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Blessing all creatures large and small

At the 9:30 a.m. Mass Oct. 7, pet-loving parishioners of St. Ignatius Parish welcomed all pets ranging from birds, turtles, reptiles, cats and a wide variety of dogs from as small as a Chihuahua to as large as a Newfoundland. Jesuit Father John Coleman delivered the Gospel about creation and included St. Francis, the patron saint of animals. At the end of Mass about 50 parishioners with pets were invited up to the altar, where Father Coleman offered one huge blessing. Thank you to Vanita Louie, a catechist at St. Ignatius, for the photo and description.

VATICAN CITY – Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington had been told by Vatican officials to withdraw from public life because of rumors about his sexual misconduct, said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

However, because they were only rumors and not proof, thenPope Benedict XVI never imposed formal sanctions on the retired Cardinal Marc Washington prelate, which means Ouellet Pope Francis never lifted them, Cardinal Ouellet wrote Oct. 7 in an open letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Vatican nuncio to the United States.

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Daughter of ‘bracero’ ministers to suffering migrants at border Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Few people would leave San Francisco’s ideal fall climate for the unforgiving desert of southwest Arizona to leave water for migrants attempting to cross the border and planting crosses in memory of those who failed to do so. Julie Mitra has done it twice.

“My dad was a ‘bracero,’” Mitra told Catholic San Francisco on Sept. 25 days after returning from a journey that bears witness to the hardships, hope and faith of migrants from Mexico and Central America willing to risk their lives for a better life over the border. “This is a very personal thing for me.”

The “bracero” (a Spanish word for a manual laborer) program was a U.S. work agreement from 1942 to 1964 that permitted Mexican citizens to take temporary agricultural work in the U.S. and provided housing and other benefits. Mitra’s fa-

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St. Paul parishioner Julie Mitra, left, is pictured at a Jesuit-run dining hall in Nogales, Mexico, with “Aurelia,” who had just been released from 75 days in an Arizona jail after entering the U.S. illegally. She told Mitra she has tried and failed to cross the border twice in order to find work to support her aging parents in coastal Mexico and will likely make a third attempt. ther became a U.S. citizen, married and raised Mitra and her siblings in the Mission District where

they belonged to St. Peter Parish and attended the parish school.

Last year, Mitra walked 75 blistering miles between the Baboquivari Mountains and Interstate 19 southwest of Tucson with the Tucson Samaritans, a group that brings food, water and medical aid to migrants in an area covering approximately 1,800 square miles. Their mission is to “save lives,” but when their efforts fail, they ceremonially honor those lives by planting crosses and praying for them.

According to tucsonsamaritans.org, 151 migrants died in the territory they cover last year.

Mitra said the experience was “the most physically demanding thing I have ever done.”

“At the end of the journey I didn’t recognize my face,” she said, describing the dirt and sand that over a week’s time distorted her features.

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Need to know ‘WOMEN OF THE YEAR’: The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women honors women from throughout the archdiocese recommended by pastors for their good work in the parish and beyond Oct. 27. The afternoon begins with Mass at 11 a.m., St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco followed by lunch in St. Cecilia’s lower hall and presentations. Tickets for lunch are $25. Cathy Mibach, (415) 753-0234; dcmibach@ aol.com.

ST. PETER SCHOOL140th: Mass marking school’s 140th anniversary and legacy of Mercy Sisters and Christian Brothers, Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m., St. Peter Church, 24th and Florida, San Francisco.

Former pastor Father Tom McElligott, principal celebrant and homilist. Reception follows in parish hall. Honorees include alumna Mercy Sister Lucy Calvillo, and alumnus Christian Brother Joseph Fabiano. (415) 647-8662; jvela@sanpedro.org; www. stpeterssf.org.

MASS FOR DECEASED HOMELESS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant of a Mass for the homeless faithful departed, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m., St. Patrick Church, Church Goods & Candles 756 Mission St., San Francisco. All are welcome Religious Gifts & Books to attend and to bring the names of any deceased homeless for whom they wish to pray. Affordable parking and the Powell Street BART Station are one block from St. Patrick Church. Contact Martin Ford, social action coordinator, (415) 614-5569; (Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco) homelessmass@sfarch.org.

From left, Daphne Massucco, Kate Andrues and Ruth Ann Crawley pray the rosary together outside the Planned Parenthood facil5 locations in California ity at the corner of Fourth and H streets in San Rafael Sept. 26, the first day of the annual 40 Days for Life nationwide campaign.

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In a county where expressions of opposition and resistance are a standard feature of the local landscape, three Catholic women praying the rosary quietly together outside the Planned Parenthood facility in downtown San Rafael elicited strong emotions on Sept. 26.

It was the first day of the 40 Days for Life campaign, an international pro-life campaign to end abortion that runs through Nov. 4. The movement started in 2007 with peaceful, around-the-clock prayer vigils outside abortion facilities in local communities.

“Let women choose their own destiny,” a man blurted out as he walked by Daphne Massucco of Woodacre, who held a handmade sign with a photo of a newborn so tiny it rested in a pair of open hands. It read: “Peace begins in the womb.”

“They forget the baby has a destiny too,” Ruth Ann Crawley of Mill Valley told Catholic San Francisco after the man turned the corner. She and her rosarymates, Massucco and her sister, Kate Andrues of Novato calmly returned to their prayer. Later that day, she said, Father Andrew Ginter, parochial vicar of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon and a native of Marin,

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A woman in a luxury sports utility vehicle squealed around the corner past them, shouting as she did.

“Will you just leave women alone?” she said. “If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one.”

Crawley, one of the leaders of the Marin County 40 Days for Life vigil, Massucco and Andrues take the outbursts in stride. “We come here to pray and defend life,” said Andrues. She and her sister have been doing just that for nearly their whole lives. Their parents, Bonnie and Peter DeRutt, were early pro-life advocates in Marin County.

“Some days there are far more positives than negatives,” Massucco said.

As they talked, one motorist offered a supportive thumbs-up. There were a few waves and some lowkey horn taps, too.

According to the 40 Days website, 14,636 lives have been saved from abortion as a collective result of local 40 Days campaigns in almost 800 cities in 50 counties.

Andrues recalled a visibly pregnant woman who pulled her car up to the group of praying pro-lifers one year. “I just want you to know that I saw you out here and I changed my mind,” she said.

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North Beach Marian festival celebrates faith and family Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

For 83 years, October in San Francisco’s North Beach has begun with a festival celebrating the Blessed Mother. The Madonna del Lume festival, celebrating Mary’s protection of fishermen, was brought from Sicily to San Francisco and instituted in 1935.

The festival first started in Porticello, Sicily, after some fishermen credited Our Lady for guiding them back to shore with a bright light during a deadly storm.

The weekend festival began Sept.28 with an hour of eucharistic adoration at Sts. Peter and Paul Church.

After a memorial Mass the next day commemorating those lost at sea, Massgoers boarded a chartered boat to place a ceremonial wreath beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Sunday concluded with a parade from Sts. Peter and Paul to Fisherman’s Wharf to bless the fishing fleet for the year.

The celebration of Madonna del Lume brought together ties of family, ethnicity and faith. Marie Lavin, a longtime participant in the festival, told Catholic San Francisco her grandfather came from Porticello, and the tight-knit community gathered together over the weekend were people she had known for years.

But in addition to family and tradition, the heart of the festival focused on the miraculous intercession of Mary, she said.

“The Blessed Virgin Mary is at the center of all this,” Lavin said, “because we’re honoring the Madonna del Lume, who lit the way.”

Lavin said the festival was a high point of the year for the Sicilian community.

“This is exciting for all of us,” she said.

Bertina Cannizzaro, the outreach coordinator for the Madonna del Lume society, told Catholic San Francisco her favorite part of the festival was “getting together and seeing familiar faces reuniting.”

Denise A. (last name withheld by request) has attended the celebration of Madonna del Lume for 15 years. For her, the festival is an opportunity to remember her mother, whom she used to go with, and celebrate her Sicilian heritage.

“This is really good,” she told Catholic San Francisco. “When we walk from church on Washington Square to the wharf, that is showing the city who we are.”

While Lavin said the festival years ago had gone through “a little lull” in community engagement, support for the festival was the strongest it had been in years.

“It’s important to pass down our traditions, our culture – otherwise, they’re going to just disappear,” she said.

Bertina Cannizzaro agreed.

“It’s always about getting a younger generation involved with any organization,” she told Catholic San Francisco.

Cannizzaro said her work involves reaching out to the community, and building up the festival for the next generation.

“It’s always growing, expanding, changing,” she said. “It’s been active for 83 years in San Francisco, and we want to keep it going forever.”

Part of that work involves navigating cultural changes in the community. Fewer Sicilian-Americans make their livelihoods from fishing in 2018 than in 1935.

The Catholic Church across America has seen a steep decline in attendance. But Cannizzaro said the future of faith and culture is up to who’s in charge.

“We will continue if we put in the effort,” she said.

A fifth-generation descendant of immigrants, she said the Madonna del Lume festival was “rooted in family and church. The more we strengthen our families, the church, our culture, the more we’ll see this tradition continue.”

Christmas at Kohl Mansion set Nov. 28

The public is invited to the Mercy High School Burlingame Alumnae Association’s annual Holiday Boutique Christmas at Kohl on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 5-9 p.m. The event will be held at the Kohl Mansion, which is part of Mercy High School, at 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame.

More than 65 vendors will display holiday treasures, jewelry, clothing and holiday decorations.

There will be a docent presentations of the historic mansion at 6:30 p.m. The mansion, formerly known as The Oaks, will be decorated with thousands of twinkling lights, garlands, and Christmas trees.

Tickets may be purchased at the door and admission is $10 for adults and children under 12 are free.

For more information, please visit the Mercy High School Website at www.mercyhsb.com.

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From left, Elizabeth Ashdown and Paloma Polacci, the outgoing and incoming queens of the Madonna del Lume festival and Mia Toracca, queen of the San Francisco Italian Heritage Celebration are pictured during the wreath-laying ceremony by Golden Gate Bridge. The Madonna del Lume celebration, begun in Sicily, celebrates the intercession of Mary on behalf of fishermen.

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‘Thank you for putting up with me,’ retiring CSF ad director tells colleagues

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JUBILEE: Congratulations to Sister Ernestina Molinari, celebrating 70 years as a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Born in San Francisco, Sister Ernestina is a former principal of St. Brigid and St. Thomas More Sister Ernestina schools former memMolinari, BVM ber of the faculty at St. Paul High School. She also served as an adult education teacher in Santa Clara and an administrator for elderly low-income housing in Santa Rosa. “One of the reasons I wanted to be a BVM was because I wanted to be a teacher,” Sister Ernestina said.

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Joe Pena has been at the helm of Catholic San Francisco’s ad department for all of the paper’s now near 20 years. I think all of us here would say it has been a privilege to work at his side but you never really get to be at his Joe Pena side since his day is mostly spent whizzing around the office on one chore or another. He did sit still though for an office lunch Oct. 4 in his honor. In a note to staff, CSF editor and general manager Rick DelVecchio said it would be “a fond and grateful farewell to our friend and colleague.” Rick called Joe “a pioneer member of the CSF organization who with his sales staff has led the revenue effort over more than 600 regular issues, plus specials.” That all adds up to “something like 10,000 advertising pages,” Rick said. The income from advertising is the primary means of support for the paper’s self-funded program to have CSF delivered free to parishioners. “Very few other dioceses have this kind of a print organization and Joe helped sustain it for nearly two decades,” Rick said. “Thank you, Joe!” Joe, now 71, like all of us is getting older. “I have decided to retire after almost 20 years at the archdiocese,” Joe said in an email dispatched to all at One Peter Yorke Way. “My health has become an issue for me. Thank you for putting up with me. I will not forget you.”

With his 20 years here and the 25 he put in at other papers in the Bay Area, Joe is truly the newspaper adman. He jokes that he even gives his height in column inches.

“Through the years I’ve probably made 100,000 phone calls,” Joe told

NICE PRIZE: Congratulations to Santiago Moreno, a Mater Dolorosa parishioner and eighth grader at Parkside Intermediate School in San Bruno, recently named to receive a San Francisco Giants’ “Sue and Harmon Burns” scholarship award. The prize honors community service, leadership, and academics, said the lad’s mom, Letty, in a note to this column. His dad, Louis, is a Knight of Columbus. While it is the first time I have heard of the award and its purpose, I am not surprised. Its namesake benefactors Sue and Buzz Burns, both now deceased, were beloved members of St. Pius Parish, known for their kindness and generosity.

Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary: Celebrated their 150th year of ministry in California with Mass Oct. 6 at Christ the Light Cathedral in Oakland. Among the sisters with roots in San Francisco is Sister Michaeline Falvey, SNJM. Sister Michaeline entered the community from St. Cecilia Parish and made first vows in 1945. “Today, at the age of 93, she is living a life of prayer and presence in Saratoga,” the sisters said.

me. “Not sure what I am going to do now. Perhaps see the grandkids, travel, play golf if my body lets me.”

At one time Catholic publications reached over 26 million households, Catholic Press Association executive director Tim Walter told me in a phone call. While Catholic magazines and

newsletters have taken a hit in readership since then “diocesan newspapers have held up pretty well in the last 20 years,” Tim said and not without the help of longtime professionals like Joe, a former member of the CPA board. “Thanks for everything you’ve done for the Catholic Press, Joe,” Tim

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Father Ray Rayes, archdiocesan Charismatic Renewal liaison welcomes attendees to Charismatic Renewal Conference, Sept. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. At left is Maria Martinez, conference chair, who provided Spanish translation of Father Reyes’ remarks.

Faithful of all ages and backgrounds came to pray and enjoy the day at the Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Charismatic Renewal Holy Spirit Conference Sept.

22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Father Raymund Reyes, renewal liaison; Augustinian Father Andrew Ibegbulem, parochial vicar, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, San Francisco, and Father Jorge Arias Salazar, parochial vicar, St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, were among priests in attendance and in service at the conference.

More than 300 faithful gather for charismatic conference Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

More than 300 faithful gathered Sept. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral for the Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Charismatic Renewal Holy Spirit Conference. The event theme was, “Break every chain by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

The full, bilingual day began with the rosary in English and Spanish at 8:30 a.m. and continued with talks exhorting attendees on topics including generational chains, chains one does not know are binding, and strengthening relationship with the Holy Spirit. Father Raymund Reyes, renewal liaison for the archdiocese, offered opening remarks and was principal celebrant and homilist at a 7 p.m. Mass closing the day.

The conference focused on praying and fasting, sacrifice and learning “how praise and a focus on Jesus Christ assists in breaking personal chains

(Photos by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)

Sally Yo of St. Bruno Parish, San Bruno, and other renewal faithful lend their voices to the day’s song.

that bind us and others,” Rose Payan, renewal vice chair in charge of communications, told Catholic San Francisco. “Father Reyes encouraged conference participants not only to pray for themselves but also for others and for our church,” she said.

Invited speakers inspired conference participants to pray and break their personal chins and those of others, Payan said.

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Snapshot of a wounded church: Listening sessions highlight Catholics’ concerns Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

The listening sessions hosted by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the wake of a fresh round of scandals afflicting the church brought together Catholics grateful for a chance to speak with their archbishop but wounded by a lack of hierarchical transparency.

In sessions at St. Anthony in Novato and St. Matthew in San Mateo, a snapshot emerged of a church buffeted by the twin scandals of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the Pennsylvania grand jury report revealing historic clergy abuse and leadership cover-up in the state.

The revelations of abuse, and its concealment by bishops, has led to a massive crisis of trust within the church.

On Sept. 21, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone announced five listening sessions would be held throughout the archdiocese.

