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Bulletin #62
Table of Contents
Remarks from Kent Peters on the tendency
of secularists to undermine the very best in Christianity
Key Upcoming Culture-of-Life
Gatherings/Projects (please join us)
1. Registration for the new Statewide Catholic
Advocacy Network is in place
It's time to add your voice to hundreds of Catholics
from our diocese and
thousands of Catholics from across California in support
of life and dignity
2. Volunteer invitation alert from the Restorative
Justice Program of the OSM
3. Join with hundreds of faithful "witness for life" at the
2007 "Life Chain" on
Sunday, October 7, 2007, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. on Balboa
Ave. and Genesee
4. Life Perspectives' Life Walk, Saturday,
October 20, 2007
5. Make history. Join in the start of the 800 mile
"Walk to Stop Executions"
in California on Saturday, September 15, 9:00 a.m. at
the San Diego Hall of
Justice, 330 W. Broadway, Downtown San Diego
6. Annual Conference for Church Ministers
held at the San Diego Convention
Center on Saturday, September 15, 2007, from 8:00 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. This
Conference is open to those who serve in parish ministry
of any form, e.g.,
detention ministry, pro-life ministry, peace and justice
ministry, disability
ministry, economic justice ministry, HIV/AIDS ministry,
etc.
7. Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Last Fatima
Apparition, there will
be a Public Rosary and Procession
Saturday, October 13th, 2007, starting
with Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in San Diego
at Noon with a
procession to Family Planning Associates (abortion
center) at 6th Ave. and
Palm St. - across from Balboa Park
8. The Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice has an
open organizing position
that will serve Northern San Diego County - check out
the job description
9. Office for Social Ministry to hold Holy Hour of
Adoration with Bishop
Cordileone presiding on Tuesday, October
23, from 7:00
p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
at the diocesan Pastoral Center, 3888 Paducah Drive,
San Diego
Short Reports on Office for Social
Ministry Related Issues/Events
- Fr. Peter West of Priests for Life presented on
end-of-life issues to a receptive
audience at the Pastoral Center on July 26, 2007
Advocacy Request
- Register for the new Statewide Catholic Legislative
Network
Web and
e-mail-based Resources
- Web resource of the U.S. Catholic Bishops dedicated to
the protection of
children and youth - a resource of the USCCB Office of
Child and Youth
Protection
Local and Regional
Events/Gatherings/Projects
1. North-County prayer witness at the Carlsbad Planned
Parenthood Clinic
scheduled for every third Monday of the month from
10:00 to 10:30 a.m.
2. Prayerful witness for life at two locations in San Diego
County - every
Saturday at Sixth and Palm in San Diego and every
second Saturday of
the month at Pomerado Road in Poway
3. St. Dismas Guild sponsors two weekly hours of prayer
for the unborn in
North County
4. St. John the Evangelist Parish in Encinitas Pro-Life
Mass and Rosary held on
the first Monday of each month
5. Most Precious Blood Parish Rosary Prayer Vigils held
on Wednesdays each
week at 8:45 a.m.
6. The ministry of prayer and sidewalk counseling at the
Clinica Medica abortion
facility in Chula Vista is seeking sidewalk counselors
for Wednesday mornings
7. Join neighbors and friends to pray in front of the new
Planned Parenthood
facility in El Cajon
8. The Goretti Group is offering a chastity prayer
gathering and a speaker
training monthly - Notice the new monthly days for each
event!
Article/Statement for September 11, 2007
Statement by Bishop Brom on the settlement of 144 sexual
abuse cases in the
Dioceses of San Diego and San Bernadino
Remarks from Kent Peters
Secularists Undermining What's Best
Why is it that Secularists need to undermine what is most
beautiful in Christianity? The answer is really simple.
Secularists, first and foremost, are bent on removing any trace
of religion from public life, especially elements of religion
with a Judeo-Christian orientation. They believe that a world
free of religion will be a world at peace, a world with no need
for charity because it is overflowing with justice.
Secularists have also learned a valuable public relations lesson
in this modern era. When one can successfully denigrate what is
best in the opposition and do that in the eyes of the general
public, the opposition will shrink. It will decline in
both membership and in financial support of that membership, and
that which is left, the mediocre, tends not to be able to fill
its place. Those embattled stand there seemingly empty-handed
and embarrassed having lost what is most precious.
