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Archbishop ordains two priests Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone stands with newly ordained Father Benjamin J. Rosado and Father Ian B. Quito at St. Pius Church, Redwood City, after their ordination Aug.1, 2020. Story on Page 4.
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco have written a joint letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to support a House measure in solidarity with persecuted Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt. The prelates also issued a joint statement mourning the recent conversion of the historic Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, from a museum into a mosque, saying “this egregious decision continues to be lamented throughout the world.” In their July 31 letter to Pelosi, the church leaders requested her help in bringing House Resolution 49 to the House floor for a vote. “The resolution is written to support religious freedom for the Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt, who continue to face terrorism, persecution, and SEE ARCHBISHOP, PAGE 25
CSF reader poll: Catholic practice in pandemic CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
A majority of local Catholics choose to watch livestreamed Masses from home while they wait out the enduring coronavirus pandemic and hope of a full return to parish life, according to a recent reader survey by Catholic San Francisco. A substantial number also said their faith lives have been enriched in isolation as they spend more time in personal and family prayer, reflection and study. Catholic San Francisco sent out a three-question email survey to the nearly 5,000 subscribers of its email newsletter July 17. The open-ended questions asked respondents to describe their current Mass attendance, what they miss the most about their pre-pandemic faith lives and whether their faith has grown stronger (or weaker) in quarantine. Almost 400 people responded to the survey. Local Catholics are for the most part continuing to choose Masses livestreamed by their parish either by
in surprising ways, according to the survey, which also revealed a near-universal longing for the Eucharist and other sacraments. “What I miss is simple,” said one respondent, a parishioner identified only as a member of St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco. “Communion, that’s it.” “I feel a tremendous void in my life when I’m unable to receive forgiveness and our Lord’s body and blood,” said another. Many missed the physical, sensory and social elements of communal worship including the church building itself, holy water, singing, and joining of hands in prayer and greeting. Being physically within a community of like-minded fellow worshippers was listed repeatedly. “There’s a difference between watching and participating,” was how one respondent put it. “I miss the Eucharist, the incense, the music and the people,” CARMINE HOYE, ST. RAPHAEL PARISH, SAN RAFAEL summed up another. A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. The anonymous survey sought a general, qualitative choice out of continuing caution, or because that is you have received a flag honoring your loved one's military service and would like to donate it their only Ifchoice. to the cemetery to be flown as part of an “Avenue of Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' Day, SEE CSF READER SURVEY, PAGE 6 These virtual liturgies sustained some spiritually
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NEED TO KNOW HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION 2021: The following solemnities will be observed as Holy Days of Obligation in 2021. Jan. 1: Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God; Dec. 8: Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Dec. 25: Nativity of the Lord (Christmas); the Ascension of the Lord is observed on Sunday, May 16, 2021, for our Metropolitan Province as approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and confirmed by the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops; the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15, is on a Sunday, with the Mass for the solemnity is celebrated on that day in place of the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Solemnity of All Saints, Nov. 1, is on a Monday. According to the 1992 general decree of the USCCB, the precept to attend Mass is dispensed when this solemnity falls on a Saturday or a Monday. All the faithful are encouraged to attend Mass on this day but are not obliged. ARCHBISHOP’S PODCAST: The latest “At Your Word,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s online podcast, is now available at https://archdiocesesf. libsyn.com/at-your-word-episode-2-072920. In this episode Archbishop Cordileone talks about the continuation of church closures; how being wellinformed Catholics will help us be evangelistic even during the pandemic; the ordination of two new priests for the archdiocese; and a large incoming seminary class. The archbishop also reminds the faithful to wear masks.
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Marin County residents wait in a line that stretched around the block at Canal Alliance in San Rafael for free COVID-19 testing on July 31. COVID-19 is disproportionately infecting Marin’s Hispanic and Latino residents, many of whom live in multi-family or multi-generational households because of the high cost of housing.
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Matt Willis, the county’s public health director, said in a June video message. Hispanic and Latino residents are 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than other county residents, Willis said. “As a white doctor, my best understanding of the experience of structural racism is through the lives of my patients,” he said. Willis said the virus is “taking advantage of” such conditions as crowded households, lack of sick pay and health insurance for those in jobs designated essential, lack of access to free testing and quick results, and inability to quarantine after testing positive. “Due to rent and housing prices in Marin, people of low-income share housing to pool income for rent,” Willis said. “Living in crowded conditions increases transmission within the household and across generations.” People with low incomes also need to work every day to make ends meet and are less likely to be able to work from home than salaried workers.
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Model service on Mary, archbishop urges deacons NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Mary’s Magnificat highlights the revolutionary changes that Christianity brings into the world and outlines the path deacons should follow, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said Aug. 15 during Mass for the ordination of nine men to the permanent diaconate. “Those whom God exalts are the lowly: ‘He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly.’ Is this not the outstanding mark of the office of deacon, a public servant bound by promises to the church and to the bishop who puts the needs of others before himself ?” The ordination Mass, held outdoors at St. Pius Church in Redwood City on the solemnity of the Assumption, welcomed Robert W. Andrews, David C. Bernstein, Richard O. Dizon, José G. Hernandez, John M. Hurst, Daniel V. Kaatz, Emilo V. Lucero, Jr. Albert S. Nimri, and Raymond L. Smith to the ranks of permanent deacons in the Archdiocese of San Francisco
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Archbishop Cordileone ordained nine men to the permanent diaconate of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in outdoor ceremonies at St. Pius Church in Redwood City on Aug. 15, 2020. after five years of discernment and formation. Archbishop Cordileone told the deacons they were called to live out in their vocations “the path of God’s revolution,” as it
is seen in the life of Mary and her lyrical “Magnificat.” Her words in the Gospel of Luke show the radical nature of Christian faith by highlighting three revolutions in moral, social and economic life.
The archbishop explained that God “has scattered the proud” to show that humility is the only way to faith and salvation. Diminishing the powerful and exalting the weak “bespeaks a social revolution, where all are treated with equal dignity. One’s dignity does not depend on one’s social status or prestige or how much wealth one has or how much power one can yield,” he said. Finally, satisfying the hungry and dismissing the rich reveals a new form of economic life. Non-Christian societies focus on stockpiling as much wealth as possible, but “a Christian society is (one) where no one dares to have too much while others have too little, where everyone must get only to give away,” the archbishop said. What the candidates have gained during their formation – their learning, spiritual growth, and understanding of the church – is theirs only for the sake of being passed on to others, he said. Their vocation is to “enrich SEE DEACONS, PAGE 26
Deacons called to be public ambassadors for the church at ordination NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
On Aug. 8, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone ordained four men as transitional deacons at St. Pius Parish, Redwood City. Cameron Pollette, an Archdiocese of San Francisco seminarian, was ordained along with Contemplatives of St. Joseph Brother Francis Joseph Mary Coyne and Beomjung “John” Hwang and Jumin “Paul” Park, Diocese of Suwon, South Korea. The liturgy was held outside because indoor religious services were prohibited starting Aug. 2, after San Mateo county was placed on California’s COVID-19 monitoring list due to an increase in the rate of coronavirus cases. Archbishop Cordileone reminded the seminarians about the dual roles of service and friendship that all followers of Christ are called to. Friends of God enjoy being in his presence and spending time with him, and obey what God commands, the archbishop said.
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Deacons Jumin “Paul” Park, Cameron Pollette, Francis Mary Joseph Coyne, COSJ, and Beomjung “John” Hwang stand with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Aug. 8, 2020, at St. Pius Church, Redwood City, after their ordination to the diaconate. “Obedience to his command naturally flows from being loved by him. It is not our doing to make ourselves his friends, but we show we are his friends by loving one another as he has loved us,” Archbishop Cordileone said.
To HOPE, even if we cannot see our loved ones before they die, to touch them and tell them how much they are loved and will be forever remembered is an act of deep trust in God’s forever presence in us and among us. In grief we join hearts if not hands; it is our faith and trust that God is with us in all who will give us words of understanding and encouragement…a presence of the reality of God in our midst. Do not hesitate to reach out to your parish for grief accompaniment. Go to www.sfarchdocese.org/grief or email tlgallagher@mercywmw.org or (415) 317 4436 if you wish assistance in the time of loss.
Friendship with Christ does not mean that Christians no longer need to serve him, however. Archbishop Cordileone said the diaconate since the
early church has been associated with acts of service and charity. He reminded the seminarians that their service is to “do for others what Christ has done for them. “Deacons are called through the witness of their service to be publicly appointed ambassadors for the church and share that love of Jesus with others,” he said. The vocation to service the seminarians embark on as deacons will be deepened at their priestly ordination, the archbishop said. “Priestly ordination will mean for you not a promotion but a fulfillment of the vocation God has planted in your heart. The priest does not cease being a servant but on the contrary is a servant in a more complete sense, because his priestly character qualifies him to be entrusted with the full care of souls,” he said.
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Archbishop ordains two priests during ‘unique chapter’ in archdiocese’s life NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The Archdiocese of San Francisco celebrated one of the most unusual priestly ordinations in its history at St. Pius Parish, Redwood City on Aug. 1, 2020, as pandemic measures changed the look of one of the highlights of the archdiocesan year. “We cannot have the usual frills this day but that all the more highlights what is of only true and lasting value: winning souls for Christ by loving them as a good shepherd, leading them to good pasture, providing for them, protecting them, and ultimately sacrificing your life for them, in imitation of your master whom you love above all things,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told Benjamin J. Rosado and Ian B. Quito, the candidates for ordination, in his homily. He added that the challenges to ministry the church faces now are “a reminder to you of the resourcefulness and creativity the good shepherd needs in order to provide pastoral care for his people in ever changing circumstances.” Attendance was limited to fewer than 100 people, all friends and family of Father Quito and Father Rosado and clergy of the archdiocese. At the church entrance, parish volunteers scanned temperatures, checked names against an invite list and made sure people wore masks. In the nave, signs on the sanitizer dispensers encouraged people to spread the Gospel, not germs. The ordination rite had been transferred from St. Mary’s Cathedral to St. Pius because San Francisco County health orders do not permit more than 12 people to gather. The evening of Aug. 1, San Mateo County notified local pastors that indoor religious services would be suspended as part of a wider business shutdown resulting from the county’s three-day inclusion on California’s coronavirus watch list. Archbishop Cordileone preached on what priestly ministry in the church means in light of Christ the Good Shepherd. A shepherd “guides, provides and protects,” he said. In a similar way, pastors are responsible for keeping their flock together, pro-
An ordinand’s prostration during the ordination ceremony symbolizes his unworthiness for the office to be assumed and his dependence on God and the Christian community. Father Benjamin J. Rosado and Father Ian B. Quito are pictured during their ordination ceremony at St. Pius Church, Redwood City, on Aug.1, 2020.
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tecting them from spiritual predators and leading them to heaven. Priestly leadership must grow out of love, he reminded his listeners. “Any power which is not exercised out of love eventually becomes destructive,” the archbishop said. Archbishop Cordileone said that while pastoral ministry was a labor of love, it would also at times be difficult work. He pointed to the first reading of the liturgy, when Moses begs God
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to die because he cannot handle the burden of leading the Hebrew people. “At times every priest finds himself praying this prayer,” he said. “We rejoice with you today with great joy but believe me, there will be days ahead when you find yourself praying this prayer.” Community is the solution to the hardships encountered in priesthood, he said. Priests are ordained into a “communion of fellow presbyters”
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who collaborate together with the bishop in a diocese. “If a priest veers off into isolation, he will then tend the sheep for his own profit, whether that be material comfort, prestige, esteem or any other motive that is not exclusively the spiritual well being of the people assigned to him,” he said. Priests also have the responsibility to make sure their flock do not become isolated. The COVID-19 shutdown has shown the harm isolation brings to people’s mental and spiritual health, he said. “God made us for communion and I am ever grateful to our priests, who are finding creative ways to keep in touch with our people and provide them with a sense of community at their parish in order to guide them and support them in their faith,” the archbishop said. Father Quito, a native of Pampanga, Philippines, will take up his first priestly assignment as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Redwood City. Father Rosado, who is from Daly City, will serve as parochial vicar at St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo. After the Mass ended, the newly ordained men offered first blessings outside. Helen Bernardoni, finance coordinator at St. Raphael Parish, said she drove down from San Rafael to see Father Rosado be ordained. “He’s very sweet, he listens, he’s pretty prayerful – he’ll make a good priest,” she said. “We wouldn’t miss it.” Father Quito’s mother, Neites Blanco Quito, said she was filled with happiness that her son, who entered seminary in the Philippines and had to restart his studies when he came to the U.S., was finally ordained. “It’s God’s will because he tried everything just to make it,” she said. Neites Quito said that since he was young her son “loved mama Mary and Jesus Christ” and in kindergarten would try to lead the other students in prayer. “We are very proud of him and we love him so much,” she said. Her husband, Israel Quito, said it had been hard at first for their only son to join the priesthood, but “I am happy because he wants to be a priest.”
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Sister Antonio Heaphy, PBVM, Sister Vianney Buckley, PBVM and Sister Patricia O’Sullivan, PBVM, the last of the Sisters of the Presentation Union to serve at St. Robert Parish, San Bruno, will retire to a community in Texas in September 2020.
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A half-century tradition of service and inspiration established by the Sisters of the Presentation Union at St. Robert Parish becomes legacy in September 2020. At that time, Sister Antonio Heaphy, PBVM, Sister Vianney Buckley, PBVM, and Sister Patricia O’Sullivan, PBVM, the last of the congregation to serve at St. Robert, will retire to a community in Texas. “It is with a heavy heart that the parishioners of St. Robert’s in San Bruno say goodbye to our Presentation Sisters,” the parish said in a statement. The congregation came to St. Robert from Ireland in 1971 to serve in the parish school where they have over the years been principals and teachers. Expansion of their contribution at the parish has seen them become members of the parish staff teaching Religious Education, adult religious education, including RCIA, and Bible and Scripture study as well as ministering to the sick at home and in hospitals. “The sisters will also be remembered for the active life and love they shared with us to enable the parish to grow to be one of the most welcom-
ing parishes on the Peninsula,” the parish said. In addition to the three remaining sisters, the parish remembered Sister Ita Cleary, PBVM, who was among the original group of sisters in 1971 and who died in 2017. In 2003, the parish named a new school building “the Presentation Education Center in honor of all the many contributions made by all the sisters who have gifted St. Robert’s by their presence among us,” the parish said. Sister Antonio Heaphy has served the local church at St. Robert and as a now retired director of pastoral ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.. In June of 2018, Sister Patricia O’Sullivan retired as the last Presentation Sister on the St. Robert parish staff. “She is responsible for our hugely successful parish Grief Support Group,” the parish said. Sister Vianney Buckley was a member of the daily 6:30 a.m. Mass group at St. Robert and “the parish expert on Gaelic Football,” the parish said. “We will miss them greatly but their memories and their faith will continue to influence us for many generations to come. May God continue to bless them with good health,” the parish said.
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CSF READER POLL: Catholic practice in pandemic FROM PAGE 1
measure of local Catholic attitudes and behavior over the past five months. It was sent to Catholic San Francisco email newsletter subscribers, who reside primarily within the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Name, age, gender or marital status were not collected from respondents. A handful of respondents agreed to identify themselves for publication and a sampling of their responses are included with this article.