“During this time of rightful righteous indignation among our people, it is more important than ever that we, your leaders, listen to you,” he wrote in a letter.

Prayer has been a central feature of the sessions, as each one opens with vespers. At St. Anthony, the session paused when someone suggested praying the Angelus as the church bells tolled 6 o’clock.

Archbishop Cordileone apologized to victims of sexual abuse during the sessions, and called it a “shameful

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Archbishop Cordileone talks to people after a listening session Sept. 30 at St. Anthony Church in Novato. It was the first of five listening sessions organized by the archbishop to discuss the church’s response to the sex abuse scandals rocking the U.S. church and local churches in other parts of the world. betrayal” by the people “we trust with our souls.”

The archbishop said an initial review showed the archdiocese has received six allegations of abuse committed during the ‘90s, and three of abuse committed in 2000, with no abuse cases alleged to have occurred since then.

Archbishop Cordileone also discussed archdiocesan policies covering clergy sex abuse. Archdiocesan clergy and teachers are mandated reporters, he said, and must report their suspicions of child abuse to civil authorities and to the archdiocese. Background checks and online training on child

abuse are required for anyone in the church who works around children.

Archbishop Cordileone said the archdiocese goes through a yearly mandatory audit to evaluate compliance with sex abuse reporting procedures, and has received nearly perfect reports.

If an allegation is made, the archbishop said, civil authorities begin a criminal justice investigation, and the archdiocesan Independent Review Board conducts a private investigation.

Once the Independent Review Board, which is comprised mostly of lay professionals, substantiates the allegations, the archdiocese can then petition the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome for a canonical trial.

For survivors of sexual abuse, the archdiocese has a victim assistance coordinator and offers to provide therapy and counseling.

Archbishop Cordileone said it was a “great success” that the archdiocese has had no new cases of sexual abuse “but we can’t rest on our laurels. One case is too many. One case is a horror story.”

For all the present improvements that have been made, many Catholics had the past on their minds. At the St. Anthony session, Dan Murphy asked when the church would address the historic role of seminaries in the crisis. “There’s a problem and we haven’t been honest,” he said.

Murphy told Catholic San Francisco: see listening, page 13

Victim assistance coordinator facilitates healing process Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Rocio Rodriguez’s phone started ringing days after the Pennsylvania grand jury went public last month with a report on the seven-decade sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by over 300 Catholic priests. The report Rocio Rodriguez included shockingly descriptive narratives of the abuse some victims experienced.

“Something they read in the paper triggered it,” said Rodriguez, who works as victim assistance coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. She described one of the callers as a person who was 70 years old and had been abused by a priest as a child.

“The brain can hibernate for a long while when it comes to a childhood trauma,” she said.

Catholic San Francisco talked with Rodriguez on Sept. 19 about her role in the Office of Child and Youth Protection days after her brief talk with chancery employees last month at an all-staff meeting.

The San Francisco-born licensed marriage and family therapist is on the front line for anyone calling into the archdiocese with an allegation of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest or any church employee, or the suspicion of such abuse.

Not all calls are allegations against clergy members. “I’ve also had calls about lay workers, liturgists, choir members and religious education directors,” Rodriguez said.

Her private and secure phone line is listed under “Support for Victims and Survivors” on the archdiocesan website and in small ads taken out in each issue of Catholic San Francisco.

The publicity surrounding the Pennsylvania report has doubled the number of new calls Rodriguez said she normally receives in a month and in some cases has reactivated the trauma for victims she is working with.

Rodriguez was preparing for a personal visit that day to a victim in Marin County, whom she said “needs a little extra support right now.”

Legal action is not always desired or possible. In some cases the victim’s abuser has been long dead. But the need for healing is not.

The part-time position was created in 2002 in response to the publication of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops child protection charter. The charter established norms for the church in dealing with allegations against priests and deacons. It also set guidelines for reconciliation, healing, accountability and the prevention of future acts of abuse.

The bishops issued the charter following a Boston Globe investigative series early that year that exposed the crimes of five priests in the archdiocese and the failure of church officials to protect children from them and others. The scandal resulted in an avalanche of new abuse case reports, lawsuits and criminal cases and the formation of victim assistance programs in dioceses across the country.

Rodriguez is the third victim assistance coordinator since 2002, following Dr. Rene Duffey and the late Barbara Elordi. She directs those

who want to file a formal complaint with the archdiocese, and contacts Child Protective Services or the police, when appropriate. She also reports to the Independent Review Board, a group of professionals appointed by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone to advise the archdiocese on matters of clergy abuse.

Now in her third year in the role, she stressed that it is primarily a pastoral one.

“I understand what happens to a person who has been violated at a young age by someone they trust,” said Rodriguez, who worked for many years with families torn apart by incest. “I want them to know that they can start to heal if they choose to.”

According the National Center for Victims of Crime, the sexual abuse of a child can have devastating lifelong effects including anxiety, addictions, sleep disturbances, eating disorders, promiscuity, low self-esteem and dysfunctional adult relationships.

Recovering from childhood sexual abuse isn’t easy, she said, and “it doesn’t always work.”

In 2012, the archdiocese established a wellness program to aid in the healing process as part of an agreement with local survivors of clergy sex abuse. The wellness program offers a $2,100 stipend to survivors and their families to use for individual or other physical or emotional healing modalities such as massage therapy, meditation, nutritional counseling or spiritual retreats. Rodriguez said the Archdiocese of San Francisco is one of the few dioceses in the nation that she’s aware of with a program like it.

Some use the money as an oppor-

tunity to take college coursework or begin a new career.

“To me, I see that as healing,” said Rodriguez. “They had no say in what was taken from them so early and now they have a goal.”

Rodriguez said that not every victim wants to talk with her, at least not at first. For that reason and others, the archdiocese has a secure hotline monitored solely by recovering survivors of clergy sex abuse.

Archbishop Cordileone made sure to include a local survivor of clergy sexual abuse on the Independent Review Board panel, joined by a psychologist, a physician, an attorney and Catholic sister, a retired judge and a policeman.

The vicar for clergy and the archbishop meet regularly with the board to review cases. Rodriguez said there have been four reported cases this audit year.

“I’ve learned to get comfortable with people’s anger,” said Rodriguez about the well-justified anger that is often projected onto her. Many resent that there is a system in place now for protecting children but not when they were abused.

She said victims can struggle with very complicated love-hate feelings for the church and even their abusers.

Sometimes the abuser was close to the family, perhaps a father figure in the absence of one, who was otherwise kind and good.

“When anger manifests itself, in my mind and my experience of family therapy, it’s a healthy response to what was taken from them,” she said.

Rocio Rodriguez can be reached at (415) 614-5506. The survivor help line number is (415) 614-5503.

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(Photos by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

Above, a rose-bedecked statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was carried in the procession. Right, Nobel Nigusse, left, and Patrick O’Brien, right, school captain at Archbishop Riordan High School, led with the processional banner.

Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, gave the homily.

Right, a young worshipper prays the rosary. Star of the Sea, San Francisco, pastor Father Joseph Illo led the prayer.

Youth from St. Bruno Parish in San Bruno pray during the Mass. Right, rosaries were given away as people entered St. Mary’s Cathedral. They were made by St. Philip Parish rosary makers ministry group and the Knights of Columbus.

Archdiocese rallies around Mary Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

Cathedral Hill in San Francisco became a parade route for the Blessed Virgin Oct. 6, as Catholics from around the Bay Area processed through the streets around the St. Mary’s Cathedral during the annual Rosary Rally.

The eighth annual rally began with a recitation of the rosary in the cathedral at 9 a.m., followed by a 10 a.m. Mass in the cathedral celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. In his homily, Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, discussed the rosary as a spiritual weapon.

“In my order, the Dominicans, we wear the rosary on our habits, on the left side, precisely to indicate that the rosary can be considered as a kind of sword – a weapon of defense, or a weapon of attack,” he said.

Bishop Christian encouraged Catholics to pray the rosary to protect themselves and defend the church against its enemies. Praying the rosary, he said, should recall for Catholics their relationship to the “high points of salvation history.”

After Mass concluded, a procession carrying a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe traveled several blocks around the cathedral, with clergy, religious and laity praying the rosary and singing “Ave Maria.” The celebration ended with a renewal of the consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and a crowning of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

John Hernandez told Catholic San Francisco that it was his first time attending the Rosary Rally.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone incenses the image of Our Lady in the cathedral’s Guadalupe shrine, followed by the rededication of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

“I decided to come because the Virgin Mary’s blessed me and my family. I wanted to give a little bit back for everything I’ve been given,” he said.

Hernandez said his mother had gone through a difficult pregnancy when carrying his sister: Her doctor told her she was too old to be pregnant safely and that she had to make a choice between her life and her daughter’s. The family asked the Blessed Mother for help, “and they’re both here today,” he said.

Hernandez added that the rally was a good opportunity for the church to witness to its best side.

“The church is being attacked a lot, so people need to see the good in it,” he said.

Anjali Albuquerque told Catholic San Francisco that Mary is an important role model for women.

“Everyone in this society is longing to know what a woman is. Mother Mary is the perfect woman because she is the mother of God,” she said.

David Marten, handing out rosaries by the cathedral entrance that had been blessed by retired auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, told Catholic San Francisco that he had been coming to the Rosary Rally since it first started in 2011.

A member of the Legion of Mary, Marten said the rosary has an unmatched appeal in evangelizing others. Handing out rosaries in the Tenderloin “is the easiest apostolate we do,” Marten said. “It stops them. Even with everything going on there, the residents always take a moment to thank us.”

Marten said praying the rosary was especially important with the crises going on in the church.

“The only way out of this is the rosary, and Mary will prevail,” he said.

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Chaplains comfort, counsel, cheer fire, police personnel Lidia Wasowicz Catholic San Francisco

Chaplains who minister to firefighters and police officers in the San Francisco archdiocese may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they carry superhero status among those they serve.

Stories abound of how the spiritual mentors save the day. They calm stormy situations, console bereaved survivors, counsel stressed-out rookies and burnedout veterans, comfort victims of violence and cheer the gravely ill or injured.

In bulletproof garb and heat-resistant gear, they ride along with the professionals to sites of collapsed bodies and buildings, offering sturdy shoulders and solid footing. They baptize, confirm, marry and bury members of the fire and police families. They respond to emergency calls regardless of time or tiredness.

And they do all this in a job secondary to their primary parish duties.

Father John Greene, with the San Francisco Fire Department for three decades, pastors St. Robert Church in San Bruno.

Father Michael Quinn serves as pastor at St. Mary Star of the Sea in Sausalito while partnering at the San Francisco Police Department since 2014 with Father Michael Healy, pastor of St. Bartholomew Church in San Mateo, and Ursuline Sister Lillian Repak, teacher and vice principal at St. John School in San Francisco.

Father Andrew Spyrow was sworn in last October as chaplain for the San Rafael Police Department, located a block away from the St. Raphael church and mission under his pastoral care.

“As pastor of St. Raphael Church, my responsibilities take priority over anything outside the parish,” he said. “I am very organized, which allows me to give my time without anyone being shortchanged.”

Police Chief Diana Bishop expressed admiration and appreciation for his “day and night” dedication.

“It means a lot to the department and to the citizens we serve that he volunteers so many hours to help us deal with everyday stresses and as we go to people who probably are having the worst day of their lives and are in great need of comfort,” she said.

To promote the community’s comfort with law enforcement, Father Spyrow wants to introduce officers and their police dog to students at St. Raphael School.

“I’d like the children to see what they do along with my role so they understand father’s not just here in the church but also in the city protecting us,” he said.

“It’s important the church be in the town square, not just in the parish.”

Signs of the church “in the town square” spring into view as a visitor enters Station 6, one of 51 firehouses in San Francisco.

Much of the company sports eye-catching blue T-shirts emblazoned with the logo, “The Padre, SFFD, doing the Lord’s work, one fireman at a time.”

The design pays tribute to Father Greene.

“Everybody wants the padre shirt because everybody likes the padre, even though not everyone here is Catholic, and some people don’t have any faith,” said Nick Helmer, a non-practicing Christian introduced to Father Greene in 2005 at his graduation from the Firefighter Recruit Training Academy.

Like many of his fellows, Helmer considers the chaplain a member of his personal and professional family, someone to riff, respect, rely on and refer to.

“He’s been here for 36 years, and literally thousands of firefighters know him and have become close to him,” said Jim Leonard, a 14-year veteran whose SFFD affiliation extends to generations of his relatives.

“What he does for us is just incredible.”

Father Greene considers what he does part of the ministry he initially declined because “I felt I was not the right person for the job.”

That view extinguished, he jumped into his new role.

He has rushed into burning buildings when firefighters were trapped or injured inside, ready to offer comfort or the last rites.

In January 1997, he and the Truck 6 crew raced into St. Peter Church in the Mission to retrieve the Blessed Sacrament, vestments and chalices from flames roaring through the historic, 130-year-old structure.

Such risky rescues can’t hold a candle to what he finds most meaningful, Father Greene said.

“The most important thing is the wonderful men and women who make up the San Francisco Fire Department and witnessing their sacrifice and courage in the face of many difficult situations,” he said.

His reassuring and often rollicking presence make such situations bearable, said temporary lieutenant Brian Collins, who met Father Greene upon joining the firefighting ranks in 2001.

(Photos by Lidia Wasowicz/Catholic San Francisco)

Pictured are Jim Leonard, a 14-year veteran whose San Francisco Fire Department affiliation extends to generations of relatives; Father John Greene, Fire Department chaplain for 36 years; Nick Helmer, who has 13 years in the department and drives Engine 6; and Brian Collins, a 17-year veteran of the department and temporary lieutenant at Station 6.

San Rafael Police Chief Diana Bishop says she admires and appreciates the company chaplain, Father Andrew Spyrow, for the many hours he volunteers bringing comfort and counsel to the department and the community. Father Spyrow, pictured with St. Raphael Elementary School students, hopes to bring officers and their police dog to the school to improve community-law enforcement relations and show that the church is “in the town square, not just in the parish.”

“Just knowing that he’s there adds an extra dimension of stress relief,” Collins said, noting the chaplain’s nonstop firehouse dinner invitations.

His reputation as “the dessert padre” who never appears empty-handed doesn’t hurt his popularity, suggested retired Deputy Chief of Operations Patrick Gardner and retired firefighter Patrick Kenyon, who boast a combined 77-year association with Father Greene.

Among myriad recollections, a standout rewinds to 1986 when Kenyon’s father, who subscribed to no religion, lay dying at St. Mary’s Medical Center.

“Father John baptized him and gave him the last rites,” Kenyon related in a voice choked with emotion.

“It was a deathbed conversion.”

Father Greene also buried Gardner’s parents, among numerous services.

“Over the last 30 years, he has put more of himself into the fire department than anyone else, and all as a volunteer,” said Gardner, who retired in 2011.

Father Quinn evokes similar sentiments among the San Francisco police, where he serves as a “tool of encouragement and healing” in the Behavioral Science Unit, considered a national model for law enforcement agencies.

“He’s always available, and he has a calming effect even in the most unsettling situations,” said Sgt. Philip Pera, a motorcycle officer and fellow BSU member who often accompanies the chaplain.

Among the most memorable for Father Quinn: When Officer Kevin Downs lay in intensive care with a bullet wound less than half an inch from a major brain artery, he smiled with gratitude and recognition upon seeing Father Quinn’s familiar face.

During a killing spree by a United Parcel Service driver, the chaplain soothed shocked survivors, witnesses, relatives and officers.

Father Quinn offered solace to the family and friends of a bicycle-beat officer critically injured when struck

by a stolen SUV on the day he was to hear his unborn baby’s heartbeat for the first time.

