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Critics, including church, question use of isolation in California prisons CHRISTINA M. GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Once a month after a full workweek, Dolores Canales gets into her car to make the 1,500-mile round trip between her home in Orange County and Pelican Bay State Prison near the Oregon border. That’s where her 37-year-old son John, a convicted murderer, is serving out a life sentence in the Security Housing Unit – broadly described by critics as “solitary confinement.” For 12 years, John’s human contact has been more or less limited to the monthly appearance of his mother’s face through thick panes of institutional glass and the prison staff who bring meals to the windowless, cement cell where he spends 23 hours out of each day, says Canales. He does get one hour outside his cell each day – for exercise – but that is also spent alone in another concrete, windowless structure. SEE ISOLATION, PAGE 21
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Praying all day, every day Carmelite Sisters Maria Fideles, Teresah Joseph, Mother Dolores, prioress Mother Anna Marie, Sister Immaculate and Sister Teresa Francis gather in the garden of the Carmel of the Mother of God Monastery in suburban Marin County on Oct. 1 for Mother Dolores’ 91st birthday. Read more about their life of prayer, community and joy on Page 14.
All Souls School is ‘huge turnaround’ story for Catholic education VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
All Souls School in South Francisco has emerged as one of the archdiocese’s Catholic education success stories, in a financial and enrollment turnaround that began seven years ago when pastor Father Agnel De Heredia hired Australian educator Vince Riener as principal. Riener recalled that the K-8 school was running a deficit when he arrived in 2007. Enrollment was 248. What’s more, some of those working a block away on Grand Avenue had no idea All Souls School existed. And the school had a poor reputation for teaching math, he said. Today, All Souls has 298 students plus 33 in its new preschool, which opened a year ago. Math scores are up. The school is a leader in the use and instruction of technology, with a school information system, Smart Boards in every class-
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room, Kindle Fire tablets in the lower grades and Google Chromebooks in the upper grades. All Souls has a computer lab and a working cafeteria. Parents are involved, and the pastor and parochial vicar are hands-on at the school. Riener has done “a great job,” said archdiocesan schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington. “There’s been a huge turnaround in the last 10 years in enrollment, and the academic performance of the school.” She said the school has a lot of Genentech parents who would not be there “if it wasn’t an academically excellent education.” “It’s an amazing school,” said May Gutierrez, who has a son in first grade and a daughter in fifth grade. “I highly recommend it to anyone, friends, family – I always recommend All Souls.” Riener said technology is one of the school’s big attractions. He was hired partly because of his
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BISHOPS’ ANTI-POVERTY COLLECTION: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is slated for Nov. 23-24, the weekend before Thanksgiving. The collection is taken up in parishes and dioceses nationwide. The theme of this year’s collection is “Defend Human Dignity. Take Poverty Off the Map.” This annual national collection is the primary source of funding for CCHD’s anti-poverty grants and education programs. These programs enable lowincome people to join together to identify problems, make decisions and improve their communities. For over 40 years, CCHD has funded organizations that address the root causes of poverty, providing lasting solutions for the future. During the 2012-2013 grant cycle, the campaign gave out 214 grants in community and economic development, totaling more than $9 million. Of these grants, 178 went to community development and 36 went to economic development and job creation projects. Additionally, 10 grants were given in the category of technical assistance. “In the United States, 46 million people live in poverty,” said Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto, chairman of USCCB’s Subcommittee on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. “Many families face continuing unemployment and increasing costs of living; our neighbors are struggling to meet the cost of health care, child care and even food. CCHD brings the Gospel message to issues of social justice. We cannot simply help a struggling family today and leave them with no means of support tomorrow.”
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To traditional thinkers, curiosity kills the cat; to unconventional teachers like Ramsey Musallam of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, it enlivens education. At the forefront of innovative instruction that tosses the longstanding classroom-lecture model and turns on student interest and inquiry, Musallam, 37, favors youth-relevant tools – the latest technology, sports terminology, excerpts from television shows, scenes from movies, lyrics from hip-hop hits – to spark curiosity and ignite learning. In a recent AP chemistry class, he showcased a film segment of Superman dousing a conflagration with a lake he had put in a deep freeze, a YouTube demonstration of conjuring instant frozen beer; a verse from the rock band Queen’s song “Under Pressure”; a refrain from rapper Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”; and an array of hands-on experiments to illustrate the effects of pressure and temperature on the solid, liquid and gas states of matter. Students discussed and graphed the chemical reactions represented in the multimedia presentations, proposed hypotheses for further study and answered sample SAT questions on the topic. Turning to phase diagrams, which depict the state of matter at a given pressure and temperature, Musallam pivoted to a point of reference suited to a school with a series of recent basketball championships. The students jumped in with analysis as he drew analogies between the “triple point” (the juncture where a substance can exist in all three phases) and the “triple threat” (a fundamental stance for the three offensive moves of dribbling, passing or shooting the ball). “Instead of sitting superbored listening to someone lecture, we’re being engaged in cool ways we can relate to,” said senior Ciara Duggan, 17, who plans to pursue pre-med studies. “It makes complex scientific principles a lot easier for us to understand, remember and care about.” Molly O’Shea, 17, another senior at SHC, credited Musallam’s personable, egalitarian style for engendering excitement about chemistry, a subject
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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam makes students’ curiosity the driving force in the classroom. “The idea is that students’ inquiry and investigation come before the teacher delivers any instruction,” he says. not often found on a teen’s top-10 list of interests. “You feel more like he’s a friend, and that’s good because you’re not afraid to ask questions – which are wanted and encouraged in his class,” she said. Musallam sees student questions, not “some scripted curriculum that gives them tidbits of random information,” as the “seeds of real learning.” Making full use of technology, he texts assignments, provides video tutorials and embraces such apps as Google Docs and “word cloud” visualizations. He also tweets, runs the education blog Cycles of Learning and hosts the creativity-promoting Internet TV show “The Infinite Thinking Machine.” Musallam fuses two classroom techniques: “flip teaching” and “inquirybased instruction.” In flip teaching, which he helped develop, rather than hearing a lecture in the classroom, then doing homework to test what they have learned, students view Musallam’s filmed remarks on their own, then use class time for group practice. Inquiry-based learning is based on the idea that students learn best by following their own curiosity, which teachers can spark by presenting perplexing problems, such as how tapping
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More than three dozen workshops will keep catechists, educators and people from the pews busy Nov. 22, 23 at “Alive in the Spirit,” a faith formation conference sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the dioceses of Oakland, Stockton, San Anne Stricherz Jose and Monterey. Facilitators from around the nation will be leading the talks as well as men and women who help us in the faith locally including Anne Stricherz and Chad Evans Chad Evans from St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Anne coaches girls cross-country at SI and Chad is boys’ cross-country coach. Both teach theology at the school. Anne and Chad team at the conference on a workshop titled “Spirituality of Coaching” that explains how they approach the work. “We pray together,” Chad, who holds a graduate degree in theology from Boston College, told me. “We try to make our team culture Christ-centric.” Chad, who has been a distance runner most of his life, said Catholic schools offer a rare opportunity to students in “the ability to integrate spirituality and God’s presence” in all they do. “Many of our students find it hard to integrate prayer, spirituality and sports when they leave SI in large part because many teams do not make it part of their team culture,” Chad said. In addition, Anne will lead a workshop titled “Sports and Spirituality.” Anne completed undergraduate work and
HERE TO THERE: St. Emydius Parish, 286 Ashton Ave. at De Montfort Avenue, San Francisco, celebrates 100 years Nov. 2 with Mass at 8 a.m. Call (415) 587-7066; email stemydius@sbcglobal.net. St. Peter Parish and school’s annual memorial Mass for all former and present supporters is Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. Call (415) 647-8662.
GREAT GRANDPARENTS: All stops were out for grandparents and very important seniors at St. Stephen School Sept. 24. Tours and Mass were both part of the day for the almost 200 special guests including Louise and Ken Fambrini and Tony Klanjac pictured here with their granddaughter, Alyssa Fambrini.
ANNIVERSARY: Tess and Stan Distel, longtime parishioners of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on a cruise to Alaska. Tess is a graduate of St. Paul High School, San Francisco, and the couple married Aug. 22, 1953, at St. Paul Church.
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was a member of women’s crew at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a graduate degree in teaching from the University of Portland. “In the classroom and even while running with the girls, I found myself answering a lot of questions about God, faith development and moral decision making with examples from sports,” Anne told me. “Sometimes I was sharing stories from professional sports. Other times they were from my own experience or even games. Every game presents moral and spiritual questions: We just need to pay attention.” That “training the eye to see” has helped Anne find a “moment of grace” in sporting events she attends or takes part in. “I look to find something that happens on the field, a reaction from teammates, how a player interacts with a referee or coach that takes me by surprise that speaks of
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Student: Education every woman’s right TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Riley Gallivan is grateful for the good education she has received in her life and intent on its being a gift no woman should have to go without. The Woodside Priory senior enjoys singing, acting, volleyball, swimming and hiking. She is a member of the youth choir at St. William Parish in Los Altos. Her parents are Mary and Richard Gallivan. “I believe that one issue we need to act on is the lack of education for girls around the world,” Riley told Catholic San Francisco in an email interview. “For girls stuck in the vicious cycle of poverty, an education is one of the only ways to break that cycle.” Riley has joined the effort to increase education opportunities for young women in Kenya through the Daraja Club. The group works on behalf of Daraja Academy for Girls in Kenya raising money that pays for scholarships to the school for girls from impoverished villages there. Riley lived with her family and attended school in Hong Kong from eighth grade through sophomore year in high school. When she got to China, she quickly missed her former school, St. Nicholas in Los Altos. “The community that I felt at St. Nicholas had a profound impact on my life, and I was very sad to leave it, but it was a bubble,” Riley said. “Stepping out into the ‘real world’ in Hong Kong was the best thing that’s ever happened to me. In Hong Kong, I went to an American, Lutheran school. It
SENIOR STORIES We asked the Catholic high schools of the archdiocese to share profiles of noteworthy seniors this fall. This week’s story is about Riley Gallivan, Class of 2014, Woodside Priory. took me a while to find that sense of community I felt at St. Nicholas, but eventually I found great people that I could be myself with.” When considering schools in anticipation of the family’s return to the U.S., Woodside Priory jumped to the head of the list. “I chose to attend Woodside Priory because I loved the campus, the teachers, and the caring community,” Riley said. A regular event at the school each Tuesday morning is what Riley called “chapel.” She numbers it among “the very best things” at the school. “The entire school meets in the chapel on campus, and we pray together and reflect on our lives,” Riley said. Teachers and students give “chapel talks,” she said, and after the talk someone performs a piece of “reflection music.” “Priory is not like most schools; it is a quirky place that likes to do things its own way, and that fits my personality perfectly,” Riley said. “I can be myself and people will accept me no matter what. I love the people here and I love being in a place where each individual is valued.”
