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Following the annual wedding anniversary liturgy at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Feb. 10 during which nearly 140 couples renewed their marital vows, participants surround Auxiliary Bishop John Wester (visible top center) for a group photo in front of the Cathedral’s dramatic Wedding at Cana sculpture by Mario Rudelli. The Archdiocese has issued an invitation to all its members to a special Mass on Feb. 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the Cathedral as a celebration and farewell to Bishop Wester who was recently named Bishop of Salt Lake City, a post he will assume next month.

Crucifixion and Cana linked, Bishop Wester tells couples

By Dan Morris-Young Jesus’ first miracle recorded in the Gospels, performed at the Wedding Feast at Cana, is profoundly linked to the crucifixion, Auxiliary Bishop John Wester told more than 400 persons who took part in a joyous Mass celebrated Feb. 10 at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral during which nearly 140 couples renewed their marriage vows.

Language and incidents during the Wedding Feast at Cana ( Jn 2:1-12) foreshadow the crucifixion and underscore God’s role in the sacrament of marriage in profound ways, said Bishop Wester who presided at the Mass and delivered the homily.

Couples from all parts of the Archdiocese along with family and friends attended the liturgy which was sponsored by the Catholic Family Movement and archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life in cooperation with the Cathedral staff. Chris Lyford, assistant superintendent for faith formation and religious education for the Catholic Schools Department, coordinated the event.

Couples reciting marital vows anew ranged from pairs married just a year to James and Teresa Hampton

of Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City, who have been married 65 years.

For Chuck and Bernice Ayala of Most Holy Redeemer

Parish, San Francisco, it was the “fourth or fifth” marital vow renewal celebration at the Cathedral they have attended.

Married 55 years ago at the Carmel Mission, the Ayalas described the celebration as “a wonderful thing” and “a time to renew our faith and our commitment.”

“This event is all about being proactive for all marriages,” stated Lyford who formerly directed the marriage and family office. “Since the Office of Marriage and Family Life was severely down-sized last year there was no anniversary Mass. However, some of us decided to do our best to see that we didn’t let another year go by without inviting couples together to renew their vows.”

“The liturgy was successful,” he added, “because of the staff at the Cathedral headed by its director of liturgy, Doug Benbow. With their help, we can continue to make this as an annual event, and continue to show honor as a Church to all married couples, and thereby strengthen all marriages.”

The event doubled as a chance for hundreds of persons to acknowledge and bid farewell to Bishop Wester, who was recently named bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. He will be installed as ordinary next month.

Pope’s Lenten message: focus on Christ crucified VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Calling Catholics to perform concrete acts of charity during Lent, Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 Lenten message focuses not on social problems, but on an individual’s relationship with God, said Archbishop Paul Cordes.

See full text of papal message on back page.

Presenting the Lenten message at a Feb. 13 press conference, Archbishop Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, said the pope departed from the customary social focus of papal Lenten messages to emphasize Christian charity must have a religious motivation.

The 2007 message is a meditation on the crucified Christ as the fullest sign of God’s love.

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by Tom Burke Congratulations and thank you to Mercy Sister Mary Georgina Maher who celebrated her 70th year as a religious January 9th at Mercy Center in Burlingame. Sister Georgina is a San Francisco native and an alum of the Mission District’s St. Peter School.

She is a former principal at St. Stephen Elementary School and a former member of the faculty at her alma mater – St. Peter’s – as well as Our Lady of Angels and St. Catherine of Siena in Burlingame, and St. Gabriel’s and Holy Name of Jesus in San Francisco.

Sister Georgina retired from classroom teaching in 1979 and returned to Holy Name where she served as librarian and tutor for another coupla’ decades before moving to Mercy Center in 2005…. Donohoe and Carroll Memorials in Colma wants you to know they’re still there and “the name is Donohoe, please, not Donohue,” said Elizabeth Donohoe Thorstad, with a laugh when we talked recently about the firm’s more than 120-year history.

“My brother, Jim, has run the business since my mom, Mary, asked him to help out for a couple of weeks 31 years ago,” Liz Stacey Ardelean said, again with a chuckle. The rest of the immediate family in addition to Liz of St. Gabriel Parish, and Jim, of St. Cecilia’s, includes Hugh and John also of St. Cecilia’s and Mary Nappi of Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame. Brother, Tom, who died in 2000, was a longtime member, with his wife, Teresa, of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont. Mom, Mary, died in 1987. Dad, Mel, died in 1992. Family members also missed are late Stockton Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe, Jesuit Father Patrick Donohoe, Jesuit Father Joseph Donohoe, Notre Dame Sister Joan Marie Donohoe and Notre Dame Sister Marie Patrice Donohoe. Sacred Heart Sister Helen Donohoe, 88, and a religious for more than 60 years, lives at her community’s Oakwood retire-

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ment facility in Atherton. “We’ve moved but the quali- concerned with the inner, creative and social growth of ty remains,” Liz said. “The new address is 1455 Old young people,” said Holly Goodliffe, the school’s comMission Rd. just down the road a piece from the origi- munications director. “I was shocked and delighted to nal shop.” Donohoe and receive such a prestigious Carroll monuments now award,” Stacey said. Hats mark tens-of-thousands off, too, from this oneof graves, Liz confirmed, time thespian. Nobody including those of former more important to a Governor Pat Brown, young actor’s journey and SFFD Chief Dennis than those who show him Sullivan who died in or her the way.… the1906 Earthquake….

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Fear takes Redwood City after immigration raid Many immigrant families in Redwood City are living in fear after immigration raids two weeks ago near Hoover Elementary School and at the corner of Fifth Ave. and El Camino Real where day laborers gather in hope someone will pick them up.

On Feb. 8, organizations including Comite de Padres Unidos, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Council of San Mateo County, Redwood City School District and Fair Oaks Community Center held an emergency meeting at the Community Center to inform people of their rights when they encounter agents from the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Many asked public officials’ support in seeking an end to ICE operations.

Many parents are not sending their children to school and others are fearful of leaving their homes, persons attending the meeting said.

There are confirmed reports of at least seven people who were detained at their homes. Georgina Castañeda’s friend was one of them. “She was detained on Feb. 1 in her apartment and was cuffed in front of her kids. She had a deportation order and now is in jail in Sacramento,” said Castañeda who is caring for her friend’s two children and attempting to raise money to pay her rent.

Castañeda went to the meeting, she said, to ask recently appointed Police Chief Louis Cobarruviaz, representatives from the city council, and the Sheriff’s Office for protection for Redwood City residents.

“My friend is a mother and a victim of domestic violence. She was studying at Cañada College and was working helping other women to escape from violence in their homes,” she said. “It is not fair she is behind bars if she is not a criminal.”

Police Chief Cobarruviaz told the pri-

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By Jose Luis Aguirre

Father Nestor Aterado (left), parochial vicar at St. Anthony Parish in Menlo Park, and John Balleza, pastor of Redwood City’s Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, were among those to address a Feb. 8 Redwood City meeting called to address recent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

marily Spanish-speaking crowd of approximately 200 – largely Mexican and Salvadorean — that the city was not involved in the recent immigration crackdown and does not have plans to conduct such operations in the future.

He said Redwood City police will only ask for identification if it is relevant to a serious crime, and encouraged residents not to answer questions about countries of origin because it is their right to refuse.

“We want people to feel safe in our neighborhoods, without fear,” said Redwood City Councilwoman Alicia Aguirre. “We support them, and as always we are here to protect all the residents no matter what their legal status is.”

Father John Balleza, pastor of Redwood

City’s Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, and Father Nestor Aterado, parochial vicar at St. Anthony Parish in Menlo Park, were invited to address the crowd. The two priests committed spiritual support to all families facing potential deportation or legal challenges.

“It is difficult to live without legal documents, but is more difficult to live without knowing their rights,” said Father Aterado.

“My advice for them is to work well and do the best they can.”

The U.S. Department of Immigration

and Customs Enforcement is part of Operation Return to Sender, a nationwide crackdown on illegal immigrants with outstanding deportation orders or criminal records.

According to Mark Silverman, director of immigration policy at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, immigration agencies have had a policy of not going into churches or schools. Silverman said they seem to be abiding by this.

Christopher Martinez, director of Immigrant and Refugee Services at Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said, “We need to educate the immigrant community about their rights. The problem is that many think they do not have rights, but they actually do,” he said.

“They have the right to ask for representation. They are supposed to have access to due process,” he explained. “Often they don’t know that, or often times that right is not granted to them.”

Martinez said Catholic Charities CYO will work with other organizations to help get the word out, especially in Catholic parishes. “We want the community to understand that the Church is behind them.

Having the Church speak out on their behalf is very empowering to the people of faith.”

Catholic Charities has been working with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ campaign Justice for Immigrants promoting the social teaching on welcoming the stranger and the necessity to address comprehensive immigration reform.

“It is part of our mission as a Church to advocate for those who have no voice, in this case the immigrants” Martinez said.

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little less than one of every four people. Among U.S. Christians, the number is closer to one of every three.

Bread for the World, the Christian citizens’ anti-hunger lobby, beats those percentages: One out of every two members is Catholic in the 56,000-member group. “It’s one way of their expressing some sort of solidarity in reaching out to those who are poor and hungry,” theorized Franciscan Sister Margaret Mary Kimmins who began work with the organization last year.

Catholic agencies ask rich countries to increase aid

Vatican stats confirm growth, especially in Asia and Africa VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The latest Vatican statistics confirm the Church’s population and ministerial workforce are continuing to shift to developing countries, especially those in Africa and Asia. Figures released Feb. 12 showed the overall number of Catholics increased to nearly 1.12 billion at the end of 2005, an increase of 1.5 percent from the previous year. The Catholic growth rate was slightly higher than the rate of overall population increase, which was 1.2 percent. Catholics now represent 17.2 percent of the global population, the Vatican said. Church population grew fastest in Africa, an increase of 3.1 percent in 2005, half a percentage point higher than the overall population growth there.

