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VATICAN CITY – In a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with one of his Jesuit confreres, Pope Francis spoke with characteristic frankness about the perils of overemphasizing Catholic teaching on sexual and medical ethics; the reasons for his deliberate and consultative governing style; and his highest priority for the church today. The pope’s remarks appeared in an interview with Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Italian journal La Civilta Cattolica. The interview, conducted in August, was the basis for a 12,000-word article published Sept. 19 in the U.S. magazine America, and simultaneously in other Jesuit publications in other languages. According to the editor of America, Jesuit Father Matt Malone, Pope Francis personally reviewed the article and approved its publication. “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods,” the pope said in the interview, noting that he had been “reprimanded” for failing to speak often about those top-
Highlights of Pope Francis’ interview with Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Italian journal La Civilta Cattolica, published simultaneously Sept. 19 in Jesuit journals worldwide: WITHOUT A ‘NEW BALANCE’ on dogmatic and moral teaching, “even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards.” ‘IT IS NOT NECESSARY’ to talk IS N about issues of sexual morality “all the time.” WHAT THE CHURCH ‘NEEDS MOST
ics. “It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
Moral teachings ‘not equivalent’
“The dogmatic and moral teachings
TODAY’: “The ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.” THE CONFESSIONAL “is not a torture chamber.” ‘THIS IS THE TIME OF DISCERNMENT’ regarding reforms of church governance. ‘AUTHORITARIAN’ as a young priest, accused of rigidity, the pope is now open to “real, not ceremonial consultation.” A MORE VISIBLE ROLE FOR WOMEN is essential but “I am wary of a solution that can be reduced to a kind of ‘female machismo.’” CONCILIAR LITURGICAL REFORM is “absolutely irreversible.”
of the church are not all equivalent,” the pope added. “The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.
“Proclamation in a missionary style focuses on the essentials, on the necessary things,” he said. “We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. “The proposal of the Gospel must be more simple, profound, radiant. It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow.” The pope reaffirmed one of his major themes: the need for mercy rather than judgment when approaching sin. “The thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful. It needs nearness, proximity,” he said.
‘Locked up small things’
“The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you,” the pope said. “The confessional is not a torture chamber,” he said, “but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better. “Those who today always look for SEE POPE, PAGE 18
ABORTION: Pope condemns product of ‘mentality of profit,’ ‘throwaway culture,’ which has enslaved hearts, minds of many REFORM: Cardinal advisers Rome-bound with broad input on reforming bureaucracy
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Mission-driven high school leadership adapts to changing landscape CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The high school principal as the sole leader is now another chapter in the evolution of Catholic schools. Maureen Huntington, superintendent of the Department of Catholic Schools in the archdiocese, has seen the dual president/principal model expand to now include 12 of the 14 Catholic high schools here. “It is becoming more difficult with each passing year for one person to
do both jobs,” Huntington said. “As the responsibilities of leadership increase so does the need for others to share the load.”
Archbishop Riordan: Focus on catholicity
Joseph Conti is president of San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School. Vittorio Anastasio is principal. The president/principal model has been at Riordan since 2004, with Conti and Anastasio coming into the posts just this year.
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YOUTH MASS: This year’s archdiocesan Youth Mass will take place Oct. 20 at 2:30 p.m. at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St., San Francisco, with Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presiding. Youths are encouraged to arrive early to receive a name tag and learn the songs for Mass. Each parish or school is encouraged to have one representative process in wearing a parish or school shirt and to bring an extra one to place on the altar. The second collection will be replaced with a sock drive, to be donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Ynez Lizarraga, associate director of youth ministry, LizarragaY@ sfarchdiocese.org. RED MASS HONOREE: Oakland attorney William H. McInerney will be honored by the St. Thomas More Society with its St. Thomas More Award Oct. 23 at the Red Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square in San Francisco. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant and homilist. The Mass is an annual liturgy dating to the 13th century bringing together judges, attorneys, law school professors, law students and government officials. A founding member of the Oakland law firm of McInerney & Dillon, McInerney has concentrated on construction law for more than 60 years. He and his wife, Mary, have been married 64 years. The family has been active in St. Theresa Parish, Oakland, for more than 55 years. McInerney is a Knight of Malta and has accompanied the sick on 23 pilgrimages to Lourdes. He and his wife were principals in establishing a free medical clinic for the poor at Oakland’s Christ the Light Cathedral. For information about the Mass and banquet,Matt Graham, (510) 834-6600; mgraham@wendel.com.
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munity looks like and how it functions.” JENNIFER D’ARCY
“We have to embrace all faiths and especially those who are not believing in God because by embracing them we are treating them as another Christ. By our words and actions and by our way of life we are evangelizing them.” DOMINICAN SISTER CAMAYUDO LAURENCIA
“Try to be nice and not preach to them.” ELLEN CONAWAY
“Be more active, be more out there and sort of go and do.” ARLENE HILOMEN “A lot of the young kids nowadays – the reason they don’t come to church is it doesn’t reflect what they experience. We should try to bring in the young, and the ones who don’t believe. Bring them and show them the faith.” ANDREW MCCARRON
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS: The annual blessing will be held Oct. 5, 2 p.m., at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Columbus Avenue and Vallejo Street, San Francisco.
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“I would say polite persistence. Keep trying to show the message.” CHRISTINE HAZARD “I would lead by example. By going to Mass, by being involved in the parish and being able to answer questions if they have them. I know as a child I was very influenced by my parents and my older siblings and that is what I am trying to carry on today.” SCOTT REA “Just show patience, love and tolerance and help the poor.” MICHAEL MANN “I think we should help the poor
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“I respect their faith, whatever they choose to believe. If somebody’s an atheist, you respect them.” SUSIE RIVADENEYRA “I think if you share with them all the grace and love that God has given you, and share with them all the ways that God has touched your life – you can show them how God has impacted you and maybe that would bring them to come around and see God’s love for themselves.” JOSH PHILLIPS Interviews and photos by Valerie Schmalz, St. Anne of the Sunset and St. Gabriel churches, San Francisco, Sept. 21 and 22.
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What makes the rosary special for you? In preparation for the rosary rally Oct. 12 at Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, we asked readers to share their personal stories about the rosary. Here are some of your responses, compiled by Valerie Schmalz, with more to come in the Oct. 4 issue. (CNS FILE PHOTO/MIKE CRUPI, CATHOLIC COURIER)
Young adult convert says the rosary
I am a young adult convert to the Catholic faith, so I didn’t grow up with the rosary. However, I can remember in college learning how to pray my first Hail Mary on vacation with my friends, and knowing that Our Lady had a hand in bringing me to the church. I still struggle to pray a full rosary, but hope one day it will become a part of my daily prayer life, and can imagine teaching it to my future children. For now, I appreciate the rosary most as a beautiful, visual sign of our universal faith. CHASA TOLIVER, St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco
Rosary was hard to start
My promise to Our Lady to pray the rosary every day proved difficult. A friend who prayed two rosaries every day serenely told me that she could not get to sleep at night unless she had finished. I could only wish for that! In looking for a way to fulfill my promise I tried iPhone apps and rosary audio files. I joined the Dominican Rosary Confraternity in order to add my prayers to those of the other members. When completing a daily rosary became somewhat easier, I also took on one decade of a “universal� rosary. Now, after five years, I look forward to my time with
the rosary. Sometimes I may not be able to concentrate fully, but when my mind wanders during prayer these thoughts often bear good fruit in my life. MARY BORDI, Our Lady of Refuge, La Honda
Makes rosaries for sanity
I make and repair rosaries for sanity. I got started about seven years ago when I needed a rosary for my uncle’s rosary (before his funeral Mass). So, in answer to the question, as I make my rosaries, the beads are no longer just beads, they become my connection with our Blessed Mother.
Sometimes, I will say a decade or two or just have a conversation with her. The Blessed Mother has helped me through some trying times in my life. She has always been there talking to me. Thanks to the rosary making, I turn my mind off to listen. DEBI GOULD, ‘Rosary Lady’ of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, San Francisco
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As one who has resided in New York City and worked as a chancery grunt there for a bit, I often joked that the maintenance of St. Patrick’s Cathedral could be paid for with the candle money from the sacred space’s thousands of visitors each week. Only if that were true here in San Francisco for the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. Well, if it ain’t candle money, it’s gotta’ be somethin’ and cathedral development director Cheryl Cheryl Clarke Clarke is on the job figuring out just what that somethin’ can be. Cheryl, who holds a law degree from the University of San Francisco, brings 18 years of fundraising experience to the cathedral’s hallowed halls. Cheryl’s mission is clear: “Motivate people – parishioners at the cathedral and throughout the archdiocese, visitors and residents of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area – to support the cathedral, its ministries, programs and capital improvements.” I’ve been pushing a plow at the chancery here for nigh onto 30 years and even I sometimes need to be reminded of what Cheryl states so clearly: “Not only is the cathedral the mother church of the archdiocese, it is also an iconic San Francisco landmark.” Cheryl is out to build relationships with parishioners, visitors and the broader community and that means everybody. “Fundraising enables our different constituencies to show their support, thereby providing the cathedral with the financial resources to offer outreach ministries, music programs and the like,” Cheryl said. The voice to listen for is that of Msgr. John Talesfore, cathedral pastor and rector. “Most often, people will hear from others who care very passionately about the cathedral, including Msgr. Talesfore, parishioners and our friends within the archdiocese. My role is to facilitate those communications.” Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org and while you’re at it, visit the real thing too. ANNIVERSARY: Diane and Dennis Creedon celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 13 with a special Mass at Our Lady of Angels Church with pastor Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney presiding. “The event was attended Diane and Dennis Creedon
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WHERE TWO OR MORE: Awaiting completion of repaving and grounds improvements, parishioners at St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco, are attending Mass in the parish center. Funds for the work expected to cost $600,000 are close to halfway raised. Pictured awaiting arrivals to the temporary sanctuary for a Saturday vigil Mass are hospitality ministers Dominic Donnelly, Bill Strong, Mike Cooney and Barbara Lozar. by family and friends and a good time was had by all,” Dennis told me in a note to this column. “Only one marriage in 20 lasts 50 years,” he noted with pride. DISCIPLES: The St. Vincent de Paul Society of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is celebrat-
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ROSARY: Ahead of Oct. 12 rally, readers share personal stories bunch of mindless repetition of aves and therefore offensive to Mary, until a wise and reverent priest – Father Anthony Rosevear – reminded me that Mary points us toward her son, and would not be offended if repeating aves brings us closer to him. This was a breakthrough for me, and I began to pray the rosary more frequently and spend a lot of time meditating on the mysteries. CHRIS GUIRLINGER, Reno, Nev.
