November 7, 2008

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Prop 8 leads; Prop 4 and Prop 6 lose

By Rick DelVecchio

(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

California voters appeared to be on the way to passing Proposition 8 and eliminating same-sex couples’ right to marry in California just six months after a divided state Supreme Court created the right. Voters in Arizona and Florida, also reacting to the California court decision, approved constitutional “Marriage Protection Amendments” defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.

PROP 8, page 8

Pope, U.S. bishops send congratulations Both Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, sent congratulatory messages to President-elect Barack Obama on Nov. 5.

Pope Benedict sent a personal message offering prayers for Obama, his family and for the United States.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the message was addressed personally to Obama; the Vatican did not plan to publish it.

Cardinal George applauded President-elect Obama on his “historic election.” “The people of our country have entrusted you with a great responsibility,” the cardinal said in a letter on behalf of the U.S. bishops. “As Catholic bishops we offer our prayers that God give you strength and wisdom to meet the coming challenges.”

‘Sixteen stars in four graves’ Col. Thomas L. Constantino, USMC Ret., has researched the story of why four top World War II naval officers are buried together at Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno. See story, Page 10. Veterans’ Day services will be held at the cemetery at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11 as well as at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, also at 11 a.m., in the Star of the Sea veterans section. Above, Constantino indicates the headstone for Admiral Raymond Spruance.

Bishop Wang celebrates special Mass in Beijing Being principal celebrant at a recent Mass at Beijing’s Divine Savior Church represented personal and pastoral milestones for San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, and also signaled growing mutual accord between the Catholic Church of Rome and the Chinese government.

Also known as North Church, Divine Savior is where the bishop received three sacraments as a youth – baptism, first Eucharist and confirmation. He lived with his family “just around the corner” from the church, he said.

The invitation to be principal celebrant at the parish’s main Sunday liturgy also held noteworthy symbolic significance, the bishop told Catholic San Francisco. While he has visited the church several times in recent years, this is the first time he was asked to celebrate Mass, something that would have been unheard of in the recent past, he said.

Bishop Wang said he was “amazed” not only that the pastor invited him to concelebrate, but that no official permission was sought from officials of the Catholic Patriotic Association, which functions as the liaison between Catholic churches registered with the Chinese government and its State Administration for Religious Affairs.

“It was audacious,” the bishop said.

While tension between the Vatican and the Chinese BISHOP WANG, page 18

(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

By Dan Morris-Young

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, assisted by Father Xiao En Xiao, blesses worshipers at North Church in Beijing during his visit to the former cathedral of China’s capital during September.

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION SNJM jubilarians. . . . . . . . . 11 Eco-friendly Guide . . . . . 9-11 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Archivist reaches historic jubilee ~ Page 3 ~ November 7, 2008

‘The Wall’ imprisons Palestinian population ~ Page 9 ~

‘Glimpse’ at 1,300 years of Church art ~ Pages 12-13 ~

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Toni Johnson, youth minister, and members of St. Gregory Parish youth group at recent CROP Walk for the Poor; from left: Toni, Meghan Souther, Yamato Furuta, Mark Johnson, Katie Alberico, Kate Dahoney, Catie Cortese, Rudy Chun, Johnny Villar, Giancarlo Gavidia.

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by Tom Burke Happy birthday to Ann Melconian, parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont and 100 years old Oct. 15. Back in Philly, several of my cousins danced on the original “Bandstand” aspiring to be what were called “regulars” on the show. Well, new centenarian, Ann, is just that at Catholic Charities CYO’s San Carlos Adult Day Senior Services Program, where she is often a participant and where she recently kicked of her shoes and kicked up her heels at a party commemorating her milestone natal day. “Ann was movin’ and groovin’,” said Julie Harris, communications officer for CCCYO. “Many friends were there from the program and they had a great time including a trip around the room with the ‘bunny hop.’” We’ve also been told Ann is a regular reader of Catholic San Francisco and for Ann and for all who peruse these pages, we are ever grateful! For information about the CCCYO senior program, e-mail mvargas@cccyo. org …More milestones but this time at St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco: Happy anniversary to Shirley and Bob Cauterucio, 50 years wed Sept. 27; Lynn and Pete Cinguini, 65 years wed Oct. 10; and Jo and Felix Buckley, 60 years wed Oct. 16. Thanks very much to Barbara Lozar for fillin’ us in….Congrats to Mercy High School, Burlingame senior Katie Greenwald, a semi-finalist in this year’s National Merit Scholarship competitions and Mercy seniors Emily Dunn and Jennifer Segal who were named to the list of commended students in the academic contests.

More than 1.5 million students vie for the 8,200 awards….

The Archdiocese of San Francisco was well represented in the “Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty (CROP) Walk” at San Francisco’s Crissy Field Oct. 19 with members of parishes and schools including Archbishop Riordan, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Mercy High School/San Francisco, Mercy High School/Burlingame, St. Ignatius Parish youth group, Junipero Serra High School and St. Gregory Parish youth group. “One-quarter of the money pledged went to the San Francisco Food Bank and to the San Francisco Interfaith Council for their Winter Shelter Program,” said John Ahlbach, a member of the faculty and moderator of the Social Justice Club at Archbishop Riordan and who was on the trek. “The rest went to poverty programs world wide. The theme, ‘We Walk Because They Walk,’ comes from the fact that people in the developing world must walk long distances every day

for food, water, fuel, education and healthcare. We walk in solidarity with them.” John said about $18,000 was raised by the 150 people taking part with about 20 percent of them coming from local Catholic communities…. Ann Newmann leads an all hats off for Mary Vaillancourt who died Sept.

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Deacon Jeffrey Burns In 25th year, archivist still relishes sharing history with others Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., celebrated his 25th anniversary as archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco Aug. 1.

Deacon Burns, who holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in U.S. history with a specialty in Catholic Church history from the University of Notre Dame, came to the job almost by accident, he said.

“After finishing my doctorate at Notre Dame, I went home to Southern California to spend time with my father and support him following my mother’s death,” Deacon Burns told Catholic San Francisco.

At the time, Deacon Burns was doing research for a book he was co-writing about parish life in the American Church, work that took him to the archives of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Archivist for Los Angeles is Msgr. Francis Weber, who had, by coincidence, had a major hand with now-late historian James Abajian in setting up the archives for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The highly respected priest-historian asked Deacon Burns if the job as archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco interested him. “I told him I didn’t know anything about being an archivist,” Deacon Burns said.

Msgr. Weber pointed to the vast amounts of research Deacon Burns had done in archives as a perfect base from which to “figure it out.” A few months later he accepted the post.

Deacon Burns started the job a week early, a week for which he has yet to be paid, he said with a laugh, in order to get a running start.

At the time, the archives were “in a wall of a mausoleum” at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, Deacon Burns said, noting it as crowded but a far cry from previous storage that, according to reports, had “everything stuck in a vault without much order to it” and where researchers were simply shown the space and wished, “Good luck.”

Deacon Burns said his first year at the cemetery-based archives included many calls to Abajian. “He left his number and said to call him anytime,” Deacon Burns said.

“Anything I didn’t know he’d tell me.” Also assisting was

(PHOTO BY TOM BURKE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

By Tom Burke

Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., at his Menlo Park office.

the now late Vera Ryan, whose 11-year work indexing of stories from The Catholic Monitor through 1936, remains for consultation today.

In 1990, the archives were moved to St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. “We went from the cemetery to the seminary,” Deacon Burns said. “It gave us much more space and an opportunity to work with the seminary library.”

What is a day in the life of an archivist like? “That’s top-secret information, but I’ll tell you,” Deacon Burns

said with the familiar laugh all who visit the archives will enjoy.

Every day varies, he admits, but most are cataloguing and receiving material to the archives as well as making researchers and visitors comfortable and preparing materials for their inspection.

While there is a small amount of archival material that remains confidential, most of what is there is available to the professional researcher and curiosity seeker alike.

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Pope Benedict XVI kneels as he prays in front of Pope John Paul II’s tomb on All Souls’ Day at the Vatican Nov. 2.

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Sees hope in Catholic-Muslim talks VATICAN CITY (CNS) – On the eve of the first meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum, the cardinal responsible for the dialogue said he hoped it would open “a new chapter” in a long history of Catholic-Muslim relations. French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, told Vatican Radio the Nov. 4-6 meeting with representatives of the 138 Muslim scholars who began the Common Word initiative in 2007 would give participants an opportunity to explain their faiths through their understanding of the commandments to love God and to love one’s neighbor.

Aims for education, health unity ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) – A shared interest in promoting Catholic values should prompt Catholic health care providers and educators to develop a new relationship, said Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity and the Catholic Health Association’s president and CEO. She spoke Oct. 28 to a gathering of health care professionals, educators and students at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul as part of a first-ofits-kind national summit on health care and higher education as Catholic partners for workforce and leadership development.

The conference sought to be a forum for brainstorming ways Catholic health care educators and providers could collaborate better. In the conference’s opening address, Sister Carol praised Catholic health care’s history and successes before turning her attention to a number of nationwide challenges, including training and retaining qualified nurses, providing care for the uninsured and the isolating effects of specialization.

Pope: ‘first being’ created world VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The world did not emerge out of chaos; rather it was created intentionally by “the first being,” Pope Benedict XVI said. The Creator also is involved not only with the origins of the universe, but continually sustains the development of life and the world, said the pope during an Oct. 31 audience with 80 participants of a Vatican-sponsored conference on evolution. Scientists, philosophers and theologians from around the world were attending the Oct. 31-Nov. 4

plenary session on “Scientific Insights Into the Evolution of the Universe and of Life” at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

not to re-embark on the same mistaken path which had terrible consequences in the 20th century.”

Book critiques capitalism

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MUNICH, Germany (CNS) – German Archbishop Reinhard BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNS) – The recent wave of violence against Marx of Munich and Freising has launched a book, named after Iraqi Christians in Mosul is intentional and part of a political plan a work by his 19th-century namesake, that critiques capitalism. to create discord among Iraq’s different communities, said Iraq’s During the Oct. 29 launch of the book, “Das Kapital: A Plea Catholic bishops. “The displacement of Christians from Mosul, for Man,” the archbishop said the current worldwide finan- in the tragic way it was done, is intentional and very dangerous. cial crisis required a “fundamental social debate” and raised GOSPEL WITNESS, page 18 questions about the capacity of contemporary economies to “ensure the welfare of the Committed to the spiritual well being of our residents world.” Archbishop Marx said he had been “provoked into a detailed observation” of Karl Marx by sharing the same surname, but said readers should not expect a defense of Marxism in the book. “Catholic social teaching sees Karl Marx as a great opponent,” said Archbishop Marx, head of the committee for social issues of Germany’s Catholic bishops’ conference. “But we have to show an interest in him, so as

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Todos Los Santos Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery Braving a driving rain, an overflow crowd of 500 worshipers packed the annual Todos Los Santos Mass Nov. 1 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. The Mass combined All Saints and All Souls Day services. In his homily, the celebrant, Bishop Ignatius Wang, said all souls are united in the mystical body of Christ. “When one body suffers, the whole body suffers,� he said. Pictured, left to right, are Father Albert Bitangjol, Deacon Pete Pelimiano, Bishop Wang, Deacon Ben Salvan, Father Jonathan Paala and Father Ed Dura.