In Asia, the number of Catholics was up 2.7 percent, and in the Americas up 1.2 percent.

Pope says life will be judged on acts of charity toward others VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI said people’s lives will be judged not on abstract ideals but on the concrete acts of charity. In a Feb. 10 talk to Italian volunteer groups the pope said the organizations were helping to spread the “Gospel of God’s love for all people.” Citing the Gospel of St. Matthew, he recalled when Christ spoke of the last judgment he said people would be asked whether they fed the hungry, gave drink to the thirsty, welcomed the stranger and opened their hearts to the needy

Two Catholics to run in historic election for Hong Kong exec HONG KONG (CNS) — A Catholic legislator is running for the post of Hong Kong’s chief executive against the incumbent, also a Catholic, making it the first contested election for the office since Hong Kong reverted from British to Chinese control in 1997. Civic Party legislator Alan Leong Kah-kit, 48, will run against the current chief executive, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, 62, in the March 25 election. Both candidates are alumni of Jesuit-run high schools in Hong Kong.

Lack of funds forces Catholic AIDS ministry to shut doors CHICAGO (CNS) — The National Catholic AIDS Network, which recently formed a partnership with Loyola University Chicago, has announced it will close following its 20th annual AIDS ministry conference this summer. The network, which provides resources and support to those affected by HIV/AIDS, has fallen victim to a lack of funding, said Dan Lunney, its executive director.

Catholics comprise half of Bread for World members WASHINGTON (CNS) — Globally, about one of every six people is Catholic. In the United States, the figure is a

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Two international Catholic organizations have asked the world’s richest countries to prove they are serious about promises to increase development aid and halve world poverty by 2015. Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based umbrella organization for national Catholic charities, and the International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, or CIDSE, an alliance of 15 Catholic development organizations from Europe and North America, on Feb. 8 launched their campaign at the Vatican: “Make Aid Work: The World Can’t Wait.”

Santa Rosa Diocese pays off last of debt to parishes SANTA ROSA, Calif. (CNS) — Bishop Daniel F. Walsh of Santa Rosa announced in January that the diocese has finished restoring to its parishes, cemeteries and schools the funds lost in the 1999 collapse of the diocesan consolidated fund.

Diocesan finance officer Deacon Michael Urick reported last month that the diocese also has repaid emergency loans it received from other dioceses across the country, with the exception of the loans from other dioceses in California.

“We still have a few goals” to meet, he said, including full restoration of the priests’ pension fund and setting aside scholarship money for students in Catholic schools.

A news release from the diocese said that the diocesan capital campaign to recover from the 1999 crisis has raised pledges totaling $18.6 million so far. Its target is $20 million.

The financial crisis in the diocese was uncovered shortly after former Santa Rosa Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann resigned in July 1999 amid revelations he had been involved in sexual relations with one of his priests.

Then-Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco, now a cardinal and top Vatican official, who was named administrator of Santa Rosa, announced in September 1999 that the diocese faced a $15 million debt, largely because of spending on diocesan staff and programs that had exceeded diocesan income for years. He instituted immediate staff and budget cuts, a diocese-wide construction freeze, other spending restrictions, separation of the diocesan budget from the consolidated funds, separation of the priests’ pension fund, and a widely representative diocesan finance council.

Pope says lay movements can help bishops care for own souls VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A bishop can turn to Catholic lay movements not only when he needs an organized group to implement his pastoral plans, but also when he needs to care for his own soul, Pope Benedict XVI said.

When a movement gathers its “bishop-friends” together, it helps them experience “a more intense communion of hearts, a stronger mutual support and a greater shared commitment to showing that the Church is a place of prayer and

charity, a house of mercy and peace,” the pope said, speaking Feb. 8 at a joint audience for 80 bishops participating in a conference sponsored by the Focolare movement.

Sociologists see paradoxes in younger Catholics WASHINGTON (CNS) — Young adult Catholics have a strong Catholic identity but do not feel much of a commitment to the institutional Church or its moral teachings, according to two leading sociologists. The seemingly paradoxical assessment came from James A. Davidson of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and Dean R. Hoge of The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Davidson and Hoge are co-authors with William V. D’Antonio of Catholic University and Mary L. Gautier of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown of “American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church,” to be published in March

by Rowman & Littlefield. The book analyzes Gallup surveys from 1987, 1993, 1999 and 2005, and finds that Catholics born after 1979, in what the authors call the “millennial generation,” have deep differences from previous generations of Catholics — differences that are unlikely to disappear when they marry and have children. “There’s a disconnect between them and the institutional Church,” said Davidson. “And when they get older, they are not going to be like the Catholics of previous generations. They are going to be the Catholics they are now.”

Palestinian Christians show support for Hamas-Fatah pact JERUSALEM (CNS) — Palestinian Christians voiced support for the Hamas-Fatah power-sharing pact as Palestinians celebrated the recent agreement for national unity, said a local Catholic priest. “We want to convince them the people are happy, they have united, and we were anxious and sad because they fought against each other,” said Msgr. Manuel Musallam of Holy Family Parish in the Gaza Strip. He spoke with Catholic News Service in a telephone interview Feb. 12.

Father Rolheiser: social justice roots are ancient WASHINGTON (CNS) — For people doing Catholic social justice work who may have a sense of fatigue, it’s important to recognize the entire movement is relatively new, yet is supported by theology dating to the time of the Old Testament prophets, said the plenary speaker at an annual social ministry gathering. Oblate Father Ronald Rolheiser, author of numerous books on spirituality, a regular Catholic San Francisco contributor, and president of Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, urged people to be heartened by the scriptural mandate as they work to improve the lot of the world’s poor and needy.

Pope: living in society means recognizing others’ beliefs VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When the Church calls for adherence to basic values to promote the common good, it is not placing the individual second, but reflecting the truth that being human means having a relationship with others, Pope Benedict XVI said. The modern world seems to be losing touch with the fact that living in society requires an acknowledgment of the rights, needs and beliefs of others, he said during a Feb. 10 meeting with members of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. The pope, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was one of the few nonFrench members of the academy until his election as pope.

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New assistant school head named Annette Brown has joined the Department of parents send their children to our schools. It is the difCatholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco ference between an education, and a Catholic school education.” as assistant superintendent for planning and finance.

“I see my role as one where I can help principals A San Francisco native and graduate of Our Lady of quickly consider the financial Mercy Elementary School in Daly aspects of the tough decisions they City and Mercy High School in must make for their schools to San Francisco, Brown earned grow and thrive,” Brown said. undergraduate and graduate “Even with an increase or stabidegrees in business at the lization in our enrollment, our University of San Francisco where costs continue to climb. We must she served as the school’s budget not stop striving to find efficiendirector from 1996 – 2003 and as cies in our processes while provida budget consultant from 2003 – ing an effective, nurturing and 2006. compassionate learning environ“On reading the job descripment for our students.” tion, I knew this was the perfect Brown is the mother of three job for me,” Brown told Catholic children, Jackson is in second San Francisco. “The budget expegrade and Harrison is in kinderrience I gained at USF gives me garten at St. Thomas More the ability to step in and be immeElementary School. A daughter, diately effective in helping princiGrace, is almost three and “lookpals with the financial aspects of ing forward to pre-school,” her running their schools.” mom said.

The new assistant superintend“I have been given much, ent said that while the match of through my and my children’s her skills and the job was a strong education in the San Francisco reason for pursuing the position, it Catholic schools,” Brown said. “I was “the mission of Catholic Annette Brown have had the opportunity to make schools” that convinced her to the St. Ignatius spiritual exercises as an adult, and have apply.

“Quality learning communities, continuing focus on been very blessed to have a solid foundation in the social justice issues, and educating the minds and hearts Catholic faith. To be able to share my talents and abiliof our students” all contribute to “helping them become ties with the Archdiocese of San Francisco is personalintelligent, articulate, compassionate members” of the ly rewarding to me. I am very grateful for the opportucommunity and ultimately “leaders of our local and nity to give back to the community that has given me so global communities,” she said. “This focus is the reason much.”

Immigration . . .

■ Continued from page 3 ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley told Catholic San Francisco that “the Department of Homeland Security has an ambitious, multi-year national plan to shore up our borders and reduce illegal immigration. A key element of that plan is stepped-up interior enforcement, including expanded efforts to identify and arrest immigration fugitives — that is, aliens who are ordered deported and willfully ignore those orders.”

“With regard to our enforcement mission, ICE’s fugitive operation teams nationwide prioritize cases involving criminal aliens and immigration fugitives, but our officers also periodically encounter other immigration violators while carrying out their duties. In those instances, ICE officers take appropriate enforcement action,” Haley said.

According to Martinez, ICE’s focus is not just criminal elements. “They are separating families. They are arresting people whose only crime is being here without legal status, Most of them have not committed any crime, and they don’t have an order of deportation.”

He charged that persons should be able to be at home, at work or walking on the street without being harassed by a law enforcement agency and live in fear.

“That is why we are asking legislators to pass immigration reform, to address this issue,” Martinez said.

Participants at the Redwood City meeting were encouraged to write area U.S. Representatives about immigration issues.

Forgiveness to be topic of TV program, Feb. 18 Just in time for Lent, Father Gerald O’Rourke talks about “forgiveness” on the television program “For Heaven’s Sake,” airing Feb. 18 at 5:30 a.m. on KRONChannel 4. The wellknown priest discusses scriptural basis, defining characteristics and practical benefits of forgiveness with host Father Gerald O’Rourke Maury Healy, archdiocesan director of communications.