Livestream is the mainstream
Only one question — asking respondents to describe their current Mass attendance — was posed to produce a sort of statistical picture of how local Catholics are choosing to worship in the pandemic. Almost 60% of respondents said they view livestreamed Mass from home through a personal computer, tablet or phone. Fifty churches within the Archdiocese of San Francisco livestream their daily and Sunday Masses on their parish website or Facebook page, according to sfarch.org/livestreams. Only 20% of respondents said they have started going back to in-person, communal Masses at a church. Another 9% said they are not celebrating the Mass in any way, but will return when it is safe to do so. The remaining 10% or so reflected a smattering of personal or changing decisions that included attending outdoor Masses, a combination of communal and livestreamed Masses, in-person services at non-Catholic churches that have chosen to defy local health orders by remaining open, and refusal to attend Mass on political grounds. “I am not attending Mass because of the unconstitutional and invasive requirement to fill out an informed consent form which could unleash the authoritarian powers of the state to come to our house if a priest gets Wuhan virus, and because our pastor is following the unreasonable mandates of the bureaucrats…” wrote one respondent. Churches in the Archdiocese of San Francisco operate under three different county public health mandates, which officials make more or less restrictive according to the changing impact of COVID-19 in their areas. At present, because of a surge in cases, no indoor public communal gatherings are allowed in the three counties. In a March 17 letter to the faithful at the beginning of the statewide shutdown to slow the spread of the virus, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone released local Catholics from the obligation of Sunday Mass attendance while urging them to keep the day holy. In a July 30 memo, he stressed the importance of following health guidelines and urged priests to hold as many Masses as possible as conditions allow. He said he is “very concerned about the long-term effects this will have on our people’s spiritual health.” A handful of respondents represented polar opposite reactions to the decisions of both government and church officials to the closure of houses of worship to communal gatherings. A few respondents were sanguine about the deprivation of Mass and sacraments. “I do miss Mass in my parish, but I would rather be safe than sorry,” said one. A few were angry. “I feel that the church has been scammed essentially and has failed to stand up for itself,” said one respondent, who described him/ herself as a recent convert. “We have placed fear of COVID-19 over fear of God.” “I wish Mass was not so rushed now that we must follow the government protocol to keep it short,” said one respondent. “I don’t see people limited in the time they spend at Costco or in the grocery store.”
Being deprived of Eucharist hardest
When asked what they missed the most in the current practice of their faith, almost half of the survey’s 372 respondents described their inability to regularly receive the Eucharist. “I recently started receiving the Eucharist again — that was by far the hardest to go without,” one respondent said, a statement repeated many times in the survey. “Spiritual communion prayer is good and meaningful, but four months without the holy Eucharist is hard,” said another. “Although I know God is with me always, I miss the tradition of gathering and receiving together,” said one. “The Eucharist is a celebration gathering the people of God together at the banquet table.” The loss of a physical connection to community for
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DIANE DAWES St. Dominic Parish, Benicia ‘I find no substitute for my physical presence at the holy sacrifice and obtaining the benefits of that reality and the sanctifying grace in sacramental communion. Community is not essential for me. Spiritual communion is a comfort, but not a replacement. My spiritual life still bears fruit.’ KENNETH RYAN St. Ignatius Parish, San Francisco ‘Being able to go almost anywhere in the world to attend Mass has been joyful. I can ‘leave’ for Mass two minutes before it starts and my favorite pew is always open. I stand, sit, kneel, sing in full voice and feel the presence of God at my computer. I will remain with the faithful who live where a priest may only get to their village a couple of times a year.’ MADELINE L. MCKAY St. Paul Parish, San Francisco ‘I still feel a genuine connection with my neighborhood parish connecting online. I reflect on the early church where services were in homes, caves and other places that were not buildings with statues and pews. The building does not matter. It is the service and sacrament that is important to me.’
prayer and friendship was also difficult for a number of respondents. “Joining my prayers with others strengthens my faith,” said one respondent, and being in an environment with others “allows us to pray together and feel I guess the energy of everyone present,” said another. “I miss everyone’s smiles and hellos,” said one respondent who said he/she felt deprived of seeing priests and fellow parishioners. “It’s not the same by phone.”
Upsides and downsides
The final question asked respondents whether there were any ways in which their faith has grown stronger in quarantine. A few respondents said the pandemic has had no effect on the stability of their faith, while a minority lamented that theirs had weakened. “Without community, my faith is growing dimmer,” said one. “Faith is connected, for me, to the strength of individuals coming together in hope.” An older respondent said he/she, “feels abandoned in my old age with nothing to look forward to.” Another said it has caused a crisis of faith: “Why is God testing us this way?” For a few, time, distance and a host of newly discovered resources have made them reevaluate their need for church. “I realize that we can get by with no institutional church as Catholics,” said one respondent. “We have baptism, the rosary, our beloved saints to help us, and lots of books and internet resources.” “I am questioning the Catholic Church and its patriarchal dominance and I don’t know if I can return to that,” said another. “When I watch Mass online I see it so clearly.” Many more, however, said that being cut off from their faith community and the physicality of the sacraments and Mass has given them a fresh appreciation for what their faith means to them. “I realize how much I loved my church which I have taken for granted,” said one respondent. Another said: “I have a greater appreciation for the rock-solid eternal truth of Catholicism.” The enforced solitude of pandemic living and distance from their usual forms of worship and prayer seems to have also cultivated a stronger and more personal prayer life for a large number of survey respondents. “I’m finding God in all things, even in this pandemic and seeing it as a gift,” said one. Several gave voice to the spiritual surrender they
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MARY BURNS St. Ignatius Parish, San Francisco ‘I have found the online Mass experience to be incredibly moving, devout, prayerful and communal. I miss the sacrament of Eucharist very much, but feeling the presence of God and my community in this way in the midst of uncertainty is truly food for the hungry and rest for the weary – and delivered online or in person, it’s the same love.’ CARLOS MORALES St. Rita Parish, Fairfax ‘I am not going to Mass. Livestreamed Mass is entertaining and sometimes inspiring, but not communal. Going to Mass implies participating in a communal event with parishioners empathizing with them personally in the context of hearing the word and receiving the Eucharist. We say, ‘I am in this mystery of life with you. I cannot go it alone, let us go to the Father together.’ SALLY YEO St. Dunstan Parish, Millbrae ‘I was so happy when my county allowed us to attend Mass in person. COVID-19 has not changed my heart on attending Mass. When I attend in person it’s personal, especially when I receive Communion. I have to applaud my church for going above and beyond to keep me safe and feel comfortable.’
discovered amid the upheaval and fear of the coronavirus pandemic. “I’ve been forced to trust in God’s providence,” said one respondent. Another shared that he/she has “focused more on God when there is so much confusion, misinformation and unanswered questions.” Many respondents said that greater solitude and fewer distractions have brought them into more frequent private or family prayer. “I’ve disciplined myself to reading God’s word daily and am taking pleasure in sitting at Jesus’ feet,” said another. “My life has slowed down,” said another. “I have more time to reflect on how we are being called to respond to each other and to creation.”
Faith boosted by digital resources
A significant number of respondents said the option to livestream Masses all over the globe and online access to Catholic podcasts, videos, classes and study groups has been a boon to their faith development. “I enjoy attending daily Mass several times a week now,” said one respondent. “We are able to attend as many Masses as we like in any part of the world,” said another who said his/her family attends Mass in Mexico, their country of origin. “Listening to faith-based podcasts or videos helps me to keep my eye on God so as not to get caught up in the negative aspects of the pandemic and the social/political issues.” Technology is sustaining a sense of community for some and establishing it for others. “My faith has been strengthened by meeting more often with my small faith sharing group on Zoom,” said one respondent. Others have begun Catholic study or discussion groups or family prayer nights on Zoom. The bounty of online Catholic resources available moved one respondent to call the quarantine “an extended spiritual retreat.”
Pandemic in perspective
One respondent said he/she now has a longer view of the current disruptions in the practice of the Catholic faith in pandemic. “This time has provided me an opportunity to study a bit more about times in church history when circumstances interrupted the normal liturgical practices of the day, and to appreciate that different is not necessarily bad,” they wrote. “We will adapt as we must and be the stronger for it.”
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Archbishop urges ‘continued pastoral care’ in line with public health orders CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO – Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone thanked priests of the archdiocese in a July 30 letter for their “continued pastoral care” to their people and reminded them to continue their care “always keeping with the local health orders of your county.” He also asked his priests “to do everything possible to make Mass available to your people.” “Given the limits on numbers that have been imposed on us, I am asking each priest – except for the elderly and those with underlying health conditions – to be willing to celebrate up to three Masses on a Sunday, as necessary to respond to the demand,” the archbishop said. Currently 37 of California’s state’s 58 counties are on the state’s coronavirus monitoring list, including the city and county of San Francisco and Marin and San Mateo counties – the jurisdictions that make up the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In San Francisco, outside religious services and funerals are allowed with a 12-person limit but indoor gatherings are not currently permitted. Indoor Sunday religious services also are banned at all San Mateo County churches. In Marin County all houses of worship are closed for indoor services. Small outdoor “social” gatherings of up to 12 people are allowed, but news reports said local officials are allowing protests of up to 100 people. Like Catholic dioceses across the country, many parishes in the San Francisco Archdiocese continue to livestream Masses, since public celebration of the Mass remains generally unavailable. “For over four months now we have been deprived of the usual way in which we Catholics keep holy the Sabbath,” the archbishop said. “As a sacramental church, it is in our nature, indeed it is our very identity, to physically gather together to worship and share in the Eucharist. I’m sure that you, just as I, are very
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Precious Blood Father Matt Link celebrates outdoor Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco on July 30, 2020. Archbishop Cordileone has urged pastors to provide as much pastoral care as possible in line with public health orders.
concerned about the long-term effects this will have on our people’s spiritual health.” He also said in recent weeks he has been given all kinds of advice as to what to do to fight the crowd limits, and he said “rapidly changing” orders also have led to confusion. “All throughout these conversations,” Archbishop Cordileone said, “I have spoken of how we want to be partners with the city in caring for our people – not just for their physical and financial health, but mental and spiritual health as well – emphasizing, too, the many different ways in which we have been supporting our local government in the effort to stem the spread of the virus and come to the aid of those in need.”
He said confusion over state and local dictates about COVID-19 prevention led to a June 29 “cease and desist order” from City Attorney Dennis Herrera. He threatened the archdiocese with big fines after hearing reports that some Catholic churches were apparently operating “in defiance” of the city’s public health protocols including requirements for face coverings and physical distancing. “The archdiocese remains steadfast in protecting the health of its congregants and all San Franciscans” by following health and safety protocols, archdiocesan general counsel Paula Carney wrote Herrera. Archbishop Cordileone said in his July 30 letter to priests that city officials have argued allowing certain capacity in retail outlets – which was has been as much as 50% – is safer than allowing indoor worship services because shoppers go into a store, make a purchase and leave, rather than stay in the store for an extended period of time, unlike worshippers who remain inside a church for the length of a service. But the archbishop said he has argued that “a church can be a much safer place than a retail store, because it is a more controlled environment: The people are stationary; we can ensure social distancing; we can ensure that people are wearing face coverings; we can keep the doors open to allow air flow; we can sanitize high touch areas between services.” “With regard to outdoor services, you are all well aware that pre-planned and scheduled street protests have been allowed to continue unhindered,” Archbishop Cordileone said, “while the limit of no more than 12 people still applies to everyone else, including us.” “Yet here again,” he added, “an outdoor worship service is a much safer event than a protest, since the people are stationary, social distance is respected and the participants are wearing masks.” SEE ‘CONTINUED PASTORAL CARE’, PAGE 14
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COVID-19 takes heavy toll on San Quentin ministries LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Once bustling with activity and booming with voices, the San Quentin Catholic chapel stands stripped and silenced, a casualty of COVID-19. Decrying the death, disease and deteriorating living conditions in the state’s oldest prison, recently retired longtime chaplain Jesuit Father George Williams and volunteers from throughout the San Francisco Archdiocese lament their lockout at a time the locked-in need them the most. It is a time of fear, frustration and fatalism at the 168-year-old penitentiary in Marin County. State data as of Aug. 14 showed 25 deceased and 2,233 infected at the prison, with only a handful of new cases in the previous two weeks. The fatalities included a guard, Sergeant Gilbert Polanco, who died Aug. 9 of COVID-19 complications. Since early March, authorities have canceled programs, banned visitors, prohibited group gatherings and created makeshift space for physical distancing, quarantine and isolation. The chapel has been emptied of altar, pews, chairs, sacred objects and religious icons and closed to Mass celebrations, choral concerts, Scripture readings, Bible studies, life-skill debates and other spiritually supportive services. “It will take a while to put things back together,” said Father Williams, who personally took down for safekeeping the Stations of the Cross crafted by a prisoner nearly 60 years ago.
(PHOTO BY LT. SAM ROBINSON/SAN QUENTIN)
Jesuit Father George Williams, then Catholic chaplain at St. Quentin State Prison, is pictured on Christmas Eve 2019 in the prison chapel with members of the prison’s Catholic community. Such extra care and attention marked his decade of mentoring and ministering to his San Quentin congregation. When the viral eruption engulfed his seven-Masses-a-weekend schedule, the chaplain continued to make cell calls, carrying Communion, comfort, consolation and communication from the community to the 250 churchgoers, until he tested positive June 24. “Since I left, they have had nothing,” said Father Williams, who recovered from his “summer-cold-like” symptoms of headache and fatigue and partially regained his taste and smell in time to move to his next assignment July 28.
“I’m sad to be leaving San Quentin especially in the middle of this crisis because they need pastoral care more than ever, but I’m not leaving forever.” The new pastor of St. Agnes in San Francisco intends to stay in touch by starting a prison ministry at the parish and going back to the correctional facility each month to say Mass, once the pandemic peters out. Inspired by Father Williams’s example, others are equally eager to return. “Father George was a wonderful shepherd for the San Quentin population, with an influence over the men who came regularly to the chapel that was an example of the miracle of grace,” said Brian Gagan, a parishioner at St. Ignatius in San Francisco with a masters in theology who joined the Bible study group five years ago. “The work the Holy Spirit is doing behind those walls is so palpable, it engages you, it transforms you.” So much so, some among the 25 “outsiders” attending Sunday liturgies considered the penitentiary their parish. “They admitted, ‘If I didn’t have San Quentin, I wouldn’t even be going to church,’” Gagan said. Members of the Order of Malta and visitors from as far away as Monterey
numbered among the faithful, said Walter Mallory, the point person for a sizable prison ministry at St. Hilary in Tiburon. “We all expressed the same thing, that this had become a part of our life, and we miss not being able to go,” said Mallory, a recipient of the Restorative Justice Ministry Award for 17 years of service at San Quentin. “And if we who have other options are unhappy about not being able to go in, can you imagine how the guys who cannot go out, maybe for the rest of their lives, feel?” Victor Perrella of St. Anthony Parish in Novato got a clue from eight letters he received within two weeks from men he’s met since his first visit in 1991. “They tell terrible stories, filled with frustration and hopelessness, of limited showers, stuffy air, dry, cold peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made even more tasteless by the COVID-induced loss of appetite, restricted movement, lockdowns in 4.5-by-9.5-foot cells,” Perrella related. “(To cope) you must try to convince yourself this will end one day and you’ll get out, and until then you must have determination and faith.” To fortify both, Mallory and his St. Hilary team of nine wrote notes of support and reassurance for Father Williams to distribute during his rounds. Denied even that small gesture with the priest’s departure, they pray for a rapid return to the rich repertoire of pre-pandemic programs. “You name it, and we were doing it,” Father Williams said. “We had Bible study, men’s spirituality group, ecumenical fellowship, Christian-based life-skills program, restorative justice, meditation, confirmation, rosary, RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults).” Each Saturday, he celebrated two Masses on death row and one in the chapel. On Sunday, he held four separate services, for death row, mainline, Spanish-speaking and newly sentenced prisoners awaiting transfer. Those wishing to gain deeper insights into the lectionary had the option to SEE SAN QUENTIN, PAGE 24
Saint Robert’s is happy to welcome our new Pastor, Fr. Arnold Zamora. Fr. Arnold Zamora comes to us after serving as pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco for over 11 years. He and Fr. Boie Espeleta, both attended the same seminary in the Philippines and were members of the Priest’s Choir of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Fr. Arnold entered the seminary at the early age of twelve at the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines, where he finished High School and his Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila. He also took some masteral courses in Oriental Religion in the same university. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 7, 1986. After ordination, he was assigned as a formator, professor and music director of the same seminary where he started his vocation and at the same time the chair of the Commission of Music of the Diocese of Tagbilaran. Fr. Arnold holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. While pursuing his music degree, he joined the world Philippine Madrigal Singers and served as the group’s resident arranger. He joined the group in its domestic and international concert tour. As a music student, he was the personal assistant and apprentice of now Philippine National Artist for Music - Ryan Cayabyab. He went to Santa Clara University to pursue a master’s degree in Pastoral Ministries majoring in Liturgical Music. While at Santa Clara, he was invited by the then pastor of Star the Sea, San Francisco, Msgr. Floro Arcamo, to be the music director of the parish. He later became the parochial vicar of Star of the Sea while continuing as music director for three years. He was transferred to St. Brendan Parish for another two years before his appointment as pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Church serving the parish for eleven years. He was incardinated to the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2010. Fr. Arnold is also the Spiritual Director and Moderator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Council of Catholic Women and the chaplain and spiritual adviser for the Consulate in San Francisco. His musical works are available in iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Apple Store, Amazon and YouTube.
