learn to ies including olive oil, honey and fruitcake. relate to God, to the church and to each other as adults, Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 23-24, 10 a.m.-4 not as the children we were when formed. p.m. at 44326 Mission Circle, Fremont.

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‘We are accepting the fact that we are people of a tradition, we are people of a story, we are people of a long inheritance. But now we are bringing our critical, reflective capabilities to look more deeply at it.’

FATHER DIARMUID O’MURCHU they “felt guilty” about struggling with the faith in which they were raised.

“We are not about throwing out the baby with the bathwater,” he said. “We are accepting the fact that we are people of a tradition, we are people of a story, we are people of a long inheritance. But now we are bringing our critical, reflective capabilities to look more deeply at it.”

Adult, critical reflection helps us “realize the shortcomings, but also the rich elements that are buried deep, and need to be reclaimed in the context of our time as distinct from the context of previous times,” he said.

Father O’Murchu discussed an “evolutionary set of changes” happening in the world and in the church.

“There was, and continues to be, a growing sense of distrust in formal authority,” he said, including religious, scholarly and governmental authority.

In these models, he said, truth is invested in wise individuals representing a patriarchal, rigid system which seeks domination and control from the top down.

He described adult Christians who do not mature in their faith as “co-dependent” in their need for approval from priests and bishops.

“They can be people who carry an awful lot of fear in their hearts and in their lives,” he said. “They can be very judgmental of themselves and of others. They want only one explanation of truth.”

Father O’Murchu said reclaiming an adult faith “challenges us to relate as adults to an adult-God, modeled for Christian in the adult-life example of Jesus.”

It requires an openness to change and diversity, communal consultation with peers and trust in our own wisdom.

“We are the church,” said Father O’Murchu. “Wisdom and truth and the search for a whole new approach to faith becomes the core responsibility of all of us.”

In his 2015 book “Inclusivity: A Gospel Mandate,” Father O’Murchu writes that “no religion has taken seriously the invitation to unconditional love.” He urges followers to accept the invitation as Jesus did, without passivity in the face of injustice and evil but also without violence.

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Mercy Burlingame brings holistic approach to mental health NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Facing a nationally rising tide of adolescent mental health problems, Mercy High School in Burlingame began a schoolwide initiative called the ARC Program to address the risks teens face and teach them important coping strategies.

“We’re all passionate about supporting girls and coming at it from different angles, so it’s exciting to collaborate and create a bigger picture about how to support them,” said Joy Phillips.

A licensed marriage and family therapist who is the school’s wellness counselor, Phillips said the ARC Program’s aim is to unite departments in reducing the academic sources of teen stress and anxiety and building an atmosphere where teens face fewer impediments to learning.

“If kids are calmer, they learn better,” she said.

At heart, the school is pushing back against elements of daily life that can pressure or manipulate students, create anxiety and impede developing a strong sense of self. Classroom teachers see multiple sources of anxiety in their students that are deeply entwined in the fabric of daily life, among them social media, increased expectations around going to college and attending elite institutions and the rapid pace of Silicon Valley life.

That approach has become more important as nationally rates of mental health problems have increased.

Polling by the Pew Research Center showed that 71 percent of teens identi-

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Left to right, Lauren Conklin, Sandy Flaherty and Joy Phillips have helped lead a renewed approach to mental health at Mercy High School, Burlingame. fied anxiety and depression as a “major problem” among their peers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states anxiety disorders occur in almost a third of teenagers, while depression occurs in 13 percent of 12to 17-year-olds.

Mental health risks can be significantly higher in young women: the Anxiety and Depression Association of America states that girls are twice as likely to develop a mood disorder as boys, nearly a quarter of teenage girls display signs of depression and over two-thirds of teenagers prescribed anti-depressants are girls.

The ARC Program at Mercy Burlingame began by looking at student needs and adapting the high school’s counseling procedures to support

their students better. Lauren Conklin, Mercy’s assistant head of school for academics, said the program had “a very organic origin” and started with conversations about such books as “Enough as She Is” and “Under Pressure” on the complex factors contributing to mental health issues in teenage girls. Those discussions eventually led to more formal meetings about what the school could do to improve support for their students.

Taking a proactive approach to mental health looks different in each department. In the religion department, teachers have begun to incorporate discussions around stress and anxiety into their lesson plans, said Sandy Flaherty, Mercy’s director of Catholic identity and a religious

studies teacher. A freshman retreat also challenges students to set goals for themselves and aims to instill in students a “strong, reflective sense of self.”

Other changes include adjusting how homework is assigned based on research showing that learning decreases past a certain amount of work.

Flaherty said the counseling and religion departments also looked at how to address freshmen students’ concerns as they transition to high school life.

The counseling department does a significant amount of education on mental health. Students learn “calming exercises or coping techniques, focus on healthy relationships, and learn responsible use of technology,” Phillips said. The counseling department also works to support students and their parents during the college search, informs teachers about anxiety and other issues and encourages students to talk to a supportive adult if they are dealing with these challenges.

The school also maintains a referral list for mental health professionals if students and their families decide they need outside help.

For Mercy’s staff and faculty, taking a holistic approach toward mental well-being is a natural outgrowth of the care and love educators have for their students and their school’s Catholic identity.

“We’re all in this together and we’re uniquely positioned as a Catholic school to address these things,” Conklin said. “We have this really strong foundation of our mission and of biblical teachings of how to care for the whole person, especially girls.”

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The Archdiocese will then host a special reception afterwards honoring all medical professionals.

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Sisters honored in fight against human trafficking CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Catholic sisters from 10 local congregations of women religious were honored this summer

by Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley for their collective effort combating human trafficking in the Bay Area since 2016.

The “Stop Slavery Coalition: Northern California Catholic Sisters against Human Trafficking,” which includes one to two representatives from each congregation and their associates, received the “Nancy’s Hero Award” for their collective effort distributing anti-human trafficking posters to almost 1,000 Bay Area businesses which must display them in accordance with California law.

O’Malley created the award to recognize individuals whose efforts have resulted in a better Bay Area community and held an Aug. 16 barbeque in their honor in Pleasanton.

“I am so grateful for the commitment you and your fellow sisters have shown to educate the community about human trafficking. Your work makes a huge difference,” she said.

Congregations involved in the Coalition include the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose; the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael; Marist Missionary Sisters; Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary; Sisters of Mercy of the Americas; Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur; Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity; and Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange.

The posters were designed by the California Department of Justice after two pieces of legislation were passed in 2013, and amended in 2017, requiring certain types of businesses including hotels and motels, massage parlors, truck stops, hospital emergency rooms, adult bookstores, bus stations, airports and labor contractors to display human trafficking awareness posters on their premises.

The posters can be a visible deterrent to human trafficking, help management and employees recognize and report the crime that occurs in their establishments, and provides victims with an anonymous, 24-hour help hotline accessible in 160 languages.

Lyn Kirkconnell, a lay member of the Stop Slavery Coalition and one of the co-creators of peace, justice and care for creation efforts for the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, said coalition members educated and trained volunteers to visit almost 1,000 businesses in San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Joa-

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Back row from left: Father Bart Landry, CSP; Father Dan Carter, CSP; All Hallows parishioner Gail Newkirk; Our Lady of Lourdes parishioner Barbara McKinney; All Hallows parishioners Sheila O’Rourke and Patricia Blunt; Our Lady of Lourdes associate pastor Andrew Ibegbulem. Front row from left: St. Finn Barr parishioner Alice Guidry; birthday girl Queen Gipson, and daughter and St. Paul of the Shipwreck parishioner Linda Gipson-Gordon.

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Dominican Sister Judy Lu McDonnell, OP, left, and Lyn Kirkconnell, right, co-creators of the congregation’s peace, justice and care for creation efforts, were among the local Catholic sisters who received a public service award in August for combating human trafficking.

quin counties over the course of the last three years.

“As of July 15, 2019, we have visited 972 businesses with the aid of 392 volunteers,” she said.

Kirkconnell said the sisters helped to train local hotel staff in advance of the America’s Cup in San Francisco in 2013 and Super Bowl 50 in 2016.

“The legal requirement to display the anti-trafficking poster has enhanced this work,” she said.

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, according to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, the organization whose (888) 373-7888 number is the prominent feature of the posters the sisters are helping to distribute.

The hotline’s 2018 statistics report showed 10,949 cases reported, a 25 percent increase over 2017; the number of cases since 2015 has doubled.

Sex trafficking and labor trafficking are the most frequent kinds of human trafficking.

The hotline in its many forms (phone, text, email, web chat, web form) connects victims with resources and support including emergency shelters, transportation, trauma counselors and local law enforcement.

Visit humantraffickinghotline.org.

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HAIL TO THE QUEEN: Queen Gipson was treated like royalty during a 95th birthday celebration Sept.

13 that included pastors and parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes, All Hallows Chapel and St. Paul of the Shipwreck. Born Sept. 18, 1924, in San Francisco, Queen has been a 70-year parishioner of the three Catholic parishes in Bayview/Hunters Point that are linked by one pastor, Father Dan Carter.

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LINE-UP FOR LIFE: The first weekend of the fall campaign for the San Francisco chapter of 40 Days for Life got off to a great start at the Planned Parenthood on Valencia Street Sept. 28, says campaign coordinator Clarisse Siu. The first-ever fall campaign runs from Sept. 25 to Nov. 4, with volunteers in prayerful vigil outside the Mission District location on Valencia and a new planned location on Bush Street. Visit 40daysforlife.com/san-francisco.

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Archbishop details, defines health care merger LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

When San Francisco-based Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., combined Feb. 1 into the nation’s second largest private health care provider, they built upon foundations laid nearly 1,700 years ago by Christians who risked death to tend to plague victims in fourth-century Rome.

Before he approved the development, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone mulled over its fit into that history and the local legacy of trailblazing women religious who braved the Wild West to minister to fortune hunters lured by California’s Gold Rush.

He keeps those considerations in mind in ongoing assessments of the enterprise that comprises 142 hospitals – including 30 in California and four in the Bay Area – 150,000 employees, $29 billion in revenue and more than 700 care sites in 21 states, making it second among U.S. nonprofits in the number of hospitals and first in revenue.

In a conversation with Catholic San Francisco, the archbishop clarified the complex circumstances surrounding the formation of the new entity, dubbed CommonSpirit Health and based in Chicago and its impact on those in need of medical services in his archdiocese.

Here are excerpts from the interview:

Question: Can you briefly overview the history and legacy of Catholic health care, with a focus on the San Francisco archdiocese?

Answer: In ancient Rome … plagues would break out and anyone with the means to do so would flee to the cooler hills outside the city to escape.

The Christians would stay behind to take care of the sick at risk to their own health and even their own lives.

So already, from early on, we showed the kind of selfless service that Christians gave to those who were ignored by everyone else.

(In the chaos that followed the fall of Rome) monasteries really became the centers of learning and preservation of culture and instigation of scientific investigation (including) health care research. (He cited the example of an Italian monastery that pioneered microsurgery in the early Middle Ages.)

In later Middle Ages, with the crusades, we had the Order of Malta – initiated as a military order to try to reclaim the Christian territory – nursing the wounded (in the religious wars), which eventually developed into the hospital system.

Then religious orders emerged with their mission to care for the sick.

(Nuns, who started arriving in the Bay Area in the 1850s to help San Francisco’s first archbishop, Joseph Alemany, attend the physically and morally ailing ‘49ers, established hospitals, orphanages and schools.)

After the 1906 earthquake, they cared for everyone injured by the earthquake and fire, so much so the city granted them the privilege (still in effect) to ride the Muni without charge.

Q: How and where does CommonSpirit fit into this history and legacy of Catholic health care?

A: Catholic health care systems are struggling to find ways to remain operating in accordance with our values and our vision within a changed world (and) economy.

Dignity, (resulting from the 2012 reorganization of Catholic Healthcare West into a technically secular network of Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals) and (the consistently Catholic) Catholic Health Initiatives … saw the need to merge not just to be viable but to flourish.

(In the new system, all its Catholic hospitals form one corporation and Dignity’s non-Catholic hospitals another. Both groups agree to abide by ethical religious directives, which forbid such procedures as abortion, physician-assisted suicide and invitro fertilization. In one exception, non-Catholic hospitals may perform direct sterilization, provided any related revenue be donated to charity rather than) be mixed with the funds that the two put together to put up for bonds. So there’s no financial benefit from the revenue from these direct sterilizations.