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of meditating and preparing for the day. Each day I pray the rosary, it gives me strength and energy. Plus, I pray for my family, the sick, the dead, peace on earth and most important, my unending love for God. Quite simply, it’s my way of exercising without going to a gym. RANDY DEMARTINI, assistant director, Salesian Boys & Girls Club, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish
Praying during workouts at the gym
As a child, growing up in the Salesian parish of Sts. Peter and Paul in North Beach, I learned to pray the rosary often by the good Salesian Sisters who taught us about its mysteries and gifts, its spiritual benefits and power. October was rosary month and we attended daily Mass, and certainly prayed the rosary daily as well. As an adult, I am afraid to say that I do not pray it often enough. Saturday mornings at the gym is one regular time for me. I can be working out physically and spiritually on a machine! I also like to pray it in the car while I am driving and in the quiet before morning Mass. But my favorite place and time is to pray the Sunday Glori-
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Praying on hiking trail in Marin
I enjoy saying the rosary on a hiking trail near the Corte Madera wetlands preserve. Nature is a great gift for contemplating the rosary’s mysteries. Often, I run into other people out walking their dogs. I keep a low profile but continue to humbly pray as they pass by. My strong sense is that quiet, public prayer is an effective witness to our faith. In the distance, the trail overlooks San Quentin prison. How many of us are imprisoned by work or our lower appetites?
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The rosary provides the grace to free us. But its liberating power goes well beyond that. Our Lady has said that the rosary is the instrument she will use to crush her adversary’s proud head. First, she will chain Satan and restrict his movement. Ultimately, she will completely bind him in its chains so her angels can cast the prince of this world into the abyss. The rosary is the chief weapon for the triumph of the immaculate heart of Mary. STEVEN PATRICK KASCH, St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae
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‘A gradual opening of my spiritual eyes’
I never had a draw toward praying the rosary because I never understood its purpose. It wasn’t until much later in life, when I started dating a man with a strong devotion to the rosary, that I was able to understand. It was like a gradual opening of my spiritual eyes – the more we prayed it together, and the more I started praying it on my own, deeper layers of revelations began to happen. By meditating on the different mysteries, the Blessed Mother has helped me to connect the experiences in my life to events in Jesus’ life so that I could relate to him in a much more personal way. ANNABELLE BENIN, Our Lady of Peace, Santa Clara
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Curia meeting way to give pope input from ‘entire church’ PETER FINNEY JR. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
NEW ORLEANS – Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, one of eight cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to advise him on possible reforms of the Roman Curia, said Sept. 18 he has received extensive feedback from cardinals and archbishops in the U.S. and Canada in preparation for an Oct. 1-3 meeting with the pope. In New Orleans to celebrate Mass and preach at the Louisiana Priests’ Convention, Cardinal O’Malley said he did not know what to expect as a result of the gathering in Rome. Cardinal O’Malley said the group of eight cardinals will meet first among themselves at the end of September and then with Pope Francis, before accompanying the pontiff to Assisi Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Asked what his expectations were for the cardinals’ deliberations, Cardinal O’Malley smiled and said: “I don’t know. Obviously, there’s been many surprises in the last few months, and I think there’ll be more of the same.” Cardinal O’Malley said he was “very surprised and honored” when Pope Francis asked him and the
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other cardinals in April to offer their feedback on the Curia. “It’s something new in the church, and it is, I think, an opportunity for the Holy Father to have more input from the entire church.” Pope Francis established the so-called G-8 in April, giving it a mandate to advise him in the “government of the universal church” and his reform of the Roman Curia, the church’s central administration at the Vatican. The Boston prelate said several of the cardinals on the panel had a preliminary meeting at World Youth Day in Brazil in July, and Cardinal Sean P. “we have been in correspondence O’Malley with each other and with the Holy Father.” He said he has met personally with the cardinals of the U.S. and written letters to the archbishops of the U.S. and Canada, various groups of religious and other individuals asking for suggestions or feedback. Analyzing the feedback, Cardinal O’Malley said “there were a lot of things that were similar. There was a certain pattern in the suggestions that came back. I think that will help to indicate the strength of interest in those areas.”
“I think for some time people have wanted to have more communication between the Holy See and the church in different parts of the world, the bishops’ conferences and the cardinals,” he continued. “The Holy Father, I think, has picked up on that and is trying to underscore the catholicity of the church.” Cardinal O’Malley said he has been amazed at the way in which Pope Francis seems to have captured the world’s imagination in the six months since his election. “I think he has been able to change the conversation about the church in a wonderful way in his very direct way of communicating his desire to be close to people,” Cardinal O’Malley said. “All of that has made a big impression. Of course, his emphasis on the social Gospel of the church has been a wonderful contribution to the church in the world today.” Cardinal O’Malley said he was struck by the pope’s first trip to Lampedusa, where he threw a wreath in the water to honor thousands of refugees who had died seeking a better life. “He talked about the danger of the ‘globalization of indifference,’” the cardinal said. “This is a man who is not indifferent to people’s sufferings and wants the church to be a church that reaches out.”
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WASHINGTON – A bill introduced in the U.S. House to keep the federal government from discriminating against churches, religious groups and businesses that uphold marriage as being between one man and one woman is “of fundamental importance,” two U.S. Catholic bishops said Sept. 20. A day earlier, Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, introduced the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, known as H.R. 3133. Dozens of lawmakers have co-sponsored the measure, including Reps. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Steve Scalise, R-La., Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., Diane Black, RTenn., Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., and Ann Wagner, R-Mo. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, called the measure significant, noting that individuals and organizations that uphold traditional marriage are increasingly being targeted for discrimination by state governments – this must not spread to the federal government. Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, also expressed strong support for the new bill. “In a growing climate of intolerance against individuals and organizations who believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, this act is an important step in preserving their religious liberties at the federal level,” he said. An example of discrimination at the state level cited in background materials released by the U.S. bishops’ conference pointed to a New Mexico Supreme Court ruling that said a husband and wife who own and operate a photography studio “must act against their religious beliefs” and take photographs of a same-sex commitment ceremony, “if they want to do business in the state.”
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WASHINGTON – Guidelines by Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services on ministering to same-sex couples in the military, U.S. Foreign Service and Veterans Affairs facilities highlights the need to “reiterate with clarity the teaching of the Catholic Church regarding homosexuality” but also points out that, as St. Paul reminds believers, “it must never be forgotten that the human condition occasions many failings.” In a Sept. 18 statement on release of the document “Renewed Fidelity in Favor of Evangelization,” Archbishop Broglio said Catholic priests or deacons cannot be forced to witness or bless the union of same-sex couples or assist at a marriage retreats for same-sex couples. He said a priest who is asked to counsel non-Catholic couples in a samesex relationship should direct the couple to a chaplain who is able to assist them. Catholic same-sex couples, he noted, will be “encouraged by the priest to strive to live by the teaching of the Gospel.” Chaplains and other priests may participate in retirements, changes of command and promotion ceremonies of someone in a same-sex relationship, as long as the chaplain is “not required to acknowledge or approve of a ‘spouse’ of the same gender.” A priest should not be “placed in a situation where his assistance at a funeral for a Catholic would give the impression that the church approves of same-sex ‘marital’ relationships,” he said. “Anyone who is known to be in a sinful relationship is excluded from ministries in the Catholic community” such as lectors, extraordinary ministers of communion, altar servers, catechists and Catholic council members, he said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Pope urges digital dialogue, not ‘spiritual brainwashing’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Helping the church get the Gospel message out to the digital world depends more on a loving passion for reaching out to others than being tech savvy or a verbal warrior, Pope Francis told Catholic communicators. “I believe that the goal is to understand how to enter into dialogue with the men and women of today in order to appreciate their desires, their doubts and their hopes,” he said in his talk Sept. 21. Despite the temptation that exists today, dialogue and bringing people to Christ have nothing to do with hounding others into submission in a kind of “theological brainwashing,” he said. The pope’s comments, which included a number of off-the-cuff remarks, came during a special audience with participants of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications’ plenary assembly meeting Sept. 19-21 at the Vatican. The discussions focused on the church and digital communication.
In a world of rapidly changing methods of communication, “the issues are not principally technological,” the pope said. He said it is important “to know how to dialogue and, with discernment, to use modern technologies and social networks in such a way as to reveal a presence that listens, converses and encourages.” Some people “sometimes feel let down by a Christianity that to them appears sterile and in difficulty as it tries to communicate the depth of
meaning that comes with the gift of faith,” the pope said. He emphasized that meeting Christ requires a personal encounter that cannot be forced or engineered. “We have a great temptation in the church today” to engage in “spiritual harassment, the manipulation of conscience, a theological brainwashing,” which, in the end, he said, only leads people to an encounter with Christ in name only and not with the living person of the Lord.
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Pope condemns abortion as product of ‘throwaway culture’ FRANCIS X. ROCCA
Quoting ‘Caritas in Veritate,’ the social encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis connected the protection of unborn life with the promotion of social justice.
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VATICAN CITY – In his strongest public words to date on the subject of abortion, Pope Francis affirmed the sacredness of unborn human life and linked its defense to the pursuit of social justice. “In all its phases and at every age, human life is always sacred and always of quality. And not as a matter of faith, but of reason and science!” the pope said Sept. 20 to a gathering of Catholic gynecologists. Pope Francis characterized abortion as a product of a “widespread mentality of profit, the ‘throwaway culture,’ which has today enslaved the hearts and minds of so many.” That mentality, he said, “calls for the elimination of human beings, above all if they are physically or socially weaker. Our response to that mentality is a decisive and unhesitating ‘yes’ to life.” The pope grouped together unborn children, the aged and the poor as among the most vulnerable people whom Christians are called especially to love. “In the fragile human being each one of us is invited to recognize the face of the Lord, who in his human flesh experienced the indifference and solitude to which we often condemn the poorest, whether in developing countries or in wealthy societies,” he said. “Every unborn child, though unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of the Lord,
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Pope Francis greets a child as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 11. Addressing a group of Catholic gynecologists Sept. 20, the pope condemned abortion as the product of a “throwaway culture.” who even before his birth, and then as soon as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world,” he said. “And every old person, even if infirm and at the end of his days, carries with him the face of Christ. They must not be thrown away!” Quoting ‘Caritas in Veritate’ the social encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis connected the protection of unborn life with the promotion of social justice. “Openness to life is at the center of true development,” he said. “If personal and social sensitiv-
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ity in welcoming a new life is lost, other forms of welcome useful to social life will dry up. Welcoming life tempers moral energies and makes people capable of helping each other.” Pope Francis told the physicians that they faced a “paradoxical situation” in their professional lives, because even as medical science discovers new cures for disease, the “health care professions are sometimes induced not to respect life itself.” The pope characterized this paradox as part of a more widespread “cultural disorientation” in which rising individualism parallels a growing disrespect for life. “Even as persons are accorded new rights, at times only presumed rights, life as the primary value and primordial right of every man is not always protected,” he said. The pope told the gynecologists that they had a responsibility to make known the “transcendent dimension, the imprint of God’s creative work, in human life from the first instant of conception. And this is a commitment of new evangelization that often requires going against the tide, paying a personal price. The Lord counts on you, too, to spread the Gospel of life.”