Welcome to St. Robert’s Church Fr. Arnold!
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San Francisco to name street after first Black firefighter CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco’s first Black firefighter, a Catholic convert whose faith helped him endure years of racial abuse within the department, will have a city street named after him. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously June 14 to name a portion of Willow Street between Buchanan and Laguna after Earl Gage Jr. The street runs through the Western Addition neighborhood of the city where the Gage family – longtime St. Emydius parishioners – lived. “He was a man who kept his strong faith,” his daughter Blondell Chism told Catholic San Francisco July 24. “No matter what happened, all was good and he was blessed.” Gage converted to Catholicism to marry his Catholic wife, also named Blondell. While the Department of Public Works readies the new street sign for an as-yet-unscheduled installation date, San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston has commissioned a mural of Gage to accompany it. Gage was hired by the San Francisco Fire Department in 1955 at age 28 and was the sole Black firefighter for the next 12 years. He retired in 1983 and died in 2017 at age 90. His hire was a progressive move for the times and not embraced by all members of the department, said
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Earl Gage Jr., San Francisco’s first Black firefighter, is pictured in an undated photo from the San Francisco Independent newspaper. On July 14, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the naming of a street in the Western Addition after the late firefighter, who endured racial abuse and quietly worked for diversity within the department. Sherman Tillman, president of the Black Firefighters Association. There were the fellow firefighters who refused to sleep on any mattress Gage had occupied in the communal firehouse, he said. His mattress was urinated on so repeatedly that the young firefighter took to carrying his own with him from station to station. “When you think about the discrimination he saw toward himself you’d think a person would be disillusioned and hateful toward the people who did
those things,” said Tillman, a longtime parishioner of Star of the Sea Parish on Geary Boulevard “He wasn’t.” Threats to his safety eventually led Gage away from field work and to a role as the SFFD’s director of community services. There he helped create a new training course for the firefighter’s exam after seeing it was a hurdle for many aspiring firefighters. He was also part of a federal court consent decree that pushed for diversity in the predominantly white, male department. Tillman called Gage a “man of God who tried to see the best in people despite their flaws.” It was at his funeral that Tillman decided to petition the city to recognize his character and place in history – a mission that took three years to bring to fruition. Coincidence or not, the sign was approved just weeks after the killing of George Floyd in May by a Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds during an arrest for allegedly passing a counterfiet $20 bill. Tillman said racial diversity in the SFFD is still aspirational almost 70 years after Gage became the city’s first Black firefighter. “Right now we are at 156 (Black firefighters) in San Francisco, down from 193,” he said. “We haven’t been this low since the early 1990s.” The SFFD has approximately 1,500 members.
STUDENTS INVITED TO ENTER RESPECT LIFE ESSAY CONTEST
The Office of Human Life & Dignity of the Archdiocese of San Francisco has announced its annual Respect Life Essay Contest. This is the contest’s 32nd year. “Students from kindergarten through 12th grade in Catholic schools and religious education classes, as well as home schooled students in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, are invited to participate,” the office said in the announcement. This year’s theme is “Open Wide Our Hearts to All God’s Children.” In a letter to priests Valerie Schmalz, office director, said the contest offers “grade appropriate questions” that she hoped “will allow teachers to present materials so that students may address the serious questions of racism and human dignity and life in the context of our wonderful Catholic teaching.” Entries, postmarked by Oct. 31, 2020, should be sent to: Respect Life Program, Office of Human Life & Dignity, Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. On Jan. 18, 2021, winners will be posted at www.sfarch.org/essaycontest. Winners will receive cash awards depending on grade level. Visit www.sfarch.org/essay-contest for complete information on the essay contest including application, rules, and eligibility.
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Archdiocese Catholic schools will begin year online NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Catholic schools in San Francisco and Marin counties will begin the academic year with remote instruction, the archdiocesan schools department announced July 23. In a letter to families, superintendent Pamela Lyons said recent guidance from the California Department of Public Health mandates that schools can open for in-person instruction only if their local county has not been on the state COVID-19 monitoring list for the previous 14 days. Lyons explained that both San Francisco County and Marin County are currently on that list. If San Mateo County is placed on the watch list before the first day of school, Catholic schools
there will also have to adopt remote instruction. On July 29, San Mateo County was placed on the state watch list after it exceeded 100 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 residents. After spending three days on the list, it was forced to roll back its reopening plans. “Although our teachers are well versed in using Distance Learning, for them it is a second-best approach,” Lyons said. “They prefer to be in the classroom, interacting with your child or children. They want to run their classes in the traditional way, because they know that is best for your children. And as soon as this is an option for all our teachers, they will be in the classroom with your children.” Lyons said San Francisco and Marin schools are planning on offering remote learning through at least
September 3, by which time she hoped those counties would be off the state watch list. Each school in the archdiocese must have its plan for in-person instruction approved by Lyons before it can reopen its doors. The California school reopening framework permits county health officials to issue waivers that would allow elementary schools to resume in-person classes. Lyons said counties in the archdiocese currently do not offer a way to apply for a waiver. “Once a process is available, and if it is deemed appropriate to do so, I will be applying for this waiver option,” Lyons said. The California framework recommends periodically testing staff for COVID-19 once schools hold SEE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, PAGE 21
St. Patrick eighth grader hosts virtual camp CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
An incoming eighth grader at St. Patrick School designed and led a weeklong virtual kindergarten camp to welcome new kindergarteners to the K-8 school in Larkspur. Caroline McAuliffe came up with the idea after all of her summer camps and activities were cancelled due to COVID-19, her mother Nicole told Catholic San Francisco in a July 15 email. The camp ran July 13-17 in two daily sessions. “Caroline saw the need for these little ones to feel connected during this very lonely, socially distant time and she devised a way to make it happen,” she said. In a flyer promoting the free camp to incoming kindergarten families, Caroline introduced herself to school families. She said she was motivated to design and host the camp for incoming kindergarteners like
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Incoming St. Patrick School kindergartener Michael McAuliffe is pictured during a Zoom camp led by his older sister Caroline, an incoming eighth grader at the Larkspur K-8 school.
her brother Michael. The in-person camps that normally welcome kindergarteners were cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Each 30-minute Zoom session was geared to help the young students get to know school schedules and each other. Each day, campers practiced the Pledge of
Allegiance and the school creed and then read a story or did a craft or game together. “Yesterday, she used the story ‘Pigs Make Me Sneeze,’ by Mo Willems to teach the children the importance of hand washing and wearing a mask,” Nicole said. According to her mother, Caroline’s own recent distance learning experiences at St. Patrick gave her the confidence and motivation to offer the camp. Lessons and activities got the stamp of approval from principal Angela Hadsell – as well as her little brother Michael. The vast majority of the 22 incoming kindergarteners participated, with Caroline hosting a morning and afternoon session to give families the flexibility to participate. Nicole said she was eager to share a positive story when there is so much bad news and “complaining about how schools have failed our children with distance learning.” “That was not the case with my children at St. Pat’s,” she said. “Caroline is a testament to this fact.” Caroline also has a younger sister entering fifth grade there. “Catholic schools can and do lead the way in making our community stronger,” she said.
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Father Puthota installed at St. Elizabeth Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is pictured with Father Charles Puthota Aug. 2, 2020, at Father Puthota’s installation as pastor of San Francisco’s St. Elizabeth Parish in a Mass celebrated outdoors in the courtyard of the St. Elizabeth rectory. Making note of the dent in communications placed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Father Charles told Catholic San Francisco that he “sends best wishes to the parishioners of St. Elizabeth church and looks forward to getting to know them and serving them.” (COURTESY PHOTO)
Clergy appointments The archdiocese announced the following clergy appointments July 16, 2020, effective July 1, 2020 except as noted.
Administrators:
Father Michael J. Healy, St. Vincent de Paul Parish, effective July 13, 2020; Father Tony S. Vallecillo, Our Lady of Loretto Parish, effective July 15, 2020.
Parochial vicars:
Father Joseph J. McLaughlin, SM, Notre Dame des Victoires Parish, effective July 14, 2020; Father Celestine O. Tyowua, Holy Name of Jesus. Permanent deacons following their ordination to the diaconate on Aug. 15, 2020: Mr. Robert W. Andrews, Church
of the Nativity, Menlo Park, and St. Catherine of Siena Parish; Mr. David C. Bernstein, St. Raphael Parish; Mr. Richard O. Dizon, St. Mark Parish; Mr. José G. Hernandez, St. Raphael Parish; Mr. John M. Hurst, St. Gabriel Parish; Mr. Daniel V. Kaatz, Notre Dame des Victoires Parish; Mr. Emilo V. Lucero, St. Andrew Parish; Mr. Albert S. Nimri, St. Thomas More Parish; Mr. Raymond L. Smith, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Redwood City.
Additional updates:
Father Ernesto M. Jandonero, St. Gabriel Parish during medical leave, effective July 16, 2020; Father Kevin Kennedy, Archbishop’s Appointment, second term, Priest Personnel Board.
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Department of Catholic Schools announces new principals Megan Kimble
St. Finn Barr School, San Francisco Kimble is a veteran of 14 years as a teacher in Catholic schools, eight in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the last six as a member of the faculty at St. Finn Barr. She holds an undergraduate degree in education and a graduate degree in special education with a focus in high incidence disabilities. “Megan is thrilled that she will continue to carry out the mission of St. Finn Barr School as she supports teachers and families in preparing young, diverse minds for the future as critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and compassionate children,” the Catholic schools department said.
Andrea Harville
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont Harville has previously served as principal in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. She holds an undergraduate degree in general studies with a psychology focus and a graduate degree in elementary education with a focus on curriculum and instruction and is currently completing her doctorate in educational administration.
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“Her research encompasses gifted education and arts integration in Catholic schools.,” the Catholic schools department said. “Andrea looks forward to using her God given talents and leadership skills to best serve the Immaculate Heart of Mary School and the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary community.”
Jessica Schaukowitch-Adrian
Nativity School, Menlo Park Schaukowitch-Adrian has served as administrator at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Belmont and as a member of the faculty at Our Lady of Angels School in Burlingame and All Souls School in South San Francisco. She is a graduate of St. Robert
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St. John School, San Francisco Iwaszewicz has served as interim principal at St. John’s since February 2020 previously serving at the school as
assistant principal and member of the faculty. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as a multiple subject credential from St. Mary’s College in Moraga. “Her teaching philosophy and outlook on education is strongly rooted in the Lassalian and Ursuline principles due to her education at St. Mary’s and subsequent work at St. John School,” the Catholic schools department said. “Her mission is to prepare each student for a rapidly changing world by empowering them to become individuals of integrity, critical thinkers, and courageous leaders for the good of all.”
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St. Gregory School, San Mateo McCormack holds a graduate degree in educational leadership and brings more than 20 years as teacher and administrator to her new role at St. Gregory’s. She earned her undergraduate degree at Boston College. In 1999, McCormack helped start a projectbased charter school in Lake Tahoe. “Johanna brings both experience and enthusiasm to her new position at St. Gregory School,” the Catholic schools department said.
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Grief ministry shows church’s presence amid social distancing NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
As people enter a fifth month of social distancing during the pandemic shutdown, the isolation from loved ones at their death adds another painful layer of grief to the trauma of loss. “It’s very, very hard Mercy Sister for people and there’s Toni Lynn a strong level of grief Gallagher for that, so if someone should pass away there’s an emptiness at not being able to be there,” Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher said. Sister Gallagher, the bereavement ministry coordinator in the Archdicoese of San Francisco, said many cannot visit friends and family who are dying or be present at their last moments. In some cases, there is additional guilt that someone else, like a nurse, takes on that bedside role. Hospital policies have prevented many people from gathering at the bedside of their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the risk of spreading the disease and the shortage of protective equipment. iPads or smartphones held by nursing staff have provided closure for some families as a way to say goodbye, but can be unsatisfying. Sister Gallagher encouraged people to contact the archdiocesan bereavement ministry office over the phone or online to find groups or resources that could help with grief. Public health restrictions, and a general climate of uncertainty about safety, have made grief ministry harder to carry out, but not impossible. Bereavement ministries at parishes can offer one-on-one conversations with trained personnel or coordinate grieving groups that offer a way to share faith during difficult times. The
men and women who do the ministry are not psychologists, she said, but people “who are good listeners who know how to be present to a person in grief.” The important thing, she said, is that ministry volunteers “honor where people are and try to meet people’s needs right away.” Sister Gallagher added the archdiocese can connect mourners to ethnic ministries that understand the forms grief takes in different cultures. For Sister Gallagher, it is important that families go through the grieving process rather than postpone it until a later date when a funeral can be held with everyone. The danger is that as time goes on families will end up not holding a ceremony and never mark that person’s passing. Even if the church cannot hold a service, “families can pull themselves together and remember and celebrate,” she said. “The church sometimes doesn’t allow people to minister to themselves and this is a time when we need to affirm that and teach them how to do that,” she added. Remembering someone’s life through stories helps bring closure for a family, that in the absence of funerals and wakes otherwise might not come. As people navigate grief without gathering, bereavement ministers have also gone through a disorienting period, Sister Gallagher said, encountering a similar “abyss of distance” and loss of normal life. “We’re trying to live each day and plan in the great unknown, and that’s what grief is, learning to do something differently for the rest of my life,” she said. Sister Gallagher said despite the difficulties in helping people brought about by the pandemic shutdown, parish grief ministries continue to offer support for those who have lost people they love. “We have to help people through this,” she said. “The church is absent in a way she hasn’t been absent before, but she is still present and that’s what we want people to know.”
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The challenge of doing grief ministry now for Deacon Chuck McNeil at St. Dominic Parish is that “people in grief support need to be seen.” Video conferencing technology like Zoom can partly address that but cannot help the need to share space. Many of the people he has talked to have seen their grief at the loss of their lifelong companions deepened by the enforced isolation of the pandemic shutdown or the inability to attend Mass and find activities to engage themselves in. Deacon McNeil, who recently put together his first bereavement support group since the pandemic began, said he has questions about how the ministry will go when conducted entirely online. The technology can be challenging for older users, it could be harder to build up trust and confidence in the group when everyone is separated, and some of the activities that draw people out of their depression will not translate easily to an online forum. “But it’s important, and I have to start it,” he said. If you are grieving or would like to join a parish bereavement ministry, please call Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher at (415) 3174436 or email her at tlgallagher@mercywmw.org.