(The merger) can increase the sort of impact the Catholic division of health care can have in the overall health care debate.

Q: Did anybody (besides the Vatican) have to sign off on the deal?

A: I had to give what we call a “nihil obstat,” which basically means no objections, because Dignity has

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its headquarters in San Francisco.

Archbishop (Samuel) Aquila in Denver (CHI’s headquarters) had to do the same. And each of us had to consult with all of the bishops who have (Dignity or CHI hospitals in their diocese).

The bishops were unanimously in favor.

Q: What benefits and what drawbacks does the new system offer that the two pre-merger entities did not?

A: The first benefit is being such a large system and a Catholic system (and) the influence it can have on the whole general world of health care.

The second advantage is keeping them financially viable so they can continue to do their good work consistent with our Catholic health care vision … Two things that have made Catholic health care distinctive from the start are its commitment to health care for the poor (and) the Catholic vision of the human person (which makes) spiritual care an integral part of the overall care for people’s health.

Disadvantages? The formation of the health care workers is critical, and I think that might be a challenge now that (the hospitals) are not run by nuns and brothers who have a very deep formation and forsook the world to give their lives completely to this.

Q: Some analysts question the wisdom of medical mergers, warning they tend to result in higher prices and lower quality of service. Are you concerned that either might ensue from this merger?

A: No, because the profit motive isn’t the bottom line in Catholic health care. I get a little nervous when health care becomes a for-profit business.

Q: What is your vision of ideal Catholic health care in the archdiocese?

A: That anyone in need of health care can receive it, no matter their income, their insurance situation, and that the health care they receive will be in accordance with their human dignity, that they’re given spiritual care, that they know they’re loved and valued and given first place.

Q: Why did you approve the merger?

A: This was one of the most important decisions I’ll probably ever make as the archbishop here.

I read all of the material presented to me, all of the opinions of the ethicists and the canonists, all the explanations, and they met with me so I could discuss it and I could ask questions. (The health care leaders) created a culture of trust because of their openness with me through the whole process.

Q: During its previous transformation, Dignity – whose hospitals include St. Francis Memorial and St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, Sequoia in Redwood City and Dominican in Santa Cruz – agreed to retain the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services for some of its 39 hospitals and 400 care centers in California, Arizona and Nevada. Was preservation of these directives a consideration in the approval of the merger?

A: That was the sine qua non (an essential condition). Without that it wouldn’t have been possible because this is a Catholic system so there had to be no exceptions to the ERDs for the CommonSpirit system.

Q: Do you have any concerns at this point about whether the merger will do more harm than good or do any harm that is not acceptable?

A: A point that needs careful attention is what I mentioned before – the formation of the health care workers, not just that they understand what our principles are but they understand why we hold those principles.

The other one would be we don’t know what kind of brave new world we’re facing down the line with these so-called transition surgeries and now they’re talking about these chimeras, human-animal hybrids, and who knows what kind of manipulations with reproductive technology. So the brave new world is kind SEE ARCHBISHOP, PAGE 19

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Rosary Rally brings Catholic witness to downtown San Francisco NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Top, the 2019 Rosary Rally’s eucharistic procession moves down Gough Street in San Francisco on Oct. 5. Bottom left, after arriving at U.N. Plaza, the rosary was led by two families in English and Spanish. Right, rally participants stayed at the plaza to be enrolled in the brown scapular and for Benediction. The annual rally for Marian devotion renewed the archdiocese’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Traffic came to a stop in San Francisco as hundreds walked in a eucharistic procession down McAllister Street toward U.N. Plaza during the Rosary Rally on Oct. 5, part of an increased emphasis on public witness to faith.

“To pray in public is good for the country and good for the soul,” Father Joseph Illo, the rally emcee, said. “How many people will see people praying today and begin to do that themselves?”

The rally began with Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. The archbishop said in his homily that the Gospel reading on Martha and Mary showed the importance of prayer in Christian discipleship.

A life of service that does not involve any connection to Christ will always be incomplete, the archbishop said, “because without being centered in prayer, our service will not look ultimately to the spiritual good of the other. In some way or another our service will be compromised by selfinterest.”

At the end of Mass, the archbishop renewed the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart. Afterward, the eucharistic procession, led by students from Archbishop Riordan High School’s football team, proceeded down Gough and McAllister streets to U.N. Plaza, praying the rosary along the way.

In the plaza, participants recited the rosary and were enrolled in the brown scapular by Discalced Carmelite Father Robert Elias Barcelos. Father Barcelos said the brown scapular is the oldest sacramental devotion to Mary, and is a sign of Mary’s pledge to offer “maternal protection and assistance.”

Dave Martin, one of the rally organizers, said exchanging a church setting for the public square was a deliberate decision to “show our faith.”

“The poor church is under so much siege, we don’t leave our churches any more. One of our missions is evangelization and we can do that by being present in the city,” he said.

Father Illo agreed, adding that moving outside the church walls was something frequently encouraged by Pope Francis.

“We want to share our faith with the whole city, share the joy of Jesus with the whole community,” he said.

Madonna del Lume shines light on Sicilian tradition CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

After a morning Mass at the Fishermen’s and Seamen’s Chapel at Fisherman’s Wharf Oct. 5, nearly 200 members of the North Beach community and those who support them boarded a boat to toss flowers into the sea to honor fishermen who lost their lives there.

“We offer a prayer to our Blessed Lady and ask her to please take care of the many people who lost their lives while working hard to make happy children, sons and daughters and wives,” said Salesian Father Al Mengon, from the fire boat stern of an idling vessel of the Red and White Fleet.

The outgoing and incoming Madonna del Lume queens tossed floral wreaths overboard as the San Francisco Fire Department’s boats sent streams of water high in the air. Multicolored blossoms from bouquets carried on board by passengers for the service drifted slowly out to sea.

The 84th La Madonna del Lume (Mother of Light) is one of many traditional celebrations Italian immigrants brought to the United States. The three-day Sicil-

ian Festa honoring Mary, guardian and patroness of fisherman, included a Mass, blessing of the fishing fleet and the wreath ceremony for lost fishermen and seamen.

“I always came with my mother, who was Sicilian,” Denise Artal told Catholic San Francisco as she waited to board the boat. With her mother gone, the tradition is a way to celebrate her heritage and her mother’s memory. Around her neck she wore a vintage Madonna del Lume necklace and a string of red, green and white beads joined by flags that read: “I love Italians.”

The Blessing of the Fishing Fleet is a tradition brought to San Francisco in 1935

by Sicilian fishermen families, who organized the Maria del Lume Society among parishioners of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in North Beach.

The annual event is an extension of a Sicilian tradition honoring the Virgin Mary in her role as guardian and patron saint of fishermen. Legend has it that stormtossed fishermen in peril were guided to safety by a mysterious light shining from a grotto near Porticello, Sicily. Exploring the cave, they found a slab of marble bearing the Madonna’s image. A church was later built at the location to protect it.

(PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

From left, pictured at the 84th La Madonna del Lume (Mother of Light) celebration in San Francisco’s North Beach on Oct. 5 are Giovanna Crivello-Sweeney, newly crowned Madonna del Lume Queen for 2019-20; Gina Marie Guglielmoni, Queen Isabella 2019; and Paloma Marie Polacci, outgoing Madonna del Lume Queen for 2018-19, representing the Society of the Madonna del Lume. The celebration included a Mass, blessing of the fishing fleet and the laying of a wreath in the sea outside the Golden Gate to remember lost fishermen and seamen.

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Blessing the beasts Mater Dolorosa and St. Veronica parishes were two of many in the archdiocese that observed the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi by offering a blessing of the animals. St. Veronica pastor, Father Charles Puthota, sent in a photo of Msgr. Floro Arcamo blessing parish pets on Oct. 6 in the parish courtyard. The same day at Mater Dolorosa, pastor Father Rolando de la Rosa officiated at a parish blessing assisted by Deacon Alex Aragon.

South San Francisco Police Department K9 Department Corp. Rebecca (PHOTO BY COLLEEN HERA) Dabney, pictured, was on hand with her retired partner, Aries, while Officer Nick Michels brought his partner, Grout. The event was sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council 14818. St. Francis wrote a Canticle of the Creatures, an ode to God’s living things. “All praise to you, Oh Lord, for all these brother and sister creatures.”

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CARDINAL LEVADA: Cathedral funeral set Oct. 24, vigil Oct. 23 FROM PAGE 1

Cardinal Levada was also interested in the city and neighborhoods he shepherded. Msgr. Schlitt said the cardinal would take the bus to neighborhoods he didn’t know and walk around for several blocks.

“It was very important for him to get a grasp of the neighborhoods and where people lived and where they came from,” Msgr. Schlitt said. “He certainly got a good feeling about what a parish was and where they were and how they operated, according to the people who lived in those neighborhoods. Being in San Francisco pastorally was very important for him.”

Santa Fe Archbishop Wester, who was ordained as an auxiliary bishop by Cardinal Levada in 1998, said, “The cardinal always gave of himself selflessly to the church that he loved so much, and he used all of his abilities in her service.

The gift that always impressed me most was the gift of his heart. He had great compassion for the priests and people of the church.”

Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, who was ordained by Cardinal Levada and served as his aide at the doctrinal congregation, said “The cardinal’s work as Prefect of the Congregation was a continuation of his life-long passion for the communion of the church. Having served long years as a diocesan bishop, he never lost sight of the essential pastoral dimension of his own vocation and the mission of the congregation in service to the People of God.” Cardinal Levada’s appointment marked the first time a U.S. prelate had headed the congregation. He served in that position until 2012.

(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

Pope Francis uses incense as he leads the rite of commendation during the funeral Mass of U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Sept. 27, 2019.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Houston, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, said the late cardinal’s ministry “was one of expanding service to those around him.

Cardinal Levada’s intellect and pastoral sense called him from parish priest to archbishop to prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.”

Before his Vatican appointment, he had served as archbishop of San Francisco since 1995; archbishop of Portland, 1986-95, and an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, 1983-86.

Throughout his episcopal ministry, Cardinal Levada displayed a gift for organizing ministries to strengthen

the church’s mission. As an auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, he oversaw a reorganization plan that divided the archdiocese into five sub-regions.

Later in Portland, he streamlined the diocesan branch of Catholic Charities, restructured outreach to Hispanic Catholics, renovated the cathedral, and increased funding for priests’ retirement and started a new program for priestly vocations.

For decades, he was a frequent collaborator with the Vatican and with the future Pope Benedict. He was a doctrinal congregation staff member from 1976 to 1982 and was a bishop-member of the congregation beginning in 2000.

In the 1980s, he worked with thenCardinal Ratzinger as one of a small group of bishops appointed to write the “Catechism of the Catholic Church.”

Cardinal Levada was a key figure in the church’s efforts to eliminate priestly sexual abuse. He headed the Vatican agency that oversaw the handling of priestly sexual abuse cases; in 2002, he was a member of the U.S.-Vatican commission that made final revisions to the sex abuse norms in the United States, which laid out a strict policy on priestly sex abuse and provided for removal from ministry or laicization of priests.

In an article published last March in Catholic San Francisco after the Vatican summit on clergy sex abuse, Cardinal Levada praised the concrete steps the church has taken to combat abuse and criticized the failure to recognize them.

The cardinal said, “Helping victims of sexual abuse is an ongoing responsibility” and that bishops conferences were committed to accountability.

“Helping to heal the wounds in the body of Christ, caused by these sins and crimes of sexual abuse, must continue to be part of our spiritual course of action for the future,” he said.

Cardinal Levada reflected on his service for the congregation in a 2013 interview with the Irish Catholic.

“If you are working for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it helps to have a pretty thick skin so that you aren’t overly sensitive if you are criticized,” he said, adding that the congregation should not be above criticism.

In a 2006 decision approved by Pope Benedict, Cardinal Levada ruled that 86-year-old Father Marcial Maciel SEE CARDINAL LEVADA, PAGE 24

Cardinal Levada took US experience with him to the Vatican CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, who died Sept. 26 in Rome, is well-known as the retired head of the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation, but his experience leading major U.S. dioceses prepared him for this role.