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‘Tattoos are sacred, mate’ ‘God told me’ to open tattoo shop, says body imprint artist and regular Massgoer MATTHEW BIDDLE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
PERTH, Australia – On entering Stuart Randell’s tattoo parlor in Fremantle, visitors are greeted with the seemingly unusual. A sticker on the back of the desk computer reads: “Jesus loves me with or without my tattoos.” An array of tattoo design books, many with religious images, sit on the front counter beside a large Bible. The radio playing in the background, transmits the sounds of Christian radio station Sonshine FM. Then there’s Randell himself, adorned with five earrings and tattoos covering both arms, with a friendly smile and a firm handshake. Welcome to Sacred Tattoos. Randell has worked as a tattoo artist for about 20 years, starting with a partner before establishing his own business in 2009. It was at that time that Randell, who was raised Catholic but later drifted away from the church, experienced a conversion and began to seek God again. It started when he began attending worship services at a local Christian
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Stuart Randell poses in front of his tattoo parlor in Fremantle, Western Australia, Sept. 3. church. But thanks largely to the warmth of Jesuit Father Stephen Astil of Immaculate Conception Parish in nearby East Fremantle, Stuart soon returned to the Catholic Church. “Father Stephen had just started there and he came across the street and introduced himself,” Randell recalled. “So then I started going back to the Catholic Church after many years.”
Four years later, Randell is an active parishioner at Immaculate Conception, taking on a regular role at Sunday Masses. “God’s given me a job on Sundays,” he said. “I collect the money, and it’s really humbling.” But Randell’s day job is his real passion. The tattoo of the Sacred Tattoos logo on the side of his head
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Behind pope’s summer home is land of milk and honey CAROL GLATZ
Like the bees, ‘the church, deep down, is a hive – though not one that stings, but gives honey.’
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Not a sound bounced off the smooth white walls and vaulted brick ceiling as a Vatican gardener hunched over a large, empty glass jar. Two other men peered over his shoulder, waiting for the finished product to ooze slowly from the stainless steel spout. As the thick, dark amber flow rippled into the container, Vincenzo Scaccioni, the head of agricultural operations at the pontifical villa of Castel Gandolfo, said: “This is a historic moment.” It was historic because it was the year’s first honey harvest for the new pope by the little known, but very busy, papal bees. And it was lucky because there had been a drastic dip in this year’s honey production. “Maybe we’ll get three or four kilo (seven to eight pounds), not even,” said the Vatican beekeeper Marco Tullio Cicero, as he peeked into the stainless steel centrifuge that spun the honey from its golden honeycomb. “As long as there’s a jar for him,” the pope, it will be enough, said Scaccioni. “It’s a limited edition,” he said with a smile. Scaccioni, who oversees 26 employees who work on the villa’s 74 acres of gardens and 62 acres of farmland, said the papal farm is ready for an overhaul. The first thing on his list is the bees, with an eye to expanding their presence and boosting their output. The papal farm has always had bees, he said, but in recent years, they had been somewhat neglected. Also, extreme weather patterns over the past few years haven’t helped, as intense heat and unseasonal rains have cut their honey production in half. More trouble in the mix was extensive swarming this spring. A swarm occurs when half of the hive’s occupants fly off to find a new, roomier home, resulting in smaller families with half the workforce and double the work. Starting from scratch, the bees spend the entire summer building new wax combs and storing reserves instead of just cranking out honey for the leader of the universal church.
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Head of farming at the pope’s summer home royal jelly,” all honeybee products that are considered to have nutritional, cosmetic or curative effects. Helping the bees by increasing the number of hives and planting more nectar-producing plants is part of Scaccioni’s larger vision for better supporting the papal farm. Bees are “very useful insects for agriculture,” he said, since flowers need to be pollinated for food to grow. Meat production, too, depends on hay and grains, which depend on pollination. The role bees play in feeding the world is one that commands “deep respect,” he said. In an era of intense, high-yield single crops dependent on petrochemical pesticides and fertilizers, Scaccioni said, people are beginning to understand the importance of a more holistic, organic approach. Also, “bees are a symbol of industriousness, unity and a community that gives fruit,” he said. “It is an example that the church, deep down, is a hive, though not one that stings, but gives honey.” Serving
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Papal beekeeper Marco Tullio Cicero shows off the honeycomb covered with worker bees making honey for the winter and Pope Francis at the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome, Sept. 12. While swarming hurt honey production this year, it also meant the bee yard doubled from eight hives to 16, positioning the papal bee business for future growth, Scaccioni said. He said, “In about two or three years, we want to start being able to offer pollen, propolis and
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Canadian bishops turn focus to people living on margins CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
SAINTE-ADELE, Quebec – Canada’s Catholic bishops have responded to Pope Francis’ call to minister to people on the margins of society while making efforts to ensure the Catholic Church is not marginalized. “In virtue of our Gospel mandate, the church willingly goes to people on the margins to affirm their dignity and foster their full inclusion in society,” Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, Alberta, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Sept. 23, the opening day of the bishops’ plenary assembly. “Yet as we go to the edge, many seek to keep us there, even push us over. “The trends we see are worrying, yes, but hardly
surprising,” Archbishop Smith told the more than 80 bishops from across Canada. In Quebec, citizens are debating the proposed Charter of Quebec Values, which would ban public sector workers from wearing any religious signs or attire except for discreet pieces of jewelry. It would, however, allow the crucifix to remain in the National Assembly of Quebec. “The political parties have good intentions to leave the crucifix in the national assembly as a vestige of Quebec’s cultural and historical patrimony,” Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau, Quebec, CCCB vice president, said in his homily during the opening Mass of the bishops’ meeting. For believers, he said, the crucifix serves as more than a reminder of the past, but a symbol of the life
devoted to loving others that Christians are called to live. Archbishop Durocher also quoted Pope Francis’ interview published Sept. 19 in Jesuit publications around the world and urged his fellow bishops to listen to the pontiff’s words: “The thing that the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness and proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle.” Archbishop Smith recalled the excitement in Rome when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio stepped onto the balcony after being elected pope, taking the name Francis. “From that moment, and consistently ever since, he has summoned all of us to a ministry and mission that places at the center of our concern all those whom society relegates to the peripheries,” he said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Mission Dolores: ‘Seedbed of faith’ for Californians past and present CHRISTINA M. GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
(PHOTO BY CORY L. WONG COURTESY OF MISSION DOLORES)
Parishioners in matching veils and scapulars prepare their offering during the commemorative Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on Sept. 7.
Tourists, neighbors and passersby at the intersection of Mission and 16th streets in San Francisco’s Mission District surveyed a colorful scene on Sept. 7 as the parish community celebrated the centennial of the laying of the Mission Dolores Basilica cornerstone. A band pumped out energetic tunes. The Knights of Columbus flanked the church steps with swords drawn. Banners flew. But though the day started with the ceremonial unveiling of a 2013 centennial marker next to the original 1913 cornerstone and ended with a gala fundraiser kicking off a five-year capital campaign, the day was clearly not about an architectural structure. “This is the house of God. This is not just a building,” said Cardinal William J. Levada in a commemorative morning prayer service alongside retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer. “I love the diorama (the illustrated corridor between the Mission and Basilica) – not a building in sight,” Cardinal Levada said. “Not one of us here today can remember a time when this wasn’t a city. It all began here. Mission Dolores has been a seedbed of faith for 237 years.” The basilica church adjoins the old mission church which was founded in 1776 under the direction of Franciscan Father Junipero Serra. It is the last in a long history of parish churches that have been built to supplement the capacity of the old mission from which San Francisco got its name. Misión San Francisco de Asis was named by Father Serra for St. Francis of Assisi, though it has become more commonly known as Mission Dolores after a nearby creek called Arroyo de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores, or Our Lady of Sorrows. It was the sixth of 21 California missions founded by Serra for the purpose of converting the native people to the Catholic faith and the Spanish way of life. The first baptism at Mission Dolores was in 1777. Baptisms peaked in 1794 at 180. As a whole, the California mission period saw the baptism of 53,600 adult Indians. For Robert and Kati Huerta of South San Francisco, parishioners for over 50 years, Mission Dolores is the center of the religious, civic and family life. “All four of our children were baptized, confirmed and educated here,” said Huerta. “Three were married here.” The Huertas are like many Mission Dolores parishioners who have kept close ties to the parish community, generation after generation.
DID YOU KNOW? FATHER SERRA: Under the direction of Father Junípero Serra, Mission Dolores was the sixth of the 21 Franciscan missions founded in early California. The mission, located in a territory then called Yerba Buena, is named after the founder of the Franciscan order, St. Francis of Assisi. OLDEST BUILDING: The mission church is the oldest intact building in modern San Francisco. Made by native Indians using adobe bricks, the structure survived the 1906 earthquake while the newer adjoining parish church was leveled.
‘On this day, we can’t help but think of the earliest missionaries who planted the first seeds of Christianity here and gave San Francisco its name.’
INDIAN MORTALITY: With little immune resistance to European disease, Indians died during the mission’s population peak from 1794-1795 at a rate of about 20 a day; approximately 5,000 Indians from Ohlone, Miwok and other tribes are believed to be buried in the Mission Dolores cemetery.
ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE “All six of my brothers and sisters went to school here and were married at Mission Dolores,” said Indiana Barrenchea at the luncheon following the commemorative Mass. In an evening Mass, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said the story of Mission Dolores holds lessons for the modern missionaries of the Catholic faith today. “There is a connection between discipleship and mission,” he said. “On this day, we can’t help but think of the earliest missionaries who planted the first seeds of Christianity and gave San Francisco its name. They paid a high price for their discipleship and we thank them. Let us take inspiration from our predecessors that the church may continue to grow, here and beyond.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
Events are free and open to the whole family.
BASILICA WOODWORK: Samuel Berger, a Romanian Jew, was the master woodworker behind the Stations of the Cross, the Seven Sorrows panels above the altar, the ornate pews and part of the ceiling for the basilica church. Berger’s woodwork is a prominent feature of 13 other Christian churches. MOVIE FAME: Hollywood director Alfred Hitchcock filmed a scene from his 1958 thriller “Vertigo” starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak at the old mission cemetery. Fans from around the world still flock to the mission for Hitchcock bobbleheads and other memorabilia at the mission store.
(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA M. GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Father Alturo L. Albano, pastor of Mission Dolores Parish, greets parishioners at a fundraising gala on Sept. 7 following a day of commemorative festivities marking the 100th anniversary of the laying of the basilica cornerstone in 1913. The gala kicked off a five-year capital campaign to upgrade and maintain the popular basilica.
Presidio Walk Saturday, Sept. 28, 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Four-and-a-half-mile hike from Mission Dolores to Rob Hill Campground in the Presidio. Listen to native “Chochecho” language, coyote stories and more around the campfire. Dinner, s’mores and shuttle back to the mission included.