The Marin Interfaith Council wanted to present Father Quinn with a commendation for his support of fire victims following the North Bay infernos, but he declined.

“I believe that for all clergy from all denominations comforting those in need is just what we do and should not be considered extraordinary,” said Father Quinn, 65, who was ordained in 2009.

Such humility makes the “late-blooming priest relatable to people,” said Sgt. Art Howard, who coordinates the police chaplains.

Father Quinn related to patrolman David Vizcay and his wife Liliana well enough to pull them through two nearly simultaneous tragedies.

Within three weeks of his partner suffering traumatic brain injury when an assailant plowed his car into the bicycle-riding officer, Vizcay, 50, received a liver cancer diagnosis.

“We’ve known Father Quinn for only nine months, but he’s carried us through the biggest fight of our lives,” said Vizcay, who was hospitalized a dozen times before receiving a life-saving transplant in St. Louis.

The couple attributes his record recovery that had him climbing stairs and walking a mile within a week of surgery in part to Father Quinn’s vigilance and vigils.

“There were so many times when I called him that I was sobbing so hard, I couldn’t talk,” Liliana Vizcay recalled. “He was always there for us, keeping us company in the hospital, reassuring us.”

Through the deterioration of his condition, the depressing medical reports, the dejection brought on by sparse liver availability, she clung to the chaplain’s words.

“I kept hearing Father Quinn urging us not to give up, assuring us it would be okay, and now it is,” she said.

“Father Quinn will be our friend and our hero for life.”

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All Hallows choir director Mario Tuimavave is pictured during the service. The music sung at Mass was of a more Samoan traditional genre.

Archbishop Mataeliga said he enjoyed listening to the blend of voices and the melodies that brought back memories.

Samoan archbishop visits All Hallows, promotes vocations ate, priesthood or religious life. He Archbishop Alapatio Lui Mataeliga from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese mentioned that a life of service to the Lord, although different from of Samoa-Apia visited All Hallows lifestyles today, is very fulfilling and Chapel in the Bayview District of San much needed in today’s world.

Francisco on Sept. 27 for an evening At a dinner sponsored by the San Mass with members of the Samoan Francisco Samocommunity an Catholic comthroughout the munity, ArchBay Area. bishop Mataeliga “We are not the mentioned that perfect disciples, Samoa was but discipleship chosen to be the is a process in host country for which we grow,” the Divine Mercy the archbishop Congress in 2020. said in his homHe invited as ily. “So, we grow many of the San daily by the Francisco faithgrace of God, ful who could through the word travel to Samoa of God, through to be witnesses the Eucharist, of what he called through our a great gatherprayers, through ing of believers our personal devoted to the experiences in mercy of God. life.”

In Samoa there The prelate are two transiconcelebrated tional deacons Mass with All scheduled to Hallows Chapel be ordained to pastor Father Traditional leis were presented during the the priesthood Dan Carter; Aupreparation of gifts and placed around the in December gustinan Father necks of the faithful. The presentation of leis and as many Andrew Ibegis an important gesture in Samoan Catholic as five more in ulem, parochial culture.

2019. Samoa’s vicar of All Halarchdiocese has been divided into lows, and Father Ioane (John) Patita Ono from the village of Leuluomoega, five vicariates. The archdiocese will send a group to Rome in the coming Upolu, Samoa, who is currently unyear for the canonization of Blessed dergoing studies at UC Berkeley.

Pope Paul VI. The archbishop said Archbishop Mataeliga also spoke Pope Paul VI would be considered a about the willingness to send Samoan patron saint of Samoa as he visited priests to the U.S., specifically in arthe island nation in 1970. Upon his eas where there are Samoan Catholic return to the Vatican, he elevated the communities. He asked the congregafirst Samoan archbishop, Pio Taotion to encourage their children to finu, to cardinal. consider a vocation to the deacon-

The faithful pray the “Our Father.”

(Photos by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

Wearing the native Samoan “tuiga” headdress, Nalia Faataui presented the Book of the Gospels on Sept. 27 at All Hallows Chapel in the Bayview District of San Francisco during an evening Mass with members of the Samoan community throughout the Bay Area.

Augustinian Father Andrew Ibegulem, parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Lourdes/ All Hallows Chapel; Archbishop Alapatio Lui Mataeliga from the Archdiocese of Samoa-Apia; Father Dan Carter, pastor at Our Lady of Lourdes/All Hallows Chapel, St. Paul of the Shipwreck are pictured before Mass.

Anna Lemalu and her son Henry Eneliko Lemalu decorated the sanctuary with Samoan native siapo bark cloth.

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Conference offers ‘tips and tricks’ for building family prayer life Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco

While marriage is a lifelong sacrament, helping couples live their marriage as a vocation has often been overlooked by the church. A conference jointly presented by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the John Paul II Foundation exists to help remedy that situation.

The “Together in Holiness” conference, now in its third year in the archdiocese, was held Sept. 29 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont. Its mission is to bring married couples together to help them learn how to live out the vocation of growing together in holiness. Topics at the conference included learning to pray as spouses, and learning how to live family life as a “domestic church.”

Ed Hopfner, the director of the archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life, told Catholic San Francisco the conference was a priority for the archdiocese because “we need to support vocations.”

“Every vocation in the world we do ongoing formation – we need to do the same for marriage,” he said.

Christian Gourdin and Karla Mansilla-Gourdin, parishioners at St. Dominic Parish, told Catholic San Francisco they had enjoyed the “insightful” speakers at the conference. The couple, who have been married a little over a year, attended last year’s conference as well, only one month after their wedding.

Christian Gourdin said that while the advice offered by the conference was somewhat familiar, it took on additional importance in the context of being a married couple.

“It’s helpful for couples to hear tips and tricks on how to build a healthy family,” he said.

The couple said they had decided to immediately work on praying the rosary together once a month and doing “confession and ice cream” dates. Karla Mansilla-Gourdin said she was “really inspired by all the young couples here.

It’s a great mix. It’s nice to know we’re not alone.”

Hopfner said the mixed ages of the couples, who had been married for anywhere from a year to 50 years, made for “a good mix.”

“The young couples inspire the older ones, and the older ones show the younger ones what’s possible,” he said.

(Photo by Nicholas Wolfram Smith/Catholic San Francisco)

“Together in Holiness” conference attendees listen to a presentation on the family as the domestic church. The conference aimed to give couples and families the tools to live their married vocation more prayerfully.

Michael and Megan Birdsall, parishioners at Our Lady of the Pillar, have attended all three Together in Holiness conferences.

“This is the best one,” Megan Birdsall told Catholic San Francisco. The couple appreciated the child care, and said the subject of the conference, family prayer, was the best they’ve had. “It’s the most relevant and important for our time,” Michael Birdsall said.

It can be hard to find the time to pray together as a family, the couple said.

“We pray the rosary every night, but there’s always the temptation to skip it,” said Michael Birdsall. The tempo and distractions of daily life as a family made it “tempting to pray less.”

The conference covered everyday issues couples and families experience but never hear the church talking about, Michael Birdsall said. What they learned at the conference were “practical, on-the-road ways of doing things together.”

The couple said they would encourage all couples to come to the conference.

“People need this, they need to hear this,” Michael Birdsall said.

Chris Stravitsch, a co-founder of the John Paul II Foundation, told Catholic San Francisco his organization surveys attendees after the conference. From the responses he has seen, he said, many couples seem to immediately see benefits from the conference, and try and make changes to their lives right away.

“We just want people to see marriage is truly a path to journey together in holiness,” he said.

Ed Hopfner hoped couples leave equipped to create an intentional prayer life in their homes.

“The conference is about prayer in the families, ” he said.

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Border: Daughter of ‘bracero’ ministers to suffering migrants in desert FROM PAGE 1

smaller groups as they ventured into the borderlands, got “hosed down” at the end of each day.

Her own rugged experience gave her a less abstract idea of the suffering of the human beings that enter the forbidding terrain for even a slim shot at a better life.

“The walk was really a transformation for me because I got to see how brutal and intense the desert really is,” she said. There is very little shade and “all kinds of things that can bite you.”

Her discomfort made her more cognizant of the suffering of migrants, some of them walking alone or with young children, “without water, without a compass, without any of the things that I had with me.”

She was never cold or hungry, she said, and “there was always someone brewing coffee somewhere.”

There was the constant sound of border police helicopters above her at night, “but I didn’t have to worry about someone hunting me down in the darkness.”

On the trip she befriended Sister Judy Bourge, a School Sister of Notre Dame and active member of the Tucson Samaritans. While Mitra was not sure she could repeat the same 75-mile walk again this year, she contacted Sister Judy this summer in Douglas, Arizona, a border town, where she lives with other Notre Dame sisters involved in immigration justice. She asked if she could come “hang out with the sisters and help.” They eagerly invited her to stay in their home for a week in early September.

Mitra described the hush that fell over the sisters and other volunteers when the group learned that a young woman and a toddler had been spotted alone in the desert one night.

“By the end of the week we found out that someone had found their bodies,” she said, her voice catching with emotion.

She also kept a diary of her experiences and shared some entries with Catholic San Francisco.

“Today a group of 15 persons planted a wooden cross for a young woman that died in the desert last month, to dignify her life, pray for her, and bless the ground where shedied,” she wrote on Sept. 6. “We each brought offerings like flowers, rosary beads,

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At “El Comedor,” a Jesuit-run dining hall in Nogales, Mexico several hours from the sisters’ residence, Mitra, who is bilingual, spoke with some of the migrants. Some were just off buses or trains from parts south and others were headed back in the direction they came after being deported. She recalled an almost communal sense of fatigue and desperation among those gathered.

“I heard the Jesuits say that the migrants often tell them, ‘But I have God with me, I have God on my side,’” she said.

After Mass at a nearby chapel, Mitra approached a woman named Aurelia sitting alone who agreed to talk with her.

Aurelia had just been released after serving 75 days

in a jail in Florence, Arizona for illegally crossing the border. It was the second of two failed attempts to cross with the help of a “coyote” who she paid almost $2,000 to get her to the border. Her parents were elderly and she decided she would be the one to “come and try to help everyone.” Her village raised the money for her journey, a loan, she would still have to repay.

She was released without her belongings including identification and the small sum of money she had on her when caught. She said she didn’t know what she was going to do.

Mitra took off the bracelet she was wearing with images of her favorite saints and gave it to Aurelia.

It had given her strength for her long walk in the desert the year before.

“She said I gave her hope,” said Mitra.

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reverent liturgies and promote a Catholic culture of the arts in an extraordinary new way,” said Maggie Gallagher, executive director of the institute.

“We are very honored to have a composer of his talent coming to the Benedict XVI Institute, ” said Archbishop Cordileone, “Frank La Rocca’s ‘Mass of the Americas’ will be a fitting tribute to Mary, who draws together people of diverse cultures and races and unifies us in worship of her son, Jesus Christ.”

La Rocca is university trained at schools including Yale. “His faith journey, coupled with his professional training, moved him to adopt sacred music and Gregorian chant as a key inspiration for this work,” the Benedict XVI Institute said.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has commissioned composer Frank La Rocca with the writing of “Mass of the Americas.” The liturgical setting is seen as “an innovative sacred music composition, a tribute to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the patroness of the United States, and Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of both Mexico and all the Americas,” said the Benedict the XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, where La Rocca has been named composer-in-residence.

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Cardinal Ouellet in late September urging him to tell what he knew about now-Archbishop McCarrick. Archbishop Vigano’s letter followed a massive statement in mid-August calling on Pope Francis to resign because, he claimed, Pope Francis had known there were sanctions on Cardinal McCarrick and not only did he lift them, he allegedly made Cardinal McCarrick a trusted confidant and adviser on bishops’ appointments in the United States.

Addressing Archbishop Vigano as “dear brother,” Cardinal Ouellet said, “I understand how bitterness and disappointments have marked your path in the service of the Holy See, but you cannot conclude your priestly life this way, in an open and scandalous rebellion.”

Archbishop Vigano’s letters, he said, “inflict a very painful wound” on the church, “which you claim to serve better, aggravating divisions and the bewilderment of the people of God!” “Come out of hiding,” Cardinal Ouellet told Archbishop Vigano, who left Rome as soon as his midAugust missive was published, claiming that it was for his own safety.

“Repent of your revolt,” the cardinal wrote before asking, “How can you celebrate the holy Eucharist and pronounce his (the pope’s) name in the canon of the Mass?”

Cardinal Ouellet’s letter, written with the approval of Pope Francis, was published the day after the Vatican said the pope had ordered a “thorough study of

the entire documentation present in the archives of the dicasteries and offices of the Holy See regarding the former Cardinal McCarrick in order to ascertain all the relevant facts, to place them in their historical context and to evaluate them objectively.”

The statement added that “the Holy See is conscious that, from the examination of the facts and of the circumstances, it may emerge that choices were taken that would not be consonant with a contemporary approach to such issues.”

Archbishop Vigano had claimed he personally informed Pope Francis in June 2013 that in “2009 or 2010,” after Cardinal McCarrick had retired, Pope Benedict imposed sanctions on him because of allegations of sexual misconduct with and sexual harassment of seminarians. Archbishop Vigano later explained that Pope Benedict issued the sanctions “privately” perhaps “due to the fact that he (Archbishop McCarrick) was already retired, maybe due to the fact that he (Pope Benedict) was thinking he was ready to obey.”

In his open letter, Cardinal Ouellet told Archbishop Vigano, “You say you informed Pope Francis on June 23, 2013, of the McCarrick case in an audience he granted to you like many other papal representatives he met for the first time that day.”

“Imagine the enormous quantity of verbal and written information he received that day regarding many people and situations,” the cardinal wrote.

“I strongly doubt that McCarrick interested him as much as you would like us to believe, given the fact that he was an 82-year-old archbishop emeritus who

had been without a post for seven years.”

As for the written instructions the Congregation for Bishops prepared for Archbishop Vigano in 2011 when he was to begin his service as nuncio to the United States, “they say nothing at all about McCarrick.” However, the cardinal added, “I told you verbally of the situation of the bishop emeritus who was to observe certain conditions and restrictions because of rumors about his behavior in the past.”

Cardinal McCarrick “was strongly exhorted not to travel and not to appear in public so as not to provoke further rumors,” Cardinal Ouellet said, but “it is false to present these measures taken in his regard as ‘sanctions’ decreed by Pope Benedict XVI and annulled by Pope Francis. After re-examining the archives, I certify that there are no such documents signed by either pope.”

And, unlike what Archbishop Vigano claimed, there are no documents from Cardinal Ouellet’s predecessor, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, saying that then-Cardinal McCarrick was ordered to live a life of withdrawal and silence under the threat of canonical penalties.

The reason such measures were not taken then and were only taken in June by Pope Francis, Cardinal Ouellet said, was because there was not “sufficient proof of his presumed guilt.”

“His case would have been the object of new disciplinary measures if the nunciature in Washington or any other source would have furnished us with recent and decisive information about his behavior,” the cardinal told the former nuncio.

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“When the hierarchy stands up and says ‘we are shocked’ about seminaries and McCarrick, they are either lying or naive.”

Archbishop Cordileone said seminaries, and how they were infected by the sexual revolution, played an important role in the clergy sex abuse scandal. Across the United States, significant attention had been paid to reforming and improving them, he said. St. Patrick’s Seminary & University has been a “top priority” for the archbishop, and he said it now is “very careful” in admitting candidates to the priesthood. Candidates undergo a thorough process of evaluation through psychological tests, spiritual direction and personal interviews.

Many present at the sessions thanked the archbishop for the opportunity to talk directly with him, and said their trust in the church had been shaken. One speaker who identified himself as a parishioner from Our Lady of Mount Carmel asked if the archbishop was open to an independent review of the archdiocese’s sex abuse files.