News in brief . . . ■Continued from page 4 Apparently it falls under division and fragmentation of the country,� said the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Iraq in a statement following their meeting Oct. 29. The violence and intimidation by extremists, which began in early October, has claimed about 15 lives and forced more than 13,000 Christians to flee.

To review ACORN funding WASHINGTON (CNS) – A task force has been convened to review how funds from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development have been used by local affiliates of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly

known as ACORN. Auxiliary Bishop Roger P. Morin of New Orleans, who chairs the U.S. bishops’ CCHD subcommittee, said in a letter to fellow bishops the task force is part of an effort to ensure Church funds are spent according to the guidelines of the bishops’ domestic poverty-fighting program. Bishop Morin’s decision to form and lead the task force follows an earlier decision to suspend $1.13 million in grants to 40 local ACORN affiliates.

Tense times for CRS workers WASHINGTON (CNS) – Although two Catholic Relief Services workers in eastern Congo have been evacuated to neighboring Rwanda amid the escalating conflict, they are planning to return to another part of the country as soon as possible to help with relief efforts, said a CRS official.

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Evening prayer event at Sts. Peter and Paul marks Year of St. Paul In observance of the jubilee year honoring the 2000th anniversary of the birth of St. Paul the Apostle, Archbishop George Niederauer will visit Sts. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. to celebrate Evening Prayer commemorating the dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul in Rome, according to the Archdiocese’s Office of Worship.

All of the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are invited, an office news release stated.

The Archbishop will be joined in the liturgy by Salesian Father John Itzaina, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul.

Within the Archdiocese, the jubilee year opened solemnly on June 29, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, with the ordination of permanent deacons at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Parishes throughout the Archdiocese have scheduled special studies of the letters of St. Paul to mark the year.

Additionally, the annual Faith Formation Conference to take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center on Nov. 21-22 will feature several presentations on Pauline themes. (For more information or to register for the conference, visit: http://sforeym.googlepages.com/.)

In observance of the jubilee year, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish has been celebrating the “Ambassadors for Christ” project. For more information, contact Father Itzaina at (415) 421-0809 or visit www. stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us.

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Joseph Previtali ordained deacon in Rome ritual

Academy turns 125 Immaculate Conception Academy will commemorate its 125th year with a Mass of Thanksgiving Nov. 16 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside. A reception follows in the cathedral’s Patron’s Hall.

All alumnae, friends and former students are invited. Please respond to (415) 8242052, ext. 31 or visit www.icacademy. org. ICA’s first Bay Area Gala took place Oct. 4 at the San Francisco Marriott.

Dominican Sister John Martin Fixa, above, class of ’58, and Jeanette Pavini, class of ’81 and Consumer Watch reporter for CBS 5 Eyewitness News, were among those in attendance.

Joseph Previtali was ordained to the transitional diaconate Oct. 9 at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Most Rev. William Callahan, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, was ordaining prelate.

“My parents, David and Marian, two sisters, Maria and Angelina, my great aunt, Gloria Pizzinelli, and my grandfather, Father Francis Filice, were in attendance,” the new deacon told Catholic San Francisco by email from Rome.

Father Filice helped vest his grandson for the deacon rites and celebrated the first Mass where Deacon Previtali assisted at the altar.

“A deacon is conformed to Christ the servant,” Deacon Previtali said. “This is the heart of my vocation as a deacon. I am to love and serve the poor and the needy, to assist at the sacred worship of the Church, and preach and teach the Gospel of Christ. All of this will be part of my priestly ministry as well. A priest is always a deacon. My new diaconal life and ministry is making me even more eager to be ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco June 20, 2009.”

Marian factoid: St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-97) “Do not be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her enough. And Jesus will be very happy, because the Blessed Virgin is his mother.”

Rome diaconal ordination Oct. 9 Deacon Joseph F. Previtali, right, and Father Thomas Daly, director of vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, are pictured following Deacon Previtali’s ordination to the transitional diaconate Oct. 9 in Rome. Father Francis Filice, Deacon Previtali’s grandfather, helped him vest during the ordination rite. The new clergyman’s parents, Marian and David, and other family members were in the assembly. The ordinations to priesthood for Deacons Previtali, Michael F. Quinn and William H. Thornton are scheduled June 20 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside. Deacon Previtali is studying at the North American College in Rome.

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Prop 8 . . .

■ Continued from cover Prop 8 pulled ahead in early balloting and never gave up the lead, with strong support in the Central Valley and San Bernardino and Riverside counties canceling out heavy opposition in the Bay Area. But even some Bay Area counties that overwhelmingly supported Sen. Barack Obama for president split on the marriage measure.

With 96 percent of precincts counted, Prop 8 held a widening lead of more than 400,000 votes early Wednesday. The state’s unofficial tally put the difference at 52 percent in favor to 48 percent against.

The decision would throw into confusion the legal status of the 18,000 gay and lesbian weddings that have taken place in California since the May ruling.

“We are extremely pleased the voters of California chose to pass Proposition 8,” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, president of the California Catholic Conference, in a Wednesday statement.

“The yes vote on Proposition 8 acknowledges that the marriage of a man and a woman embraces their sexual complementarity as designed by nature and includes their ability to procreate. The yes vote on Proposition 8 also recognizes that the ideal for the well being of children is to be born into a tradi-

Deacon Jeffrey Burns . . .

■ Continued from page 3 Guests include college students working on theses, parishioners gathering history notes for local celebrations, and people tracing genealogies. “Since ‘Roots’ it seems people have taken much more of an interest in their heritages,” Deacon Burns said.

The archives also welcome calls from high school and college history classes which might want guidance on how to research and what materials are available.

Is an archivist similar to a librarian? “In part,” Deacon Burns said, “but you’re not dealing with books. You’re dealing with papers, manuscripts and collections of people’s letters. ‘Being an archivist is reading dead people’s mail,’” he said he’s heard it described.

Deacon Burns named “The Alexander Taylor Collection” as among the archives most valuable items. “It’s a collection of more than 2,500 Mission documents from the Mission era.

Taylor was a clerk in San Francisco and Monterey during the 1850s who started to gather every Mission document he could get his hands on. Otherwise they probably would have been all lost. Taylor gave them to Archbishop Alemany.”

Also on hand are some of Archbishop Alemany’s diaries, Deacon Burns said.

The scholar said the “size of the archives has probably doubled or tripled in amount of material” during his 25-year tenure. “Some of the major collections include Msgr. Eugene Boyle’s papers which are an extraordinary documentation of the activism of the sixties. We also have acquired the histori-

tional marriage and to be raised by both a mother and a father, even though in many circumstances the ideal is not possible,” the statement said.

“The success of Proposition 8 is not meant in any way to disparage those who disagree,” the Stockton bishop added, noting same-sex couples who register as domestic partners will continue to have the same rights, protections and benefits as married persons.

Bishop Blaire also said the state’s bishops were “deeply disappointed” that Proposition 4, the “Sarah’s Law” initiative to require doctors to inform a parent, guardian or other family member before performing an abortion on a minor, had lost.

The modified notification initiative crafted after two previous electoral failures fell short of a majority. The margin was 47.5 percent in favor to 52.5 percent opposed.

Proposition 6, the “Safe Neighborhoods” proposal, lost overwhelmingly with margins of up to 3-to-1 against it. California bishops endorsed Prop 4 and Prop 8, and opposed Prop 6.

Voters went to the polls with pre-election surveys showing Prop 8 trailing slightly but gaining momentum. The Yes on 8 campaign rallied voters not only in its strongholds in Southern California and the Central Valley but in every county. The campaign, sponsored by a coalition that included the California Catholic Conference, fielded 100,000 volunteers in the largest

get-out-the-vote effort for an initiative in California history, spokesman Chip White said.

Volunteers included thousands of Catholics working with other faith groups. “It’s a huge ecumenical effort,” said Bill May, executive director of Catholics for the Common Good.

Yes on 8 volunteers deployed to polling places and worked phone banks to call voters who had indicated support. No on 8 volunteers also were out in force, holding placards and handing out leaflets to voters entering polling places.

Both sides raised more than $70 million and money poured in faster as the race tightened. On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 alone, cash flowed into the Yes on 8 campaign at the rate of almost $18,000 an hour. The donations originated from 17 states and the District of Columbia.

“I’m pleasantly surprised by how much money the yes side was able to raise,” May said, adding that Yes on 8 drew 76,000 donors of which all but 19 percent were from California.

May said a large factor for Yes on 8 was parental concern that the Supreme Court ruling would put their parenting in conflict with the law. Parents were upset that they would be seen as discriminatory in the eyes of their children if their teaching on marriage was to conflict with what the public schools might have to teach.

“Nobody wants to be considered discriminatory or bigoted under the law because of their faith,” May said.

cal archives of Parents for Orthodoxy in Parochial Education (POPE) which closed down about 10 years ago.”

Presentation Sister Catherine Ann Curry, Ph.D., and Father John Reilly, both now deceased, are former archives assistants. “When they were here I never had to check a reference book. I’d just ask them and they would know. It was like having two living references there. It was particularly entertaining if they disagreed on a point.”

Friend of the archives, Tom Wrin, now of Southern California, put together what is now called the Wrin-dex, Deacon Burns said. “He put together this incredible index of minutiae from The Monitor and other papers. You can put in a name and often come up with small details of people’s lives.”

Stuart McKenzie is a recently retired volunteer and Presentation Sister Jude Ristey is current assistant. Both have brought “credibility and hard work to the archives,” Deacon Burns said. “I am very grateful for their help.”

What does the archives mean to Catholics? “It’s essentially the historical record of the Archdiocese and of the people with a lot of important stories about perseverance, faithfulness, and what it means to be a Catholic in the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” he said. “I always use the great quote from Pope John XXIII who said at the opening of the Vatican Council, ‘History is the teacher of life.’ A lot of times we forget that, and we get all caught up in the present. We forget the lessons we learn from history and how it frees us from what is called ‘the tyranny of the present.’

