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VOL. 57, NO. 15 DIOCESE OF OAKLAND SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 www.catholicvoiceoakland.org Serving the East Bay Catholic Community since 1963 Copyright 2019 Youth involvement in parish life central to growing Church By Christine Schreck Special to the Catholic Voice With an emphasis on youth evangelization and sustain- ing vibrant parish communities, the Diocese of Oakland Catechetical Congress 2019 convened at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland on Aug . 10 with 700 catechists and staff members from parishes around the diocese in attendance . The day-long event featured workshops in English, Spanish and Vietnamese as well as keynote speeches in English and Spanish . Coordinator of Faith Formation for Children and Youth Patti Collyer told participants the goal for the day was for them to leave “enriched, inspired, overflowing with enthusiasm and ready to tackle the school year ”. Rev . Carl Arcosa, pastor at St . Michael Parish in Livermore, gave a workshop on ways to revive struggling parishes focused on Catholic identity, spirituality and community building . Father Arcosa’s prescription for parish revitalization relies heavily on priests being present to their congrega- tions and offering spiritually nourishing worship . Father Arcosa has what he calls a “talk in the streets” every Tuesday to ensure he is meeting the needs of his parish . Father Arcosa encouraged the assembled catechists to cultivate a culture of hospitality by being welcoming VOICE THE STEELE/SPECIAL TO CATHOLIC CAROLYN to newcomers — greeting people at Mass, ensuring a At the annual luncheon for the retired priests of the Diocese of Oakland, from left, Revs. Michael Lacey, Basil positive experience at their first point of contact with the De Pinto, José Leon, Brian Timoney, Ricardo Chávez, James Schexnayder and James Pickett. There are 49 parish and issuing personal invitations to events . retired priests in the diocese. Youth involvement in parish life is central to sustain- ing the health of any parish . Father Arcosa said: “In a (Continued on Page 3.) For diocesan priests, service doesn’t stop at retirement

By Michele Jurich Staff writer Collection for Retired Priests Retirement looks like this for priests of the Diocese of Oakland: Those who are able are serving wherever they of the Diocese of Oakland are called . Those who are less able are serving in place . When: Sept . 7-8 Although responsibilities as a pastor may go away – What: Give at your parish the roof leaking is someone’s else’s business these days Or send check made out to Diocese of Oakland . – the retired priests of the diocese continue to serve the Put Priest’s Retirement Fund in the memo line and people of God . mail to 2121 Harrison, Suite 100, Oakland 94612 In parishes throughout the diocese, the weekend of Sept . 7-8, a second collection will be taken up to support Related Stories the Priests’ Retirement Fund . There are 49 retired priests in the diocese . Supporting the collection is a way to thank Clergy care manager advocates for priests, Page 5 them and honor them for their service . In retirement, a life of service, study and creative It’s quite possible it might be a “retired” priest celebrat- endeavors, Page 5 ing Mass . Their readiness to serve has been witnessed time and again in the Diocese of Oakland this past year . Two pastors of “We do a lot of relief work, giving a break to our fel- large, vibrant parishes died; three pastors or parochial admin- low priests who are still in the trenches,” he said . “It’s just istrators have been placed on temporary administrative leave . what you do ”. “We don’t retire from the priesthood, that’s for sure,” When Rev . Paul Minnihan, the 52-year-old pastor of CHRISTINE SCHRECK/SPECIAL TO THE CATHOLIC VOICE CHRISTINE THE SCHRECK/SPECIAL TO CATHOLIC said Rev . Paul Vassar, who celebrates four to five Masses the Catholic Community of Pleasanton, died unexpectedly Rev. Carl Arcosa gave a workshop on ways to revive a weekend . Feb . 24, Father Vassar called the parochial vicar, Rev . B . struggling parishes focused on Catholic identity, In addition to filling in where someone is lost, the retired Kwame Assenyoh, to ask if he needed help . spirituality and community building. priests also keep an eye out for their active counterparts . (Continued on Page 5.) Martinez parish embraces Divine Renovation, literally On our cover By Albert C. Pacciorini More than 700 catechists and staff members from Staff writer St. Catherine of Siena parishes around the diocese came to learn about Parishes throughout the Diocese of Oakland are evangelization and sustaining vibrant parishes. embarking on ambitious “Divine Renovation” plans to 606 Mellus St ., Martinez Story above. re-energize themselves and grow . 925-228-2230 ATD ...... 16 Bishop Michael C . Barber, SJ, established three priori- https://stcmtz .org Bishop’s Column ...... 3 . . ties to revitalize and evangelize the Church: improving https://m .facebook .comOfficialStCatherine the Sunday Mass experience, emphasizing the Corporal Classified ...... 16 ofSienaChurch and Spiritual Works of Mercy and forming the people into College Information Guide ...... 8-9 . Missionary Disciples . Datelines ...... 17 . . At St . Catherine of Siena Parish in Martinez, said “We had to question, what has gone wrong,” Father Fall Festivals ...... 10-12. . Rev . Anthony Huong Van Le, parochial administrator, Le said . Forum ...... 18-19. . that involved “taking an assessment of where we were ”. “We are a strong, committed group of Catholics,” he News in Brief ...... 4 Church records indicate in 1962, 2,000 people said, “we have to challenge the culture we are living in . Respect Life ...... 7 . . attended Sunday Mass . There were no Spanish- language “What could we do to make a bold statement of faith,” Seniors ...... 15 . . Masses and Martinez’s population was 8,000 . Now, he asked . The Church ...... 2 450-500 people attend weekend Masses, while the city “Our church is still amazing and beautiful after 80 Travel ...... 6 population has grown to 40,000 . (Continued on Page 13.) 2 — THE CATHOLIC VOICE THE CHURCH SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 OFFICIAL THE DIOCESE

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Sept. 5: Mass, Anointing of Sept. 8-11: US bishops’ the Sick, Sisters of the Holy conference committee Names, Marie Rose Center meetings, Washington, D .C ., Chapel, Campbell including Administrative Committee, Committee on 6:30 p .m ., Capital Religious Liberty, Committee Campaign launch, St . on Doctrine James the Apostle, Fremont Sept. 12: Office meetings, Chancery, Oakland, including Sept. 6: Office meetings, Priest Personnel Board Chancery, Oakland Sept. 13: California Catholic Conference 6 p .m ., Mass, celebration of St . Committee on Education Teresa of Calcutta feast day, St . Mark Parish, Richmond Sept. 14: Ordination to the Diaconate for the Dominican Friars, St . Albert’s Priory, Sept. 7: 10 a m. ,. Mass, Reclaiming Oakland Christ’s Mission Together Donor Appreciation, Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland

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the sales floor. MEDIA/CNS VATICAN goers at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland on Aug. 14. Renke, who serves as director of cathedral of operations, presented a recital for the Eve of the Feast of the Assumption. He closed with Alexandre Guilmant’s “Induant justitiam,”postlude for the Feast of the Assumption. The postlude Nuclear-free world No guarantees was heard again Aug. 15. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a With the anniversary of the atomic A life marked by humility, faith and Holy Day of Obligation. For other cathedral events, see www.ctlcathedral.org. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki love determines whether Christians in August 1945, the bishops of Japan enter heaven, not who they know, Pope renewed calls and prayers to build peace Francis said . Before praying the Angelus Every registered Catholic household by abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide prayer with pilgrims gathered in St . 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New pastor for Pleasanton Rev. Mark Wiesner was installed as pastor of the Catholic Community of Pleasanton on Aug. 25 at St. Augustine Church. The date was chosen, Father Wiesner wrote in the parish bulletin, because it was the Sunday closest to the Feast of St. Augustine, patron saint of the commu- nity’s original church. Father Wiesner was installed by Rev. Lawrence D’Anjou, pastor of St. Raymond Parish and dean of Deanery 11, which includes the parishes of the Tri-Valley area. In his bulletin letter, Father Wiesner thanked family and friends who attended the installa- tion Mass, those from his home parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Concord, and the parishes he had served: All Saints in Hayward, Assumption Parish in San Leandro, St. Augustine in Oakland and St. Charles Borromeo in Livermore. At the reception afterward, many people

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Rev . Hy Nguyen, a professor of theol- Catholic schools places where our students, when it comes to ministering to youth, it is Youth involvement . . . ogy at Catholic University of America, our young people, can experience Jesus important to lead by the example of your wit- (Continued from Page 1.) returned to the diocese to give the Christ and where Christ can be with them ”. ness . As Rice said: “They’re going to remem- culture of hospitality, focus on your youth . afternoon keynote speech on the need A common theme throughout the day was ber more who you are than what you say ”. Who is the most energetic in the parish? to understand the divine origins of the The youth . The youth, my dear friends, are Church in order to restore trust and faith the most hospitable group in the world . damaged by human actions . Remember that . With joy, with vibrancy, Associate Superintendent Jocelyn with energy . Use them, use them . Use Pierre-Antoine and Rodney Pierre- CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND SPIRITUALITY their energy and use their youthfulness . Antoine, executive director of the Lumen Catechize them so that when they encoun- Christi Academies, led an interactive Join Us! ter other youth, other people, they always workshop on forming young people in bring a smile because you know that the the faith through storytelling as Jesus did St. Teresa of Calcutta: The “Other” Gospel People: parish is really lively with these young during his lifetime . They modeled strate- Example of Undemanding Love A Chaplain Shares Her Experiences people . It creates a culture of hospitality gies for teaching Bible stories by sharing Presented by Michael Collopy Ministering Inside California’s Penal System through them ”. an age-appropriate personal experience Sunday, September 8, 2019 Sunday, September 22, 2019 Bob Rice, an associate professor of along with the original story before inviting catechetics at Franciscan University in discussion of reflection questions . 2pm-4pm $20 2pm-4pm $15 Steubenville, Ohio, delivered the morn- This helps build relationships with stu- Dominican Center Dominican Center ing keynote speech . According to Collyer, dents: “It is in our stories that we connect Register by 9/4/19 at Register by 9/16/19 at he has the only doctoral degree of youth with them,” said Rodney Pierre-Antoine . http://bit.ly/2019_StTeresa http://bit.ly/2019_ChaplainShares ministry evangelization in the country . Rice Teaching through engaging stories results ministers to teens and young adults, many in better retention than just presenting For more information or to register: of whom have what he refers to as a super- facts according to brain research pre- www.msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6360 hero mentality when it comes to God, that sented by Jocelyn Pierre-Antoine . 43326 MISSION CIRCLE (Off Mission Tierra), FREMONT, CA 94539 facebook.com/dominicansistersofmsj God may swoop in when they are in trouble The congress concluded with Mass and swoop out again, which is not the case . celebrated by the Most Rev . Michael Said Rice: “God always loves us . God C . Barber, SJ . Most Rev . Oscar Cantu, loves us no matter what we do . There’s Bishop of San Jose, and Very Rev . George nothing we can do that can make God love Mockel, vicar general of the Diocese of us more . There’s nothing we can do that Oakland . The first reading was proclaimed will make God love us less … It sounds in Spanish and the second in Vietnamese . like you get let off the hook when you say In his homily, Bishop Barber reaffirmed things like that . There is some truth to that connecting the young people of the that, but the reality is this: God loves me diocese with faith is a priority: “We have a but by my actions I can either put myself rich treasure trove of things to share in our in an experience of that love or I can walk Catholic faith, so let’s use those and help away from that love ”. make our diocese and our parishes and our

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Quarterback quits at 29 Andrew Luck, a Catholic and star quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, unexpectedly announced his retire- ment from football at just 29 years old . The seven-year veteran of the National Football League said it was due to persistent injuries . Build Pax Christi WASHINGTON — When Johnny Zokovitch started working for Pax Christi USA in 2001, he was tasked with connecting young people with the Catholic peace orga- nization . As the group’s new executive director beginning Sept . 21, Zokovitch continues to see young people as key LINCOLN HO/GRANDIN MEDIA, CNS to the organization’s future as he seeks to “grow and swell CNS CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS, Swahili Mass the movement” among Catholics and other people of faith who desire to build peace in a violent world . Zokovitch, 51, Youth art class Elizabeth Muturi, center, dances during an told Catholic News Service he wants to connect young Aug. 11 Swahili Mass at St. Andrew’s Catholic Emmanuel Rutema and Baraka Lusambo, people driven to respond to climate change and gun Church in Edmonton, Alberta. Muturi, who grew Tanzanian youths with albinism who had limbs violence with the older generation of peacemakers who up attending Mass in Kenya, said the sights and chopped off in witchcraft rituals, talk as they take have sustained the organization for five decades since sounds of the first Swahili Mass at St. Andrew’s part in an art class in the Staten Island borough of stepping up during the Vietnam War and responding to was a dream come true. New York City Jan. 28. 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Carolyn study and creative endeavors Steele, By Rev. E. Donald Osuna service, study and creative endeavors . clergy care (In writing the story of priests in Service. I minister to the community manager for retirement, The Catholic Voice contacted where I live by conducting a weekly the Diocese Father Don Osuna, who graciously Bible study, and offer Mass there once of Oakland, replied with “a brief but spectacular take a month, as well as visits to the sick and with Father on retirement .) dying . I also help out several times a Patrick The first half was month at a nearby parish, saying Mass Goodwin, spent in performing as well as baptisms, reconciliation, wed- who had been sacramental minis- dings and funerals . her pastor at try in various par- Caring for members of my family St. Raymond ishes throughout is a priority . Being the youngest of 10 Parish in the diocese . Life requires that I be available to my remain- Dublin and was pretty much ing three sisters and their offspring, as a treasured dictated by these well as numerous relatives here in the friend of her commitments . Then, U .S . and in Mexico . family. Father Rev. Osuna seven years ago I Study. The Talking Book program Goodwin died had to give up driving because of severe has allowed me to “read” 176 volumes