And so, secularists will try to destroy that which is best in
Judeo-Christian organizations, knowing their members will be demoralized,
especially members who know little about their own faith
tradition.
Case in Point. It has been learned through the private writings
of Mother Teresa that she spent most of her adult life
in ministry feeling absolutely empty in the face of God. She
used words like, "abandoned," "lost," and "alone."
Secularists are now calling Mother Teresa a fraud. She was one
who preached about and asked others to live out what she was not
experiencing in her own life. Yes, let's pull down the statue
of "St. Teresa of Calcutta" before it's even placed on its
stand. Let's stick it, in this case, to the Catholics.
Mature Christians, however, immediately understood what this
revelation about Mother Teresa really meant - greater
sanctity, pure and simple.
Follow the link below to a short essay by Dinesh D'Souza, writer
for the "To the Source" web site. He gives the most edifying
explanation as to what these revelations in Mother Teresa's
writings really mean.
http://www.tothesource.org/8_28_2007/8_28_2007.htm
Take heart. Secularists will not win on this one, and we'll
live on to serve another day.
If the secularists ever do win, however, I would hate to live
in their world cut off from the channels of God's grace that
bring life, mercy, healing and real justice into our broken
world.
Thank you and God bless! |
Key
Upcoming Culture-of-Life
Gatherings/Projects
Number 1: It's time to sign up for the new Catholic Legislative
Action Network
Now is the time. Our local diocesan advocacy
efforts will be linked to the efforts of the eleven other dioceses
in California. Using Cap Wiz, an innovative online tool that
provides legislative data and methods to successfully manage
interactions with key law and policymakers, we will be able to
better influence legislation crucial to the Church's social
mission. As we have for the past four years in this e-link
bulletin, the new network will concentrate on promoting both human
life and dignity.
The California Catholic Conference (CCC), the office in Sacramento
that serves the public policy agenda of the California Catholic
Bishops, will assist with the Cap Wiz program. The CCC will also
help set the California legislative agenda. The local San Diego
diocesan Office for Social Ministry (OSM) will continue to provide
coordination for any action alerts sent to participants who register
as members of our diocese. Feedback to the OSM on legislative
alerts can still be sent to
reportback@diocese-sdiego.org.
Follow the web address below the Legislative Alert Center, and once
there, select "Join Our Action Network."
http://capwiz.com/cacatholic/state/main/?state=CA
Thanks
and God Bless
Number 2:
Through You Miracles Happen - from the
Restorative Justice Program of the OSM
Number 3: Join hundreds of faithful "witness
for life" at the 2007 Life Chain - Sunday, October 7, 2007, 2:00 to
3:30 p.m. on Balboa Ave. and Genesee - Hymns, fellowship and pizza
to follow at 3:45 p.m.
The 2007 Life Chain, where the Gospel meets the road…. In Clairemont,
along Balboa Avenue, between Genesee and I-805. Life Chain signs
only - no Graphic
Abortion Pictures or signs. Collect signs for this important event
at the Northeast corner of Balboa & Genesee, near the Starbucks.
The Life Chain is a prayer service. Upon arrival warmly greet your
fellow Chainers and then begin to pray. As we join a thousand
LifeChains across America and Canada, let each of us trust
 wholly
in our Lord and not in ourselves or our numbers.
Our
own efforts have failed to end or to substantially reduce the
numbers of unborn children lost in the abortion holocaust. May God
intervene with power and mercy. May He forgive our past
indifference and shallow commitment. May he fill us with compassion
that we might move the world to embrace the unborn, their mothers,
and their fathers.
Hymns - Fellowship - Pizza
Hymns,
Fellowship and Pizza will follow the Life Chain at 3:45 p.m. to 5:00
p.m. at Lindbergh Park at Ashford Drive and Eckstrom Ave. From
Genesee go east on Balboa. Turn right on Charger Blvd (just west of
the 805). Immediately turn left on Eckstrom Ave and then turn right
on Ashford Drive.