Sometimes we think the modern world is so bad, but all you

have to do is look at history to see there have been some pretty bad times before and we made it through.”

Deacon Burns said he is “especially proud” of the threevolume “History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” which he authored, and the collection of “Sesquicentennial Essays,” originally published in Catholic San Francisco in 2003. “We gathered 33 different authors to do those essays.”

From the beginning, it was Deacon Burns’ hope to expand the work of the archives to include outreach programs. The idea resulted in the founding of “Friends of the Archives” in 1986. The group sponsors history days and presentations throughout the year. An event Nov. 16 will thank Deacon Burns for his service to the Church as well as feature presentations by Bernadette Hooper and Rayna Garibaldi, authors of “Catholics of San Francisco.”

Deacon Burns, a member of the faculty at California State University East Bay, St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park and The Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, was ordained to the diaconate for the Diocese of Oakland in 2003. He and his wife, Sabina, a member of the faculty at St. Lawrence O’Toole School in Oakland, make their home in Alameda.

The archives and information about “Friends of the Archives” are available via e-mail at sfarchiv@concentric. net. For information about purchasing “History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco” or “Sesquicentennial Essays” call (415) 614-5638.

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Middle East report II ‘The Wall’: Palestinians ‘locked up in a vast prison’ (George Wesolek, director of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, took part in a fact-finding trip to the Middle East Sept. 21 to Oct. 6 sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, the overseas relief agency of U.S. Catholics.

Following is the second of three reports on that journey.)

traveled back and forth to Jerusalem, which is only a short distance away.

Families cannot see family members on the other side without going through a long and often arbitrary permit process.

Businessmen with permits to travel are often stopped, searched, and then denied entry. Most Palestinians walk through the checkpoints and get

By George Wesolek a taxi on the other side. They shuffle through narrow, cage-like walkways at Like an ugly scar across the landthe checkpoint in a humiliating parade. scape, a towering grey wall snakes The Israeli government says that through Palestinian lands, a symbol of the Wall is necessary for security. This fear, oppression and humiliation. would make sense if the Wall would be From a hillside vantage point, our the separation line of the 1967 border delegation could see miles and miles of between Israel and the West Bank, but the razor wire-sheathed, 30-foot-high it is not. Israel has every right to have “separation barrier.” To the Israelis, who a secure border and a wall would help built the wall, it is protection from suicide serve that purpose. Instead the Wall folbombers. To the Palestinians, it embodies lows the illegal settlements, which eat the reality of their military occupation.

“We are locked up in a vast prison,” A crèche scene has been developed vast areas of the West Bank well beyond by a Bethlehem olive wood artist, the established border cutting the many told us.

Claire Anastus, which shows a wall Palestinian communities into pieces.

Because our delegation was based between the Holy Family and the Villages that farmed for centuries in in Bethlehem at the monastery of Wise Men as a commentary on the certain areas have had their ancestral Betharem and we had to travel through separation wall built by Israel. lands in their families for centuries the checkpoints of the barrier almost invaded and taken away. Often their olive daily, we attained a small glimpse of the difficulty that Palestinians have each day. Once we were held groves, so important to the cultural and economic life of the vilfor two hours; once we were denied entry/exit. The only rea- lagers, are uprooted and destroyed to make way for settlements. son for the denial we could determine was that our driver was They then have to obtain a permit to cross over to their own a Palestinian Muslim, and since it was a quiet Sunday morning land to do the little farming that is left to them. Village people (we were on our way to Mass in Jerusalem) that it was the surrounded on almost every side by settlements and barriers can no longer go short distances for medical help or to see friends arbitrary decision of the lone 20-year-old Israeli guard.

But this was only a minor inconvenience for us. For the and relatives. Now they must travel many miles around the Wall, Palestinians, the Wall is devastating to their personal, social secure a permit, and then do their shopping or see friends. This and economic lives. The Wall in Bethlehem lurches through is especially dangerous when there is a medical emergency.

It was clear to members of the delegation that “dismemneighborhoods, cutting off people who for centuries have

The golden Dome of the Rock is seen July 8 behind Israel’s security barrier that separates Jerusalem from the West Bank. The International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, ruled against the wall and called for its removal last July.

berment” of Palestinian lands was a conscious strategy on the part of the Israeli government to Balkanize and fragment the West Bank so that government, transportation and communication would be almost impossible, thereby seriously threatening any chance for some kind of Palestinian State.

We were told that many Israelis want some sort of established peace that reflects the “two state” solution; that many Israelis are secular and do not agree with the religious zealotry and even fanaticism of the Jewish settlers who want to drive the Palestinians off the land that they believe is theirs, ordained by God. Fanaticism grows fanaticism on the other side. The Israelis couldn’t find a better way of encouraging Palestinian terrorism than by building the Wall the way they did.

Next week: The exodus of Christians from the Holy Land.

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‘Sixteen stars in four graves’: Retired Marine Colonel and Navy Midshipman uncover local history – the commanders of Nimitz’ carrier, submarine and amphibious forces respectively.

Col. Thomas L. Constantino, USMC Ret., Constantino, who was drafted in 1967, of Redwood City has rediscovered a chapter served 31 years in the Marines and was awardof World War II naval history almost in his ed the Legion of Merit, also has a personal backyard: the side-by-side graves of many of connection to Golden Gate National Cemetery. the U.S. Navy’s top leaders in the Pacific.

Buried there are four family members who Constantino, who attended parochial served in the armed forces. schools on the Peninsula and graduated His grandfather, Lloyd Butcher of San from Junipero Serra High Francisco, was an Army School, researched how paratrooper who survived Fleet Admiral Chester W. gas attacks in World War I. Nimitz and three of his His uncle -- Lloyd Butcher’s subordinates came to be son – Army Sgt. Thomas W. buried in a row at Golden Butcher, also a paratrooper, Gate National Cemetery survived the Normandy invain San Bruno. Col. sion and was killed in action Constantino and his nephat the Battle of the Bulge on ew, Navy Midshipman Dec. 22, 1944. He was 20.

Matthew Constantino, “I’m looking right now at published their findings his Purple Heart,” Constantino in the U.S. Naval Institute said in a later phone interProceedings. They titled view. “I have his cap he wore their article “Sixteen in World War II. It’s unbelievStars in Four Graves.” able. Size 7-and-a-half.”

Nimitz, who wore Army Sgt. Thomas W. Butcher, Constantino’s parents five stars and was the a paratrooper, was killed at the named him after his uncle, architect of the island- Battle of the Bulge on Dec. 22, and the story of his uncle’s hopping strategy that service is never far from his 1944. He was 20. rolled back Japanese mind. In 1990, for Veterans forces from 1942 until their surrender in Day, he wrote a letter to the editor memorial1945, is the central figure in the story. izing Tom Butcher’s service. It reads: “Why was Admiral Nimitz buried in San “Like many Americans, Tom patriotically Francisco?” the Constantinos wrote. “College of and enthusiastically enlisted in his senior year San Mateo historian Michael Svanevik revealed (St. Mary’s College High School, Berkeley) that President John F. Kennedy wrote Nimitz when the dark clouds of fascism threatened suggesting that, upon his death, he be afforded a the United States. state funeral and interment at Arlington National “My mother’s December, 1944, letter to her Cemetery. The admiral respectfully rejected the brother at Bastogne is handled with reverence presidential recommendation, declaring that today. It is full of news and events, especially the he wanted to be buried near the Pacific Ocean adorable twins – that’s me. The letter was never surrounded by men and women of all branches opened by Thomas Butcher. It was returned to who made his victories possible.” the family marked ‘deceased.’ He never had The Constantinos also found a 28-year-old children of his own. Instead, he dutifully gave his Veterans Administration pamphlet revealing life to protect America at its time of peril. that Nimitz had requested to be buried with his “He did return home. His grave at Golden servicemen and women instead of at Arlington Gate National Cemetery is simply marked National Cemetery.

‘Sergeant, USA.’ His three subordinate commanders shared “As we celebrate Veterans Day, please that wish. Buried next to Nimitz are Admiral remember the millions of servicemen and Raymond Spruance, Vice Admiral Charles women who go in harm’s way to guarantee Lockwood and Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner freedoms we enjoy.”

Ret. USMC Col. Thomas L. Constanino at Golden Gate National Cemetery.

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Pictured at sea during World War II are Admiral Raymond Spruance, far left, and Admiral Chester Nimitz, second from right, with two other fleet officers. Nimitz and Spruance are buried in San Bruno’s Golden Gate National Cemetery with Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood and Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner of Nimitz’s staff.

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Sister Mary Mackessy, Golden jubilarian Sister Marianne Viani 1948. She also taught at St. Anselm in San SNJM (Mary Caritas), whose first teaching job 50 Anselmo.

Sister Colleen Kern (Miriam Patrice) years ago was at San Francisco’s St. Joseph School, now closed, has been affiliated with has taught at St. Cecilia in San Francisco, school administration in the Archdiocese St. Anselm at San Anselmo, and Our Lady since 1990. That year, she began a decade of Mt. Carmel in Mill Valley, now closed. of service as the associate superintendent She has volunteered as a tutor in Marin, of curriculum, followed by a year as co- Terra Linda and San Rafael, where she superintendent. She currently is the asso- now lives.

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Fourth century Christians spread the story of Christ by adapting tomb carving, a popular art form in pagan Rome. On the sarcophagus of the recently baptized neophyte Junius Bassus, sculptures show Christ seated in heaven between Peter and Paul (left) and Christ taken before Pilate (center.)

Michelangelo studied the Pantheon, ancient Rome’s most magnificent temple (domed ceiling pictured), before designing the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica (seen from courtyard at night).

ROME JOURNEY, PART I The salvation story ‘glimpsed’ in 1,300 years of visual art Story and photos by Rick DelVecchio

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n unexpected reward of my September educational trip to Rome was experiencing salvation story as imagined by Christian visual artists from late antiquity until the Baroque. I glimpsed 1,300 years of Church history progressing from the austere grave carvings of Christians’ first years of freedom in the early fourth century to the ecstatic Bernini sculptures decorating St. Peter’s Basilica at the height of the triumphant Church in the 17th.

I learned far more than I had a right to, thanks to a guided tour of the Vatican Museums by the Rome-based art historian Elizabeth Lev and some lucky side trips I took on breaks from my program at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

Imperial Rome was a visual culture, and sarcophagi carved with pagan narratives were popular memorials, Lev explained. The persecuted Christians who decorated the same kinds of marble crypts

In the late 13th century, Pope Nicholas IV, a Franciscan, ordered two monks to modify the early Christian mosaic in the apse of St. John of Lateran, Rome’s oldest basilica. The work depicts the crucifixion.

