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New Millennium holds challenge and promise for Bay Area Catholics The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake did more than shake the landscape. In a real sense, its aftershocks forced the beginning of change and spiritual renewal in
(left) P.J. Jacinto got off the plane with camera in-hand at SFO Aug. 21 still video taping memories of his World Youth Day pilgrimage to Rome Aug. 10-21. "I was 10 feet away from the Pope and I’ve got him on video," Jacinto smiled. (bottom) Evangeline Fontanilla welcomed her daughters (left) Jeannie and Chrystal who said to mom the pilgrimage strengthened their faith and was a powerful experience.
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Members of Crossroads prepare to begin a cross continent pro-life walk from the Golden Gate Bridge to Toronto for World Youth Day with Pope John Paul II. More pictures and a story: Pages 6 and 7.
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In 1858, Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, OP, the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (1853-1884) founded its first newspaper, The Monitor, 12 million Africans recognizing the importance of commuCatholic Catholic suffering in worst san Francisco san Francisco drought in 60 years nicating directly with faithful Catholics through the Church’s own media. Under the leadership of Archbishop Alemany, a Dominican and Spaniard who was a naturalized American citizen, Catholic the Archdiocese of San Francisco built san Francisco St. Francis of Assisi relic arrives in San Francisco up an extensive system of schools, orFaith journey of Father Pham phanages, hospitals, and homes for the Retired priest recalls escape, Legislation giving grants to repair missions faces lawsuit elderly, and other institutions of charity. persecution Founded just five years after Archbishop Alemany arrived in California, The MonSponsors confident itor engaged and reported and communimarriage initiative will make ballot cated the faith and issues of importance to the faithful for nearly 130 years. Today, as Catholic San Francisco newspaper transitions to a magazine and increases its attention to digital media, DEC. 10, 2004 MAY 2, 2008 AUG. 12, 2011 the commitment continues to connecting with, and walking alongside, the people of the archdiocese. THE NEXT CHAPTER OF CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO “This is a tradition that goes back to CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO the very beginnings of this archdiocese OUR NEXT ARCHBISHOP CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO – the desire to communicate directly to Pope establishes the faithful in the most effective medium Archbishop consecrates formal ministry archdiocese to Blessed Virgin of catechist of the day,” said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. “The new magazine will bring top writing, great graphics and photos and ways to nurture faith to the Hispanic Catholics embrace pastoral letter people of the archdiocese.” “If the past year has taught us anything, it is that today’s shepherds need to find new ways to communicate with their flock,” Archbishop Cordileone said, noting the archdiocese’s commitment to the new magazine, and to digital modes of communication, e-letters, social meMAY 20, 2021 AUG. 2, 2012 OCT. 12, 2017 dia and the website. As the newspaper makes way for new forms of communication best suited to CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO THROUGH THE YEARS: Catholic San Francisco the current needs of the church and the published its first issue Feb. 12, 1999 and concludes its 22-year run on June 17, 2021. The A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. faithful, it leaves behind three defining official archdiocesan newspaper was delivered by mail to registered parishioners, chronicled local you features have received a flagpopes, honoring your loved one's military service and would like to donate it Catholic history through newsIfand on three three archbishops, and countless to thecontributions cemetery to be partschool of an “Avenue Day, stories of Catholics and their to flown parishasand life. of Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' SEE THE TRADITION CONTINUES, PAGE 8 FEBRUARY 12, 1999
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DADAAB, Kenya (CNS) — It took 32 days for Fatima Mohammed to make it from her drought-stricken farm in Somalia to the relative safety of a sprawling refugee settlement in northeastern Kenya. There were days, she recalled, when her children were so thirsty that they could not walk and the men in her family would ferry them ahead, returning to carry two more children in their arms. The Somali woman and her children are among 12.4 million Africans facing acute food shortages. Because of prolonged drought and civil conflict, Somalis are bearing the brunt of what the United Nations Refugee Agency calls one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world today.