“I’m very open to that,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

The idea had been previously raised in internal discussions, he said, but he had first wanted to hear from laity about what they thought would help establish trust again.

Suit filed against church in California seeks names of all alleged abusers

LOS ANGELES – Lawyers for a Los Angeles man who claims that as a child he was abused by a priest filed a lawsuit Oct. 2 against the California Catholic Conference and 11 of California’s 12 dioceses, including the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

The suit also names the Archdiocese of Chicago because the plaintiff, Thomas Emens, said the now-dead priest who allegedly abused him for two years starting in 1978 when he was 10 had moved to Los Angeles from Chicago to serve at St. Anthony Claret Catholic Church in Anaheim in the early 1970s.

Jeff Anderson and Associates, who represent Emens, filed the “nuisance lawsuit” in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It claims the church has covered up cases of child sexual abuse by priests.

It asks that the court “to abate the continuing nuisance” of abuse by compelling the dioceses to release the names and files of every clergy member accused of sexual misconduct.

Anderson, a Minnesota attorney who over the last couple of decades has represented many people claiming they were sexually abused by priests, also

Marylou Murphy at the St. Anthony session asked what the archdiocese was doing to welcome back people like her who had left the church because of anger over the scandals.

“I don’t feel comfortable going into a parish and just pretending nothing happened,” she said.

John McCord, a survivor of sex abuse and member of the Independent Review Board, responded that “her question is the crux of where we need to go,” noting that people who have been wounded by the church are secondary victims of clergy sex abuse.

Archbishop Cordileone encouraged all Catholics to continue to speak to their bishops and offer concrete proposals to him and others for how the church can move forward.

“There’s a grass-roots effort here, but it has to be in collaboration with the bishops. Keep your voices heard, so you keep our feet to the fire,” he said.

Holly Lemos of Our Lady of Loretto Parish told Catholic San Francisco the listening sessions were “a great step,” but that as a layperson she felt “powerless” to effect change.

“What I heard and what our archbishop heard, it has to be heard at the bishops’ level. They’re the ones who can do something,” she said.

Prayer, Lemos said, was “critical” for moving forward, along with a focus on faith.

“At the end of the day, it’s about God and Jesus,

not priests,” she said.

Many of those who spoke at the St. Matthew session discussed issues that went beyond the church’s immediate response to the sex abuse crisis.

One woman said the pope needed to re-examine the church’s discipline of celibacy, and another speaker asked Archbishop Cordileone to allow spiritual directors to help women explore a call to holy orders. A parent asked the archbishop to strengthen Catholic identity in archdiocesan schools.

Questions about Archbishop McCarrick’s career were also raised, as people asked how he advanced through the church despite a long history of abusing and harassing seminarians, and what could be done to hold bishops accountable.

Archbishop Cordileone said that while bishops have no canonical authority over other bishops, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has been looking into ways to keep bishops answerable for their misdeeds.

The USCCB has also announced it would set up a hotline run by a third party to field calls about sexual abuse of minors or adults by bishops.

A significant concern for many was the decline of practicing Catholics, and the disappearance of youth from the church.

“You could set a cannon off in Mass and not hit anyone,” said one man. “We need to find out how to get today’s Catholics into church.”

filed suit against the Vatican Oct. 4. His client is a California man, now 52, who say says he was sexually abused by a priest over a five-year period.

That suit seeks “the names of all offenders within the church worldwide,” according to new reports, which also said the unnamed man reached a settlement with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2007.

In separate statements, the California Catholic Conference and the Los Angeles Archdiocese both pointed out that the lawsuit filed for Emens is based on old cases and information that has long been known to the public.

“The archdiocese has acknowledged and taken responsibility for the failures and mistakes in the way abuse cases were handled in the past and instituted a strict “zero tolerance” policy to ensure that allegations of abuse would be reported to authorities and that anyone found to have committed abuse – whether a priest, deacon, religious or layperson – would be held accountable and permanently removed from ministry in the Archdiocese,” the archdiocese said.

The Catholic conference, which is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, also pointed out that “none of the information provided

describes the positive steps taken by California dioceses over the past 15 years to protect children and young people from abuse.”

In a recent interview, Nick Cafardi, dean emeritus of the law school at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a widely quoted expert on sex abuse, told Angelus News, the online news outlet of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, that he has seen a largely positive before-and-after story since the implementation of the 2002 Dallas “Charter for the Protection of Young People” in dioceses around the nation.

“From Dallas onward, we treated victims with a lot more respect than before,” said Cafardi, a former chairman of the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board.

“Before Dallas, the priests were favored (in accusations) against their accusers. Dallas changed that.”

Richard “Skip” Byrne, a Catholic with decades of experience as a judge in Los Angeles, told Angelus he believes the Catholic Church does a far better job of disciplining misconduct within its ranks than other institutions, such as local police departments.

“I think that the Archdiocese of LA is a model for the country, and even the world,” Byrne said.

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Archdiocese applauds Gov. Brown’s safe injection site veto An effort to install the first U.S. safe injection sites for illegal opioid use here in San Francisco hit a major roadblock with Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of legislation for a three-year pilot program in the city.

“Fundamentally, I do not believe that enabling illegal drug use in government sponsored injection centers – with no corresponding requirement that the user undergo treatment – will reduce drug addiction,” Brown wrote in his Sept. 30 veto message, saying the solution to drug addiction is a comprehensive and expanded “system of care for the addicted.” ”The community must have the authority and the laws to require compassionate but effective and mandatory treatment. AB 186 is all carrot and no stick,” Brown said.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a strong advocate of safe injection sites whose sister died of an overdose, resolved in a statement “to continue to work with our community partners on trying to come up with a solution to move this effort for-

ward.” The safe injection sites are one proposed response to a national epidemic of fentanyl and heroin overdose deaths.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco last month published a statement in opposition to the sites, stating “while acknowledging that support for safe injection sites stems from a desire to help those in need, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone nevertheless firmly opposes the safe injection sites. They set a negative example for children and young people, even as they continue to tear apart the social fabric that should promote healthy habits among the young.”

“Thank you Gov. Brown for a common sense veto of a bad piece of legislation,” said Valerie Schmalz, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Human Life & Dignity.

In his veto message, Brown also noted that AB 186, if law, would place health care workers in legal jeopardy. “…although this bill creates immunity under state law, it can’t create such immunity under federal law. In fact, the United States Attorney

General has already threatened prosecution and it would be irresponsible to expose local officials and health care professionals to potential federal criminal charges,” the California governor said in his veto statement.

In an Aug. 27 New York Times op-ed, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein wrote that safe injection sites “are very dangerous and would only make the opioid crisis worse,” Rosenstein wrote.

“Because federal law clearly prohibits injection sites, cities and counties should expect the Department of Justice to meet the opening of any injection site with swift and aggressive action,” Rosenstein wrote. He noted, “Violations are punishable by up to 20 years in prison, hefty fines and forfeiture of the property used in the criminal activity.

The law also authorizes the federal government to obtain civil injunctions against violators.”

San Francisco Mayor Breed’s initiative was backed by a number of social service providers, and Glide Memorial Church held an open house of a mock safe injection site at the end of August.

Gov. Brown vetoes bill mandating abortion pill at state, UC campuses Pro-life advocates applauded Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of SB 320, short-circuiting legislation that would have required every California state and University of California campus health center to stock and prescribe the abortion pill.

Life Legal Defense Foundation called the veto “a victory for tiny humans in California.”

SB 320 would have required each UC and California state campus health center to stock RU 486 or medication abortion by 2022. The two-part regime can now be administered up to 10 weeks gestation, according to Federal Drug Administration guidelines.

“We are extremely grateful that Gov. Brown vetoed this legislation which would have institution-

alized a bias toward abortion as women’s health care on campus by requiring every campus health center to dispense medication abortion commonly known as RU 486,” said Valerie Schmalz, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Human Life & Dignity. “RU 486 can have life threatening complications, and without 24/7 medical care on campus, the legislation would not only have led to babies’ deaths but it would have endangered students’ health.”

The California Catholic Conference had made stopping SB 320 a top priority of this legislative session, working closely with Californians for Life and Students for Life of America. Feminists for Life America president Serrin Foster wrote an edi-

torial published by feminist Naomi Wolf, opposing SB 320.

“Because the services required by this bill are widely available off campus, this bill is not necessary,” Brown wrote in his veto message, noting abortion is available from five to seven miles from the college campuses.

“No one expected Gov. Brown to veto this legislation,” said Alexandra Snyder, executive director of Life Legal Defense Foundation. “Planned Parenthood paraded hundreds of young women before legislators to testify in favor of chemical abortion on demand. I can only attribute this victory to prolifers who have prayed faithfully for the defeat of this dangerous bill.”

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Sunday readings

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time WISDOM 7:7-11 I prayed, and prudence was given me; I pleaded, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I preferred her to scepter and throne, and deemed riches nothing in comparison with her, nor did I liken any priceless gem to her; because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand, and before her, silver is to be accounted mire. Beyond health and comeliness I loved her, and I chose to have her rather than the light, because the splendor of her never yields to sleep. Yet all good things together came to me in her company, and countless riches at her hands.

PSALM 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

Fill us at daybreak with your kindness that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. Make us glad, for the days when you afflicted us, for the years when we saw evil.

Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

Let your work be seen by your servants and your glory by their children; and may the gracious care of the Lord our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands!

Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!

HEBREWS 4:12-13 Brothers and sisters: Indeed the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart. No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

MARK 10:17-30 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.” He replied and

said to him, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.” Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” At that statement his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” The disciples were amazed at his words. So Jesus again said to them in reply, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.” Peter began to say to him, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.”

I don’t care what Jesus would do

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popular question when facing a moral dilemma or an application of the Christian faith is: “What would Jesus do?” or “What would Jesus say?” While it can be a deep reflection on what it means to imitate Christ, have you ever noticed that those who ask the question, invariably answer that question the same way, regardless of the issue at hand – “What do you know! Jesus would do exactly what I would do!”

As a Catholic and a priest, I have long since abandoned that question, because it is too easy to be subjective in the answer, reducing Jesus to nothing more than an imaginary friend who will always agree with me, and father william reducing the faith I profess nicholas to nothing more than wishful thinking, rather than the adherence to absolute and eternal truths, and the standards we are called to live by. To be honest, and in the interest of full disclosure, I care little about what Jesus

scripture reflection

would say, and about what Jesus would do. Instead, I focus on what Jesus did say and on what Jesus, in fact, did.

In answering such a question as to how Jesus would guide us if He were with us in person, have we ever considered answering the question, “What would Jesus say/do?” with another question? “What is the last thing I would want Jesus to say/do?” (knowing He would never tell us to sin). More than once throughout the four Gospels, Jesus is asked a question, sometimes with the implied hope that He will provide a desired answer. “Will only a few be saved?” implies the hope that Jesus will respond that many will be saved. Instead, Jesus replies with His teaching on the “narrow door” (Luke 13:23-28) in which He responds (in summary) “many will try, few will succeed and you will be left out.” Not exactly the answer any of us would be hoping for.

When the Rich Young Man asks what he must do to inherit eternal life, he leaves crestfallen when Jesus gives, perhaps, the last answer the man wanted to hear: “Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor” (Mark 10:21-22). In response to the Rich Young Man’s walking away, Jesus gives further commentary that, again, not many of us would want to hear: “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God” (Mark

10:23). When the Apostles then assert that they have given up everything to follow Him, Jesus, in what can be considered a biblical hat-trick, responds that they will receive back a hundred times more what they have given up, “with persecutions” (Mark 10:29-30) – this to a group of men who would later abandon Jesus at the first sign of trouble.

When we see how Jesus related to His Disciples while He was among them, we can recognized His pattern of never giving any assurances, always expecting one more thing from all of us, and challenging us to think not as humans think, but as God thinks; not to kid ourselves with our own expectations and prejudices on what Jesus would say and do, but on what is truly expected of anyone who would consider themselves His followers.

Ergo, the best clue as to, “What would Jesus say/do?” might be to ponder “What is the last thing I would want Jesus to say/do?” all based on what Jesus actually said and did. That may give us the best clue to how we should apply our faith to the questions, issues and dilemmas we face as “modern day” followers of Christ.

Jogues and John de Brebeuf, priests and martyrs and companions, martyrs. Eph 1:11-14. Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 12-13. Ps 33:22. Lk 12:1-7.

of St. John of Capistrano, priest. Eph 2:12-22. pS 85:9ab-10, 11-12, 13-14. Lk 21:36. Lk 12:35-38.

Father William Nicholas is a parochial vicar at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, San Francisco.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, October 15: Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila, virgin and doctor. Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31–5:1.

Ps 113:1b-2, 3-4, 5a and 6-7. Ps 95:8. Lk 11:2932.

Tuesday, October 16: Tuesday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Hedwig, religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin; St. Marguerite d’Youville. Gal 5:1-6. Ps 119:41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48. Heb 4:12. Lk 11:37-41.

Wednesday, October 17: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr. Gal 5:18-25. Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. Jn 10:27. Lk 11:42-46.

Thursday, 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.

Friday, October 19: Memorial of Sts. Isaac

Saturday, October 20: Saturday of the Twentyeighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Paul of the Cross, priest. Eph 1:15-23. Ps 8:23ab, 4-5, 6-7. Jn 15:26b, 27a. Lk 12:8-12.

Wednesday, October 24: Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret, bishop. Eph 3:2-12. IS 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6. Mt 24:42a, 44. Lk 12:39-48.

Sunday, October 21: Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Is 53:10-11. Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22. Heb 4:14-16. Mk 10:45. Mk 10:35-45 or MK 10:42-45.

Thursday, October 25: Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week of Ordinary Time. Forty Martyrs of England & Wales. Eph 3:14-21. Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19. Phil 3:8-9. Lk 12:49-53.

Monday, October 22: Monday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John Paul II. Eph 2:1-10. PS 100:1b-2, 3, 4ab, 4c-5. Mt 5:3. LK 12:13-21.

Friday, October 26: Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Eph 4:1-6. PS 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. See Mt 11:25. Lk 12:54-59.

Tuesday, October 23: Tuesday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial

Saturday, October 27: Saturday of the Twentyninth Week in Ordinary Time. Eph 4:7-16. pS 122:12, 3-4ab, 4cd-5. EZ 33:11. Lk 13:1-9.

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Letters Why defend Archbishop Vigano?

Having read this past Catholic San Francisco (Sept. 13), I ask myself why our archbishop and George Weigel are defending Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. They refer to Archbishop Vigano as: a courageous reformer, an honest man, a loyal churchman, a man who served his mission with selfless dedication.

Are we forgetting that Archbishop Vigano himself knew about the clergy sex abuse scandal? Why did he not report the abuse to the civil authorities when it fell on the deaf ears of the church hierarchy? That is the real crime here.

If the church hierarchy was doing nothing about it, you don’t just dismiss it. If a crime is committed and a person is aware of it and does not report it, that person should be charged with obstruction of justice and prosecuted. All those who knew about the sexual abuse and did nothing about it and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

From this point forward, lay men and women should be on every church committee and have some oversight as to what is being discussed and what should be done to resolve the conflict in our church.

Joseph A. Koman San Francisco

The church has survived many a trial

Years ago as a Catholic high school student here in San Francisco, one required subject was Catholic Church history. If I remember correctly, the early church experienced some hard times.

Many, including some popes, ignored church rules and became very worldly.

However, the church survived just as its founder Jesus Christ predicted. It survived, became stronger and then gave us some of our greatest saints.

For many years Our Lady of Fatima has warned us of exactly what is happening in the world. We have not listened to her even when she gave us the solution, prayer, especially the rosary.

Maybe history can repeat itself.