Riley is already taking giant steps on her faith journey. “Priory’s Benedictine roots allow me to continue to develop my relationship with God every day, and to keep asking questions about my faith,” she said. “At Priory, I feel free to explore my spirituality and figure out why I believe what I believe. Because we have boarding students from all over the world at Priory, there is a lot of religious diversity, which I absolutely love. It allows me to further understand other religions and the connections between them.” After graduation Riley looks forward to being independent and deciding her future with plans to study abroad. Her focus will be vocal performance and music education. She said she has been inspired by Priory music teacher Tina Paulson. “Ms. Paulson pursued her passion for music and is living it every day, and that’s exactly what I want to do. My dream is to be a voice coach or a choral director so that I can share my love of music with others and maybe change a few lives through that. I hope that I will become an active participant in making the world around me a better place to be.”
Love Made Medicine Christian Answers to Health Care Challenges 2013 Archdiocesan Respect Life Conference
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When: Saturday, November 9th, 2013 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Where: St. Mary Cathedral Event Center Halls A & B, San Francisco Cost: $50 Includes Continental breakfast, Buffet lunch, Conference Materials and Exhibits. After October 31, please add $10. Nurses CEU - $60 Physicians CME - $90 Scholarships available for Students, Clergy, and Religious Registration: Vicki Evans: vevans1438@att.net or 415-614-5533 For Nurses: Five (5) units of CEUs are available for registered nurses provided by Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA BRN provider #2315.
For Physicians: Application for five (5) units of CME credit for physicians has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.
Speakers Thomas Cavanaugh, PhD Professor of Philosophy, University of San Francisco
Christian Answers to Health Care Challenges
Mary Davenport, MD, FACOG, Medical Director, Magnificat Maternal Health Program
Robert Forester, MD, Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians St. Mary Cathedral, San Francisco November 9th, 2013
Dennis Manning, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Ryan Nash, MD, Director, Ohio State University Center for Bioethics
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These Catholic Charities CYOsupported organizations need volunteers and gift cards for Thanksgiving: Maureen & Craig Sullivan Youth Services; Rita da Cascia, San Carlos Adult Day Services; San Francisco Adult Day Services, St. Joseph’s Family Center; Star Community Home; Treasure Island Child Development Center; 10th and Mission Support Services; Derek Silva Community; Leland House. Additionally these organizations need volunteers and donations for separate fall celebrations and anniversaries: Canal Family Support; Edith Witt Senior Community; Omni Senior Center. Clint Womack, (415) 972-1297; volunteer@cccyo.org.
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The human story is all about the journey home The ancients knew something about it. Both the “Odyssey� and the “Aeneid� tell stories of men confronting terrific hazards in their quest for home. The “Odyssey� recounts Odysseus’ danger-filled journey to Ithaca after the siege of Troy. On the journey back he loses all of his companions, and upon his return to Ithaca he has to vanquish all of his wife’s suitors in order to win her back. In his “Aeneid� Virgil tells us of Aeneas’ flight from Troy and his quest to found the city of Rome, his new home. Both Homer and Virgil understood that at its heart the human story is all about the journey home. This intuition is confirmed and filled-out all throughout the narrative of the Scriptures. From beginning to end they tell the story of a loving, heavenly father calling his children home to the kingdom. At the narrative’s climax, recounted in the Gospels, we learn that our father’s desire to bring us home is so intense that he has gone so far as to send us his beloved son to extend to us the final, definitive invitation. Any discussion of ‘vocations’ must take place within this context. As a stand-alone entity the concept makes no sense. At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the father’s summons to the true homeland of the king-
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Our sketch is still incomplete. What does it mean to accept the summons and set out for the journey home? The Scriptures show us that the summons always has the character of a mission, a task to be accomplished. To say yes to the summons means to say yes to a mission. I can gauge the quality of my “yes� to God’s invitation by examining how thoroughly I have taken on the task entrusted to me. At its base the mission is the same for all of us. To accept the summons requires that I accept the mission of setting out for the journey home. I am not brought into the Father’s house by a simple, uncorroborated “yes.� For my “yes� to truly mean “yes� I have to give my life to it. I say “yes� by actually setting out on the journey. We find an early, outstanding example of this in Abraham. The Lord Jesus shows us that, because the house of the father is the house of love, to set out on the journey home means to progressively conform our lives to the standard of love. But there is more. He also makes known that, as the father has invited him to cooperate in building the house, so he now turns and invites us to share in the work also. God dignifies us by inviting us to labor alongside him in building the kingdom. Each summons therefore contains a unique mission ordered to sharing in the building. This explains the multiplicity of vocations in the church. Some are called to help in the work through marriage and family life; others through the ministerial priesthood; others still to some form of consecrated life; others still in a whole array of missions too numerous to count. To each one is entrusted a mission that is irreplaceable and not reproducible. No one is left out; no mission is inconsequential. Here then is the center of the dramatic scene. God has summoned us home by entrusting each of us with a unique mission: How have we responded? How are we responding now? How will we respond from here on out?
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NEW HAMPSHIRE BISHOP SUPPORTS STATE BILL TO REPEAL DEATH PENALTY
CONCORD, N.H. – Bishop Peter A. Libasci of Manchester declared his support of a bill in the state Legislature that would repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire. “What we must call for in a civilized society is not retribution but restitution,� Bishop Libasci said at an Oct. 24 press conference in Concord, the state capital. A new effort is underway to repeal the death penalty in the Granite State, at least the third attempt to do so dating back to 2006. “Debate surrounding the death penalty is so
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First US edition of missal in Spanish may be on the horizon PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Anyone who’s familiar with the arduous, years-long process of getting English-language liturgical texts into use might be a bit surprised to learn that there is no comparable system for single-source Spanish translations of missals and other liturgical books. In the United States, priests celebrating daily or weekly Mass, a wedding or other liturgy in Spanish have a choice of using texts of the second edition Misal Romano approved for use by any national bishops’ conference. Unlike the system for English liturgical texts, no multinational entity oversees the translations from Latin – it’s just between the individual nations’ bishops’ conferences and the Vatican. In the U.S., which has never adopted an official Spanish translation, it’s a matter of the priest’s – or perhaps the local bishop’s – preference whether to use the Misal Romano of Mexico, Argentina, Spain or any other Vatican-authorized translation. That could change as soon as next fall, if the U.S. bishops accept recom-
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In the U.S., which has never adopted an official Spanish translation of the Roman Missal, it’s a matter of the priest’s – or perhaps the local bishop’s – preference whether to use the Misal Romano of Mexico, Argentina, Spain or any other Vatican-authorized translation. Pictured is a priest celebrating Sunday Mass in Spanish at a Catholic church in Gaithersburg, Md. mended changes on the agenda of their Nov. 11-14 meeting in Baltimore. The bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship is proposing a handful of liturgical items, including adopting the third edition of the Mexican Misal Romano as the base for the first U.S. version of the missal in Spanish. The committee also is asking the bishops to approve local adapta-
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lated or updated, typically there are years of back-and-forth consultations among a dozen or more bishops’ conferences, the International Committee on English in the Liturgy and the Vatican. The bishops’ conferences of 11 English-dominant countries make up the ICEL’s membership. Since 1963, ICEL has been the resource to prepare translations of Latin liturgical texts for use in those and about 20 other nations where English is spoken. As observers may have gathered from watching the seven-year process of approving the English version of the Roman Missal that went into use in the United States in 2011, getting to a common translation accepted for use around the world is complicated. That’s part of the reason why the bishops’ conferences of Spanishspeaking countries have never created a counterpart to ICEL or sought to use one Misal Romano, Bishop Cisneros explained. The subject most recently came up in 2010 at a meeting of the Latin American Liturgical Conference, for bishops from Spanish-speaking countries, which Bishop Cisneros attended. Masses in Spanish in the United States are prayed from a Spanish language missal based on the Misal Romano used in Mexico but not an exact copy, said Laura Bertone, director of worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “This approved Spanish language missal is the only one people can use in the U.S.,” she said.”So they can’t use a missal from El Salvador or Spain or even Mexico. It needs to be the USCCB-approved version.”
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Cardinal: Church’s mission is to ‘manifest the deeds of Jesus’ DAVID SEDENO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
IRVING, Texas – The mission of the Catholic Church will continue to be centered on Christ and Catholics must open up their hearts, receive a “spiritual pacemaker” from the Holy Spirit and be more like the “good Samaritan” to carry out God’s will. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honhuras, told attendees at a ministry conference Oct. 25. Cardinal Oscar He was the keynote speaker for Rodriguez the seventh annual University of Maradiaga Dallas Ministry Council, co-sponsored by the Dallas and Fort Worth dioceses and the University of Dallas in Irving. He is the chairman of the Council of Cardinals that is advising Pope Francis on the reform of the Roman Curia. The international group has been informally dubbed the “Group of Eight” or “G-8.” Addressing more than 3,000 people who attended his talk, Cardinal Rodriguez discussed about the importance of the Second Vatican Council as a guide for the future; Pope Francis’ impact not only on the church, but on secular society as well; the church’s hierarchy and the importance of the laity; the church’s mission to the poor and the marginalized; and the economic inequities to global citizens because of the concentration of wealth among a few. At a news conference, the cardinal said that Pope Francis continues to show what he would like for the world to see of the Catholic Church by being candid and humble and continuing to acknowledge the need for improvements in the church, while denouncing economic and social inequities and calling for policies to improve human dignity. He said that his role in the G-8 is more like that of an orchestra conductor. He also said that in the coming years the laity’s stature among Vatican of-
AT A GLANCE At an Oct. 25 ministry conference in Texas, Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga said: THE LAITY’S STATURE among Vatican offices could rise in importance to the level afforded that of bishops, clergy and religious. POPE FRANCIS has asked for a “poor church,” inspiring millions around the world. THE POPE’S IDEAL of Vatican II is to emphasize that a hierarchy in the church is about the people of God. ACCORDING TO THAT IDEAL, clergy are the only ones to administer the sacraments but work with the laity to carry out Christ’s mission of service. ‘WE ONCE MORE become the church as proclaimer, servant and Samaritan.’ fices could rise in importance to the level afforded that of bishops, clergy and religious. The group of cardinals from six continents will meet once more in December and again in February to continue advising the pope on numerous matters, particularly reform of the Roman Curia, the offices at the Vatican, and the Vatican’s finances, among other areas. In his keynote address earlier in the day, Cardinal Rodriguez continually referenced Vatican II as not only an important period in the life of the church, but whose work continues to impact and inspire the church of today. In reference to Pope Francis, he said the pope who has asked for a “poor church” continues to inspire millions around the world, particularly because of his humble nature that he hopes his priests will follow. He said that the pope is pushing that ideal of Vatican II to emphasize that a hierarchy in the church is about the people of God and that clergy are the only ones to administer the sacraments, but that they work with the laity to carry out Christ’s mission of service.