Four streams flow from the cross, representing Christ, into the Jordan River. The upper part of the mosaic, showing Christ surrounded by seraphim, dates to the fourth century.

for their dead had to use coded symbols to tell the story of the Savior – grape leaves, lambs, fish. But with the sanctioning of their religion under Constantine in the early fourth century, they were free to use tomb carving as a medium for biblical stories. Pagan and Christian imagery blend somewhat: in one piece in the Vatican collections: Christ is in the form of a young Apollo seated on his throne. It would be centuries before Christians would agree on how Christ should look. But the cool figure who looks like a god living above man’s realm reaches out his arms to invite the viewer; he is the Son of God, after all.

Look further and it is fascinating to scan the Christian artwork and notice the salvation story subtly bringing to life what in the pagan carvings were severely classical figures. Abraham draws his dagger over a horribly stricken-looking Isaac as a divine hand reaches toward Isaac from behind a classical column, and a lamb emerges from under the father’s cloak to look the son softly in the eye. Peter, hand on chin, rejects Christ and in the next panel is arrested. Christ places a healing hand on a blind man. Pilate – he, too, is a moral figure – looks straight at the viewer as if to ask, in Lev’s words, “What would you do?”

I fell behind my group as I snapped close-ups of some of the sarcophagi details. When I caught up, Lev was leading the way through an increasingly mobbed series of exhibit rooms. The crowds were pushing toward the most popular attractions: Raphael’s symbolic paintings, on the opposite walls of an ornate papal apartment, showing the unity of the timeless Church and the Church in history, luxurious tapestries commissioned by papal power at its Counter-Reformation height and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes. (Lev painted a word picture of the formidable Pope Julius II rubbing his hands with glee as he watched Michelangelo’s spectacular work take shape in secret.)

The crush in the Sistine Chapel was almost intolerable but over the din I could hear Lev saying again how a great artist had depicted the salvation story, this time not only with unity but also with the human body revolutionarily at the center of the drama. It is 1,200 years almost exactly from the sarcophagi carvings to Michelangelo’s frescoes: the faint humanity of Christ possible in the rigid classical model has progressed to the fully fleshed embodiment of the Creator in the human drama from the Fall to the Last Judgment. Lev referred to a 1994 homily by Pope John Paul II on the meaning of the chapel.

Sunday Mass at Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica, a church designed by Michelangelo.

A modern-era crucifix in San Vitale Basilica; the church itself was consecrated

by Pope Innocent I in 401/402.

The Holy Father wrote: “While the eternal Word is the invisible icon of the Father, the man Adam is his visible icon. Michelangelo strove in every way to restore to Adam’s presence his corporeity, the features of ancient beauty. With great daring he even transferred this visible and corporal beauty to the Creator himself. We are probably witnesses to an extraordinary piece of artistic audacity, since it is impossible to impose the likeness proper to man on the invisible God. Would this not be blasphemy? It is difficult, however, not to recognize in the visible and humanized Creator, God clad in infinite majesty. Indeed, as far as the image with its intrinsic limits permits, everything that could be expressed has been expressed here. The majesty of the Creator, like that of the Judge, speaks of divine grandeur: a moving and univocal word just as, in a different way, the Pietà in St Peter’s Basilica and the Moses in the Basilica of St. Peter in Chains are univocal.”

Lev shepherded our group out of the Sistine Chapel and up the steps to St. Peter’s. Her first stop was the Pietà. The sculpture was familiar, but Lev made an unusual point about why the surface shines in the light. Michelangelo polished it because he wanted to represent the light of the Holy Spirit beaming out from the stone.

Her last stop was the basilica’s main altar. Over Bernini’s ornate altar canopy, made with bronze taken from the portico of the pagan Pantheon of imperial Rome, is Michelangelo’s dome. The dome was modeled on the dome of the harmonious but intimidating second century pagan place of worship across the Tiber, but Michelangelo raised it on a foundation of stone so it would appear to float in the air. The new kingdom had become every bit as towering, but incomparably lighter and more human than the empire it replaced.

Lev’s guidance helped me make sense of what I had learned from blundering into other churches when I first arrived in Rome and navigating others with a map toward the end of my stay. My first day I took a wrong turn out of the train station and wound up at Sunday Mass at Santa Maria degli Angeli, a lovely church originally designed by Michelangelo. At the back of the church visitors were curious about an odd exhibit: a marble head lying on its side on a table, cut off roughly at the neck.

It was modern sculpture of John the Baptist.

I had started my wanderings in southern Rome and with advice from Daniel Arasa, a faculty member at the Pontifical University, made a field trip back there to visit the basilicas of San Giovanni in Laterano and St. Maria Maggiore as well as San Pietro in Vincoli.

Santa Maria Maggiore was built in the fifth century and still has a Romanesque, columned nave – the most harmonious columned space I saw in Rome other than the portico of the Pantheon. The church also is known for its reliquary, holding pieces of wood said to be from the manger where Christ was born.

San Giovanni, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, includes the tomb of Pope Leo XIII. San Pietro is known for Michelangelo’s Moses and a reliquary said to hold the chains that bound St. Peter when he was arrested in Rome some 30 years after the death of Christ. The saint was to be ROME JOURNEY, page 18

The Church turned to the greatest artists of the Renaissance to represent the salvation story.

Flemish tapestries, realized in Brussels from drawings by Raphael’s pupils during the pontificate of Clement VII (1523-1534), were first shown in the Sistine Chapel in 1531.

Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s; a nun prays after Eucharist.

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Archbishop Niederauer ‘Forgiveness does not mean saying violence does not matter, or should be forgotten’ (Following is the text of Archbishop George H. Niederauer’s homily at the “Mass for Those Affected

by Crime, Abuse or Violence” delivered Oct. 26 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.)

A lot of people probably think that only religion has commandments for people, commands that start out “thou shalt” or “thou shalt not.” But there are all kinds of commandments all around us in the world. We just have to watch for them to notice them. Television ads are full of commandments: “Thou shalt be successful”; “Thou shalt have incredibly white teeth”; “Thou shalt be popular at all costs”; “Thou shalt drive the most expensive sports car thou can’t afford”; and a special TV commandment for parents and grandparents: “Thou shalt look young forever if thou wouldst to go on mattering to anybody.”

For some folks those are the most important commandments, and if we’re not careful we can let commandments like those run our lives. But of all the commandments we are hearing all the time, which one is the greatest, the most important commandment of all? What is God’s opinion about that? Fortunately we know the answer to that question because Jesus Christ, God’s Son, answers that question in today’s Gospel reading.

Jesus was actually quoting words from the Old Testament of the Bible, words which were very familiar to his Jewish neighbors: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind.” Jesus says that is the first and greatest commandment, and that the second one is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Why love God at all? Because God has loved us. God teaches us to love ourselves by showing us how much he loves us. We can see his love for us in all his gifts, if we are careful not to take them for granted because they are always there: the gift of our life in this world; the beauty around us; the people we love and who love us; the gift of sharing his life now and forever because of what Jesus has done for us, and these very gifts here today at this Mass: these words of life to guide us in life, and the gift of his love in this bread and wine which become his body and blood, food for our souls.

Sometimes we have trouble loving ourselves, so we don’t feel much like loving God or others. Sometimes we think we’re too ugly or not smart enough or weigh too much for anyone to really like us or love us. But God sees past the appearances on the surface. God sees into the hearts and the minds and the souls of us, and he loves us most of all in those parts of us, and those are the very parts of us he wants us to love him with.

Jesus did not say, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your complexion, with all your bank accounts, with all your pretty hair, with all your muscles, with all your popularity, with all your funny remarks.” No, God loves us in our hearts, in our souls, inside the very core of each of us, where no one else sees. He loves us there, and he wants us to love him back most of all from that core inside of us.

Of course, that love inside of us has to get expressed outside of us. It’s no good telling Jesus how much your heart loves him if you never listen to his words or come to his sacraments or show love to the other people he loves. We are children of God, and the test of our love of God is our love for his other children. Even our love of God is tested by our love for our neighbors, and for strangers as well.

We are gathered here in St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral on this Sunday afternoon to celebrate this Mass for the intentions of the victims of violent crime in our community. We should never forget that what we celebrate here in this Eucharist is the new life, the eternal share in God’s life, which comes to us through the death of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on the Cross on Good Friday, and his rising to new life on that first Easter Sunday.

Jesus Christ was a victim of violent crime. His enemies hated him so much for preaching the truth that they persuaded the Roman governor to put him to death, to nail him to a cross. He was innocent, but his death became the cause of forgiveness of sins and life in God his Father for us. That is how much God loves us, how much God is able to turn sin and death around, and bring forgiveness, healing and life.

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Journey of faith How wonderful it was to see the Oct. 31 article about the Cancer Prayer Support Group at Mercy Center and to read about the faith journey of Ted Burroughs, who was a friend of mine. I know how important the group was to him, and how much he loved the people in it, including Sister Mary Celeste, Sister Lorita and Catherine Regan.

Cathy Baird San Carlos

I’ll miss you all When I first walked into Laguna Honda Hospital in 1981, 27 years ago, I knew I had found my calling to provide pastoral care services to my fellow San Franciscans. I never considered I would one day retire.

From the very beginning of my work at Laguna Honda, I have felt deeply grateful to have worked for the Archdiocese. It

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has always faithfully supported Catholic parishioners at Laguna Honda, and the Archdiocese has lovingly nurtured not only Laguna Honda’s residents, but me as well.

It has been my privilege to have served San Francisco for nearly 30 years, but I have decided I must retire this December.

Laguna Honda is graciously celebrating my retirement on Dec. 7 between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in Laguna Honda’s third floor Resident’s Library. A presentation is scheduled at 2 p.m.

I hope you will join me as I celebrate the years I have devoted to Laguna Honda as its Director of Pastoral Care. I’d like to tell you how much I have enjoyed helping and supporting people, and advocating for their care. I especially want to thank people who voted in 1999 to approve rebuilding Laguna Honda to care for our elderly.

And, I’d like to thank each of you for helping expand volunteer and pastoral programs at Laguna Honda. Residents will need your continued support.

I hope to see you Dec. 7. Please stop by.

Sister Miriam Walsh, MHSH Pastoral Care Director, Laguna Honda Hospital San Francisco (Ed. note: Laguna Honda is located at 375 Laguna Honda Blvd., San Francisco.

There are three-hour parking spaces for visitors in the Fifth Floor East Parking Lot at the rear of the hospital.)