Jan. 7, 2019. PHOTO COURTESY “atrophic” Macular Degeneration of the these past five years, expanding my dry kind, for which there is no medical knowledge and interest in a wide treatment . It renders one legally blind range of topics . Computer amplification and unable to make out texts . applications has made it possible to do Clergy care manager However, two events changed my research for my Bible study and homily life for the better . One was an appoint- preparation . ment at Meredith Morgan Eye Center Creative endeavors. I am currently at UC-Berkeley . The doctors there writing another memoir, a lighthearted advocates for priests recommended several digital devices travelogue of sorts . Lastly, I consider my that amplify the written word . They also daily three-mile walk around the lake or recommended that I subscribe to the the town a healthful exercise that so far By Michele Jurich power of attorney for health care . Braille and Talking Book Library Service has kept retirement challenging, stimu- Staff writer “Things can change quickly,” she said . offered by the State of California . lating and spiritually enriching . When Carolyn Steele began her job “You really need to have an advocate, when The second event was an appoint- four years ago as care manager for retired you can’t make decisions for yourself ”. ment with my ophthalmologist who (Father E. Donald Osuna, ordained priests, she asked Rev . Paul Schmidt, who The advocate can fulfill the person’s informed me that I was a candidate for for the Diocese of Oakland in 1963, was vicar for clergy, if the priests wanted wishes when he can’t speak for himself . an experimental “telescopic implant ”. I served as rector of St. Francis de a care manager . It was important, too, that the document underwent the procedure two years ago . Sales Cathedral in Oakland and is “We’re going to find out,” he replied . be where it can be found in time of need, While it has not restored my ability to the author of “How Awesome is this Turns out, they did . and that the person named is still up to read, it’s been a kick to be a guinea pig . Place,” published in 2011, which tells She was introduced by Bishop Michael the responsibility . As a result of these developments, of his ministry at the cathedral from C . Barber, SJ, at the annual luncheon for Her position is not a 9-to-5 Monday- I have been able to resume a life of 1967 to 1986.) retired priests . Then she set out to meet Friday situation . There have been late individually with the priests . nights and weekends in emergency rooms . “Every one was so welcoming,” Steele “I support the priests and their network Valley, said Father Goodwin would say retired, two active — died in the first three said . of family and friends in a health crisis,” something only once . months of 2019 . One was Father Goodwin, She asked them about their history, Steele said . She considered it, and now has what whose care Steele continued to assist their family and past ministry . She has first-hand experience with she calls “the best job in the world ”. with, on her own, until his death Jan . 7 . “They remember it all,” she said . “It’s the support . She served as advocate for “I feel very supported,” she said . Steele has also assisted active mem- amazing . It’s their whole life . They are the wis- her friend — and longtime pastor — Rev . “There’s never been a time I didn’t have full bers of the clergy in care . Her job title is dom and history of the Diocese of Oakland ”. Patrick Goodwin, in his retirement . support” when she needed care for a priest . now clergy care manager . Getting to know the priest in his home When Father Goodwin learned the She has helped priests transition from That’s a lot of ground to cover, in a part- was important . “I want to get to know you, diocese was looking for a care manager independent living to assisted living . She time position, but Steele does it with grace and for you to know me,” she told them . for retired clergy, he suggested to her that keeps up-to-date information on available and admiration for those under her care . Her first goal was to make sure each she might be the one for the role . caregivers and services they might need . “I’m in awe of how they continue to had an advanced directive and designated Steele, then an accountant in Silicon Five priests of the diocese — three minister,” she said .

For diocesan priests . . . twice answered the call over the last 12 The priest who served in the Diocese By the numbers months when priests were placed on of Oakland, and in the Diocese of Joliet, (Continued from Page 1.) temporary administrative leave . Illinois, before that, spent the first years It was a community Father Vassar knew 49 Retired priests Father Walter Mayer describes him- of his retirement at St . Michael Parish in well, having served there for four months self as “just another apartment dweller” Livermore . during a leave Father Minnihan had taken . 9 Living out of state among the 135 in this senior residence “I was supposed to be retired for nine “A lot of them knew me,” he said . “We 9 Living in rectories in Concord . But he’s so much more to years,” he said . “I was available ”. had connections ”. his flock, which numbers less than 10 That availability included 6:45 a .m . Connections may be key in the service 3 Living at Bishop Begin Villa, most weekdays, and twice as many on Mass — “dawn patrol,” he called it — the retired priests continue to offer to the Oakland Sundays . Sundays . people of the diocese . 31 Living independently He celebrates Mass at noon Monday “I miss parish life,” said Father Mayer, “When you’ve been around the block, through Friday and at 10 a .m . Sundays in whose electric scooter is well-suited to you’ve made all these connections,” 6 Living in retirement communities the theater room . “I share it with anyone places with hallways that can accommo- Father Vassar said . or assisted living who wants to attend,” he said . date it; rectories, not so much . Rev . Msgr . Antonio Valdivia filled in at He had been helping out at Queen of But his new parish, as it were, with Corpus Christi Parish in Fremont, cel- monsignor, standing in a sea of yellow and All Saints Parish, he said, until he learned senior citizens and some neighboring ebrating the Spanish-language Masses, red graduation gowns, is a joyful reminder that a handful of residents, even though Sisters of St . Joseph of Carondelet who and being present to the parishioners . of the power of education each June . transportation was available, had been drop in for daily Mass, keeps him active . Among the joy in his active retirement In Alameda, Rev . Paul Schmidt — unable to get to Sunday Mass . “The Lord knows where I’m at,” said is the annual celebration at St . Ambrose who, in a parish bulletin, referred to Father Mayer decided to spend his Father Mayer, who looks forward to his Parish in Berkeley for the Latino gradu- himself as a “zombie priest,” ready to Sundays at the residence . “It worked out 90th birthday . “In the meantime, He’s ates of Berkeley High School . The smiling be called into service as needed — has very well,” he said . keeping me busy ”. OBITUARIES They the free speech movement and The Black Joan Mahoney Panthers, he said . Joan Mahoney, one of the first staff writ- Her work in covering the free speech have done ers hired at The Catholic Voice when the movement in Berkeley “was some of her diocesan newspaper was established in best reporting,” Maurovich said . 1963, died Aug . 20 in Salinas . She was 93 . Although he didn’t get to know her very so much Mahoney, who was previously known well retired Bishop John S . Cummins, 91, as Joan Johnson, was born on June 19, also agreed that Mahoney was “very highly 1926 in Illinois . regarded” for her work . “She was very good ”. for us! She was a reporter on what was known According to an obituary that appeared as the “Women’s Pages” for the San online Mahoney was honored as “Reporter Francisco Chronicle before going on to of the Year” for writing for the newspaper work for several Catholic diocesan publi- of the Diocese of Monterey . cations . She was working for The Monitor, Mahoney, who was predeceased by her the newspaper of the San Francisco husband Marty, was a longtime member and Archdiocese when she was recruited to Eucharistic minister at St . Angelus Church in work for The Catholic Voice, the newspaper Pacific Grove before moving to Salinas where of the newly created Diocese of Oakland . she became a member at Sacred Heart “She was a very good reporter and an Church there . She was also a member of excellent writer,” said Frank Maurovich, the the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Pax founding editor of The Catholic Voice . In a Christi and was a Third Order Franciscan . phone interview Maurovich, 90, recalled She is survived by a nephew and nieces . Please support the retired priests in the Diocese of Oakland. that The Voice was born during a time The funeral Mass was held Aug . 27 at The second collection will be on September 7th and 8th. of “radical change” in both the Catholic Sacred Heart Church in Salinas . Burial Church and U .S . The Bay Area was in the followed at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Thank you for your generous gifts! “vortex of change” that included hippies, also in Salinas . 6 — THE CATHOLIC VOICE SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

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Photo by Itamar Grinberg *This pilgrimage is not sponsored by the Diocese of Oakland or The Catholic Voice. SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 THE CATHOLIC VOICE — 7 Retired professor reflects on the pro-life front lines By Lidia Wasowicz minds at UC-Berkeley, but he did leave them Catholic San Francisco with a valuable lesson, said famed physician Raymond Dennehy has spent his life and activist Malcolm Potts, 84, who for 12 fighting for life . years provided the counterpoint in the two- For five decades, the decorated phi- hour, biannual abortion debates before 400 losophy professor, debater, writer and undergraduates in a public health class . crusader has rushed in where even many “He was always very professional faithful Catholics fear to tread: the front and respectful, which is unusual in this lines of the war against what has come to kind of highly charged situation,” recalled be called “the culture of death ”. Potts, emeritus Bixby Professor in the His unrelenting battle against abortion, UC-Berkeley School of Public Health who euthanasia and assisted suicide placed him continues to debate pro-life voices . at odds with prominent and powerful oppo- Dennehy’s wife of 29 years, Maryann, nents: Planned Parenthood, the Hemlock remains awed at her husband’s unruffled Society, the American Civil Liberties Union, handling of angry students whose verbal the National Organization for Women . attacks left her “scared and very tense ”. “Ray is a warrior for life, from concep- The enduring exploits have earned tion to natural death,” said John Hamlon, Dennehy ample awards and acclaim . 80, a retired theology and philosophy In 2013, he received one he especially instructor introduced to Dennehy as a treasures, The Rupert and Timothy Smith graduate student at the University of San Award for Distinguished Contributions to Francisco a half-century ago . Pro-Life Scholarship, granted annually by “With his absolute belief in and crystal- the University Faculty for Life to an aca- clear vision of faith and doctrine, he wit- demic for significant intellectual contribu- nessed, he preached, he taught, he went tions to the cause .

anywhere anytime to debate anyone on SAN FRANCISCO WASOWICZ/CATHOLIC LIDIA “Professor Dennehy was chosen to any of the life issues, influencing many receive this honor because of his stalwart Raymond Dennehy shows some of his extensive writings promoting life. young people to carry on the fight ”. defense of the unborn and the aged, both Dennehy, who turns 85 at the end of erations but on a collision course with life, are teaching kids what to believe and in his publications and in his public debates August, would continue the charge if he could . modern-minded millennials who drove how to live . The kids don’t stand a chance ”. over the years with various pro-abortion But he no longer receives the once me into the dumper,” said Dennehy, who Priests and bishops should step up and and pro-euthanasia scholars,” said Jesuit frequent invitations from the media, which retired five years ago when “it just wasn’t speak out, but many fear backlash from Father Joseph Koterski, professor of sought his views on ethical issues, and fun or productive anymore ”. touching on tender topics, he said . philosophy at Fordham University and from the University of California, Berkeley, He exonerates the students, who Dennehy doubts he will ever fully know member of the UFL Board of Directors, which offered him a stage for 50 consecu- without spiritual guides are left to secular the extent of his impact . But over the years which determines the recipient . tive semesters to debate abortion . sources for information and inspiration . he has received some clues, said the “God’s been very good to me,” said And he no longer holds the rapt atten- “The people have to hear the truth from philosopher with a bachelor’s degree from Dennehy, who in retirement spends two hours tion of students at USF, where he spent the pulpit, and they’re not,” he insisted . “So USF, a master’s from UC Berkeley and a a day writing to add to the collection of books 41 of the 49 years he taught philosophy . Madison Avenue and the media, which pro- doctorate from the University of Toronto . he has dedicated to his parents, his wife, his “I was a big hero with previous gen- mote a hedonistic, meaningless, purposeless Dennehy may not have changed most four children and his 12 grandchildren .