For more information and to reserve a pizza, contact Sue
Lopez 619-276-7525,
sue.lopez@earthlink.net
Life Chain 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Start at the corner of Balboa Ave. and Genesee
Hymns, Fellowship and Pizza
Sunday, October 7, 2007
3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Lindbergh Park
Corner of Ashford Dr. and Eckstrom Ave.
Number 4:
Life Perspectives' Life Walk is Coming...
It’s time once again for Life Perspectives’ Life Walk! This easy 2
mile event is really a walk in the park: Kit Carson Park in
Escondido and Harry Griffen Park in La Mesa, Saturday, October 20th,
at 10:30 a.m.
Bring the whole family and enjoy clowns, balloons, bubbles, a picnic
lunch, and a chance to get to know other life-minded people from
around San Diego County. This fun event celebrates what Life
Perspectives and our San Diego community have done over the past
year to create a Culture of Life – and refreshes and restores us to
continue in the coming year.
Life Perspectives’ programs and projects are
directed toward informing and educating
 the
community, which is the first component of the Pastoral Plan for
Pro-Life Activities by the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops.
The Whole Life Curriculum (www.wholelifecurriculum.com)
helps parents and educators instill in their students the knowledge
that each individual is valued by God. This transformational
approach affirms the value of others and cultivates the desire to
positively impact their world.
Life Perspectives’ free, interactive, multimedia
speaking engagements at public and private schools around San Diego
County equip students to consider serious life issues, make healthy,
responsible decisions, resist peer pressure, and help those who may
be facing an unexpected pregnancy.
The Abortion Changes You ™ outreach raises awareness
of the impact abortion
 has
on the mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, and friends through
print ads, a ground-breaking website, and a book (available late
2007). These components have been carefully designed to help those
impacted to begin the healing process and find local healing
resources.
All the promoters, walkers, and sponsors of this past year's Life
Walk ’06 made it possible for all of this to be accomplished!
In 2008, Life Perspectives will complete the Whole
Life Curriculum grades 7-12 rooted in Pope John Paul II’s Theology
of the Body; increase the outreach to local schools; and take the
message of hope into the homes of students, educators, and parents
with the creation of an interactive website at
www.LifePerspectives.com
(coming soon!).
Thank you to the 37 parishes already participating
in Life Walk ‘07, and to the Knights of Columbus at St. Timothy, St.
Elizabeth Seton, and St. Michael in Poway who are underwriting this
event – allowing pledges to go toward making these 2008 goals a
reality!
To sign up to become a walker, to find out how you
can participate even if you can’t make it on the 20th, or just to
learn more, please visit
www.lplifewalk.com or call 619-516-1236.
Life Perspectives' Life Walk
2007
Sunday, October 20, 2007 -
10:30 a.m.
Kit Carson Park, Escondido or
Harry Griffin Park, La Mesa
www.lplifewalk.com or call
619-516-1236
Thank you for all you do to
promote a culture of life!
See you all at the Life Walk!
Number 5:
California 800 mile "Walk to Stop
Executions" begins in San Diego at the County Hall of Justice on
September 15, 2007 - starting at 9:00 a.m.
800
Miles, 15 Counties, 3 Months, 1 Goal
Death Penalty abolitionists from throughout California embark on a
five hundred mile foot journey from San Diego to Sacramento to raise
awareness about the death penalty.
Who:
Death Penalty Abolitionists from across California
What: Walk to Stop Executions kick off
demonstration and prayer
When: Saturday, September 15 at 9:00 a.m.
Where: San Diego County Hall of Justice, 330 W
Broadway
Why: To persuade District Attorneys not to seek
the Death Penalty and to
raise awareness about the Death Penalty.
The Walk to Stop Executions
is an event like no other in California. Organized by California
People of Faith’s Richard Carlburg with additional support from
Death Penalty Focus, the walk will bring activists together to
spread their death penalty abolition message from San Diego to
Sacramento and every inch of ground along the way.
As a symbol of the fight to end capital punishment, walkers will
carry a lit "Candle of Hope", signs with messages against capital
punishment, and death penalty abolition literature to pass out along
the way.
The event kicks off with a
demonstration and prayer at the San Diego County Hall of Justice,
330 W Broadway on Saturday, September 15 at 9:00 a.m.. At each
county seat along the path (as well as San Quentin State Prison)
walkers and local activists will meet for a demonstration to
encourage each county’s District Attorney not to seek the death
penalty in their cases and also to bring public attention to the
issue of
 capital
punishment itself.