The program is a production of the Archdiocesan Office of Communications and KRON.

SCRIPTURE SEARCH

By Patricia Kasten

Gospel for February 18, 2007 Luke 2:7-38 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C: a lesson on how to behave meekly in a harsh world. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.

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UCSF series to focus obituary on health and aging Leo T. McCarthy: man of integrity and compassion A series of three Saturday workshops focusing on health care issues facing older adults has been scheduled by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of California, San Francisco.

To be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California St., the classes may be attended individually and include: ● Feb. 24, “What Families Need to Know about Delirium,” taught by Dr. Eric Widera, associate medical director of the Nursing Home Care Unit and director of the Geriatric Consultation Service of San Francisco VA Medical Center; and “Capturing the Moment: Strategies for Maintaining Relationships with a Loved One with Dementia,” by Dr. Theresa Allison, geriatrics research fellow, UCSF School of Medicine; ● March 10, “Managing Your Medications: How to Minimize Side Effects and Maximize Benefits,” presented by Kirby Lee, assistant professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, UCSF School of Pharmacy; and “Eye Care and Diabetes,” presented by Dr. Daniel Schainholz, a specialist in geriatric ophthalmology. ● March 24, “Computer-based Training in Older Adults with Memory Complaints,” by Deborah Barnes, Ph.D., assistant adjunct professor of psychiatry, UCSF School of Medicine; and “Prostate Cancer and the Older Man: How Worried Should We Be?” by Dr. Badrinath Konety, associate professor of urology, UCSF School of Medicine.

Classes may be attended for $20 each, or $50 for the whole series. Registration may be done on-line (www.lifelonglearning.ucsf.edu) or by calling (415)4765808, according to a spokesperson for the Center.

Additional information is available by e-mailing mfortes@pubaff.ucsf.edu or calling 415) 476-2557.

Leo T. McCarthy, a prominent figure in San don’t know of any public official who manifested a Francisco and California politics for four decades and a greater combination of intelligence, integrity and comformer member of the Archdiocese of San Francisco passion, and I don’t know of any Catholic leader who lived his life more consistently in Catholic Charities CYO Board of the service of his God and the servDirectors, died Feb. 5 at the age of ice of his community.”

76 at his home in San Francisco A memorial Mass was celebratafter a lengthy illness. ed Feb. 10 at St. Ignatius Church McCarthy was born in New on the University of San Francisco Zealand in 1930. His Irish family campus. Father Stephen Privett, moved to San Francisco while he SJ, president of the University of was a small child and he was San Francisco, was the main celeraised in the Mission District. brant and homilist. He praised McCarthy was elected to the McCarthy as “a good and decent San Francisco Board of man” who acted for the public Supervisors in 1963 and the good throughout his entire life.

California Assembly in 1968. Six Following the memorial Mass, years later he was elected which was concelebrated by San Assembly speaker. He ended his Francisco Archbishop George H. political career in 1994 after servNiederauer and other priests, ing a record three terms as McCarthy’s remains were interred Lieutenant Governor of California. at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.

After retiring from politics, he McCarthy leaves his wife, founded the Leo T. McCarthy Leo T. McCarthy Jackie, four children — Sharon, Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco, Conna, Adam and Niall, and 11 grandchildren. Sharon which provides a forum for education, service and McCarthy Allen is principal of St. Stephen School in research in public policy. It seeks to prepare students at San Francisco.

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Catholic Charities provides outreach programs for seniors in three counties Catholic Charties CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco oversees a number of programs which serve older residents of Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties.

This include: SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY ➣ Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Center is staffed by caregivers with specialized training; the Center serves seniors with moderate-to-late-stage Alzheimer’ Disease.

Clients are offered a hot, nutritious lunch and two snacks in a safe, caring environment that encourages them to remain stimulated, both mentally and physically. Located at 50 Broad St. in San Francisco, its phone is (415) 452-3500. ➣ OMI Senior Center helps seniors maintain independence by providing supervised activities in a safe, enjoyable daytime environment. Seniors receive hot meals, arts and crafts classes, case management care, field trips, and socialization with their peers. Located at 1948 Ocean Ave., its phone is (415) 587-1443. ➣ San Francisco Adult Day Services is a licensed support center that provides a structured, supervised environment in which frail or chronically impaired seniors can safely participate in social, educational, therapeutic, and recreational activities (which also provides respite to families and caregivers). SFADS provides more than 26,000 hours of service, 8,000 meals and 16,000 trips of assisted transportation to over 60 frail seniors and the disabled per year. Located at 50 Broad St., its phone is (415) 452-3500.

MARIN COUNTY ➣ Marin Behavioral Healthcare Services provides assessment, counseling, case management, referral to services, and care monitoring to seniors and their families in Marin County. Located at One St. Vincent Dr., San Rafael, its phone is (415) 507-4262. ➣ Meals on Wheels, through the use of paid and volunteer staff, supplies hot, nutritious meals to thousands of homebound seniors and disabled adults, enabling them to remain in their

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al requirements. Meals on Wheels in San Mateo County serves more than 83,000 meals to frail elderly and disabled adults. For information, call (650) 295-2173. To volunteer contact Megan Baker at (415) 972-1272 or e-mail mbaker@cccyo.org. ➣ San Carlos Adult Day Services provides a structured, supervised environment in which frail or chronically impaired seniors can safely participate in social, educational, therapeutic, and recreational activities (which also provides respite to families and caregivers). San Carlos Adult Day Services provides more than 5,600 days of service—including hot, nutritious meals—and coordinates some 8,000 trips of assisted transportation to frail seniors and the disabled each year. The program serves approximately 80 clients a year, most of whom are age 75 and older and may be suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, vascular dementia and strokes. Located at 787 Walnut St., San Carlos, its phone is (650) 592-9325.

homes. A registered dietician carefully prepares menus to ensure each meal furnishes one-third of the daily nutritional requirements. Meals on Wheels in Marin County delivers 250 meals per day—or more than 70,000 meals per year— to homebound seniors, and also provides an additional 60 to 80 meals a day to sites such as community centers and senior centers. For information, call (415) 507-4300.

(Note: Catholic Charities CYO is partnering with parishes—like St. Isabella in San Rafael—where parishioners adopt routes and volunteer to deliver meals in their own neighborhoods. To volunteer contact Megan Baker at (415) 972-1272 or e-mail mbaker@cccyo.org.

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Expert on Islam slated for lecture An international expert on Islam and political and social issues relating to that faith will deliver this year’s Paul Wattson Lecture at the University of San Francisco.

Mona Siddiqui, Ph,.D. will address the topic “Divine Love and Divine Law: Human Dignity in Islam” on Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 252 of the McLaren Building on the university campus.

Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, Siddiqui founded and continues to direct the Center for the Study of Islam at that university.

Professor Siddiqui speaks around the world on inter-religious topics, notably on the legal and ethical dimensions of Islam, according to a USF press release.

In 2005 she was made a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2002 she was awarded a $150,000 Ford Foundation grant for an international research project on Muslim philosophy.

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Sister Josephine Gilbert, PBVM, (for- California School of the Blind, Berkeley, merly Sister Mary Vincent) died Feb. 7 at and served as a foster grandparent at Agnew State Hospital, the Presentation Santa Clara, from 1972 to Motherhouse in San 1977.

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Continuing what he described as a verbal “portrait gallery� of important figures in the early Church, the pope focused his Feb. 7 general audience remarks on Priscilla and Aquila, a married couple who assisted St. Paul in his ministry in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome.

The couple not only opened their home to St. Paul, but also to all local Christians, hosting the community’s gatherings to read the Scriptures and share the Eucharist, the pope said. “It is thanks to the faith and apostolic commitment of lay faithful, of families (and) spouses like Priscilla and Aquila that Christianity has reached our generation,� the pope said.

The faith proclaimed by the apostles, he said, took root in the lives of the people thanks to the commitment of couples and families, “and it always will be only in

this way that the Church grows.� “This couple demonstrates how important is the action of Christian couples. When they are supported by the faith and a strong spirituality, their courageous commitment for the Church and in the Church becomes natural,� he said.

Pope Benedict said Christians today should follow the example of Priscilla and Aquila. “Every home can be transformed into a little Church,� not only being a place marked by love and care for others, but particularly being a place where every activity and attitude revolves around a clear recognition that Jesus Christ is lord, he said.

While it is true the love of a husband and wife mirrors Christ’s love for his Church, the pope said, “We also can maintain that the apostle (Paul) models the life of (the) entire Church on that of the family. The Church is, in reality, the family of God.�

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Wedding Guide Pope urges young people to express love unselfishly VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI urged young people to express love in unselfish ways, looking past social goals of competition and become “witnesses of charity” in the world.

The theme of the Feb. 5 papal message was love, and in it he focused on three areas where young people are called to demonstrate love of God: in the Church, in marriage and in society.

In the Church, which he described as a “spiritual family,” the pope said youths should be willing to help stimulate parish and other activities, even if it means giving up some of their entertainments.

The pope said marriage is a “project of love” between a man and a woman that fits into a divine design.

“Learning to love each other as a couple is a wonderful journey, yet it requires a demanding ‘apprenticeship,’” he said.

When couples become engaged, he said, it’s a period of preparation that needs to be lived “in purity of gesture and words.”

Engagement allows couples to practice self-control and develop respect for each other, he said. This is true love, which does not place an emphasis on seeking one’s own satisfaction, he said.

When it comes to the daily routine of family, studies, work

and free time, the pope asked young people to look beyond the cultivation of talents needed to obtain a social position.

“Develop your capacities, not only in order to become more competitive and productive, but to be witnesses of charity,” he said.