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‘CONTINUED PASTORAL CARE’: In line with health orders, urges archbishop FROM PAGE 7
“Unfortunately, despite all of these efforts and explanations, and despite hearing words of approval for our archdiocesan safety plan that was submitted to the city’s Recovery Task Force, there has been no change in the health order in San Francisco,” Archbishop Cordileone said. On a more positive note, he said, he wanted Catholics to pray for two men he was ordaining Aug. 1, Fathers Ben Rosado and Ian El-Quito, and for the men who will be ordained transitional deacons Aug. 8 and those who being ordained permanent deacons Aug. 15. He also asked Catholics of the archdiocese “to storm heaven with prayer and fasting for a restoration of public worship unhindered, for a swift end to this pandemic, for health care workers and researchers, and for government officials who must make very complicated decisions for the overall well-being of our communities.” Across the country in Kentucky, as cases of COVID-19 in the state rose, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz in a July 25 letter to his priests said parishes in the Archdiocese of Louisville would continue holding Masses at reduced capacity and he asked pastors to “double down on issues such as social distancing and mask-wearing.”
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MARIN: Poverty, ‘structural racism’ impact virus’ spread FROM PAGE 2
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group at St. Raphael Parish gets calls every day from people in the Canal, some whose entire family is sick with COVID-19. Some die quickly and alone. That was the case of her neighbor, Graciela, who got the virus and died, alone at a nearby convalescent care hospital before Ramírez-Zavaleta could arrive to bring food and support. Marin County is working with the California Department of Public Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and regional and community partners to ease the impact of the virus where it is spreading fastest. Willis said the county is working to offer temporary income support so people can step away from work if they are infected, hotel rooms so individuals can safely isolate from others and removing barriers to testing. The county’s community-based partners help navigate patients into the support system. Canal Alliance, a nonprofit organization in San Rafael, is one of those organizations. The agency provides legal services, education and food to immigrants in the Canal but now includes health services including coronavirus testing, executive director Omar Carrera said. “People in poor neighborhoods are
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He said another unexpected impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been a decrease in participation in the 2020 Census compared to 10 years ago. “If these people are not counted they will have less federal funding and the community will need many more resources in the future to recover from the pandemic,” he said Willis emphasized in his message that the county’s efforts are a form of “crisis intervention” and are not the “deep reforms we need to build a more equitable society.”
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BISHOPS OF WICHITA, DENVER CALL CATHOLICS TO TURN TO MARY
Two bishops have called for rosary crusades in their respective dioceses in the month of August, asking Catholics to pray daily rosaries for the end of the pandemic, for justice and peace, for an end to the desecration of churches, and for multiple other intentions. “In our current time of crisis, our church, world and our country need faith in God and the protection and intercession of Mary,” Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver said in an Aug. 7 statement. “And so...I am launching a Rosary Crusade to ask Mary to urgently bring our needs to Jesus.” Bishop Aquila invited all Catholics in his diocese to pray a daily rosary, beginning on the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, Aug. 15, through the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows on Sept. 15. He asked that they pray for 15 distinct intentions, including for an end to the coronavirus pandemic and all those who have died of the virus, and end to abortion and euthanasia and attacks against life, as well as for peace, justice and an end to discrimination on the basis of race.
DON’T BE COMPLACENT IN THE FACE OF ASSISTED SUICIDE, NJ BISHOP SAYS
Reflecting on the first anniversary of the taking effect of a New Jersey law allowing assisted suicide, Bishop James Checchio of Metuchen has encouraged Catholics to continue in unconditional respect for human life. “We cannot be complacent and just accept that physician-assisted suicide is the law now in our state,” Bishop Checchio said, according to an Aug. 12 statement from the Diocese of Metuchen. “When any human life, especially the weakest, is devalued by society it promotes a devaluing of all human life.”
The Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act allows competent New Jersey residents deemed by two doctors to have fewer than six months to live to request lethal medication to end their lives. The patient must administer the medication themselves. According to the state health department, 12 New Jerseyans ended their lives under the law’s provisions in 2019. “All life is a gift from God and … every person has inherent and inalienable dignity because we are made in God’s image and likeness – young or old, healthy or sick, all human life is precious,” Bishop Checchio said.
FIFTH LAWSUIT ALLEGING ABUSE ACCUSES ALBANY’S RETIRED BISHOP HUBBARD
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Reopening for public Masses, part 6 The following memo to priests from Archbishop Cordileone was posted July 30, 2020:
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or over four months now we have been deprived of the usual way in which we Catholics keep holy the Sabbath. As a sacramental Church, it is in our nature, indeed it is our very identity, to physically gather together to worship and share in the Eucharist. I’m sure that you, just as I, are very concerned about the long-term effects this will have on our people’s spiritual health. As you might imagine, many people are giving me advice (sometimes more like orders!) about what I should do, and it is often contradictory. I detect no unified sense of how the ARCHBISHOP Church should proceed in SALVATORE J. these unprecedented times. Please know, though, that I CORDILEONE have been working very hard over these past several months to try to convince our local authorities in the City and County of San Francisco (which still allows only outdoor gatherings with a limit of 12) that we can resume in-person worship services in a safe and responsible way. I have spent countless hours in crafting communications and in telephone conversations and Zoom meetings with city officials, leading health specialists, legal experts, religious leaders and others, culminating in a Zoom meeting July 8th with (among others) Mayor London Breed, San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón, and His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco (as the various Eastern Orthodox congregations in San Francisco are also eager to resume their Divine Liturgy services). By means of this memo, then, I would like to give you a brief overview my efforts in this regard, as well as some words of encouragement and guidance along with an invitation to join me in being more personally spiritually engaged.
Review of the Situation
All throughout these conversations, I have spoken of how we want to be partners with the City in caring for our people – not just for their physical and financial health, but mental and spiritual health as well – emphasizing, too, the many different ways in which we have been supporting our local government in the effort to stem the spread of the virus and come to the aid of those in need. With regard to local health orders in San Francisco for reopening for public activities, I have pointed out the two separate considerations of indoor and
outdoor services, comparing us to similar (or even identical) secular activities. 1) The City had been allowing indoor retail at 50% capacity, but not allowed any indoor religious services at all. The concern here from the perspective of health experts is that in a retail store, people enter to make a purchase and then leave, without spending much time indoors; it is much riskier for a group of people to spend an extended period of time inside the same space. However, at larger retail outlets it is quite possible for people to spend an hour or more in the store, while we can keep our services to under an hour; moreover, the employees in the store are indoors continuously for many hours at a time. In addition, a church can be a much safer place than a retail store, because it is a more controlled environment: the people are stationary; we can insure social distancing; we can insure that people are wearing face coverings; we can keep the doors open to allow air flow; we can sanitize high touch areas between services. 2) With regard to outdoor services, you are all well aware that pre-planned and scheduled street protests have been allowed to continue unhindered, while the limit of no more than 12 people still applies to everyone else, including us. Yet here again, an outdoor worship service is a much safer event than a protest, since the people are stationary, social distance is respected, and the participants are wearing masks. Unfortunately, despite all of these efforts and explanations, and despite hearing words of approval for our Archdiocesan safety plan that was submitted to the City’s Recovery Task Force, there has been no change in the health order in San Francisco. Indeed, with counties now going on the state’s watch list and health orders changing rapidly, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of it all. This is what resulted in the confusion that led to the City Attorney sending inspectors to conduct surveillance in our churches.
Pastoral Care for Our People
Thank you for the continued pastoral care you give to your people. Please continue to do so, always in keeping with the local health orders of your county. 1. I would especially ask you to do everything possible to make Mass available to your people. Given the limits on numbers that have been imposed on us, I am asking each priest (except for the elderly and those with underlying health conditions) to be willing to celebrate up to three Masses on a Sunday, as necessary to respond to the demand. People who want to attend Mass will seek it out; making more Masses available will minimize the risk that some Masses may become overcrowded with people having to be sent away. Also, continue to celebrate daily Mass, and
for those parishes that have the capability, continue to livestream all Masses. 2. Please do your best to provide the other sacraments to your people as well, especially Reconciliation and Penance. The safety protocols of the Archdiocese provide for a safe way that Confessions can be kept to a regular schedule. 3. Please bear in mind that, while we are preparing for a full return to public Masses in the safest way possible, some parishes, especially in the City of San Francisco, may be under added scrutiny at this time. 4. Last but not least, please regularly remind people to follow the safety practices necessary to curb the spread of the virus. This is real, it is dangerous, and it has to be taken seriously. The resurgence is due in no small part to people becoming lax once the shelter-in-place rules began to be lifted. Please urge these practices upon them; absolutely do not give them the impression that the coronavirus is not a serious threat to the physical health of our community. In particular, please regularly remind your people to observe the “three W’s”: • Wear a face covering (it’s the simplest and most effective thing one can do); • Watch your distance (when in a group, keep six feet apart); • Wash your hands.
Prayer and Fasting
Allow me to end on a more positive note. First of all, a truly happy one: as you know, this Saturday Deacons Ben Rosado and Ian El-Quito will be ordained priests, and so welcomed to the Presbyterate of our Archdiocese. While only a small representative group of the clergy can be present, it is a time of rejoicing for our Archdiocese, so I ask you to hold them in prayer on that day and to follow the Ordination Mass via livestream if you can. Since we cannot all be together on that day and welcome them in the usual way, please make an effort to reach out to them whenever that opportunity presents itself. Please join in prayer as well for the deacons who will be ordained on the successive Saturdays (transitional deacons on August 8th, and permanent deacons on August 15th). Finally, it is my conviction that, with all that is going on in our society at this time, we need to redouble our efforts on the spiritual level. In particular, in addition to adoration, we have to reclaim an authentic and serious spirit of fasting. Fasting has traditionally been understood to mean no more than one meal in the course of a day. I am asking you to join me in observing Friday as a day of fast (unless your health condition cannot allow for it): please abstain from at least one meal on Fridays, and more than one if possible. Let us storm heaven with prayer and fasting for a restoration of public worship unhindered, for a swift end to this pandemic, for health care workers and researchers, and for government officials who must make very complicated decisions for the overall well-being of our communities.
Reapertura para las Misas públicas, parte 6
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urante más de cuatro meses hemos sido privados de la forma habitual en que los católicos santificamos el sábado. Como Iglesia sacramental, está en nuestra naturaleza – de hecho, es nuestra propia identidad – reunirnos físicamente para adorar y compartir la Eucaristía. Estoy seguro de que ustedes, al igual que yo, están muy preocupados por los efectos a largo plazo que esto tendrá en la salud espiritual de nuestra gente. Como pueden imaginar, mucha gente me da consejos (¡a veces más bien órdenes!) sobre lo que debo hacer, y a menudo ARZOBISPO son contradictorios. No detecto SALVATORE J. un sentido unificado de cómo debe proceder la Iglesia en CORDILEONE estos tiempos sin precedentes. Por favor, sepan, sin embargo, que he estado trabajando muy duro durante estos últimos meses para tratar de convencer a nuestras autoridades locales en la Ciudad de San Francisco (que todavía permite sólo reuniones al aire libre con un límite de 12 personas) que podemos reanudar las ceremonias litúrgicas en persona de una manera segura y responsable. He pasado incontables horas en la elaboración de comunicaciones y en conversaciones telefónicas y reuniones de Zoom con
funcionarios de la ciudad, destacados especialistas en salud, expertos jurídicos, líderes religiosos y otros, que culminaron en una reunión de Zoom el 8 de julio con (entre otros) el alcalde London Breed, el funcionario de salud de San Francisco Dr. Tomás Aragón, y Su Eminencia Metropolitano Gerásimos de la Metrópoli Ortodoxa Griega de San Francisco (ya que las diversas congregaciones ortodoxas orientales de San Francisco también están ansiosas por reanudar sus celebraciones de la Liturgia Divina). Por medio de este memorándum, entonces, me gustaría darle una breve visión general de mis esfuerzos en este sentido, así como algunas palabras de aliento y orientación junto con una invitación a unirse a mí para estar más personalmente comprometidos espiritualmente.
Examen de la situación
A lo largo de estas conversaciones, he hablado de cómo queremos ser socios de la ciudad en el cuidado de nuestra gente – no sólo por su salud física y financiera, sino también por su salud mental y espiritual – enfatizando, también, las diferentes maneras en que hemos estado apoyando a nuestro gobierno local en el esfuerzo de detener la propagación del virus y venir en ayuda de los necesitados. Con respecto a las órdenes locales de salud en San Francisco para la reapertura de actividades públicas, he señalado las dos consideraciones separadas de los
servicios interiores y exteriores, comparándonos con actividades seculares similares (o incluso idénticas). 1) La ciudad había permitido la venta al por menor en interiores al 50% de su capacidad, pero no permitió ningún servicio religioso en interiores. La preocupación aquí, desde la perspectiva de los expertos en salud, es que, en una tienda minorista, la gente entra para hacer una compra y luego sale, sin pasar mucho tiempo en el interior; es mucho más arriesgado para un grupo de personas pasar un largo período de tiempo dentro del mismo espacio. Sin embargo, en las grandes tiendas es muy posible que la gente pase una hora o más en la tienda, mientras que nosotros podemos mantener nuestros servicios a menos de una hora; además, los empleados de la tienda están dentro continuamente durante muchas horas. Además, una iglesia puede ser un lugar mucho más seguro que una tienda de venta al por menor, porque es un entorno más controlado: la gente está parada; podemos asegurar el distanciamiento social; podemos asegurarnos de que la gente se cubra la cara; podemos mantener las puertas abiertas para permitir el flujo de aire; podemos desinfectar las áreas de alto contacto entre los servicios. 2) En cuanto a los servicios al aire libre, todos ustedes saben muy bien que se ha permitido que las protestas callejeras planificadas y VER ARZOBISPO CORDILEONE, PÁGINA 30
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SUNDAY READINGS
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time ISAIAH 22:19-23 Thus says the Lord to Shebna, master of the palace: “I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station. On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah; I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your sash, and give over to him your authority. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. I will place the key of the House of David on Eliakim’s shoulder; when he opens, no one shall shut when he shuts, no one shall open. I will fix him like a peg in a sure spot, to be a place of honor for his family.”
Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands. I will give thanks to your name, because of your kindness and your truth: When I called, you answered me; you built up strength within me. Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands. The Lord is exalted, yet the lowly he sees, and the proud he knows from afar. Your kindness, O Lord, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands. Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands.
PSALM 138:1-2, 2-3, 6, 8 Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple.
ROMANS 11:33-36 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor? Or who has given the Lord anything that he may be repaid? For from him and through him
and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. MATTHEW 16:13-20 Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Then he strictly ordered his disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Who is Jesus to me?