“The hierarchy has no purpose in itself and for itself, but only in reference and subordination to the community,” he said. “Only from the perspective from someone crucified by the powers of this world is it possible to explain the authority of the church. “The hierarchy is a ministry, and a service and this is one of the ideas of Pope Francis that is spreading all around the world,” he said. “We are here to serve. Authority and hierarchy in the church is a service that requires lowering ourselves to the condition of servants.” Cardinal Rodriguez talked about the growth of the Catholic Church in Africa, Asia and Latin America and said the reality of the church’s continual shifting away from a Eurocentric and Italian concentration. He also noted that the new evangelization allows the church to define itself again. “We once more become the church as proclaimer, servant and Samaritan,” he said. “The church receives the mission to proclaim and to spread among all peoples the kingdom of Christ and of God. If the church has a mission at all, it is to manifest the deeds of Jesus. The church has never been her own goal. Salvation comes from Jesus, not the church.” He said the church also has to lead the way when it comes to righting injustices and inequality. “We need to build up a new evangelization ... to build up a culture of the good Samaritan – making our own culture of the good Samaritan before the neighbor in need, feeling the pain of the oppressed, getting close to them and freeing them. Without this commitment, all religiousness is not true.” And, he said, that Catholics need to be more joyful, like St. Paul, in proclaiming the Gospel. “The mission of the church is the mission of Jesus,” he said. “All of us need to have a heart test because many times we are ill of cardiac insufficiency or missionary insufficiency. “What happens to one who has cardiac insufficiency? He gets a little device, a pacemaker,” he said. “We have to ask the Holy Spirit to give us a spiritual pacemaker so that our hearts will beat like St. Paul and go forth and evangelize.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 1, 2013
RELIGIOUS LEADERS ASK OBAMA TO NORMALIZE CUBA TIES
WASHINGTON – Religious leaders pushed President Barack Obama in an Oct. 22 letter to step up efforts at normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba. “We believe that an improved, more cooperative relationship between our nation and Cuba would benefit Cuban churches and help facilitate progress toward full political freedom and economic opportunity for the Cuban people,” said the letter, signed by 21 leaders of faith-based organizations, including the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the Franciscan Action Network, the Maryknoll Sisters, Pax Christi USA and Network, which is a Catholic social justice lobby.
BISHOP BLAIR OF TOLEDO NAMED HARTFORD ARCHBISHOP
WASHINGTON – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Henry J. Mansell of Hartford, Conn., and named as his successor Bishop Leonard P. Blair of Toledo, Ohio. Archbishop Mansell, who has headed the Hartford archdiocese since 2003, is 76. Canon law requires bishops to turn in their resignation to the pope at 75. A native of Detroit, Archbishop Blair, 64, was installed as Toledo’s bishop in 2003. The changes were announced Oct. 29 in Washington by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Book recalls bishop setting aside own grief to write JFK eulogy MARK ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan of Washington was a close friend and confidant of President John F. Kennedy, but he had kept that friendship secret. Then he was called upon to deliver the eulogy at the funeral Mass for the country’s first Catholic president, killed by an assassin in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963. The bishop had been a paratrooper chaplain with the 82nd Airborne during World War II, but after the president’s death, the chancellor of the Washington archdiocese soon learned that he would face one of the most difficult challenges of his life. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy asked the churchman to be the eulogist at the funeral Mass for her husband at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. “I was as numb and emotionally exhausted as every other American struggling to make sense of the stunningly brutal murder,” wrote then-retired New Orleans Archbishop Hannan in his 2010 memoir, “The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots.” “My own grieving, however, would have to wait,” he said. “First lady
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Mother Antonia Brenner dies; left upscale life to minister to prisoners Obituaries about her in California and Mexican newspapers quoted people who said their lives were changed by Mother Antonia. “If it weren’t for Mother Antonia, I would have been dead in prison or discarded in the street because of drugs,” said Antonio Granillo, now director of a shelter for people with HIV/AIDS, in one Mexican newspaper.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Pope tells new archbishops that their ministry is to serve and pray CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Being named a bishop isn’t an honor, but a call to special service, Pope Francis said. Ordaining new bishops for the first time in his pontificate, Pope Francis told them the “responsibility of a bishop is to serve rather than to dominate.” During an evening Mass Oct. 24 in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope laid hands on and ordained Archbishops Jean-Marie Speich, the new nuncio to Ghana, and Giampiero Gloder, the new president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, which trains Vatican diplomats. The pope’s homily, based largely on the ritual text for the ordination of a bishop, focused on the
POPE AUTHORIZES LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR GERMAN ‘LUXURY BISHOP’
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has authorized a leave of absence for a German bishop at the center of controversy over expenditures for his residence and diocesan center. “A situation has been created in which Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst currently cannot exercise his episcopal ministry,” said a statement Oct. 23 from the Vatican press office. Pope Francis, after being “continually, broadly and objectively informed” about the situation in the Diocese of Limburg, has authorized “a period of leave outside the diocese,” effective immediately, the statement said. A priest whom Bishop Tebartz-van Elst had selected as his vicar general will administer the diocese in his absence, the Vatican said. The bishop has been at the center of controversy for months over the remodeling and building project in Limburg, which is estimated to have cost about $40 million. German media have dubbed Bishop Tebartz-van Elst the “luxury bishop.”
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Pope Francis, holding a crosier, departs after celebrating an episcopal ordination in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 24. life and mission of the bishop, rather than on the specific tasks assigned to the two new archbishops.
MYSTERY DRAWS POPE TO PRISONERS: ‘WHY DID THEY FALL AND I DIDN’T?’
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said his care, concern and prayers for those in prison flow from a recognition that he is human like they are, and it’s a mystery they fell so far and he did not. “Thinking about this is good for me: When we have the same weakness, why did they fall and I didn’t? This is a mystery that makes me pray and draws me to prisoners,” the pope said Oct. 23 during a brief audience with about 200 Italian prison chaplains. Pope Francis told the chaplains that he still makes Sunday afternoon phone calls to the prison in Buenos Aires that he used to visit and that he continues to correspond with some of the inmates. Most prisoners find in serving their sentences that one day is fine and the next is awful, he said, and “it’s this up and down that’s difficult.” The pope said that Catholics need to recognize just how much God shares the situation of detainees: “He, too, is imprisoned today, imprisoned in our selfishness, our systems, and many injustices because it’s easy to punish the weakest, but the big fish swim free.” CASA FUGAZI 678 GREEN STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133 TEL: 415.362.6423 FAX: 415.362.3565 INFO@ITALIANCS.COM WWW.ITALIANCS.COM
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Pope Francis told them that a bishop’s first task is to make time for prayer. In the early Christian community, he said, the apostles appointed deacons to help care for the widows and orphans precisely because they realized their ministry would suffer if they didn’t make time to pray. “A bishop who doesn’t pray is a bishop who goes only halfway,” the pope said. Pope Francis said love must also mark what a bishop does and how he relates to all those entrusted to his care and governance. “Love with the love of a father and brother all those the Lord entrusts to you,” he said. “Especially love your priests and deacons. They are your closest collaborators, those closest to you.” “Never make a priest wait,” the pope said. “If he asks for an appointment, respond immediately.”
MARRIAGE ISN’T EASY, BUT IT’S BEAUTIFUL, POPE SAYS
VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church must help young people understand that marriage isn’t always easy, “but it is so beautiful,” Pope Francis said. “There are problems in marriage: different points of view, jealousies, arguments, but tell young couples to never let the day end without making peace. The sacrament of matrimony is renewed in this act of peace,” the pope said Oct. 25 during a meeting with members of the Pontifical Council for the Family. “This path is not easy, but it is so beautiful,” the pope said. “It’s beautiful. Tell them that.” For the Catholic Church, he said, a family isn’t simply a group of individuals, but it is a community where people learn to love one another, share with and make sacrifices for each other and “defend life, especially of those who are more fragile and weak.” The family as a special community must “be recognized as such, especially today when so much emphasis is placed on the safeguarding of individual rights,” he said. “We must defend the rights of this community that is the family.” The pope said “spousal and familial love clearly reveal that the vocation of the human person is to love one other person forever and that the trials, sacrifices and crises in the life of the couple or the family are stages for growth in goodness, truth and beauty,” he said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Young and old join pope to celebrate joy of family life CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – A Catholic wedding is not simply a beautiful ceremony; through the sacrament of marriage a couple receives from God the grace they will need to fulfill their mission in the world, Pope Francis said. Addressing an estimated 100,000 people who came St. Peter’s Square Oct. 26 for a Year of Faith celebration of family life, Pope Francis said Catholic spouses are not naive; they know difficult moments will come. But vowing to love one another in sickness and health, joy and sorrow all the days of their lives, Catholic couples put their lives in the hands of God and rely on him for strength. “They do not run away; they do not hide; they do not shirk the mission of forming a family and bringing children into the world,” the pope said. For hours before the pope arrived, singers and storytellers took the stage in St. Peter’s Square, recounting the greatness of love and family life and the importance of forgiveness. Volunteers went through the crowd handing out red, green, orange, yellow, blue and violet balloons. Despite the master of ceremonies’ plea to hang on to the helium-filled balloons until everyone was told to release them, throughout the evening balloons dotted the skies over St. Peter’s Square. Pope Francis, who was given a balloon in the atrium of St. Peter’s Basilica, entertained the little ones who were to escort him to the stage by letting his go, too. The evening’s formal program began with a little girl identified only as Federica showing the pope a drawing she made of her mother teaching her to cook cutlets. She said it is her favorite food and “I could eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack time.”
