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Sudanese refugee children from the Darfur region attend a makeshift school in eastern Chad Aug 23. Aid organizations in Chad expect another 100,000 refugees as a result of ethnic cleansing in Sudan.

Aid workers brace for Sudanese refugees; bishop calls for U.S. action By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — As aid organizations in Chad braced for 100,000 more refugees from Sudan, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ international policy committee said there was “no question” that the killings in the Darfur region of Sudan represented ethnic cleansing. Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., told Catholic News Service that the Sudanese government is engaged in a policy to Arabize and Islamize the population. “This clearly is an example of ethnic cleansing, no question,” he said. Bishop Ricard, who met with displaced persons in Darfur earlier this month during a visit to Sudan, said a small contingent of African Union troops that arrived in Darfur in mid-August will do little to protect civilians from further violence. On his return to the United States, he requested a meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell and urged a series of steps to relieve the crisis in Sudan. In his letter to Powell last week, Bishop Ricard recommended that the United States and the United Nations

work together to immediately deploy human rights monitors to the region and asked that President Bush appoint a special envoy and coordinator for U.S. policy. Bishop Ricard also recommended to Secretary of State Powell that the United States and the international community continue to insist that the Sudanese government allow unfettered humanitarian relief efforts; immediately end government attacks on civilian targets and punish such attacks by others; and accept responsibility to safeguard its own citizens. Bishop Ricard outlined steps he said the U.S. government and the international community should take to protect civilians and refugees, including providing logistical, financial and political support. Meanwhile, U.N. refugee workers in Chad told CNS they are bracing for the arrival of about 100,000 refugees from western Sudan. They said they expect a crush of refugees to cross the border before the end of 2004, joining nearly 200,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled to eastern Chad since the beginning of militia attacks more than a year ago. Another 1.2 million people are displaced within the SUDANESE REFUGEES, page 6 Darfur region.

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Stem cell Q & A . . . . . . . . . 5 Police and Fire Mass . . . . . . 6 St. Vincent de Paul . . . . . . . 8 Youth leader meeting. . . . . 11 Holy Father at Lourdes . . . 17

Young Adults’ Fall Fest

Catholic Charities CYO

‘Vanity Fair’ review

Canterbury to Rome . . . . . 22

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On The Where You Live by Tom Burke

Five of this year’s award winning essays in the annual Respect Life writing contest were from student scribes at St. Veronica Elementary School in South San Francisco. Hailed for their outstanding script were, from left: 5th graders, Mary Gainey and Lisa Dimech, 6th grader Jake Folan, 5th grader Lindsay Campbell and 8th grader Nick Baumann. Thanks to Mary’s proud folks, Nancy and Bill Gainey, who celebrated their 16th wedding anniversary June 11th, for the good news.

Kudos to local Catholic organizations awarding scholarships to help defray the cost of high school tuition and expense for students of the Archdiocese. Hats off too to the future high schoolers on earning the recognition. Knights of Columbus Council #3950 of Novato presented $500 awards to Joseph Fonfara, Judith Madero, Alissa de Martini, Caitlin Altaras, all recent grads of Our Lady of Loretto elementary. Treasurer Dennis Freeman said the program is more than 30 years old and has so far contributed more than $100,000 to students moving on to secondary school. Dennis and his wife Claudia celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary June Kathryn Hart 12th….Young Men’s

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Institute Council #32 of South San Francisco has announced $700 awards to 8th graders and soon-to-be-freshman Isis Etorma of Holy Angels; Nina Galang of St. Veronica; Annette Molina of St. Robert; Vashti Viray of Mater Dolorosa; and Mauricio Suarez of All Souls. The YMI’s Kevin D. Creamer Scholarship has, since 1980, awarded some $45,000….Young Ladies Institute #124 of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Redwood City has announced the 8th grade winners of its annual Valda Britschgi Scholarship including Kimberly Benedetti, $300, of Kennedy Middle School; Sonia Brusilo, $300, Matthew Brand, $200, Amanda Lunzer, $200, Christina Jacquemet, $200, all of St. Pius; and Joanna Guhit , $300, of Our Lady of Patricia Walsh congratulates United Irish Cultural Center scholarship winners, from, left Sandra, Stefani, and Kerry Malone-O’Donoghue. The triplets’ proud folks are Mt. Carmel. Officers of Branch #124 are Moyra and John. Patricia’s late husband Leo Walsh founded the scholarship program Christine Beraldo-Holly, prez; Margaret 10 years ago. It has so far benefited 174 students. Patricia and Leo, longtime parishRocchi, past-prez; Lois Agresti, 1st vp; ioners of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Redwood City, were married February 13, Hildegarde Thums, 2nd vp; Dorene 1965 and had been wed 38 years when he died April 19, 2003. Beraldo Burt, recording secretary; Mary Ellen Jehle, financial secretary; Janine Small, treasurer; Marianne Larke, marshall; Margaret Parish, Burlingame. Kathryn has been singing since age 5 as Fama, sentinel; Ethel Leary, organist; and trustees, Grace chorister and soloist with the OLA junior choir and is a veteran O’Keefe, Mary Wardlaw, Dorothy Rottinghaus, Viola of shows including Guys and Dolls, Grease and the annual Gomes, Mary Beraldo. Always remembered is the scholar- Christmas Carol at Notre Dame de Namur University in ship’s namesake who died in 1992….The United Irish Belmont. “Although we will miss her, we are thrilled she will Cultural Society presented more than $14,000 to 21 students be studying at Catholic University to continue toward her dream of a career in theater,’ said proud – including 9 on their way to college parents Pam and Peter….On her - as part of its annual Leo Walsh way to a career in medicine is Scholarship program. Winners of Marie Gribble, a senior at Mercy $500 grants are Laura Lynch, High School, Burlingame. Marie, Brendan King and Anastasia who has had the medical field in Pallas of St. Cecilia; Molly mind since grade school at St. Dellahunty of St. Brendan; Dunstan’s in Millbrae, recently Monica Coen of Vallemar School; attended a National Youth Jack Casey of St. Vincent de Paul; Leadership Forum to further and Sandra, Stefani and Kerry explore the MD possibilities. Her Malone-O’Donoghue of St. proud folks are Joan Hearne Raymond. Grants of $750 toward Gribble and Mark Gribble. The college tuition went to recent high Congrats to new grads David Michael Escobosa 10-day immersion into the medical school grads Nicole Hayes, Terra from UC Berkeley and his wife Lilian Maher world locked the future doctor’s Linda; Kathleen Mary Manis, Escobosa from Hastings Law School. Mighty sights on her longtime goal, her Terra Nova; Frances Delaney, proud of both are John’s folks Zita and John. mom said, adding that Marie would Lick-Wilmerding; Kevin Ryan most like to study at UCSF or Archbishop Riordan; Elena Torres, Mercy, Burlingame; Megan Devlin, Drew; Eric Stanford…. Send items with follow-up phone number Reiser, St. Ignatius; Lyndsay Claire Murphy, Marin On the Street Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF Catholic; Dwayne Corcoran, Sacred Heart Cathedral….On 94109. Fax (415) 614-5633; e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. her way to study musical theatre at Catholic University in Do not send attachments except photos and those in jpeg please. Washington, D.C. is Kathryn Hart of Our Lady of Angels You can reach Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

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‘Fall Fest’ for young adults is Sept. 18 at USF

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By Jack Smith “Fall Fest,” the annual gathering of Catholic young adults will be held Saturday, September 18 at the University of San Francisco. The event is sponsored by the Archdiocesan Office of Young Adult Ministry in cooperation with the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at USF. This year’s theme is “Choices: What’s God have to do with it?” “Fall Fest” was founded in 1997 originally by an independent group of young adult Catholics and each year brings together more than 300 young adults in celebration of the Catholic faith. Participants include couples and singles in their late teens, 20s and 30s. Beginning at 8:30 a.m.,

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“Church” through scripture, Church teaching and history; the Church’s “Mission” in the world, including social justice, ecumenism and evangelization; a “Peer” community. Two workshops led by Bishop Soto, and Deacon Nate and Jenny Bacon, will be offered in Spanish. Among the 25 workshops are USF Theology Professor Rev. James Bretzke, S.J. on the politicians and Communion controversy; Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle on the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit; young adult Catholic couples on practical elements of married life, including conflict resolution, time management, faith and human sexuality; and Franciscan Father Louis Vitale on the fundamental concepts of practicing peace. There will

also be a beginner’s ballroom dancing workshop with reflection on the spiritual application of dance. Exhibitors are available for participants to learn more about the Catholic Church and opportunities for greater involvement. Full conference schedule, details and registration form are available at website www.sfyam.org. Registration by September 3 is $50 or $25 for full-time students or teachers with identification. Dinner and dancing is included and boxed lunch can be pre-ordered by September 3 for an additional $7. “Fall Fest” begins 8:30 a.m. at USF’s McLaren Center. Call 415-614-5596 or email Mary Jansen at jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org for more information.