POPE’S VISIT: The first papal visit to San Francisco in its history was made by Pope John Paul II in 1987. A highlight of the pontiff’s trip was a visit to Mission Dolores where the pope met with and blessed 62 patients suffering from AIDS and related diseases in the adjoining basilica.
Mission Day of the Dead Saturday, Nov. 2, 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Remember lost loved ones at an All Souls Mass and process to the mission cemetery where mission staff and volunteers will invite visitors to create traditional Day of the Dead art and sample cultural treats.
CEMETERY CITIZENS: Mission Dolores is the final resting place of early Californians such as first Mexican governor, Luis Antonio Arguello, the first commandant of the Presidio, Lt. Jose Joaquin Moraga and victims of the Committee of Vigilance. Visitors reportedly still expect to find the headstone of Carlotta Valdes of “Vertigo” fame here.
Guadalupe Festival Mass Dec. 12, 5 a.m. As part of Mexican tradition, thousands of rose petals are dropped from the cupola above the congregation during a traditional Mananitas Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mass is followed by a breakfast of Mexican tamales, hot chocolate and sweet rolls.
MISSION TOURS: Mission Dolores is one of the most visited missions in the system with a high of 40,000 visitors in 2010. During the height of the tour season, a trained volunteer corps can do up to eight tours a day, many of those for schoolchildren.
(PHOTO BY CORY L. WONG COURTESY OF MISSION DOLORES)
For more information, call (415) 621-8203 or visit www.missiondolores.org.
Mariachi entertained parishioners, many of whom brought along generations of family who had been baptized, confirmed, married and educated at Mission Dolores.
The first Catholic Mass is offered at the future site of Mission Dolores in 1776; the mission church that stands today was completed in 1791 and has been followed by a succession of structures leading up to the construction of the adjoining basilica church we see today. 1876: The mission adds a brick Gothic style church to accommodate the quickly expanding population. 1906: The great San Francisco earthquake destroys the parish church; the old mission church, constructed of adobe brick, survives. 1906-1912: A temporary Gothic style church is built quickly to replace the fallen parish church. 1913-1918: A new, reinforced parish church breaks ground in 1913 and is completed in time for Christmas Day Mass in 1918; Pope Pius XII later declares the new Mission Dolores church a basilica. TODAY: In 2013 Mission Dolores Basilica celebrates the 100th anniversary of the laying of its cornerstone.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Jean Valjean and immigration reform
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es Miserables, the musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel, has been running in London since 1985. Last Christmas, it was released as a movie that won three Academy Awards. By the time of the DVD release, the film had grossed more than $440 million worldwide. The music and the all-star cast (including Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman) had a lot to do with the movie’s success, but the story is the real attraction. Jean Valjean, the protagonist, spends 19 years in prison for stealing bread to feed his sister and JOHN GARVEY her seven children. Upon his release, he is issued a yellow feuille de route, a kind of domestic passport that identifies him as a former convict, making travel and employment difficult. Inevitably, he violates his parole. For this, Inspector Javert, the righteous embodiment of the law, pursues him throughout the novel. Living under an assumed name, Valjean becomes a successful entrepreneur and the mayor of his town. He adopts the orphaned child (Cosette) of one of his factory workers. But then Javert finds him
again. The rest of the novel is an account of the effort to bring Valjean to justice. Hugo meant for the reader to sympathize with Valjean. His petty crime, committed out of desperate need and generosity rather than cruelty or selfishness, cost him 19 years of his life, plus other years on the run from Javert. In the meantime, Valjean lived an exemplary life, did much good for his town and his employees, and took in Cosette. In the end, (spoiler alert) even Javert is overcome by Valjean’s goodness. My mind returns to this story when the issue of illegal immigration arises. The main argument against providing some form of relief for undocumented immigrants – such as a path to citizenship – is the problem of “rewarding” people who broke the law by entering the U.S. without permission or who stayed without permission. I’m not enough of a romantic to believe that every undocumented immigrant has the soul of Jean Valjean, but the crime they have committed (crossing the border without going through customs) is often motivated by a desire to feed a family. I don’t mean to minimize or excuse breaking the law. It’s wrong to jump the immigration queue, especially when so many must wait years for U.S. residency. It’s also wrong for undocumented immigrants to presume on another nation’s hospitality.
But we must be careful of adopting a resolute, unforgiving, uphold-the-law-at-all-costs approach, like the one taken by Javert. He spent his last days hellbent on ruining a model citizen who posed a threat to no one and in fact made his world a better place. As long as we’re going strictly by the book, it’s worth mentioning that federal law treats the act of illegal entry into the U.S. as a mere “administrative offense,” less serious than theft. It makes perfect sense to say that those who sneaked in should have to get in line behind legal applicants. Make them pay a fine and back taxes for the period of their illegal stay. And just to make sure they are the kind of people we want to allow to reside here permanently, make them wait 10 years for permanent residency, then three more years before they can apply for citizenship – nearly as long as Javert spent pursuing Valjean. These are the terms proposed in the bill the Senate passed in June. I don’t think anyone could fairly accuse us of coddling criminals if we adopted that kind of settlement. At the end of the day, we have to stop hounding people for something they did long ago, often for generous reasons. GARVEY is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington.
LETTERS
Did Japan atomic bombings meet just-war criteria? Christopher Stefanick (“The fruit of the bomb,” Sept. 20) ends his article by calling the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki “the greatest terrorist act imaginable, an egregious crime against humanity.” He even suggests the bombing was analogous to marching Japanese civilians off to incinerators. He says he was taught about justifications for the bombings which he now claims were not entirely true. With what he calls 20/20 hindsight, he states Japan was on the verge of total collapse, many Japanese were homeless and starving and Japan was becoming more open to surrender. While probably true, those statements do not justify his unequivocal condemnation of that bombing. In current journalistic fashion, Mr. Stefanick also says “the real scandal is that our government knew all that” and he cites memos “now public” on a CIA website. However, most documents on that website about the end of WWII and the bombing have been available for decades. Among many that Mr. Stefanick omits to mention is “The Final Months of the War with Japan” by Douglas MacKenzie. First, I submit that an action is justified or not when taken and not when judged with 20/20 hindsight 70 years later. Justifiable acts don’t become unjust over time, and vice versa. For example, the internment of Japanese citizens in 1942 was unjust from the outset. The discussion should focus upon
A case for the ‘prodigal’ father Regarding Father Nicholas’ Scripture reflection on the parable of the prodigal son (“The ‘prodigal mother,’ awaiting her lost children,” Sept. 13): I think there is a quite valid case for also calling the father in this story “prodigal.” When applied to the son, the word properly means “irresponsibly wasteful.” But it is not always so pejorative. Depending on the dictionary, the second or third meaning of “prodigal” is “giving something on a lavish scale,” or “yielding abundantly.” And so the “prodigal” father is indeed a model of our heavenly father in that he is lavish with love of both his wayward son and even his less-repentant older son: “Everything I have is yours” (Luke 15:31). The father’s love is truly abundant, in fact, unbounded. Paul Seliga San Bruno
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The pope’s hand-picked cardinal advisers are Rome-bound with broad input on ideas for reforming the Vatican Curia (See Page 6). If you were asked, what would you advise the pope? Respond to letters. csf@sfarchdiocese.org. what was known and believed and the circumstances at the time of the action. Father Gerald Coleman’s article (“Moral calculus of a military strike on Syria,” Sept. 20) discusses the criteria for a legitimate military strike: just cause, last resort, possibility of success and legitimate authority. I submit that the 1945 bombings met those criteria. Second, Japan may have been on the verge of collapse – but Japan was still fighting with the fanatical desperation seen at Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Even more irrational than the Nazi fight to the end in Berlin, the Japanese willingness to commit suicide was proven by its kamikazes and national slogan “One Hundred Million Will Die for the Emperor and the Nation.” Many Japanese may have been homeless and starving – but Japan still had
article – “some people like the pope, some don’t.” I am totally stunned. We’ve never had a chance like we do now, to bring people back to the church, and it’s because of Pope Francis. The pope of the people. A pope of love. Francis is charming and inspiring. Why no news on the pope? P.S. Hall San Francisco
Trust Jesus, not politicians Re Sue Hayes’ letter (“Slaves to our sorrows,” Sept. 13): I’m a sinner who believes in Jesus, not in political parties. In our church we have a picture of Jesus that says trust in him (not politicians). Joe Delorio Lincoln
Thirsting for news about the pope I waited, through the summer schedule, three weeks, for the next copy of the Catholic newspaper – thirsting for news about our wonderful, blessed new pope, Pope Francis. But when the paper came, there was only one little
over 12,000 aircraft and over 800,000 hard-core army veterans committed to defend the homeland. Moreover, these troops were dug in behind formidable coastal defenses. The Japanese goal was no longer to win the war but, rather, to shatter the invasion and demoralize the Americans into accepting a lessthan-unconditional, face-saving surrender. Japan may have been getting more open to surrender – but they had not and refused to do so. On July 26, Japan ignored the Potsdam Proclamation calling for Japan to surrender or face total destruction. The country was still controlled by extreme militarists. Ten days later the first bomb was dropped. Yet Japan still refused to surrender. To paraphrase Mr. Stefanick, “so much for the idea that negotiation was possible.” Third, wars are terrible. They need to be avoided and ended. That is what the United States did in August 1945. Oddly, Mr. Stefanick also inserts one paragraph saying that “The fruit of nuclear war is abortion.” Considering the title of his article, perhaps this was the point he was trying to demonstrate. It may be more apt to say that a society that supports abortion is also likely to support the proliferation of predator drone strikes in which the women and children who are collateral damage are characterized as combatants. Paul Finigan San Francisco
Change at St. Patrick’s Seminary The article in the Sept. 20 edition about changes in the leadership at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University was surprising – the replacement of Sulpician Father James McKearny by Bishop Thomas Daly as rector and president. The charism of the Society of Saint Sulpice is priestly formation. I am wondering why the change was made and why during the academic year, why a non-Sulpician was put in charge, and what is the vision of the future of the seminary? How will this move affect the future priests that minister to us in the parishes? An explanation of these points would strengthen our trust in the church. Stuart Mackenzie Palo Alto
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Where the 20th century happened
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his past August, while contemplating the beauties of the Ottawa River from the deck of my family’s cottage on Allumette Island, Father Raymond de Souza, the Canadian commentator and a former-student-become-friend-and-colleague, offered an interesting take on World Youth Day 2016, which will be held in Cracow. When you think about it, he said, “the 20th century happened in Cracow.” I think I know what Father de Souza meant. Cracow and its people suffered terribly under both Nazi and GEORGE WEIGEL communist occupation; the murders at Auschwitz took place a few dozen kilometers away; the city-without-God, Nowa Huta, was built outside Cracow, as payback for the city’s failure to vote correctly in a bogus communist election. Yet the bad news was not all the news there was, in Cracow. For in this same city, the divine answer to the unprecedented human wickedness of the 20th century was given, in the visions of the divine mercy that seized the religious imagination of an obscure Polish nun, Sister Faustina Kowalska. And it was from Cracow that there came a man who brought Sister Faustina’s message of divine mercy to the world. When he was a young adult, that man often walked past Sister Faustina’s convent in freezing winter weather, clad only in clogs and denims, to his work as a manual laborer. When he became a bishop two decades later, he took up Sister Faustina’s cause and helped clarify misunderstandings in Rome about the nun’s spiritual diary that were impeding the spread of the divine mercy devotion throughout the world. And finally, that man, now the bishop of Rome, celebrated the canonization Mass at which Sister Faustina Kowalska was proclaimed the first saint of the third millennium. The 20th century happened in Cracow. And the answer to the 20th century was given there, too. Prior to Faustina’s canonization, some grumbled that John Paul II was privileging a unique, Polish experience of Catholic piety by putting the