“The purpose of my message is to help reawaken in each one of you — you who are the future and hope of humanity — trust in a love that is true, faithful and strong; a love that generates peace and joy; a love that binds people together and allows them to feel free in respect for one another,” he said.

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The Gospel writer clearly wanted to convey that marriage is central to a God-centered community, Bishop Wester said, adding that “it is God who brings couples together” — marriage is ”not random,” but rather a “part of the divine plan.”

“God himself is saying that marriage is vital and so important,” he said.

Further connecting the Cana events to the crucifixion, the bishop said Mary’s acquiescence to her son in the scriptural passage, “Do whatever he tells you,” may be viewed as a reference to the importance of “being attentive” to Jesus, to following his instruction.

In addition, Christ’s own words, “My hour has not yet come,” prefigure the crucifixion itself, the bishop said, describing them as “a direct reference to the real manifestation of Christ on the cross.”

Bishop Wester noted that light is a theme in the Gospel of John and that it is clear “Jesus is to be the light in your marriage, to provide direction, a path, and also light in the sense of energy and heat and passion” for marriage to keep it “dynamic and growing.”

The bishop stressed that Christ’s “manual” for solid marriages is based on “the concrete, the real” and acknowledges that marriages must “struggle and grapple” at times “in the shadow of the cross.”

Marriages’ chances for “growth, vitality, prospering and blossoming,” he said, are enhanced when marital partners remain “vulnerable and open” to one another.

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1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23; Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13; 1 Corinthians 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38 A READING FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL (1 SM 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23) In those days, Saul went down to the desert of Ziph with 3,000 picked men of Israel, to search for David in the desert of Ziph. So David and Abishai went among Saul’s soldiers by night and found Saul lying asleep within the barricade with his spear thrust into the ground at his head and Abner and his men sleeping around him.

Abishai whispered to David, “God has delivered your enemy into your grasp this day. Let me nail him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I will not need a second thrust!” But David said to Abishai, “Do not harm him, for who can lay hands on the Lord’s anointed and remain unpunished?”

So David took the spear and the water jug from their place at Saul’s head, and they got away without anyone seeing or knowing or awakening. All remained asleep, because the Lord had put them into a deep slumber.

Going across to an opposite slope, David stood on a remote hilltop at a great distance from Abner, son of Ner, and the troops. He said, “Here is the king’s spear.

Let an attendant come over to get it. The Lord will reward each man for his justice and faithfulness. Today, though the Lord delivered you into my grasp, I would not harm the Lord’s anointed.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13) R. The Lord is kind and merciful.

Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

R. The Lord is kind and merciful.

He pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills.

He redeems your life from destruction, crowns you with kindness and compassion.

R. The Lord is kind and merciful.

Merciful and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in kindness.

Not according to our sins does he deal with us, nor does he requite us according to our crimes.

R. The Lord is kind and merciful.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children,

Scripture Reflection FATHER CAMPION P. GAVALER, OSB

so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.

R. The Lord is kind and merciful.

‘Everything else follows’

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS (1 COR 15:45-49) Brothers and sisters: It is written, The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam a lifegiving spirit. But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven. As was the earthly one, so also are the earthly, and as is the heavenly one, so also are the heavenly.

Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.

In contrast to first Adam, Jesus begins The passage from Luke’s Gospel concerning the Sermon on the Plain (Lk 6:20- a new creation as the New Adam. Created 49) is the counterpart of the Sermon on in the divine image and likeness, through the Mount in the Gospel according to his obedience, love, forgiveness and generosity, he is like God—merciful, just as Matthew (Mt 5:1-7:27).

The sayings of Jesus which make up his Father is merciful. The good news is the sermon, in their poetic simplicity and that through the power of God’s mercy, in their challenging complexity, have which Jesus has come to proclaim, human become part of the world’s common lan- beings can be liberated from the sorry guage: Love your enemies, do good to mess we have gotten ourselves into.

At the beginning of his ministry in the those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you... Be synagogue at Nazareth, Jesus said that the merciful, just as your Father is merciful. prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled in him: Stop judging and you will not be judged. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proand gifts will be given to you.

The essence of Jesus’ mandates is sim- claim liberty to captives and recovery of ple enough: Be merciful, just as your sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go Father is merciful...be like God. free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to Everything else follows. If we are like the Lord” (Lk 4:19-19).

Those who recogGod, there will be nize that they are love, forgiveness, poor in the deepest and generosity — all Be merciful, just as sense (in captivity, beyond measure. If blind, helplessly one hears these man- your Father is oppressed by evil dates of Jesus in isolation from the merciful...be like God. forces of a fallen world) are blessed entire New because they are Testament, however, one might conclude that they represent an able to accept the gift of liberation from impossible ideal and thereby may be their enslavement.

Freedom from enslavement, however, ignored as impractical. The second reading from Paul’s First Letter to the is not enough. Liberation from slavery Corinthians provides the necessary con- achieves its purpose only if we live text and helps us make sense of Jesus’ according to the freedom of the New Adam, Jesus Christ. “You have been command to be like God. In his Letter to the Corinthians, Paul called to freedom; only do not use your contrasts first man, Adam, with the last freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, Adam, Jesus. First Adam, created in the but through love be servants of one anothdivine image and likeness, was meant to er.” “Stop lying to one another, since you be like God. Through prideful disobedi- have taken off the old man (Adam) with ence, however, Adam rejected his authen- his practices and have put on the new tic human existence as God’s image and man, which is being renewed, for knowllikeness. All humankind as a consequence edge, in the image of its creator” (Gal has inherited, and has added to, Adam’s 5:13 and Col 3:9-10). Because we have condition of alienation from God and been reborn into his image and likeness as from all creation. Humanity, stuck in a New Adam, Jesus can say to us: Be merfalse value-system, is like an animal ciful, just as your Father is merciful...be trapped in quicksand that has lost its free- like God. dom to live as it was meant to live. Part of Benedictine Father Campion P. the tragedy is that humanity has become blind, and believes that its ungodly values Gavaler is a member of the St. Vincent reflect what it means to be human.

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A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 6:27-38) Jesus said to his disciples, “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.

For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. If you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount. But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

“Stop judging and you will not be judged.

Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.

Give, and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap.

For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”

Gospel morals: seeking humanity as it ought to be

By Father Aidan Nichols, OP What is the code of behavior we as Catholics are bound to? What are the principles for living you can draw from Catholicism as distinct from, say, the common sense ones about how to survive that you can work out by looking at how other people manage, in the family or at work or in social life at large?

The Catholic Church, we say, has “authority to teach on faith and morals.” So what are these “morals” we’re bound to live by specifically as Catholic Christians?

One of the more extraordinary results of the withering away of Christian faith and Christian attitudes in the world we live in is that what according to public opinion distinguishes Catholics in matters of morality — no contraception, no divorce, no abortion, no purely secular education for their children — are not in fact distinctively Catholic things at all.

Having a right judgment about these things — sex and the family and education — is just a matter of getting things into perspective simply as a human being.

So, far from being distinctively Catholic things, the Church refers to them as truths of the natural law — what a society whose human heart is sound would accept even if it had never heard of Jesus Christ or the apostles or the pope.

But on these topics our society has broken with an older tradition of civility and left the Catholic Church holding the baby — sometimes, quite literally!

If anyone asks what is distinctive about the Catholic understanding of life, it would be better to put down for the moment that particular baby — literal or metaphorical — and pick up St Luke’s Gospel narration of the Sermon on the Plain. This summary of the ethical teaching of Jesus Christ is clearly not just about how to be an ordinarily decent, goodliving member of natural society.

The Gospel teaching is not of course any less serious, less demanding, than such an ordinary reasonable ethics would be. But it’s so different from our usual attempts to act fair with people, that it sounds really quite wild and zany — indeed, downright foolish. This ethic commands love of people who hate you and work against you, so that you become vulnerable to those who have already shown they can strike and wound you. Surely any society that tried to put this code into practice would more or less collapse overnight!

True. But not because the ethics of Jesus are not meant to be taken literally — they are! The real explanation is that there’s something wrong, something out of joint, with the world. Gospel ethics look impracticable because they are for humanity as it ought to be — humanity in the image of Christ

as the Father intended it. And this is where we come up against the hard fact that Catholic Christianity — Christianity in its fullness — is not primarily a teaching at all.

Primarily it’s a way of salvation, a way of so sharing in the power and freedom of God that we have resources to live by - resources for moral effort — which go back deep into the life of God himself. Because God, in an excess of unreasonable folly, a kind of divine madness, entered the world in the person of his Son, the Poor Man of Nazareth, to make himself vulnerable in the weakness of Jesus Christ, we can begin to live — at least on occasion — with just a touch of the extravagant generosity the Gospel demands from us.

The transformation we call “holiness” comes about when we respond in kind to the reckless, non-calculating, goodness of God in Jesus Christ. Owing to change at that level we can start to be “fools for Christ’s sake.” The Catholic vision of man, the distinctively Catholic picture of morality, is to live with such ridiculous generosity as to be reckoned a fool of the eyes of a fallen world.

This is the imitation of Christ, and since the deeds of Christ are the gestures which point us to what God is like, living with this sort of absurd generosity is the imitation of God as well.

So: Be merciful as your Father is merciful.

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‘Danger, they’re back’ This week in Sacramento two Democratic members of the California Assembly, Patty Berg, D-Eureka, and Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, reintroduced a bill that would make euthanasia legal in the state. Euthanasia is the act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or incurable disease. The legislators describe the bill as “physician-assisted suicide.”

This latest move is another attempt by the pair to advance euthanasia in the legislature. In 2005, their assisted suicide bill, AB 654, garnered little support and was not even brought to a vote on the Assembly floor. Faced with this failed effort at assisted suicide legalization, Berg and Levine resorted to a lastditch parliamentary maneuver — called “gut and amend” — to sustain the issue into 2006. The assisted suicide bill authors took AB 654 and amended the language into AB 651, a bill already in the State Senate.