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WASHINGTON — In the U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington urged U.S. leaders to “look at trade policies from the bottom up — how they touch the lives of the poorest families and most vulnerable workers in our own country and around the world.” Cardinal McCarrick, who issued the statement as chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Policy, said Labor Day is a good time to think about “how to make sure the global economy works for all.” “Trade policies must reflect fundamental values of justice and dignity while encouraging sustainable growth, fighting poverty, respecting workers’ rights and caring for the environment,” he said. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released the statement, “Global Trade That Works for All,” prior to Labor Day Sept. 6. In a globalized economy, Cardinal McCarrick said, “decisions made by governments and companies far from our borders can help or hurt the economic vitality of America’s urban centers and rural areas. Decisions made here can affect the ability of subsistence farmers and factory workers in Central America, Africa and Asia to earn a living and feed their families.”

Federal agency promises quick assistance to hurricane victims TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The victims of Hurricane Charley are reaping the benefits of lessons learned 12 years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is rushing aid to the residents of the 26 counties that have been declared disaster areas. The aid comes in the form of money and services for storm-related losses that are not covered by insurance. Within five days after the Aug. 13 hurricane, FEMA had processed 60,851 applications and approved disaster aid checks totaling over $10 million — including $6.3 million for housing assistance and $3.8 million for other disaster-related needs. “The money is not a loan,” said Barbara Ellis, a FEMA spokeswoman, “and it doesn’t need to be repaid.” Meanwhile, Catholic Charities offices from around the state rallied to meet the needs of the victims in their own communities. According to Peter Routsis-Arroyo, president of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Venice, the organization distributed nonperishable foods and water from the campuses of three Catholic Charities offices and three parishes in the areas that were hardest hit.

Respect Life program kits ready for dioceses, parishes WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for ProLife Activities has published the 2004-05 Respect Life Program kit materials in English and Spanish for use in Catholic dioceses, parishes and organizations. The theme for this year’s observances is “Made in His Image,” or, in Spanish, “A imagen de Dios los creo.” Most U.S. Catholic parishes observe the first Sunday of October — Oct. 3 this year — as Respect Life Sunday. “The Respect Life program is the primary educational vehicle for the (bishops’) Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities,” said Msgr. William P. Fay, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The 2004-05 kit includes a

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Pope John Paul II waves to the faithful during his Sunday Angelus prayer at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Aug. 22. The pope prayed that the return of a Marian icon to the Russian Orthodox Church would bring the Catholic and Orthodox churches closer together. He also prayed that "the heavenly mother of the Redeemer would be more welcomed, loved and venerated by the Christian people."

poster in English and Spanish, fliers on the theme in English and Spanish, six educational essays on life issues, clip art for church bulletins or newsletters, a liturgy guide and a catalog of pro-life publications and resources. The fliers, essays and liturgy guide are also available online at www.usccb.org/prolife, along with electronic versions of essays and other resources from past programs going back to 1996.

Assisted-suicide law may be headed for Supreme Court PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Supreme Court is probably the next stop in the legal case over Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. In a ruling announced Aug. 16, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied a U.S. Justice Department request for a new hearing. In May, a panel of judges from the court ruled 2-1 that Oregon doctors could continue to use federally regulated drugs in assisted suicide. The refusal to reconsider now gives U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft until the end of September to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001 Ashcroft issued a directive saying that assisted suicide failed to qualify as a “legitimate medical purpose” and that doctors who used controlled substances for lethal prescriptions were liable to fines, jail and revocation of prescribing licenses. Physician-assisted suicide, opposed by the Catholic Church, is legal only in Oregon. According to state records, since 1998 doctors have reported helping 171 people die using Oregon’s voterapproved Death With Dignity Act. The law allows terminally ill patients with less than six months to live to request a lethal dose of drugs after two doctors have confirmed that diagnosis and determined the patient is mentally competent.

Henri Nouwen Society launches Web site dedicated to late author NEW YORK — The Henri Nouwen Society has launched a new Web site at www.henrinouwen.org that offers daily meditations, weekly reflections and discussion guides based on the writings of the prolific priest-author who died in 1996. The

society, with offices in New York and Toronto, was established in 1998 to extend Father Nouwen’s spiritual and literary legacy and to provide a means for people from a variety of backgrounds to build Christian community. The Web site also offers an innovative spiritual direction program called Mentors for Spiritual Growth, through which spiritual growth is supported by e-mail or telephone. An events calendar lists reading groups and retreats throughout North America, including locations, themes and contact information. Currently Nouwen reading groups are meeting in New York; Minocqua, Wis.; and Chestnut Hill, Mass. Father Nouwen, who was born in Holland in 1932, wrote more than 40 books on the spiritual life.

With innovations, 2004 audits of diocesan sex abuse policy begin WASHINGTON — With a few innovations, the 2004 audits to measure compliance with sex abuse prevention policies by U.S. dioceses and Eastern-rite eparchies started in late July. A new question this year is the number of allegations received by dioceses and eparchies since their 2003 audit, said Sheila Horan, deputy director of the U.S. bishops’ Office of Child and Youth Protection. The answers will establish a statistical base line needed to measure the success of prevention policies by showing whether future accusations will rise or fall, she said. “Are we reducing cases?” she said. The child and youth protection office is responsible for conducting the on-site audits and has contracted the Gavin Group, the same organization that did the 2003 audits, to do this year’s audits. The 2003 audits, the first to be conducted, showed 90 percent compliance with the policies contained in the bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” approved in 2002. Other 2004 innovations include: provisions that allow individuals or groups with information that a diocese or eparchy may not be in compliance with policies to forward such information directly to the Gavin Group, and giving dioceses and eparchies the audit results within two weeks of the completion of their individual audit rather than waiting for all audits to be completed, as was done in 2003. — Catholic News Service

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Stem cell research and human cloning: Questions and answers Following is the text of a question and answer document on stem cell research and human cloning prepared by the U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat. What is a stem cell? A stem cell is a relatively unspecialized cell that, when it divides, can do two things: make another cell like itself, or make any of a number of cells with more specialized functions. For example, just one kind of stem cell in our blood can make new red blood cells, or white blood cells, or other kinds—depending on what the body needs. These cells are like the stem of a plant that spreads out in different directions as it grows. Is the Catholic Church opposed to all stem cell research? Not at all. Most stem cell research uses cells obtained from adult tissue, umbilical cord blood, and other sources that pose no moral problem. Useful stem cells have been found in bone marrow, blood, muscle, fat, nerves, and even in the pulp of baby teeth. Some of these cells are already being used to treat people with a wide variety of diseases. Why is the Church opposed to stem cell research using the embryo? Because harvesting these stem cells kills the living human embryo. The Church opposes the direct destruction of innocent human life for any purpose, including research. If some human embryos will remain in frozen storage and ultimately be discarded anyway, why is it wrong to try to get some good out of them? In the end we will all die anyway, but that gives no one a right to kill us. In any case, these embryos will not die because they are inherently unable to survive, but because others are choosing to hand them over for destructive research instead of letting them implant in their mother’s womb. One wrong choice does not justify an additional wrong choice to kill them for research, much less a choice to make taxpayers support such destruction. The idea of experimenting on human beings because they may die anyway also poses a grave threat to convicted prisoners, terminally ill patients, and others. Haven’t doctors, scientists, and commentators said that embryonic stem cell research will lead to the cure of many diseases? Some have made this claim, but in fact this is largely speculation. Embryonic stem cells have never treated a human patient, and animal trials suggest that they are too genetically unstable and too likely to form lethal tumors to be used for treatment any time soon. Years ago it was said that stem cells from embryos would be the most useful because they are so fast-growing and versatile, able to make virtually any kind of cell. But those advantages become disadvantages when these cells make tumors, creating a condition worse than the

disease. Yet many supporters remain wedded to this approach, having invested a great deal of money and effort and hoping they can still make it work. This kind of exaggerated “promise” has misled researchers and patient groups before—most obviously in the case of fetal tissue from abortions, which a decade ago was said to promise miracle cures and has produced nothing of the kind. Is the Church telling us to choose the lives of embryos over the lives of suffering patients? No. It is calling us to respect both, without discrimination. We must help those who are suffering, but we may not use a good end to justify an evil means. Moreover, treatments that do not require destroying any human life are at least as promising—they are already healing some conditions, and are far closer to healing other conditions than any approach using embryonic stem cells. The choice is not between science and ethics, but between science that is ethically responsible and science that is not. Is embryonic stem cell research advancing so slowly because this research is banned in the United States? No. Embryonic stem cell research is fully allowed in the United States—there is no federal law (and almost no state law) against it. The government has only set some limits on the number of embryonic stem cell lines eligible for federal funding. Supporters disappointed at failures using these cells sometimes blame this stem cell research “ban” (which is not really a ban at all). But as noted above, the much more serious obstacle lies in the nature of the cells, which are not working out as some predicted. Did the federal government in 2001 forbid funding any embryonic stem cell research? No. In fact, the federal government gave $25 million to human embryonic stem cell research last year. But on August 9, 2001, President Bush said that federally funded research would use only embryonic stem cells already in existence (obtained by destroying embryos prior to that date). In this way, he reasoned, federal funds could be used to explore this research, without encouraging researchers to destroy new embryos in order to obtain federal grants. Some of these existing stem cell samples have been used to create more than 20 cell lines for research, and others remain in storage for possible use in creating new cell lines in the future. There is no legal limit on the amount of funding that can be used for this avenue; if the total funding for it is relatively small, that is chiefly because researchers are not requesting the funds as they are finding other avenues more promising. Has research using adult stem cells ever accomplished anything? Thousands of lives have been saved by adult stem cells—most often in the form of “bone marrow transplants” for leukemia and other conditions (where the active ingredient in

