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A replica of the World Youth Day cross and icon is carried by boat outside Valletta, Malta. The cross and icon are being carried by young people to parishes throughout Malta in advance of Pope Benedict XVI’s April 17-18 visit. With a long Christian history, the population is largely Catholic. St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island and ministered there.

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St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St. in San Francisco. Later in the day, the traditional St. Patrick’s Day parade will commence at 11:30 a.m., beginning at Second Street and Mission and proceeding to San Francisco Civic Center Plaza. An Irish Festival takes place at Civic Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

MEXICO CITY – The Mexico City Archdiocese responded to a new law in the nation’s capital that permits same-sex marriages with a tersely worded editorial, accusing the local government of pursuing an agenda of radical social changes instead of fixing pressing problems such as rampant insecurity and a crumbling infrastructure. The March 7 editorial, published in the archdiocesan publication, Desde la Fe, accused Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard “of provoking constant social division through his political activism” and depending on the advice of foreign groups for “implementing the legal practice of abortion, homosexual unions and all the other things that they request.” In his Sunday homily, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera told a gathering of lay Catholic family groups, “Let’s not be discouraged by the apparent triumph of evil, of contrary values, of the individualistic vision of the family and a society that fails to support the true needs of households.” The implementation of same-sex marriages in the Mexican capital marked another point of conflict between the archdiocese and the local government, which, over the last three years, also has impleSAME-SEX LAW, page 4

Nigerian archbishop says conflict is economic, cultural, not religious VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Cultural, economic and tribal differences are feeding the bloody conflict between Nigerian farmers and herders that has left hundreds of people dead, an archbishop from the African country said. The violence is not inspired by religious differences, even though the ethnic Berom farmers are Christian and the ethnic Fulani herders are Muslim, Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja told Vatican Radio in a telephone interview March 8. “International media will say that Christians and Muslims are killing each other,” he said. “But this is not the case, because people don’t kill for religion, but for social, economic, tribal and cultural reasons.” Government and human rights organizations have estimated that as many as 500 people were killed March 7 in ethnic strife in the state of Plateau, near the city of Jos. The area divides the mainly Muslim northern Nigeria from the mostly Christian south and was the scene of similar attacks in January.

“The victims are poor people who don’t have anything to do with all this and are not responsible,” Archbishop Onaiyekan said. He said armed Fulani herders had attacked the Berom villages of Ratt and Dogo Nahawa. Soldiers were attempting to hold off further violence there, he said. News reports said many victims were women and children and that people appeared to have been attacked with machetes. Most of the houses were burned down, some with victims inside, the reports said. “The church continues to work towards good relations between Christians and Muslims,” the archbishop said, “and we try to join together to quell the violence and solve concrete political and ethnic problems.” The Nigerian government is weak and not able to contain the groups who are vying for dominance of the territory, Archbishop Onaiyekan said. Weapons are easy to obtain and the presence of mercenaries “ready to fight for a few dollars” makes the situation volatile, he said. “We pray for peace, for good government and that the people understand that the only way to survive is to recognize as brothers all the citizens of this country,” he said.

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Villagers look at bodies of victims of attacks lying in a mass grave in the Dogo Nahawa village, near the capital city of Jos in central Nigeria March 8. Cultural, economic and tribal differences are feeding the bloody conflict between Nigerian farmers and herders that has left hundreds of people dead, Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja said.

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Mike Peterson, retired principal of Junipero Serra High School and his wife, Joey, retired teacher at Notre Dame High School in Belmont, recently had what Mike called “an experience we will not forget” when they lunched with 4,000 Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Just a bit down the road for a family wedding the couple took a side trip to visit five Serra graduates now on their way to Navy commissions at the school. “It’s the most Midshipmen Serra has ever had at the academy at one time,” Mike told me… Madeline Duggan, matriarch of the Duggan’s Serra Mortuary family, celebrated her 90th birthday Feb. 21. Helping her enjoy the day at the Olympic Club were children, Bill and Dan Duggan, their wives, Patricia Byrne-Duggan and Karen Duggan plus Madeline’s grandchildren and her brother, William Healey, a resident of Nazareth House in San Rafael and new centenarian who recently celebrated his 100th birthday….Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco hosted its annual CYO Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner Jan. 23 at St. Emydius Parish in San Francisco. “The Hall of Fame event was an amazing opportunity to thank and honor three individuals for their legacy of leadership and forward thinking which has brought CYO Athletics to its modern day form,” said CYO Athletics Director Courtney Johnson Clendinen.

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Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and former Archbishop of San Francisco, celebrates Mass at Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa March 8.

explaining that those gifts include a distinct spirituality, liturgy and spiritual discipline. But the cardinal also stressed the continued hope and commitment to work toward “full corporate unity” with the worldwide Anglican Communion. He cited the announcement of a third Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission that came after last November’s meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. ARCIC III will focus on the relationship between the local and universal church, and also on women’s ordination, same-sex unions and actively homosexual clergy. The cardinal spoke of the upheaval that the ordination of women has caused within the Anglican Communion. He also outlined the Catholic Church’s repeated warnings of the negative effect that the ordination of women would have on unity. The male priesthood is not “merely praxis,” he explained, but “doctrinal in nature.” He said the male priesthood lies at the heart of the Eucharist and “cannot be relegated to the periphery.” He also described the issues concerning homosexuals that confront Anglicans as “another church dividing issue.” Anglican communities in Australia, United Kingdom, the United States and other countries already have sent requests to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to establish personal ordinariates within the Catholic Church. Archbishop John Hepworth, primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, attended the dinner.

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ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) – About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes in the United States have decided to join the Catholic Church as a group. Meeting in Orlando, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America voted to seek entry into the Catholic Church under the guidelines established by Pope Benedict XVI. The Anglican Church in America is part of the Traditional Anglican Communion, a group of churches which separated from the worldwide Anglican Communion in 1991. The Traditional Anglican Communion claims 400,000 members worldwide. The request means the 100 Anglican Church in America parishes will ask for group reception into the Catholic Church in a “personal ordinariate,” a structure similar to dioceses for former Anglicans who become Catholic. Churches under the personal ordinariate can retain their Anglican character and much of their liturgy and practices – including married priests – while being in communion with the Catholic Church. The Anglican Church in America is the third group of Anglican churches to respond positively to the Vatican’s invitation. The first was the United Kingdom branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion, which comprises about 20 small parishes and which in October began the process of joining the Catholic Church under the apostolic constitution. The second was the Australian branch of Forward in Faith, a traditionalist group which is in communion with mainstream Anglican churches. In February Forward in Faith directed its governing council to take the steps needed for 16 parishes to join the Catholic Church. The United Kingdom branch of Forward in Faith also is considering making a request for an ordinariate. A final decision is not expected before July. Anglican Bishop John Broadhurst estimated that about 200 Anglican parishes will seek to join the Catholic Church if Forward in Faith decides to ask for an ordinariate. The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have established a commission to prepare for the group reception of Anglican parishes. Headed by four bishops working with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the commission is examining issues such as church ownership, the advantages and disadvantages of church sharing and long-term leases of some Anglican parishes.

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Caution urged after study on brain activity by ‘vegetative’ patients WASHINGTON – New evidence of brain activity in patients judged to be in a persistent vegetative state should make physicians and neurologists more cautious in arriving at such judgments in the future, said Edward Furton, a staff ethicist and director of publications at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. He told CNS that recent research shows doctors sometimes “underestimate the consciousness of patients,” who can be “more aware than they are given credit for.” In a study published in February in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers in England and Belgium found that five of 54 patients in states of persistent unconsciousness showed distinct patterns of brain activity on a brain imaging machine in response to questions that required a “yes” or “no” answer. Four of the responsive patients studied had been diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, while the fifth had been considered minimally conscious. The other 49 patients in the study showed no signs of conscious brain activity. “These results show a small proportion of patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state have brain activation reflecting some awareness and cognition,” the study concluded. “Careful clinical examination will result in reclassification of the state of consciousness in

Same-sex law . . . ■ Continued from cover mented laws that decriminalized abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and liberalized euthanasia rules. Political observers say relations between the archdiocese and the city government were previously amicable, but deteriorated after the July 2006 presidential elections, when

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some of these patients.” The researchers said the technique used in the study “may be useful in establishing basic communication with patients who appear to be unresponsive.”

US bishops pledge to help rebuild Church institutions in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS) – Walking around the massive tent city at the Petionville Club earlier this month, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio wondered what will become of the thousands of Haitians left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake. For Archbishop Gomez, the enormity of the tragedy was almost too much to comprehend. “The (Haitian bishops) were telling me today that they think 300,000 are dead, but whatever the number the loss of life was huge,” said Archbishop Gomez, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America. The archbishop was in Haiti leading a three-day tour of the earthquake-damaged Haitian capital as part of an advisory group from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, seeking ways to help the Haitian church and the people of Haiti move forward after the quake. “Besides (damage to) the structure of the whole archdiocese, losing the archbishop and the cathedral has created a vacuum and emptiness that (the bishops) are trying to fill with all of us in rebuilding the church,” he said at the conclusion of two intensive days of visits to damaged parishes, convents, seminaries, schools and hospitals.

English, Welsh bishops criticize big government in new document LONDON – The bishops of England and Wales have criticized the British government’s growth, saying that it was undermining the ability of people to live upstanding lives. In a 10-page document published March 3 called, “Choosing the Common Good,” the bishops said local communities would prosper if the public recovered the cardinal virtues of prudence, Church officials rejected allegations of vote rigging and fraud by former Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The law permitting same-sex marriage took effect March 4. It changes the definition of marriage from “the union of a man and a woman” to “the free union of two persons,” regardless of gender. It also allows homosexual couples to adopt children. The law replaces a 2007 measure that allowed for same-sex civil unions. The Mexico City Civil Registry reported March 5 that 23 same-sex couples had applied for marriage licenses. Other Mexican states have shown less enthusiasm for

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March and April bring spring Musicals to high school stage By Valerie Schmalz From the upbeat to the ironic to the soul-searchingly sad, Catholic high school drama companies in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are stretching their acting chops. Archdiocesan boys’ school Junipero Serra High School of San Mateo once again teams up with the two San Mateo girls’ Catholic high schools, Notre Dame Belmont and Mercy Burlingame in a TriSchool Production. This season the show is The Who’s “Tommy.” “This is going to be an intense show,” said Jon Hayward, Serra ’07, who is back on campus as the show’s technical director. “Everything is set to rock music and we had to build lots of flashy sets. It was challenging but we have really pulled it off.” Meanwhile Marin Catholic High School goes for another classic beloved by the baby boomer generation, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco will stage “Little Shop of Horrors.” Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall schools revive the classic “The Music Man,” the 1957 Broadway musical comedy which brought the phrase, “There’s trouble right here in River City,” into the American lexicon. The story, about a con man who has a change of heart because of the love of Marian the librarian, “is a show which

Tim Green, ’10 as Seymour; Danielle Briseno,’12, as Audrey in Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep’s “Little Shop of Horrors.”

leaves you smiling,” says director Pamela Rickard. Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton showcases Ray Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles” and The Priory School, also on the Peninsula, goes for a spoof of corporations with “Urinetown, the Musical,” which comedically explores what could happen in an extreme water shortage. San Domenico School in San Anselmo is performing “City of Angels,”

The cast of Marin Catholic’s “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” From left, Suzanne Vieira, Sarah Gamblin, Kate Walera, Sandra Colindres and David Purcell.

a detective story and musical comedy that won the 1989 Tony for Best Musical. Coming in April, St. Ignatius College Preparatory’s “Cabaret,” Archbishop Riordan High School’s “West Side Story,” and Mercy San Francisco’s “The Wave.” (More on April shows in a later issue of Catholic San Francisco). The plot of Tri-School’s “Tommy” revolves around a little boy, Tommy, who witnesses a murder during World War II. Due

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Spring musicals . . . â&#x2013; Continued from page 6 Marin Catholicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re A Good Man,â&#x20AC;? canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but make you laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cast brings to life all your favorite characters from the Peanuts comic strip and their timeless humor shines as they explore lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mysteries, from the definition of happiness to unrequited love at lunchtime,â&#x20AC;? says director Robyn Menzel. Sacred Heart Cathedral Prepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Shop of Horrors,â&#x20AC;? stars Tim Green, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;10, as Seymour, a lonely orphaned adult, working in Mushnikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flower Shop, where he stumbles upon a rare genus of plant. His co-star is sophomore Danielle Briseno, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In order to impress his co-worker Audrey, he cares and feeds for the plant, until it grows to an impressive draw for the Flower Shop,â&#x20AC;? says director Francine Torres-Kelly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soon, fame and fortune come knocking at the door, and Seymour must keep the plant alive via human flesh. Seymour is faced with the dilemma of the monstrosity of fame, of love, of loneliness, and good versus evil.â&#x20AC;? At The Priory School, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Urinetown, the Musical,â&#x20AC;? is family-friendly comedy, says director John Sugden. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spoofing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fiddler,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;West Side Story,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and other Broadway classics, it is social justice wrapped in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fall-off-your-seatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; funny,â&#x20AC;? Sugden said.

Sophomore Madeleine Kelly, left, and senior Jessica Peterson in Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Music Man.â&#x20AC;?