San Diego resident and human
rights activist Jeff Ghelardi will walk from San Diego to Sacramento
to protest the death penalty in California. Ghelardi will take
three months to finish the "Walk to Stop Executions," which will
cover 800 miles and 15 counties. Ghelardi, a veteran of the Marine
Corps and Peace Corps, says that "I have been a lifelong opponent of
the death penalty and hope this walk will open people's eyes to the
injustice of capital punishment.” Jeff will be walking with Orange
County resident Richard Carlburg, who led the first walk against
executions in 2000.
Richard Carlburg, who also
led the first walk against the death penalty in 2000, is Vice Chair
of California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty.
Richard is an Air Force Academy graduate who earned a Bronze Star
while serving in Viet Nam. After his retirement from the Air Force
he enjoyed a successful career in the aerospace industry. He will
be reporting regularly from the walk on the Walk website
http://walktostopexecutions.blogspot.com.
Supporters can assist the
walkers and the cause of ending executions in multiple ways:
1) Walk for a 1 or 5 mile segment of the course. See the website to
contact organizers for more specific information about the walk
route.
2) Attend one or more of the 15 scheduled rallies.
3) Be a "virtual walker" buy financially sponsoring the walkers with
a financial donation. Donate on line and find out more about the
walk at:
For additional information:
Emily Hammargren, So. Calif. CPF Coordinator, 213-235-8305 email:
cpf@la-archdiocese.org.
San Diego contact for information: Michael Peddecord, San Diego CPF
Leadership Committee Cell 619-929-8955 or email:
cpfsd@cox.net.
California People of
Faith Working Against the Death Penalty works to educate and
mobilize faith communities to act to abolish the death penalty in
California.
Number 6:
Second Notice -
Join with Bishop Brom, diocesan priests
and deacons, and more than 2,000 other Catholic parishioners on
Saturday, September 15, 2007, at the 12th Annual Conference for
Church Ministers to celebrate ministry and sharpen skills to improve
ministry
Registrations will be taken at the door.
To view a registration brochure:
http://www.diocese-sdiego.org/set.asp?link=special_events.htm&in=FAQs
AN INVITATION FROM BISHOP BROM
Dear Friends:
I invite you to the 12th Annual Conference for Church Ministers when
we will gather from throughout the Diocese of San Diego to affirm
that as the Body of Christ, "Our Life Is Mission."
2007 Annual Diocesan Conference
for Church Ministers - Our Life Is Mission - Nuestra Vida Es Misión
Saturday, September 15, 2007
San Diego Convention Center
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Ten major workshops (4 are in Spanish), Eucharistic Liturgy with
Bishop Brom and the Diocesan Choir, and scores of exhibitors and
vendors
Following are examples of just three workshop
presentations:
Registration fees per participant:
$15 online until September 10
$15 early bird by mail, postmarked by August 17
$20 by mail, August 17 through September 7
$25 at the door
The San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
Click below for a map
Number 7:
Come celebrate the 90th anniversary of the last Fatima Apparition
and pray to end the scourge of abortion in our community
Join fellow parishioners for Public Rosary and Procession on
Saturday, October 13th, 2007. The day will start with Mass at Our
Lady of the Rosary Church in San Diego at Noon and continue with a
procession with Our Lady of Fatima Statue to Family Planning
Associates (abortion center) at 6th Ave. and Palm St. - across from
Balboa Park.
Join us as we pray the Rosary and sing hymns to Our Blessed
Mother while processing to the abortion center where we will
continue to pray all the mysteries of the Rosary for an end to the
terrible scourge of abortion.
Those who may be unable to walk the full distance (exactly two miles
- mostly uphill) may drive to Family Planning Associates and join in
the Rosary there. Participants are asked to abstain from talking
during the procession and Rosary, creating a greater disposition for
the many graces needed in the battle to end the injustice of
abortion.
We will be adding our prayer to at
least 1,000 other public Rosaries throughout the United
States on that day - Sponsored by America Needs Fatima
Number 8:
The Interfaith
Committee for Worker Justice is looking for a new organizer for
North County - Might it be you?
