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3 DENVER CATHOLIC | NOVEMBER 10-23, 2018 Vatican Notes From here to eternity. Giving for the Kingdom of God ® Planning Your Will and Special Gifts Personally — Leave a legacy of what matters to you most. Financially — Wisely manage the assets that God has entrusted to you, in full compliance with the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Spiritually — Strengthen our parishes and our Catholic community through your charitable giving. The Catholic Foundation of Northern Colorado is here to help you plan your Will, including the opportunity for special gifts that you may not be able to create on your own. As Catholic faithful, we believe our earthly treasure is a gift from God, and we can give it a way to serve the greater good. Give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven. LUKE 12:33–34 Jean Finegan | Deacon Steve Stemper 303.468.9885 | TheCatholicFoundation.com giving@TheCatholicFoundation.com OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS Reverend Grzegorz Cioch, appointed Pastor of Christ the King Parish, Denver, Colorado, e¥ective November 5, 2018, for a six-year period, ending on June 2024. Reverend Alan Hartway, C.PP.S., appointed Pastor of Guardian Angels Parish, Mead, Colorado, e¥ective November 5, 2018, ad nutum archiepiscopi. Reverend Reynaldo Frias-Santana, OFM Cap., granted Presbyteral faculties of the Archdiocese of Denver, and appointed for Mission and Ministry with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), e¥ective immediately, as long as his term lasts. Reverend Gabriel Bakkar, C.F.R., granted Presbyteral faculties of the Archdiocese of Denver, and appointed for Mission and Ministry with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), e¥ective immediately, as long as his term lasts. Reverend Brendan Rolling, OSB, granted Presbyteral faculties of the Archdiocese of Denver, and appointed for Mission and Ministry with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), e¥ective immediately, as long as his term lasts. Reverend Santhosh Adhikarathil, OFM Cap., granted Presbyteral faculties of the Archdiocese of Denver, and appointed for Mission and Ministry, e¥ective immediately, until his time in ministry here is completed. Reverend Innocent Orduah, granted Presbyteral faculties of the Archdiocese of Denver, e¥ective immediately, until his Optional Practical Training is completed. Reverend ORDUAH will be in residence at Blessed Sacrament Parish, Denver, Colorado. OTHER Reverend Marcus Mallick, granted a medical leave of absence, e¥ective October 1, 2018 until October 1, 2019. Pope Francis: 'A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite' BY COURTNEY GROGAN/CNA P ope Francis strongly condemned anti- Semitism, recalling the living memory of the Holocaust in Europe, during a meeting with rabbis at the Vatican Nov. 5. "As I have often repeated, a Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots," Pope Francis told a del- egation from the World Congress of Mountain Jews earlier this week. "Rather, we are called to commit ourselves to ensure anti-Semitism is banned from the human community," he continued. The Vatican audience was the first time that representatives of the Moun- tain Jews of the Caucasus, descendents of the ancient Persian Jewish commu- nity, met with a Roman ponti¢. "I have always sought to emphasize the importance of friendship between Jews and Catholics. It is based on a fraternity grounded in the history of salvation and it finds concrete expres- sion in concern for one another," Pope Francis said. The pope recounted his visit with a Jewish community in Lithuania on "a day devoted to the commemoration of the Shoah, seventy-five years after the destruction of the Vilnius ghetto and the murder of thousands of Jews." "I prayed before the monument to the victims of the Holocaust and I asked the Most High to comfort his people," the pope said. There must be "a living memory" of the Holocaust, Pope Francis insisted. In the wake of the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States two weeks ago, many bishops spoke out against anti-Semi- tism. Eleven people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue during its Sabbath service Oct. 27. "Anti-Jewish bigotry, and all reli- gious and ethnic bigotry, is a terrible sin," Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh said the day of the attack. "As we pray for peace in our communities and com- fort for the grieving, we must put prayer into action by loving our neighbors and working to make 'Never again!' a reality." After the shooting, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said that "Religious and ethnic hatred is vile in any form, but the ugly record of the last century is a lesson in the special evil of anti-Semitism … It has no place in America, and especially in the hearts of Christians." Pope Francis o¢ered prayers for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting during his Angelus address. "May the Lord help us to extinguish the outbreaks of hatred that develop in our societies," he prayed.

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