Senior Jon Nowasowski, center, as the title character in Tri-Schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tommy.â&#x20AC;?

San Domenico School, an all-girls high school in San Anselmo, will showcase â&#x20AC;&#x153;City of Angels.â&#x20AC;? Set in Hollywood during the late 1940â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, it weaves together two stories. There is a New York writer of detective novels, who has been summoned to Los Angeles to turn his book into a movie. Presented at the same time is the movie version he is writing, complete with private eyes, femme fatales, and mobsters. To further illustrate these two worlds, all of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;reelâ&#x20AC;? characters appear on stage in black and white and shades of grey, and in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;realâ&#x20AC;? world, everyone appears in Technicolor.

MARCH MUSICALS Production: City of Angels High School: San Domenico School, 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo Location: Dominican Hall When: March 18, 19, and 20, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $12 adults and $7 students/seniors Info: sandomenico.org, (415) 258-1989. Story: The musical comedy weaves together two plots, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;realâ&#x20AC;? world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;reelâ&#x20AC;? world of the fictional film. Production: Little Shop of Horrors High School: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Location: De Paul Little Theater, 1100 Ellis St., San Francisco When: March 18, 19, 20, 24, 25 and 26, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $7 students/seniors, $12 adults Info: shcp.edu Story: Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless floral shop worker, Seymour Krelborne, who raises a plant that secretly feeds on human blood. Production: The Martian Chronicles High School: Sacred Heart Preparatory Location: 50 Emilie Ave., Atherton, 94027 When: March 4, 5, 6, 12,13, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10 adults and $8 students/seniors. Info: Shschools.org Story: The play, an adaptation based on the Ray Bradbury work, is about American colonization MARCH MUSICALS, page 9 of Mars and the interplay between two worlds.

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APRIL MUSICALS Production: Cabaret High School: St. Ignatius College Preparatory Location: Bannan Theatre, 2001 37th Ave., San Francisco When: April: 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, May 1, 7 p.m. Tickets: $10 Info: siprep.org Story: Set in 1931 Berlin on the eve of the Nazis' rise to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the young English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. Production: The Wave High School: Mercy San Francisco Location: Mercy Theatre, 3250 19th Ave. When: April 16, 7:30 p.m. Red Carpet; April 17, 23, 24, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: Red Carpet, $16; $10 adults, $8 students Info: mercyhs.org Story: A new musical written by Ron Jones, grandfather of Breanna McNeil, Class of 2009. Production: West Side Story High School: Archbishop Riordan High School Location: Lindland Theatre, Riordan, 175 Phelan Ave., across from City College When: April 16,17, 23, 24, 8 p.m.; April 25, 2 p.m. Tickets: $10 adults, $4 children, $7 students/seniors. Info: riordanhs.org, (415) 587-5866 Story: A timeless and tragic classic, filled with violence, hatred and forbidden love, told through spirited song and dance.

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Views in the news Denver Archbishop: JFK’s 1960 speech damaged believers’ role in public life By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – Although John F. Kennedy’s famous speech in Houston nearly 50 years ago could be seen as “a passionate appeal for tolerance,” the candidate’s remarks about how his Catholicism would affect his presidency “profoundly undermined the place ... of all religious believers in America’s public life,” said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver. “His speech left a lasting mark on American politics. It was sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong,” the archbishop said in a March 1 talk at Houston Baptist University on “The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life.” Speaking to the Greater Houston Ministerial Alliance on Sept. 12, 1960, less than two months before his election as the first Catholic U.S. president, Kennedy said that if his duties as president should “ever require me to violate my conscience or violate the national interest, I would resign the office.” He also said he would not “disavow my views or my church in order to win this election.” “But in its effect, the Houston speech did exactly that,” Archbishop Chaput said. “It began the project of walling religion away from the process of governance in a new and aggressive way. It also divided a person’s private beliefs from his or her public duties.” He said Kennedy’s talk led to a situation today when there are “more Catholics in national public office than ever before” but at the same time fewer who could “coherently explain how their faith informs their work, or who even feel obligated to try.” “Too many Catholics confuse their personal opinions with a real Christian conscience,” the archbishop said. “Too many live their lives as if it were a private idiosyncrasy – the kind that they’ll never allow to become a public nuisance. And too many just don’t really believe. “Maybe it’s different in Protestant circles,” he added. “But I hope you’ll forgive me if I say, ‘I doubt it.’” Moving to the question of what “a proper Christian approach to politics” would be, Archbishop Chaput outlined the skills needed by “the Christian citizen”: “a zeal for Jesus Christ and his church; a conscience formed in humility and rooted in Scripture and the believing community; the prudence to see which issues in public life are vital and foundational to human dignity, and which ones are not; and the courage to work for what’s right.” Among the “urgent issues that demand our attention as believers” he listed “abortion; immigration; our obligations to the poor, the elderly and the disabled; questions of war and peace; our national confusion about sexual identity and human nature, and the attacks on marriage and family life that flow from that confusion; the growing disconnection of our science and technology from real moral reflection; the erosion of freedom of conscience in our national health care debates; (and) the content and quality of the schools that form our children.” He called abortion “the foundational human rights issue of our lifetime” and said, “We need to do everything we can to support women in their pregnancies and to end the legal killing of unborn children.” The Denver archbishop called on all Christians to unite in “renewing the nation that has served human freedom so well.” “The vocation of Christians in American public life does not have a Baptist or Catholic or Greek Orthodox or any other brand-specific label,” he said. In a second speech during his Houston visit, Archbishop Chaput urged Catholic health care professionals gathered at the University of St. Thomas to rededicate themselves “to being truly Christian and deeply Catholic” in their work. “We need to ask ourselves how ‘Catholic’ we really want to be,” he said in the March 2 address. “If the answer is ‘pretty much’ or ‘sort of’ or ‘on my own terms’ – then we need to stop fooling ourselves.” “If you’re a doctor or ethicist or hospital administrator or system executive working in Catholic health care, and in good conscience you cannot support Catholic teaching or cannot apply it with an honest will, then you need to follow your conscience,” the archbishop said. “It may be time to ask whether a different place to live your vocation, outside Catholic health care, is also a more honest place for your personal convictions. “What really can’t work is staying within Catholic health care and not respecting its religious and moral principles with all your skill, and all your heart,” he added. He said the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services” offer “practical, real-world guidance for your daily work.” Archbishop Chaput criticized what he called “a national pattern” of efforts by various state and local governments “to press Catholic hospitals, clinics and other social service institutions into violating their religious principles.” “In a nation built largely by people of faith, with a long history of religious liberty, this is a battle Catholics should never have been forced to fight,” he said. “What kind of society would need to coerce religious believers into doing things that undermine their religious convictions – especially when those same believers provide vital services to the public?”

Nuclear deterrent needed? Regarding the front page story, “Archbishop says humanity must build a future ‘free of nuclear threat’” (CSF Feb. 12), where have Archbishop O’Brien and his fellow conferees been living for the past 65 years? However many thousands died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was nothing compared to the millions – Japanese and members of the Allied forces – who would have died if the Allies had needed to invade Japan to end the war. One need only look at Iwo Jima and Okinawa to have an idea what a colossal bloodbath would have taken place in that event. Also, if the Western allied powers did not have the nuclear deterrent, can anyone doubt that the Soviets would have overrun all of Europe as they did Eastern Europe? Father Wojtyla would undoubtedly have ended up hauling logs in a Siberian labor camp instead of in serving as the successor to St. Peter. Had we not maintained our nuclear superiority during the Cold War years, can anyone doubt that the Soviets would have used the weapons they developed for world domination? Non-combatant immunity is a lovely concept which has been strikingly absent from wars for as long as there have been wars and their historians. Does anyone truly believe that if we discarded all our nuclear weapons the Iranians and the North Koreans would discard theirs? Malcolm Post San Francisco

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I want to tell you how pleased I was to see the article “Archbishop says humanity must build a future free of nuclear threat” in the Feb. 12 issue of Catholic San Francisco. It presented the Church’s teaching in a nutshell. It would be good for Catholics to read and understand Church teaching on this issue. Thank you! Sister Dolores Barling, SNJM Daly City Editor’s note: See the Feb. 12 story online at www.catholic-sf.org and click on Digital Paper or Faith Focus - Church Teaching.

Protecting our children Lent is a good time to take pause and directly face temptations and evil around

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us. One of the most obvious is what is blaring at our children. How many of us own Play Station, X-Box or a Nintendo Wii? Have you seen the kinds of games that have been selling for these systems? If you haven’t, you may have seen the commercials on air in T.V. Their content is blatantly evil and hellish. The titles tell the story, i.e. “Dante’s Inferno,” “Assassin’s Creed,” “Shadow Hearts,” “Nocturne,” “Devil Summoner,” and, you guessed it, “Guitar Hero.” These games can affect the mind and conscience eventually leading to the destruction of the soul. The real battle is to educate our children, families and friends on how evil these games really are. The devil is in the details, and the details are the loss of our immortal souls. Virginia Enrico South San Francisco

Lenten series’ appreciation Thank you for the two mentions in the Feb. 12 issue of Catholic San Francisco regarding our Lenten series at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral with Don Carroll. You not only gave a wonderful summary in Datebook, but added a mention in the page 2 “On the Street Where You Live” column. Much appreciated. Dennis McQuaid President St. Thomas More Society

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I am a poet and critic, and review poetry for an online ‘zine. As the “Year for Priests” continues, I thought your readers might enjoy the attached piece about Jesuit Father Charles Gagan, pastor at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and well-known for his fundraising skills and fine homilies. I was baptized at St. Ignatius in 1995, and am active in the parish. It was a very special gift to observe Father Gagan unnoticed, at a quiet time, and to be able to store and be nourished by that observation. He has seen the poem below, which is included in my book, “The Generosity of Stars,” from Finishingline Press. GRACE AT SAINT IGNATIUS One May afternoon during my mother’s last illness Ignatian tears coursed down my cheeks for so long that our beloved assistant sacristan a young refugee from Albania became frightened and insisted on assurance I was not falling apart. Then you in the shadows one still July morning, your face lit by trust in the God you conversed with. Six months later your image in those tender shadows came to me unbidden as I said goodbye in a graveyard and was saved by your grace. Barbara Berman

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SPORTS The Catholic way of sports: fighting for the faith, fighting to win

“Give thanks to God for the gift of sport, in which the human person exercises his body, intellect and will, recognizing these abilities as so many gifts of his Creator.” – Pope John Paul II

St. Ignatius College Preparatory senior and St. Stephen parishioner Eilise O’Connor, with Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep’s Tomisha “TJ” Miller defending.

Vancouver 2010: Marin-bred ski racer Ani Sarebrakian’s Olympic moment By John Wildermuth

It wasn’t until the tens of thousands of photo flashes began to fire as Novato’s Ani Serebrakian marched into Vancouver’s jammed-to-the-rafters BC Place Stadium that it finally hit her: she was actually in the Olympics. The 21-year-old Marin Catholic graduate had been in British Columbia since early February, training with her teammates from the Armenian squad and a couple of hundred other ski racers from around the world. But those four brief minutes of walking around the track, waving to the cheering crowd and hearing the stadium announcer read the roll call of the 82 participating nations packed an emotional punch Serebrakian never expected. “It was just surreal to be there,” Serebrakian said in a VANCOUVER 2010, page SP8

From the beginning, athletics and sports have been intertwined with Catholic culture and thought. Think of St. Paul’s letters, or former Polish high school soccer goalie Karol Wojtyla’s – Pope John Paul II’s – 2000 homily on sports. In archdiocesan Catholic high schools, the intersection of faith and sports continues through such scholar-athletes as Matthew Seramin. Seramin, who will attend UC Davis on a golf scholarship, is part of a Marin Catholic High School golf team that has swept the competition for the past three years. A leader on the school’s senior retreat, called Kairos, Seramin says the golf team goes to Mass together before matches and prays as a group. “Besides that,” the senior said, “we’re all respectful” of each other and of their opponents. The archdiocesan high schools Marin Catholic in Kentfield and Archbishop Marin Catholic’s Seramin: Riordan in San Francisco team leader, retreat leader require 100 communityservice hours for a student to play sports or participate in any other extracurricular activities. Seramin completed his hours by visiting Guatemala as part of a mission project from his parish of St. Rita, joining parishioners on the trip to El Sitio, Patzun and Atitlan, and then helping organize a school drive to collect donations of THE CATHOLIC WAY OF SPORTS, page SP6

Ani Serebrakian, who was a tennis champion at Marin Catholic, raced for the Armenian team at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

INSIDE CSF’S SPORTS SECTION SHCP’s Arbulu: “The ice is like a second home”

SI’s Stricherz: ICA:

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Interscholastic sports leagues West Catholic Athletic League: www.wcalsports.org/ Archdiocese of San Francisco Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco – boys Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo – boys Notre Dame-Belmont – girls Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, SF – co-ed St. Ignatius College Preparatory, SF – co-ed Diocese of San Jose Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose – co-ed Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose – boys Presentation High School, San Jose – girls St. Francis High School, Mountain View – co-ed Valley Christian High School, San Jose – co-ed Marin County Athletic League: http://www.mcalsports.org Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield – co-ed West Bay Athletic League: www.wbalsports.org Immaculate Conception Academy, SF – girls Mercy Burlingame – girls Mercy San Francisco – girls Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton – co-ed The Priory School, Portola Valley – co-ed Bay Counties League West: www.bacbcl.org. Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco – boys Convent of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco – girls San Domenico Upper School, San Anselmo – girls

Editor’s note We hope you enjoy this special sports section, a first in the 11-year-history of Catholic San Francisco. Our goal is two-fold: to celebrate athletics as a source of evangelization and faith formation, and to highlight team and individual efforts during each interscholastic sports season. We welcome your feedback and contributions. Maury Healy, CSF editor. healym@sfarchdiocese.org Rick DelVecchio, CSF assistant editor, section editor. delvecchior@sfarchdiocese.org Valerie Schmalz, reporter, valerie.schmalz@sbcglobal.net Joe Pena, advertising director. penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

The story behind the cover photo: Eilise O’Connor St. Ignatius College Preparatory senior Eilise O’Connor was named West Catholic Athletic League girls’ basketball Player of the Year. A graduate of St. Stephen School in San Francisco, the 17-year-old played in all 24 WCAL games, averaging almost 16 points a game. The WCAL Player of the Year is chosen by a vote of the coaches. O’Connor, a 5-foot-8 point guard, has committed to play for the University of Missouri-Kansas City on a basketball scholarship this fall. She was the school’s top pick. O’Connor, her brother and her parents attend 8 a.m. Mass each Sunday at St. Stephen Parish.