JOB DESCRIPTION
Title: San Diego North County Organizer/Healthcare Advocacy
Coordinator
(20-40 hours per week, to be determined based on mutual
interests and
availability.)
Start Date: Job open as soon as possible; will be open until filled.
Reports to: The Coordinator is accountable to Rabbi Laurie Coskey,
ICWJ Executive
Director
The Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (ICWJ) of San Diego
County seeks a North County Organizer/Healthcare Advocacy
Coordinator. The Coordinator reports to Rabbi Laurie Coskey,
Executive Director, and works closely with Bet Lawrence, Program
Coordinator.
Background:
The ICWJ is a membership organization established to bring the power
and energy of the faith community's moral authority to local
struggles for worker justice. In
 partnership
with low-wage workers, our campaigns bring visibility to the
struggle of hard-working individuals and working families trying to
make ends meet in San Diego. In San Diego County alone, more than
400,000 people lack access to healthcare; nearly 7 million
state-wide. Because of this crisis, especially for working
families, ICWJ works to address this crisis through our workplace
and policy campaigns. To help take a stand for legislative reform,
ICWJ has joined It’s OUR Healthcare!, a coalition of consumer
advocates, seniors, health advocates, communities of faith, and
labor united to ensure that the people of California’s voice is
heard in the debate over healthcare reform.
Job Summary:
As ICWJ staff, the Coordinator will lead the outreach, education,
organizing, and advocacy with San Diego’s North County Coastal and
North County Inland faith communities focused on the crisis in
affordable healthcare and directed toward increased access to health
care coverage among North County service workers through workplace
campaigns and health care policy initiatives at local and state
levels. Because our work often deals with the lives of low-wage
workers and their families so intimately, our campaigns are
constantly evolving, which means we have to be flexible and ready to
shift gears when the well-being of workers is at stake.
Send your resume to Bet Lawrence, Program Coordinator at the ICWJ,
or contact Bet by phone with any question you may have:
bet@icwj.org
619-584-5744 ext. 60
9. The Office for Social
Ministry to hold Holy Hour of Adoration in honor of Respect Life
Month, 2007 - Tuesday, October 23, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at
the Pastoral Center
In honor of Respect Life Month,
the Office for Social Ministry is sponsoring a special Holy Hour of
Adoration to promote a Culture of Life. Bishop Salvatore Cordileone
will preside. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 23,
2007, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Pastoral Center Chapel,
3888 Paducah Drive in San Diego.
Please join us in praying for the the advancement of a Culture
of Life!
Holy Hour of Adoration
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Diocesan Pastoral Center
3888 Paducah Drive
San Diego, CA
for information contact Joseph at 858-490-8323
Short
Reports on OSM Related Issues/Events
Number 1:
Fr. Peter West of Priests for Life visited the Diocese of San Diego
to provide message of hope to families faced with end-of-life
decision-making
Pastoral Center: Fr. Peter West from
Priests for Life answers questions during his
presentation on end-of-life issues on July 26, 2007.
The Office for Social Ministry hosted Fr. Peter West of Priests for
Life at the Pastoral Center on July 26th, 2007 to mark the Feast of
Saints Anne & Joachim. For the nine days leading up to the feastday,
the community was encouraged to pray a special novena to Saints Anne
& Joachim (the parents of the Virgin Mary) for the advancement of a
culture of life.
The evening event began in the Chapel with Adoration and Evening
Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours for the Feast Day. After
prayer the group of 50 + proceeded to the Convocation Center in
Salon San Martin de
 Porres
for refreshments and a talk given by Fr. Peter West. He spoke on
the importance of protecting and defending the most vulnerable, with
a special focus on end-of-life issues.
Pastoral Center: Fr. Peter takes time to give a
blessings to Sue Lopez, a conference participant and leader of the
Helpers of God's Precious Infants in San Diego
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Join the new
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efforts will be linked to the efforts of the eleven other dioceses
in California. Using Cap Wiz, an innovative online tool that
provides legislative data and methods to successfully manage
interactions with key law and policymakers, we will be able to
better influence legislation crucial to the Church's social
mission. As we have for the past four years in this e-link
bulletin, the new network will concentrate on promoting both human
life and dignity.