the bone marrow is stem cells). Today, adult stem cells have been used to help people with Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, sicklecell anemia, heart damage, corneal damage, and dozens of other conditions. The danger is that this progress toward cures will be halted or slowed by campaigns that divert attention and resources toward embryonic stem cell research. Can stem cells be stored in a bank? Yes, like donated blood or bone marrow, they can be frozen and banked. In 2003, for example, Congress approved funds to help create a nationwide umbilical cord blood stem cell bank, in light of the many clinical benefits being discovered from these cells now usually discarded after live births. Many of the embryonic stem cell samples eligible for federally funded research under the current policy also remain frozen in banks, to be thawed and turned into stem cell lines when needed. What is a stem cell line? It is an ongoing, living colony of stem cells in a laboratory, from which cells can be obtained for research or other uses. Sometimes these are called “immortal” cell lines, but that is misleading because they do eventually deteriorate. Embryonic stem cells are said to be easier to grow in a stem cell line, but they also tend to develop serious genetic abnormalities associated with cancer. What are the advantages of harvesting donor cells from the intended recipient of the stem cell therapy? Because these cells come from the patient, they are an exact match and will not be rejected by the body as foreign tissue. Also, because no foreign substance is placed in the body, there are fewer regulatory barriers to their medical use. Who is funding stem cell research? What role is federal funding playing in determining research priorities? Many private foundations and for-profit biotechnology companies fund stem cell research, but the federal government (especially through the National Institutes of Health) remains the largest source of funds. The government’s funding priorities have a large influence on the direction that medical research takes. Since available research funds began being diverted toward exploring embryonic stem cell research, some very promising adult stem cell avenues for treating juvenile diabetes, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, etc. have been underappreciated and underfunded. Many

advances in these fields have emerged from other countries. What is human cloning and how is it related to stem cell research? In human cloning, the DNA from the nucleus of a person’s body cell is inserted into an egg whose own genetic material has been removed, and the egg is then stimulated to begin embryonic development. The resulting cloned embryo would genetically be an almost identical twin to the person supplying the body cell. This research overlaps with the stem cell issue. That is, human cloning might be done to create an embryo who will be destroyed to provide stem cells genetically matched to a patient, so the cells will not be rejected as foreign tissue. But some cloning research is done for other purposes—for example, to create embryos with devastating illnesses from the body cells of sick patients, to study the early progress of that disease. Most embryonic stem cell research involves embryos created by in vitro fertilization, not cloning. Why does the Church oppose human cloning? Cloning is a depersonalized way to reproduce, in which human beings are manufactured in the laboratory to preset specifications. It is not a worthy way to bring a new human being into the world. When done for stem cell research, it involves the moral wrong of all embryonic stem cell research (destroying an innocent human life for possible benefit to others) plus an additional wrong: It creates human beings solely in order to kill them for their cells. This is the ultimate reduction of a fellow human being to a mere means, to an instrument of other people’s wishes. Does opposition to cloning and embryonic stem cell research come only from one theological or political view? No. Serious moral concerns about these practices have been raised by an array of both religious and secular groups, including some who disagree with the Catholic Church about abortion—Friends of the Earth, the United Methodist Church, etc. The human cloning ban supported by the Church has been approved by the House of Representatives by an overwhelming bipartisan majority. Many other countries (including Canada, France, Australia, Germany, and Norway) have passed similar bans. Opposition to the idea of treating early human life as a mere object or commodity in the laboratory transcends religious and political divisions.

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Annual Police and Fire Memorial Mass set for 9/11 The Annual San Francisco Police and Fire Memorial Mass will be held at St. Monica Church on Saturday, September 11 at 10:00 A.M. The Mass is co-sponsored by the San Francisco Fire Department and San Francisco Police Department. Fire Department Chaplain and St. Monica Pastor, Father John Greene will be celebrant. Police Department Chaplain and St. Peter’s, Pacifica Pastor, Father Michael Healy will be homilist. The Mass honors recently deceased members of the San Francisco Fire and Police departments. It is also honors those who gave their lives in service following terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. St. Monica Church is located at the corner of 23rd Ave. and Geary Blvd. Parking is available in the lower school yard on 23rd Ave. All are invited. A reception will follow the Mass.

This picture of the 2003 Police and Fire Memorial Mass at St. Monica was taken by retired Daly City Fire Chief Bob O’Donnell.

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In Washington, Bishop Ricard’s letter to Powell noted that the U.S. bishops asked Catholics to pray for a resolution to the crisis in ■ Continued from cover Sudan and to participate in a special voluntary Rebel groups in Darfur rose up against the collection Aug. 22 or another date to finance government last year, accusing the government Catholic Relief Services’ humanitarian efforts. of oppressing black Africans in favor of Arabs. Elsewhere in the United States, two priests Local disputes over scarce grazing lands also who have worked in Sudan and Chad recently have fueled the conflict. Both groups are told a Catholic newspaper about their experiMuslim, but black Africans are primarily farm- ences of ministry in the often-volatile countries. ers, while the Arabs are nomadic herdsmen, Father Dave Bohnsack, a Comboni priest which has brought the two groups into conflict from Wisconsin, told The Compass, newspaover access to land and water resources. per of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., that in An estimated 30,000-50,000 people have his eight years of serving in western Sudan, died in militia attacks or from starvation or he observed many abuses of Islam. other causes related to their displacement. “What I found in Sudan was a very fanatic According to a recent estimate by the U.S. and fundamentalist view that really abuses Agency for International Development, Islam, and it doesn’t follow the kind of respect another 350,000 are likely to die unless they they talk about in being a religion of peace and receive immediate assistance. tolerance,” he said. “In Sudan, they teach Bishop Ricard intolerance to said Sudanese offiyoung children, to cials told him the “This clearly is an example be intolerant of violence was caused anyone different. It by the rebel groups, of ethnic cleansing.” was very negative.” who are fighting the In the last 21 Khartoum governyears in Sudan, ment over Darfur’s oil reserves. more than 60 peace agreements between the “Even if this was true, the government’s North and South have collapsed. The most response was way out of proportion — tar- recent agreement — reached in early 2004 geting civilians and removing people from after pressure from the United States, the their villages,” he said. United Nations and the European Union — “This is another way of eliminating peo- is the most comprehensive, he said. ple through displacement,” he said. The agreement spelled out a formula to The 500 new refugees who arrived in share power, oil wealth and land. It brought Chad in mid-August told U.N. workers that an end to fighting and bombing of villages in their camps and villages were being bombed the South. But in Darfur, non-Arab Muslims daily by government aircraft and looted by refused to accept the agreement because it Arab militia, known as Janjaweed. did not include them, Father Bohnsack said. Some of the refugees walked for 12 days He and another Comboni priest, a across the Sudanese desert to reach the Sicilian who worked in Chad, said their Chad border, taking a more difficult route lives have been changed as they witnessed to avoid attacks by the Janjaweed, the U.N. the faith of the Africans, who deal daily officials said. with disease, hunger and war. “We’re hearing stories of there not being “You go in a village where you have a enough food or water, of families choosing few Christians and find the chapel full,” to leave sick people behind,” said Fatoumata Father Peter Ciuciulla told The Compass. “I Kaba, spokeswoman for the U.N. High asked, ‘Why are you here if you are not Commissioner for Refugees in Chad. Christians?’ And they would say, ‘Father, The fresh attacks came as Sudan nears a you have come to speak the word of God. mid-September U.N. deadline to end The word of God is for everybody, not only attacks and to rein in the Janjaweed or face for Christians. So we are here to listen to unspecified international action. the word of God,’” Father Ciuciulla said.