Jesus, before his death, preached God’s truth to the people, and we hear some of that truth in the Gospel today.

Our Lord taught that all the Ten Commandments were versions of the one great command of love — love of God and love of one another. Everyone here who has suffered as the result of violent crime has suffered because a commandment was broken, and in each case, someone failed against the great commandment of love, chose selfishness and violence over love of God and love of others.

Those offenses were wrong, terribly, hideously wrong.

Still, the example of Jesus on the Cross is there before us: “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” That’s a very hard example to follow. Forgiveness does not mean saying that the violence does not matter, or that it should be forgotten. It does matter, and it cannot be forgotten.

However, Jesus calls us to let him heal us of whatever is unloving in us, even if it comes as a result of others hurting us. It will take time, but Jesus can heal us, even when we cannot heal ourselves. He heals us most of all through the loving attention and coming of others into our lives. This precious gift of himself to us in the bread and the wine is the most powerful sign of his love and his healing.

This coming Friday is Halloween. In many places, children will put on masks and costumes and go door to door. Putting a mask on yourself can be fun because you can always take it off whenever you want to. But if someone else used force to put a mask on you, and made you keep that mask on, day after day, it wouldn’t be fun anymore. We Catholic Christian followers of Jesus must be careful not to do that, not put masks or labels or harsh names on other people, and see only that mask when we see them. There are all kinds of masks we can put on people: masks that say “weird” or “ugly” or “dumb” or “crazy” or “different” or “poor” or “foreigner”.

Jesus today asks you to keep the masks for just one day a year – Halloween. All the other days, don’t put masks or labels on yourselves or on others. That goes against the love Jesus calls us to in the Gospel today. Let the good, lovable persons God made, the persons God loves, shine through in you and in others. That is how we become sisters and brothers in Christ.

Right to life trumps In his Oct. 24 guest editorial, “After November 4 …,” George Wesolek, archdiocesan director of Public Policy and Social Concerns, noted that in conscience, many Catholics would oppose Barack Obama because of his abortion record, and many would oppose John McCain because of his war record.

Mr. Wesolek urged Catholics to realize the abortion and war policies of both candidates are contrary to the Church’s desired culture of life, justice and peace. He urged each group to advocate change in both policies: “After Nov. 4.”

Bishops Joseph Marino of the Diocese of Scranton disagreed strongly with the equal respect that George Wesolek has afforded to Catholics who supported a pro-abortion candidate like Barack Obama. In a pastoral letter on Sept. 30, the bishop wrote: “It is a tragic irony that pro-choice candidates support homicide in the name of social justice.” He warned Catholics about supporting “solutions for health care, immigration and the economy that do nothing for the aborted child who will never see the light of day.”

Bishop Marino added: “Since Roe vs. Wade in 1973, no war has claimed so great a price as 48.5 million abortions.” He reminded his flock: “While the Church assists the state to promote social justice, her primary role is to assist men and women to achieve salvation.”

The archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns should never link with equal weight highly questionable political opinions about health care, taxation or war, with the unquestionable outrage of state-sanctioned murder of defenseless human beings in the womb (or at a home for the aged

with physician-assisted suicide coming next with support of “Catholic” legislators.)

Catholic leaders need to stop masquerading as “a matter of conscience” their personal political preference for questionable governmental solutions to the Church’s desired culture of life, justice and peace.

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco

Changing times Too many Christians past and present have looked to the 2,000 year-old Bible to find justification for all kinds of inequalities perpetrated on humanity. I don’t think Jesus would approve of our reading the Bible as a rigid book of rules. Rather, he would want us to go beyond this ancient written word to include reason, experience and consider changing times.

During the Civil War our country was as polarized over slavery as it is today over gay marriage and abortion. Jefferson Davis found justification for slavery in the Bible when he said, “Slavery was established by decree of almighty God...it is sanctioned in both testaments from Genesis to Revelation.”

Many churches of the day backed slavery. Many Catholics owned and sold slaves. It took the blood of thousands and a constitutional amendment to right the wrongs of a hundred years of cruel abuse. Yet, 100 years after the war had freed the slaves, there were still Christians who tried to find biblical sanctification to keep black people at the back of the bus.

I don’t see much difference in the issues of slavery, civil rights and gay marriage. Gay people seeking commitment in marriage are promoting love and respect just as any het-

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Of Grace and Sippy Cups

Nourishment at the family table Before my son was born – and, in fact, for the first few months of his life – my husband and I had terrible eating habits. I don’t mean that we ate greasy takeout or fat-laden desserts. The problem wasn’t what we ate, but where we ate it: smack in front of the television.

Admittedly, this is not huge on the scale of domestic offenses. Given how exhausted we were in the evening, this habit even made sense. But it did nothing to benefit us, other than making us connoisseurs of “Seinfeld” trivia (a skill with limited usefulness in life).

It was a conversation with my parents that sparked a change. We were reminiscing about my childhood, when the four of us – mom and dad and my sister and I – would sit down at the dinner table, say grace, and eat. And talk.

“It’s such an important thing for families to do,” said my mom. I nodded in vigorous agreement. Later, I found myself analyzing her remark. She was right. Family dinners are important. But why? What had all that table time taught me?

Quite a lot, actually. For one thing, it was nightly training in the art of giving thanks. I said grace; I thanked others for passing the bread; later, when I knew how much work cooking is, I thanked Mom for the meal. And the older I

get, the more I recognize the power of genuine, vocalized gratitude. Whether it’s to God or to someone else, thankfulness trains the mind to focus on what we have rather than what we don’t.

I also learned politeness. My parents had one ironclad table rule: Don’t interrupt. Unless we were about to vomit or the house was on fire, we were expected to wait until a suitable break in the conversation. As a result, I developed patience. I also learned that one of the nicest things you can do for another person is to listen to them attentively.

Meals were also a time to share the details of our lives.

It was a chance to get three new perspectives on whatever was occupying our minds. Sometimes the conversation was light. Other times, it was serious, like the evening my parents dove into the Facts of Life talk. I still remember staring at my melting ice cream, hugely embarrassed (surely nothing to what my parents were feeling). But the conversation was proof that we could talk to them about anything, an openness that would prove enormously helpful to me in college. It’s funny to think that conversations over chicken casserole have probably saved me from making some ragingly stupid mistakes.

So I brought up the idea of abandoning “Seinfeld,” and my husband Scott was all for it. “We could pull Matthew’s

highchair up to the table with us,” he said, and we do. Matthew seems to enjoy it. When we say grace, he looks at us, intrigued, and has even been known to attempt the Sign of the Cross.

It won’t be long before Ginny he joins in, talking Kubitz Moyer about how Johnny threw sand on him, or how he learned about dinosaurs in school. But even now, I know he’s absorbing a lesson in what makes a family thrive. Sometimes you just need to abandon the path of least resistance, turn off the television, and turn on the talk.

(Ed. note: The Moyer family will be pulling another highchair up to the table soon for its newest member, Luke, who was born Sept. 16 – 8.5 pounds, 19.5 inches. Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.” Contact Moyer via her blog at www.maryandme.org.)

Spirituality for Life

Chastity and enchantment of life More than a generation ago, Nobel-prize winning novelist and philosopher, Albert Camus, wrote: “Chastity alone is connected with personal progress. There is a time when moving beyond it is a victory, when it is released from its moral imperatives. But this quickly turns to defeat afterwards.”

What does he mean by those words?

Whatever they mean, they are not understood by our generation. Today’s world, with few exceptions, considers the move beyond chastity as anything but a defeat. For it, this is progress, a sophistication, a liberation from a past ignorance, an eating of the forbidden fruit that is more of an entry into Eden than an expulsion from it. Today, in Western culture, chastity is generally seen as naiveté, timidity, frigidity, lack of nerve, being uptight, as an innocence to be pitied.

A salient example of this can be seen in the debate surrounding AIDS and teenage pregnancy. In this discussion, the argument for chastity is generally seen as naive, impractical, narrow, religious (as if chastity was a religious concept), oldfashioned, and even dangerous. Conversely, those who argue on the basis of safe sex (as if that wasn’t an oxymoron) claim the high ground – intellectual, moral, and practical. The same holds true in the entire discussion around sexuality. Chastity is given little place and little respect. At best, it is seen as an impractical ideal, at worst, as something to be pitied or ridiculed.

This is not progress. In the end, chastity is partially the key to everything: joy, family, love, community and even the full enjoyment of sex. When a society is chaste, family can happen; when a family is chaste, it will find joy in its everyday life; when lovers are chaste, they will experience the full ecstasy of sex; when a church is chaste, it will experience the Holy Spirit.

What is chastity? Generally we identify chastity with a certain sexual reticence or simply with celibacy. This is too narrow. To be chaste does not mean that one does not have sex, nor does it imply that one is a prude. My parents were two of the most chaste persons I ever met, yet they obviously enjoyed sex, of which a large family and a warm vivacious bond between them gave ample evidence.

Chastity, at its root, is not primarily even a sexual concept, though given the power and urgency of sex, faults in chastity often are within the area of sexuality. Chastity is about the appropriateness and maturity of any experience, sex included. Chastity is reverence and all sin, in the end, is irreverence.

To be chaste is to experience people, things, places, entertainment, the phases of one’s life, life’s opportunities and sex in a way that does not violate them or ourselves. Chastity means to experience things reverently, so the experience of them leaves both them and ourselves more, not less, integrated.

Thus, I am chaste when I relate to others in a way that does not violate their moral, psychological, emotional, sexual or aesthetic contours. I am chaste when I do not let irreverence or impatience ruin what is a gift, when Father I let life, others and sex Ron Rolheiser be fully what they are.

Conversely, I lack chastity when I transgress boundaries prematurely or irreverently, when I violate anything so as to somehow reduce the full gift.

Chastity is respect and reverence. The fruits of that are integration, gratitude and joy. Lack of chastity is irreverence.

The fruits of that are disintegration, bitterness and cynicism (all infallible signs of the lack of chastity).

Allan Bloom, the famed educator, speaking purely as a secular observer, without any religious angle whatsoever, already 20 years ago affirmed that lack of chastity in our culture, particularly among the young, is perhaps the deepest ROLHESIER, page 16

The Catholic Difference

‘A Short World History of Christianity’ I can’t remember precisely when I fell in love with history, but it was surely in the first innings of my reading life.

Granted, this was easier in the days when history was written and taught as, well, history – meaning drama, heroes and villains, great arguments, wars and revolutions, and all that other dead white male stuff.