divine mercy at the center of the Great Jubilee of 2000. That didn’t strike me as very persuasive then. And in light of Father de Souza’s insightful observation about the singular way that Cracow embodies the 20th century, it doesn’t strike me as very persuasive now. John Paul II had a keen insight into the way in which the two totalitarianisms of the 20th century had shredded the moral and spiritual fabric of humanity. The Gulag and the Nazi death camps; the Ukrainian terror famine, the genocide of the Chinese “cultural revolution,” the Cambodian genocide—all of this, and more, had left 21stcentury humanity with a terrible burden of guilt. And to whom could those terrible crimes be confessed: those sins that had made an abattoir out of a century imagined, at its outset, to be one of unlimited human progress? How could the guilt piled up by of so many crimes be expiated? According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, another man who read history through Slavic cultural lenses, the unique horrors of the 20th century had taken place because (as the Russian novelist and chronicler put it in his 1983 Templeton Prize lecture) men and women had forgotten God: “The failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a determining factor in all the major crimes of this century.” French theologian Henri de Lubac made a similar point in “The Drama of Atheist Humanism”: The 20th century proved that men and women could indeed organize the world without God; but without God, they could only organize it against each other. John Paul II knew all of this. That is why he wanted to “universalize” the message of the divine mercy that had been given in Cracow as the answer to the anguish and despair caused by the horrors of the 20th century. The God of the Bible, a God of infinite mercy, was the one to whom the burden of the 20th century could be brought for expiation. Keeping all this in mind would help the planners of World Youth Day 2016 give that gathering a particular focus and resonance. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
Representing the presence of God on earth
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hey say joyfulness is a mark of sanctity. There are no grumpy saints. My husband can verify that by that standard, I have a ways to go toward sainthood. On the other hand, Sister Helen Prejean passes that criterion with flying colors. I had the honor of being with Sister Prejean for two and a half days recently as she went around rural Nebraska talking about her life experiences with justice, and in particular, with the death penalty. A remarkably energetic 74-year-old, the author EFFIE CALDAROLA of “Dead Man Walking” is on a mission. She knows that audiences relate well to her Southern storyteller manner, and she knows she brings a definite sense of moral authority into a room with her. People’s hearts are changed when they hear Helen Prejean talk. And she is comfortable knowing she is doing the work to which she is gifted and called. “I only have this one life to live,” she reminded us on one stretch of lonely highway. And live it with vigor she does. From the deeply personal experiences she shared with audiences, to the late-night glass of wine she shared with those of us sponsoring her, Sister Prejean presented an untiring “joie de vivre.” Nebraska is very close to repealing the death penalty. This year, the majority of the 49 senators in our one-house legislature favored repeal. But our opponents launched a filibuster that prevented a floor vote. Our hopes are that the next session, which convenes in January, will lead to success. Nebraskans are too good for this failed system, this method of killing to prove killing is wrong. They’re
better than that. We all are. It was with this in mind that we called Sister Prejean’s office. Normally, this enormously sought-after speaker’s schedule is booked a year in advance. We approached with trepidation in late summer, saying, “We really need you this fall. We’re very close to repeal.” To our delight, she found a way to weave two evenings of speaking into her nonstop travel. We are making a big rural push this fall, and she told us later that she’d never seen so many cornfields. After one presentation, a teacher at a community college asked Sister Prejean if she would speak to her class the next day before moving on to her next scheduled engagement. To my amazement, she agreed. So off we went, after Sister Prejean lunched with a legislator, to a community college class where teachers and administrators crowded in to see the woman who was portrayed by Susan Sarandon in a movie. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, our recent popes, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops all remind us that repeal is a pro-life Catholic issue. Every human life deserves dignity, no matter what sins we have committed, and we are all sinners before a merciful God. It’s clear in Nebraska that that message is resonating with Catholics. Sister Prejean said we didn’t deserve a death penalty here, and I know she’s right. She related that when inmate Elmo Patrick Sonnier, a man for whom she was a spiritual director on death row, was executed, she told him to keep his eyes on her because she would be the face of Christ for him. That reminded me of the words to a David Haas hymn: “We are the presence of God. That is our call.” It’s an audacious idea. We are called to be the presence of God, called to be his hands on this earth as St. Teresa of Avila said. And, as Sister Prejean amply illustrated, that presence is joyful.
The art of saying no
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omewhere along the line, as college-admission rates plunged and smartphones proliferated, “busy” became code for “important.” We got the sense that doing more means doing better. We fed into the flattery, the idea that a busy person is in demand – qualified, experienced, needed, loved. The person with the fullest calendar wins. Even our social lives got blocked up and assigned out, so now a group of three friends requires a dozen emails to uncover CHRISTINA an available date, which CAPPECCHI may be a month out. The response to this scheduling bottleneck is a kind of mystified satisfaction – “Would you look at us!” The root of the problem is a 21st-century phobia afflicting many talented, well-intentioned Catholics: the fear of saying no. This time of year is fraught with invitations, as councils and committees grind into gear after a summer hiatus, each with a major fundraiser in need of stronger marketing muscle. Be wary. While the inability to say no can have financial and physical consequences, from loss of income to lack of sleep, ultimately it is a spiritual issue. I was reminded of this during a conversation with Dr. Javier Diaz, a 39-year-old Jesuit brother who is preparing to become a priest while working as the only full-time family doctor at a Washington, D.C., clinic. With a warm smile and salt-andpepper hair, he wears a white lab coat over his Roman collar and speaks with a thick Costa Rican accent. “The inability to say no to proposals, to me, is the biggest challenge,” Brother Javier said. “I think in religious life it can be even worse because there are so many expectations for the religious.” Finding the conviction to say no, he told me, begins with humility. “In some ways it’s to forgive yourself about things you cannot cope with. Many times I have to say to my patients, ‘Look, I’m not God. I’m human.’” In replying to many worthy requests, Brother Javier has learned not to be hasty. “My first response is, ‘I have to check with my superior.’ And then we go to prayer before we commit ourselves. That’s when we ask, ‘What does God really want me to do right now? What is the priority?’ It’s a way to pause and say, ‘Now if I commit to this, I cannot do that.’” This, I think, is key – and it’s where I get into trouble. Rarely is an immediate answer needed. (If it is, that’s not your fault.) So take your time. Use a variation of Brother Javier’s line: “I have to check with my husband.” “I’d like to consult my spiritual director.” “I want to pray about it.” Or simply, “Let me sleep on it.” That reflects an underlying thoughtfulness, a respect for whatever cause or committee is seeking your time, a desire to do it justice. Just because a project appeals to you and taps into your skills doesn’t mean the timing is right. Maybe you’d be better equipped to help with next year’s fundraiser. By taking on something new, consider what is being compromised. Your prayer life? Your family life? Your sleep schedule? Your exercise routine? A “yes” to one commitment requires a “no” to another. Brother Javier relates to lay people whose big hearts lead to stuffed calendars. “Breathe deeply,” he advises. “In Jesuit spirituality, it’s important to count our blessings at the end of the day.” In doing so we rediscover the basics, the richness of love right at home, where no resumebuilding is needed, where you are always enough, where there is a sufficiency, a completeness, an abundance of good. CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached at www.ReadChristina.com.
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Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’ LUKE 16:19-31 AMOS 6:1A, 4-7 Thus says the Lord the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall! Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment. They drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph! Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and their wanton revelry shall be done away with. PSALM 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 Praise the Lord, my soul! Blessed he who keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free. Praise the Lord, my soul! The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord raises up those who were bowed down; the Lord loves the just. The Lord protects strangers. Praise the Lord, my soul! The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.
Praise the Lord, my soul! 1 TIMOTHY 6:11-16 But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen. LUKE 16:19-31 Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs
even used to come and lick his sores. When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.’ Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.’ He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this place of torment.’ But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’”
How is Lazarus poor, and why?
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overty is partly measured by annual income below the “average.” But the U.N. names other signs of poverty. If you lack education, are illiterate, don’t own property, can’t inherit or buy it, you likely belong to “the poor.” If you do field work, but get paid a pittance, get sick or die young because you can’t get health care, you likely belong to “the poor.” If you can’t move to escape conflict or violence and have no vote on public policy, it’s likely you are poor. If you have to drink polluted water or you can’t afford to buy fresh water, you are poor. If you are old, live alone and never had a high-paying SISTER ELOISE job, it’s you are now ROSENBLATT, RSM poor. If likely you belong to a minority because of race, ethnicity, language, age, disability, immigration status or health – it’s more likely you belong to “the poor.” And if you are a woman, not a man, it’s much
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POPE FRANCIS FACE WAYWARD CHURCH MEMBERS WITH MERCY
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said the church should approach its members with the face of a patient, merciful and understanding mother, who always forgives her erring children and never ceases to pray for them. The pope made his remarks Sept. 18 at his weekly public audience in St. Peter’s Square, where he elaborated on his previous week’s talk on the subject of the “church as mother.” “I like this image very much,” he said, “because I think it tells us not only how the church is, but also what sort of face the church, this church of ours, should have, more so every day.”
more likely you will be poor precisely because you were born a woman. Most of the world’s poor are women. What is intriguing about the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, a story told only by Luke, is that Lazarus is represented as a “poor man,” not a “poor woman.” Luke does tell stories of poor women, such as the widow of Naim, the widow banging on the judge’s door to get justice, and the woman who gives her “mite” to the temple. But Lazarus strikes me as the embodiment of the world’s poverty, as experienced by women. For example, Lazarus is alone, without family members to take care of him. He has no savings as cushion. He does not own property or a home. He seems unable to relocate to a place where he is likely to fare better. He doesn’t say anything that expresses his appeal. Does he lack education, social standing or “promise” that would inspire the rich man to help him? His sores are visible and he lacks medical care. The dogs that lick his wounds show more compassion than the rich man does. Why is Lazarus poor? Luke suggests that one cause is the unconsciousness of men who are well off; wed to their status and their physical comfort, who cannot empathize. The rich man seems to have a conversion when he finds himself in hell. But has he changed, really, from the self-centered
hedonist he was in life? He begs Abraham to send Lazarus to relieve his thirst. He regards Lazarus as a servant. Even Abraham should see that Lazarus provides the rich man relief. He can’t imagine a life, even in hell, without some form of superiority. Luke’s irony and humor continue. Now the rich man expresses concern for his brothers, that Abraham send Lazarus to warn the members of his immediate family, so they won’t end up in hell, a place of extreme physical discomfort. The rich man still regards Lazarus as a servant who should abandon his place of peace and deliver a message to his brothers so their comfort will be preserved. The primary concern of the rich man is protecting his immediate family interests, not relieving the suffering of the poor. It’s not a conversion of mind, or empathy for the poor of the world. The rich man’s preoccupation suggests one reason why the poor suffer. The deprivations – and reality of who the poor are – never enter the mind of the well-off and comfortable. Luke tells a story in which women are not even mentioned. Does this suggest the sort of communal unconsciousness which needs to be reformed? MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a theologian and attorney in private practice in San Jose.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Memorial of St. Jerome, priest and doctor of the church. Zec 8:1-8. PS 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23. Lk 9:46-50.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI 1182-1226 October 4
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1: Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the church. Zec 8:20-23. PS 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7. Lk 9:51-56.