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Pope Francis reacts to children as he addresses pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 26. He addressed an estimated 100,000 people taking part in a Year of Faith celebration of family life. Federica said her mom also taught her to make the sign of the cross, and Pope Francis asked all the children, if they knew how, to join him in beginning their encounter “in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” Dozens of people – from children to grandparents – were invited to speak to the pope and the crowd, sharing the story of their family lives. Wassim and Karol Maqdissi, a couple from Syria, talked about fleeing their home and finding refuge in Jordan. The people gathered in the square offered special prayers for peace in Syria and offered money to help Caritas care for the victims of the war. Other stories came from residents of Lampedusa, the island off Italy’s southern coast, and from two African migrants who made dangerous sea crossings to get to the island. In his talk at the gathering, Pope Francis said that at the heart of every-
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Mother Dolores: ‘Pure prayer’ at 91
The fruits of a life of prayer ‘The peace we have is a peace the world cannot give’ CHRISTINA M. GRAY
‘ We depend on the Lord to remind us to depend on him.’
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
In a quiet residential subdivision of Marin County on a street lined with “Brady Bunch”-era ranch-style homes lives a family as at home here as any other – a cloistered, contemplative community of Carmelite nuns. The six sisters of the Carmel of Mother of God Monastery in San Rafael’s Marinwood neighborhood live “enclosed” or separated from the outside world by the walls of their monastery – a multiroom house built by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken in 1965 for 10 pioneering sisters from the Carmelite Monastery at Carmelby-the-Sea. The Mother of God family includes Mother Dolores, one of the last surviving members of those original group of founding sisters; Mother Anna Marie, current prioress; Sister Teresa Francis; Sister Maria Fideles; Sister Teresah Joseph; and Sister Immaculate, who arrived from Kenya only last month. What the Marin sisters do from dawn to dusk is pray. The weekly schedule varies slightly from day to day but includes lauds (early morning prayer), terce (mid-morning prayer), Mass, sext (midday prayer), office of readings (morning, noon or
Jam sales help pay the stipends of 22 priests from three different dioceses who offer daily Mass at the monastery. Thirty fruit trees on the monastery property supply much of the fruit while additional fruit, bottles, pectin and sugar come from generous local donations. Sister Immaculate, right, who arrived from Kenya last month to join the community, fills jam jars.
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Over the dinner table, the sisters are asked whether they ever regret choosing cloistered life over more traditional family life. They smile and shake their heads. “This is a family,” says Mother Anna Marie. “And we become part of so many other families..” Sister Teresah Joseph said there is one thing that most surprises people when they learn about the cloistered community: “That we live happily together. They can’t get over that fact.” Said Mother Anna Marie: “The main happiness, if you want to call it that, is knowing you are doing the Lord’s work.”
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ALL SOULS COMMEMORATIONS
Sister Teresa Francis kneels at a shrine to Our Lady of Fatima in a rustic adoration house built on the sprawling, redwood-shaded property. night), vespers (evening) and final prayer. Individual time is also allotted to spiritual reading and private prayer. “I don’t think we will ever be out of business, there are so many things to pray for,” laughed Mother Anna Marie, who fields the hundreds
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of special intentions and other requests received by the monastery each week. They come by email, voicemail – sometimes prayer requests are even dropped off at the front door with a basket of apples. Prayerful and sacrificial support of all priests and bishops is a defining apostolate of the order. “The sisters greatly value the support of our priests and their support for us,” said Mother Dolores.
On All Souls’ Day and throughout the month of November, Mother Dolores and all of the sisters of the Carmel of the Mother of God Monastery will be praying for the souls of loved ones who have died. Names provided to the sisters will be kept on the altar and remembered in private prayer, Divine Office and Masses. Send prayer requests by mail to Carmel Mother of God, 530 Blackstone Drive, San Rafael. The requests may also be sent by email to Mother Dolores srdol@ motherofgodcarmel.org or Mother Anna Marie at sram@motherofgodcarmel.org.
“The peace we have is a peace the world cannot give,” says Mother of God prioress Mother Anna Marie, who grew up in Fairfax just a few miles away. Playfully disturbing the peace is Frankie, a rambunctious Australian shepherd inherited from neighbors whom she insists named him “before we had a Pope Francis.”
Though she now uses a wheeled walker to steady herself, Mother Dolores still rolls through her days at the monastery at a pretty ambitious clip (note running shoes in cover photo). Her days are filled – as they have been since 1948 when she took her vows – with prayer, spiritual reading, study, correspondence and even a little gardening. She retired as prioress after a total of 21 years at the helm, but she still “rules the roost,” says Mother Anna Marie with affection. Her bright, attentive eyes project a keen mind and a cheerful, determined spirit that time has not dimmed. At 91, she is the last of the original group of Carmelite sisters who arrived in a downpour on Nov. 24, 1965, to found the Carmel of the Mother of God. Mother Dolores graduated from UC Berkeley and hadn’t considered religious life until a few years into a job with Standard Oil. Feeling something was missing from the charmed life she was living as a young career woman, she prayed to God for guidance. A priest at the Berkeley Newman Center suggested she contact the Carmelite monastery in Carmelby-the-Sea. The seed was planted. Still she took her time making her vocation. “I was very slow,” she said two months after celebrating her 65-year jubilee on Aug. 18. “I tried to ignore it, but there was no way I could get out of it. The call was very strong.” So was her sense of resourcefulness. During her seven terms as the monastery’s prioress, Mother Dolores generated income for the monastery in between prayers by training to read medical laboratory slides for Kaiser. “Mother Dolores is an example of God’s nudging us to answer to serve God and his people,” said Father Mark Reburiano, pastor of St. Isabella Parish in San Rafael. With the duties of prioress behind her, Mother Dolores is given many of the special intentions sent to the sisters. Today her life is “pure prayer,” says Mother Anna Marie.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Letter from Syria: A time of ‘no certainty whatsoever’ JESUIT FATHER FRANS VAN DER LUGT
The city of Homs – considered to be the cradle of the rebellion against the Syrian government –was home to many thousands of Christians for centuries but today fewer than 100 remain in the embattled city center, mostly elderly people. This letter by a Dutch Jesuit was originally written in Arabic Jesuit Father and was translated by Frans van der Aid to the Church in Lugt Need, an international Catholic charity under the guidance of the Holy See providing assistance to the suffering and persecuted church in more than 140 countries. HOMS, Syria– There is an atmosphere of love, openness and interaction and those of us who remain feel that we are one group. It’s hard to live in painful circumstances alone, and it is possible that these conditions become harder and harder. Each one of us needs to do more and more to help each other. A person has to pay much attention to the needs of another, to the point of forgetting one’s own needs. We are suffering from food shortages. No food has entered our besieged region for more than 15 months. For months we were able to rely on local warehouses, but these are now empty.
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Children sit along a damaged street filled with debris in the besieged area of Homs, Syria, Sept. 19. Two bombings a day later killed at least 39 people in the latest surge in violence. So too are the abandoned homes barren of food stocks. We are surviving on what little food remains in our own homes, but we will soon only find bulgur wheat and that will be gone too. We thank God that each and every one of us still gets 1 kilogram of flour a week, but we do not know how long this supply will remain available.
If we would know the duration of the siege, we could organize our affairs and calculate the expense for food use. If we would know, for example, that the siege will end two months later, then we can manage our affairs – but of course there is no certainty whatsoever and this year the winter will be very difficult for us. We will suffer from hunger, cold,
lack of electricity and water. How can we heat a room and if we find food how will me manage to cook it? Sources of oil, gasoline and diesel or gas are lacking. We will resort to wood for heating but that stockpile too is dwindling. Many abandoned homes are without windows, and doors. They are even without furniture. The houses that are still inhabited have broken windows, and holes in the walls and roof due to the fighting. We take water from mosques and churches by the bucket full, but running water requires fuel for generators and there is none. Sometimes we look into shops for water. And there is no way to escape from the eyes of the people who are besieging us. There is no access in and out of our region. Our movements are restricted to one square kilometer. Then there is the deteriorating health condition of people in our community: The majority complains of weakness and fatigue due to lack of food. Disease has captured some of us and is knocking on the door of others. The interaction with the circumstances of our lives here does not produce optimism, but we know that all the Syrian people are suffering – and we are part of them. Let’s help each other to cross this difficult stage, living out solidarity and interdependence in our search for new horizons. Visit Aid to the Church in Need at www. churchinneed.org
‘Martyrdom’ today: The church persecuted
ach issue of the admirable ecumenical journal, Touchstone, includes a department called “The Suffering Church.” It’s a title that Catholics of a certain age associate with purgatory; in Touchstone’s vocabulary, however, “the church suffering” is the church being purified here and now by GEORGE WEIGEL persecution. It’s a useful reminder of a hard fact. For that hard fact too rarely impinges on the Christian selfawareness, much less the Christian conscience, of the Church Comfortable, the Church Lax, or the Church of Nice – even though the historical commission created by John Paul II in preparation for the Great Jubilee of 2000 made clear that Christians today live in the greatest tribulationtime in Christian history. Indeed, that historical commission suggested that more Christians were killed for fidelity to Christ in the 20th century than in the previous 19 centuries of Christian history combined. As I’ve noted in this space before, “martyrdom” is not just a matter of Richard Burton and Jean Simmons turning their backs on Jay Robinson’s madcap Caligula while Michael Rennie/ St. Peter looks on benignly, in the classic Hollywood romance, “The Robe”; “martyrdom” is going on around us, all the time. Thus a single page of a recent issue of Touchstone noted that some 1,200 Protestants are being imprisoned in
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In this 2010 file photo, a man attends weekday Mass at the archdiocesan headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, a nation that is experiencing an increase in anti-Christian violence. shipping containers in Eritrean desert camps where “torture is routine”; that Mostafa Bordbar, a 27-year-old Christian convert, was arrested and charged with “illegal gathering and participating in a house church” in Iran (a sobering reminder to those bears of little brain who discern a new “moderation” in Tehran these days); that Kazakh Christians, many of them converts from Islam, are “encouraged,” by the arrest and imprisonment of their pastors, to refrain from evangelism; and that a Muslim leader in central Nigeria regularly abducts Christian girls and women and holds them captive in his home, in order to compel their conversion (or reversion) to Islam. As these micro-dramas are being played out, Christians live in daily
fear for their lives in Syria and Egypt, two imploding societies where the majority Muslim factions and sects can seem to agree on one thing only: It’s open season on Christians. Within two decades, perhaps less, Christianity may well have ceased to be a living ecclesial reality in many of the places where Christianity was born, not to mention the cities where subapostolic and patristic Christianity developed; the sole exception to this pattern throughout the Middle East and North Africa is Israel. Thus Tom Holland, a popular historian and author of “The Forge of Christendom” (an intriguing book exploring the ways the late first millennium’s expectation of an imminent end time shaped the West’s triumph in the second millennium), said re-