Spring preview: Watch SHCP’s Parrish, MC’s Murphy

Mercy Burlingame’s Ariana Wassmer

Riordan’s Francisco Mendoza

Riordan’s Anthony Trainor

Mercy SF’s Michelle Dizon

Mercy SF’s Kassandra Pintor

SHCP’s Marcus Vizcarra

Marin Catholic’s Mathew Reinders

Riordan’s Napoleon Alarcon

By Valerie Schmalz Two of the athletes to watch as the West Catholic Athletic League starts its spring season are football players turned track and field competitors. Doug Parrish, who plans to eventually be a sportscaster and who will major in journalism on a football scholarship at San Jose State University next year, is trying track for the first time as a Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory senior. Meanwhile, Aaron Criswell, whose injuries sidelined him from football for part of his high school career, came back to play and credits his recovery to hard work and cross training in track and field at Archbishop Riordan High School. Individual athletes and teams in swimming, tennis, golf and track and field, are as big a story as baseball and softball contests in the spring sports season this year. While everyone has favorites in each sport, the start of the season is a clean slate, says West Catholic Athletic League Commissioner Ed Ravenscroft. The WCAL is one of the toughest leagues in California – and there are no sure things, Ravenscroft said. “It goes in cycles. You get a group of kids, then they graduate,” Ravenscroft said. “I can’t predict who is going to win what. It changes year by year.” There are three sports seasons for the Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In the spring, the main sports are boys’ baseball, girls’ softball, boys and girls swimming, boys and girls track and field, boys’ tennis, boys’ volleyball, and boys’ lacrosse. Junipero Serra High School is the one to beat when it comes to WCAL baseball among the schools in the archdiocese but two San Jose schools, Archbishop Mitty and St. Francis High Schools, also traditionally field powerhouse baseball teams, Catholic high school coaches said. In December, Serra High hired five new baseball coaches, including Serra alum Ray McDonald, ’82, formerly of the Toronto Blue Jays organization, to assist baseball coach Craig Gianinno. Marin Catholic High School is gearing up for a winning golf season as its four top seniors tee off in the Marin County Athletic League. Marin Catholic does not play in the WCAL, but competes against mostly public schools in its area. Matthew Seramin is signed for a golf scholarship at University of California Davis, Mathew Reinders is signed at the University of Colorado, and the other two seniors are focused on college golf opportunities as well, said golf coach Tim Navone. “We went undefeated last year. We lost one match the year

before and we went undefeated the year before,” said Seramin. “We want to go out strong as seniors.” Meanwhile, Kathryn Murphy, already set with a swimming scholarship to the University of California Los Angeles and the experience of the 2008 Olympic Trials behind her, is as close as possible to a sure thing for Marin Catholic in swimming competitions. At St. Ignatius College Preparatory, the 65-person girls’ swim team should have a strong showing this year, SI assistant athletic director John Mulkerrins said. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s men’s varsity volleyball team is mostly sophomores and juniors but Coach Nga Tran says she expects the team to make it into the sectional playoffs and to stay strong in the WCAL. Usually six of the seven WCAL men’s volleyball teams go on to play at a higher level because of the strength of the sport in the West Catholic Athletic League, she said. Accumulated points in all games, including tournaments, determine playoff status, Tran said. “They are a relatively young team but based on what they were able to accomplish last year they are going to be competitive for the upcoming season,” Tran predicted. At Mercy Burlingame, Athletic Director Meave Fallon Ward, herself a member of the winning 1989-90 varsity basketball team, says the girls’ Catholic school hopes to continue its strength in swimming and track and field, and will maintain its long time rivalry with sister school Mercy San Francisco in softball. Track and field looks good too, she said. “Our track team is a three-time defending league champion,” in the West Bay Athletic League, with a numerically strong team, giving Mercy-Burlingame an advantage in shot put, triple jump, sprinting and distance, Fallon Ward said. SHCP and SI both also expect to be competitive in track and field in the WCAL, and Riordan is pinning its hopes on several standouts. In addition to Criswell, Riordan Athletic Director Ron Isola mentions Francisco Mendoza for shot and disc, Ben Beeler on distance, and Anthony Trainor in sprints. In WCAL tennis, alto saxophone player Napoleon Alarcon is in the middle of his fourth year as a varsity tennis player, and golfer Ned Jensen is expected to do well, Isola said. “We’ve done very well in track over the years,” said Isola, consistently getting kids to the next level: the Central Coast Section and state meets. “Riordan’s got some outstanding guys;it will be a matter of whether we can get enough depth to win SPRING PREVIEW, page SP4

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Anthony (Big Bulu) Local athletes sign college letters of intent Marin Catholic’s Murphy to Arbulu, SHCP ’10 By Joe Carey ’10 and Danielle Garcia ’10 Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Fightin’ Irish Sports Media Club Anthony Arbulu plays left wing for the California Cougars ice hockey club and had a breakout season in 2008-09, with 45 goals and 23 assists for a total of 68 points. This season, Arbulu has tallied seven goals and 17 assists in 14 games to date (at press time). As a student-athlete, he is constantly balancing his schoolwork Anthony Arbulu with his hockey career, waking up at 5 a.m. every morning to practice before school at Ice Chalet in San Mateo, with team practices occurring twice a week with a game on the weekend. Arbulu has a month to go in this year’s season and is looking forward to a chance to play at the college level.

Athlete interview Q: What interested you in hockey? A: My mom grew up on the East Coast where hockey is a very large sport. Once I stepped on the ice, I instantly fell in love with it. Q: How old were you when you started playing hockey? A: I was 5 when I learned to skate and I got private lessons from my teacher, Ms. Sandra. I first played for the Belmont Bobcats when I was 6 and I currently play for the 18-and-under California Cougars team. I have won two state championships in my career. Q: What colleges are currently recruiting you? A: I have received interest from the University of Connecticut, a number of schools in the SUNY (State University of New York) system, University of Nebraska, New York University, San Diego State and Long Beach State. My options are currently wide open as I discuss my college plans with my parents. Q: What are your plans after high school? A: I want to get drafted by the USHL (United States Hockey League), which is the minor league for the NHL (National Hockey League). I would like to go to Canada to play majors. I am interested in playing college hockey to continue my education and then eventually play major juniors in the USHL or NAHL. Q: What do you like about hockey? A: I like hockey because it relieves stress and it’s the only thing on my mind when I am on the ice. The ice is like a second home for me. I also love the constant fast pace of play and the hitting. Q: What has been your favorite moment in your hockey career? A: When I was 6, I got to play at halftime of a San Jose Sharks game at the Shark Tank. It was exciting to be so young and have the opportunity to play in an NHL arena. Q: What are your goals for this season? What are your strengths and what are you looking to improve on? A: I would like to win a state championship in my last season of club hockey. I am very strong at my speed on the ice and my shot. I am looking to improve on my acceleration. Q: Do you think Sacred Heart Cathedral should start up a hockey program? A: Yes, definitely. Junipero Serra and Archbishop Mitty have hockey teams as well and I think that SHCP should follow their lead and start up this program. I think that hockey should gain more popularity on the West Coast, especially in California.

UCLA, SI’s Leung to UC Davis

UCLA signed Marin Catholic High School’s Kathyrn Murphy to a swimming scholarship and UC Davis signed St. Ignatius College Preparatory’s Megan Leung. Murphy, of Novato, was a 2008 Olympic Trials qualifier in the 50 meter freestyle. In 2008, she won both the 50 and 100 free crowns at the California North Coast Kathyrn Murphy Sectional. Murphy has won the Marin County Athletic League 50 and 100 free titles the past three years and holds league records in both events. She was named the Marin County Swimmer of the Year in 2008. Leung, a senior at SI, was a three-time All-American in the 100 butterfly. She helped lead her team to a seventhplace finish at the Central Coast Section Championships in 2009 after finishing fourth in 2007 and 2008. Leung is also a four-year member of the California Scholarship Federation. In addition, these SI student athletes have signed letters of intent: Rosyln Pontius, soccer, Washington State; Nick Alimam, lacrosse, Kenyon College; Time Amick-Alexis, track, UC Irvine; Brett Cde Baca, football, Trinity College; Olivia Corwin, crew, UC Berkeley; Rob Emery, lacrosse, University of Virginia; Laura Garcia, soccer, San Jose State; Megan Leung, swimming, UC Davis; Eilise O’Connor, basketball, University of Missouri Kansas City ; Dan O’Leary, soccer, USF; Giancarlo Sangiacomo, lacrosse, Providence College; Dylan Smith, golf, USF.

SHCP’s Parrish to San Jose State Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory senior Doug Parrish signed a letter of intent to continue his football career with the Spartans of San Jose State University in the fall. Doug Parrish “Doug Parrish has been an integral part of the Fighting Irish football program for four years and has worked very hard to get to this point. The

entire coaching staff is excited and very proud of Doug and knows he will succeed at SJSU and represent the Irish with the utmost pride,” Irish coach John Lee said. In his final season in an Irish uniform Parrish was named to 1st Team All-WCAL as well as Team Defensive MVP.

Serra’s Harvey to UC Santa Barbara, Pritchett to Santa Clara, Smith to Northwestern Three Padres signed national letters of intent with prestigious universities on Feb. 3, Junipero Serra High School announced. Track star Nate Harvey signed with UC Santa Barbara, water polo player Matthew Pritchett with Santa Clara University and football player Adonis Smith signed with Northwestern University. “Gentlemen, you are to be commended,” Athletic Director Kevin Donahue said. “Not too many students sign letters of intent. You have a true gift. Today is more than a celebration of athletes – it's also a celebration of the families who have made a commitment to their sons.”

Serra’s Nichols to UC Davis The signings of three classmates followed the news that Serra pitcher Matt Nichols signed to play baseball with UC Davis. Nichols also excels academically and is a member of the National Honor Society. “It was a big surprise and I’m very grateful,” Nichols said. He Matt Nichols compiled a 6-1 record for the Padres during his junior year with a 3.23 ERA. He had 36 strikeouts in 39 innings. Last year, the Padres won the WCAL and the CCS Championships. “Matt leads by example and is a model of what we look for in a student athlete,” Serra head baseball coach Craig Gianinno said. Matt will study exercise biology and hopes to become a strength and conditioning coach or an athletic trainer. He was surprised last spring during a college visit when he was offered the scholarship by UC officials. – Valerie Schmalz

SHCP’s Olympian Rowbury forms track club for Bay Area athletes U.S. Olympian Shannon Rowbury, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, ’02, is joining with other Bay Area elite track and field athletes to form the Bay Area Track Club. The group has two main goals: to provide support for Olympic athletes and emerging elites with the 2012 Olympics as their biggest goal, and to promote running, health, and fitness in the community. “The idea of a post-collegiate group in the Bay Area is something I and many other local elite runners have dreamed of for a long time,” Rowbury said. “More importantly, though, having grown up in the Bay Area, it is important that I give back. The BATC’s community programs will provide me with the opportunity to have a great impact on youth fitness.” The group welcomes invitations to participate in local community and school events where they can work with young athletes, said BATC organizer Tony Kauke, who said track is one of the fastest growing sports. “Everyone gets to play and everyone gets to try to get better next week. You can push yourself if you are the first kid in the race or the last kid in the race,” said

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Spring preview . . . ■ Continued from page SP2 a lot of meets. We need to take some seconds and thirds too,” Isola said. SHCP head track coach Andy Chan says girls’ varsity will include most of the team that placed second in WCAL junior varsity last year. Jarrett Moore, ’11 and Sophia Cannata-Bowman, ’13 were state meet qualifiers in cross country, throwers Emily Chug, ’10 and Chelsea Bendebel, ’10 and distance runners Tatiana Baiza, ’12 and Nathalie Hechinger, ’11 Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep’s girls’ junior varsity track team at the WCAL are all previous JV girl champions,” trials last year. Back row: Julia Hirsch, Chandni Dumbhalia, Maritza Sazo, said Chan. Besides Parish, Chan Victoria Leung, Maria Lara, Bria Donaldson. Second row: Tiffany Lam, mentions Michael Munchea, ’12, the only sophomore boy to make Maya Astabie, Caroline Mack, Naomi Tam, Laura Diaz, Hazel Gutierrez, SHCP varsity. Ciara Silvestri, Ekekela Novero, Chelsea Bendebel, Analise Guillermo. Longtime SHCP varsity tennis Third row: Kristina Hernandez, Marisa Chan, Tatiana Baiza, Juliana Flynn, coach Raymond Wong says he has Melissa Payton, Allegra Bautista. Sitting: Briana Valentini. the youngest varsity team he’s ever had this year, with three sophomores leading the team, Marcus Vizcarra, Clark Wininger and Scott Penn, but Wong thinks he has the talent to make a Michael Price, along with junior Rufino Brobst and senior showing: “Our goal is be in the post season.”