However, AB 651 failed on a bi-partisan vote before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Groups opposing the assisted suicide bill included the California Catholic Conference, California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, California Disability Alliance, California Medical Association, Hospice Organizations, NAACP, League of United Latin American Citizens, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, California Foundation for Independent Living, and more than 20 state and national disability rights organizations.

Following the 2006 failure to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the California Catholic Conference stated, “Once again historical, cultural, medical and religious arguments coalesced to affirm that Californians in general and California legislators in particular are not now nor have they ever been in favor of discarding the long-standing trust relationship between patients and their physicians.”

The California Catholic bishops said, “The Catholic Church teaches us that we are created in the image of God, that we are stewards — not owners — of the awesome gift of life. The Church also teaches us that true compassion and fidelity to our fellow humans call us to embrace those who are dying — not provide them with the means to end their life.”

Pope Benedict XVI underscored this teaching in comments last month. He warned people “not to fall into the trap” of thinking it is legitimate to help a suffering person die with euthanasia, “masquerading it under the veil of human pity.”

The pope said Catholics must ensure that people who are sick, especially the terminally ill, receive affection, spiritual support and medical care to keep them comfortable. He called on physicians and researchers to do more to develop palliative care for those with incurable illnesses, ensuring them pain relief, loving attention and spiritual care.

Palliative care is the total care of patients who are not responsive to curative treatment. Patients may be treated at home, in the hospital, or in an inpatient hospice care facility. The goal of palliative care is to achieve the highest quality of life possible.

The California Medical Association has stated that every dying person must have the right to pass his or her last days in the most comfort and dignity possible and that legalization of physician-assisted suicide diminishes that right. Groups that advocate for patients or the disabled fear that physicianassisted suicide could become the penalty for terminally ill patients too isolated or too poor to receive appropriate medical treatment, or whose lives may appear too expensive to maintain.

In our healthcare system, euthanasia could become the ultimate cost-control strategy for those patients thought to have little chance of survival or for those whose lives are judged to have little value. Gilbert Meilaender, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and professor of Christian ethics at Indiana’s Valparaiso University, has noted: “Assisted suicide is the opening wedge in the more general argument for our culture to move on to the euthanasia of people whose lives are regarded as being of minimal value.”

The backers of assisted suicide are back, and we need to be concerned about the danger their ideas represent. Let your state representatives know you oppose assisted suicide.

More information is available through a broad coalition called Californians Against Assisted Suicide (www.ca-aas.com) and the California Catholic Conference (www.cacatholic.org).

MEH

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An immoral war When I read Douglas Kmiec’s Feb. 2 article “Time to face the error of Iraq,” I thought of the lyrics to “Galway Bay”: “The strangers came and tried to teach us their ways. They scorned us just for being what we are.”

No, Mr. Kmiec, the justifications for the Iraq war were not more powerful than today’s opponents are willing to conclude or remember. In fact, Pope John Paul II made it abundantly clear in early 2003 that the very concept of “pre-emptive war” fundamentally violates the basic principles underlying the Church’s Just War Theory.

Mr. Kmiec obscures the differences between his views and the Church’s on a literal life-and-death issue.

We devastated a country that had no credible connection to the events of 9/11 while allowing the very infrastructure of terror to re-root itself in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We have weakened nearly to the point of dissolution the institutions and networks of alliances built over 50 years at a time when they were never more important.

We have transformed ourselves in a few short years from being the shining city on the hill, grievously wounded by enemies of all that is decent, to being a self-absolved hyper-power bent solely on preserving our own security and our own way of life, regardless of consequences to the rest of the world.

John Paul II spoke directly, forcefully and repeatedly to President Bush and Prime Minister Blair against this immoral war.

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prison. When the Israeli Defense Force raids the village of a suspected terrorist, ambulances are kept out and the deaths of innocent soar. Palestinians are even prohibited from entering various towns and sections of their own territory. In violation of the Geneva Conventions, the airport in Gaza was deliberately destroyed, further isolating the people.

Catholic San Francisco readers might want to log onto Web sites which provide a fuller picture of this tragic conflict. Jewish Voice for Peace (www.jvp.org) and the Palestinian Web site www.endtheoccupation.org both promote a two-state solution where both Israelis and Palestinians live in freedom and security.

Sister Sheral Marshall, OSF Belmont

Interview disappoints

The pacifists in the Catholic Church are displayed prominently in the Catholic weekly and seem to represent the Church’s position on the war in Iraq and the conflict in Israel.

Unfortunately, pacifism is driving the propaganda against the sound defeat of evil doers who would have make Hitler proud.

Pacifists encourage and invite terrorists to unleash violence on those they perceive to be weak and without conviction. Clearly today’s pacifists have learned nothing from history. I pray God protects us from men of evil and their weapons of hate because the pacifists certainly won’t.

Sandra Mangold Millbrae

On Feb. 4 Archbishop Niederauer was interviewed on San Francisco radio program KCBS “In Depth.” Two important issues discussed were clergy sex abuse and whether pro-abortion Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should be allowed to receive Communion. Many Catholics I have spoken with, and I myself, are extremely disappointed with the Archbishop’s waffling when interviewed on these subjects. He stated that it did not seem to him that “sexual orientation” (code phrase for homosexuality) had anything to do with the clergy abuse cases. Where was Archbishop Niederauer when the John Jay College Research Team documented that 80.9 percent of the victims of clergy abuse were male and between the ages of 11 and 17? The John Jay report was released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Regarding Nancy Pelosi, the Archbishop gets out of this one by stating he had only met Pelosi once and he did not believe he was in a position to say he understood what her stand is. This is incredible.

Again, where has he been? One must assume that Archbishop Niederauer is out of the loop on what is going on in his jurisdiction. Either that, or he is pandering to anti-Catholic forces in his Archdiocese, and the Catholic world as a whole.

Laurette Elsberry Sacramento (Ed. Note: To hear the KCBS-AM radio interview with Archbishop Niederauer in its entirety, readers may access it on-line at www.kcbs.com. Click on “Audio,” then scroll to the “In Depth” program listings. )

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I was appalled by Kent Grealish’s letter (Feb. 2) decrying a pro-Palestinian commentary in the Dec. 22 issue. Though violence on either side is a tragedy, we North Americans have generally been given a onesided view. A strong pro-Israeli lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has had an inordinate and effective influence on the media’s presentation of the conflict. Perhaps this is why Mr. Grealish does not realize that the Israeli government has ignored an international court’s ruling that the wall violates international law.

Perhaps he hasn’t heard that the June 28, 2006 bombing of Gaza’s only electrical power plant after the kidnapping of Israeli Captain Gilad Shalit has caused unbelievable hardship on the 1.4 million residents, leaving two or three hours of water a day, a collapsed sewage system, non-functioning elevators and lack of refrigeration for food.

Of course Israel has the right to protect its citizens from rockets fired from Gaza, but bombing a power plant has no military significance, is against international humanitarian law and can be considered a war crime.

Mr. Grealish seemingly does not understand that once you demolish a family’s home and literally wall-off their path to their ancestral olive groves, they have no means of livelihood.

The Israeli “withdrawal” from Gaza is a farce: 75 checkpoints manned by soldiers and 150 mobile checkpoints have turned Gaza and the West Bank into an open-air

Sorry, Mr. Weigel (Feb. 9), I thank God and Catholic upbringing for a thinking and intelligent person like Nancy Pelosi. Poor Mr. Weigel, pointing fingers at the late Father Robert Drinan, one of the few heroes of the Catholic Church during its criminal silence during the Vietnam War. I wonder about Mr. Weigel’s beliefs and life choices during that period. Since he’s clearly antiDrinan, I would hope he volunteered for Vietnam, or if too young at that time, why is he still writing and not serving as a volunteer for the war in Iraq which he supports.

Frankly, I question any Catholic who from a sanctimonious position sees fit to judge other Catholics. What an ego! And the Iraq war, which we chose, has cost over 3,000 U.S. dead and somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 Iraqi deaths while much of the evidence points to how unjustified this war is.

Where is Mr. Weigel’s right to life movement and its sentiments dealing with this war the Church has declared immoral?

Sorry, Mr Weigel, I lament you are a passive observer of history, and perhaps like Mr. Bush and many in his Administrtation, advocate the right to life movement but conveniently wear blinders during times of war.

I’ll side with the late Father Drinan and applaud Nancy Pelosi in her actions where her Catholic beliefs are clear in shouting out about the injustice of a war Mr. Weigel endorses, all from the safety of his desk.

Peter Mandell San Francisco

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The Catholic Difference Call me skeptical, but I suspect that what my friend Joseph Bottum christened “The Pius War” will never be resolved. Controversy over Pope Pius XII’s role during the Second World War and the Holocaust is too juicy a topic, involving too many interests (and academic reputations), to ever die down. The Pius War may eventually outstrip the Hundred Years’ War in duration.

No serious scholar believes that Eugenio Pacelli, elected pope on Feb. 2, 1939, was an anti-Semite, harshly indifferent to the fate of European Jewry. No serious scholar contests the evidence that Pius XII took direct and indirect measures to save Jews from the Nazi death machine. Visiting Castel Gandolfo this past September, I walked past the places where thousands of persecuted Jews had been hidden on the papal summer estate, and I remembered that Jewish children (some named “Eugenia” or “Eugenio” in honor of their benefactor) had been born in the pope’s bedroom.

Heeding the advice he was receiving from resistance leaders, and after the Nazi roundup of Jewish-born Dutch Christians which followed a sharp critique of Nazi practice by the Dutch bishops – the roundup that began Edith Stein’s journey to Auschwitz, and eventual canonization – Pius XII seems to have concluded that direct public protests from him would endanger both Jews and Catholics.