I was fortunate in my third grade teacher, the estimable Sister Miriam Jude, SSND (then a postulant known as Sister Florence); she had sold World Book encyclopedias on the side during her days as a Philadelphia public school teacher, and talked my parents into buying a set. Thanks to the World Book, I was off to the historical races. Then there were Random House’s “Landmark Books,” wonderful history-for-young-readers, written by real historians, not overly dumbed-down, and costing something like $.95 or $1.25 for a hardback. I owned dozens, and read more than a few of them several times. Thus prepared, high school and college history were fun, not drudgery, and to this day, reading good narrative history is a never-failing pleasure.

History, that is, like Robert Bruce Mullin’s “A Short World History of Christianity,” recently published by Westminster John Knox Press. It is no easy business, getting two millennia of Christian history into 283 readable pages.

But Professor Mullin has done the job, in a readable style that makes the fruits of his impressive ample scholarship available to a general audience.

Mullin is a master at sketching brief portraits of key figures in the Christian story. He neatly disentangles the great

– and often daunting – trinitarian, christological and mariological controversies of the first centuries in a thoroughly accessible way. Unlike many, perhaps most, historians of Christianity, he understands that the Christian contest with Islam has been a defining experience of Christian history, ever since the armies of Islam broke out of the Arabian peninsula and swept across what was, in the 7th century, one of the vital centers of the Christian world – North Africa.

His description of the accomplishments of the oftendeplored Middle Ages is both just and enlightening, as are his depictions of the Reformation, the Catholic CounterReformation, and the European wars of religion. His attention to the tremendous missionary expansion of Christianity in the 19th and 20th centuries is a useful reminder, in this Pauline year, that great Christian missions didn’t stop with St. Paul – or St. Francis Xavier, for that matter.

What’s the relationship between the story told so well

by Robert Bruce Mullin and the history I inhaled with those World Books? When history was taught properly, the sequence was usually organized by chapter headings that read something like “Ancient Civilizations,” “Greece and Rome,” “the Dark Ages,” the Middle Ages,” “Renaissance and Reformation,” “the Age of Reason,” “the Age of Revolution,” “the Age of Science,” “the Space Age,” or some such. From a Christian perspective, however, that is history read on its surface.

For there is another way to schematize the human story.

Its chapter headings would run something like this: “Creation,” “Fall,” “Promise,” “Prophecy,” “Incarnation,” “Redemption,”

“ S a n c t i f i c a t i o n ,” “Proclamation,” “the Kingdom of God.” That story – the biblical story, if you will – does not, however, run parallel to the “real” story as taught in the history textbooks.

George Weigel The story that begins with “Creation” and culminates in “the Kingdom of God” is the human story, read in its proper depth and against its most ample horizon. For the central truth of history is that history is His-story: the story of God’s coming into time and our learning to take the same path that God takes toward the future.

In “A Short World History of Christianity,” Robert Bruce Mullin offers us not a theological interpretation of history, but a concise narrative of the Church’s life in the world – the Church’s life between “Redemption” and “the Kingdom of God.” To know that story is to see how, in specific personalities and communities, both the Spirit promised to the Church and the ancient enemy have been at work, shaping what the world regards as “history.” It’s a story every literate Catholic should know.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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A Korean youth drum group (left) entertained at the Oct. 25 Ethnic Day at St. Mary’s Cathedral as did Filipino (above), Chinese (below) and Hispanic dance groups. The Tongan Catholic Community featured a large choir in native dress.

‘Ethnic Day’ draws crowd Nearly 350 participants in the Oct. 25 Ethnic Day held at St. Mary’s Cathedral attended a morning Mass followed by a day of celebration, entertainment and international cuisine prepared by many of the 21 ethnic and cultural groups associated with the archdiocesan Office of Ethnic Ministry. Among archdiocesan leaders taking part in the Ethnic Day on Oct. 25 were, from left: Father Raymund Reyes, pastor of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, San Francisco; Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang; Canossian Sister Maria Hsu, director of the Office of Ethnic Ministry; Auxiliary Bishop William Justice; and Msgr. Floro Arcamo, pastor of Star of the Sea Parish, San Francisco, and vicar for Filipino Ministry.

Rolheiser . . .

■ Continued from page 15 cause of unhappiness and flatness in our lives. He submits that lack of chastity has, paradoxically, robbed us of deep passion and rendered us erotically lame.

We have, he asserts, experienced too much, too soon. We have sophisticated ourselves into boredom and unhappiness. We have been to too many places and done too many things before we were ready for them. The result is that we have stripped life, romance, love and sex of their mysteries and their capacity to enchant us. We have, through lack of chastity, de-sacralized our experience and robbed it of its capacity to enchant the soul.

He’s right, and the re-enchantment of our souls will be predicated on reinstating a proper chastity into our lives.

Our generation suffers too much from boredom, disrespect, emotional chaos, lack of family, sexual irresponsibility, despondency, cynicism and lack of delight. We need to be slower in denigrating chastity and more honest in assessing what constitutes victory and what constitutes defeat in our lives.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser can be contacted through his website: www.ronrolheiser.com.

November 7, 2008

Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome

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Scripture reflection

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12;

DEACON JOHN DUPRE

Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17; John 2:13-22 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL EZ 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 The angel brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the façade of the temple was toward the east; the water flowed down from the southern side of the temple, south of the altar.

He led me outside by the north gate, and around to the outer gate facing the east, where I saw water trickling from the southern side. He said to me, “This water flows into the eastern district down upon the Arabah, and empties into the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh.

Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh. Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of every kind shall grow; their leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail. Every month they shall bear fresh fruit, for they shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary. Their fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 R. The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress.

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R. The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High.

God is in its midst; it shall not be disturbed; God will help it at the break of dawn.

R. The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob.

Come! behold the deeds of the Lord, the astounding things he has wrought on earth.

R. The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 3:9C-11, 16-17 Brothers and sisters: You are God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely, Jesus Christ.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 2:13-22 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the moneychangers seated there.

He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the moneychangers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me. At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?”

Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”

The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

But he was speaking about the temple of his Body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.

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Jesus’ message about house of his Father abundantly clear Praise the Eternal One to whom all praise is due! We give to the Almighty all the honor, the praise and the thanksgiving, as we celebrate the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.

The psalmist said, “I was glad when they said unto me, ‘let us go into the House of the Lord.’”

We thank God that our help comes from the eucharistic sanctuary that renews our strength in a weary land. We lift our voices and our hands to announce that we serve a mighty God, who is eternally worthy of our worship and praise.

Pray with me, if you please from the second chapter of the Good News according to the Evangelist John, the 13th through the 22nd verses on the theme, “In my Father’s House.”

The setting is plain. Jesus is in the temple of Jerusalem during the feast of Passover.

Uncharacteristically, he has become enraged about how others had turned the temple of God into a market place. This image of Jesus remains difficult to reconcile with the meek, gentle and humble prince of peace. However, the happenings at the temple had greatly disturbed Jesus, which led to his cleansing of the temple.

The prophets had foretold this cleansing.

Since the temple only accepted the Tyrian half-shekel, it required money-changers to convert the currency of the worshippers into the accepted currency of the temple. Yes, this Judaic system of sacrificial worship created a situation that required the purchase of animals for ritual sacrifice. In a real sense, this did make the temple function much like a marketplace.

Indeed, Jesus made a whip with cords and began evicting them, including the money-changers. Yes, Jesus got busy turning over tables. The Jews in response and reaction to the behavior of Jesus demanded a sign that could justify this use of authority and rage. Jesus replied, “If you tear down this temple, in three days, I will build it up again.”

Of course, the Jews took him literally by noting the it took 46 years to build the temple. But Jesus meant this figuratively. Jesus had spoken about his Paschal mystery. Jesus proclaimed that by his death and resurrection on the third day he would establish a new temple. Yes, Church, this new temple became the Christ-temple, the Body of Christ. After all, the Church is not

simply a building but rather the Church remains the Holy Assembly of God, the Body of Christ.

Yes, Church, even though as disciples of Jesus Christ we are the Body of Christ, yet we do not fully or entirely realize it now.

Yes, Church, it was God’s will that the Body of Christ must grow in power and strength. As we build the Church in God’s image, we are building the Body of Christ. When we evangelize by bringing others closer to God by our example to the glory of God, we are building up the Body of Christ. There is no greater zeal that consumed the heart, the passion and the desire of Jesus than the zeal that he had for his Father’s house.

Jesus said, “In my Father’s house there are many mansions, and if it were not so, I would not have told you so.” Yes, Jesus is preparing a place for us in his Father’s house. Yes, in our Father’s House there is gladness. Come and go with me to my Father’s House. Yes, in my Father’s house there is joy and peace. Come let us go, Church, to the house where there is happiness.

Little wonder the psalmist proclaimed, “This one thing I ask that I may dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” How much zeal do you have for your heavenly Father’s house? If your faith journey had led you to a personal relationship with Almighty God, then, you have had a real Abba experience. This means that we think of God as our personal father, our daddy, if you please. This is a very personal thing. Yes, God is your father, your daddy, and his house is your daddy’s house. There can be nothing so dear than that which belongs to your daddy.

So every time we enter into our place of worship, let us enter this place with reverence, joy, peace, happiness and thanksgiving. Yes, Church, zeal burns in our hearts for our Father’s house. Alleluia. Alleluia. Amen.

A native of New Orleans, Deacon John Dupre serves at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, San Francisco. His ministries include baptism formation, baptisms, preaching and social justice ministry.

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■ Continued from cover government over control of Church properties, appointments and ministry continues, Bishop Wang said, it seems both Rome and Beijing are increasingly comfortable with one another even as “the diplomatic dancing” continues.

The Chinese government, for example, did not allow bishops from China to take part in the Bishops Synod on the Bible at the Vatican during October.

On the other hand, a large banner proclaiming the Catholic Patriotic Association that was prominently displayed on the exterior of Divine Savior Church has been removed, something Bishop Wang said is “very symbolic.”

The Church and China “both take the long view,” Bishop Wang said, “and both are very patient.”

While discord between the Vatican and the Chinese government might be subsiding, friction between the members of the underground Catholic Church in China and the officially recognized Church remain, Bishop Wang said.

Members of the underground Church, he said, often see themselves as moral loyal to the Church and are resistant to reconciling with what is now seen as the mainstream Church.

Rome journey . . .

■ Continued from page 13 tortured, crucified upside down and buried in the outlying district the Romans called Vatican Hill.

After a subway ride to Barberini station and a period of wandering lost looking for a famed church designed by Bernini, I walked by a Romanesque facade at the foot of some steps well below the street: San Vitale Basilica, one of Rome’s oldest churches, consecrated by Pope Innocent I in 401-402.