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n atheist quizzes his newly converted Christian friend about Jesus. “Where was Jesus born? How many apostles did he have? Who were his parents? Where did he die?” The neophyte draws a blank to each question. Unimpressed, the atheist says, “You seem to know almost nothing about Jesus to whom you claim to have been converted.” The friend answers: “I’m ashamed at how little I know about Jesus. However, some years ago I used to be abusive toward my own family and addicted to gambling and alcohol. But now I am completely free from those demons. All this Jesus has done for me. This much I know of him.” Who is Jesus to me? We Catholics at times may be thrown off by this direct challenge. We have our liturgies, sacraments, FATHER CHARLES and devotions; we like to give PUTHOTA to the poor and the needy; we love the church and follow the traditions – all of which possess the power to bring us face to face with Jesus. However, often enough, we may not be engaged in finding a personal and communal relationship with
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Jesus, in a conscious and explicit manner, through all our religious practices and explore ways in which Jesus could become present in an ongoing way in our lives. Who do we say that Jesus is? Jesus himself is interested in this question. Information about Jesus does not necessarily lead us to Jesus. The faith our parents, teachers, friends, priests, and nuns have passed on to us needs to become our personalized faith. We cannot live on borrowed truths. Truths have to become our way of life or we will be mouthing platitudes. Theories of food are all good, but we have to taste it for ourselves. Concepts of love are not enough. We need to actually love and be loved. Similarly, our faith calls for personal experience or it is not our faith. Jesus invites us to come and see – taste and see –for ourselves. As individuals, families and communities, we face the question: Who is Jesus to us? People may have variously called him John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah and one of the prophets. But who is Jesus to us, here and now, in our culture and society, in the 21st century, given our current issues like COVID and racial conflicts? The answer is bound to be dialogical as Jesus relates to our changing scenarios of life as we grow in age, facing all sorts of circumstances in our lives and the world. Our authentic answers to Jesus’ question can spring only from the Heavenly Father’s revelation. Only through God’s wisdom and knowledge, his inscrutable
and unsearchable ways, which Paul celebrates in Romans, do we come to know his son. We cannot define Jesus purely from culture and society, our wants and needs. There is a grave danger of domesticating Jesus to suit our needs and ideologies. True, he is incarnate in our times, culture, and the world as the Wordmade-flesh, but he is also countercultural, calling the world to conversion and judgment. He is the Son of God, our Savior, for all times and cultures. He is “the Christ, the Son of the living God,” calling us to repentance and giving us eternal life. We cannot fabricate Jesus for our convenience; we cannot fashion our own idols of Jesus. Our personal experience of Jesus has to be rooted and grounded in the revelation of our Father. Letting Jesus be who he is, we discern his vital role in our lives and for the world. As Peter is called to shepherd the church, as Eliakim is appointed master of the house in Isaiah, we are sent out on mission in the wake of our personal experience of Jesus. With Jesus we will collaborate to let the church shine and dispel the darkness of evil in the world. Who is Jesus to us? This question we cannot ignore as Christians. The answer – not merely in words, but in the way we live – will bind us together with Jesus and his Father, energizing us to heal the world, the world God cherishes with an everlasting love. FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA, PH.D., is pastor of St. Elizabeth Parish, San Francisco.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, AUGUST 24: Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle. RV 21:9b-14. PS 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18. JN 1:49B. JN 1:45-51.
MONDAY, AUGUST 31: Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 2:1-5. PS 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102. LK 4:18. LK 4:16-30.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25: Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Louis of France, King and St. Joseph Calasanz, priest. 2 THES 2:1-3a, 1417. PS 96:10, 11-12, 13. HEB 4:12. MT 23:23-26.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: Tuesday of the Twentysecond Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 2:10B-16. PS 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13AB, 13CD-14. LK 7:16. LK 4:3137
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26: Wednesday of the Twentyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. 2 THES 3:6-10, 16-18. PS 128:1-2, 4-5. 1 JOHN 2:5. MT 23:27-32.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2: Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 3:1-9. PS 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21. LK 4:18. LK 4:38-44.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27: Memorial of St. Monica. 1 COR 1:1-9. PS 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. MT 24:42A, 44. MT 24:42-51.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 3: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor. 1 COR 3:18-23. PS 24:1BC-2, 3-4AB, 5-6. MT 4:19. LK 5:1-11
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28: Memorial of St. Augustine, bishop, confessor and doctor. 1 COR 1:17-25. PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 1011. LUKE 21:36. MT 25:1-13. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29: Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. 1 COR 1:26-31. PS 33:12-13, 18-19, 2021. MT 5:10. MK 6:17-29. SUNDAY, AUGUST 30: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. JER 20:7-9. PS 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9. ROM 12:1-2, MT 11:29AB. MT 16:21-27
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4: Friday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 4:1-5. PS 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40. JN 8:12. LK 5:33-39. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5: Saturday of the Twentysecond Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta. 1 COR 4:6b-15. PS 145:17-18, 19-20, 21. JN 14:6. LK 6:1-5. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6: Twenty-third Sunday in
Ordinary Time. EZ 33:7-9. PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. ROM 13:8-10. 2 COR 5:19. MT 18:15-20 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7: Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 5:1-8. PS 5:5-6, 7, 12. JN 10:27. LK 6:6-11. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. MI 5:1-4A or Rom 8:28-30. PS 13:6AB, 6C. MT 1:1-16, 18-23 OR 1:18-23. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9: Memorial of St. Peter Claver, priest. 1 COR 7:25-31. PS 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17. LK 6:23AB. LK 6:20-26. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10: Thursday of the Twentythird Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 8:1B-7, 11-13. PS 139:1B-3, 13-14AB, 23-24. 1 JN 4:12. LK 6:27-38. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 COR 9:16-19, 22B-27. PS 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12. JN 17:17B, 17A. LK 6:39-42. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12: Saturday of the TwentyThird Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1 Cor 10:14-22. Ps 116:12-13, 17-18. JN 14:23. LK 6:43-49.
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Suicide and melancholy
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e no longer understand melancholy. Today we lump all forms of melancholy together into one indiscriminate bundle and call it “depression.” While a lot of good is being done by psychiatrists, psychologists, and the medical profession in terms of treating depression, something important is being lost at the same time. Melancholy is much more than what we call “depression.” For better and for worse, the ancients saw melancholy as a gift from God. Prior to modern psychology and psychiatry, melancholy was seen precisely as a gift FATHER RON from the divine. In Greek ROLHEISER mythology, it even had its own god, Saturn, and it was seen as a rich but mixed gift. On one hand, it could bring soul-crushing emotions such as unbearable loneliness, paralyzing obsessions, inconsolable grief, cosmic sadness, and suicidal despair; on the other hand, it could also bring depth, genius,
creativity, poetic inspiration, compassion, mystical insight and wisdom. No more. Today melancholy has even lost its name and has become, in the words of Lyn Cowan, a Jungian analyst, “clinicalized, pathologized, and medicalized” so that what poets, philosophers, blues singers, artists, and mystics have forever drawn on for depth is now seen as a “treatable illness” rather than as a painful part of the soul that doesn’t want treatment but wants instead to be listened to because it intuits the unbearable heaviness of things, namely, the torment of human finitude, inadequacy and mortality. For Cowan, modern psychology’s preoccupation with symptoms of depression and its reliance on drugs in treating depression show an “appalling superficiality in the face of real human suffering.” For her, apart from whatever else this might mean, refusing to recognize the depth and meaning of melancholy is demeaning to the sufferer and perpetrates a violence against a soul that is already in torment. And that is the issue when dealing with suicide. Suicide is normally the result of a soul in torment and in most cases that torment is not the result of a moral failure but of a melancholy which overwhelms
a person at a time when he or she is too tender, too weak, too wounded, too stressed, or too biochemically impaired to withstand its pressure. Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist, who eventually did die by suicide, had written earlier about the melancholic forces that sometimes threatened to overwhelm him. Here’s one of his diary entries: “the force which drew me away from life was fuller, more powerful, and more general than any mere desire. It was a force like my old aspiration to live, only it impelled me in the opposite direction. It was an aspiration of my whole being to get out of life.’” There’s still a lot we don’t understand about suicide and that misunderstanding isn’t just psychological, it’s also moral. In short, we generally blame the victim: If your soul is sick, it’s your fault. For the most part that is how people who die by suicide are judged. Even though publicly we have come a long way in recent times in understanding suicide and now claim to be more open and less judgmental morally, the stigma remains. We still have not made the same peace with breakdowns in mental health as we have made
such as the one he delivered at the Carmelite Sisters’ monastery in Marinwood, in which he called St. Joseph “the quiet man,” and when he celebrated the Sisters of the Poor here at my home. Shortly after becoming pastor of Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco, he led a two-week pilgrimage to a Marian shrine, which I was fortunate enough to attend in 2012. One of his parishioners regarded him as her eighth child. We kept in touch with him for the next eight years of his life. He greeted me as “my fellow pilgrim.” Father Brian touched the lives of all he came in contact with. When he was transferred his parishioners gave him a farewell party, an international banquet. We sang “Danny Boy” in his honor with new words written just for him. He was very inclusive and had much empathy for everyone. “Simpatico” would be a good way to describe him. Even though my contact with Father Brian was only sporadic and by chance mostly at religious functions, I shall miss him. He taught us how to live and how to die. He fought the good fight and ran the good race. Thank you, Father Brian, for being a simple parish priest, our teacher, our inspiration. Zella Kotala San Francisco
of this new nation is definitively stated and never to be taken for granted … “to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our prosperity.” Here we are in 2020. Really, as a nation, are we free? I attended a program at Mercy Center, Burlingame, this week. Every Wednesday night the center offers East/West meditation. Individuals from many places click into this free Zoom offering. Appropriately, the program leader, Sister Judy Cannon, gave a reflection on “freedom.” Participants are always welcome to respond with their own reflections. One gentleman from Ireland commented that in this country freedom is individual; by contrast, in his country freedom protects all. Individuals here freely choose not to wear masks. In Ireland everyone chooses to wear masks because all live by supporting the freedom and protection of all citizens. I live so that you can live. I protect you and this country is protected. Across this nation many events are held without all participants abiding by the rules of social distancing and/or wearing face coverings. In California people flock to beaches to proclaim their “freedom” from rules set for the protection of all. In many states people are boldly flouting the rules set by health care officials to halt the spread of COVID-19. This is still a young nation. Do we need more time to mature, or have we lost other ideals to our founding fathers such as respect and care for all? Do we understand how easily this virus can be spread? Do we care to protect our neighbors, our friends, our co-workers and all those who serve us in so many capacities every day? Do we care to protect our nation? Yes, I think we care very much, because deep down, that is really who we are. Sister M. Carol Baetz, RSM Burlingame
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LETTERS Social distancing has brought us closer
San Francisco’s restrictions on religious worship (services can be held only outside, limited to 12 people) are perhaps the strictest in the country, but they have actually brought us closer together! Instead of Mass in a massive church, I’m now offering Mass on the deck of our rectory. Instead of 100 people sitting as far as possible from each other in a 1000-seat church, 12 people are now sitting six feet from each other. I don’t have to use a microphone. Before starting Mass, I ask the names of those I do not know, and even a little about them. I have become friendly with some I’ve seen at Mass for years but who normally leave immediately after Mass. They are now “trapped” into talking to me and their fellow congregants, and they are rather enjoying it. It feels like Mass in the catacombs, especially in the cold fog of a San Francisco summer. We are now making a real sacrifice, as one body in Christ, to attend Mass. We feel that we are all in this together, and that God is with us. Father Joseph Illo Star of the Sea Parish San Francisco
Passivity is not acceptable
My Catholic San Francisco is a window on my faith and our religious practices in both the Bay Area, nationally and internationally. It seems to me that the quality and breadth of reporting is very strong at a time when we are fighting isolation and misinformation. I particularly want to express my thanks to the writers of letters to CSF. I am thinking of the June 25 edition where writers S. Miller, M. Lundy, F. Lindh, spoke movingly, honestly and inspiringly on climate change, racism and LGBT rights. Your letters informed me. Thank you: for seeing the good in Catholic stewardship of the earth (starting from the top with Pope Francis); in reflecting on and promoting change of our acceptance of privilege which excludes so many other people; and for calling out our bishops on their response to the defense of LGBT rights. Passivity is not acceptable if we are strong in our Christian faith. Diana Wild San Francisco
The fight against racism
Re “Amid unrest, some say church can engage in fight against racism” (July 16, 2020): Some? The rest of the church condones racism? It is amazing that there are any Black members in any of our parishes. Joanne McGlothlin San Bruno
Discernment on Black Lives Matter
I fully support the sentiment of Black Lives Matter as do all true Christians and people of good will. God created us all and loves us all. I would just like to caution people about the Black Lives Matter organization. I encourage going to their website and reading their “what we believe” page. You will find, in the last half of that page, beliefs and goals well beyond those racial equality and justice. Many of their goals are contrary to our Catholic faith, including disruption of the nuclear family. Please, read it for yourself. God Bless us all. May he help us to rid our country of its “original sin” which persists systemically in our country. Carol Mantelli Valls San Rafael
With liberty for all
As nation we’ve just celebrated the Fourth of July. This flag-waving day, this red-white-and-blue-everything day, ensures this country’s freedom as set out in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Fast forward to 1787. The preamble to the U.S. Constitution makes it clear that freedom for the people
In memory of a simple parish priest
The archdiocese has suffered a great and untimely demise in the death of Father Brian Costello. I regard him as the jewel in the crown of the clergy. Father Brian was a warm, generous and personal priest, a fine orator who gave memorable homilies
Where is the outrage?
I am disappointed and disheartened at the Catholic Church’s apparent unwillingness to challenge the governor’s July 1 sudden ban on singing at religious services. Indeed, Catholic San Francisco’s last edition included not one word on this issue, which should be of critical concern to all Catholics. Singing is an essential and integral part of the celebration of Mass. Where is the outrage? Where is the challenge to this edict from the bishops of California or the Archdiocese of San Francisco? I hear only silence. In fact, it was three evangelical churches that filed a lawsuit on July 15 seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction. I urge the Catholic Church and the archdiocese to stand up for our religious rights. Susan Mara Emerald Hills
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Statues of St. Junipero Serra deserve to stay This commentary was first published in The Washington Post, June 30, 2020.
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o the protesters who tore down his statue in Los Angeles this month, the priest, friar and St. Junípero Serra represents “hate, bigotry and colonization,” as one activist put it. Nothing would have made Serra sadder, for the real man was a profound lover of all people and especially of the indigenous peoples he came to serve. Seen through the lens of the present, many heroes of history may seem unworthy of their pedestals. But some, such as Serra, still deserve our esteem. Who, then, is Junípero Serra after all? ARCHBISHOP First and foremost, Serra SALVATORE J. represents the true spirit of a church identified with the poor CORDILEONE and outcast. He left his home, his family, his sinecure as a philosophy professor to offer the very best thing he had to the California people: the news that God Himself loved them enough to send His only Son to die on a cross to redeem them. Saint Junípero Serra is “the Apostle of California.” Serra repeatedly intervened for mercy on behalf of indigenous rebels against Spanish authorities. He famously walked to Mexico City with a painful ulcerated leg to obtain the authority to discipline the military who were abusing the indigenous people. Then he walked back. And his legacy lives on. The 21 missions founded by Serra and his brother Franciscans are the state’s oldest structures and among its most visited historic monuments. The churches are a physical sign of the Catholic Church’s respect for local cultures, enriched and transformed by the love of Jesus Christ. Mission architecture is widely copied precisely because
We are not yet a nation that lives up to our founding creed of liberty and justice for all. We can and must do better.
its innovation speaks so strikingly to Southwestern culture. There is no denying that Native Americans in California endured grave human rights abuses. They suffered wrongs during all three eras: the Spanish colonization (known as the Mission era), the Mexican secularization and the American era. But Serra should not bear the weight of all that went wrong and all who did wrong. If we looked at him with clear eyes, we would see Serra as one of the first American champions of the human rights of indigenous peoples, a man who protested abusive police powers by government authorities. The deaths that occurred during the Mission era were primarily from disease. The greater, more deliberate devastation happened later, when secular governments took control. As UCLA historian Benjamin Madley writes in his book “American Genocide”: “Murders and massacres filled the archives.” As Santa Clara University historian Robert Senkewicz told the National Catholic Reporter, “We do know what did happen when religious groups were not present to try to protect native peoples.” The genocide of native peoples happened primarily during the gold rush, he points out, “when Americans offered bounties for Indian scalps and the native peoples of Northern California were brutally decimated and oppressed.” History is often not kind to heroes. George Washington sacrificed to found a great country. He also owned slaves he freed only upon his death. Leland Stanford, founder of a great university, was an abolitionist but also continued genocidal policies against the Indians. Haight-Ashbury, the San Francisco symbol of free love, is named after Henry Haight, who in 1867 called the Chinese a “servile, effeminate and inferior race” that would “pollute and desecrate” Americans’ democratic heritage. He was elected governor of California in a landslide. We are not yet a nation that lives up to our founding creed of liberty and justice for all. We can and must do better. That is precisely why we ought to look to Serra as an inspiration to heroic virtue and as an emblem of American diversity. His is the path to peace, equality and racial justice. The first Hispanic American saint, he is also the first saint to be canonized on U.S. soil and by the first pope from the Americas. At the canonization ceremony, Pope Francis said Serra represents a fearless willingness to engage with the other with the love of Christ: “He learned how to bring to birth and nurture God’s life in the faces of everyone he met; he made them his brothers and sisters.” Father Junípero Serra died a beloved figure, mourned by indigenous people and Spaniards alike: a symbol of reconciliation, of hope and of the profound love he bore toward the people he strove to serve. His life reminds us of a core tenet of the Catholic faith: that the spirit of poverty, service and simplicity is the way to peace.