are held at memorials to the unborn and company . Presenter Cynthia J . Wood, churches across the United States . For who is an attorney, is with from Feminists additional information: www . abortionme- for Life . Her topic is “Find Your Assertive Roundup of pro-life morials .com Voice: Preventing and Addressing Sexual Harassment ”. Sept. 24: 40 Days for Life Seating at the free conference is lim- events through October The fall kick-off for 40 Days for Life in ited, and registration, preferably by Sept . 7, Walnut Creek begins with a talk by Brian is required . To register, dial 925-449-5887 Johnston, western director of the National or go to ethosca .org .The location of the Sept. 7: Pro-life conference Sept. 14: Day of Remembrance Right to Life Committee and chairman of event will be sent after registration . Meals The home of the Free Speech The Knights of Columbus Lafayette the California Pro-Life Council, at 7 p .m . are included . Movement — UC-Berkeley — is the home Council gather at 10 a m. . Saturday at the Sept . 24 in the St . Mary Parish Gym, 2039 Ethos California is an affiliate of for Let There Be Life, the 2019 statewide Monument of Rachel Weeping at Queen Mount Diablo Blvd ,. Walnut Creek . Heartbeat International and National pro-life conference, on Sept . 7 . of Heaven Cemetery to pray the rosary . At 7 a .m Sept. . 25, the vigil begins Institute for Life Advocates . Speakers include Rev . Frank Pavone, For the past 20 years, at that time, nearby, on the public right-of-way outside Priests for Life; Terrisa Bukovinac, Pro-Life there has been at least one Knight, at or an abortion facility at 1357 Oakland Blvd ., Oct. 12: Birthright dinner San Francisco; Destiny Herndon-De La near the monument, praying in memory of Walnut Creek . The vigil ends Nov . 3 . Birthright of Concord’s fall dinner and Rosa, New Wave Feminists; Catherine aborted babies . Vigil hours are 7 a .m to. 7 p .m . fundraiser is planned for Oct . 12 at St . Glenn Foster, Americans United for Life; Sept . 14 will be no different though daily, except Sundays . To sign up see Mary Parish Hall, 1158 Bont Lane, Walnut Rev . Walter Hoye, Issues4Life Foundation; the gathering may be a bit larger than www .40daysforlife/walnutcreek . Creek . Eric Cochran, Pro-Life San Francisco; usual, as the Knights participate in the Many of those who keep vigil are Christine Watkins will be the guest Albany Rose, Post-Abortive Pro-Life; Herb National Day of Remembrance for Aborted parishioners at St . Mary’s, said Linda speaker . Watkins, an author who is also Geraghty, Rehumanize International; Dr . Children . They will be joined by Knights Mertes, who coordinates the vigil, which well-known for her appearances on Michael New, Charlotte Lozier Institute; of neighboring councils, as well as repre- is kept twice a year . Christian media, will share her pro-life Wynette Sills, Californians for Life; Robert sentatives of the California Right to Life “These women have been there every story . Byrd, Pro-Life San Francisco; Cheryl Educational Fund . day,” Mertes said . “Everybody is so sac- Doors open at 5:20 p .m ., when a no- Conrad and Jeff White, Survivors of the “It seems to be growing a little,” said rificial, willing to get out there and do it, host bar will be followed by dinner at 6:15 Abortion Holocaust; Jazzi Milton, Pro-Life Cecilia Cody of California Right to Life . and unafraid ”. p .m .catered by Bambino’s restaurant of San Francisco; Elijah Thompson, Dank The gathering, at which the Joyous The 40 Days for Life organization, Concord . Pro-Life Memes; and Bryan Kemper, Stand Mysteries will be prayed, is part of the started in Texas in 2004, going national Tickets, at $40 for adults ($50 after True Ministries . nationwide movement to remember the three years later . There are vigils in all 50 Sept . 30) and $20 for children ages 5-12, The event begins at 8 a .m .and ends unborn . Queen of Heaven Cemetery is states and around the world . are available at www .birthrightdinner2019 . at 6 p .m . Sept 7 in Pauley Ballroom of the at 1965 Reliz Valley Road, Lafayette . For additional information: eventbrite .com or by dialing 925-798-7227 . UC-Berkeley campus . Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for www .40daysforlife .com/walnutcreek or Also speaking at the event will be a Tickets, at $35 for students and Life and the Pro-Life Action League are friendsforlifetrivalley@gmail .com client of the pregnancy support service, $55 for adults, are available at the sponsors . which assists women from teenagers to www .eventbrite .com/e/let-there-be-life- The event, held the second Saturday of Oct. 5: Respect Life Gathering their 40s . 2019-tickets-64589415681 . September, began in 2013 . Ceremonies The annual gathering of pro-life minis- Libby Field has been with Birthright for tries throughout the Diocese of Oakland almost 10 years . “I wear a lot of hats and will take place from 8:30 a .m .to 1 p .m . I absolutely love it,” she said . Oct . 5 in the Parish Hall of the Cathedral Among those hats is head of training . of Christ the Light, 2121 Harrison St ., True to its founder, Louise Summerhill, Oakland . Birthright, she said, provides “free, non- Presenters include the Very Rev . judgmental, confidential, loving support ”. Brandon Macadaeg, the rector of the Each of those words is meaningful, Cathedral of Christ the Light, and María Field said . José Fernandez Flores, legislative Many of the women, she said, lack advocate with the California Catholic supportive people in their lives . Conference . They will find that support at Birthright . The theme, to coincide with US bish- Not only are the women able to use ops’ conference for 2019, is Christ Our Birthright’s services during their pregnan- Hope in Every Season of Life . cy, but they can go in every three months Free parking and free continental for two years after the baby is born . breakfast and lunch included . Register at In addition to supportive people, they www .oakdiocese .org/respectlife . will find maternity clothes, baby clothes, diapers and wipes, and books on parent- Oct. 12: Relationship conference ing . Ethos California is hosting a Perhaps the best written book of all is Relationship Conference for teens, par- one, divided into 14 categories, with up- ents, young adults and teachers from 9 to-date community resources a .m . to 3:30 p .m . Oct . 12 in Pleasant Hill . “Everyone who comes to us is stressed, Presentations on respect, dating and dealing with a challenging situation,” Field handling sexual harassment are on the said . agenda . Perhaps a woman needs health Presenter D .J . Hueneman’s work insurance; Birthright knows how to help is based on the Theology of the Body her get it . Same goes for housing and curriculum developed by Ruah Woods employment . Publishing Co . He is an educator at the — Staff report 8 — THE CATHOLIC VOICE SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 College Information Guide Dave Perry achieves a first at Saint Mary’s College By Kay Carney said as long we wanted to go to school, he would pay for Special to The Catholic Voice it ”. Perry asserted that if it wasn’t for his parents’ commit- Dave Perry ’97 has accomplished something that no ment and unconditional love, including their willingness other Gael has achieved . He holds the record for being to “fund all of this craziness,” the multiple degrees and awarded the most degrees from Saint Mary’s College . certificates may have never become a reality . Perry was graduated with bachelor of arts in 1997, an May 26 was another milestone . Perry walked across MBA in 2001, teaching credential in 2002, administrator’s the stage and was officially hooded . “It took me 10 years certificate in 2004, a master’s in Educational Leadership, to complete my EdD, and at times I thought it might not also in 2004, and his doctoral degree in education in 2019 . be possible . Two years earlier, my mom passed away, and His ascent from a doting freshman to “Dr . Perry” has been she had always been my biggest cheerleader,” said Perry . a blessed journey . “When it was time for me to defend my dissertation, I Perry’s love for Saint Mary’s made his decision to asked my chair, Heidi Marie Rambo, if this was a private pursue all of his academic goals at one institution a no- meeting . She asked why, and I told her that I wanted my brainer . Credit can also be given to his father, Dennis Perry dad to attend . She said ‘absolutely,’ so I was able to have ’64, also a Saint Mary’s alumnus, who told him during his my dad, a Saint Mary’s alum, at my dissertation defense ”. senior year in high school, “You can apply anywhere you Perry’s dissertation, “Open Wide the Door . Catholic

want, but I’m only paying for you to go to Saint Mary’s ”. PHOTO COURTESY Teacher Efficacy for Inclusive Education,” was inspired The younger Perry discarded his other applications by his work as a principal at St . James Catholic School Dave Perry, left, and his father, Dennis Perry, at Saint and applied to Saint Mary’s . “My dad in his infinite wis- in Davis . “I had a young man who was a third-grader who Mary’s College. dom knew that attending Saint Mary’s would be a great was born with Down syndrome . He was fully included opportunity,” said Perry . “My brother [’92] and sister [’90] sue his passion, which was education . He left his corporate in our school and became the first student with Down are also alumni, so it was a foregone conclusion that I finance job and started teaching at Concord High School . syndrome to graduate from an elementary school in the would attend Saint Mary’s ”. “I was privileged to work full time in teaching, met my Diocese of Sacramento,” said Perry Perry entered Saint Mary’s in 1993 and quickly wife who was also attending Saint Mary’s, fell in love, “My work with him and my four years at St . James embraced all that the college had to offer . “I was involved had kids and thought that I had accomplished just about really formed my thinking about how to effectively teach in student government for three of my four years as an everything I had planned . But my heart and inner calling and address the needs of students with disabilities, learn- undergraduate and had the opportunity to serve as stu- had other plans ”. ing differences, and other challenges in Catholic schools ”. dent body president in my senior year,” said Perry . Perry returned to Saint Mary’s and graduated with an Perry suggested that historically, Catholic schools have The Christian Brothers strongly impacted his forma- administrator’s certificate, then decided to up the ante faced challenges responding to students with disabilities tive years in higher education and ultimately his career . once again by pursuing a master’s in education leadership . and learning differences; he believes if given every oppor- After graduating from Saint Mary’s the first time, Perry By 2009, Perry was enjoying his tenure as an educa- tunity to excel, the students will succeed even though they started working in banking and finance, and later decided tor but felt that his path included pursuing leadership in may learn differently . “My hope is that I bring the same to enroll in the evening MBA program . After completing his education at an even higher level . Lasallian message and concern to the work that I do, to second degree, his “inner voice” kept pulling at him to pur- “I was swiftly reminded by my siblings that our father the communities that I have the privilege to serve,” he said . UC-Berkeley students: Some see Welcome back, CSUEB Catholics obstacles; some see opportunity Staff report The welcome Mass will be in the By Michele Jurich The Welcome Back Mass of the Multipurpose Room, on the first floor of Staff writer Newman Hall/ Catholic campus ministry of Cal the New University Union . Ample free Rachel Michaud is returning for her State East Bay will be celebrated parking will be available . second year as leader of the FOCUS mis- Holy Spirit Parish on the Hayward campus at 7 p .m . Keep up with ministry events sionaries on the UC-Berkeley campus . She 2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley Sept . 8 . on Facebook at CSUEB Catholic is joined by three first-year missionaries . 510-848-7812 The campus ministry is an outreach Club; Twitter @CSUEBcatholics; and “I’m excited to have another year in ministry of All Saints Parish in Hayward . Instagram, @csuebcatholicclub . www .calnewman .org Berkeley,” she said . The missionaries, from the Colorado- based Fellowship of Catholic University study — the bread and butter of the min- Students, work closely with the Catholic istry — is worth their time . ministry to university students at Holy Once they commit, she said, “they’ll Spirit/Newman Hall Parish . be there ”. Berkeley, Michaud said, “could be the Michaud’s goal for her missionary team Our social justice new Rome someday ”. It’s also where a lot is “for us to go above and beyond to being of things that could look like obstacles are present on campus ”. opportunities, she said . They will meet students on campus, and Opportunity is there: UC-Berkeley as the student sees friends and invites them mission unites us. enrolls more than 30,000 undergraduates to join in conversation, the circle widens . and more than 11,000 graduate students . The missionaries look forward, too, to This is the seventh year FOCUS joining the Newman Hall groups at tables missionaries have been based on the at noon in Sproul Plaza . “We want to spend Berkeley campus, where they lead Bible time with them doing outreach,” she said . study, work with the Student Ministry Team Among the fruits of the missionaries’ at Newman Hall and meet students one- work on the Cal campus is the joy they on-one for conversation and coffee . experience when one of the students “Always coffee,” Michaud said . they’ve met decides to enter the Church, Michaud and her fellow missionaries as one young man did at Easter this year . will be present during the Welcome Week Holy Spirit Parish/Newman Hall maintains activities at Newman Hall . a full calendar of events for students, ranging “The first Mass is so critical,” Michaud from free Sunday suppers to Bible study to said, noting that some parents have rosary groups .The fall student retreat is sched- encouraged their children to attend, or uled for Oct . 25-27 at the Redwood Camp at might be attending beside them . Mount Hermon in the Santa Cruz Mountains . Critical, too, is “getting to be part of For additional information on activities their schedule ”. It’s important, for example, and events for students at Newman Hall, to show the students that coming to Bible visit www .calnewman .org .