Mary Louise Zgraggen San Francisco

Action needed, not only promises

I have just finished reading Archbishop Cordileone’s latest letter and must admit that I am thoroughly confused.

First we have his letter of Aug. 20 (Aug. 23 issue) in which he asks the faithful to do acts of penance, such as abstaining from meat, in order to make up for the evils being done by the bishops and priests. Then we have his letter of Aug. 29 (Sept. 13 issue) stating that he believes that Archbishop Vigano is an honorable man and that we must take his call for the pope to resign seriously.

Now we have this latest letter (Sept. 27 issue) in which he again says that he is creating opportunities for the faithful to do penance and adoration to make up for the evils of the church.

I honestly don’t understand what he is trying to accomplish. He seems to be directing attention away from the evils done by the hierarchy rather than trying to find a way to solve a truly despicable situation. God has called our attention to the fact that far too many bishops have been more concerned with protecting the reputation of the hierarchy than in being Christ-like in protecting the people for whom they are responsible. These are men who have supposedly been ontologically made the vicars of Christ, so sacred that even the pope cannot remove them but can only ask for their resignation.

Looking at the evils they have done, it is difficult to believe that they are truly representatives of Christ in this life.

I truly hope that the archbishop hears the faithful and truly listens

in his five sessions open to the laity.

Having seen evening events like this before, however, I cannot help but think that his staff will select which questions he has to answer and will stop the process after an hour or so. If the archbishop really hears the people and becomes a man of action, it will be time well spent. If he doesn’t, it will just undermine people’s trust in the hierarchy to an even greater extent.

We are in a major time of crisis. We need more than vague promises and calls for us to do penance.

Denis Nolan Daly City

It’s going to take a miracle

It’s going to take a miracle for the church hierarchy to regain the trust of the laity. Mistrust in conducting an honest, open, independent investigation into the former Cardinal McCarrick situation is just the “tip of the iceberg.”

The former cardinal has been accused of not only both minor and adult sexual abuse but also questionable financial transactions with the Vatican itself.

Numerous bishops, cardinals and popes have been reportedly aware of McCarrick’s moral failings and chose to “turn a blind eye” to those reports/accusations.

Many members of the body of bishops/cardinals itself are implicated in complicity/cover up/ “acceptance.”

How can we ever believe as ‘conflicted’ as they are that a “self-investigation” could be conducted in an open and transparent fashion?

The Holy Father has so far not been willing to initiate an apostolic visitation and even if he did, how could he appoint someone within the church that would have credibility with the laity. Foxes and henhouses come to mind.

We the laity need to 1) pray earnestly for divine inspiration and intervention and 2) take an active role in any efforts to restore the trust in the administration of our church.

Many of our church leaders are “good men” doing the work of our Lord, we need to pray for and support them but we also need to identify and remove the “bad apples” as well as deal with the root cause issues that have led to the moral corruption within the church – our church.

It’s going to take a miracle.

Bill Tauskey San Mateo

Virtue signaling by the ‘betters’

Virtue signaling: To flaunt moral superiority and signal moral superiority.

Surely the self-proclaimed caring Pharisee is rejected. Today his legacy of virtue signaling thrives in San Francisco and has spawned the self-anointed “betters.”

They infect the Bay Area, the state and nation. Heralded by a devious andfailing media, and parroted by many in government, business, Hollywood and worse: academia and its sadly ignorant, snowflake students.

Most insidious are new breed of millennial clerics, and religious men, women and laity of every religion. They betray their true morally superior forebears whose sacrifice and courage built America’s schools, hospitals, social, cultural and charitable services. Sadly, few will pass this way again.

Mike DeNunzio Walnut Creek

How are men living out the Gospel message?

Thank you for your news coverage and editorial responses to this crisis in our church.

I would like to add that a good starting point to any conversation of the ethical and moral exercise of authority would be to speak of the male prerogative operating throughout the church hierarchy, clergy and beyond. We know this abuse and the manipulation of authority is systemic and we have to ask how male entitlement is playing a role in the church and its schools and parishes.

The American church and U.S. political parties have never looked or behaved more alike than they have at this moment. The church’s scandals are mirrored sharply in the scandal that is the American government.

They each share precisely the same values: power, fear and self-protection over service to the people.

What if we began a conversation with how are men living out the Gospel message? What do those behaviors look like? We know they exist; we have experienced them, but they remain an anomaly. How can men and boys model something they never see or hear talked about. Let’s individualize the thinking – each of us ask: How do we contribute to or tolerate abusive behavior in ourselves and others. Ask the men how they are honestly doing, where do they think their place is in all of this, how would they evaluate their own ways of proceeding, and what do they need to do better or help other men do better. If we can know a little more, we might discover what it means for us to serve them and contribute to the desperately needed change.

Karen Kelly San Francisco

Questions about China deal

Re “Vatican reaches pact with China on naming of bishops,” Sept. 27: The above-cited article raises numerous questions for us Catholics in the pews.

Why is the Vatican making a deal with a Communist state that does not tolerate religious freedom and that cuts crosses and tops off churches and mosques?

Doesn’t this pact run contrary to those from the church who were tortured and imprisoned for upholding the principles of the church and for their adamant resistance to fascist and Communist governments?

How can the Vatican justify the time and resources to send the Vatican’s secretary of state to China when it has more serious and pressing issues to resolve?

Why does the Vatican believe that China will honor their deal?

Why isn’t the Vatican listening to Cardinal Joseph Zen, retired archbishop of Hong Kong, who has resisted the Communist government and denounced the pact?

This so-called pact requires a full hearing of the world’s Catholics since this action by the Vatican is not an issue of faith or morals but rather and issue dealing with negotiations between sovereign states affecting the governance of the church worldwide.

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n a book, “12 Rules for Life – An Antidote to Chaos,” that’s justifiably making waves in many circles today, Jordan Peterson shares about his own journey towards truth and meaning.

Here’s that story: At one point in his life, while still young and finding his own path, FATHER ron he reached a rolheiser stage where he felt agnostic, not just about the shallow Christianity he’d been raised on, but also about most everything else in terms of truth and trust. What really can we believe in?

What’s ultimately to be trusted?

Too humble to compare himself to one of the great minds in history, Rene Descartes, who, 500 years ago, struggled with a similar agnosticism, Peterson nonetheless could not help but employ Descartes’ approach in trying to find a truth that you could not doubt. So, like Descartes, he set off in search off an “indubitable” (Descartes’ term), that is, to find a premise that absolutely cannot be doubted. Descartes, as we know, found his “indubitable” in his famous dictum: I think, therefore, I am! Nobody can be deceived in believing that since even to be deceived would be indisputable proof that you exist. The philosophy that Descartes then built upon the indubitable premise is left for history to judge.

But history doesn’t dispute the truth of his dictum.

So Peterson sets out with the same essential question: What single thing cannot be doubted? Is there something so evidently true that nobody can doubt it? For Peterson, it’s not the fact that we think which is indisputable, it’s the fact that we, all of us, suffer. That’s his indubitable truth, suffering is real. That cannot be doubted: “Nihilists cannot undermine it with skepticism. Totalitarians cannot banish it. Cynics cannot escape its reality.” Suffering is real beyond all doubt.

Moreover, in Peterson’s understanding, the worst kind of suffering isn’t that which is inflicted upon us by the innate contingencies of our being and our mortality, nor by the sometimes blind brutality of nature.

The worst kind of suffering is the kind that one person inflicts upon another, the kind that one part of humankind inflicts upon another part, the kind we see in the atrocities of the 20th century – Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and countless others responsible for the torture, rape, suffering and death of millions.

From this indubitable premise he submits something else that too cannot be disputed: This kind of suffering isn’t just real, it’s also wrong!

We can all agree that this kind of suffering is not good and that there see rolheiser, page 27

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Tintoretto and the reform of the church

[was] in Washington, D.C., [last month] for meetings of the USCCB. Since formal proceedings didn’t begin until the evening, I found myself with a little free time. So, I made my way to one of my favorite places in the city, the National Gallery of Art, which I frequented when I was a student BISHOP Robert at Catholic Barron University many years ago.

At the close of a long session of walking and musing, I was drawn by an empty and comfortable-looking couch situated at the end of one of the galleries. Plopping down to rest, I looked up at the picture right in front of me. At first glance, given the color scheme and the peculiar modeling of the figures, I thought it was an El Greco, but closer examination revealed that it in fact was Tintoretto’s depiction of Christ at the Sea of Galilee. The drama at the center of the composition is the apostles’ boat, buffeted by choppy waves, and St. Peter taking a gingerly, tentative step onto the bounding main at the invitation of the Lord who beckons to him. My seated posture conduced toward contemplation, and I spent a good deal of time with this painting, first admiring the obvious technical skill of the painter, especially in the rendering of the water, but eventually moving to a deeper perception of its spiritual theme, of resonance today.

Whenever the Gospels present the disciples of Jesus in a boat, they are, of course, representing the church. So, Tintoretto is showing the church in its practically perma-

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“Christ at the Sea of Galilee,” Circle of Tintoretto (Probably Lambert Sustris), c. 1570s, oil on canvas. nent condition across the ages: at sea, rocked by waves, in danger of going under. Indeed, with a handful of remarkable exceptions, every age has been, in some way, a perilous one for the mystical body of Christ.

The boat is filled with the speciallychosen apostles of the Lord, those who spent years with the master, learning his mind, watching his moves, witnessing his miracles with their own eyes, taking in his spirit. One would think that even if everyone else failed to follow the Lord, these men would hold steady.

And yet we see them cowering, timorous, obviously at a loss as the storm rages around them. And the Gospels, in a manner that sets them apart from most other literature dealing with religious founders and their disciples, do consistently portray Jesus’ inner circle as deeply flawed. Peter denied the Lord at

the moment of truth; James and John succumbed to petty ambition; Thomas refused to believe the report of the Resurrection; Judas betrayed his master; all of them, with the exception of John, abandoned him on the cross, protecting their own hides. And yet Tintoretto shows Peter tentatively placing his foot upon the sea, commencing to walk toward Jesus. The great spiritual lesson – shopworn perhaps to the point of being a cliché, but still worth repeating – is that as long as the church keeps its eyes fixed on Christ, it can survive even the worst of storms. It can walk on the water.

The Catholic Church is once more enduring a moment of extreme trial in regard to sexual abuse. This time, the focus of attention is on the failure of some bishops to protect the vulnerable, and in at least one

terrible case, the active abuse perpetrated by a cardinal archbishop.

The whole world is rightly outraged by these sins, and the Church appropriately feels ashamed. Many wonder, understandably, how those specially devoted to Christ could fall into such depravity. But then we recall that every bishop today is a successor of the apostles – which is to say, of that band that both sat in easy familiarity with Jesus and denied, betrayed, and ran from their master. In stormy times, the first Apostles cowered, and their successors, we have to admit, often do the same.

But there are grounds for hope.

They are found, however, not in institutional reform (as important as that is), not in psychological analysis (as indispensable as that might be), not in new programs and protocols (as helpful as they might prove), but rather in a return to Jesus Christ. Eyes fixed on him, hearts attuned to him, minds beguiled by him, action determined by him, the leaders of the church can, even now, walk on the water.

Tintoretto sheds considerable light on this issue of apostolic weakness and strength in the very manner in which he has arranged the figures in his composition. The painting is foreshortened in such a way that the disciples appear very small, almost doll-like, whereas Jesus, looming in the extreme foreground, looks gigantic. As John the Baptist put the principle: “He must increase and I must decrease.”

When our anxieties and egos are placed in the foreground, Christ necessarily recedes. Crucial to the reformation of the Church is the reversal of that perspective.

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The grace of enough

H

aley Stewart stared at the publish button and froze.

It’s nerve racking to announce big news, and this, in particular, had the potential to raise eyebrows.

The title of the blog post stared back at her, boldface, unblinking: “When You Leave Your ComfortChristina able Life and Capecchi Change Just About Everything.”

The announcement had been a long time coming – Haley and her husband, Daniel, had begun discerning the change a year ago, and their house had been on the market for two months – but now that it was time to go public, she hesitated.

“I was expecting people to think we were crazy,” Haley said, standing by her backyard chicken coop in Waco, Texas, on a hot Friday afternoon and smiling at the memory.

The Stewarts had decided to

move their five-person family halfway across the country to live in a 650-square foot apartment on a farm. It would be a primitive existence – no flushing toilet – and it was exactly what they were craving. Daniel’s work as a software tester had kept him away from their three young kids too much and brought him no closer to his passion of farming.

They dreamt of a lifestyle where they could eat every meal together as a family, where the kids could be involved in their parents’ work and live off the land.

And now they were doing it, thanks to a sustainable-agriculture internship Daniel had landed and the flexibility of Haley’s freelance writing and homeschooling.

The response to the announcement was overwhelmingly positive.

Texts, emails and more than 100 comments on the blog post poured in.

“Yay for adventure!” one reader wrote. “I can live my fantasy of living on a farm vicariously through you.”

“You and Daniel are my newest heroes!” another reader wrote.

Haley couldn’t believe how deeply

the news resonated. “So many people said: ‘I wish we could do something like that,’ or, ‘We may not be able to do that right now, but we’re trying to figure out how to simplify our lives.’”

It was the spirit of starting over, of eschewing the rat race to embark on an adventure as a family – a storyline dramatized by Kevin Costner in “Field of Dreams,” Billy Bob in “The Astronaut Farmer,” Matt Damon in “We Bought a Zoo” and Hugh Jackman in “The Greatest Showman.”

The experience changed the Stewarts. It was messier and more grueling than they’d imagined, but it was also glorious. They felt connected. To each other. To the land.

To the seasons and their neighbors and their faith.

Shortly after the move, Pope Francis released “Laudato Si’,” on Care for Our Common Home,” an encyclical that challenged the “throwaway culture” the Stewarts had been grappling with.

“It really clarified our spiritual foundations,” said Haley, who was now chopping sweet potatoes in the kitchen to make soup. “It was very cool.”

She chronicled their adventures in a book just published by Ave Maria Press, “The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture.”

It extends an invitation to harried Americans: There is another way.

The Stewarts have not yet mastered simple living. Now that they have four kids, the proclivity to acquire stuff is even stronger, and they still battle the instinct to measure their days by output versus relationships.

But they limit extracurriculars to one, jujitsu, which the kids attend back-to-back, requiring only one family outing – not the chauffeuring circuit that splinters many families. And Daniel recently passed up a promotion that would have brought longer hours and increased stress.

The American drive to work more, buy more, do more – ultimately – is “symptomatic of a failure to love,” Haley writes in her book. Goodness abounded when they learned to pursue less: the grace of enough.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.

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McCarrick case: Vatican starting to acknowledge mistakes Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, Cardinal Marc Ouellet and an official Vatican statement seem to be laying the groundwork for an admission that mistakes were made in handling allegations that Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick engaged in sexual misconduct and even abuse.

But they also make clear that his ordination as a bishop (of Metuchen, New Jersey), appointment as archbishop – first of Newark, New Jersey, and then Washington – and his induction into the College of Cardinals all took place during the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The first formal sanctions on Archbishop McCarrick were imposed by Pope Francis in June after an investigation found credible allegations of the sexual abuse of minors.

Cardinal Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, stated unequivocally Oct. 7 that now-retired Pope Benedict XVI never imposed sanctions on thenCardinal McCarrick, so it is untrue that Pope Francis “invalidated” them, as Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States, claimed.

But, Cardinal Ouellet said, rumors about Archbishop McCarrick did reach the Vatican years ago, so both he and his predecessor, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, made requests to Archbishop McCarrick “not to travel or to make public appearances, in order to avoid new rumors about him.”