What’s in a name? This commentary was first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 2020.
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his week the Washington Redskins decided to change their name on the grounds it is derogatory to the Indigenous people of America. This is being followed by calls to change others sports’ team names as well, including most recently a call by a Washington Post editor to drop the Texas Rangers name. But what about our own hometown NFL team? The Forty-Niners, of course, were the generation of fortune seekers who rushed to California in the mid-19th century in search ARCHBISHOP of gold. The upsurge in white SALVATORE J. population created conflicts with the Indian people here CORDILEONE that led to a campaign of extermination against them. In 1848, California was home to about 150,000 Indians. By 1870, only 30,000 were left alive. (For comparison, the entire population of San Francisco in the 1852 state census was just 21,000.) While diseases brought by Europeans had already taken their toll on the Indigenous population, it was at the time of the Gold Rush and after that an explicit campaign of extermination was conducted, with the California government dispatching state militia and the U.S. cavalry to kill Indians. Most of the Forty-Niners did not strike gold and get rich. So they reverted to farming, often simply seizing land from the Indians and in some cases killing or enslaving them. The California government actively aided this carnage. At least three times California funded militia to kill Indians, to the tune of $1.5 million (unadjusted for inflation). Assemblyman James Ramos, who represents the 40th district and was raised on the San Manuel Indian reservation, points out that “the state paid militias 25 cents per scalp in 1856 to rid the mountains of Indian people. In 1860, the bounty was raised to $5.” In his state of the union address, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, laid out the template by declaring: “That a war of extermination will continue to be waged between the races until the Indian race becomes extinct must be expected. While we cannot anticipate this result but with painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power or wisdom of man to avert.” Even as California entered the United States as a “free state,” its leader was blaming fate for his own decision to kill Indigenous peoples. What about the historical figures we honor from this era? The prestigious university in Palo Alto still bears the name of its founder, even though, as the eighth governor of California, Leland Stanford continued the genocidal policies of his predecessors. He also opposed Chinese immigrants on the explicitly racist grounds they were “an inferior race.” The line between good and evil, as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn reminded us, runs between every human heart. The sins of the distant past are easy to decry; the ones in our own hearts harder to see and root out. What does “everybody accept” right now, that our descendants will feel ashamed of ?
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with breakdowns in physical health. We don’t have the same psychological and moral anxieties when someone dies of cancer, stroke, or heart attack as we do when someone dies by suicide. Those who die by suicide are, in effect, our new “lepers.” In former times when there was no solution for leprosy other than isolating the person from everyone else, the victim suffered doubly, once from the disease and then (perhaps even more painfully) from the social isolation and debilitating stigma. He or she was declared “unclean” and had to own that stigma. But the person suffering from leprosy still had the consolation of not being judged psychologically or morally. They were not judged to be “unclean” in those areas. They were pitied. However, we only feel pity for those whom we haven’t ostracized, psychologically and morally. That’s why we judge rather than pity someone who dies by suicide. For us, death by suicide
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ITALY EASES SOME RESTRICTIONS ON MASSES
ROME – Although the number of new COVID-19 infections in Italy was creeping up in late July and early August, the country’s internal affairs ministry eased two restrictions placed on the celebration of Masses: allowing choirs and dropping the safedistancing requirement for members of the same household. The Italian bishops’ conference in late July already communicated to dioceses that the Internal Affairs Ministry’s coronavirus committee had decided that each region of Italy, depending on the local infection rate, should decide whether to maintain the limit of 200 people at any given Mass. The bishops’ conference had asked for the limit to be lifted for church buildings that can ensure people are seated at least five feet apart and, “without difficulty,” still have room for more than 200 people. At the same time, the bishops had asked for the return of choirs and for an end to the social-distancing rule for people living in the same house. After a meeting Aug. 10, the government informed the bishops’ conference that choirs could return as long as precautions were taken to keep choir members at least three feet from each other and at least six feet from members of the congregation.
PANDEMIC HAS REVEALED HOW OFTEN HUMAN DIGNITY IS IGNORED, POPE SAYS
VATICAN CITY – The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on other, “more widespread social diseases,” particularly attacks on the God-given human dignity of every person, Pope Francis said. “The pandemic has highlighted how vulnerable and interconnected we all are. If we do not take care
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low the use of the drugs up until the ninth week of pregnancy, rather than the seventh. A pharmaceutical or chemical abortion involves the administration of mifepristone – commonly called RU-486 – which blocks the hormone progesterone that is needed for a pregnancy to continue, and misoprostol, taken two days later, which stimulates uterine contractions to expel the fetus. In a statement Aug. 14, the Pontifical Academy for Life noted that Italy’s 1978 law legalizing abortion “opens with the demanding affirmation that the state, guaranteeing the right to conscious and responsible procreation, ‘recognizes the social value of motherhood and protects human life from its beginning.’”
of each other, starting with the least – those who are most affected, including creation – we cannot heal the world,” the pope said Aug. 12 at his weekly general audience. Pope Francis had announced a week earlier that he would begin a series of audience talks about Catholic social teaching, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The audience, which was livestreamed from the library of the Apostolic Palace, began with a reading from the Book Pope Francis of Genesis: “God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” “In the coming weeks, I invite you to face together the urgent issues that the pandemic has exposed, social ills above all else. And we will do so in the light of the Gospel, the theological virtues and the principles of the social doctrine of the church,” the pope said Aug. 5 during his weekly general audience. “We will explore together how our Catholic social tradition can help the human family heal this world that suffers from serious illnesses,” the pope said.
UK CHURCH CHARITIES SEEK EXTRA GOVERNMENT HELP
MANCHESTER, England – The Catholic Church asked the U.K. government to give extra cash to religious charities to prevent them from going bust as the country crashed officially into a recession. In a letter to Oliver Dowden, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, church leaders warned that Catholic charities faced “a perfect storm” financially, and many could be forced to close down. They requested that the “gift aid” scheme – under which the government supports charities by augmenting private donations with an additional 25 pence for every 1 pound private donors declare on taxes – be extended immediately to a higher rate. Even an extra 8 pence per 1 pound would help to offset losses of hundreds of thousands of pounds incurred by Catholic dioceses and Catholic charities since the lockdown began in March, the leaders suggested.
VATICAN CRITICIZES NEW ITALIAN RULES FOR RU-486
VATICAN CITY – The Italian health ministry’s liberalization of recommendations for using RU-486 to induce an abortion is a further sign that the government is moving away from its promise to help women and families facing an unplanned pregnancy, the Pontifical Academy for Life said. Guidelines issued Aug. 12 by the health department remove the recommendation that pharmaceutical abortions take place only in a hospital, and they al-
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Listening to women can save lives during pandemic, sociologist says DAMIAN AVEVOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ACCRA, Ghana – Women in Ghana and other West African nations have suffered disproportionately during the global COVID-19 pandemic in large part because they have been excluded from positions of power and decision-making, a Catholic sociologist said. Miriam Rahinatu Iddrisu, the sociologist and gender specialist, told Catholic News Service that women’s input could have helped alleviate a range of problems from increased cases of domestic abuse – especially during the lockdown – to increased food insecurity. “Countries with more women in leadership – in governments, cabinets, legislatures – have delivered COVID-19 responses that consider the effects of the crisis on women and girls,” Iddrisu told CNS Aug. 6. With women being the primary caretakers in most households, government authorities in Ghana and throughout the region need to set up COVID-19 information sessions to provide quality and reliable information about the virus, she said. And, to reduce the economic impact of the pandemic on women, she advocated for the provision of emergency and recovery funds for women’s cooperatives and for women working in the informal sector, which particularly involves women who sell vegetables and other products in marketplaces and along roads. But even more, she said, “mainstreaming gender equality is an intrinsic part of the road to recovery from COVID-19.”
“Our leaders need to directly recognize the impact of the pandemic on women,” she said, as well as “the positive role inclusive decision-making at community, national and multinational levels would bring as we rebuild our economies in 2020.” “As new COVID-19 cases emerge daily, we have no time to lose,” she said. “Prioritizing women’s voices in the response will set us up for a more equitable, healthier future while saving lives today.” But looking more broadly and echoing a sentiment expressed by Pope Francis, she said the pandemic, “more than any comparable crisis in recent history,” highlights the need for structural reforms in economic and political life. “We need more complex strategies to improve the overall political landscape which include voter education to combat gender stereotypes, expanding women’s access to campaign financing, fostering cross-party and regional coalitions of women in politics, and engaging with the men who control political parties and agendas.” In Ghana women, just as much as men, “harbor harmful gender norms and stereotypes that portray politics as the domain of men,” Iddrisu said. The sociologist also warned of a growing global phenomenon of using social media to viciously attack women involved in politics. “This is a huge deterrent to aspirants, especially younger women, who must enter electoral politics in far greater numbers if the gender gap is to be bridged.”
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DECREE On May 7, 2020, the Presbyteral Council of the Archdiocese of San Francisco met in regular session. One item of discussion surrounded feedback the Archbishop received from members of the recently named Visitation Deanery. The members of said deanery objected to this newly named deanery as not appropriate geographically to all within the Deanery. They proposed renaming it the Alemany Deanery, noting that Alemany Boulevard cuts through the entire deanery. The Archbishop highlighted the appropriateness of this name, given that this is the name of the first Archbishop of San Francisco. With the consensus of the Council members present, and after prudent discussion of the matter, it was decided to rename the Visitation Deanery, Alemany Deanery. I hereby decree Visitation Deanery is to be renamed Alemany Deanery. This change is to be effective 1st August 2020 and promulgated to the faithful of the Archdiocese by way of publication in the Archdiocesan newspaper, Catholic San Francisco. Given at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, this 8th day of May, 2020.
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discrimination,” they said. “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video calling Copts their ‘favorite prey’ and signaled they would increase attacks.” They said violence against Coptic Christians, particularly in local villages, is rarely punished and this makes Copts more susceptible to attacks. They noted that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom states that there is approximately one mosque for every 820 Muslims and one church for every 2,430 Christians. Rep. French Hill (R-Arkansas) introduced House Resolution 49, Supporting Coptic Christians in Egypt. Rep. David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), Rep. Louis J. Correa (D-California), and Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Illinois) signed onto the legislation as original co-sponsors. The resolution currently has 76 co-sponsors from both the Democratic and Republican parties. Currently, the resolution is stalled in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In their joint letter on Hagia Sophia, Archbishop Cordileone and Metropolitan Gerasimos said the decision to convert the museum to a mosque and open it for Islamic prayer July 24 “continues to be lamented throughout the world. In our mourning, we pray that this does not become the harbinger of future acts in Turkey that place religious minorities at risk.” Hagia Sophia was built as an Orthodox Christian cathedral and stood as the seat of Eastern Christianity for a thousand years before Ottoman Turks conquered its host city and turned it into a mosque in 1453. In 1934, it was designated as a museum revered as a symbol of Christian and Muslim unity until being transformed into a mosque this July. They said “the world has spoken unequivocally” against the conversion. “Religious leaders and groups, such as Pope Francis, the World Council of Churches, the Islamic Society of North America and others have spoken against this action,” they said. “Governments across the world continue to voice their opposition, including the recent United States House of Representatives Resolution 7608. We are grateful for all these
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Muslims attend Friday prayers outside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul July 24, 2020.
voices of support and ask that all members of our communities continue to press that Hagia Sophia’s status as a museum be restored so that all people may experience the splendor of this treasure of the world.” The joint statement continued: “Hagia Sophia has been open and accessible to all for over eight decades and needs to be restored as a museum and remain as a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. By blatantly disregarding this decision, the Republic of Turkey is not only violating an
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agreement but they are denying the universal value of Hagia Sophia for future generations. “Hagia Sophia will always be the greatest cathedral in all Christendom. The Great Church, as it is called, is an architectural and engineering masterpiece, and most especially an important part of our heritage as Christians. What took place within the Great Church affected the entire Christian world. After its conversion as a mosque in 1453 after the fall of Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia influenced all mosques built after. “We continue to be united in prayer that this decision may still be reversed. We pray that the integrity of the Byzantine and Christian treasures of the church will not be sullied. Until such time, we will fervently raise our voices for religious tolerance and against religious persecution and beseech the Lord for the protection of Hagia Sophia.” While commemorating the International Day of the Sea during his Sunday Angelus address July 12, Pope Francis told pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square that “the sea carries me a little farther away in my thoughts: to Istanbul.” “I think of Hagia Sophia, and I am very saddened,” he said. On July 14, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pennsylvania, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, said in a statement that Hagia Sophia has been “a sign of good will and peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims and an expression of humanity’s longings for unity and love.” In a homily during a June 30 divine liturgy, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople warned that the decision “will push millions of Christians around the world against Islam.” It is “absurd and harmful that Hagia Sophia, from a place that now allows the two peoples to meet us and admire its greatness, can again become a reason for contrast and confrontation,” he said, according to Fides news agency.
Mary Allicson Hobson-Coard
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Mary Allicson Hobson-Coard was born on August 15, 1939. She passed away quietly, at her home in Daly City, California, on Friday, June 12, 2020, surrounded by family. Allicson was a central force to her loving and devoted family, as well as her many friends. Partner to Leonardo “Len” F. Coardlabarrie, Mary Allicson nurtured and raised two loving children, LeonClaude and PaulaClaudine. Mary Allicson was born to parents, Lawrence Hobson and Stephanie Hobson, née Guy. She is survived by Len; PaulaClaudine Hobson-Coard; LeonClaude Hobson-Coard; and grandson, Christopher Pulcher-Coard. She was the eldest of five siblings including David Hobson and Gora De Coteau, both deceased. She leaves behind several cousins, many nieces and nephews, including Rachael De Coteau, Richard De Coteau, and Loraine De Coteau Francis, as well as a host of friends and former students who played important roles in her life. In 1973, she entered the 6253rd U.S. Army Reserve Hospital at Hamilton Air Force Base under the Civilian Acquired Skills (CAS) program and served three years, separating with the rank of Specialist E-5. Her infectious personality and demeanor throughout her service time was both outstanding and honorable. Mary Allicson also assisted Len in the successful operation of the International Youth Soccer Confederation (IYSC) and its dynamic championship “Constellation” teams. She was particularly proud of her substantial design work and fabrication of the teams’ logos and its colorful uniforms that regularly won accolades from soccer enthusiasts and purists across the soccer spectrum, both national and international. Mary Allicson graduated from St. Joseph’s Convent. She studied Music at Trinity College, Cambridge University, London, and later moved to Great Neck, New York, in 1964, to pursue Fine Art and Fashion Design at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She took every opportunity to express her passionate love for the arts as a practitioner, exhibitor, teacher and mentor. She was proud of, and delighted by the accomplishments of her pupils and her children, as they progressed along their individual paths. One of her proudest moments was in 2016, when she collaborated with (daughter) PaulaClaudine, to complete a community beautification project commissioned by the City of South San Francisco. She subsequently received a congratulatory letter from Congresswoman Jackie Speier. Her work on this project was covered by the San Francisco Examiner, San Mateo Daily Journal, and Ventura Star newspapers. Mary Allicson also had some of her paintings exhibited at galleries, libraries, festivals, and restaurants, throughout Northern and Southern California, winning numerous awards for her artwork. Mary Allicson was known to use bright, vibrant colors to convey what she envisioned as the power of love, life, and energy. She often infused her work with tropical and Caribbean-Antillean motifs, which were inspired by her early life experiences. Mary Allicson was dedicated to giving back to her community and demonstrated that conviction through volunteer activities at Holy Angels Church in Daly City, California; the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, as well as in the Honorable Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s office in South San Francisco, among many others . . . . Finally, her caring, sensitive and compassionate attitude for others was utterly remarkable! We all are at a loss for this vibrant personality whom we will surely, surely miss. She consistently taught us through words and actions to MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!!! May she rest in peace….