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Archbishop designates Aug. 29 as St. Vincent de Paul Sunday Archbishop William J. Levada issued an invitation to parishioners to learn more about the St. Vincent de Paul Society the weekend of August 28-29. SVdP members will be speaking at many parishes after communion this weekend as part of the organization’s annual “Invitation to Serve.” In his letter to pastors the archbishop wrote, “A lay organization like the St. Vincent de Paul Society, with its long history of charitable works and direct service to the poor and needy, plays an important role in our parishes and archdiocese.” The archbishop listed some of the special works the charity accomplishes. “Here in the Bay Area, the St. Vincent de Paul Society serves the homeless by operating the largest shelter in San Francisco, serves the hungry at a dining room in San Rafael,” and “ministers to the incarcerated in our jails in San Mateo.” SVdP is known for its day to day efforts to live out the Gospel as embodied in the corporal works of mercy and Catholic social teaching, according to Gene Smith, national president of Saint Vincent de Paul Society and a parishioner at St. Raphael Parish. All SVdP councils (separately incorporated county groups) provide face to face assistance through home visits. Each, in addition, “identifies the unique needs of the most marginalized in their neighborhoods,” Smith said, “and addresses those needs with special programs including rent assistance, services to women and children, addiction treatment, and more.” Archbishop Levada’s letter expressed appreciation to pastors in advance for “encouraging your parishioners to listen as (SVdP members) invite them to join in the work of their parish conferences, in special programs, and in their prayers and support for the poor.” The Saint Vincent de Paul Society was founded in May 1833 by, among others, Frederic Ozanam, an Italian born Frenchman who was a celebrated lawyer, author and professor of literature at the Sorbonne. The society’s original intent was to serve the needs of the poor of Paris. SVdP is now a worldwide lay apostolate with approximately 1,500 Vincentians in the Archdiocese of San Francisco alone. A Vincentian is a member of SVdP who looks to St. Vincent as a role model in charity, Smith said. “They see Christ in the face of the poor.” Ozanam was beatified by Pope John Paul II at World Youth Day in Paris on August 22, 1997. The official Vatican biography of Ozanam calls him “a precursor of the Catholic Church’s social doctrine,” and “an anticipator of that profile of the lay Christian that the Second Vatican Council would outline in Lumen Gentium.” While the work of individual Vincentians is characterized by direct personal relationships in home visits to the poor, Ozanam’s vision was broad and novel in his times. He wrote, “It is too little to help the poor day by day; we must begin from the root

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Life By Tom Burke Frances Miller is still busy living her Catholic life. Though admitting to slowing down, the South Dakota native said she’s a long way from stopped. Her 84 years - 50 of them with husband Dan until his death in 1998 – have been chock full. Their wedding at St. Monica Parish was the beginning of a life steeped in the welfare of their three children. Monica is celebrating her silver jubilee as a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Danny lives in Bremerton, Washington with his wife, Patti. Kathleen died in December 1998 at age 47 just days after her dad. Frances’ arrival from South Dakota in 1942 with teaching credential in hand was on the heels of her sister and brother-in-law who had earlier moved to the City. Her first job, however, was not in the classroom but at 1045 Sansome Street with the United States Postal Service. “I worked in the Censorship Department,” Frances said. “It was the World War II version of Homeland Security.” Frances and her fellow workers were most on the lookout for “envelopes and parcels from military addresses to civilian addresses,” she said. “We actually had to read letters and blank out certain things like movement of ships or troops. There were also files with suspect addresses.” After the editing of the mail, it continued on its way, Frances recalled. The envelopes were simply resealed with nothing except the obvious deletions as evidence that it had

been scrutinized. “You weren’t even to tell people where “My faith has definitely been an influence on my life,” you worked,” she said. Frances said. “I’m so glad I could bring my children up in Frances met Mr. Miller in the time following the death the Church. Without the faith my life would have been altoof her fiance from her home state who had lost his life in gether different. It helped me be a better wife and mother.” the war. The Millers had been San Franciscans “since For young parents, Frances only advice is to “stay close aught-6,” and longtime parishioners of the Richmond to your children and listen to them.” Along with that, one District’s St. Monica’s, Frances said. of the Church’s most important responsibilities is “making “I met Dan after he came home from the war and we were the faith relevant to the minds of young people,” Frances married at St. Monica’s,” Frances said. “We bought the house on said. “We have to be mindful of them and focus on them. Rolph Street in Epiphany Parish not long after and lived there We are at risk of losing our younger generation.” for all of our life together.” Their children all attended Epiphany Frances has seen the Church change “a lot” through the years Elementary School. but she’s okay with it “I think the way the Church “Epiphany was a wonhas opened up has given a derful parish for children more human side to it. It’s to grow up in,” Frances less ‘straight-necked.’ said. “It was so family oriJohn XXIII did that for us. ented. It was so great for He let us be relaxed in our that.” Frances believed in religion. I liked the Church the parish so much that not 50 years ago and I like it only was she active with today. It is different today groups like the Mothers’ but no less profound.” Club but she taught third Frances took up resigrade at the parish school dence at San Francisco’s for 17 years. “It was 1957 and Kathleen, Danny and I The Peace and Social Justice committee meets in the library at Alma Via community in went to meet Monica after Alma Via. Clockwise from left, Frances Miller, Anna Kazanjian, December and immediately formed a Peace and school. The principal menPenny Kazanjian, Elise Kazanjian, Connie O’Leary, Desmond tioned they needed a Kilmurry, Barbara Lafferty, Mary Quinlin, Mary Ann Freiberg. Social Justice committee. The effort “lets us make a teacher for the third grade. little noise and gather around some issues,” Frances said. “We’re I said ‘I’m a teacher’ and she hired me.” The family meal was at the core of the Miller household. sending letters to Congress and local legislators. We want them “One thing about us is that you had better be home for dinner,” to know that we’re watching what they’re doing.” Frances said. “We’d all be there. There were the five of us at the “I’m slowing down but I haven’t stopped,” she said with dinner table. We mostly talked about the activities of the day. the laugh she had sprinkled throughout the interview and The kids were always ready to tell a joke especially Kathleen.” one can be sure throughout her life. She’s still even making Frances said her life continued happily until the illness- friends. “One woman here lived four blocks from me in the es of her husband and daughter. “It was great until Dan and Excelsior and we never met.” As an elder, Frances would like to be respected and Kathy got sick. He suffered from dementia. We thought Kathy had beaten cancer and never thought it was going to given credit “for still having something going on upstairs,” come back. Kathy spent the last six weeks of her life in the she said. “I’m so lucky to have so many good memories and that I can remember them.” Presentation Sisters’ motherhouse. I am very grateful.”

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Mosaic TV program Sept. 5 obituaries on stem cell research Sister Nancy O’Connor, CSJO Dr. H. Rex Greene, MD, will be the featured guest on the next installment of Mosaic to air on Sunday, September 5 at 5:30 a.m. on KPIX channel 5, the CBS affiliate. Dr. Greene will discuss Prop. 71 also known as the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act an initiative which has qualified for the November ballot. This proposition will secure billions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund the creation of cloned human embryos and research on stem cells derived from destroyed human embryos. This program specifically will not fund adult stem cell research which has shown considerable success nor will it help guarantee regulations to ensure the preservation of umbilical cords as other countries have been doing for decades. Dr. Greene explains these complex issues in a simple language. He is an author, an expert on a wide variety of issues such as those dealing with end-of-life decisions and pain management. He has collaborated in the statewide parish project entitled Embracing our Dying and has recently been a speaker at the San Francisco Chapter of Legatus. Dr. Greene is the medical director of the Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center in San Mateo. Mosaic is a production of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and KPIX. It is brought to you in part thanks to your generous contribution to the Catholic Communication Campaign. Please be generous when asked to give at your parish.

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Most Rev, Tod Brown, Bishop of Orange, presided at a funeral Mass Aug. 6, 2004 for Sister Nancy O’Connor at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange. A San Francisco native and Sister of St. Joseph of Orange for 52 years, Sister Nancy died suddenly Aug. 1 at age 70. “The beauty of Nancy was that she made each of us feel that we were her best friend, said Sister Katherine Gray, General Superior of the Congregation, a post held by Sister Nancy from 1991 to 2001. “Her loving and beloved Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange commend to God this friend, mentor and wisdom figure. Her personal warmth and humor flowed from her integration of her own strengths and vulnerabilities in such a way that she was open to everyone.” The late religious is a graduate of San Francisco’s Notre Dame des Victoires elementary school and its now closed high school. After entering religious life in 1952, she taught in Southern California schools including several years as assistant dean of women at Loyola Marymount University. She subsequently devoted almost two decades to service within her congregation as member of its leadership team, assistant general superior and her election to

Father Francisco Reyes, OFM A funeral Mass for Franciscan Father Francisco Reyes was celebrated at St. Boniface Church, San Francisco Aug. 3, 2004. Father Reyes died July 31 after a long illness. He is a former parochial vicar at St. Boniface having served at the Tenderloin parish from 1952 to 1963. He was 83 years old. Father Reyes, ordained in 1945 in the Philippines, entered the Franciscans in 1950 and professed solemn vows in rites at St. Boniface on Aug. 14, 1954. “Throughout his life he was a shy, kindly friar with an understated sense of humor,” the Franciscans said in an announcement of the priest’s death. “He was a real community person and always faithful to community prayer. He was dearly loved and respected by the people to whom he ministered.” Following his return from 25 years of ministry in the Philippines, Father Reyes took up residence at San Francisco’s