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www.scu.edu/pastoralministries What Can I Do With This Degree? 1868–2018 408-554-2357 call Joseph Morris ✦ Chaplaincy (lay paid ministry positions) ✦ Bereavement Ministry ✦ Restoring Community Workshops 3500 Mountain Blvd., Oakland, CA www.hnu.edu ✦ Advocacy Ministry ✦ Victim-Offender Dialogues ✦ Re-entry Programs apply ✦ Mediation now Learn more: 1-510-436-1351 or [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 THE CATHOLIC VOICE — 9 College Information Guide Why college-age children New provost drawn to social justice mission Special to The Catholic Voice white schools did . The nuns who taught Holy Names University is introducing there dared to provide our school with Sheila Smith McKoy, its new academic academic excellence at a time when that really need an estate plan leader, to the Oakland diocese . As the kind of parity was unwelcome ”. institution’s provost and vice president “My school was integrated when I was By Jeffrey Hall (no helmet, of course) — had to sue to for Academic Affairs, in fourth grade . The Catholic schools inte- Special to The Catholic Voice become the son’s temporary conservator . Smith McKoy provides grated years before others did where I grew Here’s an issue many families overlook Such proceedings typically cost thousands leadership for all activi- up . Over and over again, the social justice when children leave for college: That child, of dollars, attorneys say . ties related to academic values of the Catholic church have made a in the eyes of the law, is now an adult — Clients should prod their adult children and faculty affairs and difference in my life . Those Sisters took a and needs some all-important documents . to draft basic estate-planning documents conducts the duties risk for us, and many of us have gone on Once individu- on their 18th birthdays . “We call it our col- of HNU’s President, to do interesting and wonderful things . As a als reach the age lege package,” Hall says . Mike Groener, in his scholar, writer and creator, I can link many of majority — 18 in While not every 18-year-old needs a absence . of my accomplishments back to my first most states — their will, all should appoint a trusted friend Smith McKoy, a eight years of school in the Catholic system ”. McKoy parents are no lon- or relative to serve as their health-care native of Raleigh, North Smith McKoy has developed program- ger entitled to see proxy . This person has the authority to Carolina, comes to HNU most recently from ming for Critical Diversity/Social Justice the children’s medical make medical decisions in the event the Georgia’s Kennesaw State University . She initiatives including African American and financial records patient is unable to . The child’s doctors and has held academic leadership positions Studies, Africana Studies, Humanities and make decisions proxy should receive a copy of the form, throughout her career, including academic Bioethics, Latinx Studies, Native American on their behalf . As a which can be drafted by an estate-planning program director, college diversity officer Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies . Hall result, it is important attorney or downloaded from the Internet . and cultural center director at public and She is known for her extensive scholar- for young adults to set up an estate plan (Search for “health-care proxy” and the private colleges and universities . ship of Africana and the African Diaspora that appoints trusted individuals to make child’s state of residence .) It was Holy Names University’s found- as well as her international engagement medical and financial decisions in the Equally important is a release from ing social justice mission and the core work in the Caribbean, Latin America, and event they are unable to do so . HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and values of the Sisters of the Holy Names Africa . She is currently developing a center Few 18-year-olds consider the need Accountability Act of 1996, which protects that drew Smith McKoy to the institution . for international engagement in Uganda . for an estate plan, simply because most patient privacy . This gives medical prac- “What has defined my career as a life- A poet, fiction writer and documentary have little in the way of property . But if titioners permission to share information long learner and educator was my early filmmaker, Smith McKoy is currently co- your child were to lose the ability to make with those named on the form . (Make sure education at a Catholic school . I grew up editing “Teaching Literature and Writing or communicate decisions, medical pro- your child lists his or her health-care proxy .) in the South and started my education at in Prisons” for the Modern Language fessionals might refuse to consult with It is also important to designate a a time when the educational system was Association and “Yemonja Awakening: or even release information to you, says financial power of attorney . Most lawyers completely segregated . My parents chose Recovering the African Feminine Divine Christina Vidoli, a Boston-based attorney recommend that young adults sign a to send my siblings and me to Catholic in Literature, the Arts and Practice” for at Margolis & Bloom, which specializes general power of attorney . In contrast to a schools because of their social justice Lexington Press . She was graduated in estate planning . Without proper docu- “springing” power of attorney, this allows vision . In both the public and private school with a bachelor of arts degree from North ments, parents generally can’t access a the appointee — frequently, a parent — to system back then, Black schools were Carolina State University, a master of child’s financial accounts, either . access the child’s financial accounts at underfunded and behind in their curricu- arts degree from the University of North “Parents assume that because they any time, rather than only if he or she is lum . Ours was a Black Catholic school, but Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctoral are paying for college or the child is still declared incompetent . it had the exact same curriculum as the degree from Duke University . living under their roof, they have the right With such a document, a parent can to make legal decisions,” says Vidoli . But pay a child’s bills, speak to his or her land- once individuals reach 18, the law classi- lord or replace a lost debit card whether strengthening academic programs in fies them as adults, with “the legal right the child is incapacitated or simply away at What’s new at HNU? areas like business and criminology that to privacy and to govern their own lives ”. college . This document must be updated Michael Groener, who had been interim help students better prepare for roles Two of my clients were unable to secure every couple of years or financial institu- president Oakland’s Holy Names University in the greater community, an increased even basic information about the medical tions may not accept it . for almost two years, starts the 2019-2020 emphasis in fundraising to assist students conditions of their college-aged daughters school year as the campus’ 38th president . in need of financial aid and seeking more after car accidents left both girls uncon- (Jeffrey Hall is an estate-planning attor- Groener was opportunities to deepen the university’s scious and in the hospital . After a few days, ney in Pleasant Hill. His College Package appointed president in relationship with the Oakland community . both daughters regained consciousness Protection includes a last will, durable March with the approval The latest addition to HNU’s administra- and gave their doctors permission to speak power of attorney for financial matters and of HNU’s Board of tion is Sheila Smith McKoy, profiled in the with their parents . But a third client — an advanced health care directive for $295. Trustees . He had joined adjacent article . whose son remained in a coma for weeks See his website at www.HallLawGroup. Holy Names as vice Other administration members are: after a head injury while playing rugby com or dial 925-230-9002 for information.) president for finance William Torrey, interim vice president for and administration in university advancement; Sister Carol July 2016 and was Sellman, SNJM, vice president for mission appointed interim presi- integration; Alan Liebrecht, vice president Groener dent in November 2017 . for strategic enrollment management; Rob New program in restorative According to HNU board chairperson Kinnard, vice president for finance and Steven Borg, Groener and his cabinet administration; Luis Guerra, vice president had earned the confidence of the trustees for facilities and events; Peter Gin, chief of justice ministry offered with their leadership in developing the staff to the president; and Laura Lyndon, university’s five-year strategic business vice president for student affairs . By Michele Jurich plan . Key components of the plan include — Carrie McClish Staff writer Santa Clara University Robert Eckstein may have missed the age cut-off for discernment to the perma- What: Graduate program in pastoral nent diaconate for the Diocese of Oakland, ministries NO MORE GUTTER CLEANING, but he remained open to opportunities . Where: 500 El Camino Real “I’ve been interested in developing OR YOUR MONEY BACK – GUARANTEED Kenna Hall, Room 323 my religious education, “ said Eckstein, a Santa Clara, CA 95053-0335 parishioner at St . Edward Parish in Newark . 408-554-4831 An ad for a new program in pastoral ministry, with an emphasis on restorative For more information: justice, offered by Santa Clara University — www .scu edu/cas/pastoralministries/. with classes at the Cathedral of Christ the Contact: Joseph Morris, Light in Oakland — caught his attention . 408-554-2357, jamorris@scu .edu “I’m also a member of the Lay Companions of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood,” he said . The parish had pose; official transcripts of undergraduate been under the care of the religious order for degree; and two letters of recommendation . more than 40 years before leaving last year . The program is designed so stu- The lay companions continue to be dents take one course per quarter . The active in the parish, including faith forma- Oakland class will meet once a week for tion . “My wife and I teach high school six to seven weeks in a classroom at the AND! students basic faith so they can enter the Cathedral of Christ the Light, as well as % % OFF ENTIRE® confirmation program ”. online sessions during which the group will FINANCING* LEAFFILTER 0 15 PURCHASE** The lay missionaries have a particular meet as a whole . The first course offering calling to those on the margins, commit- will be practical theology, taught by Joseph PLUS AN ADDITIONAL ted to there being “room at the table for Morris . 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Festivities The celebration will begin at 11 a .m . with Mass on the parish lawn, followed by an afternoon of music, games, Featuring: Gourmet food trucks, live music, raffles and gourmet food . games and raffles, beverage station The community is cordially invited . Representatives of Food Truck Tickets: $10 (includes entrée and a faith communities in the San Ramon area will join in the side) $15 after Sept . 29 . Tickets sold after weekend festivities to offer their perspectives on what it means to Masses or at the Parish Office beginning Sept .7-8 be connected to the St . Joan of Arc community . Today the parish is spiritual home to 2,900 families Where: 2601 San Ramon Valley Blvd ., and offers 50 to 60 ministries to serve parishioners and San Ramon 94583 the community at large . Information: www .sjasr .org or 925-830-0600 Among the organizations supported by the parish are Shelter Inc ,. a Concord-based organization that fights homelessness, one family at a time; Shepherd’s According in the parish history, the parish spent its Gate, a Livermore-based organization that provides safe first four years in temporary quarterse . places where women and their children can discover Masses were held in the library of John Baldwin healing and freedom from life-controlling trauma issues; Elementary School in Danville . Each week volunteers Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa County, which feeds would move chairs into the library on Saturday, then move the hungry; and St . Mary’s Center in Oakland, which them out again on Sunday after the Masses . Baptisms serves both senior citizens and preschool children and and weddings were held in the school library, popularly their families . known by parishioners as “St . John Baldwin ”. The youth of the parish help keep the food pantry St . Joan’s was built on an eight-acre parcel originally stocked at the Monument Crisis Center, a Concord part of a 20-acre ranch . The church sits on the site of the organization that meets pressing needs of those in the old farmhouse, looking out at Mount Diablo . Monument Corridor . Parishioners had a good idea of what they wanted in St . Joan of Arc Parish was established in 1979, formed their church: COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY from the growing healthy communities of St . Isidore Parish • We want it to be bright and to have a flat and open The statue of St. Joan of Arc in front of the church is in Danville and St . Raymond Parish in Dublin . The first area for the sanctuary . almost 14 feet tall and weighs a ton. pastor was Rev . Michael Joyce . (Continued on Page 11.) The Catholic Voice thanks them for their support. We encourage our readers to show their support by taking some time and attend these events. FESTIVALS Have some fun and help On the following pages are the ads from the parishes carry on these time-honored announcing their feasts and festivals in the coming weeks. traditions.

65th Annual St. Leander

Community Festival

Saturday September 14

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(Continued from Page 10.) • We want people to have a sense of closeness to the altar . • We want a window so we can keep ourselves connected to this world of ours . This list was submitted to several architects, and a design by Aaron Green of San Francisco, a longtime associate of Frank Lloyd Wright, was selected as the favorite . The groundbreaking ceremony was held on April 25, 1982, and the first Mass was held in the church on Oct .16, 1983 . On Dec .11, 1983, Bishop John S . Cummins conse- crated the altar at the dedication ceremony . The statue of St . Joan of Arc, in front of the church, was commissioned through the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Arizona . Heloise Swaback spent 2½ years creating the 13’9” bronze statue, which weighs a ton . The bronze of St . Joan has her holding her sword by the blade instead of the hilt, not to express battle, but to show the spirit of God through the hand guard raised to the heavens forming a perfect cross . The statue was dedicated on June 9, 1985 . On Sept . 8, 1991, a second groundbreaking was held to commence the construction of a Parish Center . The Parish Center, also designed by Green as part of the master plan, consisted of six pastoral offices with a main office, lobby and workroom, two conference rooms, a religious educa- tion office, a library, large gymnasium, four connecting classrooms and a multipurpose room with a connecting kitchen and lawn area for social events . The church was also expanded to its present size at that time . The construction was completed in fall 1993 . In 1994, the parish welcomed its second pastor, Rev . COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY Fred Riccio . Rev . Ray Zielezienski became pastor in 2008 . The feast of Corpus Cristi procession at St. Joan of Arc in 2017. After his retirement in 2015, Rev . Ray Sacca became pastor .