The California Catholic Conference (CCC), the office in Sacramento
that serves the public policy agenda of the California Catholic
Bishops, will assist with the Cap Wiz program. The CCC will also
help set the California legislative agenda. The local San Diego
diocesan Office for Social Ministry (OSM) will continue to provide
coordination for any action alerts sent to participants who register
as members of our diocese. Feedback to the OSM on legislative
alerts can still be sent to
reportback@diocese-sdiego.org.
Follow the web address below the Legislative Alert Center, and once
there, select "Join Our Action Network."
http://capwiz.com/cacatholic/state/main/?state=CA
Web and
e-mail-based Resources
In light of the settlement of sexual abuse cases, it
seemed appropriate to highlight the U.S. Bishops' web site dedicated
to the protection of children and youth
What is the
Office of Child and Youth Protection and What is its Function?
In Dallas, 2002, at their Annual Meeting, the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops drafted a landmark document in response to the
crisis of sexual abuse of children in the Church. This document,
setting forth their agreed upon responsibilities in combating the
problem, was entitled the Charter for the Protection of Children
and Young People.
The charter specifically created the Office of Child and Youth
Protection and assigned to it three central tasks:
- To assist each diocese and eparchy (eastern Rite Churches) in
implementing "Safe Environment” programs designed to ensure
necessary safety and security for all children as they participate
in church and religious activities
- To develop an appropriate compliance audit mechanism to assist
the Bishops and Eparchs in adhering to the responsibilities set
forth in the Charter
- To prepare a public, annual report describing the compliance
of each diocese and eparchy to the Charter’s provisions
Please visit this important web site:
http://www.usccb.org/ocyp/
New
Local/Regional Events and
Gatherings
If you are planning an event that falls within the mission of social
ministry, send the particulars four to five weeks in advance to the
Office for Social Ministry via e-mail,
osmelink@diocese-sdiego.org. The OSM reserves the right to
publish or not to publish any proposed event information. We hope
this will assist your local efforts to re-build a culture of life.
1.
North-County prayer witness at the Carlsbad Planned Parenthood
Clinic
North County parishioners meet the third Monday of every month
from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. to peacefully pray the rosary in front of
the Carlsbad Planned Parenthood Clinic. The clinic is located at
1820 Marron Rd. (in the shopping center just west of Plaza Camino
Real Mall). For more information contact Jahna White of St.
Margaret Parish at 760-586-6356.
2. Prayerful witness for life at two locations (Sixth and
Palm in San Diego and Pomerado Road in Poway) in San Diego County
Helpers of God’s Precious Infants weekly rosary prayer vigil from
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. every Saturday at Family Planning Associates
2850 Sixth Ave, at Palm, across from Balboa Park. Prayer warriors
also needed as early as 7:30 a.m.
Call Sue Lopez 619/990-1341 for more information.
2nd Saturday of the month: 20 decades of the Rosary are prayed in
procession past 4 clinics following the 7:30 a.m. Mass, 15546
Pomerado Road, Poway. For more information, call 858-748-2109.
3. St. Dismas Guild sponsors two weekly hours of prayer for
the unborn in North County
Join members of St. Dismas Guild for a rosary picket at Womancare,
120 S. Craven Way, San Marcos, (across from Cal State San Marcos),
Tuesdays, 9-10 a.m.
The Guild also sponsors prayer (the rosary) in front of PayLess
at Mission Avenue and Escondido Blvd. 347 W. Mission on Thursdays,
10:30-11:30 a.m. For information on these prayer vigils, call
760-751-8541.
4. St. John the Evangelist Parish in Encinitas Pro-Life Mass
and Rosary held on the first Monday of each month
The first Monday of every month is designated Pro-Life
Monday at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1001 Encinitas Blvd,
Encinitas. The 8:00 a.m. Mass will be followed by a Rosary for
Life. For more information, please call Helene McIlhon at
858-756-0622.
5. Most Precious Blood Parish Rosary Prayer Vigils held on
Wednesdays each week
The Pro-Life Prayer Group from Most Precious Blood sponsors a
Rosary Prayer Vigil in front of the Clinica Medica abortion facility
at 1550 Broadway, Chula Vista every Wednesday at 8:45 a.m. For more
information, please call Shirley Henry at 619-420-7096 or Luis
Mendoza at 619-300-5563.