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Training youth to lead tomorrow’s Church By Jayme George From July 7 to 10, over 100 youth from parishes all over Northern California convened at Sonoma State University for the Youth Leader Conference, a retreat designed to instill Catholic youth with valuable leadership skills. Accompanied by their youth group ministers, the teens engaged in lively conversation, informative workshops, and prayer sessions led by their peers. The Youth Leader Conference is a program designed by the Center for Ministry Development in Connecticut. Their goal is to see that the competence of the future leaders of the Catholic Church is not left up Several youth group members from Church of the Epiphany, to fate alone. Participating parishes San Francisco train to be future leaders at Youth Leader Conference. are responsible for hand-picking the promising youth of their congregation. Those chosen are then invited to attend this conference disheartening changes were taking place in their upcoming to be groomed for a possible future in Church leadership. Confirmation Picnic. With the skills they have taken away The youth who are ultimately chosen derive from not from the conference, they are negotiating with the pastor and only the Catholic schools, but the public schools in the parish working towards getting what they want.” communities as well. The criteria under which they are choFor Antonio Caminong, an upcoming senior at Lowell sen include showing a passion for the church and a dedicat- High School in San Francisco and member of the Epiphany ed involvement in the youth ministry and the community. youth group, this year’s conference offered “a good overall Three parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco; message, good music, and effective communication building Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco, St. Gregory in San exercises.” Caminong added, “This was my second year with Mateo, and St. Peter in Pacifica, were joined by the parishes the program, and even though I felt like last year was better, of six other Northern California Dioceses—Oakland, Santa the situations we faced helped [the Epiphany youth group] Rosa, Stockton, San Jose, Sacramento, and Monterey. grow together as a group and facilitate good conversation.” Marc Gonzalez, representative to the conference from For more information about Youth Leader and the the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Religious Center for Ministry Development visit www.cmdnet.org. Education and Youth Ministry, calls the participating youth the “cream of the crop,” among their fellow teen parish members. “These are the kids who will take these leadership skills back not only to their parishes but also to their schools,” confirms Gonzalez. “In a way, these are valuable life skills that we teach, although they are directly related One Stop Mobility Center to the Church.” REPAIRS SALES REHAB SERVICE Remy Wilson, Youth Minister at Church of the Epiphany, NRRTS MEMBER TRUNK LIFTS POWER WHEELCHAIRS CREDENTIALED found her second year at the Youth Leader Conference to be RAMPS PEDIATRIC SCOOTERS LIGHTWEIGHT WHEELCHAIRS ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY a continuation of the useful information and interesting presPRACTITIONER CUSTOM SEATING & POSITIONING entation that has succeeded in engaging the kids in the proVAN LIFT REPAIR 1-800-974-9119 VANS US REHAB gram. “I am very proud of the way my group of kids are able MEMBER SAN FRANCISCO 1635 Divisadero #105 to apply what they have learned to their lives,” said Wilson. BURLINGAME HAYWARD SAN JOSE “When they returned to their parish, they found that some 808 BURLWAY RD. 28301 INDUSTRIAL BLVD. 225 N. BASCOM ●

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Catholic Charities CYO renews focus on parish needs Stability and fundraising allow for greater outreach By Patrick Joyce

t. Paul of the Shipwreck School is closed but the parish is determined to continue reaching out not only to its own parishioners but also to all the young people in the Bayview/Hunters Point community of San Francisco. So, St. Paul’s pastor, Franciscan Father John Heinz, turned to Catholic Charities CYO board president and St. Paul’s supporter, Clint Reilly, to help turn an existing program at the parish into a yearround, after-school and summer program. He quickly got help from the newly revitalized social services agency created by the merger of Catholic Charities and CYO. “We’re starting from a strong point,” Brian Cahill, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO, says. “They have the gym. We have expertise in organized sports, and we’re blending the sports emphasis of CYO with the social service emphasis of Catholic Charities.” “They asked us to help design not only a sports and athletics program but an after school activities and summer program so that we can offer tutorial services and perhaps computer classes for kids,” Mr. Cahill says. Catholic Charities CYO will begin by paying the salaries of the staff working on the existing program. In the fall staff members from the agency’s Mission Day Care and its Canal Family Support Program in Saint Raphael’s Parish in Marin will get together with community organizations in Bayview-Hunters Point “to design an excellent year-round, after-school and summer program for the kids in that area, in that parish,” Mr. Cahill says. This project points out the importance not only of the merger but of the agency’s fiscal reforms of the past few years, he says. “We could

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not be talking about how to respond to parishes – to St. Paul of the Shipwreck, pretty much within a few weeks – if we were not financially stable. That comes from our board leaders, Clint Reilly and Jack Fitzpatrick especially, but others as well.” “Because we’re stable we can come closer to parishes,” Mr. Cahill says. “That’s where we ought to be heading. Our mission is to serve people of all faiths, and we work to ensure that Catholics know about the services that are available.” Catholic Charities CYO is spreading the word about its programs to priests and parish staffs. “After-school activities for kids, senior services, adoption, counseling, services for immigrants and refugees – those aren’t all new services but before I got here we weren’t presenting them to the parishes as places parishioners could go if they need help,” he says. The parish outreach includes a new program for Eucharistic ministers who take Communion to the homebound. Catholic Charities CYO gives ministers “a kind of needs assessment checklist” to use when they visit an isolated senior: is the home safe, are there problems with nutrition, depression, other mental health issues? If the ministers spot a problem they call Catholic Charities or other service providers recommended by the agency. About 80 Eucharistic ministers have been trained, with more to come. “It is a wonderful convergence of basic work of the Church – bringing the Eucharist to Catholics who can’t get to Mass – and the basic work of social services,” Mr. Cahill says. “Mary Schembri, a real pro in social services both in terms of services to the aging but also in counseling, is our point person for our new parish outreach,” Mr. Cahill says. Ms. Schembri and Bishop John Wester have developed a program for retired priests who are frail and may need to move from a rectory to “a more structured and care-giving residence.” Ms. Schembri is now working with about a dozen priests who need some assistance and planning. “It’s right up our alley, and it’s a wonderful synergy between what we do and what the Church is supposed to be doing in caring for their own,” Mr. Cahill says. At St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Redwood City, Catholic Charities CYO is providing bi-lingual counseling. Two days a week, the pastor, Father James Garcia, provides the use of his office for a Spanish-speaking counselor to meet privately meet with “mothers with toddlers, troubled teens, working men” from the parish. In the past, when Mr. Cahill had talked about his efforts to bring Catholic Charities CYO back from financial and management disaster, he says, “I thought, ‘OK, we have a lot of good things going on

The Adoption Network has provided services for over 100 years. It is available to people of all religious and cultural backgrounds. “Clint is the first lay board president, appointed by Archbishop Levada in 2002. He has been amazing. Our indebtedness was $3.3 million. Clint’s personal contributions, combined with his work to secure contributions from a few key supporters, has reduced this debt to $1.3 million in two years. That is an amazing accomplishment during a recession.” That $2 million came from a fund raising effort that is separate from Catholic Charities CYO regular fund raising. Mr. Reilly has also been leading the ongoing fund raising, including $650,000 from the annual Loaves and Fishes event this year. “Over the last seven years of that event he has brought in an additional $3.5 million,” Mr. Cahill says. “In addition, Clint volunteers his time, some weeks he gives us three days of his time.” Mr. Fitzpatrick, the finance chair, instituted fiscal controls and “helped us redo the entire accounting system, which was in tatters,” he says. “He has done an amazing job in getting us to the point where we have numbers that are credible.” During the state budget crisis, Catholic Charities CYO, has not been as

hard hit as some nonprofit social service agencies, “thanks to a combination of God’s grace and some credibility that we have,” Mr. Cahill says “We lost some state HIV funding – about $400,000 – but we got much of it back through local government because they really know how valuable our HIV programs are,” he says. “We also did well with the city’s social service budget in terms of funding for homeless services. We’re one of the major providers of housing for homeless families, and we were served well by Mayor Newsom’s focus on homelessness.” Catholic Charities CYO now serves more than 170 families with 300 children in its emergency, transitional and permanent housing, says Mr. Cahill, who served on the Mayor’s homeless planning committee. Social service providers are now focusing on moving the homeless, especially individuals, into permanent supportive housing, he says. He thinks the same approach would help the families now served by Catholic Charities CYO. “It takes a lot of work to get a family stabilized so that they can be moved into permanent supportive housing,” Mr. Cahill said. “Once you get a family stabilized, then you can really deal with child care, health, employment education issues.” “We have also expanded our capacity to do fund raising, to do marketing and communications. Mary Redington, our communications director, understands communications. To have someone like that on board is a real plus. We are telling our story, — with posters, fact cards on our service areas, program brochures – and our new website will be up in early fall.” Catholic Charities CYO is also working with Jewish Family and Children Services on home care services. “As we become more stabilized we are able to reach out and collaborate with other faith-based service providers. In doing so, we’re stronger and more effective than if we were trying to do these things all by ourselves,” Mr. Cahill says. In the past few years, Catholic Charities CYO has been in a survival mode, trying to cope with the problems left by previous management, and the impact of the recession on fund raising, he said. Now it is beginning to look to the future with a strategic planning process. “We will be asking where do we want to be, where does God intend us to be in the next three to five years? In terms of our mission, our services, how do we respond to parish needs, in terms of Catholic identity?” Mr. Cahill says. “We’re the social service arm of the Church but we are also the Church in the world. How do we manage and promote our Catholic identity in the midst of all these very thorny issues swirling all around us? How do we fund our programs? How do we create volunteer support for those programs?”