St. Philip Neri - St. Albert the Great Parish Fun Fair corner of High St. and Van Buren St. in Alameda Our Lady of Grace Festival 2019 Saturday, September 21, 2019, 10am - 4pm 3433 Somerset Ave., Castro Valley (Enter on San Miguel for parking) Saturday, September 28th • 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Our Lady of Grace • Fall Festival Sunday, September 29th 11 a.m.-7 p.m. 2019 Live Entertainment • Carnival Games • Flea Market Lots of new and returning fun games including Gourmet Food • Snack Shack • Beer, Wine & Margaritas a Trike race, food booths (including pizza, BBQ & Pancake Breakfast • Sunday, September 29 • 8:30 a.m.-12p.m. Ges T Join us for the Chili Cook-Off • Sunday, September 29 Saturday, September 28th Filipino lunch), Beer Garden, Pasta Dinner, Pancake Breakfast & Sunday, September 29th &For Raffle information, Drawing please on call Sunday! the parish office at (510)373-5200. www.olgfestival.com

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Celebrating 60 years of Faith and Family Saturday October 5 Parade starts 8AM @ Washington Manor Park

Festival 9:30AM-9:00pm @ St Felicitas School

1650 Manor Blvd San Leandro Ca 94579 12 — THE CATHOLIC VOICE SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 Fall Festivals Old-fashioned fun at St. Philip Neri Fun Fair Staff report Alameda’s St . Philip Neri Church Fun Fair opened in 1929; its first festival was likely two years later . When: Sept . 21, 10 a .m .-4 p .m . The much-anticipated Fun Fair will take What: Games, food, music, raffles place 10 a .m . to 4 p .m . Sept . 21 with game Also: Pasta dinner, pancake breakfast booths, food booths and, for adults only, a beer garden, offering sausages and beer, staffed by the Knights of Columbus . Philip Neri School participate in a spirited It’s an old-fashioned festival: You buy competition to design the art for T-shirt fair- tickets .You play games and eat . goers wear . This year, the winning artist is The youth choir provides music fourth-grader Eric Liu . throughout the day . The Fun Fair may come to an end The food booths will include Filipino at 4 p .m ,. but the community gathers at PHOTO COURTESY and Mexican offerings; pizza is under the 5:30 p .m . for the Vigil Mass followed by a Annual family picnic purview of the Italian Catholic Federation . pasta dinner . After a day of Fun Fair-going, Most of the volunteers are school fami- booth-tending, set-up and take-down, it’s The Livermore Knights of Columbus had its annual family picnic at lies, with parents earning service hours . a welcome delight . The dinner was added Monsignor Adams field on Aug. 11. The day started with a Knights’ family Middle school students also have the about three years ago . Mass at St. Michael Church followed by a traditional barbecue fare of burg- opportunity to earn service hours though Fun doesn’t stop there . The Boy Scouts ers, hot dogs and salads at the field. Knights, families and friends enjoyed working at the Fun Fair . sponsor a pancake breakfast the next an afternoon of fellowship and camaraderie. Youth aged 9 to 14 would later Student participation is a key to the morning . The drawing for raffle prizes is participate in the 2019 Youth Soccer Challenge. fair’s fun — and success . Pupils at St . part of the action . PACCIORINI/THE CATHOLIC VOICE CATHOLIC PACCIORINI/THE . ALL: ALBERT C ALBERT ALL: Larger festival at St. James the Apostle Rev. Antony Vazhappilly joins members of the Knights of Columbus council at St. James the Apostle Parish on Aug. 18 during the parish’s annual two-day festival. The event saw double the number of vendor and food booths, with entertainment, raffle prizes and a drawing for a new car. St. James the Apostle is at 34700 Fremont Blvd. Fremont 94555; www.sjapostle.net.

You are invited to Our Lady of the Rosary Church Celebrate LIFE 703 “C” Street, Union City Fall Dinner and Fundraiser Address: St. Cyprian Parish Celebrant: Most Rev. Bishop Oscar Cantú to benefit of Concord, Pregnancy Support Service INTERNATIONALINTERNATIONAL 195 Leota Ave. Concelebrants: Rev. Vincent Pineda, Rev. Louis Leveil SJ, Saturday, October 12, 2019 Sunnyvale CA 94086 Rev. Periyanayagam SJ, Rev. Chandrasekar Paulraj FESTIVALFESTIVAL Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 - 6:30 p.m. St. Mary Church Hall Holy Mass, Rosary Procession, Fellowship & Dinner 1158 Bont Lane, Walnut Creek Saturday, October 6 email: [email protected] | contact: 408-480-0804 Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for a no-host bar followed by 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. a dinner at 6:15 p.m. catered by Bambino’s Italian Restaurant. web: www.velankanni.shtcg.org Christine Watkins will share her inspiring story of Sunday, October 7 hope and healing. Christine is a popular speaker, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. author, founder of Queen of Peace Media, and a former FOOD BOOTHS FROM OUR MANY CULTURES professional ballerina with the SF Ballet Company. GAMES • FLEA MARKET There will be live music, a raffle, and a silent auction. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT THROUGHOUT THE DAY RSVP by October 2nd FREE ADMISSION Price: $40 for adults CAR SHOW: Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Purchase tickets online at: RAFFLE DRAWING: www.birthrightdinner2019.eventbrite.com Grand Prize $2,000, First Prize $1,000, Second Prize $ 500, Third Prize $250 or by calling 925-798-7227 Plus additional prizes from local merchants. Contact [email protected] FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: with questions. The Parish Office at 510-471-2609/www.olrchurch.org

SATURDAY OCTOBER 26, 2019

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 THE CATHOLIC VOICE — 13 Soft openings ease pupils, teachers back into swing of school By David Scholz supplies arriving on the first day and then Special to the Catholic Voice letting teachers know what certain items The 2019-20 school year is well under- were still needed from their students . way two weeks after soft openings wel- “The teachers are using their time to comed students back to their classrooms . get to know the students and doing fun Minimum days are built into the Diocese activities (the first days of school),’’ said of Oakland’s 180-day Principal Sherri Moradi . calendar as pupils, Natalie Lenz-Acuña, principal at St . armed with designated Joseph School in Pinole, sees the value supplies, including of pre-visits for parents and students paper towels, boxes of entering pre-school and kindergarten to Kleenex, disinfectant drop off materials as they can meet the wipes, copy paper teachers and see their classrooms . The and binder paper, teachers then can get supplies put away leave behind summer so the focus on the social and emotional vacation . can take place from day one . Rocheford About 60 percent Principal Sonya Simril of St . Leo the Great of the schools began School in Oakland, said the opening days of on a Wednesday and the school year should be about teachers have two or all three getting to know their students and community days as minimum building, and for the kids to get settled so they days . This practice can transition into the program . does support easing She noted this goal is helped by new the students and the and returning students who just attended teachers back into a five-week summer school camp at her the rhythm of the school . Class supply lists have been

new school year, said Simril PHOTO COURTESY trimmed way back too . Ken Willers, associ- “By the time school year starts, it’s a seam- Third grade teacher Michele Morales greets each of her new third graders as they enter ate superintendent- less beginning to the school year,’’ Simril said . the classroom on the first day of school at St. Joseph School in Pinole on Aug. 19. innovation and growth . Susan Anderson, principal at Our Lady of However, Families come in as well as students in before its new year kicked off . Grace School in Castro Valley, echoed Simril’s Assumption School in a very casual manner to visit but also see Administrators pointed to traditional thinking, and planned her back-to-school letter San Leandro is among where they sit and get their supplies settled . move up activities at the end of the prior to parents to express these sentiments . those that went a bit This allows for teachers during the initial school year that already let students see “(Day one) is a chance to get used to further . days of school to focus more time on expec- their new classroom, making such a day their rooms and learn firsthand what the Dubbed “Visiting tations, establishing routines and building unwarranted . teacher would like in his/her room the first Day,’’ a tradition since community with their students, as opposed The soft opening for St . Cornelius School week,’’ said Anderson of students only Anderson at least 2012, it lasted to time being used to collect and store the in Richmond was helped by students being bringing essential school tools . two hours and occurred the day before abundance of supplies from their students . able to drop off their supplies with the office “That first day is a short one and it the first official day of school, according to St . David School in Richmond also held before its school opens . Also, parent volun- seems foolish to spend much of it unpack- first-year principal Lana Rocheford . a mandatory 3-hour Sneak Peak the day teers shouldered the task of inventorying ing items and shelving them,’’ she added . San Ramon: Mini retreat for parents, music included By Michele Jurich Staff writer Parenting can be a lonely job . Sometimes it looks like everyone else has the answers — their kids behave beautifully in church, for example, while you are squeezing yourself between two of them to prevent a mid-homily squabble — and you don’t . Here’s a message from the organizers of Holy Chaos!, an upcoming retreat for parents of kids of all ages: We’re all in this together . The Sunday afternoon mini-retreat is set for 1:30-6 p .m . Sept . 29 at St . Joan of Arc Parish, 2601 San Ramon Valley Road, San Ramon . Tickets are $25 for one parent, or $40 for two . Childcare — at $10 per Holy Chaos! child — is available . But act What: A mini-retreat for quickly . Space is limited . parents of kids of all ages The idea of a retreat began three years ago at When: Sept . 29, 1:45-6 p .m . the parish, Mary Machi, faith Where: St . Joan of Arc Parish, formation director, said . It 2601 San Ramon Valley Road, was born, she said, of the San Ramon belief that they were not serving teens and younger Featured speaker: Mark Hart, children if they weren’t serv- “The Catholic Bible Geek” ing the parents . Register in advance: PACCIORINI/THE CATHOLIC VOICE CATHOLIC PACCIORINI/THE

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ALBERT C ALBERT picked them up afterward, $40 for both parents often encountering a teen Workers install carpet at St. Catherine of Siena in Martinez. For more photos, check out facebook. Childcare: $10 per child, who had been motivated by com/TheCatholicVoice. advance reservation only, prayer, music, speakers and space limited tion; stained glass has been repaired and cleaned . group activities . A new Rogers organ, coming from St . Dominic Why not offer that to Martinez parish . . . Church in San Francisco, will be installed by year- parents? (Continued from Page 1.) end . There’ll be a new piano too . “There’s a calling on our hearts to serve the parents,” Machi years,” he said, “but we realized, we’ve had no major The choir loft is being reclaimed, and across its said . “We know how to put on a great event for teens . We have improvement of the church in 50 years ”. front, 34 icons will tell the history of salvation, bring- music . We have a keynote speaker . We have breakout sessions . So to bring the parish from preservation mode to ing into focus Jesus’ directive: “Go into the world and We motivate them . an active missionary community, a five-year plan was proclaim the Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15) . “But what about the parents? They’ve never been to something adopted in December, beginning with an upgrade to The old baptismal font has been placed at the front like this and this is an opportunity to give them their chance ”. the church building . of the church . New paint and flooring are in, the altar The first retreats drew about 150 parents; this retreat, open to par- As parishioner Tom Greerty wrote in the Aug . 25 is being refurbished and there’s a new sound system, ents throughout the diocese, can handle about 300 . bulletin, the church “has needed to be cleaned and landscaping and handicapped access . “We are growing families of faith,” Machi said . Parents will go shined for a long time ”. The major colors inside are gold, white, brown and home with practical tools they can begin using that day to bring On a recent evening visit, Greerty wrote, he saw red — bright colors and gold trim . We looked at the faith into their homes . Troy Killorn, the music director, “replacing our beauti- traditions in the life of Christ, Father Le said, white “We want to inspire parents in the holiest of jobs,” she said . ful yellow chandeliers with white ones ”. Then Greerty for purity, dark brown for humility, red for blood and The breakout sessions will have topics geared just for Dads, noticed, “he was not replacing them but rather clean- the tradition of gold from Leviticus . just for Moms, for parents of teens, parents of middle-schoolers ing them . Wiping away 60 years of yellow grime so Many people and organizations have contributed and parents of young children . that the white lights of God’s Glory could be seen as to the renovation, but one donor stands out . The keynote speaker will be Mark Hart, known as the Catholic they were meant to be seen . Six months after he arrived at St . Catherine, Father Bible geek . “I also realized Father Anthony’s diagnosis of St . Le said, he noticed a woman waiting alone at the Working with the St . Joan planners for the past six months are Catherine’s was accurate … He told us that every- bus stop outside the church after Mass . Father Le representatives from St . Isidore Parish of Danville; St . Raymond thing needed to be cleaned . Not just our souls but joined her, and they talked for 45 minutes . She told Parish of Dublin; St . Michael Parish of Livermore; St . Charles our church too ”. him she was a widow, and a convert who wanted to Borromeo Parish of Livermore; St . Patrick Parish of Rodeo; All Saints During the $300,000 renovation, Masses are held love, serve and worship God . Parish in Hayward; Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Brentwood; in the Parish Hall . A few months later, she was diagnosed with late- Holy Spirit Parish in Fremont; and Patti Collyer, coordinator of youth Every renovation has a theological and symbolic stage cancer . Her niece called Father Le to say though ministry and special initiatives for the Diocese of Oakland . reason behind it, designed to communicate a certain she was too ill to talk, the woman wanted to thank him . “We will do the most we can in the four hours we have,” Machi said . mystery of faith, Father Le said . When the woman died, Father Le found she had left “We’re going end with Adoration,” Machi said . “The best gift we Pews have been sent to Los Angeles for restora- $250,000 to the parish . She insisted on no recognition . can give parents is Jesus ”. 14 — THE CATHOLIC VOICE SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 Catholic Voice Collection Oct. 5&6 More than a newspaper