“I firmly believe that what I have experienced in my ministry among God’s people here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco has been a great grace for me and has enriched me for the new service to the universal church to which our Holy Father, Pope Benedict, has called me now,” he said during a Mass attended by more than 3,000 people at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, just before he left the archdiocese in 2005.

He also told the congregation that his 10 years as archbishop there had been “a significant part of my life as a man, a priest and a bishop.”

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, he named then-Archbishop Levada to replace him as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican agency charged with protecting and promoting the church’s teachings on faith and morals. It was the first time a U.S. prelate had led the congregation.

The Vatican appointment did not come as a surprise to many of thenArchbishop Levada’s friends and fellow U.S. prelates at the time.

(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

Cardinal William J. Levada is pictured in a Nov. 21, 2010, photo. In farewell remarks at St. Mary’s Cathedral in 2005 before leaving for Rome to head the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation, then-San Francisco Archbishop Levada said his experience leading the archdiocese helped prepare him for his new role.

Archbishop John G. Vlazny, now retired archbishop of Portland, Ore., said: “His intelligence was obvious, but his affability and goodness were equally evident.” Cardinal Levada served as archbishop of Portland from 1986 to 1995.

“As much as I enjoy his company, I am even more grateful for the good

pastoral care he gave this local church. ... He is a loyal churchman, a faithful disciple of the Lord and a man of integrity,” said the archbishop, who had known then-Archbishop Levada since 1958, when they met as seminary classmates at the North American College in Rome.

Retired Bishop William S. Skylstad

of Spokane, Wash., then-president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said at the time that it was a great honor for Archbishop Levada to receive the appointment.

“He is also taking on a tremendous responsibility, but he is well-prepared for it intellectually and spiritually, as Pope Benedict XVI clearly recognizes in choosing him to be his successor at the congregation,” he said.

Before moving to Portland, for three years he served as an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, where earlier he had served as an associate pastor, teacher and campus ministry chaplain. He also served as secretary of the California Catholic Conference, a public policy agency of the state’s bishops.

In a 2005 interview with Catholic News Service, then-Archbishop Levada said his U.S. pastoral experience made him sympathetic to the doctrinal and teaching challenges faced by local bishops around the world.

As bishop, he helped write the “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” and he said formation in the faith was one area where universal and local churches could cooperate. And when he was archbishop of San Francisco, he was a key figure in the approval of new norms to handle cases of priestly sexual abuse.

In 2002, he was a member of the U.S.Vatican commission that made final revisions to the norms, which laid out SEE EXPERIENCE, PAGE 20

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Remembering Cardinal William J. Levada, 1936-2019

(CNS PHOTO/ART BABYCH)

Cardinal William J. Levada, the former archbishop of San Francisco and of Portland, Ore., and the retired prefect for the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, died in Rome Sept. 26, 2019, at age 83. He is is pictured in a March 8, 2010, photo during his service as head of the doctrinal congregation.

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Above, former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz, Cardinal Levada and then-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown at a Day of Remembrance for the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Right, then-Archbishop George Niederauer celebrates Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral with retired Archbishop John R. Quinn and Cardinal Levada.

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(ENRICO RISANO)

Clockwise, Cardinal Levada blesses a family at a St. Mary’s Cathedral celebration of St. Pedro de San José Betancur after his canonization July 30, 2002. Cardinal Levada distributes bread at St. Anthony Dining Room in San Francisco, June 13, 2000. Then-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Cardinal Levada and Archbishop John R. Quinn at a University of San Francisco colloquium on racism and Catholic social teaching.

Cardinal Levada and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, at an event at Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park, Feb. 12, 1999.

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Salsa priest: A Columbian musician’s vocation journey year, a year and a half. From when my cousin told me, I went forth and went back, while falling even more for Liliana.

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Eudist Father Carlos Panesso, a professional singer of salsa music and other Latin rhythms, preached for the first time at the Day of Adoration at St. Anthony Parish in Menlo Park in August. He spoke with San Francisco Católico, the Spanish newspaper of the archdiocese, about daring to leave his artistic success behind to respond to God’s call and how this decision has affected his life and that of his mother.

Father Panesso, a 32-year-old Colombian, ordained just a year ago, is currently the director of a Catholic radio station, “Minuto de Dios,” back in his native country.

He has been and continues to be a fan of the great leading salsa singers of our time like Tito Nieves, Grupo Niche and others. “I also love reggaeton, among other reasons, because I am also a millennial,” Father Panesso said.

San Francisco Católico interviewed Father Panesso during his recent visit to the archdiocese.

Q: Father Carlos tell us about your artistic past?

A: Well, I come from a part of the family that is very musical. We have an orchestra in Colombia called “Saboreo” that has released many popular hits, very Colombian tunes like “La vamo’ a tumbar.” I grew up in a musical family and there came a time when music had like two pathways, you can choose to save money and have a more quiet life or you can dedicate yourself to drinking and girlfriends. I chose the second one.

Q: So you were misbehaving?

A: I was behaving very badly.

Q: So the thing was between Liliana and God?

A: Yeah sure. Well, it was more like boy falls in love so God uses that to give us life.

Q: What did your family tell you?

A: Yes, it was a charismatic group.

A: My mom didn’t like it and neither did my dad because I was going through the last auditioning phase to join Grupo Niche and I had passed.

Now the thing was between Grupo Niche and going to the seminary where I had also passed. A while back I had told my dad that I wanted to study piano in Russia and my dad said, “Well, tell Tarzan’s mom to pay for it,” (a way of saying no) but once he found out that I was going to go to the seminary, he called me and said, “Say, how much would that cost?

We’ll send you to Russia or Beijing, anywhere you want to go, but I don’t want you to be a priest.” In the end, I decided to become a priest. It was a very tough decision. It was not easy.

Q: Well, there was music and that is what you liked.

Q: Because your family didn’t want that.

How many siblings do you have?

(PHOTO ZAC WITTMER /SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO)

Father Carlos Panesso plays the guitar and sings during a Worship Day at Garfield School in Menlo Park on Aug. 24.

Let’s say that was the place where God looked at me. I always say God does not look at perfect folks, God looks at weakness as the niche where he wants to make himself manifest because what God wants is to save you.

group I had an encounter with God. I feel I went there in need.

Q: How did God manifest himself to you?

A: Yes. That also connected me with God and I feel that God used that need I had, that existential emptiness that I wanted to fill with rumba, that I wanted to fill with alcohol, that I wanted to fill with women, God filled it with his love. God took advantage of it and made me full. And I started a life, without leaving music behind because singing isn’t anything that is bad, it is part of normal life and work.

A: I have a cousin who is more annoying than carrying a pineapple under your arm, very intense. And she tells me, “Carlos can I invite to a youth group?” and I say, “To a youth group? What for, I want nothing with a youth group!” Then she tells me, “Liliana is coming too,” – a girl that she knew I liked – and then I say, “Fine, I’ll be there.” While in that

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Q: Was it a charismatic group?

Q: How long did that transition take you until you decided to change your life?

A: I have one sister from mom and dad. My dad has the charism of procreation so I have eight more brothers on my dad’s side, altogether ten.

Q: After a year of your ordination, what do your father and mother think?

A: My mom was Protestant. My mother was Pentecostal, and on the day of my ordination my mother converts to Catholicism because she receives Jesus in the Eucharist and feels that there is something there in that bread,

A: A long time. I think it took me a

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METS: ’69 Series miracle can inspire evangelization, says bishop FROM PAGE 1

new era of Catholic evangelization and dramatic missionary growth against all the odds and expectations and even become a model for the country.”

The pastoral letter – titled “Ya Gotta Believe!” – offers words of hope and inspiration to encourage Catholics to evangelize in their daily life.

“In short, Ya gotta truly believe and deeply believe in what we believe as Catholics,” he wrote.

“While we acknowledge realistically the challenges of a culture that is becoming increasingly unfriendly to religious views as well as all the challenges of the times, we also acknowledge that to give up on dramatic missionary growth is to forget the power of God at work in our hearts and in the world around us.”

To make his point, Bishop Barres recalled how veteran Mets catcher Jerry Grote during spring training told the young pitching staff that included future stars Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman and Nolan Ryan that he thought the team “can win the whole thing this year.”

The young players and others who heard Grote’s optimism at first were astonished to hear such words, but as the baseball season wore on, they began to believe in the seemingly impossible, Bishop Barres said. The club won 100 games and defeated a high-powered Baltimore Orioles team in five games to claim the World Series title.

The eight-page pastoral letter, illustrated with photos from the Mets’ season, comes just before the 50th anniversary of the clinching game Oct. 16, 1969.

Bishop Barres wrote that during a ceremony at Citi Field marking the anniversary in June, a young father of four said that the Mets’ accomplishment was inspiring to young people and could serve to “connect with our young people and with Catholics who have been away from the church for a while and yet who could feel re-energized by a fresh approach to evangelization.”

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This is the cover of a pastoral letter by Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre, N.Y. The pastoral letter, titled “Ya Gotta Believe,” recounts the New York Mets’ improbable World Series championship in 1969 and how it can inspire the Catholic Church to a new era of evangelization.

Bishop Barres called on lay Catholics, religious, clergy and bishops to “rediscover and rebelieve that dramatic missionary growth on Long Island is not only possible, but occurring right in front of us.”

He cited examples of Catholics involved in various

ministries, people entering the church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the activities of young people growing in their faith and advocating for justice, and new Catholic apologetics programs in schools as signs of a growing faith in the diocese.

Acknowledging that the “pain of the clergy sexual abuse crisis is very real,” Bishop Barres wrote that during all times of church history dramatic missionary growth “passes through the cross of Christ.”

The pastoral letter called for prayers for people in need and who are hurting and for inactive Catholics to return to the church.

“We pray that we could be missionaries, evangelizers and instruments of the Divine Mercy to atheists, agnostics, non-Catholics and to those who have painfully proclaimed that they have ‘left’ the Catholic Church. We pray too that we could be stronger in our ecumenical and interfaith witness and outreach,” the document said.

Bishop Barres said he believes “that the spirit of the 1969 Miracle Mets ... can help inspire Catholics on Long Island to believe in the dramatic missionary growth and the evangelizing mission of the Catholic Church on Long Island,” Bishop Barres wrote.

“No one predicted that the New York Mets would win the World Series in 1969,” he continued. “No one is predicting that the Catholic Church could experience a new era of profound and deep evangelization on Long Island and beyond.

“But it is possible with the power of the Holy Spirit guiding us an each one of us responding to our baptismal call to courageous holiness and mission. We gotta believe!”

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WASHINGTON – Catholics – clergy, religious and laypeople in the pews – can utilize the values of their faith to overcome the increasing fiery rhetoric emerging because of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s actions, several Catholic observers said.

While watching the caustic animosity that has deepened since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalifornia, announced the opening of the inquiry Sept. 24, those contacted by Catholic News Service expressed concern that American society is rapidly losing its sense of unity and that it may take years to repair the fractures.

The country is more than political wins and losses, said Arturo Chavez, president of the Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, which prepares people for various types of ministry.

“I’ve been just saying (to students) repeatedly that being Catholic is a much bigger commitment and view of the world and of our neighbor than a political party,” Chavez said. “Especially here in the United States, we’re led to believe that there are only two options. As we continue to escalate the rhetoric, those two choices become more and more extreme.

“What I keep telling people is that we have to look at the bigger call that we have as followers of Christ,” he said.

That call from the church – not necessarily the institution as a whole or the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, but individuals working in their circles of family and community – can play an important role in preserving civility, said Jesuit Father Joe Mueller, associate professor of theology and rector of the Jesuit community at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

He stressed that the United States is a not a “winner-take-all” nation.

“We need to recall things like we need to know the truth, we need to pursue justice if there’s been a wrong and to be prudent about it,” Father Mueller said. “We can say that no matter what state of information we have ourselves, we can recall that we are all citizens of this country and we don’t always agree. That doesn’t call into question someone else’s beliefs. We have a civic unity.

“We are all under the same style of representative government. This is something we can all get behind. If the Constitution doesn’t stand for truth and justice, we’ve got a real problem,” he added.

Recognizing the important role individuals play in a democracy calls for the church to “remind us that government should be about the common good and not just about political combat,” said John

man person; call to family, community and participation; rights and responsibilities; option for the poor and vulnerable; dignity of work and the rights of workers; solidarity; and care for God’s creation.