Mercy SF’s goal: forming the student-athlete as a Christian person The 500 students at all-girls Mercy High School in San Francisco play sports within a philosophy that nurtures the total person, even while the teams have been competitive in a variety of sports. Mercy views athletics as an educational activity that contributes to physical, personal, social and spiritual growth, and therefore develops the student-athlete as a Christian person. A number of Mercy athletes have gone on to play at the college level, said Tanya Spishak, director of advancement and community relations. They include Breanna McNeil, ‘09, who plays volleyball at Prairie View A&M University; Jasmine Lowe , ‘06, who plays basketball at New Mexico State; and Marie Colon, ‘06, who plays basketball at Cal State University, East Bay. Michelle Dizon , ‘10, will play softball at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.

Serra assistant football coach Callahan joins Denver Broncos offensive staff Junipero Serra High School assistant football coach coach Bill Callahan. He loves the lifestyle and always Brian Callahan has signed a two-year contract with the aspired to be an NFL coach like his dad. Denver Broncos as the offensive staff assistant coach, “I love playing and coaching football,” Callahan said. Serra announced. “It’s a chess match– I like the mental game.” “I leave tomorrow – which is so sad Callahan played football for De La Salle because I love it here at Serra – but it’s a High School in the East Bay and was a quardream come true for me,” Callahan said. terback at UCLA. “I’m in shock but I’m elated. There are At Serra, Callahan taught students in the only 32 jobs like this in the NFL. It was Academic Resource Center. a situation that happened very fast and an “I am grateful for the expertise Brian opportunity that is exceptionally rare. It’s brought to the Academic Resource Center a job I am very excited about but it is bitand the great work he did with our boys,” tersweet because of the wonderful people I program director Gayle Rosenberg said. will be leaving here at school. Serra has set “He is friendly, approachable and always the foundation for my professional life and cheerful.” I couldn’t be prouder to say my first job was “Although we are very sorry to see Brian at Serra High School.” leave Serra, we are also very proud that he Brian Callahan Dean Ayoob, Serra’s assistant athletic has been appointed to the Broncos’ coaching director and assistant varsity football coach, called staff,” Serra President Lars Lund said. “Brian has made a Callahan an excellent coach as well as an excellent tremendous difference in the lives of our students, both in teacher who connected with the students. “Brian has been the Academic Resource Center and on the varsity football such a valuable asset to the school,” Ayoob said. team. We are very happy for him and wish him the very Callahan grew up as the son of NFL New York Jets best as he takes on this exciting new role.”

Tennis team members, from left, Ana Maria Torrea, ‘13, Michelle Dizon, ‘10, Elsie Woo, ‘12, and Michele Karakas, ‘10.

Melissa Chung, ‘12, Julienne Ebora, ‘12, and Stephanie Montemayor, ‘12, compete on the Spirit Squad.

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March 12, 2010

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Athletics at a small, Catholic girls’ school: participation is the advantage Carolyn Sideco is the athletic director at Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco, a 250-student all-girls high school that converted to a Cristo Rey School this academic year. As a Cristo Rey School, which is still affiliated with the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, new students must meet an income requirement and the tuition is much lower – $4,000 a year. In addition, in the Cristo Rey model, the girls work one day a week at a corporate sponsor and have longer school days the other four days. Sideco said that has presented some challenges this first year, as parents worried that the girls would not have enough time to complete their school work at the college preparatory institution, go to their work day, and participate in extracurricular activities. But Sideco said all have been pleasantly surprised and notes that with a 125 year history the school has a lot of experience teaching girls. The discipline of working once a week has spilled over to athletes showing up to practice on time more frequently, and despite an athletic department compromise that girls do not have to

attend practice on their work days, most do, she said. Sideco, who played softball when she attended Mercy San Francisco as a student, says there are many advantages for the student athlete at a close-knit girls’ school. “As a small school, we are able to offer participation to more students. We are able to expose more girls with less experience to different sports,” Sideco said, noting in the spring the only sport offered is softball, but ICA has a cross section of sports, including soccer and basketball in the winter, volleyball, cross country and tennis in the fall. A little more than 50 percent of the students play a sport, she said. Sideco teaches all 77 freshmen physical education and says she uses that opportunity to encourage them to go out for sports. “I say, you should have been on the cross country team, you have a really good running stride,” for instance, Sideco said.

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Sophomore Paola Lopez plays softball.

Aaron Criswell, Archbishop Riordan ’10 By Evan Ward, ’10 The Crusader student newspaper Every school has its star athletes. Many athletes have that certain persona that can often be negative. Then there is Archbishop Riordan’s very own Aaron Criswell, a fellow who truly expresses pride, purpose, and performance from the heart. After a nearly career-ending injury his junior year, Criswell courageously returned the next year to bring joy and excitement back to Crusader fans. Your correspondent from The Crusader had a moment to find out more about Criswell’s experiences at Riordan.

Athlete interview Q: Please describe your background. Where did you grow up? A: I grew up in San Francisco. I attended St. Emydius, El Dorado and St. Finn Barr. Q: Why did you choose to attend Riordan? A: Basically it was my mom’s decision. But after coming to this school I’ve realized what it’s really done for me it’s changed my life. It was a good decision. Q: In which sports did you excel? A: Pretty much all three that I’ve participated in. I played basketball, football, and I also run track.

Q: Talk a bit about the major obstacles you have faced. A: Definitely when I got hurt my junior year playing football. I tore my ACL and my MCL. (Both the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial collateral ligament are in the knee). It took a major toll on me, and suddenly everything seemed to be going downhill. I got advice from a couple people, mainly my cousin Evan (the writer of this article) and a couple of family members. They helped turn my life around and led

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when I was a sophomore on varsity basketball, when we played Archbishop Mitty. They were the number one team in the state and the number six team in the nation. There were 4.6 seconds left in overtime, and I got the ball and scored the final layup to win the game. The final score was 46-45, and that was just awesome. Q: Name any parent, coach, or person who helped you get to this point, and explain how they helped you. A: Definitely have to say my parents. They play a major role in my life. My mother Shunda leads me in the right direction. Definitely my dad, too! He is a pastor, and AARON CRISWELL, page SP8

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me in the right direction. They reminded me that I still have a chance to play football in college. Q: What colleges are you considering, and what factors are playing into your decision? A: The colleges I’m looking at right now are University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Utah State. I’m considering playing football in college. I would like to major in architecture. Q: Have you earned any scholarships? A: UNLV is offering me a scholarship. Q: What was the sweetest victory you remember during your time at Riordan? A: (laughs) The sweetest victory occurred

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Growing up in the city with limited opportunities for fast pitch softball and for tennis, ICA is the first chance some get to play. In soccer, while brothers, fathers and uncles play, often the girls haven’t tried it – but when they do, their male relatives not only cheer them on but coach them. Girls learn teamwork in athletics, and also often learn that they can play, Sideco said. “They are given this experience in high school to see that they themselves can be athletic and participatory,” she said, adding many go on to form recreation teams after high school and keep in touch by playing a sport together. “Participation is something that we emphasize all the time here. I think it’s created a culture where they feel comfortable trying out for a new sport, for something they haven’t done before. As a department, and as a school, we really try to encourage that.”

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The Catholic way of sports . . . ■ Continued from page SP1 clothing, household supplies and toys to bring back to the villages. Spirituality and competition are important to students' development, said Dion Sabalvaro, Riordan’s admission’s director. “Competition is very important to the well-being of all of our students,” Sabalvaro emphasized. Sports and faith are interlinked at archdiocesan high schools. Athletes pray daily before class and at the end of the day, as well as at Mass on special feast days, Ash Wednesday, and holy days of obligation. In December, Marin Catholic earned the Positive Coaching Alliance’s coveted Honoring the Game Award. The award goes to schools or organizations serving athletes of high school age or younger that embody Positive Coaching Alliance principles in using sports to teach life lessons. Award-winning schools must show a school-wide commitment to good sportsmanship, and parents are expected to do their part in upholding that ideal, Marin Catholic Athletic Director Rick Winter said. In the Western Catholic Athletic League, which includes Riordan, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and Junipero Serra High School, contests begin with prayers. The prayers are a reminder that athletic competion is part of the larger process of character formation that Catholic students undergo, as Pope John Paul II noted in his 2000 homily on sports. “Playing sports has become very important today,” the Holy Father said, “since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.” Mercy Burlingame Athletic Director Meave Fallon Ward put it this way: “They learn to work together. They also learn to push themselves.” Mercy Burlingame incorporates an after-school retreat into athletics at the all-girls school. Beginning next year, the school will start the University of Notre Dame’s “Play Like A Champion Today” educational program. Athletics builds “self esteem and dedication, teamwork, and time commitment,” Fallon said. “They learn to actually be tough in some ways they might not be. They learn to win and also to lose, and in life you are going to succeed and sometimes you are going to fail.” Sports are a great tester and teacher, said nationally known Catholic author and pediatrician Dr. Meg Meeker. “A lot of lessons you learn on the field, disciplining yourself, getting in shape – these discipline skills transfer very easily over to other fields, to academics, to when you have a job,” said Meeker, author of “Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know” (Ballantine Books 2006) and “Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons” (Ballantine Books 2009). “Most boys have an innate sense that they want to compete, that they need to compete,” Meeker said. “Also, it is very important for them to work their muscles against other guys. For girls in particular, physically challenging themselves builds their self esteem even more than with boys.” At Mercy San Francisco, the girls’ basketball team coaches a

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Archbishop Riordan’s Robert Mungia, left, with Peter Taormina. Naval Academy-bound Mungia, a football player planning to play rugby for Navy, was among the student athletes participating in the school’s rebuilding New Orleans immersion trip at Easter time last year.

The participants in Riordan’s rebuilding New Orleans trip. Top row: Noah Bautista, Saladin Najib, Joe Barahona, Robert Mungia, Andrew Faro, Ryan Kowalsky. Bottom row: Matthew McGovern, Nick Ruiz, Peter Taormina, Nicholas Warlen.

Special Olympics basketball team each year, said Kathy Curran, community service coordinator. Some athletes count the hours toward their community service requirement of 100 hours. “It’s a good thing to do - and through this fun service, the players build an even stronger sense of team,”Curran said. The boys’ varsity team at Marin Catholic plays basketball in the winter and whiffle ball in the spring with developmentally disabled adults who are part of a special team, the Seals, said Winter. At all-boys Riordan, Naval Academy-bound Rob Mungia, a football player planning to play rugby for Navy, was among the student athletes participating in the school’s rebuilding New Orleans immersion trip at Easter time last year. He spoke at the school’s welcome liturgy in August. “In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus sets us an example by welcoming in children with open arms who were rejected by his disciples. By embracing the children, he demonstrates to us how we should treat all people,” senior Mungia told the students. At St. Ignatius College Preparatory, coaches often encourage teams to take on a charitable project, spokesperson Paul Totah said.

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At Serra, a fall speakers’ series emphasized positive behavior in sports, said Antonia Ehlers, Serra spokesperson. Sports in Action is Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep’s signature program where teams sign up for a service project. At the co-ed school, the women’s varsity soccer team sewed blankets for sick children at UCSF as part of the archdiocesan high school’s Sports in Action program last fall. The women’s volleyball teams each year help with clothing drives and setting up Catholic Charities’ Loaves & Fishes fundraising dinner. The varsity football team visits patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital each August, and the cross country team collects shoes for people in developing countries with Soles for Souls. “Sports in Action is a fairly amazing project that aims to build community while responding to real needs in the community, encouraging our young men and women to be great athletes and leaders on and off the field, court, track or pool… you get the point!” said Julia Rinaldi, campus minister, who noted that the archdiocesan school has daily prayer and Mass on feast days but does not have community service hours. Instead of a formal program, each team is encouraged to find a charitable project each year, Rinaldi said. At Marin Catholic, President Father Tom Daly celebrates Mass for the varsity basketball team before each game. The coaches and each team pray a Hail Mary before and after each practice, said Athletic Director Winter, stressing that sports are important but always within the context of faith. “We are a Catholic school,” Winter said. “That is part of the deal.”

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Anne Stricherz’ Irish grandfather was a half-miler who competed against Eric Liddell, the Scottish runner portrayed in the film “Chariots of Fire.” The St. Ignatius College prep religious studies teacher and cross-country coach teaches spirituality through the language of sports. She’s inspired by a quote attributed to Liddell: “God made me for a purpose. But he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel his pleasure.”