Classes and Employment Services are provided by Catholic Charities CYO Refugee & Immigration Program. The process will cover all areas of the agency but, Mr. Cahill says, “We will always be providing immigration services, services to families and children. We have been providing HIV housing services for a long time and I see no reason why that would not be continued.” “We are looking at programs and services and asking: are they mission-driven or do we have them because there was funding available at some point in the past? Is that a good reason to keep a program or is there a provider who could do it better than we can do it. The converse of that is: are there needs, particularly parish needs, that we can and should meet?” “We will also look at our role in the policy arena, working with George Wesolek and his Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, with other faith-based leaders in terms of public policy and advocacy on behalf of the poor, the vulnerable, the marginalized.” “We are taking a close look at family housing and a really close look at CYO athletics, how we can be more active in the parishes, in supporting organized sports programs. We have 15,000 kids playing CYO sports. Can we be better serving those kids by expanding our services to them?” In response to news reports that Mayor Newsom might appoint him to the Board of Supervisors, Mr. Cahill says, “Mayor Newsom is doing a terrific job leading our city and I’m honored to be talked about as a possible Newsom appointee to the board of supervisors. However, I’m committed to staying right where I am, to continue this turnaround track that we are on. “We’ve made some great progress these past couple years, and I’d like to be here to complete what we have started.” With your help, Catholic Charities CYO can continue to offer invaluable services and programs to tens of thousands of residents in our community. Large or small, your contributions have the power to change someone’s life—in San Francisco, Marin, or San Mateo Counties. There are numerous ways to support Catholic Charities CYO. Visit website www.cccyo.org or call 415-592-9200 for more information. Checks may be sent to Catholic Charities CYO, 2255 Hayes St., 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94117.

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CYO Camp is used year round and includes Caritas Creek Environmental Education and CYO Retreat Center.

here, but I’ll breathe easier when we’re more stable, when the board’s more stable, when we’re focusing on fund raising.’” Now, he’s breathing easier. “We’ve been breaking even the last three years, whereas before we were in quite a bit of debt we inherited from the previous management,” Mr. Cahill says. “We have strong lay leadership on our board of directors — Clint Reilly and Jack Fitzpatrick and many others.

Canal Family Support provides an after school, summer program and family support program in the Pickleweed Park Community Center of San Rafael.

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St. Anthony of Padua in Menlo Park and Catholic Charities CYO partner to provide bi-lingual counseling services at the parish. Pictured from left are Dr. David Ross, Yalile Gonzalez and Fr. James Garcia.

St. Joseph’s Family Center – 300 children are in Catholic Charities CYO emergency, transitional and permanent family housing programs.

CYO Summer Camp in the Sonoma redwoods is a fun-filled tradition for children ages 7-16.

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Guest commentary Looking for a candidate By Therese J. Borchard I know whom I’m voting for in November. My husband. That’s right. Never forget your right to scribble any name you wish on the presidential ballot. I would vote for Pope John Paul II, but he’s not an American citizen and might not survive the tumultuous four-year term. What I really want is a Catholic president. I mean, Catholic in the best sense of the word. Someone with the religious zeal of George Bush, but the faith sensibilities of John Kerry; a politician whose not afraid to vote unfavorably on such issues as abortion, stem-cell research, and other fragile issues, but who operates with more foresight and wisdom than the guy who waged war on a now-devastated country, a decision that killed hundreds of American soldiers and countless Iraqis. I want a president who supports both faith-based initiatives and government-sponsored social programs, giving our country’s disadvantaged the best possible chance at success, a leader who isn’t afraid to use religion in the pursuit of social justice, but is also generous with taxpayers’ money in establishing vital programs for families living in poverty and those out of reach of education. I want a leader like Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who embraced a philosophy of dignity and respect of life that begins with conception and ends with death. I want a president who thinks independently of special interest groups or big businesses with thick wallets and too much influence on the average Joe (and Joelle) today, someone who doesn’t outline his public policy on the golf course with the richest men in corporate America. I want a president who isn’t afraid to defend America against real evil, but who doesn’t rush into preemptive attacks without valid evidence of wrongdoing, a leader who understands and operates by Catholic just-war theory. I’d like a diplomat who can secure the best possible relations with countries part of NATO and the United Nations, without falling into the trap of pandering to every country’s wish list. I want a president anchored by strong morals and values, who sincerely wrestles with the tough questions and derives his positions with a belief system in view, and the common good for the country, not according to the latest public poll. If it’s unclear by now, I’m one of the countless young Catholics who is politically homeless, without a bumper sticker to stick on my tan Honda Accord or a sign for my front yard. I want a president who isn’t running in this year’s election. And so I will nominate someone who fits my ideals as closely as possible, the man who eats dinner with me every night. Therese J. Borchard writes for Catholic News Service.

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Since 1990, organizations and individuals describing themselves as “pro-choice” have contributed more than $13.7 million to candidates for federal office. For the same period, pro-life individuals and organizations contributed about $4.6 million to federal candidates.

Loves being Catholic Thanks to Archbishop Levada for his wonderful homily on the Feast of the Assumption at St. Mary’s Cathedral. My husband and I are new Catholics from a (very) strong Protestant background and we felt there were many people who have great misconceptions of the Catholic Church who might benefit as we did from the homily on Sunday. It would be nice to see his thoughts printed. Just another quick comment - about six years or so ago (before we were Catholic) someone put us on a mailing list to Catholic San Francisco. We were not too interested and thought, “what is this?” but my husband reads everything and it always caught my eye. Little did we know that one day we would be called by Grace to become Catholic. We have never discovered why we were receiving that newspaper but it did play a part in our knowledge of what was happening in the Church. We were never anti-Catholic but it was the last place in the world we thought we would be. EWTN also played a great part with Marcus Grodi, Scott Hahn’s Rome Sweet Home, and later Karl Keating and Fr. Groeschel. There was no keeping us away after that. I am presently working with a Catholic Bible Study called Catholic Scripture Study and loving it. I love being Catholic. We both love the Archbishop and the Cathedral. Even though we live in Half Moon Bay, it is our Parish. Terry Fenwick Half Moon Bay

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A Church apart I found Michael McGreevy’s description (letters – Aug. 13) of the Church of pre-Vatican II as one of “meaningless rituals, blind obedience and forced separateness” remindful of a sci-fi piece about an abhorrent organization dominated by hierarchal oppressors programming their robotic members to march in lockstep to required obedience, automated rituals and empty symbols. Just as bizarre is Mr. McGreevy’s dream of some “ New Church” devoid of bishops and priests wherein all its members will be free to be priests themselves with the added bonus of having, “ Jesus written on foreheads.” Mr. McGreevy’ s New Church which he hopes will be “born in America” will eagerly await the day “when Jesus will come to dwell among us.” He proudly points out that this New Church will not be like the old with its “hierarchy with structure, order and obedience,” but will freely boast that “we the people are the Church.” Fortunately for us, his peculiar dream Church will never replace the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church - a Church that is not merely a community of faith, but a structured, hierarchal, visible, organized body whose distinctive nature is that it was founded by Christ Himself with membership made up of both saint and sinner – all made in His Image and Likeness. In his Encyclical “Immortale Dei” Leo XIII declared: “The Church, according to her nature and her rights, is a perfect society, as she possesses in herself and by herself, by the will and the goodness of her Founder, everything that is necessary for her existence and her efficacy.” Hopefully the sententia certa of that teaching will redefine and clarify for Mr. McGreevy, the “separateness “ with which he takes umbrage. Jane L. Sears Burlingame