“A lot of people, especially in Washington, D.C., where it’s needed, come in with their fists up,” Ennis told CNS. “People come in to defend JOHN CARR themselves and atDirector of the Initiative on tack. We can come in Catholic Social Thought and Public Life there to defuse this at Georgetown University situation.”

One observer, however, was more pessimistic about the church’s role and said it may be individual Catholics who can soothe hateful feelings in politics.

Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, called for Catholics to “each in our own little world work toward a greater understanding and a greater tolerance.”

She expressed concern that Catholics, like others, are more widely influenced by national developments rather than the Gospel or the words of clergy. That has led to polarization in the church that parallels the political chasms in U.S. society, Cummings explained.

What’s her best advice for these times? “Prayer,” she said.

Indeed, prayer has helped people find the truth in their lives, Carr said, adding that he thought more people are praying more intensely at Mass and privately for a solution to the nation’s cavernous political divides.

“It would be important for all of us to hope that we find the truth, whether that benefits our preferred political party or not,” Carr said. “Maybe our church and our faith can remind us there are some important principles at stake here beyond who wins and loses.

“The search for both truth and peace are not in contradiction, at least in our world,” he added.

Chavez at the school in Texas said he found it interesting that the inquiry started as the church approached its celebration of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi Oct. 4. The saint, who focused on increasing the presence of Jesus in his life and treating all life with dignity, offers an example for Catholics to follow, he said.

“He strove for the third way. That’s what Catholics, as individuals and institutionally, should be striving for.”

‘In our own relationships, our own family, our own circle of friends and colleagues, we might try to lower the temperature and focus on the search for truth.’

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Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.

He lamented that the events of recent weeks are continuing the “dysfunction and demoralization of Washington” under which the search for truth becomes secondary to winning.

Carr, onetime director of the USCCB’s Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, told CNS that Catholics can begin to bridge the divides in their daily life.

“In our own relationships, our own family, our own circle of friends and colleagues, we might try to lower the temperature and focus on the search for truth,” he said.

“The Catholic community is one of the few major institutions in American life that brings people together across partisan, ideology, racial and ethical lines and in times of great division. That in itself is a good thing,” he said.

Such sentiments were echoed by Jim Ennis, executive director of Catholic Rural Life based in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ennis noted how farmers are particularly independent, but also realize they rely on interdependence for their livelihood. That interdependence has helped the Catholic Church convene rural communities from California’s Central Valley to the Midwest to address various concerns and, Ennis said, such examples can serve the rest of the country to calm the “anger and angst.”

With the church’s efforts rooted in Catholic social teaching and its seven principles that promote human dignity, the foundation for civil conversation that leads to understanding can be built, he said.

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WASHINGTON – Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, said late Oct. 3 he welcomes an apostolic visitation by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, New York.

News of the visitation, which will include “a review of the Diocese of Buffalo,” came via a communique released earlier by the apostolic nunciature in Washington, which is coordinating it.

Bishop Richard “Bishop Malone has commitJ. Malone ted to cooperate fully and stated that this visitation is for the good of the church in Buffalo,” said a statement issued by the Diocese of Buffalo. “The purpose of an apostolic visitation is to assist the diocese and improve the local church’s ability to minister to the people it serves.”

For more than a year, the Buffalo bishop has faced questions about how he has handled allegations of abuse against diocesan priests. “This is a difficult period in the life of the church in Buffalo,” Bishop DiMarzo said in an Oct. 3 statement.

“I pledge I will keep an open mind throughout the process and do my best to learn the facts and gain a thorough understanding of the situation in order to fulfill the mandate of this apostolic visitation.”

FETAL REMAINS FOUND IN RURAL ILLINOIS HAVE BEEN RETURNED HOME TO INDIANA

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said Oct. 3 he has overseen the return of the remains of 2,246 aborted fetuses back home to Indiana after they were discovered in September at the Illinois home of the late Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer.

An investigation into thousands of medical records found in close proximity to the fetuses confirmed they all were aborted by Klopfer during a period from 2000 to 2002 at three clinics he once ran in Indiana, located in Fort Wayne, Gary and South Bend.

“This investigation has been a team effort involving multiple offices and agencies since the day it began, and it remains a team effort as we proceed forward,” Hill said at a news conference. “Our priority throughout this process is to give proper respect to the remains of these unborn children and to the women and families associated with them.”

He added, “We are still working through the decision-making process in regard to ultimate disposition of these remains, and we will continue to proceed with appropriate care and consideration at each step of the way. For now, we can simply let everyone know that these remains are back home in Indiana.”

Catholic bishops of Indiana said the federal government’s decision this past summer to end a 16-year moratorium on executing federal inmates is “regrettable, unnecessary and morally unjustified. We respectfully implore that the sentences of all federal death-row inmates be commuted to life imprisonment,” said the statement, signed by the Indianapolis archbishop, three Indiana bishops and the diocesan administrator of the Gary diocese.

The church leaders noted they were making this plea during the Catholic Church’s celebration of Respect Life Month and because federal executions are primarily conducted in Indiana. Most of the federal death-row prisoners are at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute.

The bishops were responding to a July 25 announcement by the Justice Department that it would be reinstating the federal death penalty and that five inmates on federal death row will be executed from December of this year through next January. In announcing this reinstatement, Attorney General William Barr said: “The Justice Department upholds the rule of law – and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”

COURT URGED TO HEAR LOUISIANA, INDIANA CASES AND OVERTURN ROE

WASHINGTON – A group of national pro-life leaders gather outside the Supreme Court Oct. 2 to release a petition bearing 250,000 signatures that calls on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions.

The group urged the court to use two cases – from Louisiana and Indiana – this term to overturn the companion decisions that legalized abortion virtually on demand nationwide. “We are honored that 250,000 people have joined us in calling on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe,” said Allan Parker, president of the Justice Foundation, a pro-life nonprofit organization spearheading the effort.

Named “The Moral Outcry,” the petition is based on the premise “that U.S. citizens do not accept abortion as the law of the land,” said organizers, and “represents many who wish to see the innocent lives of children in the womb protected under the Constitution.”

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WASHINGTON – A new film on the life of St. Faustina Kowalski, the Polish nun whose visions of Jesus led to the Divine Mercy devotion, will have a one-night-only showing Oct. 28 at about 700 screens across the United States.

The 90-minute movie, “Love and Mercy: Faustina,” will also have some features about St. Faustina surrounding it, according to Marian Father Chris Alar, who is seen on-screen during the film.

Shot in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Mexico, Colombia and the United States, “Love and Mercy: Faustina” was filmed twice, with the actors speaking in English or Polish, said Father Alar in an Oct. 3 phone interview with Catholic News Service from his native Michigan, where he was giving a retreat.

“That makes it fairly unique,” he added.

The movie was directed by Michal Kondrat, who may be familiar to some Catholics as the director of “Two Crowns,” a 2017 film biography of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Father Alar said Kondrat had read the diaries of St. Faustina and was interested in developing a film based on the life of another Polish saint.

The filmmaker approached the Marians of the Immaculate Conception – Poland’s first nativefounded religious order for men back in 1670 – which as a congregation has a special devotion to St. Faustina. It was a member of this order who weaved his way through Nazi- and Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe to journey to the United States and spread the word of the nun, for whom he had been her spiritual director.

After some initial storyboards, the Marians brought out a documentary on St. Faustina the congregation had produced in the 1980s, “Divine Mercy: No Escape,” to flesh out added details, Father Alar said.

He added news of the Divine Mercy devotion – which is simply “love in action” – is “great and powerful and incredibly necessary,” because St. Faustina was told by Jesus the message for the end times: “’If you don’t pass through the doors of my mercy, you must pass through the doors of justice.’

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, October 20th marks a very special World Mission Sunday, our annual worldwide Eucharistic celebration for the Missions and missionaries of the world. This year it will be celebrated within the Extraordinary Missionary Month, a special month called for by Pope Francis in honor of the 100th anniversary of Pope Benedict XV’s Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud, which emphasized the missionary call to proclaim the Gospel.

During the month of October, Pope Francis invites all baptized Christians to a personal encounter with Jesus Christ through prayer, meditation on the Word of God, and pilgrimage. We seek to move beyond the typical “heroic vision” of missionaries and reinforce the transforming relationship between faith and the world to which we are called. Pope Francis reminds us that we are each “Baptized and Sent”; we are all the “Church of Christ on Mission in the World.”

I invite all of us in this Archdiocese to take this opportunity to revitalize our ardor, passion, and zeal for the faith with loving, missionary hearts. We can respond to our missionary call through charity, giving generously to the collection for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith on World Mission Sunday. Your gifts support and sustain priests, religious and lay pastoral leaders in more than 1,100 mission dioceses in Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and remote parts of Latin America and Europe as they proclaim the Gospel, build the Church, and serve the poor.

We can respond to this call through mirroring the loving witness exemplified by great missionaries like martyred Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, a model for missionary witness to our faith and the Gospel, and a passionate advocate for care of our common home and outreach to indigenous communities.

I thank you for your continuous commitment to this mission, and extend my personal gratitude for your generous response on this day, and throughout the Extraordinary Missionary Month, as you are able. Let us join our hearts in the prayer of our Holy Father for this special moment in the Missions: “May the love for the Church’s Mission, which is a passion for Jesus and a passion for His people, ‘grow ever stronger!’”

Gratefully yours in our Lord,

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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 KINGS 5:14-17 Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven time sat the word of Elisha, the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy. Naaman returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before Elisha and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant.” Elisha replied, “As the LORD lives whom I serve, I will not take it;” and despite Naaman’s urging, he still refused. Naaman said: “If you will not accept, please let me, your servant, have two muleloads of earth, for I will no longer offer holocaust or sacrifice to any other god except to the LORD.” PSALM 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; his right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm.

The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

The LORD has made his salvation known: in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.

The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands: break into song; sing praise.

The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

2 TIMOTHY 2:8-13 Beloved: Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David: such is my gospel, for which I am suffering, even to the point of chains, like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

Therefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, together with

eternal glory. This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

LUKE 17:11-19 As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And when he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” As they were going they were cleansed.

And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said in reply, “Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

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here is a charming story from the Eastern tradition about an old man planning mango saplings in rainy season. A curious neighbor asks him if he expects to eat the mangoes from those trees. The man says: “I’m old now and will surely not live long enough to enjoy the mangoes from these trees. However, I recently realized that I have eaten mangoes all my life from the trees planted by others. Now it is my turn to return the favor. People will eat mangoes from these trees long after I’m gone.

This is my way of showing them my gratitude.”

Planting fruit trees for others to enjoy could be metaphoric of how we FATHER CHARLES proceed in life. Children are PUTHOTA taught that “sharing is caring.” So simple a truth but so profound! In sharing our lives, we live gratefully. In living gratefully, we share our lives. That the attitude of gratitude is vital to our life is the theme of the Word of God this Sunday. This much-needed attitude makes a person humble, authentic and affable. It is not only easy but also joyful to relate to a person of gratitude. One can immediately detect the fragrance of gratitude-attitude in that person.

A person, out of the abundance of gratitude, thinks, speaks and acts in a certain way. A grateful person is not preoccupied with self, but goes out to love and help others. That person’s life is

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We could put ourselves in the place of the two former lepers: Naaman and the Samaritan. Having been touched and graced by God, we will let our life shine in the light of Christ. all about God and others. If someone does not live consistently from the source of gratitude, it will often show in the form of that person’s general dissatisfaction with people and situations – and express itself in the person’s negative approach to life in general. God himself finds gratitude irresistible. Hence the saying of the English writer Izaak Walton: “God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.” The need for gratitude is immense.

Hence this prayer of George Herbert: “Thou that hast giv’n so much to me, / Give one thing more, a grateful heart.” We are all in desperate need of grateful hearts.

Naaman the Syrian has a grateful heart.

Astonished at the way Elisha could bring God’s blessing of healing to him, he now overflows with powerful feelings of gratitude. His offer of a gift is rejected by the prophet. But he decides to take “two mule-loads of earth” back to his country where he “will no longer offer holocaust or sacrifice to any other god except to the LORD.” His gratitude from now on is going to be not in words, but in the way he will relate to the true God. He will turn away from the old ways. He understands now that his gratitude can be best

expressed not through material gifts but through faith and love toward the God of amazing grace.