SI teacher-coach: “What’s it mean to be Catholic in America?” By John Wildermuth Sports is more than a source of personal joy and fulfillment for Anne Stricherz. It’s also an important way to reach the teenagers she teaches. “I’m talking about spirituality with students every day,” said Stricherz, who teaches religious studies to juniors and seniors at San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Preparatory and helps coach the girls’ cross-country team. “I often use the language of sports, since it’s something they’re comfortable with.” It’s something the 35-year-old Stricherz is comfortable with herself. A 1996 graduate of Notre Dame University who cheerfully admits that she still “bleeds blue and gold,” she rowed crew for the Fighting Irish. As a runner for most of her life, that’s something else she has in common with the girls she coaches. “It’s important to meet students where they are,” she said. “You talk about becoming spiritual, but you can make it personal by bringing in something that’s familiar to them.” Stricherz started thinking about the sports angle to her classes when she began using Brennan Hill’s 2002 book “Eight Spiritual Heroes: Their Search for God,” in her “Path to Faith” class for seniors.

The book focuses on people like Mother Teresa, Edith Stern, Archbishop Oscar Romero and Martin Luther King – men and women of strong faith who often suffered for their beliefs. But while her students can appreciate the work and dedication of a Dorothy Day, it’s hard for a teenager to feel a personal connection to someone who lived a life so utterly different from anything they can imagine. “For young people today, their heroes are athletes, celebrities and musicians,” people who often aren’t the best role models, Stricherz said. “I decided to try and find others who are living their lives differently.” The idea that Oakland A’s prospect Grant Desme could give up a career in major league baseball to enter the seminary is mind-boggling to high school students who dream of a career in professional sports. Then there’s former Heisman Trophy quarterback Tim Tebow of Florida, who’s so comfortable in his Christianity that he puts Bible verses in his eye black. Or former Notre Dame All-American Ruth Riley, a WNBA all-star who spends her off-seasons traveling to Third World countries to push for health efforts like the battle against malaria. It’s important to show students that living life as an athlete and living life as a Christian

Life, death and the Mahoney In her “Sports and Spirituality” blog (sportsandspirituality.blogspot.com), Stricherz recounted the intensity of the Mahoney Trophy competition between St. Ignatius and Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep. This year’s competition will be decided at the April 16 Mahoney baseball game at AT&T Park. After losing the Bruce Mahoney trophy last year, this year’s senior class came into this school year with hope for rebirth. The game itself is a battle. The stakes are so high that at one point you can smell the fear of death. One glance at the student section—a royal fire hazard or the lower seats—filled with a significant number of alums, gives witness to the reality that we grow up and we grow old. A win on Tuesday would have captured the Bruce Mahoney trophy for the year. Instead, our players and students had to confront pain and suffering not only on the court, but perhaps more palpably the next day at school. It is amazing how one game can serve as the paradigm by which my students wrestle with limit questions and hopefully grow into wisdom. The day after the Bruce, two former students who are basketball players came into

my classroom just to talk about the game. After hugs and listening to their thoughts about the game, I myself was struck by what Michael, the team captain, told me his coach advised. They were reminded that this game with this many fans, friends and family members was like no other. At some point during the game, their coach said they should take a moment to recognize what they were a part of, to remember to have fun and enjoy. I thought to myself, if a player, a student or an alum could do just that, how could he or she not feel good about their life? It is, after all, a spiritual experience. Sure, I wish that the common faith of both schools still had the influence it once did. I would love for my students and their families to attend Mass regularly and willingly and not have to apologize for doing so. Reality is however, something different. It can be isolating, lonely and downright challenging to bear witness to all that the Catholic faith asks of us. But I find comfort in the words of Archbishop George H. Niederauer: “It isn’t ultimately a question of numbers and percentages. It is, you know, the quality of the faith life and of the spirituality.”

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aren’t mutually exclusive, but that one can balance the other, Stricherz said. Stricherz often uses a quote from the 1981 movie “Chariots of Fire” to illustrate the link between religion and sports. In the film, Eric Liddell, a real-life Olympian from the 1920s, is explaining how his athletic career doesn’t conflict with his plan to become a minister. “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast,” Liddell says. “And when I run, I feel His pleasure.” The quote has a personal message for Stricherz, who wears a medal her grandfather, John Naughton, won in 1921 as a halfmiler in the Irish Athletic Championships. Her grandfather ran against the Scottish Liddell during his career. Stricherz, a native of Walnut Creek, grew up with sports. Her father was a football coach and a Pac-10 referee and she played tennis and ran as a student at Carondelet High School in Concord. After graduating from college, she spent two years teaching at a Catholic school outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as a volunteer in Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education program. Stricherz did development work at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward before taking the teaching job at St. Ignatius seven years ago. While the teaching is important, the example she sets outside the classroom means just as much to the students, she said. As a cross-country coach, Stricherz runs with her team and talks with the girls about more than running. “I might talk to them about the music I

heard at Mass on Sunday or about a retreat I went on,” she said. “I invite them to share that part of my life.” Stricherz wants the students she teaches and coaches to realize that religion isn’t just something you talk about in a class or deal with for an hour on Sunday. “Being Catholic to me is a primary part of my identity,” she said. “Being a Catholic is who I am and everything comes from that.” Stricherz is currently working on a book about sports and spirituality and is interviewing athletes about how they keep religion as an important part of their very public lives. She also writes a “Sports and Spirituality” blog, which looks at sports, athletes and religion, with the occasional detour into Notre Dame athletics. “The blog keeps me going and keeps me writing,” Stricherz said. But it’s the daily work with her teenage students that continues to drive her. For many of them, religion is something they don’t think about too much, something that’s not really part of their daily lives. Stricherz wants to change that and if it helps her students to compare religion to football, both team efforts with certain agreed-upon rules, well, that’s fine. “The question I want my students to answer is ‘What does it mean to be a Catholic in America today?’” she said. “When you look at people of faith, is there a difference? Can you see it? “You can’t force teenagers” to become more spiritual, Stricherz said, “but you can guide them. It just takes time, trust, conversation and an interest in them and their interests.”

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“Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it!” (St. Paul 1 Cor 9: 24).

St. Ignatius College Prep junior Mina Amick-Alexis.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep junior Jarrett Moore.

The Junipero Serra High varsity soccer team beat the visiting Riordan Crusaders 5-0 to win their first WCAL regular season title since 1991. The Padres title run covered 14 games in the toughest league of the Central Coast Section.

Riordan senior Trevor Greenlaw.

Archbishop Riordan juniors, from left, Andrew O’Connor, Ben Beeler, Danny Patino.

Aaron Criswell . . . ■ Continued from page SP5 we have a lot of talks about manhood. My cousin Evan has always been there for me. We have a good bond. Q: Our school has five “Characteristics of Marianist Education” (Formation in Faith; Integral Education; Family Spirit; Service, Justice, and Peace; and Education for Adaptation and Change). Which of these five characteristics is most meaningful to you and why?

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telephone interview as she waited to fly back to the Bay Area. “This is something I’ve always watched on television and now I’m walking in it. I kept having to tell myself ‘I’m really here.’” The racing itself was a bit of a letdown. “Conditions were terrible, with fog and snow,” Serebrakian said. “In the giant slalom, the TV monitors at the bottom didn’t even show the first 30 seconds of the run because it was impossible to see the racers.” Serebrakian said she had a good run going into Ani Serebrakian the last part of the giant slalom when she took a turn too tight and hooked the gate with her hand, forcing her to ski off the course without finishing. It was even more disappointing in the slalom, where she finished her first run and then was disqualified for an equipment violation with her bindings. But Serebrakian wasn’t alone on the sidelines. American Lindsey Vonn, the downhill gold medalist

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Immaculate Conception Academy’s basketball team. Kneeling, from left: Jezzica Sunga, Bianca Chavez, La’Drea Jones, Yanira Rafael. Standing, from left: Becky Apolinario, Bianca Guzman, Lucerito Martinez, Fola Decuire, Jocelyn Sabillon, Jessica Ospital, Clara Gibson, Rochelle Canaya, Ngozi Ogbonna.

because I began to realize how good I really have it. I am grateful for what I have. Q: Any thoughts about your long-term plans? Where do you see yourself in 10 years? A: My long-term plan is to obtain a well-paying job and settle down. In 10 years I see myself thinking outside the box about how to help communities. Q: What does it mean to you to be a Crusader? A: To be a Crusader is to have that brotherly love that I’ve experienced at Riordan and always to have the confidence that my brothers stand by me.

who’s one of the top woman skiers in the world, crashed points in races across the western United States and even in the giant slalom and missed a gate and didn’t finish spent some time racing in Japan and New Zealand. Both her parents are Armenians born in Iran, so her slalom run. “It happens to even the best skiers,” Serebrakian Serebrakian has dual citizenship. After a visit to Armenia two years ago, she began to compete for the country. When shrugged. “That’s just racing.” It was a long road from Novato to Vancouver for it came time for Armenia to chose a male and a female Serebrakian, a sophomore exercise and sports science major skier for their team, Ani Serebrakian had met the Olympic qualifying standard and was chosen to compete. at the University of San Francisco. Armenia, which competed as part of the Soviet Union Marin County has never been known as a haven for ski racers but that didn’t bother Dr. Armen Serebrakian when until 1994, has never won a medal at the Winter Olympics and Serebrakian had no illusions about becoming the first. he moved to Novato in 1986. “I came to the Bay Area for the skiing and the water With just two Alpine skiers and two Nordic skiers, Armenia sports, like rowing, windsurfing and water skiing,” he fielded one of the smallest teams at the games. said. But despite all the headlines about winners, losers and medal An avid outdoorsman, Dr. Serebrakian had his daughter counts, the Olympic ideal is provide a chance for the “youth of up on skis when she was two-years-old and racing when the world to assemble” and meet in friendly competition. she was five. Even as kids, she “I came here knowing I was and her brother, Arman, put going against the best racers in in hours before school doing “It was her extreme hard the world and just wanted to do conditioning work and winter my best,” Serebrakian said. “But weekends on the slopes of Lake work and dedication that the experience wasn’t just the Tahoe resorts like Squaw Valley racing, it was everything.” and Northstar. As the lone English speaker brought her so far.” “It was her extreme hard on her team, Serebrakian was work and dedication that brought default translator for her – Dr. Armen Serebrakian, the her so far,” Dr. Serebrakian said. companions as they wandered “But I always told both children the Olympic Village, Ani’s father through ‘If you want to do something, soaking up the atmosphere of a you can do it.’” once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Her focus on skiing didn’t “I loved the chance to meet keep Serebrakian from being different people from around a two-time all-league selection in tennis as a student at the world,” she said. “Especially since we’re mostly young Marin Catholic. But there was never a doubt about her people who share something in common. priorities. As she said in an Olympic diary she wrote for her “Tennis is actually very helpful for skiing, both for the hometown paper, the Novato Advance, when you can conditioning and the hand-eye coordination you get from visit the video game room at the village and watch the hitting the ball,” she said. top athletes in the world playing Guitar Hero together, it Both Serebrakian and her brother were part of the U.S. “lightens up the competitive mood.” Junior Developmental Ski Team. But after high school, But always there was the constant support from her neither of them was willing to make the move to the full- family, friends, roommates, relatives, classmates and the time training required for the top level of Alpine ski racers. many other people who were rooting for a Bay Area girl Her brother went to the University of Colorado, where living her Olympic dream. he’s a captain of the ski team, and she kept racing as a “They’ve been my cheerleaders and they were always weekend skier. there for me,” she said. “It’s been an amazing experience But Serebrakian continued to pile up international ski and I’m just sad it’s over.”