“The congregation’s decision was inspired by prudence, and the letters from my predecessor and my own letters urged him, first through the apostolic nuncio, (Archbishop) Pietro Sambi, and then through you (Archbishop Vigano), to lead a life of

prayer and penance for his own good and for the good of the church,” Cardinal Ouellet wrote in an open letter to Archbishop Vigano.

Like many people in the church, Cardinal Ouellet asked: “How is it possible that this man of the church, whose incoherence has now been revealed, was promoted many times, and was nominated to such a high position as archbishop of Washington and cardinal?”

The answer, he said, is that “there were failures in the selection procedures implemented in his case” and “the concerns that were raised by witnesses should have been examined more closely.”

The Vatican press office Oct. 6 published a statement saying Pope Francis has decided that as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith continues its investigations into the sex abuse allegations against Cardinal McCarrick, “a further thorough study of the entire documentation present in the archives of the dicasteries and offices of the Holy See regarding the former Cardinal McCarrick” will take place.

The goal of the study, the statement said, is “to ascertain all the relevant facts, to place them in their historical context and to evaluate them objectively.”

The mention of the “historical context” is important.

The Vatican itself explained Oct. 6: “The Holy See is conscious that, from the examination of the facts and of the circumstances, it may emerge that choices were taken that would not be consonant with a contemporary approach to such issues. However, as Pope Francis has said: ‘We will follow the path of truth wherever it may lead’ (Philadelphia, Sept. 27, 2015).

“Both abuse and its cover-up can no longer be tolerated, and a different treatment for bishops who have committed or covered up abuse, in fact, repre-

sents a form of clericalism that is no longer acceptable,” the statement continued.

Obviously, many Catholics are outraged that church leaders who seem to have ready answers for how laypeople should live and behave have been so slow to figure out a way to stop sexual abuse by clergy and to hold bishops and cardinals accountable for their personal behavior and for the cover-up.

Pope Francis, while refusing to respond directly to Archbishop Vigano’s accusations, told reporters in late September that he understands Catholics, including young Catholics, are scandalized by the reports of abuse and cover-up.

However, he also said the church is still learning and progress has been made, but it is not right to judge the past based on what is known and considered today the best way to proceed.

Referring explicitly to the Pennsylvania grand jury report on abuse released in mid-August, the pope said the cases were numerous “until the early 1970s,” but “in more recent times, they decreased because the church realized that she had to grapple with this in another way. In times past, these things were covered up,” both in the church and within families.

Pope Francis told reporters flying back to Rome with him from Estonia that “a historical fact should be interpreted with the hermeneutic of the time in which this fact occurred, not with today’s hermeneutic.”

Popular sensitivities and church teaching have developed over the centuries, he said, pointing to colonization and the awareness of the rights of indigenous people or attitudes toward capital punishment. “Even the Vatican, as a state – when it was a pontifical state – had the death penalty; the last one, a criminal, a young man, was beheaded around 1870. But then moral consciousness grew; the moral conscience grew.”

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US church urged to fight racism with same zeal waged for pro-life cause Brian Fraga Catholic News Service

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Catholic Church in the United States has a strong pro-life identity and is wellknown for being passionately against abortion.

But the nation’s Catholic community overall does not show the same determination to stamp out racism in society, said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana.

“Even in our own beloved church, standing against racism is not considered an essential character of Catholic identity,” Bishop Fabre, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad-Hoc Committee Against Racism, told a Providence audience.

In an evening program titled “Where Do We Go From Here?” and hosted by several New England dioceses and Dominican-run Providence College, Bishop Fabre presented a historical overview of how the nation’s Catholic bishops in the 20th century spoke out against racism and tried to urge the faithful to take action.

Bishop Fabre also described the work of the bishops’ conference’s ad-hoc committee, which has been meeting over the past year with communities of color in listening sessions across the nation, hearing from Catholics who have been harmed by bigotry in society and in the church.

“Racism is still felt in our land, in our society, and in church structures,” said Bishop Fabre said in his remarks Sept. 17. He added that his committee is drafting a pastoral letter that will be introduced at the USCCB’s general assembly meeting in November.

In the pastoral, the Ad-Hoc Committee Against Racism will be urging an implementation of a new curriculum in seminaries, houses of formation and Catholic educational institutions to find innovative ways to raise awareness and to provide adequate incorporation of the history, cultures and traditions of all people, including Catholics from communities of color.

Bishop Fabre also said parish priests, deacons and bishops will be encouraged to preach about racism and its effects on people, and to implement new ministries and programs on the local level to address an issue that harms too many people of color in the pews.

“In church, we feel like we are not at home. When we come to church it should be our home, somewhere where you feel accepted and welcome,” said Gary Jean-Louis, a

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Black Lives Matter demonstrators are seen near Lafayette Square in Washington Aug. 12 during the start of the white nationalists’ rally “Unite the Right 2.” parishioner of St. Francis Xavier in East Providence, who is of Haitian descent.

The USCCB formed its Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism last summer amid rising racial tensions that included several violent street confrontations across the country, most notably in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists marched in the streets, clashed with counterprotesters and killed one person.

In their 1979 pastoral letter on racism – “Brothers and Sisters to Us” – the nation’s Catholic bishops wrote: “Racism is a sin: a sin that divides the human family, blots out the image of God among specific members of that family, and violates the fundamental human dignity of those called to be children of the same Father.”

That pastoral letter followed on two earlier documents the bishops wrote to condemn racism. Bishop Fabre said those documents included many good points – including the need to recruit more people of color into the priesthood and religious life – but ultimately made little impact on the majority of Catholics in the United States.

In fact, a 2004 study commissioned by the USCCB found that black Catholics were still underrepresented in the priesthood and in positions of leadership, and also discovered that 64 percent of U.S. Catholics had not heard a homily on racism or racial justice in the previous three years.

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“This prompts the question, ‘Why is this the case?’... Why does it appear that there is a lack of consciousness among the faithful on racism?” said Bishop Fabre, who suggested that the answer was rooted in a lack of consistency by church leaders to speak out and demand action.

In addition, the bishop suggested that the church’s teachings and statements on race in America have in some ways been uninformed by

contemporary social science and humanities, and that the church has also neglected or slighted the voices of victims in failing to examine the issue from their perspective.

“American Catholic teaching often assumes that racism can be overcome only by education, dialogue and moral persuasion,” Bishop Fabre said. “This approach fails to take into account that racism is not only or primarily a sin of ignorance, but also involves aspects of advantage and privilege.”

The ad-hoc committee’s pastoral letter will affirm the church’s longstanding position that racism cannot be reconciled with a Christian understanding of the dignity of each human person. But unlike prior documents, Bishop Fabre said his committee will be conducting further listening sessions and giving tools and resources to parishes and dioceses to help them begin the important conversation about race and to explore needed policy initiatives.

“Racism will not end overnight. The elimination of racism may seem too great a task,” Bishop Fabre said.

“The church must move forward and fulfill its call to transform and proclaim Christ to the world.”

The program was hosted by the Diocese of Providence Office of Black Catholic Ministry; the Archdiocese of Boston; the Archdiocese of Hartford and the Diocese of Bridgeport, in Connecticut; the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts; and Providence College.

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Encuentro moves to action by parishes, dioceses Norma Montenegro Flynn Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Nearly 3,000 Hispanic ministry leaders, like Dominican Sister Judith Maldonado, have gone back to their parishes and dioceses to share the ideas and fruits of the conversations that took place at the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas.

And as that phase of the multiyear process reached completion, the next phase is aimed at putting into practice the lessons learned and bear fruits.

“This has been like a retreat, the message that we were given at the end is like you have the Holy Spirit, you have to take it with you and you have to be saints, produce fruits of love,” said Sister Maldonado, a member of the Dominican Sisters of the Lady of the Rosary of Fatima. Her order is involved with family ministry serving parishes in Maryland and Texas.

In the next few months, the leadership team of the Fifth National Encuentro, or V Encuentro, will distribute a concluding document listing the main priorities and problems identified across 28 ministry areas; the document will assist dioceses, parishes and national structures in drafting their own pastoral plans according to their own realities and priorities.

The Encuentro’s team of accompaniment, or ENAVE, plans to continue providing support and tracking progress.

“We have achieved things that in some ways we never would have imagined would be possible,” Ken Johnson-Mondragon, V Encuentro’s director of research, told Catholic News Service.

“Walls have come down, people have experienced really the joy that Pope Francis talks about.”

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The V Encuentro process that began about four years ago has helped thousands of Hispanic ministry leaders engage in faith-filled dialogues among themselves and reach out to those on peripheries.

Encuentro has also promoted collaborations within and across dioceses, which is known as ‘pastoral en conjunto,’ and has helped remove the “fear to speak up,” bringing the participants closer to their pastors and bishops, added Johnson-Mondragon.

The V Encuentro also identified and prepared at least 25,000 new Hispanic ministry leaders across the country, and about a third of the leaders engaged were youth and young adults. An estimated 100,000 individuals participated in the process and about 150,000 others were reached on the peripheries.

Another important gain is that the V Encuentro has captured the attention and support of the bishops nationwide. At the gathering, about 125 bishops – Hispanic and non-Hispanic – walked side by side with their diocesan delegations, and about 160 out of 178 Roman Catholic dioceses and archdioceses in the country were represented.

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What mostly surprised and pleased Bishop Cantu was the size of the gathering – with over 3,000 participants – and like many others, he was energized by the optimism and drive of the attendees.

The top three recommendations that rose up in the Encuentro process are: the need to develop pastoral plans for Hispanic ministry tailored according to the needs of each parish and diocese; the need of the parish community to help strengthen families; and to hire more Hispanic young adults in paid positions of leadership.

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Pope’s poll numbers down, and worse for handling of abuse Mark Pattison Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – With Pope Francis midway into the sixth year of his pontificate, the percentage of U.S. Catholics who view him favorably, while still strong, is noticeably down.

And, compared to a January poll by the Pew Research Center that showed Catholics being evenly split on how well Pope Francis has handled the issue of clergy sex abuse, numbers in the new poll, released Oct. 2, show that twice as many Catholics feel he is doing only a fair or poor job on the issue than say he is doing a good or excellent job.

The overall favorability number for the pope is 72 percent, split between 42 percent of Catholics who see him “mostly favorable” and 30 percent who view him “very favorable.” The latter number down a third from the last Pew poll last January, when Pope Francis had been at 84 percent favorability. The 72 percent figure is lower than Pew’s favorability findings for Pope Benedict XVI except for its first poll asking the question shortly after Pope Benedict assumed the papacy in 2005.

Pope Francis’ lowest favorability numbers are among Catholic men, at 66 percent, and Catholic Republicans or those who lean Republican, at 61 percent. They are highest among Catholic Democrats or those who lean Democratic, at 83 percent, and Catholic women, at 77 percent. The percentage of Catholics overall who view him unfavorably, though, more than doubled, from 9 percent to 20 percent.

“The new study also shows that U.S. Catholics’ views of Pope Francis are increasingly polarized along political lines,” said the Pew report on its poll. “For instance, in 2014, there was virtually no difference in views of Pope Francis” between Democrats and Republicans, with the latter giving him a 90 percent favorable rating and Democrats giving him an 87 percent mark.

The pope’s favorability numbers also suffered among white evangelical Protestants, from 52 percent in January to 32 percent in September; white mainline Protestants, from 67 percent to 48 percent; and religiously unaffiliated adults, from 58 percent to 53 percent. Still, 51 percent of all Americans view him favorably.

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Pope Francis blesses a girl as he receives the offertory gifts during the Mass of canonization of Junipero Serra outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in 2015 in Washington. In an Oct. 2 Pew Research Center poll, U.S. Catholics by a 2-to-1 margin feel Pope Francis is doing a fair or poor job on the clergy sex abuse issue.

Sixty-two percent of Catholics believe Pope Francis is doing only a fair or poor job handling the abuse crisis, compared to 46 percent in January. Those who believe he is doing an excellent or good job shrunk from 45 percent in January to 31 percent in September.

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Catholics ages 18-49, with both groups registering under 30 percent in the latest poll who say he is doing a good or excellent job, although the numbers among those who attend Mass at least weekly nosedived from 71 percent to 34 percent.

In other areas of church life, Catholics gave Pope Francis higher marks, although those numbers also declined.

In terms of standing up for traditional morals, 56 percent said the pope was doing an excellent or good job, down from 81 percent in the first Pew poll assessing Catholic opinion of Pope Francis in 2014, while those who say he is doing only a fair or poor job more than doubled from 15 percent to 36 percent.

When it comes to spreading the Catholic faith, Pope Francis dipped from 81 percent in 2014 to 56 percent in September among those saying he is doing a good or excellent job, while those who say he is doing only fair or poor climbed from 14 percent to 27 percent.

On the issue of appointing new bishops and cardinals, Pope Francis dropped from 58 percent in the “good/excellent” category in January to 43 percent in that category in September, while those who say he is doing only a fair or poor job rose from 24 percent to 39 percent.

The poll was taken in the wake of allegations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former papal nuncio to the United States, that Pope Francis knew about restrictions having been placed on the ministry of then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick over allegations of sexual misconduct yet did nothing about them.

Archbishop Vigano has demanded that the pope resign in the wake of his charges.

The results were based on phone interviews conducted Sept. 18-24 of 1,754 Americans, including 336 Catholics. The margin of error for all poll respondents is 2.7 percentage points, and 6.2 percentage points for Catholics, while the margin of error is larger for subgroups within the Catholic sample, peaking at 10.2 percent for Catholics ages 18-49 and those who attend Mass at least weekly.

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WASHINGTON – As the world Synod of Bishops unfolds at the Vatican, thousands of faithful pilgrims get ready to witness the Oct. 14 canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero, along with Blessed Paul VI and five other new saints.

Among those preparing for the pilgrimage to Rome is Mercy Sister Ana Maria Pineda, a theologian, professor and author who has researched and studied the life and legacy of Blessed Romero, an archbishop and martyr who spoke up on behalf of the poor and vulnerable during El Salvador’s civil war.

“He was one of the most conscious followers of Jesus, he knew what that meant, and he knew what he was called to do,” Sister Pineda said in an interview with Catholic News Service.

Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was fatally shot while celebrating Mass at a chapel in a hospital March 24, 1980. Three years earlier, in 1977, Blessed Paul named him the archbishop of San Salvador, which provided him a national platform to speak out in defense of the poor and against the violence and oppression attributed to the government at the time. He was beatified by Pope Francis in 2015.

He is considered an iconic figure and his legacy advocating for human rights is admired around the world.

However, Sister Pineda advises not to see him as a superhero, but as a bright man with flaws and limitations. He was timid and at times felt insecure, and struggled with impatience and a bad temper.

But he also was a man who lived out the Gospel, sought God’s will, and

lived his Christian commitment to the ultimate consequence: martyrdom, she said.

“He had human limitations like all of us have, so it’s a beautiful thing to see how he keeps making the effort every moment of his life to try and respond to what God was asking of him, and to try and do it as a better person,” she said.

St. Michael prayer sees resurgence

WASHINGTON – In response to the church abuse crisis, many parishes around the country have been bringing out the big guns in a spiritual sense – calling on St. Michael the Archangel to help the church.

Some pastors have asked their parishioners to say the prayer at the end of Masses and some bishops have urged all diocesan parishes to recite it. Pope Francis also recently urged Catholics worldwide to recite it after praying the rosary during the month of October.

But for some parishes, saying this prayer at the end of Mass is nothing new.

In 2015, when Father Jose Manuel Campos Garcia was assigned to St. Joseph Parish in Roseburg, Oregon, he started praying the prayer to St. Michael after daily Mass not long after a shooting occurred at the nearby Umpqua Community College that left 10 students dead.

After he began leading the parish in this prayer after daily Mass, he said he saw a change.