The cleansed Samaritan in the Gospel comes “glorifying God in a loud voice” and falls “at the feet of Jesus” to thank him. Jesus’ question “Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God” does not mean “they should have all come to thank me.” Rather, Jesus wants them to demonstrate that they can take hold of the new life given to them, appreciate the blessing of being restored to community, hear the call to live grateful lives now, and accept the mission of sharing their lives with God and others. Having received God’s blessings, we express our gratitude by putting our lives at the service of God and others. We cannot go away to pamper ourselves but come back to God and community to joyfully celebrate the gifts and live for others in gratitude. All this is expressed in Jesus commissioning the Samaritan: “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

We could put ourselves in the place of the two former lepers: Naaman and the Samaritan. Having been touched and graced by God, we will let our life shine in the light of Christ. We are to move away from the old “gods” and turn to our loving and cherishing God in Christ who commissions us to love and serve, to help and heal.

We are sinful, but graced. We are wounded, but healed. We are to “stand up and go” to the contemporary world to bring God’s love and grace – so that no person in the human family may be deprived of God’s lavish blessings.

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA, PH.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco, and director of pastoral ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 14: Monday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Callistus I, pope and martyr. ROM 1:1-7. PS 98:1bcde, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. PS 95:8. LK 11:29-32.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15: Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, virgin and doctor. ROM 1:16-25. PS 19:2-3, 4-5.

HEB 4:12. LK 11:37-41.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16: Wednesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin. ROM 2:1-11. PS 62:2-3, 6-7, 9. JN 10:27. LK 11:42-46.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr. ROM 3:21-30. PS 130:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab. JN 14:6. LK 11:47-54.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18: Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist. 2 TM 4:10-17b. PS 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18. SEE JN 15:16. LK 10:1-9.

ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John Paul II. ROM 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21. PS 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17. LK 21:36. LK 12:35-38.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19: Memorial of Sts. Isaac Jogues and John de Brebeuf, priests and martyrs and companions, martyrs. ROM 4:13, 16-18. PS 105:6-7, 8-9, 42-43. JN 15:26b, 27a. LK 12:8-12.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23: Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John of Capistrano, priest. ROM 6:12-18. PS 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8. MT 24:42a, 44. LK 12:39-48.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20: Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. EX 17:8-13. PS 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8.

2 TM 3:14-4:2. HEB 4:12. Lk 18:1-8.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21: Monday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. ROM 4:20-25. LUKE 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. MT 5:3. LK 12:13-21.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22: Tuesday of the Twenty-

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24: Thursday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret, bishop. ROM 6:19-23. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. PHIL 3:8-9. LK 12:49-53.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25: Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. ROM 7:18-25a. PS 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94. SEE MT 11:25. LK 12:54-59.

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Creating and holding space for our brokenness

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ome years ago I went on a weekend retreat given by a woman who made no secret about the fact that not being able to have children constituted a deep wound in her life. So she offered retreats on the pain of being unable to have children. Being a celibate and not having my own children, I went on one of these retreats, the only man to venture there.

The rest of the participants were women, mostly in their 40s and 50s, who had not borne children of their own.

Our leader, using scripture, biography, poetry and psychology, examined the issue FATHER RON of barrenness from many ROLHEISER points of view. The retreat came to a head on Saturday evening with a ritual in chapel in which various participants went up a huge cross and spoke out their pain for Jesus and everyone else to hear. That was followed by us watching, together, the British movie “Secrets and Lies,” within which one woman’s heartache at being unable to conceive a child is powerfully highlighted. Afterwards there was a lot of honest sharing of feelings – and lots and lots of tears! But after that painful sharing of pain and the over-generous tears which accompanied it, the entire atmosphere changed, as if some dark storm had just done its thing but left us still intact. There was relief, and plenty of laughter and lightheartedness. A storm had indeed passed us over and we were safe.

All pain can be borne if it can be shared. Art Schopenhauer is credited with saying that, but, irrespective of who said it first, it captures what happened at

that retreat. A deep pain was made easier to bear not because it was taken away but because it was shared, and shared in a “sacramental” way. Yes, there are sacraments that don’t take place in a church, but still have sacramental power. And we need more of these.

For example, Rachel Held Evans writes: “Often I hear from readers who have left their churches because they had no songs for them to sing after the miscarriage, the shooting, the earthquake, the divorce, the diagnosis, the attack, the bankruptcy. The American tendency toward triumphalism, of optimism rooted in success, money, and privilege, will infect and sap of substance any faith community that has lost its capacity for holding space for those in grief.”

She’s right. Our churches aren’t creating enough space for holding grief. In essence: In the everyday, practical spirituality of community, prayer, liturgy and Eucharist within our churches we don’t lean sufficiently on the fact that Christ is both a dying and a rising reality. We generally don’t take the dying part of Christ as seriously as we should. What are the consequences?

Among other things, it means that we don’t create enough communal, ritual celebrations in our churches within which people can feel free to own and express their brokenness and grief communally and in a “sacramental” way. Granted our churches do have funeral rites, sacraments of the sick, reconciliation services, special prayer services after a tragedy within a community, and other rituals and gatherings that are powerful spaces for holding grief and brokenness. However (with the exception of the sacrament of reconciliation which though is generally a private, one-to-one ritual) these are generally tied to a special, singular circumstance such as a death, a serious sickness or an episodic tragedy within a community.

What we lack are regular ecclesially based, communal rituals, analogous to an Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, around which people can come, share their brokenness, and experience a grace that can only come from community.

We need various kinds of “sacramental” celebrations in our churches within which, to use Rachel Held Evans’ terminology, we can create and hold space for those who are grieving a broken heart, a miscarriage, an abortion, a dire medical diagnosis, a bankruptcy, the loss of a job, a divorce, a forced retirement, a rejection in love, the death of a cherished dream, the movement into assisted living, the adjustment to an empty nest within a marriage, barrenness and frustrations of every kind.

What will these rituals look like? Mostly they don’t exist yet so it is up to us to invent them. Charles Taylor suggests that the religious struggle today is not so much a struggle of faith but a struggle of the imagination. Nobody has ever lived in this kind of world before. We need some new rituals. We’re pioneers in new territory, and pioneers have to improvise. Admittedly, pain and brokenness have always been with us, but past generations had communal ways of creating space for holding grief. Families, communities, and churches then had less of a struggle with the kind individualism that today leaves us mostly alone to deal with our brokenness. Today there’s no longer a sufficient communal and ecclesial structure to help us accept that, here in this life, we live “mourning and weeping in a valley of tears.”

We need to imagine some new, sacramental rituals within which to help hold our grief.

NOT confused – we have our God-given capacity to think, learn and growl. My second thought is that it is beyond belief that any “educated” Catholic would state that “the Church has NEVER changed Her teaching.” Of course teachings change. We are in process, growing, changing, evolving. Anyone or anything which refuses to grow is dead. And the cosmic risen Christ is totally ALIVE. How sad that some people are afraid of life.

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tion by Pope John XXIII is strong indication of willingness to change. Whatever the result (“Humanae Vitae,” July 27, 1968), the pope’s intention for the commission was to evaluate need for change in teachings formulated within the previous 60 years.

It is exactly because potential of change gives HOPE to the faithful that it is uncharitable for Archbishop Chaput to deny the possibility!

Alex M. Saunders, MD San Carlos

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

LETTERS No, the president is not ‘cleaning house’

In regard to Mr. Farber’s letter to the editor (Sept.

12), I have never seen the words of Christ applied to a politician. The words are supposed to explain what President Trump is doing to the country. I wish I could see what Mr. Farber sees in President Trump, but I cannot. I see this: • President Trump claims he is for the little man, but his massive tax cut mainly helped big corporations and the wealthy.

• President Trump tried to wipe out the Affordable Care Act without having a viable replacement, and millions of people would have lost their healthcare insurance.

• By withdrawing from the Iran deal, President Trump showed our allies and the world that America doesn’t keep its promises.

• President Trump calls people he disagrees with derogatory names as if he had stepped off a children’s playground.

• President Trump’s opinion on something appears to depend on what he last saw on Fox News or the last person he spoke to. His word cannot be trusted.

• President Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement and continues to roll back environmental protection measures. Scientists say climate change exists.

• President Trump never admits mistakes even when he believes Vladimir Putin over American intelligence sources in regard to Russian meddling.

• President Trump tries to run the government like a company. The American government is not a company. Companies are interested in profits alone.

Governments are responsible for taking care of an entire country and that country’s place in the world.

Is this cleaning house? President Trump ran for president but didn’t think he would win. He is still the most unprepared person for the job, and he hasn’t changed since January 2017. I only hope that our nation does not have a national crisis under his watch.

Richard Morasci San Francisco

Not confused

Having read the article about James Martin, SJ, and the retiring Archbishop Chaput’s response, I have two thoughts. One, Archbishop Chaput and others who agree with him love to say that Pope Francis and those priests who agree with him are “confusing” laypeople. I would like to assure them that I, and many others like me, as laity, are

Uncharitable to deny potential of change

Re “Chaput: Father Martin’s message causes confusion about doctrine,” Sept. 26: One paragraph in this article should be posted on every bulletin board and used as guide when reading any opinion article. It is quoted here: “What is implied or omitted often speaks as loudly as what is actually stated, and in the current climate, incomplete truths do, in fact, present a challenge to faithful Catholic belief.”

Another statement in the same article must be challenged since it presents a partial truth as defined above. It implies that the church can never change its teachings regarding human sexuality.

I do not question what the church presently teaches. Stating those teachings cannot change is not supported when examining all the facts.

First, the church has a hierarchy of teachings.

Some are unchangeable fundamentals. Pope Paul VI listed these in his “Apostolic Letter, Creed of the People of God” (June 30, 1968). The list includes only beliefs contained within creeds we repeatedly pray. Lower on the hierarchy, and changeable on inspiration of the Holy Spirit, are the numerous teachings, rules and encyclicals that are either old or new or re-formulated from previous teachings from time to time.

Second, lower teachings were created by the church as interpretations of Scripture. Interpretations were based on culture of the day. New science and new understanding of the human person witness changed culture.

Third, formation of a Commission on Contracep-

Both challenge and comfort in Luke 13:22

Peace and Good! I was moved to write you after Maureen Nunes’ letter (Sept. 12) regarding Father William Nicholas’ Scripture reflection, “The Tragic Teaching of the Narrow Gate,” (Aug. 22). While Father Nicholas’ point about avoiding complacency or any sense of salvation as a given is important – Jesus’ call always requires a response – the tone of his reflection presents an incomplete understanding of Luke 13:22 ff.

The problem is Father Nicholas’ focus on the demands of God’s call without also acknowledging, as Ms. Nunes says, “his promises of hope and love and mercy.” Father Nicholas quotes the first half of Matthew 19:26, “For human beings it is impossible,” but sadly leaves off the second half, “but for God all things are possible.” Jesus’ response to the question, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” is not about numbers or guarantees of salvation, but rather about a tendency of certain people (e.g., the Pharisees) to limit God’s salvation to themselves.

We don’t have any idea of numbers, but it is good to remember that in Matthew 8:11 Jesus says, “Many will come from the east and the west and will find a place at the banquet in the kingdom of God.” Also, while it is true that Jesus in the Gospels rarely says that anyone’s salvation is assured, he does often say, as to the sinful woman who wept at His feet, “Your faith has been your salvation” (Luke 7:50). The Gospel message is one of both challenge and comfort, and we human beings need both in order to live its message. May the Lord bless and keep you!

Father Robert A. Barbato, OFM Cap Mission Santa Inés Solvang

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Palliative sedation while approaching death

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ecause suffering almost always imposes itself on us during life, and especially at the end of life, it can be helpful to reflect on the need to accept some personal suffering as we die, even as we recognize the importance of palliative steps and other comfort measures.

In the last week of life, more than 90 percent of patients require medical management of symptoms such as pain, nausea, delirium, spasmodic contractions of muscles, vomiting, hallucinations FATHER TADEUSZ or generalized agitation.

PACHOLCZYK Many of these symptoms can be addressed with medication, and serious pain can often be managed with powerful opioids like morphine or fentanyl.