cently at a London press briefing that “In terms of the sheer scale of the hatreds and sectarian rivalries” afoot in the Middle East today, “we are witnessing something on the scale of horror of the European Thirty Years War.” At that same conference, my old friend and colleague Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Religious Freedom Center in Washington, raised some pointed questions about Western media ignorance – or worse – about this persecution. Shea noted that a fourth-century Coptic church dedicated to Our Lady was recently destroyed in Egypt, even though it was on a shortlist to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The church was 200 years older than the UNESCO-listed Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, whose destruction by the Taliban in 2001 was widely reported and universally condemned; yet the mainstream media treated this grotesque act of anti-Christian religious and cultural vandalism in Egypt as a nonevent. So what is to be done? Support those nongovernmental agencies that work to sustain the pastoral life of Christianity in its historic birthplace. Demand that U.S. diplomacy take religious freedom in the Middle East more seriously. And make the cause of these and other persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ a regular part of liturgical prayer, remembering the church persecuted in the general intercessions at every Mass and praying publicly for the conversion of the persecutors. Yes, their conversion. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
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Seminarian searches door-to-door for lost sheep
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oing door to door to tell strangers about Catholicism and his plan to become a priest had to be the most daunting assignment Neil Bakker had ever received. The 34-yearold from Austin, Minn., had never done anything like it – never gone door-to-door to sell coupon books or magazine subscripCHRISTINA tions, let alone CAPPECCHI the Catholic Church. Before he entered seminary, the self-described introvert had worked in IT. Yet there he was, a broad-shouldered 6-foot-6 with a youthful face and a neatly trimmed goatee, staring down a long block, sweating in the summer heat and feeling totally unprepared. It was Neil’s first week participating in “Evangelization in Action,” a new program of The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity in St. Paul, Minn., that enlists seminarians to study evangelization in the morning and practice it by evening. Neil and two other seminarians were asked to pound the pavement around a small parish in an old suburb, and they started on an adjacent street to the east. The men took turns leading the conversation, a role that fell to Neil when they approached a red twostory house on the corner. A brunette baby boomer appeared, staying behind the screen door as she sized up the seminarians. She had been a member of the parish but was no longer Catholic, she said. It almost sounded like a caseclosed comment, but there was something in her voice that lacked finality. Neil stumbled through the script he’d been running in his mind until she interjected, signaling to
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Neil Bakker, a 34-year-old seminarian from Austin, Minn., pictured in Rome last year, goes doorto-door to connect with Catholics who have left the church. It’s part of “Evangelization in Action,” a new program of The St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity in St. Paul, Minn. the kitchen where she’d been making dinner. “I’m forcing this,” he thought. He decided to ditch the script, look her in the eyes and ask why she’d left the church. The question hung in the air a moment – honest, earnest. Decades ago the parish priest had made a comment she found offensive. It compelled her to leave the church. “No one ever called,” she told Neil. “I just disappeared, and they didn’t care.” She kept talking, Neil kept listening, and then she opened the screen door and stepped outside. Standing on the front stoop with Neil on the walkway below her, the two were eye level. “I found the best thing I could do,” Neil told me, “was apologize and say, ‘I’m sorry that the priest said what he said. I’ll learn his lesson for him.’” Those simple words unlocked her. To know her wounds were recognized and would go toward a future good was powerful. A wrong, at last, had been righted. The conversation continued for half an hour. She’d been attending
a Methodist church, but when they got to discussing the Catholic sacraments, Neil sensed a yearning in her, a wistfulness. “God loves you,” he told her, “and he’s always inviting you back into his church.” The woman didn’t reclaim Catholicism on the spot, but Neil imagines that she feels less hurt when she looks out her back window at the steeple and bell that once drew her in. He prays for her often. The rest he leaves to God. One in three Americans raised Catholic leaves the church. Neil wants to invite them back and help with the healing. He is challenged by Pope Francis’ call to action issued in his recent interview with Jesuit publications. “Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent,” Pope Francis said. “The ones who quit sometimes do it for reasons that, if properly understood and assessed, can lead to a return. But that takes audacity and courage.”
Focusing on the family This unsigned editorial from the Oct. 17 issue of Catholic New York, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, was redistributed to Catholic News Service as a sample of current commentary from the Catholic press. The views presented in this guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of Catholic News Service or Catholic San Francisco. By calling an extraordinary Synod of Bishops to discuss the “pastoral challenges of the family,” Pope Francis made it clear that the situation of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics will get a full hearing at the two-week Vatican forum next October. That’s a welcome development, and an indication of the importance the pope places on the role of families in the body of the church and the critical need to address the problems they face. In particular, the thorny question of Communion for Catholics who remarry without first getting a church annulment is sure to be on the table. The pope himself has hinted several times that he might be open to changes, possibly along the lines of the Orthodox tradi-
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tion which allows more leeway in remarriage. In remarks to reporters on the papal plane returning from Rio de Janeiro in July, he said that the next synod would cover that topic as it explores a “somewhat deeper pastoral care of marriage.” Church law governing marriage annulments also “has to be reviewed because ecclesiastical tribunals are not sufficient for this,” Pope Francis said. “It is complex, the problem of the pastoral care of marriage,” he said, adding that the church must “find a form of mercy for all.” Indeed, the announcement of the extraordinary synod – only the third such gathering since Pope Paul VI reinstituted synods in 1965 – coincided with new guidelines issued by the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Germany, making it easier for divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion. Vatican spokesman Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, commenting on the Freiburg move, rightly observed that such matters were more properly dealt with at a churchwide level and that Pope Francis “is placing the pastoral care of the family at the heart of a synod
process that will be larger, involving the reflection of the universal church.” For many divorced and remarried Catholic couples, that reflection cannot come soon enough. Although they’ve always been welcome at Mass, the fact that they are not eligible to receive Communion leaves a great void. Many families, feeling excluded, have left the church as a result. We also know, as do the church fathers, that the rate of Catholics getting married in church ceremonies is on the wane and that divorce levels, while down from the recent past, are still disturbingly high. That’s why a synod discussion of marriage is such a positive step. It’s a major pastoral outreach to a huge number of Catholic men and women. Something that can, we believe, draw them – and by extension, their children – closer to the church. More than any other sacrament, matrimony involves not just an individual Catholic and not just a husband and wife. It involves a family, and there should be no doubt that families who are seeking God in the church should be welcomed and embraced.
re you distressed over the recent behavior of the U.S. Congress? You aren’t alone. As a resident of Washington D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, I daily encounter staffers to the Senate, Capitol Hill and the U.S. Supreme Court. I see the reactions FATHER EUGENE of police ofHEMRICK ficers, maintenance personnel and others working in the area. Reactions range from disgust and anger, to distrustfulness and having lost all respect. I also encounter loyalists who couldn’t care less about the criticism or damage their party is causing. They feel they are right and that is it. Disappointment over poor leadership is nothing new. In the Gospels, Christ continuously voices his distress over Israel’s leaders, such as in Luke 11:42-46: “Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the others.” And he continues: “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.” Christ does not stop with his woes but offers a way of overcoming them. After berating the Pharisees who are overly concerned with purification rites, he implores them to give alms. What, we must ask, does almsgiving have to do with changing the behaviors of religious leaders and, for that matter, government leaders? The word “alms” in Latin connotes mercy and possessing an open, loving heart. To truly give alms, we must open our hearts to others, feel their pain and walk with them. It requires sympathy at its highest level. It also implies having a deep sense of justice in that we desire that a destitute person equally enjoy the life God desires for us. It should be added that in caring for another, our hearts expand. We need these big hearts to overcome our complex problems. It is no exaggeration to say we live in a new age of increasing woes. The violence we are experiencing around the globe is astronomical. Our ecology is encountering woes like never before, and financial woes are strangling countries around us. If we aren’t careful, the unending list of woes can take the very heart out of us. It can drive some to commit atrocities. One of the best definitions of grace says that grace is the release of loveliness. If we are to be graced as a nation, we need to be more gracious and embrace the spirit and practice of almsgiving in all its dimensions.
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SUNDAY READINGS
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus said to Zacchaeus, ‘Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham.’ LUKE19:1-10 WISDOM 11:22-12:2 Before the Lord the whole universe is as a grain from a balance or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth. But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook people’s sins that they may repent. For you love all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made; for what you hated, you would not have fashioned. And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you? But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Lord and lover of souls, for your imperishable spirit is in all things! Therefore you rebuke offenders little by little, warn them and remind them of the sins they are committing, that they may abandon their wickedness and believe in you, O Lord! PSALM 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13, 14 I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. I will extol you, O my God and King, and I will bless your name forever and ever. Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. The Lord is faithful in all his words and holy in all his works. The Lord lifts up all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. 2 THESSALONIANS 1:11-2:2 Brothers and sisters: We always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and powerfully bring to fulfillment every good purpose and every effort of faith, that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you in him, in accord with the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ. We ask you, brothers and sisters, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling with him, not to be shaken out of
your minds suddenly, or to be alarmed either by a “spirit,” or by an oral statement, or by a letter allegedly from usto the effect that the day of the Lord is at hand. LUKE19:1-10 At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.” And he came down quickly and received him with joy. When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.” But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost.”
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he Zacchaeus story, told only by Luke, is somewhat comedic. Imagine a physically fit Danny DeVito, with a height of 4-foot-9, running ahead of Jesus, clambering up a sycamore tree, and then, elated at being approved by Jesus, managing to descend ready to defend his honor. In front of all his critics, he stands his ground. Are his hands on his hips, his chin thrust out, his lips curled? Is he feeling that with Jesus on his side, he can “show them,” the nay-sayers who badmouth him by sniping, “He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner?” Of course, the badmouthers are also criticizing Jesus in the same breath. What is it about Zacchaeus that pleases Jesus? Why SISTER ELOISE Jesus invite himself ROSENBLATT, RSM does to be the house-guest of Zacchaeus? Obviously, Jesus must know him, because he recognizes him in the tree, calls him by name, and speaks familiarly to him as a friend. How many times did Jesus come through Jericho before, and how many conversations had he had with this tax collector already? Jesus wants to come to his house, not because his host is boring. We observe that this tax collector is nervy, can-
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POPE FRANCIS LIKE PAUL, GO ‘OUT TO THE FRINGES’
St. Paul kept the faith because he didn’t just defend it, he proclaimed it, Pope Francis said at the Vatican Oct. 27 in his homily for the family. St. Paul “stood up to all those who wanted to preserve, to ‘embalm,’ the message of Christ,” the pope said. He “went out to the fringes,” the pope said as he urged today’s families to evangelize like St. Paul.