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The Catholic Difference

The relentless grittiness of Lent Carolyn Gordon Tate, a major figure in the literary renaissance of the 20th century American South, once wrote Flannery O’Connor of the impact that her conversion to Catholicism had had on her writing. As Miss O’Connor recalled in a letter, “Mrs. Tate told me that after she became a Catholic she felt she could use her eyes and accept what she saw for the first time, she didn’t have to make a new universe for each book but could take the one she found.” Catholicism, Carolyn Gordon Tate recognized, was realism. Catholicism means seeing things as they are. Catholicism means finding within the grittiness of reality the path God is taking through history for the salvation of the world. Lent is a good time to be reminded of these truths. The relentless grittiness of Lent begins at the beginning, with the imposition of ashes (preferably in abundance) and the reminder that we are the dust to which we shall return. Then we come to the First Sunday of Lent, when, each year, one of the Synoptic evangelists, Mark, Matthew, or Luke, focuses our attention on the temptation of Jesus – a gritty business that begins in a gritty place, the Judean wilderness. Mark, as is his wont, keeps the narrative spare; all we are told is that Satan tempted Jesus in the desert, amidst “wild beasts” and angels. Matthew, the evangelical portraitist, fills out the story by rendering the temptations in their most familiar sequence: the temptation to indulge the flesh, by turning stones into bread; the temptation to test divine providence and divine favor, by Jesus throwing him-

self from the pinnacle of the Temple; the temptation to worldly power, achieved through the worship of a false deity. Luke’s account of the temptations, however, drives the story even deeper into the gritty soil of history by inverting the sequences of the second and third temptations: the last and gravest temptation takes place in Jerusalem, the holy city to which Luke’s entire Gospel is oriented. Here, in Jerusalem, Jesus faces the temptation to refuse the destiny the Father has appointed for him – to be the world’s savior by stripping himself of himself on the cross. Here, truly, we are at history’s hinge-point, its crossroads. What will Jesus do? Gianfranco Ravasi puts it neatly in his commentary on Luke’s temptation narrative: Jesus, “respecting the sovereign freedom of the plan of salvation to which he has been devoted, pronounces his definitive ‘Yes’ to the Father and abandons himself completely to his destiny.” Not as an abstract matter, but here, in this place and at this time: here, in Jerusalem, amidst the history with which Luke began his Christmas narrative, with its references to the time when Augustus was emperor and “Quirinius was governor of Syria” (Luke 2:2). One of the greatest artistic evocations of the grittiness of Lent is Peter Bruegel the Elder’s 1564 painting, The Procession to Calvary, which I first saw in 2006 at the Museum of Art History in Vienna. It’s a large work, 5-and-a-half-feet by 4-feet, featuring hundreds of small figures, with the equally

small figure of Christ carrying the cross in the center of the painting. Bruegel included certain familiar motifs in rendering the scene: the holy women and St. John are in the right foreground, comforting George Weigel Mary; the vast majority of those involved, concerned about quotidian things, are clueless about the drama unfolding before their eyes. What is utterly striking about The Procession to Calvary, however, is that we are in Europe, not Judea: Christ is carrying the cross through a typical Flemish landscape, complete with horses, carts, oxen and a windmill. Christ is carrying the cross through history – right through the grittiness of everyday life. Peter Bruegel the Elder would, I expect, want us to understand that the “procession to Calvary” is taking place in our midst, too. He would be right to do so. Lent is a privileged time for recovering the sight and the commitment that let us see and enter the passion play going on around us. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Potpourri

Compassion or corruption? After more than a month-long hiatus since the end of testimony in the Federal Court challenge to Proposition 8, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is expected soon to call for closing arguments by attorneys. Subsequently, Judge Walker, who presided at the non-jury trial in January challenging the voterapproved initiative defining state-sanctioned marriage as limited to a man and a woman, will decide whether or not Proposition 8 should be overturned. The case is likely to end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. The ruling by Judge Walker will not be based on good versus evil, but on an established set of principles governing a state. Still, the ruling could have a significant impact on California Catholics. If the head of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco rescinds the ban on same-sex marriage, making it legally acceptable, Catholics will have to ask themselves how they can reconcile Church teaching on homosexual acts being sinful. Maintaining that, without exceptions, marriage is a holy, sacramental union between a man and a woman, the Church also faces heterosexual Catholics who are sympathetic to gays wanting the same Vatican recognition of their marital “rights,” including sexual acts and adoption. The priest performs wedding ceremonies as both an ecclesiastic minister of God bestowing a holy sacrament, and a state proxy witnessing secular vows. The legalization of same sex marriage commingled with the religious

teaching against it, would present even stronger arguments for the legitimacy of gay marriage within the sacred core of the Catholic Church. If Judge Walker rules against the voter initiative concerning the definition of marriage, the Church also will face the admonitions of elected Catholic officials, who will publicly decry the cruelty of not allowing gays to fulfill themselves in marriage vows. The teaching of their own Church that gay sex is a grave sin seems of little or no moral interest to these Catholics who have allowed secularism to take precedence over spirituality. Compounding the problems are some Bay Area priests who have addressed the same sex marriage issue by asking, “Why not?” As part of a panel on Gay Marriage some years ago, two Catholic priests offered their reactions to Catholic theologian Rosemary Haughton’s suggestion “that perhaps the most important thing about a family is not the blood relationship, but the fact that it is a community of people sharing their lives.” The two priests opined that, “in this context, then, the possibility exists for a broader and more inclusive understanding of marriage and family. Such an understanding may ultimately include same sex relationships. The norm ought not to be gender but the quality of unconditional love and commitment that exists between two people.” Really? Was Christ too rigid when He instituted the

sacrament of marriage as between a man and a woman? That’s the “norm,” and is, and always will be, a sacred and precious spiritual reality which should be protected by the Church at all costs, and defended by Jane L. Sears married men and women who are the back bone of society. Until all Catholic spiritual leaders and Catholic elected officials are willing to speak forcefully against such corruption of marriage, the anomaly of a formal union between two men or two women might gradually be accepted by many Catholics as compassionate rather than inherently sacrilegious. The current sanguine attitude of some Catholics towards abortion should remind us that none are immune to the words of Alexander Pope who warned: “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.” Jane L. Sears is a free lance writer and a parishioner at Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame.

Parish Diary

Pornography and fidelity Years ago, when Jimmy Carter was running for president, he got in trouble while an interview to Playboy magazine. In a moment of disarming honesty, he admitted that he had at times “lusted in his heart” after women. The press punished him for his honesty. President Carter is a Christian gentleman. He recognized the danger of a divided heart in marriage. He also understood “spiritual” infidelity. The late 1970s of Jimmy Carter now seem like an age of innocence compared to the Internet-fueled pornography of today. Americans are “lusting in their hearts” and online as never before. Teens are sexting by sending pornographic pictures over their phones. Adults are downloading horrible stuff on their home computers where their children and spouses find it. People don’t even have to go looking for it. It comes to them in pop-up messages and unsolicited e-mail. Pornography is not a new problem, but with the Internet it is a growing problem. It puts people at risk. They are at risk of losing their spouses, their jobs, their careers – and even their very souls. Ironically, they don’t even derive any pleasure from it. Internet pornography leaves them exhausted. As soon as they turn away from the screen, they feel worse. The word people almost always use when they describe their feelings is “drained.”

It drains their time, their energy and their bank accounts. It also drains their self-respect and joy. All for what? For an illusion. This is what we mean in the baptismal rite when we ask people, “Do you renounce Satan and all his false allurements?” Internet pornography is the classic false allurement. In recent years I have seen Internet pornography make a train wreck of people’s lives. Marriages are ruined as husbands are unfaithful to their wives online. Jobs are lost and careers ended as people use their employer’s computers to view pornography. Military personnel and law enforcement officers are disciplined because of abuse of the Internet. People go to jail if they visit child pornography sites. Addiction to pornography even leads some people to depression and suicide. A psychologist recently told me that Internet pornography is common in cases of depression and suicidal thoughts. This is serious business. The people who get caught up in this are often very good people in every other respect. Once I was interviewed by a federal agent regarding someone in the community. After the interview, he said, “You know, Father, people are not always what they appear to be.” I smiled and answered, “You know, special agent, after 24 years of hearing confessions, I’ve come to suspect that might be true.” So what can we do? What should I do as a pastor?

First, we need to talk about the problem. This is a sin and addiction that thrives in secrecy and silence. If we talk about it, we break its power. Second, we need to treat it like an addiction. Father For many people it is an addiction. Peter Daly We have groups for people addicted to alcohol and drugs. In every community we need groups for people addicted to pornography. There is already a network of sexual addiction groups. We have to make a place to help people that will not at the same time put children at risk. Third, we need prayer. Jesus said that there are some demons that can only be exorcised by prayer. Prayers that people will overcome addictions to pornography should be mentioned from time to time in the prayer of the faithful. The problem of “lusting in our heart” is no longer a transitory temptation. It is a powerful presence online that catches people in its worldwide Web. Father Peter J. Daly, a pastor in Prince Frederick, MD, writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF JOSHUA JOS 5:9A, 10-12 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth of the month. On the day after the Passover, they ate of the produce of the land in the form of unleavened cakes and parched grain. On that same day after the Passover, on which they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased. No longer was there manna for the Israelites, who that year ate of the yield of the land of Canaan. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad. R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Glorify the Lord with me, let us together extol his name. I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, and your faces may not blush with shame. When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him. R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

March 12, 2010 While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be Joshua 5:9a, 10-12; called your son.’ But his father ordered his servants, Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and slaughLuke 15:1-3, 11b-32 ter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been said to his father, ‘Father give me the share found.’ Then the celebration began. Now the older son had been out in the of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between field and, on his way back, as he neared them. After a few days, the younger son the house, he heard the sound of music and collected all his belongings and set off to dancing. He called one of the servants and a distant country where he squandered his asked what this might mean. The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has returned and inheritance on a life of dissipation. When he had freely spent everything, your father has slaughtered the fattened calf a severe famine struck that country, and because he has him back safe and sound.’ He became he found himself angry, and when he in dire need. So he ‘ . . . we must celebrate refused to enter the hired himself out house, his father to one of the local citizens who sent and rejoice, because your came out and pleaded with him. He said him to his farm his father in reply, to tend the swine. brother was dead and has to‘Look, all these And he longed to years I served you eat his fill of the come to life again; he was and not once did I pods on which your orders; the swine fed, but lost and has been found.’ disobey yet you never gave nobody gave him me even a young any. Coming to his goat to feast on with senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers my friends. But when your son returns who have more than enough food to eat, but swallowed up your property with prostitutes, here am I, dying from hunger. I shall get for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’ He said to him, ‘My son, you are here up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven with me always; everything I have is yours. and against you. I no longer deserve to be But now we must celebrate and rejoice, called your son; treat me as you would treat because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been one of your hired workers.”’ So he got up and went back to his father. found.’”

Fourth Sunday of Lent

A READING FROM THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 2 COR 5:17-21 Brothers and sisters: Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 15:1-3, 11-32 Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them Jesus addressed this parable: “A man had two sons, and the younger son

Scripture reflection DEACON MICHAEL MURPHY

God’s exuberant love for us shows us a better way A sculpture titled “Prodigal Son” by artist Karen Swenholt is displayed at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York.

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couple years ago, I was watching on the news a story of some soldiers who were returning home after a year in Iraq. The reporter was at the unit’s headquarters, surrounded by people preparing to greet and honor these GI’s who had been gone for so long and served so well. Banners and flags flew as the soldiers’ families and friends waited anxiously behind some ropes. A military band played while an honor guard stood rigidly at attention. The Army is pretty good at putting on a show, and they had a big one planned for that afternoon. Soon, buses carrying the soldiers pulled up on the large parade field. The troops got off and began marching over to where everybody was waiting. They looked sharp and it was all very impressive. But then, quite unexpectedly, something marvelous happened which threw all those magnificent plans of pomp and circumstance right out the window. As the soldiers arrived, there was a disturbance near the front of the crowd. A young teenage girl pushed her way through the people, crawled underneath the rope, shoved past the honor guard, and rushed towards the soldiers. She had spotted her father, and nothing was going to stop her from being with him, right then, at that very moment. Everyone froze as she jumped into his arms and gave him a hug that seemed to go on forever. After a moment, all semblance of order broke down as everyone dashed out to find their loved ones. As they watched, even the Generals couldn’t help smiling. That young girl who ran to her father wasn’t able to stop herself because she was so filled with love for him. She couldn’t hold back for even another minute. In this week’s Gospel, we see this same thing happen. As the young son returns home, his father is so overcome with love that he simply can’t wait

and rushes out to hug him. It’s one of my favorite pictures in all of scripture. There’s no hint of “I told you so,” no demands are made, simply an exuberant moment of overwhelming love and affection. This, of course, is how God comes to all of us. If we merely glance in his direction, take a single step towards him, He will charge out to greet us. No strings attached. This Gospel tells us much about our relationships, both with each other and with God. Often, when people have wronged us, we hesitate before allowing them back into our lives. Our trust has been broken and healing takes time. This week, though, Our Lord shows us another way, a better way.

There is no opening of old wounds, no sense of accounts that need to be settled, simply an unconditional love and total acceptance of the person who seeks our forgiveness. It’s a beautiful way for us to approach each other. Those of us who receive forgiveness have burdens lifted and find ourselves once again welcome members of our families and our communities. Those of us who forgive grow in kindness, love, and generosity, becoming peaceful people of wisdom and grace. Everyone wins, and the Kingdom of God grows. But I really love this parable because of what it tells us about Our Lord. The image that I had as a child, in which a distant God was up in the sky keeping track of my faults in some heavenly ledger, is thrown out the window. The picture of the stern God who is never pleased with us crumbles in the face of this wonderful Gospel. We see now that God loves us so much that He cannot contain Himself. He’s waiting and watching for us, just as the father waited and watched for the Prodigal Son. As soon as He sees us, He runs out to meet us, wrapping us in his overwhelming and all-encompassing embrace. Our past becomes irrelevant; we don’t need to pass any test. God seeks only to take away our pain and welcome us home. We are His children. He wants the best for us; He wants nothing more than to be with us. There is no room for guilt or regret. We’re back, and God’s throwing a party! That young girl who ran out onto that parade ground made the news that night, but God does this every day. During this Lent, let’s have that incredible picture in our minds, of a God so filled with love that He can’t help Himself and rushes out to be with us, because we who were lost have been found, and we who were dead are alive again. Let the celebration begin! Deacon Michael Murphy serves at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos.