These remarkable drugs, however, call for discernment in their use because at higher dosages, they can limit mental clarity and induce an extended semidreamland state as death approaches.

The U.S. Catholic bishops offer an important observation about participating in our own dying process in their “Ethi-

MAKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS

cal and Religious Directives.” “Since a person has the right to prepare for his or her death while fully conscious,” it says, “he or she should not be deprived of consciousness without a compelling reason.”

In some cases, the harsh symptoms associated with dying may prove refractory to treatments, prompting physicians to consider, during a patient’s final stretch of days, the possibility of a globalized form of sedation known as “palliative sedation.” This approach, which relies on the monitored use of sedatives, barbiturates, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or other anesthetic medications, entirely deprives the patient of consciousness as he or she enters into a deep comatose state until death. One concern is that the reception of the sacraments, whether confession, the anointing of the sick or the Eucharist/Viaticum becomes problematic for an unconscious person.

This purposeful and complete shutting down of consciousness also raises broader ethical and spiritual concerns about categorically precluding participation in one’s death, as well as the last days of life.

While for some dying patients, severe pain can almost entirely preclude their ability to think, once the intensity of their pain has been moderated, the possibility of reflection returns, as the mind no longer focuses on mere survival.

Medications can thus be helpful to dying patients by keeping the harmful effects

of pain within narrower limits. The decision, however, definitively to shut down, through palliative sedation, that very faculty by which we exercise the conscious “parenting of our actions” surely requires the gravest of motives.

St. John Paul II once remarked that the meaning of suffering has been revealed to man in the cross of Jesus Christ. The church has indeed ascribed a certain primacy to the way he endured and sanctified the sorrowful and painful events surrounding his crucifixion, even before his preaching and teaching, or his healing and forgiving. Through those final sufferings, Jesus brought about the redemption of humanity and the entirety of creation.

Paradoxically, his redemptive activity upon the gibbet of the cross was pre-eminently an inward, internalized movement of his will. Since he could not so much as budge a limb, his chief action and motion upon the cross was the surrender of his innermost being, embracing and assenting fully to God the Father’s designs. His example reminds us how the movement from external activity to the acceptance of God’s will, from outward action in the world to inward activity of the soul, is one the most important movements during our life’s journey.

When Christians speak of “the value of redemptive suffering,” they are hinting at how, even in the midst of great personal suffering, human activity can be reoriented from that corporal,

outward-looking glance to an inward, spiritually-directed transcendence.

The inward movement of our being in our final days and hours can involve a kind of transformation or conversion, sometimes quite dramatic, as in the case of the good thief. It can involve a contemplative internalization of the mysteries of human existence, a stripping away of everything, and a period of “rending naked” the soul.

That’s why it is so important for us not to be entirely deprived of our consciousness except for the most extreme reasons. That’s why it’s so important for us to be prepared to learn how to endure some pain so that we can more fully cooperate with the redemptive meaning of suffering.

Our concluding time on earth may thus serve an important role in our own eschatological fulfillment. Our last days and hours can also powerfully affect the course of that fulfillment in others around us, as occurred in the lives of various bystanders on that historic day on Calvary. When we find ourselves nailed to our hospital bed, it can become an important personal moment for us to engage the possibility of a spiritual transformation opening before us, as we pass through the pains of childbirth to the joy of new life (John 16:21).

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

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MARIN COUNTY St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Mon-Sat after 9 a.m. Mass.

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

St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, Tues-Fri at 7:30 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass. (415) 924 0600.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Avenue, weekdays and Sat, 8:35 a.m. before the 9 a.m. Mass in the chapel; (415) 664-8590.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, Porziuncola Chapel, Sat, 2:30 p.m. followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy; www.ShrineSF.org, info@shrinesf.org, (415) 986-4557.

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

St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, Mon-Sat, 8:35 a.m.

St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St., Mon-Sat after 8 a.m. Mass; (415) 468-0820, www.stelizabethsf.org.

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, Mon-Fri after the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., Mon-Fri, following the 12:05 p.m. Mass; Sat, before the 8 a.m. Mass, (415) 422-2188. Sat at 9:30 a.m. after 9 a.m. Mass; (415) 334-4646; www.saintjohnparish.com.

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

St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Blvd., Mon-Fri, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass.

Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, second Sunday of the month in

Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http:// salesiansspp.org/.

St. Philip the Apostle Church, 725 Diamond, Holy Hour & Rosary Mon-Sat following the 8 a.m. Mass, (except Tuesdays). Office contact (415) 282-0141

St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, Mon-Sat following the 8 a.m. Mass; info@ SaintStephenSF.org (415) 681-2444.

Star of the Sea Church, 8th Avenue at Geary Blvd.: Tuesdays 7p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament in the

Church; Saturdays 3:20 p.m. right after Divine Mercy Devotion in Church; 2nd Sundays 3:15 p.m. for Priest and Vocations in the Church; 3rd Sundays @ 11 a.m. Holy Rosary Sodality in our St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 1st Sunday before the 9:30 a.m. Mass; 2nd Sat right after the 8:30 a.m. 2000 Hail Mary Devotion in the School Cafeteria (415) 751-0450; www.starparish.com.; admin@starparish.com.;Facebook: starparishsf.

SAN MATEO COUNTY Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Mon-Fri following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Saturday following

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Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Mon-Sat approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass,

(650) 755-0478.

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

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Mon-Sat after 9 a.m. Mass.

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St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Mon-Sat, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass (650) 697-4730.

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

St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Mon-Sat following the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Mark Church, 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont, Mon/Tue/Wed, 7:30 p.m.; (650) 591-5937; www.saintmarksparish.com.

St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, Rosary for Peace in the Merry

Room of Fr. Lacey Hall, Friday mornings at 9:15 am. www.stmatthiasparish.org.

St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Mon-Sat 7:30 a.m., Mon and Wed 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net.

St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco. Mon-Sat 7:50 a.m. (650) 588-1455.

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development programs or museum-like cultural guardianships or pastoral actions in the same noncontemplative style that leads to actions that give counter signs,” the pope said.

“We come to contemplate, to understand, to serve the people, and we do it by following a synodal path,” he said. “We do it within the synod, not in roundtables, not in conferences and hidden discussions. We do it within the synod because a synod is not a parliament.”

The first full day of the synod began with a prayer service in front of the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica with members of indigenous communities standing arm-in-arm with cardinals and bishops singing as they waited for Pope Francis.

When the pope arrived, he led the invocation of the Holy Spirit’s assistance with the chanting of “Veni, Creator Spiritus” (“Come, Holy Spirit”) before processing with the large group from the basilica to the synod hall.

In his speech, the pope said it was important that the church stand with the people of the Amazon and steer clear of ideologies and “ready-made programs that attempt to ‘discipline’ the Amazonian peoples, discipline their history and their culture.”

Ideologies, he said, are a “dangerous weapon” that can lead the church toward a pretentious attitude that reduces the understanding of indigenous people and their cultures to “categories of ‘isms’” and prejudiced name-calling.

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Pope Francis participates in a prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the start of the first session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 7, 2019.

The pope also encouraged synod participants to reflect, to listen with humility and to speak with courage, “even if you are embarrassed.”

Highlighting the importance of responsible journalism in reporting the synod accurately, the pope urged participants to act with prudence when speaking to the press, adding that the synod “can be ruined a bit” by members speaking too freely with reporters.

Pope Francis said this often leads to forming two synods: one inside the Vatican and one outside.

“There is the inside synod that follows the path of Mother Church, of caring for the processes, and the outside synod that, due to information given flip-

pantly and given with imprudence, causes those who inform to commit errors,” the pope said.

Speaking at the synod’s opening session Oct. 7, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes identified key issues for the synod based on consultations held in church jurisdictions in the nine Amazonian countries over the past year and a half.

Introducing the themes of the synod, the cardinal said that the church must turn outward and seek new pathways, as well as ways of inserting itself into Amazonian cultures. Synod participants also must consider new ways of providing pastoral care, possibly developing new ministries, in a place with too few church workers.

“The church needs to throw open her doors, knock down the walls surrounding her and build bridges, going out into the world and setting out on the path of history,” Cardinal Hummes said, underscoring the pope’s emphasis on a missionary church.

In times of change, he said, the church’s role is to accompany people who live “on the margins of humankind.”

The church remains loyal to its tradition not by remaining “linked to the past,” but by recognizing its “living history,” in which each generation “enriches this tradition ... with their own experience and understanding of faith in Jesus Christ,” Cardinal Hummes said.

“We must not fear newness; we must not fear Christ, the new,” he said. “This synod is in search of new pathways.”

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He also had experience with the pastoral side of another issue that had drawn increasing attention from the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation: same-sex marriage. He told a Synod of Bishops in 1997 that his own experience in San Francisco had

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“The city’s human rights commission named me as contributing to a ‘climate’ of discrimination against homosexuals because I said public recognition should not be given to so-called ‘gay marriages,’” he said.

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In 2004, Archbishop Levada helped lead a prayer rally for the defense and promotion of marriage after the city of San Francisco decided to issue same-sex marriage licenses.

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Vatican summit highlights dangers in tech revolution ROBERT DUNCAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Robots making human workers obsolete and artificially intelligent computers wreaking havoc on democratic debates are just some of the threats humanity faces in the increasingly digital future, Pope Francis said.

“If mankind’s so-called technological progress were to become an enemy of the common good, this would lead to an unfortunate regression, to a form of barbarism dictated by the law of the strongest,” the pope said Sept. 27 at a meeting with participants at the Vatican-sponsored conference, “The Common Good in the Digital Age.” The pope urged the assembly – comprised of Silicon Valley CEOs, a Facebook lawyer and specialists in robotics, cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, as well as moral theologians – to find a unifying ethical framework to guide tech entrepreneurs, inventors and venture capitalists in an increasingly diverse, globalized world.

With the internet, “it is possible, as never before, to circulate tendentious opinions and false data that could poison public debates” to the point of “endangering the very institutions that guarantee peaceful coexistence,” the pope warned.

Cautionary notes also were struck by conference speakers Sept. 26 at the inaugural session of the three-day seminar.

“Many of us would have hoped that digitalization, easing communication and shortening the distance

between people would have created an easier environment for discussion and for dialogue,” Bishop Paul Tighe, adjunct secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, told the gathering.

Instead, Bishop Tighe said, advances in digital communication technologies have increased social and economic inequalities, polarized politics and altered human culture in profound ways.

But one positive trend is that the business leaders and scientists at the vanguard of the digital revolution are beginning to recognize the ethical implications of their work, Bishop Tighe said.

Silicon Valley leaders have observed how “bad actors have managed to do different things with instruments that were developed with the best of intentions,” Bishop Tighe said, and this has led to “a turn to ethics.”

Those pioneering the future of artificial intelligence, for example, “are determined that this should be developed ethically,” he said. “So, we hear things like ‘It’s going to be ethical by design,’ ‘It’s going to be at the service of humanity,’ ‘It’s going to be AI for good,’ ‘It’s going to be human- or person-centered AI.’” Bishop Tighe said that one thing the church might be able to bring to the discussion is the ethical system “that we have tended to work with within the Catholic tradition, that of the natural moral law.”

Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of Mozilla, told the conference that whatever moral guidelines are developed to govern the tech industry, it “won’t meet

the exact traditions of any one of us.”

“We can find something general that touches the core of humanity,” she said, “and build it into some organization and structure that’s actually effective.”

Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn and venture capitalist at Greylock Partners, said one challenge to developing a shared set of moral ideals in the tech industry is the “fairly ferocious” competition between companies.

The first to develop a new product “tends to win the market,” Hoffman said. “How do you both play that intensively competitive game and balance these other issues?”

Added to that, Hoffman said, is the fact that what tends to sell best are those products that appeal to the baser aspects of human nature.

“I say I invest in one or more of the seven deadly sins,” Hoffman said. “Whether it’s sloth, vanity, wrath,” or any of the other “deadly sins,” they are natural inclinations found among people everywhere.

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PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD, AVOID BORING SPEECHES, POPE TELLS NEWS BISHOPS

VATICAN CITY – Ordaining four new bishops, Pope Francis reminded them that a bishop is first and foremost an apostle, not an administrator who doles out dull discourses.

“Proclaim the true word, not boring speeches that no one understands.