Jesus comes to ‘save what is lost.’ In this story of a height-challenged man, ‘saved’ must mean he can now stand tall and proud. Even if he has suffered, been suspected, doubted, maligned and resented, he is good enough for Jesus to want to stay at his house. did, self-justifying, but also smitten with Jesus. What other short man, a professional, would forget his sense of dignity, and climb up a tree like a little kid just for a better view of Jesus? He doesn’t seem to care what other adults in the crowd think of him. He follows his heart. He likes Jesus, and Jesus likes him. Jesus wants to spend time with Zacchaeus. But this is also a man whose professional reputation is questionable. He is a tax collector, and he is wealthy. Ergo, so goes the public logic, he must cheat and steal. But what if he is an honest taxcollector who does his job with care and attention, who acts with professional integrity, and who has nothing to apologize for? He defends himself in front of the crowd as though he is ready to come out smelling like a rose after audits by both PricewaterhouseCoopers and the IRS.
Exegetes are divided over whether Zacchaeus is a cheater or an honest man. If a cheater, does he “repent” by promising he will give away half his money to the poor, and pay punitive damages to anyone he has shortchanged? Is it all for show? Or is he an honest man, announcing to everyone that he is a follower of Jesus? As a devout man he heeds the message of the prophets. Thus he will use his wealth to care for the poor – the widow, the orphan and the alien. The response of Jesus is not a judgment on whether Zacchaeus is a cheater or an honest professional who has been defamed by resentful taxpayers. He calls Zacchaeus a “descendant of Abraham,” meaning he belongs to the community of believers in the one true God. Thus, from God’s point of view, salvation is available to everyone who is a child of the promise made to Abraham. “Descendant of Abraham” is the same category St. Paul uses to include all persons, dissolving the barriers that separate Jews from Gentiles. Jesus comes to “save what is lost.” In this story of a height-challenged man, “saved” must mean he can now stand tall and proud. Even if he has suffered, been suspected, doubted, maligned and resented, he is good enough for Jesus to want to stay at his house. The Eucharist is our experience of Jesus coming to stay with us under our roof, too. MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is an attorney in private practice in San Jose.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4: Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, bishop. Rom 11:29-36. PS 69:30-31, 3334, 36. Lk 14:12-14.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7: Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 14:7-12. PS 27:1bcde, 4, 13-14. Lk 15:1-10.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5: Tuesday of the Thirtyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 12:5-16ab. PS 131:1bcde, 2, 3. Lk 14:15-24.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8: Friday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time. Bl. John Duns Scotus, priest. Rom 15:14-21. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. Lk 16:1-8.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6: Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Rom 13:8-10. PS 112:1b-2, 4-5, 9. Lk 14:25-33.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12. PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17.
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he universe works in pairs. From the atoms to the human species, generativity is predicated on union with another. Happiness, it would seem, is also predicated on that. So where does that leave singles and celibates? How can they be normal, generative, and happy? For many people living single and celibate, life can seem unfair. Everything, it seems, is set up for couples, while they are single. And that isn’t the only problem. A further problem is that, too often, neither our churches FATHER RON nor our society give singles ROLHEISER and celibates the symbolictools to understand their state in a life-giving way. Consequently, single persons often feel like they’re looking in at life from the outside, that they’re abnormal, that they’re missing something essential within life. Moreover, unlike married persons and vowed religious, few single persons feel that they have positively chosen their state of life. They feel it rather as an unfortunate conscription. Few single persons feel easeful and accepting of their lot. Instead they regard it as something temporary, something still to be overcome. Rarely does a single person, especially a younger person, see himself or herself growing old and dying single – and happy. Invariably the feeling is: This has to change. I didn’t choose this! I can’t see myself like this for the rest of my life! There are real dangers in feeling like this. First, there’s the danger of never fully and joyfully picking up one’s life and seeing it as worthwhile, of never positively accepting what one is, of never accepting the spirit that fits the life that one is actually living. As well, there’s the danger of panicking and marrying simply because marriage is seen as a panacea with no real possibility of happiness outside of it. Partially those fears are well-founded. Being single and celibate does bring with it a real loss. Denial is not a friend here. Pious wishing or platonic spiritualities that deny the power of sexuality don’t placate our emotions or erase the fact that God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. The universe works in pairs and to be single is to be different, more different than we dare admit. Thomas Merton, reflecting on his own celibate state, once put it this way: “The refusal of woman is fault in my chastity. ... And all my compensations are a desperate and useless expedient to cover this irreparable loss which I have not fully accepted. ... I can learn to accept it in the spirit
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and in love and it will no longer be ‘irreparable.’ The cross repairs and transforms it. The tragic chastity which suddenly realizes itself to be mere loss, and the fear that death has won – that one is sterile, useless, hateful. I do not say this is my lot, but in my vow I can see this as an ever-present possibility.” Celibacy and the single life bring with them real dangers for immaturity and unhappiness. But, paradoxically, admitting this truth is the first step in beginning to live positively beyond those dangers. Sexuality is a dimension of our self-awareness. We awake to consciousness and feel ourselves, at every level, as cut-off, sexed, lonely monads separated and aching for unity. Celibacy is indeed a fault in our humanity. However, to be celibate and single doesn’t necessarily mean that one is asexual or sterile. Today the impression is often given that no happiness exists outside of sexual union. That’s superficial and untrue. Sexuality is the drive in us toward connection, community, family, friendship, affection, love, creativity, delight and generativity. We are happy and whole when these things are in our lives, not on the basis of whether or not we sleep alone. The single celibate life offers its own opportunities for achieving these. God never closes one door without opening countless others. For instance, when our culture recognizes that it’s easier to find a lover than a friend, it recognizes too that human sexuality and generativity are more than biological. There are other ways of being healthily sexual, of getting pregnant and impregnating, of being mother or father, of sexual enjoying intimacy. Sexuality, love, generativity, family, enjoyment and delight have multiple modalities. Early on in my ministry, I once served as a spiritual director to a young man who was discerning between marriage and priesthood. His greatest hesitation in moving toward priesthood was one particular fear: “I’ve always been afraid of being a priest because celibacy will mean dying alone. My father died when I was 15, but he died in my mother’s arms. I’ve always resisted celibacy because I want to die like my father died – in a woman’s arms. But, meditating on Christ’s life one day, it struck me that Jesus died alone, loved, but in nobody’s arms. He was alone, but powerfully linked to everyone in a different way. It struck me that this too could be a good way to die!” It can be, but only if first, as Merton says, the cross repairs and transforms us.
Father Doyle is on vacation this week. This column originally was published in October 2011.
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“Father, why did you not marry that poor girl Lucia to her betrothed?” The question drew stammers, evasions, and nothing that could serve as a defensible answer, even the admission that the baron’s opposition “forbade me to carry out the marriage under pain of death.” “And does that seem a sufficient reason to you not to carry out a definite duty?” replied the cardinal, who goes on to say: “(Don’t) you realize that suffering for the cause of justice is our way of conquering? If you do not know this, what is it you preach? What are the good tidings you have to announce to the poor? Does anyone expect you to conquer might by might? You will certainly never be asked one day if you have managed to check the strong; for you were not given either the mission or the means for that. But you will assuredly be asked if you have used the means you had at your disposal to do what was prescribed, even when anyone was rash enough to try and stop you.” “And why ... have you bound yourself to a ministry which pledges you to a continual struggle with the passions of the world? ... (Why) ... have you forgotten that whenever you need courage to carry out your obligations in this ministry, however you started in it, there is One who will give it infallibly to you if you but ask for it? Do you think that all those millions of martyrs were courageous by nature?” As I said, I thought that by reading this book, I might get a glimpse into the mind of Pope Francis. I think I did.
What are the church’s guidelines for someone receiving Communion more than once a day? Some examples are: attending Mass on a Saturday morning, a Saturday evening vigil Mass and Mass again on Sunday morning; also, attending a weekday Mass in the morning and then a healing Mass that same evening. Succinctly put, a Catholic can receive Communion twice a day, within the context of a Mass. Canon No. 917 of the church’s Code of Canon Law states: “A person who has received the most holy Eucharist may receive it again on the FATHER same day only during the KENNETH DOYLE celebration of the Eucharist in which the person participates.” The canon goes on to explain that a person who is in danger of death may receive the Eucharist as viaticum no matter how many times he or she has already received it on that same day. The rationale behind the rule is that the holy Communion is an integral part of the Mass, uniting the recipient to the sacrifice made by Jesus. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (No. 1388) puts it this way, referencing the words of the Second Vatican Council: “That more perfect form of participation in the Mass whereby the faithful, after the priest’s Communion, receive the Lord’s body from the same sacrifice is warmly recommended.” In each of the examples your question offers, you may certainly receive Communion at the second Mass. Some other frequent situations that allow the same are: a weekday Mass in the morning, with a funeral Mass or wedding Mass later in that day; or a Saturday morning wedding or funeral with a vigil Mass for Sunday celebrated on Saturday afternoon. I know of a man who takes a bus to several churches on the same day and adjusts his schedule to arrive in time to “pop in” and take holy Communion at each of those Masses. I believe that this man is doing what he thinks is helpful and admirable, but objectively he is violating the church’s guideline on two counts: first, by receiving Communion more than twice a day; and secondly, by simply “grabbing” the Eucharist on his “fly-by” and not participating in the Mass at which he receives. Actually, the Vatican had envisioned this fellow some years ago: A number of bishops had written to the Holy See and asked whether the word “again” in canon No. 917 meant that the Eucharist could be received only twice a day (except in danger of death) or whether someone could take Communion even more often, so long as he or she participated in the Mass. The Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts wrote back in 1984, with the approval of Pope John Paul II, and said essentially that twice is the limit. The council recognized what a special gift the Eucharist is and wanted people to maintain the proper respect for its uniqueness.
JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email wbyron@sju.edu
Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.