“For us, it’s been a journey of healing relationships and healing the community,” he told the Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon.

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Vatican publication: Women must fight clericalism Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – In response to current scandals, clericalism and the need for reform, Catholic women must take the initiative and make their voices be heard, according to a series of articles in a Vatican magazine.

The October edition of Women Church World, published Oct. 1 in conjunction with the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, dedicated its monthly issue to “Women Confronting the Crisis of the Church.”

“We wanted to give voice to a critical reflection from the point of view of women,” Lucetta Scaraffia, the magazine’s director, wrote in the opening editorial.

The first article, titled “Holy Rage,” was a Q-and-A with Sister Veronique Margron, a moral theologian who works with abuse victims, is president of the Conference of Religious in France and is provincial superior of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation.

She said one major factor behind the “omerta” or culture of silence in the church lies in the image the church often has of itself as being a family, which, when it comes to incidences of sexual abuse, “has disastrous consequences.”

The image of a family is meant to describe the beauty of reciprocal care and love for each member, she said. However, just like when abuse is experienced in a family, that abuse is rarely talked about and finds support in sayings that warn against “airing your dirty linen in public.”

Just being angry or upset about abuse is not enough, she said. “Courage is a virtue” and is needed to get

people to do something about what they hear and know.

“A holy rage is needed,” she said, as well as a clear awareness that “the difficulties that we will have to face if we speak out are nothing compared to what the victim has suffered.”

Sister Margron spoke about the problem of abuse of power and conscience, which affects men and women equally.

A kind of “incestuous environment” can affect a religious community, she said; it distorts and abuses the vow of obedience as one person puts another under his or her control.

“When you enter religious life, you are trusting and your guard is down, something which is entirely normal,” she said. For these men and women who have given their lives completely to God, any act of abuse “gives rise to a tragic sense of shame,” so deep that it becomes impossible to talk about it.

Christian life is built on faith, trust and promises, which is why suspicion is “poison for a community.

The challenge is to establish procedures and checks, exactly for safeguarding the quality and decency” of relationships.

Scaraffia, a historian, wrote in the article “Feminism and Clericalism” that women have to be given more leadership roles if their voices are ever to be heard or have any authority.

“It is true that women, even the most obedient, do not truly feel part of the church, but at most (they feel like) obedient daughters,” she wrote.

If they did feel they were a welcome part, then they would fight no matter what their role “with all the weapons they possess, which are not trivial

things,” for the church to follow Christ’s teachings.

But, she said, clericalism is also when the people of God sit at closed doors waiting to be called in.

“This is the clericalism Catholic feminists must heal because the condition of women in the church will change only if women have the courage to begin to change things from below, with denunciations if necessary, with questions that are never asked.”

So often the absence of women in leadership or decision-making is not because of dogma or canon law, she said, but just deeply entrenched and outdated traditions.

Anne-Marie Pelletier, a French biblical scholar who won the Ratzinger Prize for her contributions to theology, advocated in her article for a church guided by the “two voices” of all men and women.

Pelletier wrote that getting the entire people of God dedicated to living a life of conversion and holiness is the “exact antidote to the venom of clericalism that lies behind the criminal abuses of power.”

While recognizing there are women who are “ready to adopt clerical behaviors,” all too often it is women who see and experience the abuse of power in the church, in which the hierarchy is predominately male, she wrote.

Religious or laywomen, Pelletier wrote, “know all too well the haughty, condescending, disdainful gaze turned their way” and they daily experience an obedience imposed by men who jealously hold for themselves “the prestige of knowledge and authority.”

The church needs two voices, male and female, if the church is to “rediscover a truly evangelical intelligence of power as service” and for change to really happen, she wrote.

Synod group: ‘Trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback’ Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – In their first formal reports to the entire Synod of Bishops, many of the gathering’s working groups reported that they had discussed the clerical sexual abuse crisis and, especially, its impact on young Catholics.

The theme of the synod is “young people, the faith and vocational discernment,” but the working group English-A, which includes bishops from the United States, Australia, Ireland and England, said, “the context for vocational discernment has changed utterly.

Our group suggests that the issue of child sexual abuse in the church cannot be skimmed over tangentially in a few short sentences.”

“The shattered trust, the trauma and lifelong suffering of survivors; the catastrophic failures in case management; the continued silence and denial by some of these awful crimes and sins – these issues cry out to be named openly by the synod,” the group said.

As one of the group reports released Oct. 9, the English speakers said bishops “should not be afraid” to share how they “feel about this shocking betrayal of our youth and of all the faithful.”

“As one member of our group reminded us: ‘Trust arrives slowly, on foot, but Trust leaves on horseback!

Trust must be rebuilt, one person at a time.’”

Abuse and the lack of trust also were mentioned by the English-D group, which said, “A church that cannot be trusted is simply incapable of reaching out to young people in an effective way.”

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mined the work of the church in practically every way, precisely because it has compromised our credibility,” said the group, which included bishops from Canada and the United States, as well as Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, a leading investigator of abuse claims.

Members of the group thought, however, that “even as we acknowledge our sorrow and guilt in this regard, mention should be made of the very positive and effective steps the church has taken since 2002 to address this matter concretely.”

Another thing missing from the working document, several groups said, was an exploration of a concept keenly important to young people: friendship.

“The feeling was very strong in our group that the reality of friendship and its importance for young people needs to be recognized in the document that this synod produces,” English-B group said. “Friendship is yearned for by our young people. They find community through this and they find family in this way.”

The Spanish-A group said, “In the formation of seminarians and religious (men and women), they must be formed in and for friendships, for leadership and communion to prevent tyranny and loneliness.”

With “the recent growth of new forms of fundamentalism and intolerance,” the Italian Group B said, there is a growing need to educate “young people in respect

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No group explicitly took up the call of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia to avoid using the term LGBT in the document, but several groups emphasized the importance of the church listening to young people’s questions about sexuality and presenting them with understandable explanations of church teaching.

“We noted that a proclamation of chastity, as achievable and good fotr our young people, is missing” from the synod’s working document, said group English-A, which is not Archbishop Chaput’s group.

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Pope: Pray to protect church from devil, step up fight against abuse Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Signaling his belief that the Catholic Church is facing a serious crisis, Pope Francis asked every Catholic in the world to pray for the protection of the church from attacks by the devil, but also that the church would be more aware of its sins and stronger in its efforts to combat abuse.

Pope Francis asked Catholics to pray the rosary each day in October, seeking Mary’s intercession in protecting the church, and “at the same time making her (the church) more aware of her sins, errors and the abuses committed in the present and the past, and committed to fighting without hesitation so that evil would not prevail,” the Vatican said in a statement released Sept. 29, the feast of the Archangels.

United “in communion and penitence as the people of God,” the statement said, Catholics should plead for protection against “the devil, who always seeks to divide us from God and from one another.”

Pope Francis met earlier in September with Jesuit Father Federic Fornos, international director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, formerly known as the Apostleship of Prayer, to ask that the recitation of the rosary in October conclude with “the ancient invocation ‘Sub Tuum Praesidium’ (‘Under your protection’) and with the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, who protects us in the battle against evil.”

The first prayer, to Mary, has a variety of translations. One reads: “We turn to you for protection, Holy Mother of God. Listen to our prayers and help us in our needs. Save us from every danger, glorious and blessed Virgin.”

The prayer to St. Michael reads: “St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.”

The Vatican, announcing Pope Francis’ prayer request, cited his homily Sept. 11 at morning Mass where he spoke about the devil as the “Great Accuser” who “roams the world looking how to blame” and spread scandal.

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Pope Francis is pictured during an audience with priests from the Diocese of Creteil, France, Oct. 1. In remarks at the audience, the pope said the church is being buffeted by strong winds of scandal created by its own members.

‘We know that, responding to the call of the Lord, we were not consecrated with the gift of the Spirit to be ‘superheroes. We were sent with the awareness of being men who are forgiven and called to become pastors in the way Jesus was: injured, dead and risen.’

Pope francis E. McCarrick, issued another statement Sept. 27 accusing the pope of “subtle slander” with that homily.

As of Sept. 29, neither Pope Francis nor the Vatican had responded to Archbishop Vigano’s original allegations.

In addition to the case of Archbishop McCarrick, the Catholic Church in the United States is still coming to grips with the mid-August release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report covering decades of alleged abuse by more than 300 priests; the report identified more than 1,000 victims.

A widespread abuse scandal and broad police investigation is ongoing in Chile; Cardinal George Pell, Vatican secretary for the economy, is on trial for abuse in Australia; and the bishops of German in late September released a report on thousands of cases of abuse in their country, some going back to 1946, but some as recent as 2000.Fight against the devil is spiritual ‘urban’ warfare, cardinal says Speaking to a group of priests in France on Oct. 1, the pope said the barque of the church is being buffeted by strong winds of scandal created by its own members.

When the church is “hit by opposing and violent winds, especially because of grave sins committed by some of its members,” the pope said. Catholics should not forget “the humble daily fidelity” of “the vast majority of those who have given their lives to the church as priests.”

The pope spoke about the scandal and the priesthood with 100 priests and friends from the Diocese of Creteil, France, who were making a pilgrimage to Rome.

“We know that, responding to the call of the Lord, we were not consecrated with the gift of the Spirit to be ‘superheroes,’” the pope told the priests. “We were sent with the awareness of being men who are forgiven and called to become pastors in the way Jesus was: injured, dead and risen.”

Honesty about being human and recipients of God’s mercy is part of a priest’s ministry, the pope said. It is an essential part of “witnessing to the power of the Resurrection over the wounds of this world.”

As the Diocese of Creteil works on reorganiz-

ing structures after a diocesan synod in 2016, Pope Francis urged the priests to help their parishioners “respond to their baptismal vocation” to be witnesses to the joy of the Gospel.

And, he said, “do not be afraid to look at the wounds in your church, not to complain about them, but to bring them to Jesus Christ. He alone can heal them.”

The pope’s comments came as a top Vatican official said the most crucial battle against the devil is the one that Christians fight within themselves daily to resist selfish temptations that lead to destructive ends, a top Vatican official said.

Celebrating Mass for the feast of the St. Michael the Archangel Sept. 29, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said that the conscience of Christian men and women can often become “a battleground where the evil one besieges us with the incendiary fire of greed, envy, hatred, selfishness, suspicions, contempt or rejection of others, and every form of destructive thoughts.”

“This spiritual ‘urban’ – that is, interior – warfare often moves to the ‘suburban’ field of family relationships, as well as social and work relationships,” the cardinal said. “An uneven struggle is unleashed within us between the good we wish to do and the evil that instead takes over because it masquerades as an angel of light who deceives human freedom.”

Cardinal Becciu celebrated the Mass in the chapel of the Governorate of Vatican City State to commemorate St. Michael, who is the patron saint of the Vatican and Italian state police officers. Among the dignitaries present at the celebration was Matteo Salvini, Italian deputy prime minister and minister of the interior.

In his homily, the Italian cardinal said St. Michael’s fight against the “dragon” mirrors God’s fight against the power of the devil who “uses the strategy of deceit to put hatred between humankind and God.” “The intercession of the Archangel Michael leads us to recognize and to always do good for ourselves and for others, at the cost of any sacrifice, because good will always be repaid by God with good,” Cardinal Becciu said.

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Church must answer abuse survivors’ thirst for justice, archbishop says Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Responding to clerical sexual abuse demands truth and justice, not just admitting a sin was committed, said Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna of Malta.

When he speaks with survivors, “I find a great thirst and a great hunger for jusArchbishop tice, which I share,” Charles J. he told reporters at a Scicluna synod briefing Oct. 8.

A longtime abuse investigator – in the past for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and more recently at the request of Pope Francis – the archbishop was attending the Oct. 3-28 Synod of Bishops on young people as archbishop of Malta.

As an abuse investigator, he said his role is to help the church understand

what the truth is and to help bring justice.

“What pains me is the fact that sometimes justice takes an amount of time that is a bit excessive. And this is a problem that very much pains Pope Francis,” he said, referring to how slow the process is.

When he speaks with a person who has experienced abuse, “there is little to say. I prefer to cry with them as has happened to me many times.”

But the initial mourning and silence are followed by “an enormous thirst for truth and justice, which is not incompatible with mercy because we all need mercy,” he said, but not a “hollow mercy” that does not respect the truth.

As the head of an archdiocese, he said his role as bishop demands he be a father to both an accused priest-perpetrator and a victim. “This is a tragic rift, a split for a bishop,” he said.

But “finding the truth is essential,” he said, which is why he turns to the help and advice of lay experts to lead the investigation and offer their

suggestions to avoid letting his own subjective feelings skew the process and let him “serve the truth” and his people.

When asked whether the need for greater accountability of bishops was being discussed at the synod, Archbishop Scicluna said he was not aware of any direct discussion happening on the topic, but that accountability would be a topic at the world meeting on abuse prevention the pope called for Feb. 21-24.

“We know there is a great expectation for more accountability,” he said.

“Now how is that going to develop? I think we need to trust Pope Francis to develop a system whereby there is more accountability.”

What has been getting mentioned in every working group at the synod, he said, is the general problem of abuse and the need for safeguarding. Because of this ample concern, the final synod document “will have to find probably more space” dedicated to these issues than the one paragraph item (66) that

was dedicated to abuse in the synod’s working document.

If a “good representation of the 260 bishops from all over the world” attending the synod tell Pope Francis they have the same desire “to go from beautiful words to action, he is obviously empowered to do what he really wants for the church and that is to make the church a safer place and to get different cultures and different conferences of bishops to implement what is now policy in the church,” he said, referring to a 2011 circular letter asking every bishops’ conference in the world to develop guidelines for review.

“Now from the documents we need to go to the grass roots, to empower people to disclose abuse, but also to raise the threshold of accountability” so that it includes bishops, said Archbishop Scicluna, who is also president of a board of review handling abuse cases within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. see survivors, page 28

Synod: Let young people describe their reality, walk with them to God VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church’s youngest cardinal, 51-year-old Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga of Bangui, Central African Republic, said the key question before the Synod of Bishops is: “What is God trying to tell us through Cardinal young people?”

Dieudonne Finding better ways Nzapalainga to pass the faith on to younger generations is one part of the

task, the cardinal told reporters Oct. 6. The other part is to encourage them and support them in sharing the faith with others.

Participants in the synod of bishops – the 267 voting bishops, priests and religious brothers, as well as the 72 experts and observers – spent the evening of Oct. 5 and the morning of Oct. 6 getting to know each other in their small groups, which are divided by language.

The groups, taking what they hear in the synod’s general assembly sessions, are to make suggestions for a final synod document.

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“We stand at the edge of a new era,” Bishop Edwards told the synod. “We knew how to be church in the past, how to pass on the faith and how to be effective missionaries,” but “at least some of what we did isn’t effective anymore.”

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Moving to Ars, the bishop said, St. John Vianney did not know exactly where the town was, so he convinced a shepherd to take him, promising, “If you show me the way to Ars, I will show you the way to heaven.”

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Obituary Sister Virginia O’Reilly, OP

Sister Virginia O’Reilly, formerly known as Sister Joan Patricia O’Reilly, died on Monday, Sept. 24 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan.

She was 91 years of age and in the 75th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Virginia held an undergraduate and graduate degrees in Sister Virginia mathematics, a graduate degree in O’Reilly, OP education, and a doctorate in clinical psychology.

Of her almost 50 years of ministry, almost 30 in schools, she served for 15 years as a psychologist and clinical psychologist in Montara, Los Altos, South San Francisco and Oakland.

Sister Virginia held the position of director of studies for two years and director of research for one year for the Adrian Dominican Sisters. She became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 2005, and served for three years as library assistant.