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week, then hurry off in different directions without strengthen- INSTITUTE, CNS NAPA COURTESY ing each other, the parish is much more likely to fail than if the John Meyer, executive director of the Napa Institute, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput speaks community’s members interact with and strengthen each other . speaks July 25, 2019, during the institute’s annual during the opening Mass July 24, 2019, at the Napa Parish revitalization was a recurring focus for a wide range Summer Conference in California. Institute’s annual Summer Conference in California. of discussions and soul-searching at the Institute, which explores the current state of the Church and challenges of and active discipleship . the world ”. reform . More than 600 people participated, with 115 priests A key is getting people to interact in their religious lives . There is a huge difference between maintenance and and bishops, including Oakland Bishop Michael C . Barber, SJ . “Teach people to talk about their faith lives to one mission, he emphasizes . Patrick Lencioni of Lafayette is a successful business another,” emphasizes Lencioni . “Teach people to evan- “Most of our missionary work is like a fishing boat that energizer who in his faith life, formed The Amazing Parish gelize one another ”. stays in the harbor,” Father Mallon said . “The only fish it program . He said bluntly “there is nothing remotely com- The Amazing Parish is one of several distinctive efforts will catch are those that jump into the boat! passionate” about accepting mediocrity . “The acceptance to strengthen Catholic parishes and re-energizing the “If we are only maintaining, we become irrelevant!” of mediocrity is unacceptable!” people in them . Leoncioni added “teach people to talk about their That program has helped parishes begin to revitalize, Rev . James Mallon, vicar for parish renewal and faith lives to one another . Teach people to evangelize using methods of energizing many business organiza- leadership in the Archdiocese of Halifax/Yarmouth, Nova one another ”. tions . Core building blocks it uses are prayer, teamwork Scotia, said “We will never succeed if we get angry with “The parish should be a nuclear power plant of prayer!” Senior Living/Resources NEED HELP ON THE STAIRS? An Acorn Stairlift is the perfect solution to use the stairs if you suffer from: ü Arthritis or COPD ü Joint pain in your feet, knees or back ü Mobility issues when using the stairs COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY ACCREDITED A+ BUSINESS Rating Left, Rev. Daniel B. Donohoo and Rev. Anthony Stoeppel ® New leaders for St. Patrick’s Seminary SPECIAL OFFER Staff report ar general of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, CALL NOW TO RECEIVE MENLO PARK — Rev . Daniel B . and also served as chairman of the Parish .00* Donohoo was named president-rector and Mission Assistance Program and $250 of St . 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Information/registration: visit at 925-846-8708 for more information . Our Lady of Velankanni Festival. 6:30 St. Anthony Festival. 9 a .m .to 4 p .m .in www .sandamiano .org or call 925-837-9141, ext . 315 . p .m . at St . Cyprian Parish, 195 Leota Ave ., the church parking lot at 971 O’Hara Ave ., Friday, Sept. 6 Sunnyvale . Celebrant: Most Rev . Bishop Oakley . 925-625-2048 . Sept. 13 to 15 Evening with Sister Helen Prejean. 7 p .m .at Oscar Cantu of San Jose . Concelebrants: Catholic Men’s Fellowship Fall Retreat. At Old Danville Congregational Church, 989 San Ramon Revs . Vincent Pineda, Louis Leveil, SJ, Sept. 28 and 29 Oak Ranch, 15250 Old Oak Ranch Road, Sonora . Periyanayagam, SJ, Chandrasekar Paulraj . Valley Blvd ., Danville . Sister Prejean, author of St. Clement Festival. Sept . 28: 10 a .m to. Theme: The Sermon on the Mount . Cost: $185 per Mass, rosary, procession, fellowship and 10 p .m .and Sept . 29: 9 a .m .to 5 p .m .at 750 “River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey,” will be joined person includes lodging and all meals . Join retreat dinner . Information: email: festival@shtcg . Calhoun St ., Hayward . Raffle for car or $20,000: in conversation by two longtime Danville residents: org; phone: 408-480-0804; www .velankanni . tickets $25 each . Information: 510-582-7282 . leader Rev .Yosobu Banka, from the Diocese of Kathy Gannon Briggs, retired principal at St . Isidore shtcg .org . Our Lady of Grace Festival. Sept . 28: Stockton, for a week of reflective spirituality . Visit School, and attorney Bill Gagen . Talk and book 12 p .m . to 10 p .m .; Sept .29: 11 a .m . to 7 www .CatholicMen org. or 209-264-2263 for informa- signing . Information/tickets: rakestrawbooks .com/ Sunday, Sept. 8 p .m ., 3433 Somerset Ave ., Castro Valley . tion, registration and payment options . event/Prejean or 925-837-7337 . St. Joachim Parish Bazaar. 8 a .m to. (Enter parking lot on San Miguel) . Pancake 4 p .m at. St . Joachim Church, 21250 breakfast, Sept . 29, 8:30 a .m to. noon . Friday, Sept. 13 Hesperian Blvd ., Hayward Information:. Information: www .olgfestival .com . 510-783-2766 . u TAIZÉ All-You-Can-Eat Fish Fry, Grilled Cheese and Sunday, Sept. 29 (An ecumenical, candlelit service of prayer in Pasta Too. 5 to 7 p .m .at St . Raymond Parish, Saturday, Sept. 14 St. John the Baptist Annual Parish simple chant, Scripture readings, silent worship 11555 Shannon Ave ., Dublin . Kids’ menu includes St. Leander Community Festival. At 575 Festival. 10:30 a .m . to 4 p .m . at 11150 San and veneration of the cross.) baked fish sticks and mozzarella sticks . $7 per W . Estudillo Ave . (across from BART), San Pablo Ave ., El Cerrito . (Kearney Street is the person, $7 per takeout box, $3 for kids 6-12, free for Leandro . Information: parish Facebook entrance .) Mexican family dinner: Sept . 28 Sunday, Sept. 15 page and Instagram @stleanderfestival or kids 5 and under . Sponsor: Knights of Columbus, from 6-10 p .m .; dinner prices $25 adults/$10 6 p .m at . St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 3051 510-895-5631 . children . Information: 510-234-2244 . Council 7987 . Putnam Blvd ,. Pleasant Hill . Ecumenical gatherings Sept. 20 to 21 Sunday, Sept. 15 Oct. 4 to 6 are offered on the Third Sunday at a participating Corpus Christi Parish Festival. Noon to St. John’s Fall Festival — Fiesta Day of the area church . “Let Us Not Forget Hospitality” — Weekend 5 p .m . at 37891 Second St ., Fremont . 510- Dead. At 264 E . Lewelling Blvd ., San Lorenzo . Taizé Retreat for Young Adults. At Mercy 790-3207, ext . 101 . Information: visit Facebook @StJohnFallFestival Friday, Sept. 20 Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame . The or email: sjcsfallfestival@gmail .com . 8 p .m . at St. Joseph Basilica, 1109 Chestnut St ,. Brothers of Ecumenical Community of Taize will Saturday, Sept. 21 Alameda . Every fourth Friday, (every third Friday lead Prayer Around the Cross at 8 p .m Sept. . St. Philip Neri-St. Albert the Great Sunday, Oct. 6 in November and December) . www .facebook .com/ Parish Fun Fair. 10 a .m . to 4 p .m ., corner 20 and Sept . 21, morning, midday and evening St. Joan of Arc 40th Anniversary Festival. TaizeOnTheIsland . Prayer of the Resurrection, also at 8 p .m ,. at of High and Van Buren streets, Alameda . At 2601 San Ramon Valley Blvd ., San Information: 510-373-5200 . 8 p .m in . the chapel, Dominican Sisters of Mercy Chapel . Cost: $40/$25, according to abil- Ramon . Program: 11 a .m . Mass on the parish lawn; festivities: noon to 4 p .m .Information: Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Circle (off ity to pay . Information: http://mercy-center org/. Sept. 20 to 22 visit www .sjasr .org or dial 925-830-0600 . Mission Tierra), Fremont . Third Fridays . www . 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Raymond Fall (For more festivals, see an updated list in Sept. 10 to Oct. 15 will be the keynote speaker . Sponsored by the Festival . the Sept. 16 issue.) Healing the Heart — St. Bonaventure Church Bay Area Conference of Associates and Religious Grief Ministry. 7:30 to 9 p .m .at 5562 Clayton Inc . Advance registration: $60; onsite registration: Road, Concord . The St . Bonaventure Catholic $75 . Optional box lunch: $10, lunch orders must community is offering a six-week grief workshop be placed at the time of registration . Information/ 1315 Lomitas Ave ., Livermore . Claire La Scola, take seriously the Christian mission to spread for those whose loved ones has died . No cost, but registration: contact Kathy Noether, knoether@aol . 925-447-9800 or clairelascola@gmail .com . the good news . We do it in a non-confrontational registration is required by Sept . 5 . For more infor- com or www .bacar2 .org . approach out on the streets . Planning and train- mation and to register, call Helene Billeci, 925-681- Sept. 3, 10, 17 ing meetings are held at 7:15 p .m on. the last 8105 or email healingtheheart@stbonaventure .net . Sunday, Sept. 22 Men of St. Joseph meeting. 7 to 8 a .m . Tuesdays Wednesday of the month in the back portable at The “Other” Gospel People: A Chaplain Shares in St . Anthony room at St . Mary of the Immaculate St . Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison St ., Oct. 1 to Nov. 12 Her Experiences Ministering Inside California’s Conception Church, 2039 Mt . Diablo Blvd ., Walnut Berkeley . Contact: David Brandt, dave .brandt456@ Fall Grief Workshop. Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p .m . Penal System. 2 to 4 p .m . at Dominican Center, Creek . Information: michaelgallagher1025@ gmail .com or 510-384-7215 . at St . Joan of Arc Parish, 2601 San Ramon Valley 43326 Mission Circle (entrance off Mission Tierra), outlook .com . Blvd ., San Ramon .For information or to register Fremont . Presentation by Sister Catherine Marie contact Susan at 925-830-1737 or sunshine_ Bazar, OP, chaplain to the men and women in Los Sept. 10, 24 u EVENTS suzy@perrytool com. . Angeles County jails for the past 20 years . RSVP by Fil/Am ministry. 7:30 p .m second. and fourth Sept . 16 at http://bit .ly/2019, or dial 510-933-6360 . Tuesdays, St . Clement Parish Center, 750 Calhoun Saturday, Sept. 7 Tuesdays St ,. Hayward . Simon Medrano, 510-303-2965 . Saturday, Oct. 5 Magnificat SOTI Prayer Breakfast. 9:30 a m. . to Divorce Support Workshops. 7 p .m at. St . 12:30 p .m . at Crowne Plaza, 45 John Glenn Drive, Joan of Arc Parish, 2601 San Ramon Valley St. Columba Health Cabinet CPR and Stop the Sept. 4, 11, 18 Concord . Please join us for a morning of praise, Blvd ., San Ramon This. is a video series by Bleed Class. 9 a .m . to noon at St . Columba Social Perpetual Help Devotion Baclaran format. prayer and inspiration from our speaker author Hall, 6401 San Pablo Ave ., Oakland . CPR tuition DivorceCare . Questions/registration, email 8:15 a .m .Wednesdays after last morning Mass, Jess Echeverry . Tickets: $33/$40 after Aug . 31 . fee: $79 .50 per student or apply for scholarship; Rosemarie McKenney, RMcKenney@sjasr .org . Our Lady Queen of the World Church, 3155 Information: https://magnificat-ministry .net/csa- Stop the Bleed Class, to learn how to recognize Winterbrook Drive, Bay Point, 925-550-0679 . walnutcreek or Kim Sullivan, 925-683-8220 . life threatening bleeding, is free . 510-654-7600 . Second and Fourth Oct. 20, Nov. 17 Remembering the Children. 11 a .m Mass. at Tuesdays Monday, Oct. 7 each of the Catholic Cemeteries in the Diocese Masses in Tagalog. Every third Sunday (except St. John Vianney Grief Ministry. 7 p .m in. of Oakland . Please join Catholic Funeral and Saint Mary’s College High School, Berkeley: 35th in September and December) at 3:30 p .m .at St . Mullins Common, 1650 Ygnacio Valley Road, Cemetery Services as we come together as one Golf Invitational, Oct . 7, Berkeley Country Club, El Michael Church, 458 Maple St ., Livermore . A pot- Walnut Creek . Facilitator: Rev . Padraig Greene . community to honor and pray for all our children Cerrito . The “Phil Doran ‘63 Memorial Tournament” luck reception follows the Mass in the parish hall Information: Eileen Matthews, 925-939-8199 or benefits Saint Mary’s tuition assistance and honors who have been placed in the loving care of our at 326 Maple St ., Livermore . Information: www . etmatthews@sbcglobal .com . Berkeley Police Captain Phil Doran (1945-2010), Catholic Cemeteries . Information: Queen of stmichaellivermore .com/Filipino or 925-447-1585 . Saint Mary’s alumnus, alumni parent and school Heaven Cemetery, 925-932-0900 . Third Wednesdays golf coach . Register at www .saintmaryschs . Sunday, Sept. 29 Military Peer Support Group. 7 to 8 p .m . in the org or Joanne Marchetti Howe in the Saint Mary’s Sunday, Sept. 8 Family Rosary Program. 3 p .m .at St . Edward rectory at St . Augustine Church, 3999 Bernal Ave ., Advancement Office, 510-559-6227 or at jhowe@ St. Teresa of Calcutta: Example of Undemanding Church, 5788 Thornton Ave ., Newark .A rosary Pleasanton . Veterans share life challenges and stmchs .org . Love. 2 to 4 p .m .at Dominican Center, 43326 prayer service hosted by Knights of Columbus opportunities . Contact: Dom Pietro at 925-462- Saturday, Oct. 12 Council 11790 . Held on the last Sunday of the Mission Circle (off Mission Tierra), Fremont . 4665 or pie411@comcast .net . . month . Information: Mike, 510-912-0442 . Presentation by photo-journalist Michael Collopy, Pax Christi Northern California Annual who first encountered Mother Teresa during her Fourth Wednesdays Assembly. 9 a .m . to 3 p .m . at Holy Spirit/Newman Mondays visit to San Francisco and later photographed her Family Caregiver Support Ministry. 7 p .m in. Hall Church, 2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley . Theme: Rosary in Spanish. 7:30 p .m ., St . Joseph Parish ministry in India . RSVP by Sept . 4 at http://bit . rooms 214 and 215 in the Ministry Center at St . Choosing Peace: Is the Catholic Church Returning Center, 2100 Pear St ., Pinole . 510-741-4900 . ly/2019_StTeresa or 510-933-6360 . Isidore Church, 440 La Gonda Way, Danville . to Gospel Nonviolence . Keynote speaker: Marie Family caregivers are invited to our monthly meet- Dennis . Suggested donation: $20-$25 . Lunch Saturday, Sept. 14 ings which include prayer, handouts on caregiving provided by St . Vincent de Paul, Program of Wednesdays On Fire, NorCal Jam. 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Paulson Mundanmani tice — particularly racism — and our own complicity as I would like to give a shout out to our Catholic nuns in congregations, and to work to effect systemic change our country and in the world, who continue to inspire us as we struggle to ensure immigrant rights, promote non- as they confront the evils of our society . violence, and protect Earth and its biosphere ”. Recently I read the story of a detained 90-year-old Other communities adding their voices included the Sister Pat Murphy, who is a member of Sisters of Mercy, Dominican Sisters of Sparkill, New York, who said the a Chicago-based religious order . words of elected leaders matter: “We call upon religious Murphy is a staunch advocate for the leaders of all faiths as well as civic leaders to raise their rights of undocumented migrants . voices in speaking out against white supremacy, which “These are our brothers and sis- undermines the principles of our democracy . We call upon ters and they are part of the human our elected leaders to be accountable for their words family and how can we not? I mean, and actions and to take responsibility for preserving and any person with any human compas- maintaining the unity and moral values of this country ”. sion would reach out ”. Our Catholic nuns have taught a generation of people Sister Norma Pimentel is the in the past through Catholic Schools, religious education

