Angelus News | July 19-26, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 26
A 12th-century Byzantine mosaic depicts the Gospel story of Jairus asking Jesus to heal his dying 12-year-old daughter. For two millennia, the Catholic Church has been in the business of treating spiritual ailments — but that doesn’t mean it’s ignored people’s physical ailments. In fact, the world has Christianity and its founder to thank for some of the foundational principles of modern medicine. On Page 10, contributing editor Mike Aquilina tells the story of how the countercultural beliefs of early Christians led to one of society’s greatest inventions, the hospital. On Page 14, Angelus’ R.W. Dellinger tells the story of how a home hospice nurse is living out Jesus’ healing imperative by accompanying patients in their final moments.
A 12th-century Byzantine mosaic depicts the Gospel story of Jairus asking Jesus to heal his dying 12-year-old daughter. For two millennia, the Catholic Church has been in the business of treating spiritual ailments — but that doesn’t mean it’s ignored people’s physical ailments. In fact, the world has Christianity and its founder to thank for some of the foundational principles of modern medicine. On Page 10, contributing editor Mike Aquilina tells the story of how the countercultural beliefs of early Christians led to one of society’s greatest inventions, the hospital. On Page 14, Angelus’ R.W. Dellinger tells the story of how a home hospice nurse is living out Jesus’ healing imperative by accompanying patients in their final moments.
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RIBOLI FAMILY<br />
LOCAL<br />
Stefano Riboli<br />
LA says goodbye<br />
to ‘Papa Steve’<br />
Stefano Riboli, the patriarch of<br />
Los Angeles’ San Antonio Winery,<br />
passed away at his home on<br />
<strong>July</strong> 3. He was 97.<br />
Known as “Papa Steve,” Riboli<br />
took over the small neighborhood<br />
winery from his uncle and<br />
watched it become what was recently<br />
named “American Winery<br />
of the Year” by Wine Enthusiast<br />
magazine in 2018.<br />
The parishioner of St. Peter’s<br />
Italian Church near downtown<br />
LA is survived by three children,<br />
10 grandchildren, and 17<br />
great-grandchildren.<br />
During Prohibition, San Antonio<br />
Winery produced sacramental<br />
wine for the Archdiocese of<br />
Los Angeles, allowing the new<br />
business to prosper during a<br />
severely difficult time for wine<br />
producers.<br />
Since then, Riboli’s winery has<br />
continued to produce altar wine<br />
for Catholic churches and produced<br />
the “Cathedral” wine label<br />
sold since 2002 at the Cathedral<br />
of Our Lady of the Angels gift<br />
shop. <br />
Short term, eternal rest for SF auxiliary bishop<br />
Catholics in San Francisco are mourning the<br />
unexpected death of Auxiliary Bishop Robert<br />
Christian, OP.<br />
Christian, 70 years old, died in his sleep <strong>July</strong> 11<br />
at his residence at St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo<br />
Park, where he served as rector. He had been<br />
an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San<br />
Francisco for only a year, and had been appointed<br />
rector of St. Patrick’s in January of this year.<br />
“The archdiocese was greatly blessed to have his<br />
wisdom and leadership even if for so brief a time as<br />
auxiliary bishop and even briefer time as rector of<br />
the seminary,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of Bishop Robert F. Christian<br />
San Francisco said <strong>July</strong> 11.<br />
Christian was born in San Francisco in <strong>19</strong>48, and graduated from Santa<br />
Clara University before entering the Dominican order. His funeral is scheduled<br />
for <strong>July</strong> 22. <br />
Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit sisters accept their grant from board member<br />
John Coleman.<br />
Aging sisters get a helping hand<br />
Six communities of women religious in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are<br />
among the beneficiaries of recently announced grants from SOAR! (Support<br />
Our Aging Religious).<br />
A total of more than $1.3 million in grant money was approved by<br />
SOAR!’s board of directors to help more than 9,000 aging Catholic sisters,<br />
brothers, and priests in religious orders around the country.<br />
The local beneficiaries include the Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy<br />
Spirit, who received a $16,000 grant to install a stairlift in their retirement<br />
home. The Lovers of Holy Cross of Los Angeles in Gardena received a<br />
$25,000 grant for renovations to make their bathrooms safer for older sisters.<br />
The Daughters of Mary and Joseph in Ranchos Palos Verdes, the Sisters of<br />
<strong>No</strong>tre Dame in Thousand Oaks, the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred<br />
Heart of Los Angeles in Alhambra, and the Society Devoted to the Sacred<br />
Heart in <strong>No</strong>rthridge also received grants. <br />
ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO<br />
SOAR!<br />
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