Proclaim the word of God,” the pope said in his homily Oct. 4 at the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

“Remember that according to Peter, in the Acts (of the Apostles), the two principal tasks of the bishop are prayer and proclaiming the word. Then the other administrative (tasks), but these two are the backbone,” he said.

The pope presided over the Oct. 4 ordination Mass of the new bishops, including Canadian Cardinal-designate Michael Czerny, who will be created a cardinal at the Oct. 5 consistory.

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Charles Drennan of Palmerston North.

Bishop Drennan tendered his resignation following an investigation into a complaint of unacceptable behavior of a sexual nature. The complaint was made by a young woman.

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Cardinal Dew said the woman had requested that details of the complaint remain private. He commended her for reporting Bishop Drennan’s behavior.

said speakers at a U.N. event Sept. 27.

The participants in a high-level panel discussion said 80% of people killed because of their religious beliefs are Christian and the number of Christians hurt or displaced is on the rise.

Teodoro Lopez Locsin Jr., Philippines secretary of foreign affairs, said 4,100 Christians were killed for their beliefs in 50 countries in 2018 and an average of 250 Christians have been killed each month of 2019. He said the deaths are “a votive offering of the West to the oil-rich East.”

“The next Holocaust will be of Christians,” Locsin said, even though many of the world’s greatest powers profess to be Christian or have a Christian heritage.

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UNITED NATIONS – Christians are the most persecuted religious group worldwide, but hypocrisy, political correctness and ignorance prevent the international community from implementing a comprehensive response to pervasive violence against them,

OXFORD, England – Germany’s Catholic bishops are pressing ahead with a national reform consultation, or “synodal way,” despite cautions from the Vatican and criticism from some bishops.

“At their spring assembly, the

German bishops decided by common consent to follow the synodal way, and they’ve continued working toward this at their latest plenary in Fulda,” said Matthias Kopp, spokesman for the Bonn-based bishops’ conference.

“The synodal way is a ‘sui generis’ process, and not a synod or a particular council, and there’ll be no separate German process, without Rome, on questions touching the universal church.

But we hope to offer ideas and contributions to the universal church,” he said.

Kopp spoke as documents were published from the bishops’ Sept. 23-26 autumn plenary, clarifying plans for the two-year consultation, organized by the bishops’ conference and lay-led Central Committee of German Catholics.

In an Oct. 1 interview with Catholic News Service, he said the initiative, to be launched Dec. 1, had been prompted by “loss of credibility” and “institutional failure” highlighted in a September 2018 church-commissioned report, which detailed the cases of more than 3,600 children sexually abused by Catholic clergy over six decades.

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He added that the conference president, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, had “cleared everything up” during talks Sept. 19-20 with Pope Francis and Vatican officials, and said the bishops were convinced its findings could be “useful and instructive” for the church in other countries.

“You can see the synodal way as exemplifying a listening church – the bishops want to concentrate on the questions believers are asking,” Kopp said.

“The bishops’ conference has verified the issues – authority, participation, the separation of powers, sexual morality, the priestly life, women in church services and orders – and wish to face these issues. A vast number of believers are waiting for this, and the bishops see it as their pastoral mission.”

“To enter into the word of God means to be willing to go beyond one’s own limitations to encounter God and to conform oneself to Christ who is the living word of the father,” the pope said.

AUSTRALIAN STATES TO HAVE PRIESTS REPORT ABUSE DISCLOSED IN CONFESSION

SYDNEY – The Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania have become the latest in the country to pass legislation criminalizing priests who fail to report the abuse of children disclosed during confession. The country’s six states and two territories are all expected have such laws in place in coming months.

But some clerics, including Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli, one of Australia’s most senior and vocal bishops, have vowed to ignore the laws in an effort to uphold the seal of the confessional.

Archbishop Comensoli told Australian public radio that he would urge anyone who confessed to child sexual abuse to tell police. But he added that he, personally, would not break the seal, preferring to go to jail.

The laws broadly make it a crime if members of the clergy do report abuse or suspected abuse to police. Penalties for breaching the new laws range from fines to decades in prison, and the laws underscore the rollback of special concessions for the church in Australia following the country’s landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

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San Rafael Dominicans’ leadership team installed

Sister Carla Kovack, OP, became the 16th Prioress General of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael during a Sept. 22 ceremony in which Sister Kovak and her new leadership team were installed at the congregation’s Marin County campus. They will serve a four-year term.

Sister Kovak served as a member of the congregation’s leadership team under the direction of her predecessor, Sister Maureen McInerney, OP. In her installation reflection, Sister Kovak said the congregation’s call is to “seed future generations with a desire to preach a Gospel of truth, love, and justice.”

OBITUARY BROTHER JOHN SAMAHA, SM

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The new Dominican Sisters of San Rafael leadership team, from left: Sister Margaret Diener, OP; Sister Barbara Green, OP; Sister Carla Kovack, OP; Sister Catherine Murray, OP; and Sister Abby Newton, OP.

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27, 2019.

Born to Lebanese immigrant parents in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 1930, Brother John entered the Brother John Marianist NoviSamaha, SM tiate in Beacon, N.Y., in August 1948, professing first vows in 1949, and perpetual vows in 1953.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Marianist University of Dayton and a master’s from the Catholic University of America.

In his active apostolic years he taught in Catholic schools in California, Washington and Lebanon. He served in diocesan

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education offices in San Francisco and Oakland, and served on the formation team for the Marianists’ Pacific Province.

While in retirement at Villa St. Joseph at the Marianist Center in Cupertino, Brother John was a prolific writer for various Catholic periodicals, including Catholic San Francisco.

He assisted in projects for The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton, the Mariological Society of America, and the Eastern Catholic Churches.

Brother Samaha was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos following a funeral Mass at the Marianist Center Oct. 1.

Memorials may be made to The Marianist Province of the U.S.; 4425 West Pine Blvd.; St. Louis, Missouri, 63108-2301.

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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament All Souls Parish: 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-871-8944. 1st Friday: Immediately after the 5:15 pm (English) Mass or 6:30 pm (Spanish) Mass.

St. Anne of the Sunset Parish: 850 Judah St., San Francisco 94122; 1-415-665-1600. 1st Friday: after 8:45 am Mass until 10 am (Benediction).

Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption: 1111 Gough St., San Francisco 94109; 1-415-567-2020.

1st Friday (24 hours): 8:30 am Friday- 8 am Saturday.

St. Anthony of Padua Parish: 1000 Cambridge St., Novato 94947; 1-415-883-2177. 1st Friday: 9:30 am to 5 pm; Tuesday: 8:30 to 9 am.

Church of the Assumption of Mary Parish: 26825 Shoreline Hwy., Tomales 94971; 1-707-878-2208. Sunday: 6pm; Monday, Tuesday; noon (bilingual).

St. Bartholomew Parish: 300 Alameda de las Pulgas (at Crystal Springs), San Mateo 94402; 1-650-347-0701. 1st Fridays following 8 am Mass concludes 8 pm

Church of the Epiphany Parish: 827 Vienna St., San Francisco 94112; 1-415-333-7630. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5 pm.

St. Brendan Parish: 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco 94127; 1-415-681-4225. Wednesday: 7-8 pm; Saturday: 4-4:45 pm.

Church of the Good Shepherd Parish: 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica 94044; 1-650-355-2593. Friday: 7:30 am-5 pm.

St. Bruno Parish: 555 San Bruno Ave. West, San Bruno 94066; 1-650-588-2121. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish: 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas; 1-650-593-6157.

1st Friday: 7-8 pm Holy Hour.

St. Cecilia Parish: 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco 94116; 1-415-664-8481. 1st Friday (24 hours): 7 am Friday-7 am Saturday.

Church of the Nativity Parish: 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park 94025; 1-650-323-7914. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas: 450 W. Cintura Ave., Lagunitas 94938; 1-415-488-9799. Monday: After 8 am Mass.

Church of the Visitacion Parish: 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco 94134; 1-415-494-5517. 1st Friday: 7:30 am-6:30 pm (7 pm Mass).

St. Charles Parish: 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070; 1-650-591-7349. 1st Friday: 9 am-10 pm.

Holy Angels Parish: 107 San Pedro Rd., Colma 94014. 1-650755-0478. Monday: after 5:45 pm Mass; 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

Holy Name of Jesus Parish: 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco 94122; 1-415-664-8590. Every Wednesday: after 9 am Massnoon (Benediction).

St. Dominic Parish: 2390 Bush St., San Francisco 94115; 1-415-567-7824. 1st Friday: 2-4:30 pm; 9 pm-7:30 am (Saturday).

St. Elizabeth Parish: 459 Somerset St., San Francisco 94134; 1-415-468-0820. 1st Friday: after 8 am Mass (Holy Hour in the church). 3rd Saturday 8:45 am-3:30pm Rectory Chapel, 449 Holyoke St.

Mater Dolorosa Parish: 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-583-4131. 1st Friday: 8:30-10 am

St. Finn Barr Parish: 415 Edna St., San Francisco 94112; 1-415-333-3627. Monday-Thursday: 8:30 am-4 pm; Friday: 8:30 am-6 pm (Closed on holidays).

Mission Dolores Basilica: 3321 16th St. (at Dolores St.), San Francisco; 1-415-621-8203. 1st Friday: 6 pm (Adoration) (Old Mission, bilingual English/Spanish).

St. Francis of Assisi Parish: 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto 94303; 1-650-322-2152. 1st Friday: 7:30 pm-8 am (Saturday); 1st Saturday: 7:30 pm-7 am (Sunday).

Our Lady of Mercy Church: 1 Elmwood Drive, Daly City, 94015; 650-755-2727. Fridays: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., concluding with Evening Prayer & Benediction at 6 p.m. First Fridays: Eucharistic Adoration from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Benediction & Mass at 6 p.m.

St. Gregory Parish: 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403; 1-650-345-8506. 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish: 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley 94941; 1-415-388-4190. Tuesday: 8:30 am; Wednesday: 7:30 am.

St. Matthew Parish: One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo 94402; 1-650-344-7622. Monday-Friday: 7 am-9 pm (in the chapel).

St. Patrick Parish: 114 King St., Larkspur 94939; 1-415-9240600. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-3 pm St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish: 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco 94124; 1-415-468-3434. 1st Friday: after 7 pm Communion Service.

St. Peter Parish: 1200 Florida St., San Francisco 94110; 1-415282-1652. 1st Friday: 10 am-7 pm.

St. Peter Parish: 700 Oddstad Blvd. (at Linda Mar), Pacifica 94044; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

St. Pius Parish: 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: Friday 8:30 am to 9 pm St. Raymond Parish: 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park 94025; 1-650-323-1755. Saturday: Following 8:15 am Mass.

St. Thomas More Parish: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco 94132, (Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way) ; 1-415-452-9634. 1st & 3rd Friday: 7-8 pm St. Veronica Parish: 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-588-1455. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm (except holidays and special events in the church).

Star of the Sea Parish: 4420 Geary Blvd. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.), San Francisco; 1-415-751-0450. Tuesday: 7-8 pm, in Church: Parish Holy Hour, concluding with Benediction; Tuesday: 8 am-Saturday 4 pm, in Chapel, Adoration concluding with Benediction 2nd Sunday: 3:15-4:15 pm

St. Hilary Parish: 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon 94920; 1-415-4351122. Monday-Friday: 9 am-6 pm; Saturday: 9:30 am-5 pm (in the side chapel).

St. Isabella Parish: 1 Trinity Way, San Rafael 94903; 1-415479-1560. 1st Friday: 9:30 am-12noon

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014; 1-650-756-9786. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-6:30 pm; Wednesday: 8:30 am-6:15 pm.

St. John the Evangelist: 19 Saint Marys Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112: First Friday of the month: begins after the morning 9am am Mass, at 9:30am and ends at 10:30am.

St. Andrew Parish: 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City 94015; 1-650-756-3223. 1st Friday: after the 7 pm Mass.

St. Luke Parish: 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City 94404; 1-650345-6660. Thursday & 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass-7:30 pm.

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Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, should not exercise his priestly ministry publicly.

Father Degollado was accused of sexually abusing minors, but the Vatican said it would not begin a canonical process against him because of his advanced age and poor health.