What caught my attention inside had nothing to do with early Christian iconography.

Bishop Wang said news of his pending participation at the Sept. 14 North Church Mass “spread by word of mouth” and that by the time the liturgy began the church “barely had standing room.”

“The fact that a bishop recognized by Rome was going to be celebrating Mass is a big deal,” the bishop said, adding that he was “mobbed” after the Mass and spent nearly an hour responding to requests for blessings, conversation and to touch his episcopal ring.

“It was very moving,” he said.

While he did not deliver the homily at the Sept. 14 Mass, Bishop Wang said he “was asked to say a few words” before it began.

He shared a story of his first Communion, he said, drawing laughter when he told parishioners that he had informed his family he did not think he was ready to receive the sacrament but that his grandmother told him “if the priest says you are ready, you are ready,” and she took him back to the church the next day. At that time women and men sat in their own sections of the church and so the seven-year-old had to sit with his grandmother in the women’s pews.

Bishop Wang said he was impressed with the gradual restoration of the church which was “used as a dump” and “piled full of garbage” in the 1980s. While Immaculate Conception Cathedral, known as South Church, is currently

Hanging on a wall was the bloodiest, most realistic crucifix I had ever seen, fitted with glistening, life-like eyes. I had gone looking for the ecstasy of Bernini but found this unsigned agony instead. Was there a charismatic community active in the 1,600year-old church? I had no way to tell.

The following Sunday I returned to St. Peter’s early in the morning to avoid the crowds. I spotted a group of nuns at the back of the nave, the sun beginning to glow through the dove window at the far end near the altar that tops the tomb of St. Peter. After Eucharist in a chapel inside the basilica, a lone nun knelt at the altar in a scene of enormous spaciousness and quiet. I returned

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang blesses a worshiper during a Mass at which he was principal celebrant at Divine Savior Church in Beijing on Sept. 14.

the cathedral parish in Beijing, that designation might eventually return to Divine Savior, he said.

The native of Beijing became the first person of Asian descent to be ordained a bishop for the United States on Jan. 30, 2003. He will celebrate his golden jubilee of priestly ordination on July 4, 2009.

to the Pietà, lucky to be alone with it as I walked straight up to the glass enclosure. I looked into the face of Mary and traced the body of Jesus as it lay across her lap. Lev was right: the sculpture, it seemed, gave off light.

(Ed note: Rick DelVecchio will file two additional reports on his educational sojourn to Rome and the Vatican: a story on Cardinal James Francis Stafford on Pope Benedict XVI’s theological mind, and a piece on his underground encounter with St. Peter’s tomb.)

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Letters . . .

Seek civility

■ Continued from page 14

Thanks for publishing Jim McGarry’s Oct. 24 letter recalling the U.S. bishops’ 1997 document, “All Our Children,” and Julia Dowd’s reminder (“Ensure equal rights”) of separation of church and state.

The ugly exchanges over Proposition 8 could have been avoided.

How wonderful if the Knights of Columbus would make a good donation to Holy Family Day Home in the Mission.

Two senior citizens in their 90s….

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erosexual couple. Why should they be denied that basic human and constitutional right?

And as a Catholic mother who would never consider abortion for myself, I still have to say that nobody has the right to tell me what to do with my body.

If this letter is printed, the election will be over. I can only hope Proposition 8 was defeated and Barack Obama is my country’s new president. Hopefully, thinking Catholics did not decimate the forest for the sake of one tree.

Lucy Murray Belmont

Wall Street vs. dirt streets Certainly the people of California are feeling the effects of the global financial crisis. Workers have lost jobs; major purchases have been delayed; retirement funds have shrunk; worry about the future has increased.

I am a Maryknoll lay missioner from San Francisco and have been working in Cambodia. I also voted via absentee ballot! Someone asked how the people here in Cambodia are dealing with the economic slowdown. A recent article answered: “They are dying from it, the slow, silent death of old people and small children from malnutrition as rising food prices cause families to eat less, with less variety. Crises like these are hard on all of us, but disproportionately affect the poor.”

There has been criticism of the government’s response to the financial turmoil in the United States for bailing out Wall Street, the people largely responsible for the financial turmoil, and doing too little for Main Street, the people most directly affected by the problems.

As we as a nation determine our response to this economic tragedy, we must also be aware of our brothers and sisters around the world on the “dirt streets” of places like Cambodia. They had nothing to do with causing the crisis but are perhaps suffering the most from it. We must rebuild and stabilize their lives, too.

Roberta D. McLaughlin Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Aiding opposition The Church, the bishops are promoting “Yes on 8.” I am promoting “Yes on 8.” But Catholic San Francisco, a great newspaper (usually) has a weak link. In your endeavor to show both pro and con in letters Oct. 17 you exhibited very poor judgment. A letter writer chose not to follow the Church’s guidelines, expressing sympathy toward “No on 8.” The election days were too near to even consider using space to aid the opposition. Shame on you.

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Jesus ‘at his word’ At a recent speaking engagement, Father John Dear urged that we take Jesus “at his word” by living lives of total nonviolence. In his view, we are never justified in using violence, and even the age-old “just war” doctrine is immoral. Is it any wonder that, as he complains, neither the media nor the Church takes him seriously?

First, he appears to be unaware of the hypocrisy involved in taking a hammer to F15’s, after he trespassed onto a military base. Destroying property in this manner is both violent and immoral. He should consider following his own advice about loving his neighbor and begin loving the military.

Next, he should reconsider his apparent view that the Sermon on the Mount is the sum total of Jesus’ word. In fact, all Scripture is divinely inspired and suitable for teaching and correction. This would include, for example: Ecclesiastes 3, in which God tells us that there is a time to kill

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what is best for others, which may include stopping a wrongdoer, or more importantly, preventing the innocent from becoming victims of violence. Father Dear intuitively knows this; else he would not have felt justified in trying to destroy an instrument of war. Better that he engage forthrightly in the weighing and balancing required to justify war, or the use of force, rather than trying to mislead believers into accepting a Beatitude as the entirety of Christian belief.

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as well as a time for war; Romans 13, which allows governments to punish wrongdoers so as to protect the innocent; the Gospel accounts of Jesus using force to cast out the money changers from the Temple and Jesus not condemning the Roman Centurion for being a soldier; and finally the sum total of the Old Testament, which tells us of many wars sanctioned by God. Loving our neighbor does not require us to submit to evil, or to refrain from acting to stop evil when we have the means to do so. Loving our neighbor requires us to do

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“CATHOLICS OF SAN FRANCISCO” by Rayna Garibaldi and Bernadette C. Hooper; part of the Images of America Series; Arcadia Publishing (2008) 128 pages, $19.99.

By Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D. This is an enormously fun book, and one that should be treasured by all Catholic San Franciscans.

Native San Franciscans Rayna Garbaldi and Bernadette Hooper have gathered a wonderful collection of more than 250 photographs which ably reflect more than 150 years of the life of the Church in San Francisco.

The photos more than simply reflect. They capture the feel and texture of a bygone era. Each comes with an explanatory caption that does a good job of putting the image into context.

The collection includes such great historic moments and sites as the 1924 Holy Name Day Parade in which Catholics in San Francisco stood up to the anti-Catholic incursions of the Ku Klux Klan; Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, blessing the Bay Bridge in 1936; the St.Anne’s Novena at St.Anne’s Parish; Father Patrick Peyton’s Rosary Crusade gathering at Golden Gate Park where close to 500,000 took part; damage done to churches from the 1906 earthquake and fire; and historic photos of Mission Dolores.

These are well-known historic moments, but the book contains less well-known moments as well: we see the Paulist Fathers in 1875, who came to San Francisco to conduct parish missions, and later returned to staff Old St. Mary’s Parish and the Chinese mission. On page 63, Father Ralph Hunt stares out from the legendary Father Peter C. Yorke’s gravesite at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma as part of the annual Yorke Memorial.

We see the world-renowned St. Mary’s Chinese Girls Drum Corps marching in a parade. (Though not pictured here, the Corps did march at President John F.Kennedy’s inaugural in 1961).

We see the traditional Senior Tea at the Convent of the Sacred Heart; we are introduced to the important but little-

Authors set presentation The authors of “Catholics of San Francisco” will present a free slide show and discussion of the book and their work on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco.)

St. Vincent High School was founded by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Here the mother general of the order is greeted by Sisters and students during a visit. Its successor school, Cathedral High, merged with Sacred Heart High School to become Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in 1987.

known laywoman, Mary Fisher, the first president of the Legion of Mary in San Francisco. Parishes, parish societies, elementary schools, high schools, parishioners, students and much else are covered in the book.

Equally important are photos of the more ordinary moments of Catholic life, but moments which are of equal importance to the life of the Church – baptisms, First Communions, weddings. These photos give the book the feel of a Catholic family album that poignantly documents ordinary Catholic life.

Pages 18-19 feature actual Catholic family photos, accompanied by the often-touching stories behind them. Opposite the title page is one of the great Catholic families in the history of the Archdiocese: the Donohoe family, which produced Bishop Hugh Donohoe, three religious Sisters and two Jesuits. Seated in the center is the family matriarch, Mrs. Frances Donohoe.

Page 36 shares some infant baptismal photos and page 44 a First Communion at St. James Parish. These are photos generally not shared beyond family boundaries, but that is the point: as Church we are all family and as such we celebrate these personal, communal events with one another.

While it is impossible to review every photo in the book, suffice it to say the book has something for everyone. My particular favorites include a spiritual bouquet, Friend of the

Archives’ Father Daniel Maguire celebrating First Communion at St. Peter’s surrounded by children, and a photo of Japanese children from Morning Star School and St. Francis Xavier Parish dressed in kimonos.

These photos document not only the institutional Church, but the people who make up the Church, who have worked to make the Church such a presence in the City of San Francisco.

I highly recommend this book.

The authors, Rayna Garibaldi and Bernadette C. Hooper are both graduates of local Catholics schools – St. Elizabeth and Immaculate Conception Academy, and St. James and the Convent of the Sacred Heart, respectively. The pair will present a free talk and slide show on the book on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 2 p.m. in the conference rooms at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

All are welcome.

(Deacon Jeffery Burns, Ph.D., is celebrating his silver jubilee as the Archdiocese of San Francisco archivist. See story on Page 3. His own works, the three-volume “History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco” and the edited collection “Catholic San Francisco: Sesquicentennial Essays” would be excellent companion pieces to “Catholics of San Francisco.” Both are available from the archdiocesan Catholic Communications Office; call (415) 614-5638.)

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St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco – (415) 567-2020. Ample parking is available free of charge in the Cathedral lot for most events.