Francis is the patron of animals, environmentalists, merchants and Catholic action, and also a patron of Italy.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2: Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels. Neh 2:1-8. PS 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6. Mt 18:1-5, 10.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4: Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, religious. Bar 1:15-22. PS 79:1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9. Lk 10:13-16.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3: Thursday of the Twentysixth Week in Ordinary Time. Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Lk 10:1-12.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5: Wednesday of the TwentySixth Week of Ordinary Time. St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin. Bar 4:5-12, 27-29. PS 69:33-35, 36-37. Lk 10:17-24.
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On not faking humility
t’s hard not to fake humility; yet, seemingly, we need to do just that. For instance, some of the sayings of Jesus on humility seem to raise more questions than they answer. For example, in the parable of taking seats at the table, Jesus suggests that we should not move toward the highest place, lest somebody more important comes along and we will be humiliated by being asked to move lower. Rather, he says, move toward the lowest place so that the host might come and ask us to move higher, and in this FATHER RON way our very humility will ROLHEISER be showcased before the other guests. Whoever humbles himself will be exalted, and whoever exalts himself will be humbled. On the surface, this would seem like little more than a strategy to get honored while all the while looking humble. The biblical invitation to not consider oneself better than others begs the question: Can someone who is living an essentially moral and generous life really believe that he or she is no better than someone who is uncaring, selfish, or even malicious in how he or she relates to God, others, and the world? Do we really believe that we are no better than others? Did Mother Teresa really believe in her heart that she was no better than anyone else? Could she really look at herself and say: “I’m just as great a sinner as there is on this planet?” Or, did she, and must we, in the end, feign humility because we don’t really believe that we’re no better than what’s worst on this planet? And so we can ask ourselves: Is our belief that we are no better than others, oftentimes, really only a pose, something we have to affirm about ourselves but which doesn’t stand the full test of honesty? Further, isn’t our humility, in the end, really not just a subtle strategy to be honored in a deeper, more respected way? Who wants to be seen as proud and full of himself ? And, can we ever be humble without then taking pride in that? Do we really believe that we are no better than anyone else? I’m partial to an insight John Shea once offered in trying to answer this. Looking at some diary entries by Bede Griffiths, where Griffiths openly confesses that he is no better than anyone else, Shea asks whether given the quality of Griffiths’ moral and spiritual life and given the depth and compassion he developed through years of prayer and discipline could Griffiths really have believed that he was no better than anyone else? Could he really not
Nobody gives himself life, sustains himself in life, or gives himself salvation. We are all equally inadequate and helpless here. compare himself with others? Is it really possible for any of us not to compare ourselves with others? Shea suggests that the key to those questions lies in looking closely at what Griffiths means when he asserts that he is no better than anyone else. When Griffiths makes those assertions he is not focused on his, or anyone else’s, moral actions. At the level of moral actions, it is humanly impossible not to make comparisons. We all make comparisons, even when we deny that we do so. But the roots of humility do not lie in where we stand, above or below, others in terms of our moral actions. When Griffiths sincerely sees himself and believes himself to be no better than anyone else in this world, he is looking rather at his core, at the depth of his heart, where he sees that he, like everyone else in this world, is vulnerable, alone, fearful, naked, self-centered, inadequate, helpless, contingent, just as much in need of God and others as absolutely every other person on this earth, and, thus, no better than anyone else. Nobody gives himself life, sustains himself in life, or gives himself salvation. We are all equally inadequate and helpless here. Our contingency levels us all, from Mother Teresa to Hitler, and the key to genuine humility lies in recognizing that. Indeed, the more morally and psychologically sensitive we are, the more likely we are to recognize our neediness and our solidarity in weakness with everyone else. When a Bede Griffiths makes the claim that he is no better than anyone else and that he stands in need of God’s mercy just as much as every sinner on earth, he is not faking humility, but he is not making moral comparisons either. He is speaking out of something deeper, namely, the fact that ultimately we are all equally helpless to give ourselves life. The invitation to humility is a clear and constant echo inside of Christian spirituality, from Jesus, through Bede Griffiths, through Mother Teresa, through every spiritual guide worthy of the name: Become like a little child. Take the lowest place. Never consider yourself better than anyone else. Know that you need God’s mercy as much as the greatest sinner on earth. However, we don’t come to this by comparing ourselves to others, but by recognizing how utterly naked we all stand outside of God’s mercy. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
Taking joy and spirituality to the Twitterverse
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fter years of writing books and columns, I’ve discovered a new way to communicate. I’ve taken to Twitter, which I’ve found to be yet another channel I can use to help others grow in joy and in spirit. The following is a compilation of my latest musings, some too long to tweet. But if you’re on Twitter and you’d like to see more, please follow me at @ johncatoir. – A cynic said that the argument for intelligent design doesn’t prove God’s existence. That’s like saying a home run doesn’t require a FATHER JOHN batter. CATOIR – If God is your co-pilot, you’re in the wrong seat. God is the invisible gust of wind beneath your sails. – Holding a happy baby brings natural joy to the soul. Holding on to the idea that God loves you right now brings spiritual joy. Both are gifts from God. – Science, boasting of its triumph over faith, is like the polar ice cap boasting about its dominance over the land, a boast as cold and loveless as hell itself. – Jesus tells us to love, pray and teach. If you are kind, you teach by example. If you are not kind, you fail in all three areas.
– God is in love with you. Why are you weeping? – Your greatest joy will come from fulfilling your purpose in life. The Holy Spirit leads us in directions we may not have chosen for ourselves. Be pliant. – Faith enables you to accept the mystery of God’s love. Without faith, your natural understanding will leave you in the dark. – Just because you feel weak and downcast doesn’t mean you really are. Feelings are not facts. Jesus has plenty of strength and joy to spare. Keep asking. – The joy of making Jesus the center of your life begins when you accept his commandment to follow the golden rule. Become a doer, not merely a hearer. – Thoughts come and go. Some are toxic. Protect your joyful spirit. Sift out needless worry. – Suicidal thoughts can become habitual. Don’t believe the feeling that you can’t go on. Feelings are not facts. With God’s help, all things are possible. – God has a job for you to do in this world that nobody else can do. Stay alive and be ready when the call comes. – Love leads to service; service leads to sacrifice; and sacrifice leads to the cross. At times love and suffering are one and the same. – Salvation is your highest goal. Mental health is the next highest. Accept Jesus as Lord, and love others even when it hurts. This will assure you of eternal life.
Mediums and church teaching; altar girls
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Recently I was watching a reality show that featured a “medium” who was communicating messages to a family from those who had already passed on. I have always been skeptical of this, but I was wondering what the church’s stance is on this subject. (Galloway, N.J.) Mediums are psychics who profess to channel spirits of the dead in order to secure information to pass on to the living. Some mediums use this “gift” on a daily basis and often charge a fee for doing so. The moral stance of the church is clear: The Catechism of the Catholic Church says in FATHER No. 2116: “All forms of KENNETH DOYLE divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to ‘unveil’ the future.” That same section of the catechism goes on to say that recourse to mediums contradicts “the honor, respect and loving fear that we owe to God alone.” The catechism references the Old Testament Book of Deuteronomy which warns (18:10-11): “Let there not be found among you anyone ... who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the dead.” Having said that, I would not dispute that the souls of the departed may appear to the living and reveal the unknown. Padre Pio – the 20thcentury Italian saint, mystic and stigmatic – is commonly believed to have been visited with apparitions from souls of the departed. The difference, it seems to me, has to do with from which side the channel is opened: Padre Pio never actively conjured up such visions, nor even desired them, while mediums claim to have the power to do just that at will. I have seen Pope Francis quoted as saying that women should play a greater role in the church (although not as priests) – especially in a church that views Mary as more important than the apostles; and our archdiocese recognizes that girls may be altar servers. So what could be the possible justification for our local pastor’s allowing only boys to serve at Mass? (He is a new pastor, and three weeks before he even arrived at our parish he published a notice on the front page of our parish bulletin about this being his policy.) (Missouri) In 1994, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued a circular letter to the world’s bishops clarifying that the current Code of Canon Law (published in 1983) allows for male and female altar servers. The letter, though, leaves it to each bishop to determine the practice in his diocese. A further clarification in 2001 notes that, though a bishop may decide to permit female servers, he may not require them – so a local pastor winds up setting the rule for his parish. In a few parishes in the U.S. (certainly the vast minority) a decision has been made to use only boys or men to serve Mass. In general, the few pastors who have chosen that option reason this way: Serving at the altar is often a contributing factor to a priestly vocation, and so as many boys as possible should be given that opportunity. Most priests, though, would instead say this: If women can be lectors and extraordinary ministers of holy Communion, how could you ever explain to a little girl that she can’t carry the wine and water to the altar?
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POPE: Church must proclaim ‘radiant’ Gospel, show mercy regarding sin FROM PAGE 1
disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‘security,’ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things,” Pope Francis said. “In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.” Pope Francis also spoke extensively about his approach to church governance. “Many think that changes and reforms can take place in a short time,” the pope said. “I believe that we always need time to lay the foundations for real, effective change. And this is the time of discernment. “Sometimes discernment instead urges us to do precisely what you had at first thought you would do later. And that is what happened to me in recent months,” he added, though without specifying the action in question. The pope described the evolution of his governing style, starting with his appointment at age 36 as superior of the Argentine province of the Jesuits.
‘Never been a right-winger’
“My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative,” Pope Francis said, adding, “I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.” Later, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, he adopted another approach, meeting often with his auxiliary bishops. “I believe that consultation is very important,” the pope said, noting his establishment as pope of the so-called Group of Eight advisory panel of cardinals. “I want to see that this is a real, not ceremonial consultation.”