FATHER ROLHEISER, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
A glimpse into the mind of Pope Francis
n the self-revelatory interview of Pope Francis published by several Jesuit journals around the world in September 2013, the Holy Father mentioned that he had read Alesandro Manzoni’s 1828 novel “The Betrothed” three times and had it on a nearby table for a fourth reading whenever the opportunity presented itself. It prompted me to pick up the book and give it a read; one way, I thought, of getting inside the mind of this fascinating pope. The point of mentioning this here is not to repeat the recommendation. It is not an easy read – 605 pages that FATHER WILLIAM tell a long and involved love J. BYRON, SJ story in a Catholic world that no longer exists and takes the reader through war and plague and emotional hardship on the way to a happy ending. Manzoni (1785-1873) was the principal novelist of 19th-century Italy and this work is considered the greatest Italian novel of modern times. The troubles of the betrothed peasant couple, Renzo and Lucia, are rooted in the cowardice of a parish priest who is intimidated by a local baron who has his lustful eye on the innocent Lucia and forces the timid priest to delay the marriage. A confrontation (a few hundred pages later) between the comfort-seeking, self-serving priest and his cardinal may provide the key to the obvious fascination Pope Francis has with this story.
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What Catholics believe: 10 truths about purgatory imperfections are wiped away.“The soul chooses,” Tassone says.
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Does purgatory still exist? Even though we don’t hear about it as much as in earlier times, Catholics do believe in purgatory. It is a matter of faith, supported by the Bible and tradition, clarified at the Council of Florence in 1439 and the Council of Trent (15451563) and explained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Here is what we know about purgatory.
THERE IS NO FIRE IN PURGATORY: But each soul is aflame with the pain of being separated from God and with the desire to be purified so it can be in the beatific vision. Each soul also feels joy knowing it will one day be with God, Father Stevens and Tassone say.
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PURGATORY EXISTS: The Catechism of the Catholic Church states there are three states of the church, those who are living on earth, those who are in purgatory and those who are in heaven with God.
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THERE IS A SPECIAL DAY AND MONTH TO PRAY FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY: Nov. 2 or All Souls’ Day is the day set aside and November is the month in the liturgical calendar to pray especially for all the souls who are in purgatory. Nov. 2 is called “The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed,” but the church asks us to pray always for each other, including for the souls in purgatory.
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IT IS NOT A SECOND CHANCE: The soul is already saved. Purgatory is a place to pay off debts for sins that were forgiven but for which sufficient penance had not been done on earth.
IT IS NOT AN ACTUAL PLACE: Blessed John Paul II said in an Aug.4, 1999 general audience that purgatory was a state of being: “The term does not indicate a place, but a condition of existence.” Pope Benedict XVI said in a Jan. 12, 2011 general audience, “This is purgatory, an interior fire.”
PURGATORY IS NOT PUNISHMENT BUT GOD’S MERCY: “Few people can say they are prepared to stand before God,” says Susan Tassone, author of “Prayers, Promises, and Devotions for the Holy Souls in Purgatory” (Our Sunday Visitor, 2012). “If we didn’t have purgatory there would be very few people in heaven, because it would be heaven or hell. It is his mercy that allows us to prepare to be with him in heaven.”
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THE SOULS IN PURGATORY CAN INTERCEDE FOR THOSE ON EARTH BUT CANNOT PRAY FOR THEMSELVES: The Catechism of the Catholic Church (958) states: “… the church in its pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, has honored with great respect the memory of the dead; … Our prayer for them is capable not only of helping them, but also of making their intercession for us effective.”
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PRAYERS FOR SOULS IN PURGATORY ALWAYS COUNT: Pope Benedict says in his encyclical “Spe Salve” (“On Christian Hope”), regarding the souls of the dead, “ … in the communion of souls simple terrestrial time is superseded. It is never too late to touch the heart of another, nor is it ever in vain.”
RESOURCES CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, www. usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/ catechism/catechism-of-the-catholic-church/epub/ index.cfm “PRAYERS, PROMISES, AND DEVOTIONS FOR THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY,” Susan Tassone, (Our Sunday Visitor, 2012) “PURGATORY: THE FORGOTTEN CHURCH,” a Lightbridge Films documentary film by Conventual Franciscan Friar John Clote, purgatoryforgottenchurch.com “CATHOLICISM” TV series, Episode 10: “Purgatory – Why Would Anyone Go Through This?!” by Father Robert Barron
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What does purgatory mean to you? “All human beings have to go to purgatory for awhile since there are no walking saints among us. We sometimes give in to temptation and have to prepare ourselves to meet God.” SIU-MEI WONG, San Francisco “My understanding of purgatory is being separated from God, in death or in life.” ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, Woodacre “The nuns told us purgatory was a place we would go after we died to get all cleaned up for Jesus. They said we didn’t want anything sticking to us when we met him.
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Now that I’m an adult, I think that is theologically pretty accurate. In life, when we go out on a date or are about to see or meet someone special, we spend a lot of time sprucing ourselves up. Purgatory is like
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that, a place to purify and prepare ourselves to meet our heavenly father.” ROSE SWEET, San Anselmo “The visual I have carried around
since second grade is that of a sensory-deprived space in which I must kneel in solitude, saying penance until such time I had atoned for all my sins. I am not sure what happens next – perhaps an angel appears and takes me to the pearly gates? I also recall praying for all those in purgatory so that they could go to heaven sooner.” VIVIENNE DRIMMER, San Francisco “I can’t tell you that much, I’ve never been there.” ROBERT DOUGHERTY, Nicasio Interviews and photos by Christina M. Gray.
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ALL SOULS: Rising enrollment marks parochial school’s ‘huge turnaround’ FROM PAGE 1
strong background in technology as vice principal of a large high school in Australia. “When a family wishes to enroll, there is no paper at all,” he said. “They do it online.” Riener and the school board set up a five-year plan shortly after his arrival. He stressed that the generosity and involvement of parents and teachers were critical from the beginning. “The families came together over that first Christmas and painted the kindergarten room, and re-carpeted it,” he said, adding that another donation paid for new furniture to attract new families. Teachers go the extra mile, staying after school if necessary, Gutierrez said. Father De Heredia and parochial vicar Father Paul O’Dell are very involved, with Father O’Dell often seen at CYO games.“He’s shouting and telling the girls ‘come on, come on.’ He’s like their best cheerleader,” eighth grade parent Frances Guevara said. All Souls draws students from families whose parents commute from the East Bay and Marin County to work in the biotech and computer industry, but 70 percent are from the parish, said vice principal Karen Johanson. Johanson is in her 34th year at the school, most of those as a kindergarten teacher. “We still have some very hard-working bluecollar families that work two and three jobs just because they want to make sure their children have a Catholic school education,” Johanson said. Johanson was at All Souls when enrollment
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Principal Vince Riener is lauded by parents for his hands-on style at All Souls School in South San Francisco. fell, partly a casualty of lost employment at San Francisco International Airport following 9/11 and the dot-com bust. “The lean years, I knew
them,” Johanson said. “When Vince came, it was like this new burst of energy that came into the school. It was a good kind of shake-up.”
ISOLATION: Secured housing in state prisons called ineffective, inhumane FROM PAGE 1
“My son wrote to me and said: ‘I have no doubt this place was designed with the sole intention of driving men mad or to suicide; I know because I am living it,’” Canales told lawmakers and state prison officials Oct. 9 at a joint hearing of the Senate and Assembly Safety Committees in Sacramento. Canales and other prisoner families testified at the hearing where state Inspector General Robert Barton stated that at present, 4,054 inmates are housed in solitary confinement. The hearing was the result of a summer hunger strike during which up to 30,000 California state inmates refused meals to protest the state’s security housing sentencing policies. The prisoners say sentences are set or extended not by infractions but at the discretion of prison officials. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation which presented its side of the issue at the hearing, solitary confinement does not exist in state prisons. “How outsiders define solitary confinement is all across the map,” said spokeswoman Terry Thornton. She said the California prison system separates certain inmates from others for many different reasons, including their own protection. “SHU housing is not intended as punishment for misbehavior,” she said. “It is specifically for offenders whose conduct endangers or threatens to endanger the safety of others or the security of the prison.” She added that inmates earn their way into the SHU by committing a serious crime but stay there only if they are validated as a member of a “security threat group” – often a gang affiliation. “If you have been in the SHU for 10 or more years, like I have, it is for no other reason than your choice to remain loyal to and active in the gang you are associated with,” J. Bryan Elrod, a Pelican Bay State Prison inmate and former Aryan Brotherhood member, said in court papers filed in July as part of the state’s legal response to the hunger strikers’ allegations. Critics however, including the California bishops, say that prolonged prisoner isolation by any name or purpose is inhumane and ineffective. Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia, chairman of the Restorative Justice Committee of the California Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Fresno
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Dolores Canales, the mother of a Pelican Bay State Prison inmate who has served 12 years of a life sentence in isolation, speaks to a reporter after addressing a state legislative hearing in Sacramento Oct. 9. Bishop Armando Ochoa, who is also on the committee, reinforced Catholic opposition to solitary confinement in an Oct. 8 statement to Assembly members Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) and Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco). “…While it may be that isolation mitigates gang activity, placing men in isolation in the SHU unit has no restorative or rehabilitative purpose,” the bishops wrote. “We oppose the increasing use of isolation units, especially in the absence of due process … No one affected by crime is helped when a human being is subjected to this inhumane form of punishment.” Laura Markle Downton of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, a national organization mobilizing people of faith to end torture, said that international human rights standards state that isolation lasting more than 15 days is torture. “Prolonged solitary confinement destroys prisoners’ minds, denies the opportunity for community and violates the inherent, God-given dignity and worth of every person,” she said. Canales concluded her testimony by suggesting that caged animals are shown more compassion than caged men. “We know that research chimpanzees are protected under federal law from being
The definition and use of solitary confinement remains the subject of debate between supporters and critics of its use in the prison system. But the effect of prolonged isolation has been studied by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Dr. Stuart Grassian, a board-certified psychiatrist and former faculty member of the Harvard Medical School submitted testimony in a 1993 prison lawsuit following the assessment of isolated prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison. In his study, “Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement,” Grassian suggested that long-term isolation induces a specific psychiatric disorder characterized by hypersensitivity to external stimuli, hallucinations, anxiety and panic attacks, cognitive decline, obsessive thinking, paranoia, impulse control problems and self-mutilation. Others who have studied isolation practices in prison say it can incubate mental instability in otherwise healthy inmates and greatly worsens suffering for those with serious mental illness – an estimated 20 percent of the prison population. CHRISTINA M. GRAY
housed in solitary confinement,” she said. “And a bill has been passed to protect chickens from the cruelty of confinement.” After the three-hour hearing Canales said that she feels “more hope than she ever has.” Hancock and Ammiano say they will introduce legislation next year that limits or ends the use of isolation in state prisons. In the meantime, Canales will continue her monthly treks to Pelican Bay. “I came to Sacramento in the hope that my son will not be one of the many who succumb to suicide or insanity and that someone will listen and demand changes in the conditions of confinement for human beings,” she said.