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The essay by Charles Fracchia entitled “A Great Sense of Loss: Catholicism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-65” was for the first half a delightful walk down memory lane, but the second half, the assessment of the Catholic Church, was so dark and negative that I felt some correction needed to be made both in the first half and in the second half. Without in any way denying the vibrancy of Catholic life from 1945-65, there were also some areas crying out for change. One was the authoritarianism of Church Hierarchs and the almost total exclusion of the laity from decision making. (It was actually some priests trained or ordained in this era who were the worst predators and who were moved from place to place.) Likewise the popular formulation of the teaching on sexuality mentioned in the article contributed to much scrupulosity. There was a withdrawal from social justice and a very uneven acceptance of Blacks and Hispanics. As for the present situation of Catholic life, I do not agree with Mr. Fracchia’s totally negative assessment. I believe Jay Dolan gives a more balanced and nuanced view in this book, In Search of American Catholicism. (Jay Dolan, a former priest, has made an enormous contribution to Church life and is now Professor Emeritus of History at Notre Dame University.) He writes: “From 1960 to the turn of the century, the American Catholic Community has undergone substantial and rapid change. For a church in which change was an oxymoron, change has entered with the swiftness of a tornado and redesigned the Catholic landscape. A key reason for such change has been the transforming influence of culture on Catholicism. Immigration has refashioned the profile of the American Catholic community. The immigrant church of the European era is gone, replaced by the Latin-Asian immigrant

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church. The women’s movement of the past forty years has had a truly revolutionary impact on the church.” Mr. Dolan also points to new styles of popular devotion, the effects of the document on religious freedom, and the effect of democracy in the church. He concludes, “The history of American Catholicism is the study of change. This is especially true for these past forty years, 1960-2000. Much of this change has resulted from the interaction of American and Catholic cultures. Religion cannot escape the influence of history, nor can it avoid the impact of culture. The change has brought new life to Catholicism.” Not the last word, but a less gloomy word. Rev. Anthony E. McGuire Pastor, St. Matthew’s Church San Mateo

Thanks for Foudy Thank you for that wonderful article in your August 13, 2004 edition of Catholic San Francisco regarding Msgr. John Foudy, one of the finest priests the diocese has ever had. Msgr. Foudy’s life path and my family’s path have crossed many times in various parishes in San Francisco. In fact Msgr. Foudy performed the marriage ceremony of my late husband, Frank J. Klung, and me in 1952 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church. My husband had known Msgr. Foudy for some time before that. Msgr. Foudy was pastor at St. Agnes when Frank was President of the Men’s Club and I was president of the Mother’s Club giving us guidance as we performed the duties of office in a rapidly changing parish. In addition, Msgr. Foudy was superintendent of schools when I was requested to teach at St. Agnes School. These are just a few of the ways that Msgr. Foudy’s life interacted with ours. Msgr. Foudy is a wonderful example of a priest serving his flock in whatever role was required of him with kindness, good humor and deep spirituality. May God continue to bless and keep him. Valerie N. Klung San Francisco

August 27, 2004

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Substance and appearance My old philosophical mentor, Eric Mascall, used to say that, in our time, all the goods are in the store-window and there’s very little under the counter. He was commenting on empiricism as a philosophy and how it was slowly robbing daily life of its mystery and depth. Sadly, that comment made years ago, rings true today at a different level. Our world has become obsessed with appearance, with image, with persona, with what’s in the store-window, with how we’re perceived. Today it’s more important to look good than to be good, more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to have a good-looking surface than to have much in the way of integrity and depth underneath. We see this everywhere, in our obsession for the perfect physical appearance, in the cult around image, in our mania for celebrity, in the imperialism of fashion, and in our not-so-disguised efforts to be perceived as connected to all the right things. For example, typically, more and more Universities are handing out honorary degrees to two types of people, celebrities and highly recognized justice advocates. I’m not sure that many of those institutions actually care about the poor or intellectually endorse what the entertainment and sports industry (which produce most of our celebrities) are doing, but a Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Meryl Streep, Jodi Foster, Wayne Gretsky, or David Beckham looks mighty good on a University’s public face: “Just look how caring, beautiful, and energetic we are!” In the end, and I hope I’m not being cynical, it seems it’s not so important what an institution believes in or how it treats its employees and students, it’s only important how it’s seen and perceived from the outside. Giving a doctorate to a Mother Theresa doesn’t do much for the poor in India, but it does a fair amount for the institution that’s honouring her.

The same is true in politics. Image has triumphed over substance. We tend to care less about policy than about appearance and we elect people to political offices more on the basis of their persona than anything else. To be elected to a public office today, it’s more important to have the right image than to have political substance and the character. But we shouldn’t be too hard on the triumph of appearance over substance in public life because this simply mirrors what’s happening in our private lives: More and more, appearance is the first thing, the whole thing, and the only thing. It’s not important to be good, only to look good. Cosmetics is becoming the biggest industry in the world and concern for how we look, for the perfect body, is now a crucifying anxiety that’s leaving more and more of us, especially young people, dissatisfied with our own bodies and sadly restless within our own lives. The prevalence of anorexia, among other eating disorders, more than bears this out. Too often we’re dieting, not to be healthy, but to try to attain and maintain an impossible appearance. Everything is about how we look and so we exercise more, diet more strictly, and spend yet more money on fashionable clothing in an attempt to look right, even as we remain chronically disenchanted with how we look and know deep down that we’re fighting a losing battle as our bodies age and society’s standards grow ever more unattainable. Worse still, we tend now to make value judgements based on physical appearance alone. Our worth lies in looking good. Not that all of this bad, mind you. Concern for physical appearance is a good thing in itself, as are concerns for exercise and diet. We are meant to look good and to feel good. Neither bodily health nor healthy aesthetics about our appearance should ever be denigrated in the name of moral-

ity, depth, or religion. Indeed lack of concern for one’s physical appearance is a telltale sign of depression or even some deeper illness of soul. Our concern for appearance is a good thing, but, today, it’s a Father good thing taken too far. Ron Rolheiser Concern for appearance should never replace a concern for substance, depth, and integrity of soul, just as, conversely, concern for substance and depth may never be an excuse for shoddiness and sloppy appearance. Still, today, we’ve lost the proper balance and it’s hurting us in more ways than we imagine. Faith is built on the blood of martyrs and the institutions that bind a society together (marriage, family, church, politics) are sustained largely on the basis of self-sacrifice. But ninetynine percent of that martyrdom and self-sacrifice remains hidden, silent, anonymous, unnoticed, unglamorous, blood shed in secret, love given for reasons beyond appearance. If this is true, and it is, then the prognosis for the future leaves me uneasy. When appearance is everything, we soon stop focusing on deeper things and then slowly, imperceptibly, appearance begin to look like character, celebrity begins to replace nobility of soul, and looking good becomes more important than being good. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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What Happened to the Boston Democrats? Looking at the Kennedys from the convention floor By Fr. Raymond J. De Souza There was a moment during President Bill Clinton’s address to the Democratic National Convention when, in the middle of a critique of the Republicans’ attacks on the Democrats, he interrupted himself and, apropos of nothing in particular, boomed out: “Remember the Scripture: Be not afraid!” Perhaps Clinton was struck by a sudden John-Pauline rhetorical inspiration. Perhaps he thought the Democrats were being summoned to a vocation equal to those biblical figures to whom that exhortation was addressed: Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Peter. Or perhaps Clinton suddenly remembered that the Democratic Party has a problem with churchgoers — Bush beat Gore among churchgoers by 42 percentage points — and thought a little Bible-quoting would be just what those cultural conservatives would like to hear. The Boston convention was a propitious occasion to examine just how the Democrats ended up where they are — a party ostensibly of the ordinary people which is passionately committed to cultural values that are alien to what so many ordinary people believe. It was Sen. Edward Kennedy who brought the Democrats to Boston, and throughout the week, he took something of a valedictory lap as his party’s elder statesman. In this town where the Kennedy legacy is omnipresent — the convention week featured the dedication of the Rose Kennedy Greenway downtown and a fundraiser was held for a future RFK memorial — it is clear that the current Democratic Party is Ted Kennedy’s legacy. It is his party. He did more than anyone else to make it what it is today. The Democrats now downplay the Great Society liberalism that Ted Kennedy still champions, but on the matter of social liberalism, they are very much in his image. The Boston convention was something of a last hurrah for Massachusetts’ senior senator, and something of a last hurrah for the Kennedy dynasty, which now looks back upon what might have been rather than what will be. And looking back, it is clear that the Democratic Party and its most famous senator did not have to be this way. One living Kennedy who was not among the 100 or so relatives who showed up for the “Salute to Ted” was Sargent Shriver, confined now by Alzheimer’s disease. Husband of Eunice, former employee of Joe Kennedy Sr., campaign manager for JFK, father of Maria (and father-inlaw of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), Shriver is not just a Kennedy brother-in-law. He was at the heart of JFK’s New Frontier. And he might well have been president in his own right had history taken a little twist.

