Envelope inside, see ad on Page 3 VOL. 55, NO. 19 DIOCESE OF OAKLAND NoveMBER 6, 2017 www.catholicvoiceoakland.org Serving the East Bay Catholic Community since 1963 Copyright 2017 A Dreamer envisions future and how to achieve it By Michele Jurich “We’re not all criminals,” he said, “we’re not Staff writer all PhDs.” Arturo Fernandez is in the fifth year of his doc- Fernandez said he has not always been so toral degree program in statistics at the University open about his status, overcoming “fear, shame of California at Berkeley. and anxiety” to speak out. He was student body president at Pittsburg High As a Berkeley graduate student, he understood School. He arrived on the Berkeley campus as a he occupied a place of privilege, and wanted to freshman in fall 2008. Four years later, he graduated put that to use to draw attention to the spectrum with a degree in applied mathematics and statistics. of people who are living their lives “in pursuit of Arturo He’s the eldest of five children of a landscaper their part of the American dream.” Fernandez, and housekeeper, two people pursuing their small While pursuing his doctoral degree at Berkeley, a doctoral piece of the American dream. where he has taught six classes but is mostly student at Fernandez is the only one of their five children involved in research this year, Fernandez is carving UC Berkeley, who is not an American citizen. He was carried out time to work toward immigration reform in East is big brother into the United States from Mexico when he was Contra Costa County, where he has lived almost and mentor 3 months old. all his life. to four photo He is one of the faces of DACA — Delayed Action He made his first communion and confirmation Y siblings who for Childhood Arrivals. He is among 780,000 young at St. Peter Martyr Parish in Pittsburg, where he were born in TES people who have been protected by DACA since it was an altar server. Growing up, he played soccer R the United OU began in 2012. (Continued on Page 11.) C States. ‘We need to reach everyone, especially young people’ By Esperanza (Pera) Vázquez Special to The Catholic Voice It was a cold, but sunny morning Oct. 28, as parishioners from 34 parishes of the Diocese of Oakland gathered in the gym- nasium of St. Elizabeth Church, Oakland, to participate in the Diocesan Encuentro. Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, opened the event with an enthusiastic welcome to the 550 delegates and outlined the three priorities he has for the diocese: • To get more parishioners to attend the Sunday Mass to have the experience of God. • To promote the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. • To form missionary disciples. V Encuentro (Fifth Meeting) is the fifth national gathering of Hispanics initiated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; this year its theme is “Missionary INI/THE CATHOLIC VOICE INI/THE CATHOLIC Disciples: Witnesses of God’s Love.” R The parish delegates came to the event armed with the result of surveys of people from the peripheries and parishioners T C. PACCIO T C. about what the Church is doing and what R E needs to be done for the benefit of the B AL Hispanics of the diocese . Bishop Barber thanked all those who, Sister Maureen Duignan, OSF, center, was presented a lifetime achievement award for her work with refugees. With her are following the impulse of the Holy Spirit Monica Clark, a CCHD local committee member who presented the award, and Marc McKimmey, diocesan CCHD coordinator. and the call of Pope Francis, embraced the V Encuentro process, especially Rev. Alexander Castillo, Héctor Medina, in charge of the Hispanic ministry in the dio- CCHD grants help empower East Bay groups cese, and the diocesan V Encuentro team. By Carrie McClish educational and medical needs. The orga- “We are an outgoing Church, we need Staff writer Catholic Campaign for nization has provided legal help for the to reach everyone, especially young The Catholic Campaign for Human “dreamers” and has provided scholarships (Continued on Page 11.) Development awarded $165,000 in local Human Development and other forms of support to immigrants and national grants to 14 nonprofit groups Collection: Nov. 18-19 and refugees from Haiti. in the East Bay for their efforts in address- “Sister Maureen has not only been an In: parishes in the Diocese of ing economic and social inequities in their able administrator, but takes a personal Oakland communities. interest in everyone who comes to the On our cover Members of the St. Columba Parish The grants are funded by the annual Or send check to: EBSC for help,” said Monica Clark, a Health Cabinet, Andrew Peters, collection for the Catholic Campaign for CCHD local committee member, who pre- Catholic Campaign for Human Marlene Jackson, Marc McKimmey Human Development, an initiative of the sented the