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The United Nations declared a famine July 20 for the southern regions of Bakool and Lower Shabelle in Somalia and the refugee agency reported that child deaths are “alarmingly high” as people trek to neighboring countries for food and water. Fatima Mohammed told Catholic News Service that her family had lived through drought before, but that support from aid agencies helped them survive until the rains returned. “This time, al-Shabaab won’t let them in,” she said, referring to the Islamist group that controls portions of Somalia. “So when our animals started dying, our only choice was to stay and die ourselves, or else start walking for Kenya.” They trekked across the desolate stretch of African bush, all 11 members of the FAMINE, page 20
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A newly arrived Somali woman waits in line July 27 for food to be distributed at the reception center of the Dagahaley refugee camp, part of the Dadaab refugee complex in northeastern Kenya.
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Taking part in Dominican Schools Music Project instruction at San Francisco’s St. James Elementary School are third-graders, from left: Alexei Stout, Joel Tolentino, Ashley Dickson and Carolina Hernandez. See story on page 8.
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Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) founded Oct. 9, 1776 is the oldest building in San Francisco and the 6th of 21 California Missions.
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Only one thing stands between the California’s historic missions and $10 million in federal preservation funds: a lawsuit filed last week in by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a longtime adversary of the Catholic Church. Last year, AUSCS opposed nearly $700,000 in federal grants to preserve two historic buildings that still serve as houses of worship: the Episcopal Old North Church in Boston and Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest synagogue in the nation. However, the AUSCS did not go to court to block those grants. The organization, originally known as Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, is taking a much tougher approach now that Catholic missions are in line for similar grants. Last week, AUSCS asked the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. to block the funding for the missions. The organization has a long history of opposing the Catholic Church. Since its founding in the 1940s it has opposed government aid to Catholic schools. In 1958, it called for revoking the citizenship of American cardinals who participated in the conclave at which John XXIII was elected pope. In 1967 it went to court to stop distribution of a Madonna and Child postage stamp because the group claimed in promoted the Catholic faith. Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State has changed its name and according to Joe Conn, a spokesman for the AUSCS, it has changed its ways. When asked by Catholic San Francisco last week if its efforts to block funding for the missions was “just some old-fashioned Catholic-baiting,” Conn said, “No. We just don’t have enough money
to sue in every case.” But the organization will find the money when the Catholic Church is involved. The $10 million in federal funding would be provided by the California Missions Preservation Act, which was signed into law by President Bush Nov. 30. The money would go to the California Missions Foundation, a secular organization. The law requires that the foundation match the federal funding dollar for dollar with private or state contributions. The foundation would decide how to spend the $20 million. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Sam Farr of Carmel and Senator Barbara Boxer, won broad bipartisan support in Congress but was strongly opposed by AUSCS. After the bill received final approval from the Senate Nov. 17, AUSCS executive director Barry W. Lynn, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ said his group would challenge the law in court. “Taxpayers should
Two Franciscan friars from Assisi, Italy landed in San Francisco last week bearing a rare gift for the city and the Archdiocese: a small rock from the Porziuncola, the stone chapel St. Francis of Assisi and his early followers built more than 800 years ago and where the Franciscan order was born. Banded with a red ribbon and bearing the wax seal of the Franciscan community in the saint’s native town, the angular chunk of pink granite arrived in a felt-lined leather case with the gold-embossed image of the Porziuncola gracing its lid. The rock circulated among admiring guests at a welcoming party at San Francisco International Airport and later starred at a reception at the De Young Museum. The rock’s final destination is a replica of the Porziuncola under construction at the National Shrine of St. Francis in North Beach. Possibly the first relic of the 13th century saint to enter the United States, it will be installed on the altar of the sister Porziuncola. “This rock isn’t only a rock,” said Frate Gianpaolo Masotti of Santa Maria degli Angeli basilica in Assisi.
A rock used more than 800 years ago in the repair of St. Francis of Assisi’s chapel at Assisi will be enshrined at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco’s North Beach district.