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Spirituality for Life

Lenten Journey: Taking pain to the heart Writing in his journal during a time of bitter heartbreak, Henri Nouwen wrote these words: The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds than to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them. The choice you face constantly is whether you are taking your wounds to your head or your heart. Part of us understands exactly what he is saying here, even as another part of us congenitally resists his advice: There’s place in us that doesn’t want to cry, doesn’t want to feel our hurt, doesn’t want to take our pain to a place of silence, and doesn’t want to take our wounds to our heart. And so instead, in our heartaches and wounds, we grow anxious and obsessive, we struggle to understand, we talk endlessly to others, and we try to sort things out with our heads rather than letting ourselves simply feel them with our hearts. And that isn’t always a bad thing. Nouwen’s counsel, for all its wisdom, needs some qualification: It is important that we also take our wounds to our heads. Our hearts and heads need to be in sync. But what Nouwen points to here is something that he, a man blessed with an extraordinary sensitivity to the things of the heart, learned only through crushing heartache and breakdown, namely, that we more easily take things to the head than to the heart, even when we think we aren’t doing this. The way we take pain to our heads and block healing tears in our hearts is by denial, by rationalization, by blaming, by not simply and honestly admitting and owning our own pain, our own helplessness, our own weakness, and our own inadequacy. And we all have plenty of occasions to do this: The

more alive and sensitive we are the more we will experience excruciating heartaches. The more honest we are the more we will be aware of our own limits and inadequacies. And the more generous and pure we are the more we will be aware of our own sin and betrayals. And so Nouwen’s counsel contains a healthy challenge: When we are brought to our knees by heartache and pain, we shouldn’t try to deny that pain, deny its bitter strength, or deny our helplessness in dealing with it. To do so is to risk becoming hard and bitter. But if we give our deep pains and heartaches their honest due they will induce the kind of tears that soften and stretch the heart. It is helpful to remember that tears are saltwater, of one substance with the waters of the original oceans from which we sprung. Tears connect us to our origins and allow the primal water of life to again flow through us. Moreover, when we take our pain to our hearts, when we honestly admit our weaknesses and helplessness, God can finally begin to fill us with strength. Why? Because it is only when we are brought to our knees in utter helplessness, only when we finally give up on our own strength, that God can send an angel to strengthen us, like God sent an angel to strengthen Jesus during his agony in the garden. One night, some months before his death, Martin Luther King received a death-threat on the phone. It had happened before but, on this particular night, it left him frightened and weakened to the core. All his fears came down on him at once. Here are his words as to what happened next: I got out of bed and began to walk the floor. Finally I went to the kitchen and heated a pot of coffee. I was

ready to give up. With my cup of coffee sitting untouched before me, I tried to think of a way to move out of the picture without appearing a coward. In this state of exhaustion, when my courage had Father all but gone, I decided Ron Rolheiser to take my problem to God. With my head in my hands, I bowed over the kitchen table and prayed aloud. The words I spoke to God that midnight are still vivid in my memory. “I am here taking a stand for what I believe is right. But now I am afraid. The people are looking to me for leadership and if I stand before them without strength and courage, they too will falter. I am at the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I have come to the point where I can’t face it alone.” At that moment I experienced the presence of the Divine as I had never experienced Him before. It is only after the desert has done its work on us, says Trevor Herriot, that an angel can come and strengthen us. That is why it is better to feel our wounds than to understand them and why it is better to cry than to worry. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX. He can be contacted through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

Helping those who are joining the Church During Lent in parishes nationwide and around the world, candidates for the sacraments of initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist) experience final preparation to become members of the Catholic Church through a process called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). The “Elect,” as they are called, depend on the support and the encouragement of the whole Church to both welcome them and join with them in following Christ. Here are ten things Catholics can do to help them on their way: 1. Pray Parishes post the names, and often times photos, of those preparing for baptism and reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church, so that the community can offer support. Parishioners can commit to pray for a particular member of the elect and let them know of this gift of prayer as they prepare for Baptism. 2. Listen The journey of those in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults can be an example for all, as the Elect listen intently to the Word of God and take concrete steps to follow Him. Their steps can inspire, especially during Lent as Christians strive to follow the Lord more closely. Time spent hearing their stories and experiences can move listeners’ hearts. 3. Participate The RCIA process includes a number of public rituals in Lent: the Rite of Election, the Scrutinies, and the Preparation Rites. Many of these take place at Sunday Masses in parishes. Attending those Masses is a way to show support for the Elect. 4. Attend the Easter Vigil The Great Vigil of Easter is the “night of nights,” the liturgy for Holy Saturday declares. It is the night during which the Church keeps vigil for the resurrection of Jesus. It is during the Easter Vigil that the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation are celebrated and new members are welcomed into the Church. This “most blessed of all nights,” as the Exsultet on Holy Saturday proclaims, celebrates in ancient rituals the central mysteries of the faith. This celebration is long, but it is the heart of the Church’s worship and speaks clearly to fill participants with the joy of the Resurrection. 5. Have a welcoming spirit In the weeks after their initiation, the newly baptized, now called “neophytes,” look for their place in the Church community. Parishioners can make them feel welcome by encouraging them to be part of an activity, a group, or a ministry. 6. Witness The RCIA reminds people that God is present and

active, that He continues to speak to all. It is a reminder that how you act, what you say, and what you do can reflect the presence of Christ. Being “witnesses” (see Acts of the Apostles 1:8) of what Christ is doing in one’s life speaks to others. 7. Invite As witnesses, Christians are called to share their faith in some way. Sometimes it means noticing others who are searching, who might benefit from encouragement or an invitation to learn more about the Catholic faith. Evangelization calls for a member of the Church to share one’s faith. Just inviting a friend or neighbor to Mass can be a powerful statement that allows the Lord to reach out through this gesture. 8. Get Involved The RCIA has many facets. Each depends on dedicated parishioners (along with the clergy, catechists, and other staff members) to facilitate, teach, lead, and serve as sponsors. There are many ways to shares one’s faith and gifts to become involved. 9. Ongoing Conversion In addition to those preparing for Baptism, the RCIA also includes those already baptized Christians who are preparing for reception into the full communion of the Catholic Church. This can be celebrated any time. Those preparing for reception (and Confirmation and first reception of the Eucharist) remind Christians that all are called to follow the Lord, who is always speaking and calling

people to repentance – ongoing conversion and a change of heart – resulting in more authentic disciples. 10. Know Mystagogy is for all After celebrating the Sacraments of Father Richard Baptism, Confirmation, Hilgartner and Eucharist, the newly initiated continue their formation in the faith in the period called Mystagogy (which means “interpretation of mystery”), when they reflect on their encounter with Christ in the sacraments and learn more about their faith. This period is ongoing and essentially what all members of the Church do throughout our lives: grow deeper in faith and relationship with Christ, constantly discerning his will. Welcoming new members into the Church is a job for all Catholics. What is asked of us is prayer, participation in liturgies, and a welcoming spirit and witness. Father Richard Hilgartner is assistant director of the Secretariat of Divine Worship at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Perpetua and Felicity died 203 March 7 Martyrs in Carthage, now in Tunisia, these young women — the noblewoman Perpetua and the slave Felicity — were among five catechumens who, after refusing to worship the Roman emperor, were arrested and condemned to be thrown to wild beasts. They were baptized in prison, where Felicity also gave birth to a daughter. In the Carthage arena, they were attacked by a beast, which did not kill them, so their throats were cut by a gladiator.

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This statuette of St. Francis standing in ecstasy by Pedro de Mena is on loan from the Cathedral of St. Mary of Toledo in Spain.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – The National Gallery of Art in Washington is the venue for “The Sacred Made Real” – a unique exhibit of 22 sculptures and paintings from 17th century Spain, which portray Jesus, Mary and saints with intensely precise detail. According to museum officials, the works were intended to “shock the senses and stir the soul” when they were created 400 years ago. And the exhibit’s curator hopes they will evoke a similar response today. In the four rooms of the exhibit, paintings – including masterpieces by Diego Velazquez and Francisco de Zurbaran – are displayed for the first time alongside Spain’s wooden polychrome (realistically painted) sculptures. Many of the sculptures have never left Spain before and are still venerated in monasteries and churches and during Holy Week processions. The exhibit is only being shown in two venues. It opened in Washington Feb. 28 where it will remain until May 31. Previously it was shown at London’s National Gallery. The dimly-lit rooms and alcoves give the exhibit a churchlike atmosphere, as do the images themselves. The curator, Xavier Bray from London’s National Gallery, told Catholic News Service that just as the works of art were “meant to speak to people” when they were designed, they remain “incredibly powerful even out of context” in the museum setting. He saw this happen in London when many people were silent and seemed prayerful before the works of art. Even the unreligious, he said, could walk away with something because of the exhibit’s straightforward way of portraying death with images of Christ’s passion. Bray – who has seen these sculptures in darkened churches and monasteries and also ornately decorated during processions – was convinced of their ability to speak to modern audiences and used that as a selling point when appealing to church authorities to loan these works. He also stressed the heightened impact they could have in Washington during Lent. Bray said he was involved in “nonstop letter writing” to obtain the loan of a St. Francis statuette from the sacristy of the Cathedral of St. Mary of Toledo. He described the 3-foot statue, which had never been out of the cathedral, as “little but powerful.” It is an image of the saint in ecstasy as he was said to have been found 200 years after his death by Pope Nicholas V. The sculpture has a realistic look with its glass eyes,

human hair for the eyelashes and a rope dangling from his robe – all key tools of the sculptors’ trades. (They also often used glass tears, ivory teeth, wicker hair and animal horn for toenails.) The statue is markedly similar to the adjacent St. Francis painting by Zurbaran.

The sculpture “Christ as the Man of Sorrows” by Pedro de Mena is among the artwork featured in “The Sacred Made Real” exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The exhibit includes religious paintings and sculptures from the Spanish golden age, when artists portrayed Christ, Mary and the saints with an intense realism.

Throughout the exhibit visitors see similar images – painted and sculpted – arranged side by side. The juxtaposition not only highlights the artists’ similar styles but also demonstrates how painters and sculptors worked together and influenced each other.

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By Carol Zimmermann

St. Mary Magdalene is shown meditating on the crucifix in this painted wooden sculpture.

The face of Mary is shown in a detail, side view of “The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception,” a painted and gilded statue attributed to Juan Martinez Montanes. It is among the religious artworks on display until May 31 in “The Sacred Made Real” exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

The exhibit’s catalog notes that the artist Francisco Pacheco taught a generation of artists, including Velazquez, how to paint sculptures with flesh tones. This technique was called “encarnacion,” or incarnation, which literally means “made flesh.” Pacheco painted some of the wooden sculptures carved by Juan Martinez Montanes whose sculpting talent was so renowned he was given the nickname “the god of wood.” The realistic works these artists produced were intended for religious and artistic purposes. Elizabeth Lev, professor of art history at Duquesne University’s Rome campus, said that the polychrome sculptures were meant “to emphasize how God became man, walked among men and suffered at the hands of men, therefore realism and high emotional content was the norm for these works, while often painted representations of the same themes remained more restrained.” She said 17th-century Spanish art clearly conveyed religious doctrine “especially in the wake of the Protestant Reformation where the supernatural element of faith was called into question – such as the role of Mary, the intercessory power of saints and the importance of the church.” A sculpture could do its part, she said, “by taking the supernatural and inserting it into the natural world.” Sculptures of Christ’s passion raised the bar even more with their unflinching use of vivid detail with painted drops of blood, wounds and bruises. Crucifixion images in the current exhibit include Zurbaran’s 1627 painting “Christ on the Cross,” which is on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. It is alongside the polychrome sculpture “Christ on the Cross,” borrowed from a Carmelite monastery in Seville. The sculpture was carved by Montanes and painted in 1617. Lev said Zurbaran’s “use of glassy color and vivid detail startles viewers with his two-dimensional images,” while the devotional sculpture and its “waxy pallid flesh of Christ, heavy drops of blood and parted bluish lips bring the tangible evidence of Christ’s suffering into our space and lay it at our door.” “Faced with these sculpted crucifixions and their unrelenting, merciless detail, the viewer is asked to concretely acknowledge the cost of his or her salvation,” she said. Or as the curator put it: “The images engage you directly.” Referring to the polychrome “Christ on the Cross,” Bray said: “You know it’s a sculpture, yet you feel as if you are there. It transcends time and space.” For more information see the National Gallery’s Web site: www.nga.gov/exhibitions.

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The scourged back of Christ is depicted in “Ecce Homo” (“Behold the Man”), a sculpture by Gregorio Fernandez. The exhibit features religious paintings and sculptures from the Spanish golden age, when artists portrayed Christ, Mary and the saints with an intense realism.

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Spanish religious art exhibit portrays Christ, Mary, saints in detail

The upper portion of the sculpture “Saint Ignatius Loyola,” by Juan Martinez Montanes and Francisco Pacheco.

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Compassionate look at how relationships, food traditions intersect “KEEPING THE FEAST: ONE COUPLE’S STORY OF LOVE, FOOD AND HEALING IN ITALY” by Paula Butturini. Riverhead Books (New York, 2010). 272 pp., $25.95.

Reviewed by Regina Lordan Catholic News Service Consumer warning: Don’t read “Keeping the Feast” on an empty stomach. Paula Butturini’s book is an enjoyable adventure through her experiences with family, food and emotions, but her descriptions of Italian cuisine can only leave the reader salivating for the green asparagus, fresh garlic and olive oil of which she so reverently speaks. Both an exploration of culinary traditions and an honest examination of depression, Butturini’s story is a very real look at relationships and the food traditions that keep families together.