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lives who have not yet been given so much of the true treasures of life, the treasures that satisfy the deepest yearnings of the human soul, and endure into eternity.” Archbishop Cordileone said that going forward the deacons’ priorities are their families, their job and their ministry in the church. In order to guard against ““complacency, selfishness and self-glorification” in their vocation, he encouraged them to withdraw into “the intimacy of prayer,” like Christ often did. “Life can often feel like a rat race and church life and church ministry is no escape from that,” he said, adding that the deacons will need the peace that a consistent prayer life gives in order to persevere in their vocation to the church. “Keep always before your eyes, dear
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Outdoor Sunday Masses begin at cathedral
St. Mary’s Cathedral plaza is seen from a drone camera Aug. 15 as Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated 9 a.m. Mass on the cathedral steps with concurrent, physically separated Masses by four other priests on the outdoor platform. Fifty-five people standing or sitting in lawn chairs at marked, six-foot intervals attended the services on the eve of the feast of the Assumption, with another 30 barred from entry because of attendance limits. The archbishop is urging parishes throughout the archdiocese to make Mass as widely available as county health restrictions permit by holding outdoor services. This weekend at the cathedral, five stations for outdoor Masses are scheduled Sunday, Aug. 23, at 9 a.m., two each at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. (Spanish) and two at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The 9 a.m. Sunday schedule is confirmed until indoor Masses are permitted. Check the cathedral’s website for information on other times. Parking is in the parking lot, except under the breezeways. Bring and wear a mask and dress for San Francisco weather.
brothers, our one goal: eternal life in God’s kingdom. All must be subordinated to and directed by this one goal. This is why God’s revolution is so different from this world’s, and why he sometimes turns our lives upside down. It’s to get us back on the path toward the only goal that matters,” he said. The newly ordained deacons have been given the following assignments: Robert W. Andrews, Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park, and St. Catherine of Siena Parish; David C. Bernstein, St. Raphael Parish; Richard O. Dizon, St. Mark Parish; José G. Hernandez, St. Raphael Parish; John M. Hurst, St. Gabriel Parish; Daniel V. Kaatz, Notre Dame des Victoires Parish; Emilo V. Lucero, St. Andrew Parish; Albert S. Nimri, St. Thomas More Parish; Raymond L. Smith, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Redwood City.
Dominican, BVM Sisters celebrate jubilees Sister Gervaise Valpey OP and Sister Judy Lu McDonnell OP are celebrating 60 years as Dominican Sisters of San Rafael. “These two former schoolmates growing up in Stockton, graduated high school together and entered the convent on the same day,” the congregation said in a statement. “Sister Gervaise Valpey and Sister Judy Lu McDonnell continue to shine their light on a world very much in need.” Sister Gervaise has spent the last 60 years primarily in the ministry of education at her congregation’s San Domenico Schools holding positions including principal and head of school. She has an innovative spirit and an inspiring willingness to try. Grateful for the Dominican value of interdependence, she confidently walks in the footsteps of St. Dominic,
hometown of Stockton to assess growing needs in the Laotian and Latino immigrant communities. Since 2008, Sister Judy Lu has served as the co-promoter of justice, peace, and care of creation within the congregation.
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OBITUARIES MSGR. EDWARD MCTAGGART
Msgr. Edward McTaggart, retired pastor of St. Brendan Parish and former vicar general of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, died July 30 in San Mateo. Family members kept company at his side until the end. He was 91 years old. Msgr. Edward Msgr. McTaggart was McTaggart ordained by Archbishop John J. Mitty on June 11, 1955, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, and celebrated his first Mass the following day at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Redwood City. Msgr. McTaggart applied in September 1960 to serve as chaplain, 49th Infantry Brigade, California Army National Guard. He rose over the years to the rank of full colonel, denoting his exemplary service as a senior commissioned officer who served decades in the military. Msgr. McTaggart spent 15 years in the National Guard and 13 in the Army Reserves. On Feb. 2, 1976, Msgr. McTaggart became pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish in St. Mary’s Park. Archbishop John Quinn appointed Msgr. McTaggart vicar general on July 16, 1987, the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Msgr. McTaggart accepted the pastorate of St. Brendan Parish in January 1988. On Sept. 10, 1989, then-Father McTaggart was named a Prelate of Honor by His Holiness John Paul II with the title of monsignor. Msgr. McTaggart retired Oct. 1, 1998 to St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo, where he lived until 2013. He then resided at Serra Clergy House until late 2016, when he moved to Judy’s Home for the Elderly in San Mateo. Survivors include Msgr. McTaggart’s sister Maureen, his brother John and his wife, Mary, and their children. An outdoor livestreamed funeral Mass for Msgr. McTaggart was celebrated Aug. 18, 2020 at St. Gregory Church with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.
Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.
FATHER P. GERARD O’ROURKE
Father P. Gerard O’Rourke died July 29, 2020, in hospice at a care facility in Pacifica. Father O’Rourke was 95 years old and a priest for 70 years. He was widely respected for his work in ecumenical and interreligious affairs, a ministry that occupied Father P. Gerard decades of his life as a O’Rourke priest. A notice by the Archdiocese of San Francisco commented on Father O’Rourke’s “remarkable contributions in ecumenical and interreligious affairs.” Father O’Rourke “was a giant in the creation of the United Religions Initiative and a giant in his love for all souls,” Bishop William Swing, former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Calfornia and president of the United Religions Initiative, said in a comment shared through Michael Pappas, executive director of the San Francisco Interfaith Council. Rita R. Semel, who has been long active in the interfaith council and co-founded the United Religions Initiative, said “the interfaith world has lost a giant.” Semel said she first met Father O’Rourke when he became the ecumenical and interfaith officer of the archdiocese more than 20 years ago. “I was impressed immediately with his devotion to Catholicism and his respect for other faiths,” she said. “We worked together in two organizations – the San Francisco Interfaith Council and the Interfaith Center of the Presidio. His contribution to those organizations was meaningful and important.” Father O’Rourke “never deviated from these goals,” Semel said. Father O’Rourke had lived in retirement at St. Catherine of Siena Parish for many years before the decline in
his health necessitated a move to a care facility in Burlingame just blocks from the church. A livestreamed funeral Mass for Father Gerry was celebrated Aug.7, 2020 at St. Catherine of Siena Church. Remembrances may be made to the Priest’s Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.
FATHER RAY ZOHLEN
Father Ray Zohlen died Aug. 3, 2020 at Nazareth House. Ordained in 1953, he celebrated his 95th birthday July 20. Father Zohlen is a former pastor of St. James Parish, San Francisco, and St. Raymond Parish, Menlo Park where his Father Ray outdoor livestreamed Zohlen funeral Mass was celebrated on Aug. 19. As to his priesthood he is remembered saying: “I think I should first of all be a man of prayer. That is what is most important.” Father Zohlen also served at parishes including Holy Name of Jesus from where he retired in 2000. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.
FATHER BERNARD BRENNAN
Father Bernard Brennan died on July 26, 2020, at Nazareth House in San Rafael. He was 84 years old. Father Brennan was ordained for the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts in New Hampshire on Sept. 22, 1961. In 1966, he applied to the Archdiocese Father Bernard of San Francisco Brennan and with permission from his Provincial Superior, Father Brennan was assigned by Archbishop McGucken in 1967 as associate pastor at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
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Dominican Sister Julian Dion died July 28, 2020, after a prolonged illness at the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose’s St. Martin Residence on the motherhouse campus in Fremont. She was 90 years old and in the 69th year of her religious profession. Sister Julian In the second grade Dion, OP as a student at Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco, she met the Dominican Sisters. In 1949 she entered the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose and made her first profession of vows in 1951. For 12 years Sister Julian ministered as teacher and administrator in Catholic schools. Her assignments included St. James School and St. Anthony’s School, San Francisco. During the next 35 years, 1965-2000, she served at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, La Canada Flintridge; Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco now ICA Cristo Rey, and in service to her community at the motherhouse. Funeral services will be private. Burial will be at the congregation’s cemetery, God’s Acre, located at the motherhouse.
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Generosidad llega a Half Moon Bay en tiempos de pandemia LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO
La generosidad se ha hecho presente de diferentes maneras en Half Moon Bay, donde se han reportado 100 casos positivos de COVID-19 de los 5.978 que hay en todo el condado de San Mateo. Desde que comenzó la cuarentena, el desempleo ha sido el trago más amargo para la comunidad de Half Moon Bay. Sin embargo, “Vemos que hay ayuda de personas generosas, y del condado y esto nos da ánimo”, dijo Belinda Hernández-Arriaga, directora ejecutiva de la organización sin fines de lucro Ayudando Latinos a Soñar, ALAS.. Ella dijo que la pérdida de los trabajos y el miedo a contagiarse hace que muchos hispanos de esta comunidad sufran problemas de salud emocional. “ALAS está dando en total 450 bolsas de comida. Los sábados llegan unas 150 personas frente a la biblioteca pública en Half Moon Bay, para recibir alimentos y tarjetas prepagadas de las tiendas locales con lo que compran lo que les falta”, dijo Hernández-Arriaga. “Hemos visto los milagros de ayuda. Hay gente buena”, agregó. Una de esas personas buenas es una mujer de San Francisco quien pidió no se revelara su nombre. Ella preocupada por los inmigrantes que han perdido el trabajo y no pueden recibir el seguro de desempleo, donó a través de ALAS el pago de la renta a seis familias de Half Moon Bay durante tres meses. Hernández-Arriaga especificó que la mayoría de la ayuda que ofrece ALAS va a personas o familias inmigrantes sin documentos, que no pueden recibir ayuda estatal o federal. Por otra parte la Junta de Supervisores del Condado de San Mateo anunció a principios de julio, la
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Mujeres de ALAS miran en las cajas de donaciones que entregan los sábados frente a la biblioteca pública de Half Moon Bay. aprobación de 2 millones de dólares para el Fondo de Ayuda a Inmigrantes del Condado de San Mateo, de los cuales ALAS planea ayudar con la distribución a los inmigrantes que viven en Half Moon Bay. A pesar de la generosidad de algunas personas y el esfuerzo de las agencias públicas, la situación
emocional sigue siendo seria, el estrés sigue… y las personas están preocupadas, dijo Hernández-Arriaga. Una de esas personas preocupada y también beneficiada con la generosidad de la donación para el pago de renta, es una vecina de Half Moon Bay quien pidió que no se revele su identidad. Ella vive en un vecindario cerca a la playa, con su esposo y tres hijos de 12, 13 y 18 años de edad. Trabajaba limpiando casas, pero cuando se anunció la cuarentena, sus clientas comenzaron a posponer los días de trabajo. Al cumplirse la fecha del pago de la renta no tenía con que pagarla y tuvo que pedirle ayuda a un tío. Cuando llegó de nuevo la fecha de pagar, tampoco tenía el dinero de la renta ni para otros servicios como agua y luz. Ella acudió a ALAS por ayuda y Belinda HernándezArriaga le dio trabajo a toda la familia fabricando máscaras de tela, las cuales ALAS vende para ayudar a las familias desempleadas. Esta vecina de Half Moon Bay, narró que debido al estrés por el desempleo de toda la familia, algunos días sentía como si estuviera enferma de COVID-19. Pero un día recibió una llamada de la directora de ALAS para darle la buena noticia que una señora donó dinero para el pago de su renta. “Yo le agradezco con todo mi corazón a esta persona que me ayudó a pagar la renta. No la conozco y ella tampoco me ha visto en persona. Sin embargo nos dio $3.000 para el pago de dos meses de renta. Cuando Belinda me dijo que había alguien que quería ayudarme, sentí como si me hubieran agarrado algo de mi espalda y me lo hubieran quitado”, dijo. “Hay personas buenas, personas que sí nos quieren como inmigrantes, como latinos que somos, concluyó. Según datos del Departamento de Salud Pública del condado de San Mateo casi el 50% de los contagiados con COVID-19 en el condado son latinos.
La pobreza y el racismo estructural afectan la propagación del virus en Marín CHRISTINA GRAY AND LORENA ROJAS CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
La disparidad de como el COVID-19 afecta a las comunidades hispanas y latinas sigue siendo un tema de consternación y alarma a través del país, pero la desigualdad es más notoria debido a la afluencia que existe en el condado de Marín. Las personas que se identifican como latinas o hispanas son el 16% de la población del condado. Sin embargo, representan más de tres cuartos de los que dan positivo en las pruebas del virus
que causa el COVID-19, según los últimos datos del condado. Los residentes hispanos y latinos también representan más de la mitad de las hospitalizaciones por COVID-19 del condado. De los más de 3.000 casos de COVID-19 en Marín, casi dos tercios se encuentran en la ciudad de San Rafael donde está ubicado el barrio Canal, hogar de muchas familias hispanas y latinas de bajos recursos que apoyan la economía circundante. Con limitaciones para protegerse contra la enfermedad, corren un alto riesgo de contagio debido a que son
St. Robert’s se complace en dar la bienvenida a nuestro nuevo párroco el padre Arnold Zamora El padre Arnold viene a nosotros después de servir por 11 años como párroco en la Iglesia Santo Nombre de Jesús en San Francisco. Él y el padre Boie Espeleta asistieron al mismo seminario en Filipinas y fueron miembros del coro de sacerdotes en la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco. El padre Arnold entró al seminario Inmaculado Corazón de María, en Tagbilaran City, Bohol en Filipinas a la temprana edad de 12 años, donde terminó la secundaria y obtuvo su bachillerato en filosofía. Obtuvo una licenciatura en Teología Sagrada en la Real y Pontificia Universidad de Santo Tomas, en Manila. También tomó algunos cursos de maestría en religión oriental, en la misma universidad. Fue ordenado sacerdote el 7 de junio de 1986. Después de su ordenación fue asignado como profesor formador y director de música en el mismo seminario donde comenzó su vocación. Al mismo tiempo fue presidente de la comisión de música de la Diócesis de Tagbilaran. El padre Arnold tiene un bachillerato en música de la Universidad de Filipinas, Diliman, Quezon City. Mientras cursaba su carrera en música se integró al Mundo de los Cantantes Filipinos de Madrigal y se desempeñó como arreglista residente del grupo. Se unió al grupo en sus giras de conciertos nacionales e internacionales. Como estudiante de música fue el asistente personal y aprendiz del actual artistas nacional de música Filipina, Ryan Cayabyab. Asistió a la Universidad de Santa Clara a estudiar una maestría en Ministerios Pastorales, con especialidad en Música Litúrgica. Mientras estudiaba en Santa Clara, fue invitado por el párroco de la Iglesia Estrella del Mar en San Francisco, Mons. Floro Arcamo, para ser director de música durante tres años. Fue transferido a la parroquia de San Brendan por otros dos años antes de su primer nombramiento como párroco, en la iglesia Santo Nombre de Jesús donde sirvió por 11 años. Fue incardinado a la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco en el 2010. El padre Arnold es también el director espiritual y moderador del Consejo de Mujeres Católicas en la Arquidiócesis de San Francisco y capellán y consejero espiritual del consulado en San Francisco. Sus obras musicales están disponibles en iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Apple store, Amazon y YouTube.