The sponsors of an initiative to define same-sex marriage in California as unconstitutional are confident the measure will qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot. Ron Prentice, chairman of the steering committee for ProtectMarriage.com, a coalition of pro-family organizations, churches and individuals, told Catholic San Francisco that election officials in 10 of the state’s 58 counties have finished validating signatures the campaign turned in April 24. Based
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St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco is hosting a wedding for as many as 20 couples — one parish’s response to a decline of almost 50 percent in weddings among Catholics in the past two decades. “We’ll be doing a real shebang. A real wedding,” said Joe Espinueva, a parishioner and organizer of “Operation I Do,” a totally free wedding and reception for couples who were civilly but not sacramentally married or have been in a common law marriage. “There will be cutting of cake. There will be dancing. We will want these people to feel they are getting a real marriage from the church,” said Espinueva. Parishioners are volunteering to cook dishes, bake cakes, and offering to donate bouquets. Many of the marrying couples’ children will serve as flower girls and ring bearers. Marriage preparation according to church norms is under way, said Espinueva. “We are not trying to do a microwave wedding or a shortcut wedding,” said Espinueva, who said he was sacramentally married at St. Thomas More four years ago, years after entering a civil marriage. The parish will engage in follow up with the couples after the wedding to keep them engaged spiritually with the church, Espinueva said. “We started in our church a campaign SACRED VOWS, page 8
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on the results so far, Prentice predicted that when the remaining counties complete their work over the next few weeks the initiative will have the 694,354 signatures required to qualify for the general election. The campaign submitted 1.1 million raw signatures. This initiative would place the wording in the state Constitution, where advocates say it could not be changed by the Legislature or the courts. Proposition 22 states that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid in the state.
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Father Joseph Hung Pham fled in 1979 from the Communist regime in Vietnam, which had decided he was a spy, and he almost died on the open sea after the small fishing craft packed with refugees disintegrated. “I am not a good Father Joseph swimmer,” Father Pham said. A Hung Pham Thai fishing vessel picked up the refugees and Father Pham spent four months in prison in
Thailand before his brother in Brooklyn, N.Y., also a priest, Father Joseph Tan Pham, was able to sponsor him. Father Pham didn’t stay long in Brooklyn, and was incardinated in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1984. “I cannot get along with the winter and summer so I moved to California with my sister and my brother and their families,” Father Pham said. Father Pham worked in a series of parishes, and spent about a decade at St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo. He served as a chaplain at the area hospitals, Seton Medical Center and San Mateo General Hospital, as well as visiting nursing homes. In his retirement, Father Pham said he is moving to San Jose to be closer to his brother and sister and their families and will remain active in the Vietnamese language Cursillo and Charismatic movements. Father Pham and his brother were ordained the same day in 1973 in the Diocese of of Xuan Loc. Because Father Pham’s bishop sent him to the Philippines to study and he flew back shortly before FATHER PHAM, page 3
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“It’s the story of a sanctity, a holiness that has lasted 800 years. It’s a rock that has seen pass in front of its eyes the life of St. Francis himself, Santa Chiara and many, many other saints and apostles who have worked very hard to live Francis’ life.” The 72 friars of the Assisi community met in 2006 and agreed to donate the relic “with the hope that the joy this rock gives us will also give that joy to the City of San Francisco,” Frate Gianpaolo said. The rock was one of two that had been removed from the Porziuncola over the years during repairs and kept in the museum at the basilica that was built to enclose the chapel in the 1600s. “That church is the original church St. Francis repaired and loved during his life,” Frate Gianpoalo told Catholic San Francisco. “Was he the only one who handled the rocks? At the beginning he was alone but then probably some of his followers helped him to restore the church. Of course we don’t know which part of the church was repaired by St. Francis. But we know the first community of St. Francis and the Brothers worked together to repair the church.” ASSISI RELIC, page 6
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We are embarking on a new era in Archdiocesan communications – one suited to the modes of communications that define the 21st century. Catholic San Francisco as a weekly and biweekly newspaper is publishing its last issue with the newspaper you hold in your hands. But Catholic San Francisco will remain a part of all our lives, continuing as a glossy magazine with inspiring articles about ministries of the Archdiocese, news you can use and Catholic content to nourish your faith and daily life. We will deliver it to you 6-8 times a year, beginning in September. Catholic San Francisco staff will continue to offer you the reader breaking news and current events, but will deliver that content digitally. If you are not already receiving Catholic San Francisco e-letters, please sign up for the new Friday Catholic San Francisco weekly newsletter, at sfarch.org/ signup. That is where we are going. Where we have been is a history worth celebrating. Catholic San Francisco was launched in 1999, and delivered a weekly or biweekly newspaper to every registered household in the Archdiocese for many years. It brought the news and faith closer to Catholics in the tradition of The Monitor, the newspaper of the Archdiocese from 1858 to 1984. Inside these pages are photos and stories with some of those moments in the last 20-plus years. They saw three popes, three archbishops and more elected officials than we can list here.