6. The ministry associated with the Clinica Medica
abortion facility in Chula Vista is seeking sidewalk counselors for
Wednesday mornings and some Friday mornings - training will be
provided
The CLINICA MEDICA abortion facility in Chula Vista is now
performing abortions on Wednesday mornings, some Friday mornings and
occasionally on Saturdays. Please contact Luis Mendoza, a
Missionary of The Gospel of Life Lay Associate, at 619-300-5563,
with questions or to share interest in this ministry.
7. There is a new Planned Parenthood facility located at
1685 East Main, just off the Greenfield Drive exit in El Cajon -
join friends and neighbors in prayer
According to the PP website, chemical (RU-486) abortions
only are done at this location - not surgical abortions. They do
refer women for abortions to their surgical center on First Ave.
Join the group each Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Contact:
Debbie 619-933-7776.
8. Please Notice the New dates... The Goretti Group is
offering a chastity prayer and speaker training monthly
Every 1st Friday of the month: Culture of Life Praise and
Prayer @ Our Lady of the Rosary, Giovanni Room, 7:00 p.m. - Praise
the Lord to live music, join in praying the rosary, and hear a
witness on living the virtue of chastity!
Every 2nd Monday of the month: ChasteMasters Meeting @ Our Lady
of the Rosary, Giovanni Room, 7:00 p.m. - Please join us in
prayer, a roundtable discussion, and providing feedback as chastity
speakers refine their talks.
For more info please visit:
www.thegorettigroup.org or
call David at: 619-733-8439
Watch for OSM e-link bulletin
#63 around Wednesday , Oct. 17, 2007
Article/Statement for September 11,
2007
A PASTORAL STATEMENT by Bishop Robert H. Brom
September 7, 2007
To the Pastors and People of the Diocese of San Diego
Today the Diocese of San Diego, along with the Diocese of San
Bernardino, reached a settlement with some 144 people who have filed
lawsuits regarding sexual abuse. For 111 cases the Diocese of San
Diego will be paying $77,071,350 and our insurance carrier, Catholic
Mutual, will be paying $75,650,000, for a total of $152,721,350. In
addition, we will be paying $30,269,098 for 22 cases involving
members of religious orders, part of which we hope to recover from
the communities. The Diocese of San Bernardino, with help from
Catholic Mutual, will be paying $15,134,552 for 11 cases.
The total settlement for the Dioceses of San Diego and San
Bernardino and seven religious communities amounts to $198,125,000.
It covers all 144 cases ranging from 1938 to 1993, with the majority
occurring in the 1960’s and 70’s.
To realize this settlement, we have found it necessary to petition
for release from bankruptcy court. We filed for Chapter 11
reorganization in the hope that we could accomplish a fair and
equitable compensation for all of the victims of abuse without
disrupting the core mission of the Church, especially in the life of
our parishes and schools. Since this effort failed, we have accepted
a plan for the compensation of victims, even though the total
settlement amount actually takes us beyond available resources and
will result in some damaging consequences for the mission of the
Church in this diocese for a number of years. In resolving the
financial ramifications of this settlement parish assets and
contributions designated for specific diocesan ministries and
programs or projects will be respected.
We knew from the outset that the level of compensation initially
offered for the lawsuits would be a point of negotiation within the
bankruptcy process, just as it had been before bankruptcy. In time,
an amended plan of reorganization would have been filed with a
higher offer of compensation.
Some have accused the diocese of engaging in delay tactics in order
to avoid our responsibility to victims. I want to assure you, on the
contrary, that we have done our best all along the way to bring this
matter to conclusion with justice for all involved, but many forces
beyond our control have complicated the process.
Hopefully, the settlement that has been accomplished will serve to
begin a healing process, especially for the victims of abuse, but
also for the Church. Once again, I want to apologize to those abused
and their families and, in the name of the Church, to beg their
forgiveness.
All of us in the Church must continue our efforts to insure that the
Church is a safe and happy place for children and young people. And,
we must embrace together the challenge we face for reorganization
and renewal.
Robert H. Brom
Bishop of San Diego. |