Even so, his public criticisms of racial persecution, which mirrored the Holy See’s anti-Nazi commentary throughout the 1930s, were understood by both the Nazis and, mirabile dictu, the New York Times, to be directed at Berlin. It is also reasonably well-established that Hitler wanted to kidnap Pius XII,

which rather cuts against the claim that Pacelli was, somehow, pro-Nazi; so does Pius XII’s role as middle-man between Britain and Germans exploring an anti-Hitler coup.

On his death in 1958, Pius XII was praised by Golda Meir, then foreign minister of the State of Israel.

Reasonable people can debate whether Pius’s strategic decision to avoid an explicit, public condemnation of Nazism, precisely for the sake of saving lives, was the correct one. But it takes a certain bias, contradicted by many facts, to conclude this decision was taken on the basis of cowardice. It takes even worse bias to conclude it was taken because of anti-Semitism.

Why, then, the campaign of defamation, which has reached the point where one overhears tourists in St. Peter’s Basilica, spotting the bronze statue of Pius XII erected by his cardinals, whispering, “That’s ‘Hitler’s Pope’?”

Serious scholars have long suspected the origins of that campaign lie in the anti-Catholic machinations of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service. Confirmation of that thesis now comes from General Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former Romanian intelligence officer and the highest-ranking Soviet bloc spymaster ever to defect, in an article posted on National Review Online on Jan. 26.

According to General Pacepa, the Soviets, stung by the public relations bludgeoning they had taken because of the persecution of Catholics in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and elsewhere decided to accelerate the anti-Catholic propaganda offensive they had launched toward the end of World War II by depicting the Church as a bulwark of Nazism.

Pius XII was the primary target because, as the KGB liked to say, “Dead men cannot defend themselves.” So the KGB concocted a scheme whereby its Romanian ally would George Weigel penetrate the Vatican archives, using agents disguised as priests; certain Vatican officials, it seems, took the bait, assured by Romanian operatives that cooperation would lead to official Holy See-Romanian diplomatic relations.

No documents incriminating Pius XII were found, but the plot now shifted. In 1963, a senior Soviet intelligence official told his Romanian colleagues that the centerpiece of the anti-Catholic offensive would now be a play defaming Pius XII, “The Deputy.” Its author, Rolf Hochhuth, was a former Hitler Youth turned communist fellow-traveler; the play was produced by a lifelong communist. The results – for “The Deputy” was the Pearl Harbor of the Pius War – vindicated KGB chairman Yuri Andropov’s conviction that the gullible find smut easier to believe than holiness.

Don’t bet the mortgage money that this new evidence will appear in the New York Times anytime soon.

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Lenten Spirituality

Gearing up for Lent: fasting I’m probably the last person who should write about fasting. Just mention the word and my mind fills with delectable images of chocolate-frosted donuts, candy bars, and potato chips draped luxuriously around a bowl of onion dip. Face it: when it comes to performance ratings in fasting, I’m in the lowest percentile.

In the classic work “Confessions,” Saint Augustine writes about his struggles to control various appetites in his life. Although many of us know of Augustine’s struggle with sexual desires, few realize he also wrestled with his appetite for food. Augustine noticed that while one might give up sexual encounters altogether, it would be impossible to live without food and drink. The problem, he found, was that when he ate what he needed to stay healthy, he soon wanted to eat still more just for pleasure, and then he found himself gradually skipping down the path of over-indulgence. To eat moderately can be more difficult than going to one extreme (trying to starve yourself) or the other (gluttony).

Augustine’s thoughts on food make me think about the place of food in my life, and about the Lenten fasting and abstinence rules for Catholics. Why do we fast? Why do we abstain from meat? What is the spiritual meaning behind these customs?

My questions began one Lenten day several years ago when my husband and I, exhausted after a busy work week, went to a popular seafood restaurant. We went early, hop-

ing to avoid the crowd of Catholics seeking fish on Friday.

When we arrived, the lobby was already jammed. Some were sitting at the bar, sipping wine and looking over menus of lobster, crab legs and other elegant seafood. As we waited, we began to feel uncomfortable. Something was tugging our consciences: Is this the true spirit of Lenten penance, enjoying cocktails and refined dining?

Sixteen centuries ago, Augustine observed a similar phenomenon. Augustine wrote about people of his day who were giving up their ordinary table wine as a Lenten penance. In place of wine, these people were drinking more costly, exotic, rare liquors. Augustine points out the ridiculousness of this practice, noticing that instead of rejoicing at Easter such people would surely be downcast because of having to give up exquisite liquors to return to ordinary wine. Augustine preached that those who gave up wine for Lent ought to replace it with water, the drink of the poor.

Augustine reminded people the point of fasting or abstinence from certain foods is not only to grow in self-control, but also to become more aware of the plight of the poor, who face hunger every day. He taught that what we save by not eating certain foods should be given to the hungry.

Augustine’s words ring true today. The spirit of Lent involves replacing what we “give up” with something better.

What good is giving up television if one becomes addicted instead to computer games or surfing the web? If we give up

television, perhaps we can use the time saved for other good things: reading to our children, praying, visiting lonely people, romancing one’s spouse, getting more sleep or exercise, or volunteering at a homeless Julie McCarty shelter. If we give up candy, we can eat apples instead. If we give up rude, crude or mean-spirited comments, we can focus our communication on listening to others and saying words that heal, encourage or build bridges.

All we do during Lent should be done for a good purpose.

In this spiritual season, we reflect more deeply on Christ, who was willing to die on the cross out of love for us. We seek to become more like Jesus, the Son of God, who cared immensely for the poor, the lonely, the lost and the broken-hearted. In doing so, we prepare for the celebration of Easter joy with genuine love of God and each other. This is the true spirit of Lent.

Julie McCarty is a freelance writer and author of “The Pearl of Great Price: Gospel Wisdom for Christian Marriage” (Liturgical Press, forthcoming July, 2007).

Spirituality for Life

Leave the 99 and seek the one?

Throughout the years that I’ve been writing, I’ve received lots of criticism. Sometimes it’s bitter and meanspirited and I tend, then, not to respond to it, believing that things are furthered by familial conversation, not by a fist fight.

Sometimes, though, the criticism is sincere, thoughtful and genuinely challenging. One such critique has to do with my approach in general: “Why,” people sometimes ask me, “do you write the way you do, invariably with some kind of secular bent? Why don’t you focus more on catechesis, on teaching Church doctrine, on explaining the creeds, on defending the Church’s position on moral issues such as abortion, and on doing apologetics for the Church?”

Fair enough. The Christian community needs these things, particularly today when many Christians, including regular churchgoers, lack clarity about what they are supposed to believe and lack the tools they need to explain and defend their beliefs in the face of an ever-growing number of critics.

So why do I write the way I do? Why, as my critics put it, “the invariable bent toward the secular”?

My answer: Because I am trying to be a missionary

and missionaries have been asked by Jesus himself to leave the 99 and go after the one.

Allow me an image: Midway through his pontificate, John Paul II instituted World Youth Day. When he first proposed this concept, his advisors were skeptical: “Young people aren’t going to come out to see an old man,” they said. But his critics were wrong, and in a huge, huge way. His meetings with youth brought together some of the largest crowds ever assembled. Millions of youth gathered to pray with him.

I was living in Toronto when World Youth Day was held there in 2002. I joined with the nearly one million young people from around the world who gathered to meet with John Paul II. It was a wonderful, graced event.

But, while nearly a million young people came out for that event, 50 million young people didn’t — and not just because they didn’t have the practical or financial means to go to Toronto. For every young person who was excited about that event, there were probably 50 who were indifferent to it or, worse still, turned off by it.

That’s not a commentary on John Paul II, this event, or the Church, but a commentary on the reality and attitude of

the majority, including the majority of baptized Christians today, at least inside our highly secularized culture. Those people who were indifferent to, or turned off by, World Youth Day, are the “strays” who Father Jesus told us to search Ron Rolheiser for lovingly in the desert, even if it means not being able to focus as much as we’d like on the 99 who are being faithful.

Please don’t misunderstand this: Those who are faithful and practice regularly (the million who show up for World Youth Day) need to be nurtured and fed — with doctrine, catechesis, clear teaching, and the apologetic tools they need to explain their faith.

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Lenten Opportunities Feb. 24: “Peacemaking and Immigration Rights” by Pax Christi NorCal, Keynote: Bishop Gabino Zavala Workshop: Father Anthony McGuire – “Concerning Migratio – U.S. & Mexico Bishops” and “Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform”, Workshop Panel: Immigrants’ Plight , 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at St. Catherine of Siena, 1310 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame. Soup lunch.

To pre-register by Feb. 17, send check, $15 individual/$25 couple, to “Bay Area Pax Christi”, 30847 Prestwick Ave., Hayward, CA 94544.At door: $20 individual/$30 couple. No one turned away for lack of funds.

More information? Duncan Buchanan, (510)471-5963.

Feb. 27: Deepen Your Faith Speaker Series continues with Father Mark Wiesner. Challenge yourself and grow in your faith. Join us at 7 p.m. for an engaging speaker, delicious food, and in-depth discussion at St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City. For more information call (650) 3650140 or email Kevin@pius.org.

March 2, 3: St. Boniface is having a play about St. Bernadette March 2, at 7 p.m. and March 3 at 2 p.m. in the parish theater at 175 Golden Gate Ave. in San Francisco. Admission is free. Call (415) 816 5230.

March 3: Looking for a closer relationship with God? Looking for something fresh? Come to the Life in the Spirit seminar at St. Anne’s of the Sunset (14th & Judah in SF). Registration at 9 a.m. Day ends at 1:30 PM and includes a free lunch with plenty of parking in church lot.