In 2009, Cardinal Levada ordered a doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a Maryland-based umbrella group that claims about 1,500 leaders of U.S. women’s communities as members. Three years later, he appointed then-Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle to provide “review, guidance and approval, where necessary, of the work” of the LCWR. The appointment came the same day the congregation released an eight-page “doctrinal assessment” of the LCWR, citing “serious doctrinal problems which affect many in consecrated life,” and announced a reform of the organization to ensure its fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality.

The LCWR national board criticized the Vatican’s action as “based on unsubstantiated accusations and the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency,” saying it had “caused scandal and pain throughout the church community and created greater polarization.” The process ended in 2015 with no new disciplinary measures or controls.

In the Irish Catholic interview, Cardinal Levada rejected media portrayals that pitted Pope Francis against retired Pope Benedict.

The cardinal rejected a “certain tendency that I find in some of the media presentations: ‘Well, now we have a pope who does this, and he’s contradicting what the previous pope did or he’s turning things into a different story’ and so forth. I think that’s way overdone.”

Cardinal Levada warned that “this, ultimately, makes the pope less a sign of unity and (instead) a sign of division, which he is not.”

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He said he was impressed by Pope Francis’ “reminders to the church and the world about the poor, people who are easily forgotten or put aside out of our mind and vision.”

On the decision of Pope Benedict to resign, Cardinal Levada said he believes that was “a giant step in regard to the future of the church and the future of the papacy, so that this particular question can be resolved by any future pope because of what he (Benedict) has done.

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who is in the Sistine Chapel and sees his name being put forward as a future pope, to have that in the back of his mind,” he said.

Before he attended the conclave that elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Levada was prescient about the most pressing issues the next pope would have to address. The future pope, he said, would need to find “Better ways of communication – better ways of presenting the beauty of the faith and its truth and what it offers to people.

“I’ve talked before about the need to rekindle a solid, friendly apologetics for intelligent Catholics,” he said, adding that Catholics catechized as children make great progress in their careers but less so in their faith.

The cardinal’s focus on communications also contributed to his decision to start a newspaper for the archdiocese, with the first issue of Catholic San Francisco published Feb. 12, 1999. In a column in that issue, he said the paper developed from a pastoral plan that was nearing completion when he was appointed coadjutor archbishop in late 1995.

He expressed hope that the paper “will be our companion in building up our community of faith here in this local church.”

Cardinal Levada also served as president of the Pontifical Bible Commission and the International Theological Commission.

William Joseph Levada was born June 15, 1936, in Long Beach. His great-grandparents had immigrated to California from Portugal and Ireland in the 1860s.

After seminary studies in California, he was sent to Rome’s Pontifical North American College, earning a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained a priest in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 20, 1961.

He returned to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and worked as an associate pastor, teacher and campus ministry chaplain. In 1976, he returned to Rome as a staff official of the doctrinal congregation. During his six years of service there, he continued teaching theology part-time at Gregorian University.

He returned to California in 1982 and was named secretary of the California Catholic Conference, a public policy agency of the state’s bishops. He was named an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles in 1983 and was ordained a bishop March 25 of that year.

Pope Benedict elevated him to cardinal in 2006.

Cardinal Levada’s death leaves the College of Cardinals with 212 members, 118 of whom are under the age of 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave.

Pope Francis will create 13 new cardinals Oct. 5; 10 of them are under age 80.

Cardinal Levada was predeceased by his sister, Dolores, in 2007.

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so she tells me “I’ve been touched, I felt something there with the Eucharist. What is it?”

Then, I began to explain, “It is the Bread of Life,” and she began to change, to be more open. She didn’t like priests, she wouldn’t have any of it, but when she saw the Eucharist she felt a very special presence.

My dad has always been like he is not interested. He was always asking me what I was going to study, why not study something else. So, one thing I’ve learned was to teach God through witness ... I believe that one does not have to throw the Bible at people, the important thing is to reveal God.

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has an immediate opening for a friendly and enthusiastic Full-Time Parish Administrative Assistant. Successful candidate should be comfortable to multi-task and has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 12 PAX CHRISTI SPEAKER: Marie Dennis will talk about how the institutional Catholic Church can adopt active nonviolence as its Gospel-based default approach. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Newman Hall/Holy Spirit Church, 2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley.

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RELATIONSHIPS CONFERENCE: Dynamic presentations on dating, respect, pornography and handling sexual harassment for teens, parents and catechists. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Hyatt House, 2611 Contra Costa Blvd., Free.

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 11-13 ST. DUNSTAN FALL FEST: A threeday family festival including bingo, live entertainment, a silent auction, carnival rides and food and game booths. St. Dunstan Church, 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae. Mimi Muller, jetlaggedmimi@ gmail.com or (650) 722-1931.

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MOSAIC TV: A special segment on the history, charism and current work of the Franciscan order. 5:30 a.m. on KPIX television Channel 5, CBS Bay Area. Past episodes are archived and viewable at sfarch.org/mosaic-tv.

MISSION DOLORES FIESTA: International food and drink, live entertainment, a “bouncy house” and raffle to win up to $2,000 in prizes. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in the schoolyard behind the Mission at 16th and Church streets in San Francisco. Visit missiondolores.org or contact Gustavo Torres, at gtorres@ missiondolores.org or (415) 621-8203, ext. 11.

TUESDAY, OCT. 15 DON BOSCO STUDY: The Don Bosco Study Group will discuss “Spiritual Direction” by Henri Nouwen, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco. Frank Lavin, franklavin@ comcast.net, or (415) 310-8551.

CHANT CLASS & MASS: Learn the basics of Gregorian chant notation from the Benedict XVI Institute teaching choir at St. Philip the Apostle Church, 725 Diamond St., San Francisco, 7:30-9 p.m., and then sing at the 10:30 a.m. Mass Oct. 20. Anyone who loves to sing is welcome. (415) 282-0141.

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15, 16 CONFIRMATION WORKSHOPS: A workshop on the role of parish confirmation coordinators and teams with author and educator Mike Carotta and other speakers. Choose from an evening session, 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Oct. 15, or a morning session, 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. on Oct. 16. One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco. $30 includes a meal. To register contact Claudia Atilano at (415) 614-5650.

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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: Join the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose for a creative, hands-on workshop on making “ofrendas” or altars for the home to honor loved ones who have died. 1-5 p.m. at the Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $45 per person, $5 for children. Register at http://bit.ly/2019DDLMuertos or call (510) 933-6360.

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NIGERIA BENEFIT: Mother of Mercy Charitable Foundation hosts a presentation by Father Edward Inyanwachi to benefit the rural poor in Nigeria. From 6-8 p.m. in Flanagan Hall at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco, $50. Angela Testani, (415) 347-1866, or a.testani@mmcharitablefoundation.org.

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ST. PETER ALUMNI MASS: Father Moises Agudo, pastor of St. Peter Parish in San Francisco, and USF president Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald will concelebrate the St. Peter School annual Alumni and Memorial Mass, 2:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 1241 Alabama St., San Francisco. Reception to follow. RSVP to Janice Vela, (415) 647-8662, or jvela@ sanpedro.org, by Oct. 20.

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ST. JUDE PILGRIMAGE: Annual St. Jude Pilgrimage begins with 8 a.m. parish Mass at Church of the Epiphany, 827 Vienna St., San Francisco, and proceeds at 9:30 a.m. to St. Dominic Church, home of the Shrine of St. Jude, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. For route and transportation information visit stjude-shrine.org/st-jude-pilgrimage-2019/.

SUNDAY, OCT. 27 WOMEN’S RETREAT: Lisa Fullam, professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology, speaks on “Holy Desire: Ours and God’s” from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Del Santo Reading Room, University of San Francisco’s Lone Mountain campus, 2820 Turk Blvd., San Francisco. Register at eventbrite. com/e/71384516009, or contact Franca Gargiulo, fgargiulo@usfca.edu.

MOTHER-DAUGHTER PROGRAM: A program that introduces girls to the beauty and wonder of God’s plan for becoming teenagers and young women at St. Bartholomew Church, 600 Colombia Drive, San Mateo. “’Tweens” begin at 9 a.m., and teens at 1:30 p.m.

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GOSPEL/JAZZ MASS: Featuring the Bay Area Gospel Mass Choir under the direction of Diane Crowther, musical director at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church in San Francisco. 5:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Doug Benbow at dbenbow@smcsf.org smcsf.org, or (415) 567-2020, ext. 220.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 9 FATHER TOLTON EVENT: An event celebrating the country’s first African-American priest, Father Augustus Tolton.

Includes a special preview screening of “Across: the Father Tolton Movie” and a performance by the Our Lady of Lourdes Men’s Gospel Choir, followed by a reception. 7-8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. Contact fic@ stdominics.org for more information.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 10 HUDDLE FOR JUSTICE: St. Agnes Parish and the Ignatian Spiritual Life Center gather community members to organize ways to live out our Christian mission with mercy and compassion.

12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. in the St. Francis Room at St. Agnes Church, 1025 Masonic Ave., San Francisco. (415) 4878560, ext. 228, or ISLC@SaintAgnesSF. com for more information.

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MASS FOR HOMELESS DEAD: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will celebrate the second annual Requiem Mass for the Homeless Faithful Departed, 11 a.m., Church of the Visitacion, 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | OCTOBER 10, 2019

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of September HOLY CROSS, COLMA Rosalia Aguirre Emily Eleanor Badger Patrick Banks Apolonio C. Barba Regina Marie Beubien Robert J. Bianchi Jean Marie Bisagno Kelly M. Bowling Joseph Byrne Rose M. Capili Jose Luz Cardenas Angelo Carlascio Helen T. Carrillo Danilo C. Casuga Nancy Chan Luis Alberto Lujano Cortez Jacqueline R. Courtney Alegria Lacaste Cuaresma Christine Fonseca De Joya Joan T. De Pucci Olympia M. DeMicheli Susana G. Embernate Dorothy Erne Nancy Finigan Rose Finnegan Shirley M. Finnigan Albert Frietzsche Lawrence J. Funk Isidore Galante Alfredo Garcia Zaki Ghishan Hector A. Gonzales, Sr. Irene Cella Gross Wayne Robert Hanson Mary C. Hehir L. Thomas Hehir Jr. Luis Orlando Herrera Herman C. Hextrum Anna Man Hung Raymond C. Hutton

Donald L. Junkin Kevin Keane Raymond L. L’Heureux Lida Ann Lalanne Brian C. Lanthier Gabriel Pedro Lanzarin Grat Lapuyade James Anthony Laurio Josephine Leong Robert M. Littmann Sai Hung Lo Peter V. Looney Bradley W. Los Carmen Loza Virginia B. Lozano Cecil A. Lum Javier H. Marin Theresa Martinez Winnie “Lalo” Martinez Jean A. McDonald Danny McEllistrim Olga M. Medina John A. Merrill Richard C. Morabito Armando Morales Thomas B. O’Keefe Robert P. O’Sullivan, Sr. Virginia N. Paras Joan Parina Diosdado M. Policar Mary Margaret Quinn Joseph D. Reedy John B. Ries Peg Ritner Omar “Pato” Robledo Eula Jean Ralph Roddy Anthony Cipriano Beubien Romero David R. Salve Jose Sanchez Antonio A. Sarmiento Bernard F. Schneider Sara Marie Shreve

Margarita Sierra-Robles Charles R. Silvera Amparo Solis Emmett L. Soules Leitha J. Still Edith Calderon Ellison Struss Anthony Craig Tannehill, Sr. Dina Teresa Tozzini Miriam E. Valle Sylvia V. Velasco James Joseph Walsh Jeanne Marie Walsh Gus Williams Shirley Winestein Glenn L. Wold Elena “Lina” Zabala

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Ann Henderson Liam Anthony Killpack Sylvia Ingrid Johnson Kroncke Richard J. McCarthy Charles F. Moran Daniel C. Turrentine Dennis Ewart Turrentine Sharon Ann Wickersham

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK David Gallagher James “Jim” Maloney Dora Carmen Richter Catalina Salas Jeannette Mirandette Schneider

TOMALES Jeannette Mahan Baumgardner

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA ALL SOULS’ DAY MASS Saturday November 2 at 11am

Celebrant: Rev. Stephen Howell, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

VETERANS DAY REMEMBRANCE SERVICE Monday November 11 at 11am

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

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021