Detroit, michigan. I went to college in atlanta, georgia, went into the military a few years, made a stop in alabama, indiana, a year and a half in europe and then in 1988 i got stationed at the Oakland Army Base in oakland, california. I lived in oakland from 1988 to 1998. I love the bay area. You were here for the earthquake. Yes, i was here october 17, 1989, 5 04 p. M. Very deep sports connections to the bay area. We will talk about that in a second. The focus of our show is the fact that you are a lay catholic evangelist. Well break that down and talk about what that means. I am looking forward to it. Lets talk about your dad. Dad broke into the nfl in 1952. He was a walk on kind of undrafted free agent in 1952. He set an nfl record that year of most interceptions in one season. A year later he was traded to at the time the chicago cardinals. He played for them from 1953 to 1959. Then from 60 to 66 he played for detroit, lions. Went into the envelope hall of fame in 197 nfl hall of
Detroit michigan. I went to college in atlanta, georgia. I went to the military for a few years, made a stop in alabama, indiana, a year and a half in europe. In 1988 i got stationed at the Oakland Army Base in Oakland California. I lived in oakland from 1988 to 1998. I love the bay area. You were here for the earthquake. Yes, i was here october 17, 1989 5 04 p. M. Very deep sports connection to the bay area. You are a lay catholic evangelist. Yes. We will break that down and talk about what that means. I am looking forward to it. Lets talk about your dad. Dad broke into the nfl in 1952. He was a walk on kind of undrafted free agent in 1952. He set an nfl record that year of most intersept ions in one season. A year later he was traded to at the time the chicago cardinals. He played for them from 1953 to 1959. From 60 to 66 he played for lions. I went into the nfl hall of fame in 1974. That father has raised a wonderful son. Thank you. We have a beautiful picture of you. Great shot. Wa
For being here. Its a chance to look inside the arched diocese of San Francisco. The archdiocese of San Francisco. We often dont get a chance to think about how all of the catholic parishes Work Together and seem to be on the same page and take care of all of the practical challenges that come, especially in San Francisco with retrofitting the schools and all of that stuff. You are the people who make that happen. It is good to have a chance to speak with you to realize not only the importance of that, but why you do that. Father pitterick , you have spent many years teaching at fordham university. Tell us about that. You made a decision to live in student housing. First of all, tell us what you taught. I taught economics and i was happy teaching economics. If there was a priest at the time, we would live in the Residence Hall and i always enjoy that. Reporter at moderator how many years . 12 years afford them and then i went to administration at Marquette University in milwaukee and t
That says what we believe and a list of these things if you want to follow up so go to the page itself to find out more. But here we go. Id like to introduce you to father john the priest who is the victor for the administration here in San Francisco. First of all father john welcome. Great to be here again with you chris. You are back. Youve recently written an article that will be published in the catholic San Francisco newspaper. Its a great introduction to what we are going to talk about. Let us know the gist of that. Sure. I just point out that in society we get a lot of our views from society a lot of people do and they tend to follow different trends. And the culture does not believe that everyone believes it and there are always different ethnic groups and things like that but over time they have an influence and can have an influence on institutions which could be positive or sometimes negative. And i have a little example that i use which i think is good. And it involves ice
The objective of all missionaries. Often, the only thing standing between young people and a life of faith is that they havent heard the invitation of jesus christ in a convincing way. Were here in august, just about august, about one year after pope francis gathered, oh, i think, what is it, 2 pinpoint weather 7 Million People in rio di janeiro. A huge, huge event. Obviously theres something going on. Somebody getting fired up. 2. 7 million, whatever the stats are, that is huge amount of people. That is new thing that the pope is has been going out. John paul, ii, started world youth days. Its an indication that there is a new sooil, a new renewed effort to really bring the message of jesus christ to the world and to the culture and in particular, to young people. Now, youve been to a world youth day; is that right . Can you till me about that . Yeah. How long ago was that . It was my senior year of of high school so that was 2005. So i was actually nine years ago. Yeah. It was Pope B