Seminar leader and speaker Father Jim Tarantino. For more information call (415) 753.3732 or (650) 906.3451.

Mar. 11: Archdiocesan Choral Festival. Choristers from more than 20 parishes join in glorious song for a concert under the direction of Simon Berry. Free admission. 4:p.m. St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. & Vicente, San Francisco. For more info call (415) 614-5585.

March 23: Singer/composer/liturgist Dan Schutte in concert at 7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church, 671 E. Yosemite Ave, Merced. The following day he will give a Lenten Day of Reflection from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., also at St. Patrick’s Church. Concert Cost: $15/ Advance; $20/ At the Door. Day of Reflection Cost: $40/Advance; $50/At the Door. Both Events: $50 Advance Registration only (by March 20) Group discounts available for 20 or more. The artist is currently composer in residence at the University of San Francisco and the composer of familiar pieces including: Here I Am, Lord, and You are Near. Visit his website at www.danschutte.com. For more information call (209) 3833924, ext 21 or check our website at www.olmstpatrick.org for information and registration form.

St. Stephen Church of San Francisco is offering a Chinese Bible Study group to anyone who is interested in knowing more about Scripture. The group will meet every Thursday, 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. at the O’Reilly Parish Center located at 451 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco. Please contact Veronica Wong at (415) 681-2444 x33 for details.

Come pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Scriptural Rosary, and special intentions before the Blessed Sacrament at the beautiful Monastery of Perpetual Adoration. Saturdays 10:00 to 11:15 am, 771 Ashbury Street at Waller in San Francisco. Some parking available adjacent to the monastery.

Contact Steve at (415) 290-5598.

Saturdays: Prayer meeting at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, at 9:30 a.m. Father James Tarantino, presiding. Hospitality follows. All are welcome. Call Moriah at (415) 756-5505

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San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543;. Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City.

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Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo. Call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650; St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732; Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sister Anne at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (Bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Gabriel. Call Elaine Khalaf at (415) 564-7882.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Ministry to Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame.

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Catholic Schools Week at St. Stephen elementary included Pajama Day, Sports Day, Spirit Day and finally Crazy Day. Enjoying the PJ part of the fun are some of the school’s 3rd graders.

Saturdays: Bible Study at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. All are welcome. Call Moriah (415) 756-5505.

Taize/Chanted Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m.: Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave, Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045 ext. 277 or visit www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, SF, with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.

2nd Fri. at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St. in Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249.

Sundays: Gregorian Chant at the National Shrine of Saint Francis at 12:15 p.m. Mass. Visitors and locals alike are welcome to come and worship at this intimate historical treasure in the heart of North Beach 610 Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue. For more information, please telephone (415) 983-0405.

Food & Fun February 24: Archbishop Riordan High School announces its annual gala “Purple and Gold Hits The High Seas” to be held at the Hyatt Hotel in Burlingame. An evening of fine dining, dancing, live and silent auction with special Guest MC, Bob Sarlatte and honoring the Sanchez-Corea Family. For more information please contact Sharon Udovich, Special Events Director at (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

March 18: 6th Annual Crab Bash Family Dinner benefiting Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Ryan Hall, 40th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets for complete dinner are $35 per person with tables of 8 for $240.Tickets for children 6 – 12 are $10 each. Contact Jackie Alcaraz at (415) 664-8590.

March 24: The Alumnae Council of Mercy High School, San Francisco presents, “Eggstravaganza!”

— Easter fun for children ages 2 - 12, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Mercy’s campus. The event will feature an egg hunt, games, arts and crafts and an appearance by the Easter Bunny! Let us know you’re com-

ing by March 2. Tickets are $5.00 per child and adults are free. Mercy High School is located at 3250 Nineteenth Avenue. For more information, please contact Nilsa Lennig at (415) 334-0525, ext.

228 or nlennig@mercyhs.org.

April 4 – May 1: Going Once, Going Twice …

Going Online! St. Brendan School Kicks off its Fiesta Elegante Online Auction. Visit us at http://www.stbrendanschool.cmarket.com. There’s something for everyone– Fighter Pilot for a Day! The proceeds benefit school educational and sports programs. Want to make a donation? Click “Donate Now” button on our website. Want to become a sponsor? Have your logo and your Web link featured on the home page. This exciting event is only a click away! Contact Michele Pallari at (415) 309 6045.

3rd Sat.: Handicapables gathers for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 585-9085.

California Handicapables needs volunteers including drivers, servers, donors, and recruiters of those who might benefit from the experience. Call Jane Cunningham at (415) 585-9085.

4th Sat.: Handicapables of Marin meet at noon in the recreation room of the Maria B. Freitas Senior Community adjacent to St. Isabella Church, Terra Linda, for Mass, lunch and entertainment. Call (415) 457-7859.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Feb. 24: Training for New Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Offered by the Office of Worship. $15.00 fee. 9am-3:30pm at St. Charles Church, San Carlos. Please pre-register at 415-6145585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

Mar. 24: Training for New Lectors. Offered by the Office of Worship. $15.00 fee. 9am-3:30pm at St. Charles Church, San Carlos. Please pre-register at 415-614-5585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

Lights, Camera, Faith! Who says the movies have nothing to do with your faith? Join us at 7p.m at St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City for a current movie and discussion focused on the 10 Commandments. For more information call (650) 365-0140 or email Kevin@pius.org. February 20: A Time To Kill.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 4532342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: San Mateo - St. Bartholomew, Donna Salinas at (650) 347-0701, ext. 14; St. Matthew, Deacon Jim Shea at (650) 3447622. Burlingame - St. Catherine of Siena, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter at (650) 375-8023.

Millbrae - St. Dunstan, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952. Pacifica - St. Peter, Sylvia Miles at (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci at (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher at (650) 355-4355. Half Moon Bay - Our Lady of the Pillar, Meghan at (650) 726-4337.

Meetings Feb. 26: SF County Council of catholic Women at St. Finn Barr Parish Hall, 415 Edna St. at Hearst in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. Kathleen McCarron of St. Vincent de Paul Society of SF will be the guest speaker. Call Cathy Mibach at (415) 753-0234.

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Story on nuns’ role in Selma marches to air on KQED A one-hour documentary featuring religious Sisters who participated in the 1965 civil rights marches in Selma, Ala., will air on KQED (Channel 9) in the San Francisco Bay Area in February as part of PBS stations’ Black History Month programming.

The documentary, “Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change,” highlights the involvement of Midwestern Sisters who joined the marches. To be shown at 5 p.m. on Feb. 25 and again on Feb. 28 at 8 a.m. and 9 p.m., it features the Sisters of St. Joseph from Rochester, N.Y., based in Selma, who provided housing for visiting protesters and treated marchers at Selma’s Good Samaritan Hospital.

Many are now retired. Independent filmmaker Jayasri Hart, the film’s director and producer, reunited them to share previously unused news footage of themselves and events of 1965. The resulting comments serve as a large part of the film narrative.

One of the group was Sister Mary Antona Ebo, an African-American and a member of the Sisters of St. Mary, now the Franciscan Sisters of Mary. She led the march with five white nuns although police stopped them soon after they had begun.

Father Kenneth Westray of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s African American Ministry remembers first meeting Sister Antona when he was a seminarian. “The seminarians would get together in the summers with the black Sisters and black priests. Once Sister Antona was the leader at my table.”

“What impressed me most,” said the pastor of St. Sebastian Parish in Kentfield, “was here is a woman who walked with Dr. Martin Luther King and who was very much in full habit and still being that witness of social action at a time when it was detrimental to her health – and finding a way in the midst of conflict and division to find joy.”

“Always her spirit was peaceful,” Father Westray added. “Always she had this spirit of ‘Yes, this is going to come about. We do not need to destroy, but we do need to rebuild.’ And she lived that.

She knew, indeed, that God was the source of all that was life for her.”

In a 2004 interview with the St. Louis Review, newspaper of the St. Louis Archdiocese, Sister Antona said she “didn’t walk more than a half a block, but it was a long half-block.”

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Sister Mary Antona Ebo advocates for black voting rights in Selma, Ala., March 10, 1965. A new documentary tells the story of Sisters who answered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to join the Selma protests. Father Kenneth Westray of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s African American Ministry recalled Sister Antona’s strength and peaceful spirit.

Prior to setting out, Sister Antona addressed the marchers who had gathered at Brown Chapel in Selma telling them every citizen has a right to vote and that it was a privilege to march to support that right.

After a long career in health care, Sister Antona is now pastoral associate at St. Nicholas Parish in St. Louis. The octogenarian is a founding member of the National Black Sisters Conference and served as its president.

Hart, who has taught developmental writing and film interpretation at California State University, Los Angeles also located other Selma residents — Catholic and Protestant, white and black — to comment on the Sisters’ involvement.

Stage for the historic drama was set on “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, when Alabama state troopers brutally attacked blacks with nightsticks, whips and tear gas to break up an intended 60-mile voting-rights march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. appealed to religious leaders across the nation to join blacks for a second march on March 10 in defiance of a federal judge’s injunction and amid threats of violence.

Another who participated in the march was Sister Barbara Moore, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Sister Barbara was 27 when she marched in 1965 with a group of church leaders from Kansas City, Mo. Now 69, she lives in St. Louis as a member of her order’s leadership team.

She recalled being “literally eyeball to eyeball with the state troopers. They were in full riot gear — billy clubs, helmets, everything — trying to keep us from progressing as we marched.”

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■ Continued from page 15 haven’t strayed and go after the one who has. Today, however, the default seems to have shifted and it’s perhaps more a case of leaving the one and going after the 99.