face of the Catholic Church at the CNS GAIL DEGEORGE/GLOBAL SISTER REPORT, and other works of justice, mercy and mercy which includ- Rev. US borders . She is a Sister with ed hospitals, slums, gang violence and so much more . Mundanmani Sister Norma Pimentel, right, a member of the the Missionaries of Jesus . On May Today, they are reminding us to be prophets and to Missionaries of Jesus, greets Sister Teresa Maya, a mem- 20, University of Notre Dame gave Sister Pimentel the confront the evils in our world especially hatred and racism . ber of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word and Laetare Medal, the highest and oldest award given to U .S . Once upon a time Christianity was institution-challeng- former president of the Leadership Conference of Women Catholics, honoring her work with migrants and refugees . ing; it rattled the establishment and changed the course Religious, after Sister Pimentel received the Leadership In 2015, Pope Francis also honored and thanked Sister of history . Now the Church is the institution, and seems Conference of Women Religious Outstanding Leadership Pimentel for her work with immigrants in a virtual town preoccupied with maintaining its position in a shifting soci- Award in Scottsdale, Arizona, Aug. 16. hall meeting that aired on ABC’s “20/20 ”. ety rather than seriously challenging itself or anyone else . Also that year, the national newspaper Our Sunday Visitor (LCWR) condemns racism in all its harmful forms whether The Church in some areas is guilty of pandering to named her one of its 2015 Catholics of the Year . For Sister the violent acts of the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis and power in order to maintain its position on the totem pole, Pimentel, the call to compassion to those in need extends White Supremacist groups or the daily acts of hate and and these days it seems that a general complacency to all Christians — and results in radical transformation . discrimination that diminish us all . … We lament the rac- renders it blind to its privilege and slow to take charge in In the wake of racial violence in Charlottesville, ism that continues to afflict our communities and threaten changing its culture and confronting the evils . Virginia, many communities of women religious spoke out the values that we hold dear . We acknowledge our own Some in our church have identified themselves along with courage against hatred and racial injustice . complicity in institutional racism . We commit ourselves to certain political affiliations and thus become a tool rather The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, cleanse our hearts and rid our land of this evil ”. than transformative . Let us open our eyes and be true which represents 80 percent of the women religious in The U .S . Federation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph prophets of our times . the US, not only condemned the hatred and violence but joined the LCWR in its stand against racism by issuing also acknowledged complicity . this statement: “Following in the footsteps of Jesus, we (Rev. Paulson Mundanmani is pastor at Christ the King “The Leadership Conference of Women Religious commit ourselves to examine the root causes of injus- Parish, Pleasant Hill.) Mass murders Heroism and priesthood, a mark of Dachau and Amazonia By George Weigel necessary holy oils) by Josefa Mack, the excessive In late June I visited the concentration “Angel of Dachau,” who would later become camp at Dachau, located in a wooded Sister Maria Imma, SSND . The prisoners

CALLAGHAN O’HARE/REUTERS, CNS O’HARE/REUTERS, CALLAGHAN suburb a few miles from downtown Munich . clandestinely fabricated everything else individualism The camp site struck me as rather too needed for the ordination, including the People hold hands in prayer Aug. 5, By Rev. Gerald D. Coleman, PSS neat: virtually all of the huts in which full (and complex) episcopal regalia of the next to a crosses in honor of victims of Recently the Barna Group, an evan- hundreds of thousands of prisoners lived, time . The pectoral cross was made at the a mass shooting Aug. 3 at a Walmart gelical polling company, released a sur- starved and died are gone, and the atmo- nearby Messerschmitt plant where Dachau store in El Paso, Texas. Since 1996 vey showing that although 81 percent of sphere, despite a blistering hot afternoon, prisoners worked as slave labor, and a cross builder Greg Zanis of Aurora, Americans self-identify as Christian, only was antiseptic . beautiful wooden crozier was carved in the Illinois, third from right, has delivered 21 percent believe they need any con- There was little of the camp by a Trappist monk-prisoner . free of charge more than 26,000 wooden nection to a faith com- miasma of raw evil that Shortly before Christmas 1944, the memorials at the site of mass murders munity . They consider remains at Auschwitz priestly ordination of Karl Leisner was and other tragedies across the U.S. themselves “spiritual” and Birkenau, even secretly conducted by Bishop Piguet, with a but not “religious ” . he calls immigration an invasion and immi- though Dachau was Jewish violinist in the camp providing music This posture reveals grants predators, alien, killers, criminals the prototype for those outside the hut-“chapel” to divert the atten- an attitude of exces- and predators . extermination factories . tion of the camp guards . Father Leisner was sive individualism that New York Times conservative columnist The Dachau camp too ill to celebrate a first Mass immediately exonerates a person Ross Douthat has recently and correctly site’s Chapel of the after his ordination but managed to do so Weigel from any viable con- written, “There really is a dark psychic Agony of Christ, built on the feast of St . Stephen the Protomartyr, nection to others . This force generated by Trump’s political after the war, is touching . But, to my mind at December 26 . A fellow priest who would Rev. Coleman radical individualism approach, which from its birther begin- least, its stark modernism somehow fails to later become auxiliary bishop of Munich, pervades not only religion but all levels nings has consistently encouraged and fed register the suffering it is intended to com- Johannes Neuhausler, later described the of society . on a fevered and paranoid form of right- memorate — and transfigure . scene: “On this, the greatest day of his life, Excessive individualism is a driving wing politics and dissolved quarantines Dachau was, for years, the “world’s larg- [Karl Leisner] stood at the altar [in the prison force behind the massive killings that around toxic and dehumanizing ideas ”. est rectory” or “the world’s largest monas- barracks], far from his mother and father, his have taken place in the United States and Richard A . Friedman is a professor tery,” for it was there that the Thousand Year brothers and sisters and his friends . He wept elsewhere . Undisguised hate and racism of clinical psychiatry and director of the Reich consigned more than 2,500 Catholic and we wept with him . Silently, behind closed are forms of social dissolution where there psychopharmacology clinic at the Weill priests: almost 1,800 Poles, more than doors, we took some photographs of this first is no middle ground, only isolation . White Cornell Medical College . He has written 400 Germans, 150 Frenchmen, as well Mass so that the parents could see at least supremacy and neo-Nazism grow out of that gunmen who bring about mass mas- as Czechs, Slovaks, Dutchmen, Belgians, the picture of their son celebrating his first a hyper-individualism where the “mirror, sacres are more than likely not “mentally Italians, Luxemburgers, Yugoslavs and Mass in the concentration camp at Dachau ”. mirror on the wall” reflects individual righ- ill monsters ”. Studies of mass killers have clergymen from 10 other countries . That Mortally ill when the Dachau camp was teousness to the detriment of anyone dif- found that only 20 percent have a psychotic these men managed to maintain forms of liberated by the U .S . Army on April 29, ferent from me . At a recent rally in Florida, illness . A recent FBI study of active mass sacramental life — celebrating clandestine 1945, Karl Leisner died in a sanatorium the president asked how America could shooters between 2000 and 2013 found Masses, distributing holy Communion outside Munich three months later . He was stop immigrants, asylum seekers and that only 5 percent had a psychotic illness . surreptitiously and hearing confessions beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996, refugees from coming into the country and One does not need to have a mental — while nursing and otherwise comfort- along with another priest-martyr, Bernhard the crowd roared, “Shoot them!” illness to be a “monster ”. The scary truth ing prisoners being worked and starved Lichtenberg, the heroic, anti-Nazi provost Many forces foment hate, racism and is that ordinary human hatred, aggression to death is a story that should be told time of the Berlin cathedral . xenophobia (a deep-seated fear of the and racism are far more dangerous than and again in every seminary in the world . Might that grainy picture of Father unfamiliar, for example, foreigners), bigotry any psychiatric illness . Brendon Tarrant, As should the story of Blessed Karl Leisner, properly vested for Mass in a hellish (intolerance toward those who are differ- who murdered 51 people last March in a Leisner . death-factory on the outskirts of Munich, be ent), stress due to past acts of violence mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, A candidate for Holy Orders in the displayed during October’s Special Synod against oneself, for example, bullying, was a white supremist, driven by an Diocese of Munster who worked with young for Amazonia, which will consider (among injustice collection (seething and brooding anti-immigration and racist ideology, very people in defiance of the Nazis, Leisner other things) the nature of the priesthood over past injustices suffered) . similar to Patrick Crusius, who is charged had been ordained a transitional deacon in the Catholic Church? Might the example In today’s atmosphere of radical ego- in killing 20 people in El Paso and injured before being arrested and consigned to of Blessed Karl Leisner inspire white, ism and self-centeredness, we cannot two dozen more . Dachau in 1940 . There, the tuberculosis European-descended Latin American tolerate speech which fosters loathsome The mass shooting epidemic must stop . he had contracted shortly after his diaconal priests, historically reluctant to work with the hatred and subtle anarchy, even when it Universal background checks for those ordination went active, and over the next four indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin, to comes from the president of the United purchasing guns, and a ban on semiau- years he wasted away . Then, in late 1944, transcend their racial and ethnic prejudices States . Anti-immigration hysteria is shap- tomatic weapons have been proposed as a new prisoner arrived at Dachau’s “priest in order to evangelize, catechize and bring ing a dark and tragic side of the American potential remedies . As helpful as these barracks,” the French bishop of Clermont- the sacraments to native peoples? experience . antidotes are, we must not overlook the Ferrand, Gabriel Piguet . A secret exchange The heroes of Dachau’s priest-barracks When Mexican immigrants are moral bankruptcy that shows itself in iso- of correspondence ensued between the found a way to keep sacramental life alive, described as rapists who infest our county lation, egomania, narcissism, excessive Frenchman, Cardinal Michael Faulhaber of in full fidelity to the Church’s tradition . Is that with crime, vilification and fear mongering individualism and vitriolic language . Munich, and Bishop Clemens von Galen impossible in Amazonia? Or elsewhere? are amplified by those open to receiving it, of Munster, with an eye to finding a way to especially when such attitudes are intensi- (Father Gerald D. Coleman, PSS, is an ordain Karl Leisner a priest before he died . (George Weigel is distinguished senior fel- fied by right-wing websites . The president’s adjunct professor, Graduate Department of The paperwork was completed and low at the Ethics and Public Policy Center language has been unconscionable when Pastoral Ministries, Santa Clara University.) smuggled into the camp (along with the in Washington, DC.) SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 FORUM THE CATHOLIC VOICE — 19 LETTERS

