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September 14, 2017
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Catholic leaders sharply criticize Trump’s decision to end DACA
Archdiocesan faith community rallies in Redwood City to support ‘Dreamers’ Catholic San Francisco
WASHINGTON – Catholic leaders, immigration officials and university presidents were swift and unanimous in their condemnation of President Donald Trump’s Sept. 5 decision to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals known as DACA. “In the past, the president stated that the Dreamer story ‘is about the heart,’ yet (the) decision is nothing short of heartless,” said Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich. “The Dreamers are now left in a sixmonth limbo, during which Congress is supposed to pass comprehensive immigration reform, a feat they have been unable to achieve for a decade,” he said in a Sept. 5 statement. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said congressional action is urgent. “In the meantime, we in the Catholic community pledge to continue standing with our immigrant brothers and sisters, assisting them in exercising their rights and assuring them that they are not alone,” he said. “I ask all people of good faith to join see daca, page 9
(Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)
Students attending local high schools under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program listen to DACA recipient Margarita Garcia tell her story during an interfaith prayer vigil in Redwood City Sept. 6. Garcia, an Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioner, earned a master’s degree and is now an elementary school teacher.
Slovakian martyr aided local Salesian who escaped communism Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
A Slovak Salesian will be declared blessed Sept. 30 as a “martyr for vocations” and one of the priests for whom he sacrificed his life will be traveling to Bratislava, Slovakia, from San Francisco’s Corpus Christi Parish for the event. Salesian Father Titus Zeman will be beatified as a martyr for vocations because of the ordeal he underwent with great faith because of his efforts to help priests and young men who wanted to study for the priesthood escape the totalitarian Communist regime of Czechoslovakia in 1950 and 1951, after the regime closed all the monasteries and religious houses and transported the religious to concentration camps.
Salesian Father Titus Zeman (1915-69), who will be beatified this month as a “martyr for vocations,” aided in Salesian Father Aloysius Pestun’s escape from Communist Czechoslovakia in 1950 and 1951. Father Pestun, right, is a parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish in San Francisco.
“Even if I lost my life, I would not consider it wasted, knowing that at least one of those that I helped has become a priest in my place,” said Father Zeman, who died of broken down health at age 54 in 1969, five years after he was released from prison, according to a Catholic News Agency report. Salesian Father Aloysius Pestun, a parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish, plans to travel to Slovakia for the beatification – because Father Zeman tried to help him escape from the Iron Curtain country to complete his studies for the priesthood. Servant of God Titus Zeman was captured during his third trip to bring the young theology students and priests out of Czechoslovakia, one that included see father titus, page 12
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