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Fast-paced novel offers look at duty, honor in ancient Israel “CITY OF REFUGE: A BIBLICAL NOVEL OF THE ANCIENT PAST” by Valerie Farber. Small Press United (Chicago, 2009). 393 pp., $17.95.

Reviewed by Brian Welter “We had successfully infiltrated Gat, observed an ironsmith, hoping to be able to reproduce his work, and purchased iron weapons. We imagined how happy our master, Shraya, would be. We had to open the sealed crate, and look at the weapons once more. Once the crate was opened, we challenged each other to a trial of marksmanship,” testified the sturdy, likable Yerachmiel about his own youthful carelessness which led to another youth’s death. Duty, honor and truth form the background to many anxious moments in “City

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was to prepare the warp, the vertical set of threads, on a warping board, and then attach the warp to the loom. After the warping stage, the horizontal rows, called the weft, could be woven into the warp one by one.” Such details, rather than boring the reader or leading the narrative off course, enrich the excellent character development, as we witness the duties and skills given to each person. Farber brings out the importance that religious tradition held for each individual, including for Canaanites with their fertility festivals, which included violence and even murder to appeasee their gods. The reall struggle of the book’ss many Israelite heroes es was not to become indeependent individuals, as it would be in today’s y’s world, but to faithfully lly observe the religious ous duties and values of ancient Israel, serving ving their family as fathers and sons, wives and daughters, and as they reached the age of betrothal and marriage. For example, Bat-Schachar’s struggle, as the daughter of wealthy and prominent village priest Tzaddok, centers on how to resist the arranged marriage to a man who disgusts her, yet respect and honor her father. Bat-Schachar’s rebellious personality endears her to readers, as Farber skill-

fully weaves this with the naivete of being a protected village daughter who has hardly stepped out of the walls of her home. She is led astray by Basmat, the Canaanite servant of the family, leading to the betrothal annulment and to strong condemnation by the whole village, including, for a time, her sometimes hapless scholar father. “City “Ci of Refuge” portrays the small portra world of the chosen people, peopl as Yerachmiel and his h friend Tzuriel struggle to become strug blacksmiths by stealblack ing the t iron secrets of their thei enemies. Such knowledge is vital in kno making weaponry ma strong enough to str defend Israel, but def their th ambitions are not no only to serve themselves but to th their th nation, village, betrotheds l and a families. “City of Refuge” reminds the reader that, contrary to what current pop culture cu teaches, we cannot love humanity without first loving our families, friends, villages and nations, and the traditions that bind these together. Brian Welter is a freelance contributor to The B.C. Catholic, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Lenten Opportunities Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Christian Meditation, as taught by Benedictine Father John Main at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, 2390 Bush St. (Siena Room). More information at: www.christianmeditation.us” Tuesdays, soup supper at 6:15 p.m. and talks at 7 p.m.: St. Rita Parish Lenten Lecture Series in the parish hall, 100 Marinda Dr. at Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Fairfax. Call (415) 456-4815 for details. March 16, Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire will speak on “Magisterium as the Servant of God’s Word.” Fridays, 6 p.m.: Soup Supper followed by Stations of the Cross at Mater Dolorosa Church, Willow Ave. off Grand in South San Francisco. This is a family event with children’s reflections for each station. Call (650) 583-4131. Nuova Porziuncola chapel, Vallejo at Columbus in San Francisco - March 18, 7 p.m.: Stations of the Cross, rosary. Lenten Soup and Substance, various dates and locations through April 1: Experience and Reflect on the Good Works of Catholic Charities CYO at a series of open houses during the Lenten Season. See the actual work of CCCYO. Each visit includes a simple meal and tour as well as reflection with program staff and, when appropriate, the people served. There is no charge to attend the series, but a response is requested for planning purposes. For specific dates and locations, contact CCCYO Parish Partnerships Director Jane Ferguson at (415) 972-1227 or e-mail jferguson@cccyo.org. You may also visit www.cccyo.org/soupandsubstance. Locations to be visited in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties include Homelessness Prevention Programs, Assisted Housing and Health Programs, Refugee and Immigrant Services; Canal Family Support Program; San Mateo Counseling Services; Family and Youth Programs; Derek Silva Community, Housing and Support for people with disabling HIV/AIDS. April 2, noon: Live outdoor enactment of the Stations of the Cross at St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. off Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Call (415) 452-9634 or visit www. stmchurch.com. April 2, 9 a.m.: Coit Tower Stations of the Cross move from that San Francisco landmark ending at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach. Call (415) 452-9634 or visit www. stmchurch.com.

St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 Stations of the Cross, Fridays at 12:40 p.m. in the Cathedral, following the 12:10 Mass. Lecture Series, “Penitence: The Call for Us to Change, The Call for Us to be Transformed by Christ,” 10:15 – 10:45am in the Msgr. Bowe Room. March 14: True and Perfect Joy: Penitence in the Writings of St. Francis of Assisi March 21: Surprised by Love: Penitence in the Poetry of Dante Alighieri First Friday 24-Hour Adoration: Friday 8 a.m. to Saturday 8 a.m. in Our Lady’s Chapel, and Msgr. Bowe Room. Weekday Mass Schedule: 6:45 a.m., 8 a.m., 12:10 p.m.; with additional first Friday Mass at 7:30 p.m.. Adoration begins in Our Lady’s Chapel after the 8 a.m. Mass through evening Mass at 7:30 p.m. Adoration then moves downstairs to the Msgr. Bowe Room (facing Cleary Court) until 6:30 a.m. For information, contact Mary Ann Eiler at (415) 567-2020, ext. 224 The Archdiocese of San Francisco Council of Catholic Women is accepting nominees for its annual Jane Thain Leadership Award. Candidates are women who are practicing Catholics and active in one or more of the following areas of Church life – liturgy, religious education, ecumenical affairs, or parish ministry. The award is presented May 8 at the group’s Spring Conference. Send explanation of your choice plus nominee’s and your name, telephone number, e-mail address to hmb33@juno.com . For more information Call (650) 726-4985.

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March 13, 6 p.m.: All-you-can-eat St. Luke Crab (or chicken) Feed at Parish Center, 1111 Beach Park Blvd. in Foster City. Raffle and dancing follow. Tickets are $40 per person. Call (650) 345-6660. Kitchen chiefs include Stefano Quilici, John Bernat and Roberta Bernat.

Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. April 16 – 18: A San Jose Beginning Experience weekend for widowed, separated or divorced men and women at Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park. Contact Cathy at (408) 263-3718, Helen at (415) 388-9651. You may also e-mail SJBeginExp@ aol.com or visit www.beginningexperience.org Catholics 55 and over interested in meeting others of the faith in that age group are invited to contact Mary at mpecci@sbcglobal.net. A core group who will organize events for this age group is being formed. Minimum effort required.

Good Health March 22, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.: A free Diabetes Awareness Fair at St. Mary’s Medical Center, hospital cafeteria, level B at 450 Stanyan St. in San Francisco. Participants, at no cost, can have blood glucose test, their feet screened by a podiatrist, conversation with a physician plus lessons from diabetes staff on nutrition and exercise. Call (415) 750-4896.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life Survivor of the Rwandan genocide Immaculee Ilibagiza, whose story is described in Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, will speak April 16, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. All proceeds benefit Catholic Charities programs for children and families. Tickets available at www.littlechildrensaid.com

Vocations March 14: The Sisters of Nazareth invite young women seriously considering religious life to a Discerners Retreat at Nazareth House, 245 Albion Way in San Rafael. Contact Sister Fintan at vocations@nazarethhousela.org or call (310) 216-8170.

Reunions March 27, noon – 4 p.m.: St. John Ursuline High School, class of ’73. The event is a potluck affair at the Oakland home of a classmate. Contact Darlene Dinius Solem at (916) 681-0249. April 10, 10:30 a.m.: Annual Mass and Luncheon for SF Chapter of Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae begins at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by festivities at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco. Honorees include Golden Belles of 1950 and classes of 1940, ’50, ’70, ’80. Call Katie O’Leary at (415) 282-6588. April 24, 7 p.m.: Class of ’85 from St. Finn Barr Elementary School at The Vin Club, 515 Broadway

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in San Francisco. Tickets are $30 and include two drinks and appetizers. Call (415) 452-8807 or e-mail rodolfo415@yahoo.com. April 29: Luncheon reunion for class of 1950 from St. Cecilia Elementary School. Contact Doris at (415) 664-2247 or amadoris@sbcglobal.net June 26: Class of ’60, Star of the Sea Academy. E-mail erhunt@mail.com or noniloretta@att.net Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma. Contact Linda Brewer at brewer@sbcglobal.net or visit www.holyangelscolma.com or call (650) 755-0220. Class of ’60 from Notre Dame High School in Belmont is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Bettina Igoa McCall at Mcbett@comcast.net or (510) 851-2344. St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’80 planning a reunion sometime in June 2010 to coincide with graduation day of May 31 1980. E-mail Maria Rinaldi Vincent at vncntmtvincent@aol.com or call (650) 349-1642.

Special Liturgies March 13, 9 a.m.: St. Patrick’s Day Mass preceding St. Patrick’s Day Parade at St. Patrick Church, 5th and Mission St in San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will preside. Events sponsored by the United Irish Societies of San Francisco on days leading up to the Mass can be seen at www.stpatricksdayparade.com. Third Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Manifest Mysteries Rosary Prayer – Examine how the mysteries of the rosary are manifested in daily life using short film and the Dominican Rosary prayer. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information. Fourth Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament –Silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

Serra Clubs March 25, noon: Serra Club of San Francisco lunch at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave., off Mission Street. Father Charles Puthota, pastor of St. Veronica Parish will talk about “the truth about dying”, reflections on death and immortality. Lunch tickets are $16. Non-members welcome. Contact Paul Crudo (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudodds@ aol.com

March 6, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Annual Rummage Sale at Church of the Visitacion Parish Hall, 701 Sunnydale Ave. at Rutland in San Francisco. Choose among clothes, furniture, books, jewelry and w New Items Booth. Call (415) 494-5517 for more information. Muni buses 8, 9, 56, as well as the T line will get you there. March 6, 6:30 p.m.: St. Patrick’s Corn Beef and Cabbage Dinner at St. Philip Parish Hall, Diamond at Elizabeth St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $25 per person/10 years and under $10 for chicken nuggets and hot dogs. Proceeds benefit the parish, this year celebrating its 100th anniversary. Call Margaret McAuliffe at (415) 334-7212 or the parish at (415) 282-0141. March 6, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and March 7, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Flea Market at St. Elizabeth Church, Goettingen and Wayland St. several blocks off Silver in San Francisco. Choose from household items, collectibles, china, crystal, jewelry and more. Call (415) 344-0506. March 13: “South Seas Sunset,” Mercy High School, Burlingame’s Annual Auction and Dinner, an enchanting evening featuring fabulous food, exotic entertainment and an alluring auction at Kohl Mansion. Guest emcee is Channel 2 news reporter Sal Castaneda. Tickets are $70 per person. Contact the Mercy Advancement Department for ticket/auction information at (650) 7621190 or visit www.mercyhsb.com. Proceeds help fund Mercy scholarships, athletics and general operations. March 13, 6 p.m.: St Matthews School - St Paddy’s Dinner - One Notre Dame Ave in San Mateo. Tickets are $15 and include corned beef and cabbage or chicken dinner. Beverages available for purchase. Contact Charlie Jadallah for reservations at (650) 628-6948 or email charliejad@yahoo.com May15, 1:10 p.m.: “Parish Family Day at AT&T” The SF Parish and School Baseball League will host a free ‘tailgate’ party of hot dogs and sodas, and we will feature 84 of our longest throwers in a ‘long-toss’ competition by grades 3 - 8. If he is not pitching, Giants’ long-toss champ, Barry Zito will hand out the trophies. Advance ticket sales only - $14 per person - by March 30. Parishioners wishing to attend should contact their Athletic Director, or they can e-mail bstableford@sfpsbl.org or phone (415) 559-8728.

March 14, noon-4 p.m.: Annual St. Patrick’s Day Barbecue at the Dance Palace, 5th and B St. in Point Reyes Station. Proceeds benefit Sacred Heart Parish in Olema and St. Mary Magdalene in Bolinas. Menu includes chicken, pasta, salads, treats and Irish Coffee. Adult tickets $18 each/children $7.50 each. Contact Debbie Rocca at (415) 663-8433. No reservations required. March 17, 11 a.m.: Hibernian Newman Club’s St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon at the St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St. in San Francisco. Keynote speaker is Carmen Policy, former president of the San Francisco 49ers. Tickets are $85 per person and include Corned beef and cabbage lunch. No-host beverages. Traditional Irish entertainment also part of the day. Proceeds benefit campus ministry efforts in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Call (415) 3863434. Please make reservation by Wed. March 10. March 17, 11 a.m.: Annual Luncheon benefiting St. Vincent de Paul Society Desk in San Rafael and the work of the SVDP Conference at St. Anthony Parish in Novato at Marin Country Club, 500 Country Club Dr. in Novato. Tickets are $40 per person. Afternoon includes bridge, dominoes and raffle. No-host cocktails and silent auction begin at 11 a.m. For reservations and information, contact Gwen Johnson at (415) 883-3055.

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