Nov. 7, 8:30 a.m.: Monthly First Friday Adoration begins after 8 a.m. Mass continuing through 7:30 a.m.

Saturday. Mass is also celebrated at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Contact Mary Ann Eiler at (650) 355-7528.

Nov. 16, 2 p.m.: Friends of the Archives will host a slide show of vintage photos illustrating the rich history of the Church in San Francisco by authors of the recent book “Catholics of San Francisco,” Rayna Garibaldi and Bernadette Hooper. The event will also honor Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., on the silver jubilee of his work at archdiocesan archivist. For more information, e-mail sfarchiv@concentric.net.

Dec. 6, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: “Christmas Fair of the Swedish Women’s Educational Association” features handmade gift items, traditional foods and beverages, cultural demonstrations, musical performances and pageants. Admission of $5 is taken at the door, $2 for children and seniors. For more information, contact Ulla Wikander-Reilly at ulla.reilly@sbcglobal.net .

Dec. 13, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Silver Bells Arts and Crafts Fair featuring items from 60 artists representing Asia and the Pacific Islands. For more information, call (415) 931-2294.

Third Tuesdays through September 2009, 7:15 p.m.: The Year of St. Paul Lecture Series features Professor Stephen C. Córdova of the St. Anthony of Padua Institute, and Conventual Franciscan Father Francisco Nahoe of the Franciscan Spirit and Life Institute. Talks are free of charge. Information and lecture dates are available online at www.stanthonypaduainstitute.org/stpaul.pdf Sundays, 3:30 p.m.: Concerts featuring local and international musical artists. Free will offering helps support Cathedral’s music ministry. Call (415) 5672020, ext. 231. Nov. 9: California Baroque Ensemble.

Special Liturgies Nov. 16, 3:30 p.m.: Immaculate Conception Academy will commemorate its 125th year with a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside. A reception follows in the cathedral’s Patron’s Hall. All alumnae, friends and former students are invited. Call (415) 824-2052, ext. 31 or visit www.icacademy.org.

Tridentine Mass The traditional Latin Mass according to texts and rubrics from before Vatican II is celebrated at locations and times below.

Sundays at 12:15 p.m.: Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560.

First Friday: Latin High Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road at Glen Way, East Palo Alto. Mass is followed by the Litany of the Sacred Heart and Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament until midnight.

Confessions are heard before Mass. Low Mass in Latin is also offered every Friday evening at 6 p.m.

For further information, call (650) 322-2152.

Food & Fun Nov. 8, 9, 8:30 a.m.– 4:30 p.m.: Craft Fair at All Souls Parish Hall, Miller and Walnut Ave. in South San Francisco. Lunch in school café Saturday at 11:30 a.m.

Breakfast with Santa, Sunday after 9 a.m. Mass. Call Dolores at (650) 588-0810.

Nov. 8, 6 p.m.: “Annual Bal de Paris” benefiting Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires in San Francisco. Evening includes dinner dance, silent and live auctions, live music.

Black tie is optional. Tickets are $125. For more information, call (415) 421-0069 or visit www.ndvsf.org Nov. 8, 9, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Dominican Contemplative Nuns Benefit Art Show at Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Meet

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Nov. 23, 1 – 4 p.m.: “Home for the Holidays” benefits the preservation and restoration of Ralston Hall Mansion, a registered national landmark, on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. Afternoon at the historic site includes buffet lunch, desserts, spirits of the season, entertainment and a boutique marketplace featuring designer holiday decorations. Adult tickets are $40. Young adult tickets – 11-17 – are $20. Call (650) 508-3645.

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Catholic Charismatic Renewal Nov. 7, rosary 7 p.m. and Mass 7:30 p.m.: First Friday liturgy at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow at Miller in South San Francisco. For information, call John at (415) 564-7729.

Nov. 22, 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Healing Ministry Seminar at St. Veronica Church, 435 Alida Way in South San Francisco. Father Peter Sanders will facilitate. Lunch provided. Bring a Bible. Call John at (415) 564-7729.

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The first grade class from St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School sang on the steps of San Francisco City Hall Oct. 8. Their song was of their own composition and took second place in the City’s Department of Public Health’s “Infect Me Not” campaign. “As flu season approaches, the campaign is to educate people to use tissue, arm, or hand to cover their noses and mouths when they sneeze,” said principal, Judy Borelli. Visit www.InfectMeNot.org to hear the young choristers.

Sister artists and help a good cause. Proceeds benefit renovation of congregation’s novitiate dormitory. Call (650) 322-1801 or visit www.nunsmenlo.org Nov. 12, 7 a.m.: Catholic Professional and Business Club meets for Mass, breakfast and presentation on theme of stewardship as a “key to our faith and lives” at Palio D’Asti Restaurant, 640 Sacramento St. in San Francisco. Susan Todaro, who has worked in stewardship at the parish level for 15 years and holds a graduate degree in nonprofit administration, is guest speaker.

Tickets are$20 for members and $30 for non-members.

Those attending for first time are admitted free. Annual membership dues are $45. For more information, visit www.cpbc-sf.org. Next meeting is Dec. 10.

Nov. 14: Twelfth Annual Vincenzo Wine tasting and Auction at San Francisco’s Bently Reserve benefiting Catholic Charities CYO’s St. Vincent School for Boys.

Event includes gourmet dinner, select wines and an auction. For ticket information, call (415) 972-1233 or visit www.vincenzo.org.

Nov. 15, 6 p.m.: St. Paul Parish in Noe Valley presents “Una Bella Serata Piazza San Paolo,” the annual dinner dance and auction benefiting St. Paul’s Preservation Fund. Evening takes you to a piazza in Italy, sipping wine and enjoying music and a several course meal. The event will include silent and live auctions, dinner and dancing. Tickets are $65 For more information, contact Katy O’Shea at (415) 648-7538.

Nov. 15, 8 p.m. – midnight: “Oldies but Goodies Jazz and Blues Dance” at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Shool gymnasium, 1122 Jamestown at 3rd St. in San Francisco. No host bar and food. Tickets on sale after weekend Masses or call (415) 468-3434. Tickets are $20 in advance/$25 at door.

Nov. 18, 19, 20: Holiday Boutique with silent and live auctions sponsored by St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary in main lobby of hospital on Stanyan St. in San Francisco. Tuesday is preview from 4 – 7 p.m.;$10 admission includes refreshments and free parking. Wednesday and Thursday hours are 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. with free admission. Proceeds benefit hospital’s cancer services. Call Mary Perata at (415) 239-5936 for more information.

Nov. 21, 22, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Sisters of Mercy at Marian Convent Holiday Boutique features numerous holiday items for sale including; homemade jams and jellies, gift baskets, crocheted items, all occasion handmade cards, baked goods, candies, fudge and plants. Marian Convent, 2300 Adeline Dr.,Bldg. D, Burlingame. Follow Lower Road on Mercy Campus to Marian Convent. For information, call Debbie Halleran at (650) 340-7426.

Nov. 22, 23, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Dominican Sisters’ Holiday Boutique at the Dominican Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont; enter at Mission Tierra alongside Ohlone College. Items include the Sisters’ famous olive oil, homemade fruitcakes, ceramics, oil paintings, hand-made afghans and more. Lunch available for purchase. Proceeds benefit work of Dominican Sisters of San Jose. Contact Sister Barbara Larner, OP at (510) 657-2468, ext. 6310 or blarner@msjdominicans.org.

Nov. 22, 6 p.m.: Crab Bash Family Dinner benefiting Holy Name of Jesus Parish and School in Ryan Hall, 40th Ave. and Lawton in San Francisco. Menu includes marinated, cracked Dungeness crab, pasta, cheesecake, wine, beer or punch. Tickets are $35 with tables of eight for $260. Tickets for children ages 6 – 12 are $10. Call (415) 664-8590.

Nov. 22, 11 a.m.: “Sunset Style” is the theme of the St. Stephen Women’s Guild fashion show at the Olympic Club. Tickets are $75 and include a catered lunch. Raffles for prizes including a pink sapphire ring.

For more information, contact Annette Rocca at (415) 239-8926 or sswg_sunset_style@yahoo.com.

Nov. 22: “Journey of Hope Red Kite Gala,” honors oncologist, Dr. Jordan Wilbur. The physician has been involved in pediatric cancer treatment for more than 50 years. The evening is sponsored by the Joanne Pang Foundation, which was founded in the name of a St. Cecilia Elementary School child who died from leukemia.

Tickets are $150. Evening includes dinner, dancing, auctions and entertainment by Shades of Green music group and takes place at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat in San Francisco. Proceeds will go toward establishing a Northern California Umbilical Cord Blood

First Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 9 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.

Nov. 20, 11:30 a.m.: Lunch with actor, Martin Sheen at Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Proceeds benefit The Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement, named for slain Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang who was killed in Brazil in 2005 for her advocacy efforts on behalf of the country’s poor.

Tickets are $100. Sheen, known for the television series “West Wing” as well as films and guest TV roles, served as narrator on the documentary film “They Killed Sister Dorothy” and attended a Notre Dame Sisters school in Dayton, Ohio as a boy. Call (650) 508-4120 or e-mail dsc@ndnu.edu.

Jan. 24, 11 a.m.: Fifth Annual Walk for Life West Coast begins at San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza lawn at the Embarcadero. To organize groups or get further information e-mail info@walkforlifewc.com or call (415) 586-1576.

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Nov. 13, 7 p.m.: Pauline Books and Media continues to celebrate the Year of St. Paul by hosting Father Kevin Kennedy who will reflect on the Damascus experience, what that meant for St. Paul and how the relationship with Christ which ensued, shaped Paul’s understanding of Christian discipleship.

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Among those enjoying the event were Msgr. Floro Arcamo, left, moderator of the San Francisco County Council of Catholic Women; Msgr. Edward McTaggart, moderator of the San Francisco ACCW; Margaret McAuliffe, second vice president; Gloria Krzyzanowski, immediate past president; Marianne Larke, treasurer; Margaret Rocchi, first vice president; Carole Gianuario, auditor; Bishop Justice, and Mary Ann Bertken, president.

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Please join with us on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. to honor our men and women in uniform.... past, present and future Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform will conduct the memorial ceremony along with the Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard with Taps.

Dear Veterans, There is a beautiful area of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery dedicated to our courageous men and women in uniform. Flags from all branches of military service stand in honor at the entrance to the Star of the Sea Section. Our Veterans’ Day Memorial Service is held in front of these beautiful flags.

In this current world situation, it is especially important that we gather to remember and honor our military personnel and their families. You are cordially invited to join us in prayer on this special day.

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