award to the Franciscan Sister. Development of CCHD, Dr. Marianella Carter U.S. Catholic bishops aimed at fostering Three CCHD-funded grants, totaling c/o Catholic Charities of the East Bay and Louis Labat, received a $5,000 a culture of life and hope in communities $110,000, were awarded to: 433 Jefferson St., Oakland, CA 94607 grant from the Catholic Campaign across the nation. Twenty-five percent of Gamaliel of California, $25,000; Oakland for Human Development to aid with funds collected remain in each diocese to Community Organizations, $35,000; youth health outreach. Story at left. support local anti-poverty projects. This This year’s grant recipients gathered Northern California Land Trust, $50,000. year, that collection will be taken up in Oct. 11 at St. Columba Parish in Oakland Eleven $5,000 grants, totaling $55,000, Bishop’s Column . 3 parishes Nov. 18-19, on the celebration of to receive their awards. were awarded to: Classified. 12 the First World Day of the Poor initiated by Sister Maureen Duignan, OSF, execu- Alameda Renters Coalition, Bay-Peace, Datelines . 13 Pope Francis. tive director of the East Bay Sanctuary Community Resources for Independent Forum . 14, 15 In his statement establishing the Covenant was presented the Lifetime Living, Monument Impact, Parishes Holiday Guide . 7 World Day of the Poor on the Thirty-third Achievement Award by the CCHD in Action, St. Columba Church Health News in Brief . .4 Sunday in Ordinary Time, Pope Francis Local Committee during the luncheon. Cabinet, St. Mary’s Center, Sustainable Obituaries . 12 called for Christian communities to mark Established in 1982 by five Berkeley Economics Law Center, United Seniors Seniors . .8 the occasion with “moments of encounter churches, the EBSC has been helping asy- of Oakland and Alameda County, Urban Travel . .6 and friendship, solidarity and concrete lum seekers, refugees and undocumented Peace Movement, Vietnamese American The Church. .2 assistance” with people living in poverty. minor children with housing, employment, Community Center of the East Bay. 2 — THE CATHOLIC VOICE THE CHURCH NoveMBER 6, 2017 BISHOP BARBer’s scheDULE THE DIOCESE Nov. 6-8: Catholic-Muslim dialogue Nov. 16: 5 p.m. Mass, institution of seminar, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley acolytes and lectors, St. Patrick’s Vietnamese Martyrs Deaf Mass times Seminary & University, Menlo Park About 1,000 people are expected to join St. Joseph Center for the Deaf and Hard Nov. 8: 11 a.m., Holy Family Sisters in the procession, Mass and celebration of Hearing (SJCD) in Hayward, a pastoral building dedication, Fremont Nov. 17: 10:30 a.m., Benedict XVI of the Vietnamese Martyrs at noon Nov. ministry of the Diocese of Oakland, serves Institute board meeting, San Francisco Nov. 9: Priest Personnel Board, Chancery 19 at St. Anthony Church, 1610 E. 15th the spiritual and sacramental needs of the Nov. 19: Noon, Mass and procession in St., Oakland. Bishop Michael C. Barber, Catholic deaf community in the Greater San Nov. 10-12: US Bishops Administrative honor of the Vietnamese Martyrs, St. SJ, will preside and Bishop Emeritus Francisco Bay Area, as well as their hear- Committee meetings, Baltimore, Maryland Anthony Parish, Oakland John S. Cummins will concelebrate. For ing family members and friends. Mass is Nov. 13-16: US Bishops general meeting, more information, contact Sister Rosaline offered in American Sign Language (there Baltimore, Maryland L. Nguyen, LHC, at 510-628-2153 or is also voiced English and most of the Mass [email protected]. is presented on an overhead projector) at 10 a.m. Sundays at St. Joseph Center for the Deaf, 25580 Campus Drive, Hayward. THE VATICAN nationalist, populist fervor that manipu- Children talk to pope lates people for political ends, said two First for Pope Francis said that there are no top church leaders. “When you have the Berkeley easy answers to the suffering and destruc- idea that your nation is higher, is better tion wrought by hurricanes and that while than other nations, that is not Christian, parish such disasters happen naturally, human- that is not according to the Christian faith,” Rev. Nicholas kind must also take responsibility for not said German Cardinal Reinhard Marx Glisson was caring for the environment. In a video of Munich and Freising, president of the formally installed chat with young children participating in Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences as pastor of St. a program of the international network of of the European Community. “If you say, Mary Magdalen “Scholas Occurrentes” Oct. 26, the pope love your neighbor like yourself, that’s Parish in Berkeley spoke with children from Texas and Puerto Christian,” he said Oct. 27 during a news on Oct. 8 at a Mass Rico, where Hurricanes Harvey and Maria conference with Archbishop Paul R.