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USF REFLECTS ON LIFE, LEGACY OF DOROTHY DAY
“Dorothy Day: A Life and Legacy,� a look at the journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert whose focus was the poor and homeless, takes place Nov. 9 at Fromm Institute, behind St. Ignatius Church on the University of Robert Ellsberg San Francisco main campus on Parker Avenue. Robert Ellsberg of Orbis Books, publishers of Day’s diaries and letters, will be featured speaker. Speaker panels from the Bay Area Catholic Worker
community will reflect on Day’s legacy of nonviolence and commitment to the poor. At their fall meeting in Baltimore, Md., last year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops participated in a consultation on Dorothy Day’s sainthood cause. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, led the bishops in discussion in his role as archbishop of New York, which is overseeing the cause. The bishops approved the advancement of Day’s cause in a voice vote. Sponsored by the USF Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, the event is free. Email lanecenter@usfca.edu or call (415) 422-5200.
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Presentation Sister Catherine Knudsen, Sister Mary of the Angels, died Oct. 9 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Born in San Francisco, Sister Catherine was 92 years old and a Sister of the Presentation for 70 years. Sister Catherine earned her nursing diploma and license at St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in San Francisco in 1943 and later an undergraduate degree in education at the University of San Francisco. She held a graduate degree in religious education from The Catholic University of America and a doctorate in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Sister Catherine taught at Presenta-
tion High School, San Francisco, from 1945 to 1958. She also taught at Aquinas University in Southern California. She retired to the Presentation Motherhouse in 1995 and engaged in the ministry of prayer. Sister Catherine A funeral Mass Knudsen, PBVM was celebrated Oct. 16 in the motherhouse chapel with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. Memorial contributions to the Sisters of the Presentation are preferred. Contributions can be sent to Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94118.
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November 10 Monsignor James Tarantino, Charismatic Preacher, Evangelist and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be our Guest Presider and Homilist. November 17 Father Paul Gawlowski, OFM Conv. will be our Presider and Homilist and the worship service will be led by Shipwreck’s Youth and Young Adult Ministry. November 24 Father Bart Landry, C.S.P., Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, will be Guest Presider and Homilist for our Gospel Mass celebration of Christ the King!
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‘God’s love is real,’ bishop tells CCD students At St. Raphael Church Oct. 21, Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy echoed Pope Francis’ message to young people when he addressed about 50 Marin County religious education students: “God’s love is real – the church wants you to feel that and understand that. When we feel how much God loves us, we can accept life’s challenges.” The bishop’s message preceded his presentation called “American Catholics as Citizens and Believers: Building a Culture of Life.”
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FRIDAY, NOV. 1 FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m., followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal. MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Parish, Bon Air Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Greenbrae, 7 a.m. Mass followed by breakfast and talk by San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly, former president, Marin Catholic High School and vocations director, Archdiocese of San Francisco. (415) 461-0704; sugaremy@aol.com. Cardinal William J. Levada, retired prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and former archbishop of San Francisco, speaks Dec. 6.
SATURDAY, NOV. 2 BINGO: St Veronica Thanksgiving bingo and lunch, Parish Center, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco with traditional Thanksgiving meal noon-1 p.m., bingo, 1-5 p.m. Pre-sale $20 includes buy-in, lunch and a raffle ticket; at door $25 includes buy-in and lunch. Register online www.stveronicassf.com; Terri (415) 519-1748; must be 18 to play. Proceeds benefit St. Veronica capital campaign. REUNION MASS: St, Paul High School alumnae homecoming Mass and luncheon, honoring Class of ’64, with Mass at 11:30 a.m., St. Paul Church, 29th and Church streets, San Fran-
SATURDAY, NOV. 2 ALL SAINTS’ DAY MASS: “Todos los Santos,” 11 a.m., Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal Archbishop celebrant. (650) Salvatore J. 756-2060; www. Cordileone holycrosscemeteries.com. ANNIVERSARY MASS: 100 years! St. Emydius Parish, 286 Ashton Ave. at De Montfort Avenue, San Francisco, 8 a.m. Father Bill Brady, pastor, will preside. Tours of compound Father Bill Brady 9:15-10:30 a.m. Tickets are available for purchase for lunch and
cisco. Lunch follows in parish hall. $40 per person, reservations required. (415) 648-7538. SUNG REQUIEM MASS: For all the faithful departed, 5 p.m., St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, featuring choirs from the parish, St. Ignatius College Preparatory and
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SUNDAY, NOV. 3 ST. PETER MASS: Memorial Mass for all who have served or been part of St. Peter Parish, 24th and Alabama streets, San Francisco, 2 p.m., with reception following. San FranAuxiliary Bishop cisco Auxiliary William J. Justice Bishop William J. Justice, a former pastor of St. Peter, is principal celebrant. Father Manuel Estrada, pastor, will concelebrate. Warmly welcomed will be new St. Peter School principal Gloria Galarsa and vice principal Karen Hammen. Classes of 1963 and 1988 will be honored. (415) 6478662.
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FRIDAY, NOV. 8 ‘JAVA, JAZZ AND JESUS’: “Shifting Focus: Finding God in the Busy,” with Jesuit Father Radmar Jao at St. Ignatius Parish, Fromm Hall, 650 Parker Father Radmar Ave., San Jao, SJ Francisco, 7 p.m. Talk is followed by small-group discussions and an open forum. St. Ignatius Parish invites all young adults, 18-40 years old, and those young at heart to a special evening of warm ambiance, relaxing music and meaningful conversation in the Maraschi Room. Think Green – BYOM (Bring Your Own Mug). RSVP, not required but helpful, at facebook.com/ groups/548083468597084/; siparishyoungadults@gmail. com; (415) 422-2188.
SATURDAY, NOV. 9 2-DAY CHRISTMAS FAIR: All Souls Church, Miller and Walnut avenues, South San Francisco, Saturday, Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch Saturday at 11 a.m., breakfast and pictures with Santa follow Sunday’s 9 a.m. Mass. (650) 871-8944. DOROTHY DAY: “Dorothy Day: A Life and Legacy,” a look at the journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert whose focus was the poor and homeless. Robert Ellsberg, Orbis Books, publishers of Day’s diaries and letters, will speak. Explore issues of nonviolence and a commitment to the poor by reflecting on the life of Dorothy Day with speaker panels from the Bay Area Catholic Worker community, talks by USF faculty, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco main campus behind St. Ignatius Church along Parker Avenue.
Free and open to the public. Day is sponsored by the USF Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought. Email lanecenter@ usfca.edu or visit www.usfca.edu/lanecenter/; call (415) 422-5200. RESPECT LIFE: “Love Made Medicine: Christian Answers to Health Care Challenges,” Respect Life Conference, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, conference center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Speakers include Dr. Mary Davenport on effectiveness and rewards of NFP and pro-life infertility treatment; Dr. Ryan Nash director of Ohio State University Center for Bioethics on palliative care and meeting the spiritual needs of the patient at the end of life; and Dr. Thomas Cavanaugh, professor of philosophy, University of San Francisco, with an historical and philosophical perspective on the influence of Christianity on Hippocratic medicine. Event sponsored by San Francisco Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. Tickets at $60 include continental breakfast and buffet lunch plus conference materials. Scholarships are available for students. Continuing professional education credit for nurses though Dominican University for an additional $10. Vicki Evans, (415) 614-5533 or vevans1438@att.net. ALL-SCHOOL REUNION: “Blue and Green Bash” for graduates of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School at San Francisco Design Galleria Center 101 Henry Adams St., an evening of food, dancing drinks, a night to reconnect. Patrick Kealy, alumni relations manager, (415) 775 6626 ext. 682; pkealy@shcp.edu. Tickets are $80 and $65. NEW PLAY: “The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold” featuring Maripat Donovan of “Late Nite Catechism” fame, St. Veronica Parish Center, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Appetizer reception, Falcon Hall, 6 p.m.; curtain 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 preferred seating; $45 general; $40 senior general. All tickets include reception and show. Rita Buscher, (650) 869-4939; email ritabuscher@att.net; visit www. stveronicassf.com.
FOCUS ON WOMEN: Information days about “Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women,” a study program for women from early ages and throughout life, will be held Nov. 9 and Dec. 14 at St. Brendan Church, convent study room, 29 Rockaway Ave. at Laguna Honda Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30-11:30 a.m. The information talks are for women interested in learning more about joining a study group, becoming a facilitator or how to bring ENDOW to their parish. Among the purposes of ENDOW is to allow women “to learn about their true beauty, dignity and vocation as women and daughters of God,” said information about the classes. RSVP to Maria Martinez and Pauline Talens at ENDOW.SF@gmail.com. Visit www. endowgroups.org.
SUNDAY, NOV. 10 ICF DINNER: ICF Branch 173, 50th anniversary at the Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco. No-host bar 3 p.m., dinner 4 p.m., $50 adults, $9 under 12. Call Dorene Campanile, (650) 344-7870 by Nov. 4.
MONDAY, NOV. 11 VETERANS DAY SERVICE: Star of the Sea section, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, U.S. Air Force colonel, presides. (650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
TUESDAY, NOV. 12 FERTILITY SUPPORT: San Francisco Catholic Infertility Fellowship meets monthly to provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support to married individuals and couples who have been struggling to conceive a child for six months or more. Meetings are second Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Siena Room, St. Dominic Parish, Bush Street at Steiner, San Francisco. Visit http://sfcatholicif. blogspot.com/.
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FRIDAY, NOV. 15 LECTIO DIVINA: Pauline Books & Media, Redwood City, 6:30 p.m., with Paulist Sister Neville Christine Forchap. Learning to pray the word is a wonderful way of entering into the liturgical seasons. Discussion and social will follow presentation. (215) 847-3662. HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: Sisters of Mercy at Marian Oaks Annual Holiday Boutique, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. On sale are the sisters’ legendary homemade jams, handcrafted blankets and crafts, all-occasion handmade cards, baked goods and fudge, 2300 Adeline Drive, Building D, Burlingame. Follow lower road on Mercy campus to Marian Oaks. Debbie Halleran, (650) 340-7426; email dhalleran@mercywmw.org.
SATURDAY, NOV. 16 EPIPHANY REUNION: Calling all alumni, current students, parents past and present, teachers past and present, parishoners past and present, to help celebrate the School of the Epiphany’s 75th anniversary, noon-4 p.m., 600 Italy St., San Francisco. Email alumni@sfepiphany.org. HANDICAPABLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Lunch follows. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.
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