WHO IS JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO? Papal interviewer Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro said he asked Pope Francis that question “point-blank,” according to the full interview published in America magazine. The pope “stares at me in silence” before answering, “I am a sinner. This is the most accurate Pope Francis definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”
With respect to the Vatican bureaucracy, whose reform he has made a clear priority of his 6-month old pontificate, Pope Francis pointed to the need to devolve more authority to local churches. Some Vatican offices “run the risk of becoming institutions of censorship,” he said. “It is amazing to see the denunciations for lack of orthodoxy that come to Rome. I think the cases should be investigated by the local bishops’ conferences, which can get valuable assistance from Rome. These cases, in fact, are much better dealt with locally. The Roman congregations are mediators; they are not middlemen or managers.”
Clerics, laity share authority
In matters of belief rather than governance, Pope Francis said that the pope and bishops share authority with the laity. “The church is the people of God on the journey through history,” he said. “Thinking with the
church, therefore, is my way of being a part of this people. And all the faithful, considered as a whole, are infallible in matters of belief.” The pope quickly added that “we must be very careful not to think that this ‘infallibilitas’ of all the faithful I am talking about in the light of Vatican II is a form of populism. No; it is the experience of ‘holy mother the hierarchical church,’ as St. Ignatius called it, the church as the people of God, pastors and people together.”
More visible role for women
Among the other topics the pope addressed in the interview was the challenge of finding a more visible role for women in a church with an all-male priesthood. “I am wary of a solution that can be reduced to a kind of ‘female machismo,’ because a woman has a different makeup than a man,” he said. “The church cannot be herself without the woman and her role. The woman is essential for the church. Mary, a woman, is more important than the bishops. I say this because we must not confuse the function with the dignity.” Pope Francis, whose simple way of celebrating Mass has attracted criticism from traditionalist Catholics, also took up the controversial subject of liturgy. Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 decision to lift most restrictions on celebrating the Tridentine Mass “was prudent and motivated by the desire to help people who have this sensitivity,” Pope Francis said. “What is worrying, though, is the risk of the ideologization of the (old Mass), it’s exploitation.” The pope also said that the liturgical reform that followed in the wake of the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council is “absolutely irreversible.”
HIGH SCHOOLS: Leadership adapts to changing landscape FROM PAGE 1
job,” Conti said, “is to ensure the catholicity of our school and our Marianist identity is reflected on campus. We are fortunate to have a strong community of lay men and women committed to this culture as well.” The Marianist priests and brothers had been part of Riordan since its earliest beginnings until just a few years ago. Both Conti and Anastasio have long histories with Riordan: Conti as a board member and chairman and school parent and Anastasio as a Riordan alumnus and faculty member for more than two decades. That said, Conti admits the two are new to the president and principal jobs. “This has been a great time to sit down and think about what really serves the needs of our students and our school and adjust accordingly,” Conti said. “We are both flexible, with a deep desire to understand the issues that are relevant to our Riordan community.” Conti is grateful for Anastasio’s having “seen it all in his years at Riordan” and his “great approachable style” with faculty, parents and students. Anastasio is also confident in the pairing of the two educators: “I appreciate Joe’s focus at the strategic planning level to ensure the health of the school today and down the road,” he said. “Our jobs are distinct, but we collaborate often on major school decisions. At the same time, we let each other focus on what the other does best. We both have the same goal of providing the finest Marianist education for our students.” The two men are both parents of twins. “We talk all the time about how being parents influences our day-to-day work and line of thinking, and helps us relate to the Riordan family,” they said together. “Also, as parents of twins, we know that two things that look similar might actually be very different, which helps us analyze situations and ideas from different perspectives.” In 1978, Father Stephen H. Howell and Michael Peterson were named to serve in the first setting of the president/principal model in schools sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco at Junipero Serra High School. “We did this and successfully worked together for 24 years,” Father Howell told Catholic San Francisco. “If the Catholic nature and identity of our schools and educational programs are allowed
From left are Archbishop Riordan High School principal Vittorio Anastasio and school president Joseph Conti.
Clockwise from left are Mercy, San Francisco administrators Linda Ambrosini, Dotty McCrea, Rita Cutarelli, Julie Ortiz.
to diminish or disappear, we are not fulfilling the purpose for which we were established.” Guidelines for the roles said the president was to be specifically concerned with maintaining the catholicity of the school. How the two leadership posts were to cooperate in other areas was left up to the two pioneers “to establish a model that worked for them and served the needs of the school,” Father Howell said. “Ideally, the gifts and talents of the president and the principal should complement each other,” he explained. He pointed out, too, that in a Catholic school, the president and the principal are responsible for a great deal more than leadership in a public school, especially in the areas of fundraising, finance, upkeep and enhancement.
Mercy schools choose leadership structures based in what they believe best serves their school and enables them to network and share resources but not impose programs or structures that do not suit the particular school and its unique context, Mercy said. The Mercy structure includes principal, Dotty McCrea; Linda Ambrosini, associate principal for academics; Julie Ortiz, dean of students; and Cutarelli. “Any good school will constantly examine, evaluate, and reflect upon its organizational structure,” said Cutarelli. “This is what makes education – and Mercy education in particular – such a dynamic and wonderful enterprise.” With different models, leadership styles and personalities of schools, all signs point to collaboration as the key to success. “I also think it is extremely important that the president and principal be able to get along and know the boundaries of each other’s position,” said Peterson. “There has to be a mutual respect for each person and their respective responsibilities.” Conti, of Riordan, describes the approach as “two gears” that “must be in sync to function effectively and actually move someplace.”
Mercy, San Francisco: Collaborative leadership
Mercy High School, San Francisco operates with a four-person leadership team that equally balances the needs of an all-female student body and reflects the values of the sponsoring organization, the Sisters of Mercy. “We believe our model is horizontal, collaborative, and relational – values which we see exemplified in the leadership structures of the Sisters of Mercy and rooted in Gospel values,” said Rita Cutarelli, associate principal for mission and campus life. “This model is integrated throughout all that we do.”
This story was compiled by Tom Burke with contributions from Victoria Terheyden, Riordan; and Rita Cutarelli, Mercy, San Francisco.
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OBITUARIES SACRED HEART SISTER JOAN MCKENNA – LAWYER TAUGHT AT USF
office for three years. She taught world religions, social justice and European history at USF for 17 years. She retired to the Oakwood community in 2011. “Her love for students and teaching made her popular with both students and administration, and she often served as peacemaker between the two,” the Sacred Heart Sisters said, noting she was “most at home” in the classroom. “Hers has been a life of learning and helping others to learn, in a tradition of values-based education that she treasures,” the sisters said. Sister Joan is survived by a sister, Kathleen P. McKenna. Memorial contributions may be made to Oakwood Retirement Center, 140 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton 94027, or the Sister Joan McKenna Scholarship Fund, c/o Sacred Heart Schools, 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton.
Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Joan McKenna died Sept. 12 at Oakwood, the Society of the Sacred Heart’s elder care center in Atherton. A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 21 at Oakwood, 140 Valparaiso Ave. Burial was in the Sacred Sister Joan Heart Cemetery at McKenna, RSCJ Oakwood. Sister Joan was 81 years old and a religious for 50 years. Born in San Francisco, Sister Joan is a graduate of Convent of the Sacred Heart School and San Francisco College for Women, later teaching at both schools. She also held a law degree from the University of San Francisco and served in the San Francisco city attorney’s
SACRED HEART SISTER JOANNE REYNOLDS – LONGTIME TEACHER
Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Joanne Reynolds died September 14, at Oakwood, the community’s retirement facility in Atherton. Sister Joanne was 87 years old and a religious for 65 years. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Oct. 5 at Sister Joanne 10 a.m. at Oakwood Reynolds, RSCJ with interment in the sisters’ cemetery there. The educator taught religion, Latin, and French at Sacred Heart schools in Menlo Park and San Francisco. She also taught at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco. “In all places, she was known
for her quiet prayerfulness,” the community said. Sister Joanne was a founding member of Oakwood. From 197181 she served as assistant director, treasurer and director of services. She also served as a library assistant at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park and taught English to Mexican sisters serving at the seminary. Sister Joanne held undergraduate and graduate degrees in languages and history as well as a permanent teaching certification. Sister Joanne is survived by a brother, Clarke E. Reynolds of Fairfield antd sisters, Annette Janda of Colorado and Yvonne Reynolds of Oregon. Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO. 63108.
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Artist, 88, graces Mercy Center stairways with mission murals LIZ DOSSA CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Burlingame artist Marie Wagner has spent months in her printed smock and tennis shoes, paint in hand with a small brush poised to address a stairway wall with color. Thanks to her, murals of the California missions now enliven the echoing stairways that connect the four floors of Mercy Center. She’s slightly bent, an 88-year-old grandmother, but she’s still painting. “I love to have a brush in my hand,� she says. One day last spring, Sister Suzanne Toolan and Catherine Wilkinson, who have placed art throughout Mercy Center, were discussing a way to beautify the boxy stairways. In the 1960s the Mercy novices climbed between floors in their flowing habits, and today visitors are using the stairs more frequently in an effort to be “green.� Marie, overhearing the two, said in a small voice, “There are my missions.� They pounced with, “Yes! Wonderful!� before Marie could change her mind. She had done watercolor
cards of all 21 missions, full of sunny charm. How hard could it be to recreate the small note cards as murals? Not that easy. She and Catherine, who became her project manager, began the project in April, a painstaking process of sketching the enlarged buildings onto brown paper, taping the sketches onto the concrete walls, and punching holes to trace the design. Marie discovered that house paint was the best medium. “But house paint is not transparent like water color,� she said. “I had to find out how to get the same effect. I stumbled along. The easy part was opening a can and painting the sky a flat blue with no clouds. They all have the same sky.� A cradle Catholic, Marie had attended Shared Scripture classes which have met once a week at Mercy Center for 31 years. Her art, squeezed into her life when she was a wife and mother of four children, now fills her days. Her own mother never encouraged such an impractical pastime. A largely self-taught artist who took classes at the College of San Mateo
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Largely self-taught artist Marie Wagner painted murals of the California missions in the stairways at Mercy Center, Burlingame. “I love to have a brush in my hand,� she says. and the Burlingame Recreation Department, Marie found her way to painting simply because she loved to do it. She painted pictures of people’s homes. Giving cards of her water colors as gifts became a delightful habit. Ten years ago, the Cline Winery in Sonoma found her portrait of Mission Dolores a perfect complement to their California missions exhibit for their gift store. They asked her to draw all 21 of them and she complied. For months Marie came to Mercy Center several days a week to work with Catherine, sketching and painting the simple adobe beauty of the buildings, all now restored. Palm trees, cypresses, and brown hills fill the backgrounds of the sunlit scenes – quintessential California. Selfeffacing, Marie voices amazement at the success of her work and perhaps at her own energy. “I didn’t seek out these things. They fell on me! They happen in spite of me! I was just an instrument. I was given the idea.�
Her subjects may be architecturally simple, but their stories are complex. Some of the missions’ history is undeniably dark. What took place there? Were the Indians better off to have been brought under the control of the mission fathers? Or were they slaves who suffered from the harsh discipline of a frontier mentality faith? In a pamphlet she has written for retreatants to accompany their stair climbing, Sister Suzanne Toolan suggests, “Let us come simply to each site, admire what was built, and reverence the men and women who made these little cities that became so important in California history.� She suggests thinking about the saints for whom the missions are named. “I think my art does impact my faith,� reflects Marie. “With more time and more freedom to do what you like to do, it opens your soul. What am I doing here is what am I supposed to be doing.�
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SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 ANNIVERSARY MASS: St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Ave. at El Camino Real, San Mateo. 10:30 a.m. with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant. A parish picnic follows at noon in San Mateo’s Central Park. (650) 343-1373, ext. 139. DAILY TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. In Half Moon Bay EWTN airs on Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in southern San Mateo County. WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. (415) 614-5643, janschachern@aol.com.