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VATICAN CITY – Calling for formal recognition of “those lay men and women who feel called by virtue of their baptism to cooperate in the work of catechesis,” Pope Francis has instituted the “ministry of catechist.” “The Spirit is calling men and women to set out and encounter all those who are waiting to discover the beauty, goodness and truth of the Christian faith,” the pope wrote in “Antiquum Ministerium” (Ancient Ministry), his document released at the Vatican May 11. In addition to releasing texts of the document in Italian, French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish, the Vatican distributed a video of the text translated into Italian sign language. Pastors must support laypeople in answering the Spirit’s call and “enrich the life of the Christian community through the recognition of lay ministries capable of contributing to the transformation of society through the ‘penetration of Christian values into the social, political and economic sectors,’” the pope said, quoting what he had written about the vocation of laypeople in his 2013 document, “The Joy of the Gospel.” Bishops’ conferences will need to determine the “process of formation and the normative criteria for admission to this ministry” and devise “the most appropriate forms for the service which these men and women will be called to exercise,” the pope said. SEE POPE, PAGE 17
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Carrying a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, the faithful process through San Francisco city streets near St. Mary’s Cathedral during the Oct. 7 rosary rally and consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The events were designed to mark the centenary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, Portugal, and inspire renewed devotion to the Blessed Virgin among all Catholics in the archdiocese. Left, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blesses the Fatima statue during the consecration rite in the cathedral. More coverage on Pages 18-19.
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His father, a fisherman of Sicilian descent, was born and baptized in San Francisco. Friends call him “prayerful,” “holy,” organized and detail-oriented. San Diego auxiliary bishop for seven years, Oakland bishop since 2009 Has doctorate in canon law
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The day after he released his first pastoral letter on abortion, the holy Eucharist and the responsibility of Catholics in public life, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated Mass at St. Peter Church, one of the three “Mission parishes” in San Francisco’s Mission District. On May 1, Archbishop Cordileone published the document titled: “Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You: A Pastoral Letter on the Human Dignity of the Unborn, Holy Communion, and Catholics in Public Life.” In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone preached about the sanctity of the Eucharist, the “bread of life,” and compared it to the human dignity of the unborn. He lamented that “fewer and fewer Catholics believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist,” and for this reason do not “behave in a way that is consistent with this teaching.” Parishioners reacted to the homily and to the content of the pastoral letter. Damaris Berrios and her husband Augusto C.
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Noguera direct a ministry dedicated to marriage at St. Peter. She told San Francisco Catolico that the pastoral letter is a resource of great help to families and she will include it in her ministry. “We believe that this pastoral letter is a remedy to heal the wounds in families, because many families today are carrying the pain and wounds of the traumas that abortion leaves behind,” Berrios said. She said that the document is also an exhortation to recover the love of the holy Eucharist. Noguera said the pastoral letter is a call to care for the work of God. “We have to defend it (life), that is the challenge that we have today as citizens and as Catholics, to work for the reign of goodness, for the reign of peace, and above all for the reign of life,” he said. Noguera exhorted Catholics to defend the dignity of human life. “About this we have to work as Catholics and give testimony each day in our lives and in the places where we live and work.” In his pastoral letter “Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You,” Archbishop Cordileone SEE PASTORAL LETTER, PAGE 3
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