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November 15, 2018
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Philadelphia archdiocese sets up victims’ reparation fund Matthew Gambino Catholic News Service
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Requiem Mass for the homeless
The Missionaries of Charity and the Benedict XVI Institute choir led a Mass of the Dead for Our Homeless Brethren at St. Patrick Church in San Francisco Nov. 8. Six days a week the sisters and their volunteers serve a home-cooked dinner to the homeless and poor who live near or under the freeway overpass at Potrero Avenue and Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco. See story on Page 6.
PHILADELPHIA – Acting on his promise to find new ways to support survivors of clerical sexual abuse, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced Nov. 8 that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is creating a new reparations program open to anyone abused by clergy in the archdiocese. Philadelphia’s archbishop made the announcement in his column on CatholicPhilly.com, explaining the archdiocese will fund the program and “pay the amounts that independent claims administrators deem appropriate.” The Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program seeks to compensate all victims but especially those whose claims are currently see philadelphia, page 18
Padua Dining Room: No fees, no questions, and no one turned away Nicholas Wolfram Smith Catholic San Francisco
As a small group of children played outside, the noise from the dining hall at St. Anthony of Padua overflowed with dozens of conversations. Seated at long rows of tables, a few hundred men and women talked Monday Nov. 5 over trays of beef stew, rice and salad or lingered over cups of coffee. All were guests of the Padua Dining Room, which has served hundreds of lunches six days a week since 1974. The dining room is a portrait of the service of the church in an area notable for its economic inequality. Many of the parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua in the North Fair Oaks section of San Mateo County, where the dining room is located, have financial struggles. According to Data USA, 19.6 percent of North Fair Oaks residents make less than $25,000 a year. A redwood fence running on the edge of the parish grounds marks the border between Atherton and North Fair Oaks. On one side of the fence lies the most expensive zip code in 2017, according to Forbes. On the other side are hundreds of people “hungry enough to stand in line for a meal,”
As families begin to think about Thanksgiving, the Padua Dining Room is preparing for its biggest day of the year. Dehn said the holiday was “by far” the biggest day for the dining room, estimating that each year they serve a traditional Thanksgiving meal for 750 to 1000 people. Dehn said an important part of the dining room’s success is its approach to its guests. Padua Dining Room “charges no fees, asks no questions, and turns no one away,” he said. The staff of the dining room take pride in the lack of barriers to service. Mimi Melvin, who has volunteered with the dining room for 29 years, told Catholic San Francisco the open-door policy was important to her. By embracing hospitality without any conditions, the dining room can (Photo by Nicholas Wolfram Smith/Catholic San Francisco) serve the largest possible number of people, Tom Romine has been coming to the dining room at St. Anwithout concern for whether they qualify for a thony of Padua for five years. He told Catholic San Francisco meal. “we’re so blessed to have an organization like this that feeds “Maybe their income is $100 dollars over qualipeople six days a week.” Padua Dining Room serves hundreds fying, but that money could be going to medicine, of meals a day to locals in need of a meal. A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. or to pay for groceries,” she said. received a flag honoring yourcoordinator, loved one's military service and would like to donate it Bob Dehn,If you thehave dining room’s volunteer to the cemetery to be flown as part of an “Avenue of Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of July Veterans' Day, told Catholic San Francisco. seeand padua dining room, page 18
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