And this requires that our teaching and preaching, and our reaching out to the world in general, must contain more than only catechesis, explanations of our creeds, clarity around dogma and morals, and even the repetition (however valid, needed and timeless) of the language of Scripture and the creeds. Those things need to be done, but that is only part of the task. The other part, equally needed and perhaps more difficult, is the task of relating these things (Scripture, the creeds, our dogmas, our moral teaching) to the energy, the color, the endeavors, the longings, the health, the sickness, the virtues, the sin, the beauty, and the pathos of our world.

More and more people feel themselves

thoroughly disconnected from our Church circles and our Church language, and the fault isn’t all theirs. We need missionaries, people like Henri Nouwen, who can stand solidly within the Church and invite the world, with all its desires and grandiosity, to join us, not as adversary but as family.

The language we need to do this isn’t simply out there, in our catechisms and dogmas, to be picked up and deployed.

Much of the language we need has to be created anew by our own generation which, like every generation, needs itself to eat God’s word, digest it, and then enflesh it so that God’s written word becomes a living word, inside our own flesh.

I don’t claim to have accomplished this, nor to be anybody’s expert, but I do know that Christ’s mandate is to reach out to the world and not just to those who are coming to our churches.

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A native of India, Hart is a Hindu and has lived in California for more than 20 years. Her interest in Catholic women stems from experience with Blessed Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India.

Hart said the Sisters who marched in Selma amazed her. She was surprised to find out “how unwilling they are to take credit for what they do.”

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Pope’s Lenten message

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Cross of Christ reveals ‘power of the heavenly Father’s mercy’

Ash Wednesday this year is Feb. 21.

Lent focuses on baptism and the call to conversion Feb. 25 is the first Sunday of Lent. The season begins, however, on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 21 this year, and continues through the afternoon of Holy Thursday, April 5.

The rites of Holy Thursday, usually held in the evening, are the first of the Church’s greatest feast, the Easter Triduum, that also includes Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, this year celebrated April 8.

“When we are baptized it is said that ‘we put on Christ’ and Lent is a time to clean up that baptismal robe so our image is more Christ-like,” said Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“For individuals it’s a time for conversion as Ash Wednesday exhorts us to ‘turn away from sin and back to the Gospel.’ For the Church as a whole it’s a preparation time to celebrate Easter well,” Vallez-Kelly noted. “We’re getting ourselves ready to be renewed in the Easter celebration. Our focus is not only ourselves, but especially on those preparing for baptism. Their conversion is an example for the entire Church.”

The Church teaches that Lent is baptismal and penitential in character with three common forms of penance – alms giving, fasting and prayer, Vallez-Kelly said. “These three also make up the process most of us go through to be converted – to spend time in prayer with the Word, to have an element of self-denial going on and to be more generous to those who need it.”

“Ultimately, our conversion is in God’s hands,” said Vallez-Kelly. “We need to do some of the work but the Holy Spirit is the one who changes our hearts. We have to be content to be patient with ourselves and, I think, even be patient with God. There is a reason we do this every year.

We don’t get perfect, but it turns us in the right direction.”

The date for Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. “That’s why you always see a relatively full moon on Holy Saturday,” Vallez-Kelly said.

LENTEN REGULATIONS Abstinence: Everyone 14 years of age and older is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, the Fridays of Lent and Good Friday.

Fasting: Everyone 18 years of age and older but under the age of 60 is additionally bound to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. On these two days, the law of fast allows one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food during the day, so long as it does not constitute another full meal.

Drinking liquids is permitted.

When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige. In doubt concerning fast or abstinence, a priest assigned to pastoral ministry or confessor should be consulted. In the spirit of penance, the faithful should not lightly excuse themselves from this obligation.

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord will be observed on Monday, March 26, rather than on March 25, which is the fifth Sunday of Lent.

Here is the Vatican text of Pope Benedict XVI’s mes- Son of God to make himself one with us even to the point sage for Lent 2007. Dated Nov. 21, 2006, it was released of suffering as his own the consequences of our offenses?

Feb. 13 by Archbishop Paul Cordes, president of the “HIM WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED” Pontifical Council Cor Unum.

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

Dear brothers and sisters, let us look at Christ pierced “They shall look on him whom they have pierced” (Jn on the cross! He is the unsurpassed revelation of God’s 19:37). This is the biblical theme that this year guides love, a love in which eros and agape, far from being our Lenten reflection. Lent opposed, enlighten each is a favorable time to learn other. On the cross, it is to stay with Mary and ‘May Lent be for every Christian God himself who begs the John, the beloved disciple, love of his creature: He is close to him who on the a renewed experience of God’s thirsty for the love of every cross consummated for all one of us. The apostle humankind the sacrifice of love given to us in Christ, a love Thomas recognized Jesus his life (cf. Jn 19:25). With as “Lord and God” when he a more fervent participaput his hand into the wound tion let us direct our gaze, that each day we, in turn, must of his side. Not surprisingtherefore, in this time of ly, many of the saints found penance and prayer, at “regive” to our neighbor, in the heart of Jesus the Christ crucified who, deepest expression of this dying on Calvary, revealed especially to the one who suffers mystery of love. One could fully for us the love of rightly say that the revelaGod. In the encyclical most and is in need.’ tion of God’s eros toward “Deus Caritas Est,” I dwelt humankind is, in reality, the upon this theme of love supreme expression of his highlighting its two fundamental forms: agape and eros. agape. In all truth, only the love that unites the free gift of oneself with the impassioned desire for reciprocity instills GOD’S LOVE: AGAPE AND EROS a joy, which eases the heaviest of burdens. Jesus said: The term agape, which appears many times in the “When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to New Testament, indicates the self-giving love of one myself” (Jn 12:32). The response the Lord ardently desires who looks exclusively for the good of the other. The of us is above all that we welcome his love and allow ourword eros, on the other hand, denotes the love of one selves to be drawn to him. Accepting his love, however, is who desires to possess what he or she lacks and yearns not enough. We need to respond to such love and devote for union with the beloved. The love with which God ourselves to communicating it to others. Christ “draws me surrounds us is undoubtedly agape. Indeed, can man give to himself” in order to unite himself to me, so that I learn to God some good that he does not already possess? All to love the brothers with his own love. that the human creature is and has is divine gift.

It is the creature, then, who is in need of God in every- BLOOD AND WATER thing. But God’s love is also eros. In the Old Testament, the “They shall look on him whom they have pierced.” Let Creator of the universe manifests toward the people whom us look with trust at the pierced side of Jesus from he has chosen as his own a predilection that transcends which flow “blood and water” (Jn 19:34)! The every human motivation. The prophet Hosea expresses Fathers of the Church considered these elements as this divine passion with daring images such as the symbols of the sacraments of baptism and the love of a man for an adulterous woman (cf. 3:1-3).

Eucharist. Through the water of baptism, For his part, Ezekiel, speaking of God’s relationship thanks to the action of the Holy Spirit, we are with the people of given access to the intimacy of Trinitarian Israel, is not afraid to love. In the Lenten journey, memorial of our use strong and pasbaptism, we are exhorted to come sionate language (cf. out of ourselves in 16:1-22). These biborder to open ourlical texts indicate selves, in trustful that eros is part of God’s very heart: The abandonment, to Almighty awaits the “yes” of his creatures as the merciful a young bridegroom that of his bride. embrace of the Father (cf. St. John Unfortunately, from its very origins, humankind, Chrysostom, Catecheses, 3,14ff). Blood, seduced by the lies of the evil one, rejected God’s love symbol of the love of the Good in the illusion of a self-sufficiency that is impossible Shepherd, flows into us especially in the (cf. Gn 3:1-7). Turning in on himself, Adam withdrew eucharistic mystery: “The Eucharist from that source of life who is God himself, and draws us into Jesus’ act of self-oblation became the first of “those who through fear of death ... we enter into the very dynamic of his were subject to lifelong bondage” (Heb 2:15). God, self-giving” (“Deus Caritas Est,” 13). Let however, did not give up. On the contrary, man’s “no” us live Lent then, as a “eucharistic” time in was the decisive impulse that moved him to manifest which, welcoming the love of Jesus, we his love in all of its redeeming strength. learn to spread it around us with every word and deed. Contemplating “him CROSS REVEALS FULLNESS OF GOD’S LOVE whom they have pierced” moves us in this way to open our hearts to others, It is in the mystery of the cross that the overrecognizing the wounds inflicted upon whelming power of the heavenly Father’s mercy is the dignity of the human person. It revealed in all of its fullness. In order to win back the moves us, in particular, to fight every form of love of his creature, he accepted paying a very high contempt for life and human exploitation and to price: the blood of his only begotten son. Death, alleviate the tragedies of loneliness and abanwhich for the first Adam was an extreme sign of lonedonment of so many people. May Lent be for liness and powerlessness, was thus transformed in the every Christian a renewed experience of God’s supreme act of love and freedom of the new Adam. love given to us in Christ, a love that each day One could very well assert, therefore, together with we, in turn, must “regive” to our neighbor, espeSt. Maximus the Confessor, that Christ “died, if one cially to the one who suffers most and is in need. could say so, divinely, because he died freely” Only in this way will we be able to participate fully (Ambigua, 91, 1956). On the cross, God’s eros for us in the joy of Easter. May Mary, mother of beautiful is made manifest. Eros is indeed — as Pseudolove, guide us in this Lenten journey, a journey of Dionysius expresses it — that force “that does not authentic conversion to the love of Christ. I wish you, allow the lover to remain in himself but moves him to dear brothers and sisters, a fruitful Lenten journey, become one with the beloved” (De divinis nominibus, imparting with affection to all of you a special IV, 13: PG 3, 712). Is there more “mad eros” (N. apostolic blessing.

Cabasilas, Vita in Cristo, 648) than that which led the