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2 SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco. Groups are part of the separated and divorced Catholic ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.
FRIDAY, OCT. 4 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.
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MONDAY, SEPT. 30 GOLF: Capuchin Golf Tournament at Green Hills Country Club, 500 Ludeman Lane, Millbrae, registration 10 a.m., tee-off for 18-hole scramble, noon. Tickets at $300 include greens fee, cart, lunch, beverages all day, tee prizes, cocktails and dinner at the club. Dinner tickets $50. Proceeds benefit the Capuchin Franciscans Charities
ST. BRIGID 125TH: St. Brigid School, San Francisco, celebrates its 125th anniversary with food, entertainment and a look at the school’s marvelous history, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. at St. Brigid School, 2250 Franklin St., San Francisco. Tickets for food and beverage purchases are available at the door. Visit www.saintbrigidsf.org. Call the school, (415) 673-4523.
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BENEFIT CONCERT: “When You Believe,” a musical production of Mercy High School, San Francisco and Mercy High School, Burlingame honoring Mercy Sisters Marguerite Buchanan and Suzanne Toolan benefiting Catherine’s Center, 4 p.m., Mercy High School, San Francisco Theatre, 3250 19th Ave., San Francisco. Limited parking is available on campus with additional parking on upper Junipero Serra. Tickets sold at door. Suggested donation $10 for adults/ $5 for children. Refreshments will be provided. Teresa Abney, (415) 334-7941 or tabney@mercyhs.org.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 11
SUNDAY, OCT. 20
3-DAY FESTIVAL: “Surfin’ Safari,” St Gregory Church, 2715 Hacienda, San Mateo, Oct 11, 12, 13. Carnival rides, games, family bingo, food and entertainment for the whole family, Saturday night dinner of surf ‘n turf from 5-7 p.m. and Sunday pancake breakfast, 8-10:30 a.m. Friday 6-10 p.m., Saturday 2-10 p.m., Sunday 1-6 p.m. (650) 345-8506. AFRICAN FAITH: “Blessed John Paul II Speaks to Africa” with Jesuit Father Stephen Nduati, 6:30 p.m., Pauline Books & Media, Redwood City. Discussion and social will follow presentation. (415) 847-3662. VOCATIONS RETREAT: Our Lady of New Clairvaux Trappist-Cistercian, Vina, invite single Catholic men age 35 and under to discern God’s further call for their lives to a “Life Discernment Weekend” Oct. 11-13. Share in the monastic life for the weekend, pray the Liturgy of the Hours in the abbey church and share a meal with the monks. Conferences on how to listen; theology of vocation; monastic prayer and monks sharing their experience included. Rooms and meals provided in monastery guesthouse. Abbey covers costs. www.newclairvaux.org; Brother Christopher, (530) 839-2161.
SATURDAY, OCT. 12 ROSARY RALLY: Rosary rally with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone among prayer leaders, noon-2 p.m., U.N. Plaza, Seventh and Market streets, San Francisco. Celebration includes Marian hymns, recitation of the rosary and Benediction. Everyone is invited. (415) 480-9725; info@rosaryrallysf.com; www.rosaryrallysf.com. CATHOLIC NURSES: San Francisco Council of the National Association of Catholic Nurses, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Alma Via, One Thomas More Way, San Francisco. Find out about the organization, meet other Catholic nurses, and find encouragement and spiritual support for your nursing practice. Retired nurses are also welcome. “Care for the Person with
VICENTIAN FAMILY MASS: The St. Vincent de Paul Society will gather with Vincentian family members at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough Street at Geary Archbishop Boulevard, San Salvatore J. Francisco to celCordileone ebrate the 200th anniversary of founder Blessed Frederic Ozanam. The gathering, beginning at 2:30 p.m., features a presentation of the work of the society in the archdiocese and a discussion of how life in the times of “Les Miserables” relates to today’s world. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of a commemorative Mass. A meal in Patron’s Hall follows. For further information, contact the SVDP website for your county. San Francisco: www. svdp-sf.org; San Mateo: www. svdpsanmateoco.org; Marin: www. vinnies.org.
FRIDAY, OCT. 25 RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests, 11:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco: Proceeds benefit Priests Retirement Fund of the Archdiocese of
Parkinson’s Disease” will be presented with one CEU available. Mary Ann Haeuser, (415) 454-0979; haeuser@ comcast.net.
FRIDAY, OCT. 18 3-DAY FESTIVAL: “County Fair and Fall Festival” Oct. 18, 19, 20, St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. Carnival rides, games, food, drink, chili
San Francisco. Call (415) 6145580, email development@ sfarchdiocese. org for information regarding tickets and sponsorship opportunities. An honored guest is Msgr. John Msgr. John Foudy Foudy shown here as a young priest. Msgr. Foudy is retired pastor St. Anne of the Sunset Church and will be 100 years old Oct. 1. He was ordained in 1940.
FRIDAY, NOV. 1 ASSISI CONCERTS: Franciscan Friar Alessandro, the “Voice of Assisi,” performs Nov. 1, 2 at the National Shrine of St. Francis, Columbus and Vallejo, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. Friar Alessandro Ticket information available at www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com; (415) 434-8700; email event@knightsofsaintfrancis.com. This will be the singing friar’s only Bay Area appearance. Proceeds benefit care of the Porziuncola Nuova which adjoins the shrine church. The evenings also commemorate the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Knights of St. Francis of Assisi.
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SATURDAY, OCT. 19 CASINO TRIP: Thunder Valley & Feather Falls Casinos, bus departs St. Veronica Parish parking lot 6:45 a.m. and returns to St. Veronica at approximately at 9 p.m. Breakfast provided. Bingo on the bus. $40. Josefina Pablo, (650) 270-8320, (650) 952-5787 by Oct. 1. Proceeds benefit St. Veronica capital campaign. www.stveronicassf.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 20 ICF POLENTA DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173 polenta, sausage and chicken dinner at Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No-host bar at 4 p.m., dinner at 5 p.m., wine for purchase with dinner, raffle prizes. Adults $20, children $5 (14 and under). Bea, (650) 344-5276 to RSVP by Oct. 16.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23 RED MASS: Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Washington Square, San Francisco, 5 p.m., with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant. The Red Mass is celebrated annually in honor of judges, attorneys, law-school professors and students and government officials. It is a tradition within the legal community dating back to the 13th century. Banquet follows at 7. San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St. William H. McInerney Sr., McInerney & Dillon, will be honored with the St. Thomas More Award. Red Mass and banquet are open to the public with dinner tickets at $90 per person, $45 for clergy and students, Matt Graham, (510) 834-6600, mgraham@wendel.com.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August
HOLY CROSS, COLMA Paul D. Aiello Beatriz Alfonson Desmond Allen Manuel Joseph Alonso Genaro Valdovinos Amezcua Louise Catherine Angin Nicholas Antonoff Esther Araujo Joanne L. Arevalo Donald Arthur Barnett Bill Bidleman Dominic Bregante Nora Bulatao Gail Gabriel Cacho Edgar A. Callo Anna M. Carpenter Antoinette Castillo Hilda Cordero Carmella G. Crawford Susan Charboneau Cunningham Norma Lee Daleo Gary Diaz Margaret A. Downs Zita Welch Escobosa Mary S. Estamo Hanna M. Felder Verna Ferrera Ma’ata Analasini Fetu’u Mary Ann Figone Mary Flores Ruben Fuentes Isaac Josiah Garcia
Rosalpina Gonzalez Gertrudis Gonzalez Modesta Gose Betty B. Guess Frank Anthony Gutierrez Arthur Gwilliam Mary E. Helfrich Rebecca A. Hernando Blanche M. Horn Teresita Keers Claire Ruth Kendall LaVerne Rita Kenny Diana T. Lipinski Klimowski Rev. James Kyrie, O.F.M Katherine Lampert Priscilla R. Lectura Waldorpher C. Lezama Rosalind G. Lizarraga Elena M. Lugue Josephine Macchi Antonina C. Madamba Generosa P. Magayanes Allen Magdangal Kevin John Maguire Gil S. Manalo Adele Marjorie Marasco Gloria Macale Mariano John Stuart Marshall John L. Masino Pedro Mercado Kathleen Mikroulis Rennell Miller Giles Miller, M.D. Phyllis Mlinarich Carmen Mora Verda M. Moreno Patricia A. Mortensen
Nancie E. Mullen Cornelius “Con” Murphy Baby Naylon John P. Neary Eugene Needham John Francis Newman Barrett Newsom John F. O’Brien Bonifacia F. Odena Bernadette Oliva Laura Margarita Olmedo Alfred Olmos Frank T. Osas Alberto Parra Teresa Passanisi Gary Allen Patzelt Colleen V. Payne Elisabetta Petruzzella Louis J. Poletti Mary I. Quigley Peter Raymond Ramirez Lillian Reynolds Elvin Raul Ramos Rivas Rubin Rodriguez Gloria M. Romano Sara C. Romo Frances Marie Ryner Pedro Sanchez Jerome Santos Donald J. Schaefer Kirsten M. Schulz Carol A. Schumacker Louis F. Sciarrillo, M.D. Jennie V. Sciutto Elizabeth Serujo Cora M. Severson Betty (King) Shaffer
Nina M. Siggins Alex Simenc Loretta Bernie Smith Vincent P. Souza William D. Spencer Lawrence Taormina Teresa F. Tracy Julianne K. West Carmen Xuereb Lolita Brito Zaide
MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Antonio Teixeira Batista Theodore C. Bernard, III Helen Audrey Costello Rose M. Curtis Agnes Whalen De Patta John F. Doherty Helen S. Dufficy Conrad Henry Goerl Elmo Vincent Maggiora Norma Jane (Jay) Samuelson Helen Sullivan
HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK James Anthony Brennan Petra G. Gutierrez John J. Kok Bernardina Papazian Ana Maria Valencia
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, October 5, 2013 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11am |
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A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.