Sister Virginia is survived by a sister, Patricia Rush, of Schenectady, New York.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 26 in the sisters’ St. Catherine Chapel with interment in the congregation cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, MI 49221.

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Rolheiser: Search for an indubitable truth FROM PAGE 16

is something that is (beyond dispute) not good. And if there’s something that is not good, then there’s something that is good. His logic: “If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced – then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that.”

What flows from this is clear: The good is whatever stops such things from happening. If this is true, and it is, then it is also clear as to what is good, and what is a good way of living: If the most terrible forms of suffering are produced by egotism, selfishness, untruthfulness, arrogance, greed, lust for power, willful cruelty, and insensitivity to others, then we are evidently called to the opposite: selflessness, altruism, humility, truth-telling, tenderness and sacrificing for others.

Not incidentally, Peterson affirms all of this inside a chapter within which he highlights the importance of sacrifice, of delaying private gratification for a greater good long-range. His insight here parallels those of Rene Girard and other anthropologists who point out that the only way of stopping unconscious sacrifice to blind gods (which is what happened in the atrocities of Hitler and what happens in our own bitter slandering of others) is through self-sacrifice.

Only when we accept at the cost of personal suffering our own contingencies, sin and mortality will we stop projecting these on to others so to make them suffer in order to feel better about ourselves.

Peterson writes as an agnostic or perhaps, more accurately, as an honest analyst, an observer of humanity, who for purposes of this book prefers to keep his faith private. Fair enough. Probably wise too. No reason to impute motives. It’s where he lands that’s important, and where he lands is on very solid ground. It’s where Jesus lands in the Sermon on the Mount, it’s where the Christian churches land when they’re at their best, it’s where the great religions of the world land when they’re at their best, and it’s where humanity lands when it’s at its best.

The medieval mystic, Theresa of Avila, wrote with great depth and challenge. Her treatise on the spiritual life is now a classic and forms part of the very canon of Christian spiritual writings. In the end, she submits that during our generative years the most important question we need to challenge ourselves with is: How can I be more helpful? Jordan Peterson, with a logic and language that can be understood by everyone today, offers the same challenge.

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Encuentro and professor at the University of San Francisco, the national Encuentro event was “like a spiritual retreat, like Pentecost.”

Father Araujo has participated in the process for about two years along with Cecilia Arias-Rivas, former archdiocesan coordinator of Hispanic-Latino affairs, and Father Moises Agudo, archdiocesan vicar for Hispanics.

“What has finally become apparent is the need for a pastoral plan of action for the Hispanic community in our [arch]diocese,” said Father Araujo.

“I expect this to be one of the conclusions at the national level, the articulation of a regional pastoral plan that can be deployed concretely according to the needs of each and every diocese” within the Encuentro region encompassing California and the Las Vegas and Reno dioceses, he said.

Father Araujo said a shared pastoral plan will allow dioceses share resources.

“Not every diocese, for example, has the same capacity to foster lay formation programs,” he said.

Father Araujo added that “in the near future I can foresee a thrust towards amalgamating perhaps four major themes: youth, youth and adult formation at all levels, migration and vocations.”

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone attended the gathering and summarized the results of the meeting and the last two years of preparation.

“We have the possibility to multiply our efforts, to spread the good news and to form our people in the truth of our faith with the expectation to share in the mercy of our Lord,” he said.

Lorena Rojas, editor of San Francisco Católico, contributed.

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On Oct. 4, the feast of Archdiocese of San Francisco patron, St. Francis of Assisi, Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for clergy, on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, announced two priests incardinated that day in the Archdiocese of San Francisco: Father Joseph Homick, COSJ, Contemplatives of St. Joseph; Msgr. Romulo A. Vergara, administrator, St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco, judicial vicar, Metropolitan Tribunal.

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Archbishop Timothy Broglio and the Archdiocese for the Military Services were honored Sept. 29 with the St. Patrick’s Seminary Patrician Award.

Seminary honors military archdiocese St. Patrick’s Seminary & University honored Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio and the Archdiocese for the Military Services with its Patrician Award in ceremonies at the Menlo Park school’s annual gala Sept. 29. Jesuit Father George E. Schultze, seminary president, served as host.

“This year was the largest gala ever for St. Patrick’s with more than 670 persons attending, including military personnel from Beale Air Force Base and local VA hospital chaplains from Menlo Park and Palo Alto,” the seminary said in a statement.

In accepting the Patrician Award, Archbishop Broglio said, “Allow me to express my gratitude for this prestigious award given to those I am privileged to serve. I am grateful to this seminary, Father Schultze, and to the whole seminary community.

Every year, the Archdiocese for the Military Services brings here a group of young men who are considering the priesthood and the chaplaincy. You always welcome them, shower them with hospitality, and inspire them with your good example.”

“We were proud to honor the Archdiocese for the Military Services at our Annual Gala as the seminary has graduated a number of priests who have become military chaplains,” Father Schultze said.

The seminary has hosted an AMS retreat for 10 years welcoming some 35 men from enlisted, academy cadets or seminarians interested in the military chaplaincy. The group spend three days at St. Patrick’s listening to the experiences of military chaplains from each branch of the armed services. They attend Masses with the seminarians, spend time in

prayer, and meet with priests to learn more about priestly formation. St. Patrick’s is the only seminary on the West Coast that has a military discernment retreat.

The Archdiocese for the Military Services was created by Pope John Paul II to provide the church’s full range of pastoral ministries and spiritual services to those in the United States Armed Forces. This includes more than 220 installations in 29 countries, patients in 153 V.A. Medical Centers, and federal employees serving outside the boundaries of the USA in 134 countries. Numerically, the Archdiocese for the Military Services is responsible for more than 1.8 million men, women, and children.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led the evening’s opening prayer. The archbishop and Oakland Bishop Michael Barber, Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly, Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa and retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice were among the evening’s speakers. Bishop Justice was ordained to the priesthood from St. Patrick’s at San Mateo’s St. Matthew Church, May 17, 1968.

“For 120 years, St. Patrick’s Seminary has successfully prepared men to become Roman Catholic priests in conformity to Christ,” the seminary said.

“The integrated process of human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation at St. Patrick’s Seminary revolves around our core values of Spiritual Fatherhood, Fidelity, Holiness, Wisdom, Evangelization, Resiliency, and Compassion. Priests formed at St. Patrick’s Seminary become courageous men of reflection and action who live joyous lives as priests.”

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“We bishops realize that we are accountable not only to God but also to our people,” he said, and accountable not only for what they do, but what they fail to do when it comes to “stewardship” and protection.

Speaking through a translator, Auxiliary Bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard of Lyon, France, told reporters, “It is better for the sin to be revealed rather than remaining hidden” because it not only helps victims by recognizing what has happened, it can lead to accountability and reform.

Young people want the church to be safe, he said, and it is important to them that the priests and workers who are accompanying them are also being accompanied in their life and supported with ongoing formation.

Bishop Gobilliard spoke to the synod about the importance of open discussion about human sexuality and the need for sexual education, including for seminarians because young people “expect a true answer” about the body.

Sexual education is important because of “the beauty of sexuality that God gave us,” he told reporters, and the scandals of abuse should not push people to be silent about sexuality. “It is something that is beautiful that should not be idealized nor rejected,” he said.

Archbishop Scicluna said the crisis caused by ongoing revelations and allegations “is a very important moment” for everyone in the church because “it is going to make us really, really humble. There is no other way to humility except through humiliation and it is a big humiliation and it is going to make us humble, I hope.”

In response to those who have left the church because they see the hypocrisy of how “you say one thing and you do the opposite. Shame on you,” the archbishop said, “I think I need to say, ‘Yes, you’re right, shame on us.’”

“I think there is no other way to the heart of a human being who has been scandalized than true humility and penance and also silence,” he added.

However, Archbishop Scicluna said he sees with his own eyes many holy priests doing good work and performing “miracles” every day as they help people change their lives by bringing them closer to Christ.

“This does not get the headlines” while the scandals or accusations do, he said, saying, “A tree that falls creates more sound than a forest that is growing.”

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ST. THOMAS MORE SOCIETY: The Red Mass, an annual gathering of those in the legal profession at the start of the court year, was celebrated Sept.

27 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was principal celebrant. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services was homilist. Pictured accepting this year’s St. Thomas More award from Archbishop Cordileone and St. Thomas More Society president Anthony Phillips is attorney Tom Brandi.

“It is an incredible honor to receive this award and especially satisfying to share it with my family and friends,” Brandi told Catholic San Francisco. “Tom made a very inspirational speech upon receiving this year’s award and reminded us of the lawyer’s role in seeking the truth and ensuring that the powerless and unpopular have the same protection under the law as the powerful,” Anthony Phillips, a former student of Brandi’s at USF Law School, said. “Archbishop Broglio’s homily used a powerful metaphor of how the world will remain disordered until humankind itself is brought to order and that, in its disordered state, the law is there to help us move toward fulfillment of God’s potential for us.”

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SUNDAY, OCT. 14 AFTERNOON FOR WOMEN AND MEN: “Leading and Living with Hope in Difficult Times,” Sister Edith Prendergast, a religious Sister of Charity, and former director of religious education

for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, leads an afternoon of prayer and reflection for women and men, Presentation Sisters Convent, 2340 Turk Blvd, San Francisco, 1:30-4:30 p.m. Called to see anew and trust in the wideness of God’s love, we take courage and stretch out to be hope for a world in need. The session will weave reflection, sharing, poetry, stories and more.

Please send your name and name of anyone attending with you to Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, conrottor@ sfarch.org.

REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy, Class of 1968, 11:30 a.m., Olympic Club Lakeside, buffet brunch $55. Noelle Clark Bianchi. (415) 2253299; bianchik@aol.com.

‘END OF LIFE’: Vicki Evans, Respect Life Coordinator for the archdiocese, and Thomas Cavanaugh, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, have “A Catholic Conversation on Death and Dying” with host J.A. Gray, Mosaic, 5:30 a.m., KPIX Channel 5. Catholic teaching and practice regarding “end of life” care and preparation for a good death will be discussed. sfarch.org/mosaic-tv.

FRIDAY, OCT. 19

St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 6:30 p.m., adult pre-sale tickets $17, $20 at door includes 20 tokens for use at event for food and beverages, 20 tokens will provide an entrée and beverage, children 12 and under $10, receive 10 tokens enough for a child entrée and drink. Additional tokens are available for purchase during the event; https://stdominics.org/ ministries/3040s.

WEDNESDAY OCT. 24 ‘LEAN ON GOD’: For those touched by suicide and honoring those who have taken their lives, St. Charles Church, chapel in the parish center, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos, 6:30 p.m., free to persons of all ages. Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher facilitates, a time for prayer, a time for listening and a time for reflection. RSVP is appreciated, Kathy Fagliano (650) 591-7349, ext.

402; Kfagliano@stcharlesparish.org.

THURSDAY, OCT. 25 ‘GOSPELS AND INTERIOR LIFE’: Father Vincent Pizzuto, assistant theology professor, USF, will talk about the implications of the incarnation for the modern world, Gather at Grand, Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 7 p.m. RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453 8303; www.sanrafaelop.org.

Light refreshments and time for your questions.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Monthly Grief Support Program, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Msgr.

Bowe room. Sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. No ‘HEALING FAMILY TREE’: Picpus charge. Facilitator: Deacon Christoph Father Michael Barry, a noted speaker Sandoval. For further details, please P and Uretreat B director L atIthe Church C A call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park; (650) 323-7914; www. nativitymenlo.org. Born and raised in SATURDAY, OCT. 20 Ireland, Father Barry graduated from The Catholic University of America and was ordained in June 14, 1964, as ‘BRAIN TALK’: A look at what St. a member of the congregation of the Thomas Aquinas would say about toSacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. day’s brain with Justin Gable, 10 a.m., Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy, 2301 Vine St. in Berkeley, information and RSVP dspt.edu/ FRIDAY, OCT. 26 aquinas-brain.

OKTOBERFEST: St. Dominic Parish, 3040s group, announces an evening of brats, spaetzle, pretzels and beer in the outdoor biergarten, 2390 Bush

PRIESTS RETIREMENT LUNCH: Reserve now for the Priests Retirement Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Patrons Hall, Gough Street

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SATURDAY, OCT. 27 ‘WOMEN OF THE YEAR’: The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women honors women from throughout the archdiocese recommended by pastors for their good work in the parish and beyond. The afternoon begins with Mass at 11 a.m., St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco followed by lunch in St. Cecilia’s lower hall and presentations. Tickets for lunch are $25. Cathy Mibach, (415) 753-0234; dcmibach@ aol.com.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of September HOLY CROSS, COLMA Ray M. Aquino Raffoul E. Asmar James Attard Paula M. Bartunek Liliane C. Bernheim Helen A. Black Margaret Ellen Caramazza Willis A. Casey Jr. Rose M. Cassinelli Andrew J. Cereghino Jr. Robert Chappell Annie A. D’Lima Jerome De Voto Clement Dino DeAmicis Ralph J. Del Prete Vickie Lynn Dias Lilly B. Ellis Rosario O. Enriquez Alice Flynn Kenneth J. Garcia Albert “Al” Gragnani Agaton T. Gualberto, SR, M.D. Raymond Hasek Dorothy Marie Hernandez John Hill Keith H. Hopkinson Marie A. Howarth Maria Dolores Jauregui Elinor Dullea Junge Robert D. Junge Michael Gonzales Lacap Marie A. Leichtle Albert J. Lewis Charles Allen Lewis Patricia A. Leyes

Jean H. Liddi Teresa De Jesus Lopez Frank R. Maestas Amy E. McCarthy Shirley S. McRoberts Melisa Yaneth Medina Juan A. Mejia Rosemary Militti Alex Lester Miranda John C. Monfredini Helen C. Morales Rev. James H. Morris Roberto Miranda Motta Miriam A. Muscat Maria Teresa Narvaez Caroline B. Noonan Nemesio Osas Mariamma Paulose Liana Gianni Pella Henry P. Perez Luke Philpott Charles Gregory Piazza Alicia E. Portale Bernard J. Quiery, Jr. Nettie Ramos Victor C. Reyes Beatriz Lemus Rivera Anthony S. Rizzo Maureen Roche Carole Rodoni Melchor M. Rojo Richard F. Ryan Irene D. Salac Bonifacio Robert Salazar Gloria P. Santana Margarida Maria Marques Savant Ramon U. Serrano John R. Sheffield Jr.

Dianne Marie Sims Anastatia H. Slattery Juanito T. Soriano Victor Javier Sosa Raymond Terheyden Manuel S. Tomeldan Lou Ann Trinca Alipate “Tu’Uhoko-Ki-Langi” Tuifua-Kolokihakaufisi Noel Aguilar Velasco Edith Wassung Patricia A. West Frances White

Mt. olivet, san rafael Carolyn “Lena” Cretti Mary P. Kiernan William J. Lehmann Catherine B. Millnamow Nancy Foss Purcell Giuliano Rinaldi Frances M. Rosenstein Leo Joseph Ryan Joan B. Tieman

HOLY CROSS, menlo Park Mele K. Tenisi Ramon Torres

Our Lady of the PIllar Jeanne B. Kleffner Lucille M. Martin

HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma All Souls Day Mass

Friday, November 2, 2018, 11am – Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel Bishop Robert Christian OP, Celebrant

Memorial Mass for the Holy Souls / First Saturday Mass

Saturday, November 3, 2018, 11am – Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel Rev. Raymund Reyes will be our celebrant Refreshments and fellowship follow Mass

Veterans Day Service

Monday, November 12, 2018, 11am – Star of the Sea Military Section Ch, Col, C. Michael Padazinski, USAF (ret), Presiding

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma CA | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA | 650-712-1675 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, CA | 415-479-9021

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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