Bienvenido a la Iglesia de St. Robert’s, padre Arnold!
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Residentes del condado de Marín esperan en fila alrededor de la cuadra de Canal Alliance en San Rafael para la prueba gratuita de COVID-19 el 31 de julio. COVID-19 está infectando de una manera desproporcionada a la comunidad hispana y latina del condado de Marín. trabajadores esenciales que requieren estar presentes. En la pobreza y el racismo estructural está arraigada la vulnerabilidad de los hispanos y los latinos al virus, dijo el Dr. Matt Willis, director de salud pública del condado, en un mensaje de video de junio. Los residentes hispanos y latinos tienen 10 veces más probabilidades de ser diagnosticados con COVID-19 que otros residentes del condado, dijo el Dr. Willis. “Como un doctor de raza blanca, mi mejor entendimiento de la experiencia del racismo estructural es a través de las vidas de mis pacientes”, dijo. El Dr. Willis dijo que el virus “se está aprovechando” del hacinamiento en los hogares, de la falta de ausencia por enfermedad pagada y seguro médico para aquellos en trabajos designados como esenciales, y de la falta de acceso a pruebas gratuitas y resultados rápidos, y de la incapacidad de confinamiento para los casos positivos. “Debido a los precios de alquiler y de la vivienda en Marín, las personas de
pocos recursos comparten la vivienda para juntar el pago del alquiler”, dijo el Dr. Willis. “Vivir en condiciones de amontonamiento aumenta la transmisión dentro del hogar y entre las generaciones.” Las personas de bajos ingresos también necesitan trabajar diariamente y solventarse hasta que termine el mes y es menos factible que puedan trabajar desde casa como los trabajadores asalariados. “La mayoría de ellos han estado afuera en la fuerza laboral desde el comienzo del confinamiento, con una mayor exposición mientras el virus ha estado circulando”, dijo. El condado de Marín es uno de los condados más ricos de California, y tiene la mayor esperanza de vida, dijo. “También tiene algunas de las mayores disparidades con la brecha más grande en la esperanza de vida entre las comunidades”, dijo. Milagro Ramírez-Zavaleta, una VER MARÍN, PÁGINA 30
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programadas continúen sin obstáculos, mientras que el límite de no más de 12 personas sigue aplicándose a todos los demás, incluidos nosotros. Una vez más, un servicio de culto al aire libre es un evento mucho más seguro que una protesta, ya que la gente está parada, se respeta la distancia social y los participantes llevan máscaras. Desafortunadamente, a pesar de todos estos esfuerzos y explicaciones, y a pesar de escuchar palabras de aprobación para nuestro plan de seguridad arquidiocesano que fue presentado al Grupo de Trabajo de Recuperación de la Ciudad, no ha habido ningún cambio en el orden de la salud en San Francisco. De hecho, con los condados que ahora están en la lista de vigilancia del estado y las órdenes de salud que cambian rápidamente, a veces es difícil llevar un registro de todo. Esto es lo que provocó la confusión que llevó al Fiscal de la Ciudad a enviar inspectores para vigilar nuestras iglesias.
Cuidado pastoral para nuestra gente
Gracias por el continuo cuidado pastoral que le dan a su gente. Por favor, continúen haciéndolo, siempre de acuerdo con las órdenes locales de salud de su condado. 1. Les pido especialmente que hagan todo lo posible para que la Misa esté disponible para su pueblo. Dados los límites de número que se nos han impuesto, pido a cada sacerdote (excepto los ancianos y los que tienen problemas de salud subyacentes) que estén dispuestos a celebrar hasta tres Misas en domingo, según sea necesario para responder a la demanda. La gente que quiera asistir a la Misa lo buscará; la disponibilidad de
Oración y ayuno
Permítanme terminar con una nota más positiva. En primer lugar, una verdaderamente feliz: como saben, este sábado los diáconos Ben Rosado e Ian El-Quito serán ordenados sacerdotes, y por lo tanto serán acogidos en el presbiterio de nuestra Arquidiócesis. Aunque sólo un pequeño grupo representativo del clero puede estar presente, es un momento de regocijo para nuestra Arquidiócesis, por lo que les pido que los mantengan en oración ese día y que sigan la Misa de Ordenación a través de la transmisión en vivo si pueden. Como no podemos estar todos juntos ese día y darles la bienvenida de la manera habitual, por favor, hagan un esfuerzo para llegar a ellos siempre que se presente la oportunidad. Por favor, únanse a la oración también por los diáconos que serán ordenados los sábados sucesivos (diáconos transitorios el 8 de agosto, y diáconos permanentes el 15 de agosto). Por último, estoy convencido de que, con todo lo que está pasando en nuestra sociedad en este momento, tenemos que redoblar nuestros esfuerzos en el nivel espiritual. En particular, además de la adoración, debemos recuperar un auténtico y serio espíritu de ayuno. El ayuno se ha entendido tradicionalmente como no más de una comida en el curso de un día. Le pido que se unan a mí en la observación del viernes como día de ayuno (a menos que su estado de salud no lo permita): por favor absténgase de al menos una comida los viernes, y más de una si es posible. Asaltemos el cielo con oraciones y ayunos para que se restablezca el culto público sin obstáculos, para que se ponga fin rápidamente a esta pandemia, por los trabajadores de la salud y los científicos investigadores, y por los funcionarios del gobierno que deben tomar decisiones muy complicadas para el bienestar general de nuestras comunidades.
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inmigrante salvadoreña que vive en San Rafael, le dijo a Catholic San Francisco que ha visto morir al menos a unos diez conocidos de COVID-19 en las últimas semanas. “La falta de equidad nos está matando”, dijo al referirse al precio de la vivienda en el condado de Marín. “En Marín, hay muchos millonarios, pero si vas a Canal, allí encontrarás familias amontonadas en la misma casa”. Muchas familias de inmigrantes que viven en San Rafael alquilan dormitorios de sus apartamentos y duermen en la sala de sus casas para poder cubrir sus gastos y enviar dinero a sus familias en sus países de origen, donde la situación económica es aún peor. Ramírez-Zavaleta dijo que su grupo de oración en la parroquia de San Rafael recibe llamadas todos los días de personas de Canal, cuyas familia enteras, en algunos casos, están enfermas con COVID-19. Algunos mueren pronto y solos. Ese fue el caso de su vecina, Graciela, que contrajo el virus y murió en un centro local de convalecencia
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más Misas minimizará el riesgo de que algunas de ellas se llenen de gente que tenga que ser expulsada. Además, sigan celebrando la Misa diaria, y para aquellas parroquias que tengan la capacidad, sigan transmitiendo en vivo todas las Misas. 2. Por favor, hagan lo posible para proporcionar los otros sacramentos a su pueblo también, especialmente la Reconciliación y Penitencia. Los protocolos de seguridad de la Arquidiócesis proveen una forma segura de que las confesiones puedan ser mantenidas en un horario regular. 3. Por favor, tengan en cuenta que, mientras nos preparamos para volver a las Misas públicas de la forma más segura posible, algunas parroquias, especialmente en la Cudad de San Francisco, pueden estar bajo un mayor escrutinio en este momento. 4. Por último, pero no por ello menos importante, recuerden regularmente a la gente que siga las prácticas de seguridad necesarias para frenar la propagación del virus. Esto es real, es peligroso, y tiene que ser tomado en serio. El resurgimiento se debe en gran parte a que la gente se volvió laxa una vez que se empezaron a levantar las reglas de “refugio en el lugar”. Por favor, insistan en estas prácticas; no les den en absoluto la impresión de que el coronavirus no es una amenaza seria para la salud física de nuestra comunidad. En particular, por favor recuerden regularmente a su gente que observen las “tres W”: • Usa (wear) una cobertura facial (es la cosa más simple y efectiva que uno puede hacer); • Vigila (watch) tu distancia (cuando estés en grupo, mantén una distancia de seis pies); • Lávate (wash) las manos.
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antes de que Ramírez-Zavaleta pudiera llegar con comida y apoyo. El condado de Marín está colaborando con el Departamento de Salud Pública de California, los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de los EE. UU. y asociados regionales y comunitarios para aliviar el impacto del virus en donde se propaga con más rapidez. El Dr. Willis dijo que el condado está esforzándose en ofrecer apoyo temporal económico para que personas infectadas cesen de trabajar y en conseguir habitaciones de hotel para que los individuos puedan aislarse de los demás de manera segura, y para eliminar las barreras para las pruebas, y conseguir que agencias comunitarias guíen a los pacientes hacia el sistema de recursos de apoyo. Canal Alliance, una organización sin fines de lucro en San Rafael, es una de ellas. La agencia proporciona servicios legales, educación y alimentación a los inmigrantes de Canal. Recientemente ha añadido servicios de salud, incluyendo pruebas del coronavirus, dijo el director
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La vida sin DACA es incierta para gemelos del Área de la Bahía LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO
Los gemelos José y Diego Hernández de Bayview, en San Francisco, beneficiarios del programa Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia, DACA por sus siglas en inglés, piensan que si la administración Trump vuelve a presentar medidas contra el programa, ellos de la misma manera que unos 750.000 jóvenes en Estados Unidos podrían enfrentarse a la deportación. Los jóvenes Hernández fueron traídos de Yucatán, México por sus papás Gabriela Moreno y José Hernández cuando tenían 7 años de edad, ahora tienen 26 años y están amparados por DACA desde que la administración de Obama creó el programa en el 2012, lo que les ha permitido tener trabajos bien remunerados y beneficios laborales, dice la mamá de ambos, Gabriela Moreno. Moreno, quien es una líder del ministerio de Justicia Social de la iglesia del Naufragio de San Pablo en el barrio Bayview, recalcó los beneficios que han recibido sus hijos gracias a este programa. “Con DACA consiguieron mejores trabajos, José en una tienda de departamentos y Diego en una compañía de lámparas, no siguieron estudiando por nuestra condición económica. Ellos querían trabajar para ayudar a la familia, en este momento de crisis por COVID-19, ellos son los únicos que tienen trabajo estable en la casa”, dijo Moreno. La Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos dictaminó el 18 de junio, que la finalización de DACA por parte del presidente Donald Trump en el 2017. A José y a Diego les vencía la protección de DACA en octubre de este año pero lograron renovarlo con anticipación y están amparados hasta octubre del 2022.
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Gabriela Moreno de la iglesia del Naufragio de San Pablo, y mamá de beneficiarios de DACA habla durante una reunión en la iglesia San Padro, en el 2019.
Después de esta fecha su futuro es incierto, dice su mamá. Un artículo del Servicio de Noticias Católicas, CNS por sus siglas en inglés detalla que “el día después de la decisión de la corte sobre DACA…, el presidente prometió hacer algo al respecto y en un tuit dijo que presentaría ‘documentos mejorados y aumentados’
para responder a los requisitos para finalizar DACA’”. CNS publicó que la decisión de la corte de bloquear la orden de Trump para detener DACA está basada en tres dictámenes distintos de cortes de apelaciones. Con el fallo de la corte se logró que el programa continúe como estaba. Como respuesta a la decisión de la corte que vetó el intento de poner fin a DACA, el secretario interino del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional Chad Wolf emitió un memorando el 28 de julio, que incluye más limitaciones a DACA, entre ellas la reducción del permiso de trabajo de dos años a un año, y no aceptaría más solicitantes nuevos. Ante estas medidas, el arzobispo de Los Ángeles José H. Gómez, presidente de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos (USCCB) y el obispo auxiliar de Washington y presidente del Comité de Migración de la USCCB, Mario E. Dorsonville expresaron profunda decepción por la presión de esta administración para terminar DACA. Los obispos dijeron que la Iglesia Católica de EE.UU. “ha abogado por los ‘Soñadores’ y seguiremos apoyándolos”. Adriana Guzmán de Fe en Acción del Área de la Bahía, dijo al San Francisco Católico que aunque la decisión de la corte sobre DACA, el 18 de junio es un respiro, hay que seguir trabajando para lograr un estatus legal permanente para estos jóvenes.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 20, 2020
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July HOLY CROSS, COLMA Juanita M. Agcaoili Jose G. Aguirre Michel Issa Alaraj Joseph V. Arruda Librada Beltran-Florentino Rose Bermudez Louis Jimmy Berry Ann R. Bersaglieri John Dominic Bertone Vincent D. Boyle Jessie M. Brown Charles Kenneth Brunn Dolores Callagy Agatha Keum Soon Chang Maria Chinchilla Mary J. Coates Rev. Brian Costello Paul E. Craib Teodora L. Cristobal Ronald B. Cruz Dolores Da Costa Joseph Anthony Davi Castula Ramos De Vasquez Patricia Jo-ann Elower aka Sr. Patricia Elower, PBVM Earl J. Emelson Juanita Escoto Carolyn Garcia Fernandez John F. Finnegan Sharon M. Firpo Bobby R. Foster Marilou Pira Gan Kimiko Glattly Philip C. Glebow, Jr. Genevieve Gogin Amelia Gonzalez Angel L. Gonzalez Phyllis Ripodas Gordon Alan Michael Gordon John Borman Gregson Danielle Lynn Grillo Alice A. Grima Beatriz Mero Gudino Jane Guillory Marie E. Guinasso
Gloria Gutierrez Konrad Habelt Sr. Lucille Hintze, SHF Cartuhana L. Houlahan Gary Yoshio Ikemoto William R. Johnson Joan Heather Johnston Alicia W. Juarez Chun T. Kim Michael John Kirsch Norma J. Kristovich Patricia Wai Man Kwan Josephine Pering V. Ledesma Gigi Medici Lek Mary Lucey Maria Lugo Richard Anthony MacDonell Juventina Machado James Herbert Madden, Jr. Letitia Maxine Magovern Carmel A. Mahoney Sheldon Thomas Martin Noreen P. Matza Gloria D. Mayang Floro A. Mayo Helen McGuigan Jo Ann Liptack McLaughlin Dominika Miszanczuk John C. Mosunic Barbara Marie Murphy Gerald C. O’Connor Marie Luisa O’Rourke Yolanda G. Papes Leroy Papillion Florencio S. Parnala Kathleen Mary Patrick aka Sr. Ruth Patrick Victor H. Pineda Marie Portillo May C. Quan Maria Cristina Reyes Emma I Rillera Maria Jesus Rodriguez Brandon Todd Rubio Teri L. Sagrafena Sr. Christopher Schmidt, SHF Josephine M. Sheehy Beatrice Klein Smalley
Maria Cristina Solorzano David John Starkie Dolores A. Tanjuatco Raymond Tao Barbara Lee Thayer Evelyn B. Titus Adela Torrefiel Juan Garcia Trevino Samuel Trevino Raymond J. Trounday Gloria A. Urroz Maria Cristina Valdivia Adelina Esparza Velasquez Anthony J. Violanti Mariana T. Waddell William Joseph Wallick Victoria Weaver Norberto C. Yabes, Sr. Charles R. Zanardi
MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Betty Jean (Foster Azevedo) Solomon Clarence L Hansen, Jr. Bernie Maguire Sheila Maguire Mayra Morales Dixie M. Stiveson Brian P. Whitty
HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Karin Castillo Regina Clyne Falemei Fuahala Terry (Vella) Hancock Liliani Lavaka Joyce A. Martinez Tereso Padilla Margaret Joan “Peggy” Pribyl Frank R. Regalado Amador Rios, Jr. Clay Johnathan Roman
While we will not be having a First Saturday Mass in September, we encourage you to remember in prayer all our beloved dead at rest in our Catholic Cemeteries.
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma CA | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1975 Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA | 650-712-1675 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery 926 Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA | 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, CA | 415-479-9021
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