the current administration’s policies aren’t What price? doing that . These policies are separating Letters to the editor provide a forum for readers to engage in an open exchange I write this as a person who was raised brown children from their families and lock- of opinions and concerns in a climate of respect and civil discourse. The opinions with a Judeo-Christian perspective . I am ing them in cages; they are allowing people expressed are those of the writers, and not necessarily of the Catholic Voice or Catholic . I attended Catholic schools until to suffer and die needlessly because they the Diocese of Oakland. While a full spectrum of opinions will sometimes include college . I remain a parishioner today . For don’t have access to affordable healthcare; those which dissent from Church teaching or contradict the natural moral law, it years I deeply held to the idea that abor- and they aren’t committed to protecting and is hoped that this forum will help our readers to understand better others’ think- tion was a horrible right to allow by law . conserving the environment . These policies ing on critical issues facing the Church. After all, abortion prevents the first right are intended to create fear within our most that we as a society profess that is inalien- vulnerable populations: immigrants, people our most basic human right, the right to life? truth or we perish! Resist and pray! able . In other words, I come from a very of color, women and children . Bear in mind, if one of these candidates Marianne Pinto pro-life tradition of thought . Life is life, inside and outside the womb . becomes president, he or she will endorse Brentwood I also absolutely believe that the two com- This is a scary time for so many in our and embrace laws contrary to Catholic beliefs . mands Jesus gave to us: Love God about all country and for them, these anti-people They will enact laws against God’s laws . Thank you, diocese and love one another as you love yourself are policies are life issues . Jim Crowley As I begin wrapping up my doctoral at the foundation of all real Christian religions . The world is a different place than it Walnut Creek dissertation in education through the And then came Donald J . Trump . This once was . As Catholics, and as Americans, University of San Francisco, focusing on man embodies no virtues Jesus personi- we need to demand change in our Church Our duty the impact of religious retreats amongst fied . He is vindictive, arrogant, spiteful, and our government that is inclusive and I am sorely disappointed in the lack our youth, I have begun the process of cruel and immeasurably deceitful . His progressive when it comes to all life issues of outrage from the Catholic Church over applying for ministry and/or teaching jobs racism is mortifying . His acts regarding because we are better than this . what is happening at our border . No matter within the greater Bay Area . people (mostly of color) fleeing for their Joseph A. Maraccini how you feel about immigration, the way I recently had a few interviews located lives, requesting asylum at the border are Concord migrants are being handled, especially at parishes and schools within the Diocese reprehensible . He seems to actually take innocent children is immoral and should of Oakland . While I was not selected for joy in the suffering of others . Wake up be called out loudly and regularly . the positions, I am appreciative of the He is supported by many pro-life evan- I would like to respond to Ramona I haven’t heard much from our Church diocese’s practice of posting job descrip- gelicals and Catholics because he has Krausnick (Forum, June 10) . President and I don’t understand why . If the Catholic tions and salary schedules on the Human sided with them on a single issue . But at Trump’s statement about shooting some- hierarchy and leaders of other churches as Resources webpage as it allows for can- what price? No deal with the devil has ever one on Fifth Avenue is a rhetorical exag- well spoke up clearly and ceaselessly about didates to know salary ranges and job gained success for the righteous . geration, not a serious threat . how these actions are unacceptable, I believe expectations even before applying and/or Being pro-life is not about opposing The Affordable Care Act is an unwork- it could make quite a difference . I urge all of interviewing for a position . abortion any more than it is about embrac- able failure that does not live up to the those in positions of authority to speak up In a recent report from the Leadership ing all aspects of life . Birth is only one of promises made when it was passed . If it is until these practices stop . Please . It is our duty . Roundtable titled, “Heal the Body of Christ” the these . True pro-life is committing to feed- so great how come its severest critic was Colleen Perez authors recommend: “Diocesan leaders, par- ing, sheltering, clothing, educating and elected president . Fremont ish leaders and other lay experts need to be yes, even loving all people . If we do not The children that are separated at the involved in creating a culture of transparency ”. do these, we are not truly pro-life at all . border because of a policy that has gone Name change The practice of the Diocese of Oakland in It may also be deeply misguided to seek on for decades before Trump was elected . The “Catholic Voice” should change its publishing salary schedules and job descrip- legal fixes to faith-based issues . We have no way of knowing if these chil- name to the “Democratic Voice” in view tions is appreciated and shows the diocese If, as Christian people, we ask, “What dren are with someone who loves them of your alignment with the Democratic is truly committed to being transparent . would Jesus do?” We would see that or if they are victims of human trafficking . Party’s radical agenda . LGBT promotion Neighboring dioceses can learn a lot from Jesus did not find himself at odds with the There are many tragic situations was on full display in The Voice with a Oakland in embracing the “culture of trans- ruling Romans . He did not rage against around the world . This country doesn’t sacrilegious gay pride photo taken dur- parency” that the Leadership Roundtable their brutal empire . At one point he even have the means or the opportunity to ing a “pride” Mass (Voice, July 8) . Looks suggests is gravely needed in the Catholic responded: Matthew 22:21 “Render to remedy all of them . like they need to be reminded of Catholic Church within the United States in 2019 . Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and As to gun control, due to the fact that teaching that according to the Catechism Thank you, Diocese of Oakland for to God the things that are God’s ”. there are around 1,400 private citizens to “homosexual acts are intrinsically disor- working to be transparent! He regularly found himself, however, every police officer, an officer being avail- dered” and “under no circumstances they Chris Miller in conflict with the priests and ministers able to stop a violent crime is very doubtful . be approved ”. (CCC 2357) Los Gatos (pharisees and sadducees) of his day, Hence, the Second Amendment . Also, in line with the Dems, Rev . Gerald who were telling others how to obey the Despite many provocations, Trump has Coleman, PSS, a frequent contributor to Apex of faith laws of God . He knew that God’s law does not gotten us into a new war . Also, like Leo The Voice and LGBT supporter, scolds “All the good works in the world are not not belong in the political world of power, the Great with Attila the Hun, he has had to pro-life defenders for “harsh politicizing equal to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass it belongs in the hearts of all who would deal graciously with some very unpleasant rhetoric” (Voice, June 10) . Where is his because they are works of men; but the profess their belief in the Creator . individuals . moral outrage for the Democratic Party’s Mass is the work of God ”. These words of David F. Chambers As responsible people we must wake diabolical support of unlimited abortion and St . John Vianney remind us that the greatest Renton, Washington up and deal with the world as it is . infanticide? Appallingly, he also expresses way we have to demonstrate our love of God William Ellis a moral equivalence between a woman’s is through the Mass and Holy Eucharist . Demand change Walnut Creek “right” to kill her unborn baby and the rights By placing the Holy Eucharist as the Jack Hockel (Forum, July 8) wrote, of the unborn children! “This reproductive highest priority of demonstrating our love “Pro-lifers have never had it so good and Democratic platform “justice” must be respected as having of Him, we do not diminish the value neither has the United States as far as There are two key issues each equality with a woman’s reproductive “right” of good works . Rather, we profess the measures protecting defenseless life com- Democratic presidential candidate supports to eliminate a fledgling human life ”. Eucharist as “the sum and summary of ing out of the White House ”. He is right if and every Catholic should be concerned . Maybe next time The Voice will have a our faith” . Our Lord himself reminded us you are narrow-minded enough to believe There is absolutely no daylight separating schedule of Pride events and prayer ser- that if we have faith in him we will know that pro-life equals anti-abortion . candidates on abortion . Every candidate is vices to Moloch! The Voice and the clergy’s the good works we must do . As for “protecting defenseless life,” pro-abortion with no limits or restrictions . lack of moral outrage at the slaughter of the It is an unfortunate truth that our younger neither Donald Trump nor the rest of his For all of these candidates, abortion, unborn and born, the clerical predation of generations have not been taught adequately administration cares one bit about unborn which they label “a reproductive right ”. is minors and seminarians and the revolution of the importance of the Holy Eucharist to our babies . And if it’s possible to care less than an inscribed constitutional right . Joe Biden against Church doctrine on homosexuality, Catholic faith . That has been demonstrated in that, that’s how much they care about this just announced his new plan to expand the marriage and more can be explained partly their lack of participation in their faith . country and its future . As far as I am con- Affordable Care Act by forcing American by the homosexual problem in the clergy as If we did little else than to teach that cerned, if there is a hell, the gates open taxpayers to fund abortion up to birth . confirmed by the John Jay report . the Eucharist is our Sacrament of Divine under the desk of the president . Maybe Every Democrat running for presi- The wolves in sheep’s clothing must Love, it would be a giant step forward that explains his “tan ”. dent opposes a bill in Congress to stop be purged from the Church and our good in our teaching . Because through the Pro-life is the protection of all lives and infanticide . Nancy Pelosi and the House priests protected and supported . In this understanding that the Eucharist is the Democrats have blocked a bill that requires Church crisis a great separating is occur- apex of our faith, we would understand doctors to provide care for babies born alive ring as Jesus said, “Satan would sift you as the good works we need to do . This our during botched abortions for the 80th time . wheat ”. “He who is not with me is against Lord promised . Want to write? Every candidate also embraces same- me ” . There is no compromise with the George E. Pfautsch Contributions to Reader’s Forum sex “marriage ”. The next Democratic nomi- world . Either we stand with Christ and His Walnut Creek should be limit­ ­ed to 250 words . nee will embrace the use of federal gov- Let­ters must be signed and must ernment to impose gender ideology . This in­clude the writer’s­ address­ and would certainly conflict with our guaranteed phone number for verification right to religious liberty . It already has . Pope Francis Legal Clinic purposes . All letters are subject I think most Catholics would agree that the to editing . Writers are generally Free Legal Consultation Democratic Party has become radicalized . Experienced Lawyers limited to four letters in any New York Democrats were ecstatic about 12-month period . their new unrestricted abortion law, allowing The Diocese of Oakland • 2121 Harrison Street, Oakland abortion up to the time the baby is in the birth www.oakdiocese.org • 510-893-4711 Mail your letter to: The Catholic Voice, canal, just minutes away from being born . • Advanced Health • Personal Injury • Housing • Estate 2121 Harrison St ., Suite 100, Oakland, All of these candidates, many who Care Directives • Employment • Divorce • Probate CA 94612 . 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