It was Shriver who created and launched the one program most identified with JFK’s legacy, the Peace Corps. So popular was Shriver that, after JFK’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson wanted to make Shriver his vice-presidential running mate. That idea was vetoed by Bobby, who thought the Kennedy line of succession would be interrupted to his disadvantage. In 1968, having orchestrated LBJ’s War on Poverty, Shriver again was considered for the vice presidency. In 1972, he was the vice-presidential nominee alongside George McGovern, and he ran himself for president in 1976. Shriver represented the most liberal wing of the Democratic Party. He was more liberal on economics and civil rights than the Kennedys themselves, and JFK used to teasingly call him the “house communist.” Shriver was resolutely anti-communist, of course, but passionately committed to those on the margins of society. Long before he and his wife would found the Special Olympics, he was working on behalf of the mentally retarded in the 1950s and 1960s. Experiences there led him to found yet another of the flagship Great Society programs, Head Start. It would not be too much to say that Sargent Shriver has the most accomplished public policy legacy of any in the Kennedy family. But today’s Democratic Party — Ted Kennedy’s Democratic Party — would have no room for Sargent Shriver. Shriver was and is pro-life. He recently wrote to this newspaper to state once again his firm opposition to Roe v. Wade. He and Eunice have been stalwarts in the pro-life movement, not only in opposing abortion, but also caring for the weak and disabled. In the 1970s, Shriver was flying high and represented what was then a center of gravity in the Democratic Party — economic liberals who were cultural conservatives. In this city, it was the norm. Two speakers of the house from Boston, John McCormack and Tip O’Neill, would have fit that mold. Had Shriver emerged as the leading post-RFK Democrat, his party might have opted for a more culturally conservative path. But Shriver’s ambitions were always secondary in the Kennedy family, and it was Ted who was next in line. After Chappaquiddick — the 35th anniversary fell during Ted’s triumphant tour of the convention — Ted was damaged goods for 1972 and 1976. But he still claimed the fallen mantle of his assassinated elder brothers, and by the time he ran for president in 1980, he was already being spoken about as the conscience of the party and the keeper of the flame. It was in that exalted position that Ted Kennedy moved definitively to embrace the cultural agenda of the far left — which began with relaxed contraceptive laws and

liberalized abortion laws and has ended in gay “marriage” and partial-birth abortion. Along the way, Kennedy chose time and again to lend his name and his inherited prestige to the transformation of the Democratic Party into a bastion of elite secular values. The list of prominent Democrats who have switched from pro-life to pro-abortion rights is impressive — Jesse Jackson to Al Gore, Dick Gephardt to Bill Clinton. Today, an ambitious Democrat must simply subscribe to the party’s abortion orthodoxy. Sen. Ted Kennedy was one of the few who could have bucked the trend, so powerful was his name. A man who could be re-elected to the Senate after leaving a woman to drown at Chappaquiddick is a man who could have been a pro-life Democrat who won. They heaped praises upon that power and that popularity here at the Boston convention. It was clear that had he been different, the Democratic Party would have been different. Ted could have chosen the path of his sister and brother-inlaw, Eunice and Sargent Shriver. That he didn’t was a critical turning point in the transformation of the Democratic Party. “Just 25 years ago, it would have been unimaginable to think that a Democratic National Convention could be held in Boston, arguably the most Catholic Democratic city in America, and have the party leaders ignore the values of Boston’s Catholic base,” said former three-time Democratic Mayor Ray Flynn, latterly American ambassador to the Holy See. “You will not see or hear much talk about traditional Catholic principles centering on life, family and the poor. And you also will not see Boston’s Catholic archbishop delivering an invocation or even hear a discussion about the Democratic Party’s platform, which is an affront to millions of faithful Catholics in the United States.” Archbishop O’Malley was not invited to participate in the convention. So far has the Democratic Party moved that it is now wholly unremarkable that there would not be a place for him in the hall. Ray Flynn himself confesses that he is a persona non grata at the convention. In such an environment, it is important to remember that the Democratic Party not long ago included outstanding Catholics and outstanding public servants like Sargent Shriver — arguably the greatest public servant of the last three Democratic administrations. Mayor Flynn is looking to start a new initiative to reinvolve faithful Catholics in the Democratic Party. But he is on the outside. Sargent Shriver has long ago left the scene. Still inside is Ted Kennedy. It’s his party, and they came home to pay him tribute. Father Raymond J. de Souza is chaplain of Newman House at Queen’s University in Ontario. Reprinted with permission from National Catholic Register.

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TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Psalm 68:44-5, 6-7, 10-11; Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a; Luke 14:1, 7-14 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF SIRACH (SIR 3:17-18, 20, 28-29) My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not. The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs, and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise. Water quenches a flaming fire, and alms atone for sins. RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11) R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. The just rejoice and exult before God; they are glad and rejoice. Sing to God, chant praise to his name; whose name is the Lord. R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. The father of orphans and the defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God gives a home to the forsaken; he leads forth prisoners to prosperity. R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance; you restored the land when it languished; your flock settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy. R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. A READING FROM THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS (HEB 12:18-19, 22-24A) Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice

speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them. No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 14:1, 7-14) On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

New Jerusalem by Gustave Doré.

Scripture RAYMOND O’CONNOR

The living power of humility “My child, conduct your affairs with humility,” advises Joshua ben Sira (or Sirach) writing in the second century before Christ (ca. 195-171 BC). This maxim and many more of a proverbial nature fill the Book of Sirach, attributed to the Hebrew wisdom literature. Although maxims or proverbs grab our attention and give us pause, they usually remain jailed words chained to paper. After all, it’s one matter to advise humility; it’s quite another to live it. Yet if we are to take seriously this Sunday’s Gospel reading from Luke, we must bear the frustration, resistance, pain, and embarrassment that surely accompany humility’s prize. The Gospel account begins with Jesus dining in a home of a leading Pharisee on a Sabbath. This glitzy setting departs from those that highlight a Jesus who advocates for the poor and marginalized. But Jesus shares his truth with anyone who has ears to hear – including a leading Pharisee. And the context – a Sabbath day – also signals importance because Jesus often violates the more restrictive aspects of the Jewish law on a Sabbath. So, it seems that Sabbath days particularly give rise to Jesus’ more challenging instructions; this Sabbath is no different. Jesus notices the jostling for positions of honor while at the Pharisee’s home and delivers a parable with two messages. The first addresses the invited guests and challenges presumptive behavior; the second addresses the host and calls him to a heightened social awareness. Both messages invite an examination of motives, and at some point, all of us need to examine our motives. We may question ourselves saying, “Why do I do that?” or “What causes me to say that?” And what we do or say often does not reflect our better selves. Nonetheless the questions initiate an increased awareness of the present moment wherein we may discover life’s fullness and God’s presence. We start to learn to inhabit more honestly the person we are and to avoid the delusions of self-worth, control and power promised by positions of honor and prestige. True humility, however, so often eludes us in a culture that values the breadth of our possessions and the height of our positions more than the depth of who we are. It’s no wonder we seek after those “places of honor” just to feel like somebody. A weak excuse, though, for not examining our motives. “Okay, I’ll examine my motives and see what happens,” you may say, but in Luke, Jesus pushes us further. What am I doing about the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind especially if I have the means to host dinner parties? I know that I have not always been as mindful as I could be of those who have less than I do. I know, too, that others – including some in our government – have not been that mindful at times either. Admitting fault or limitation is the first and best step toward humility and social awareness. So, I am encouraged by San Francisco’s current attempts to help the chronic homeless population after years of neglect and by people like Lorin Peters, a teacher at Oakland’s Bishop O’Dowd High School, who joined Christian Peacemaker Teams and went to Hebron this summer to support nonviolent solutions to bloody conflicts. These actions take a great deal of humility and they are the fruits of deep discernment and caring

hearts. I believe that the Sacred Author of Luke would be pleased by modern society’s attempts to care for its most vulnerable members through social security, health care, laws benefiting the handicapped, building codes, etc. because such things did not exist in the first century. Of course, they still do not exist in many parts of the world today when roughly 24,000 people die of starvation each day and minor earthquakes wipe out entire villages for lack of good construction. So, we continue the struggle to care for the vulnerable of the world. There are times, though, when we do not choose humility but humility enters anyway: The times when a friend or boss rightly or wrongly snaps at us in public, or when a parent scolds us in private, and the painful sexual abuse scandal besieging both victims and Church leaders. The list of times that humble and hurt is practically endless. But a huge difference exists between humiliation and humility. Humiliation ignites self-loathing, neurosis, depression, and inaction; whereas humility encourages insight, awareness, honesty, and healthy change. Who distinguishes between humiliation and humility? We do. Our response determines what is humbling or humiliating. Certainly life will occasionally humble us but, if we choose, it will never humiliate us. Only we can allow others or events to do that. Thankfully we do not praise a God who humiliates, nor do we read about Jesus humiliating his host in the Gospel. Rather, we are invited to discard fear and become a source of peace and blessing in our humility to everyone – and especially to those who need it most. Then we may realize what this Sunday’s letter to the Hebrews proclaims: “You have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem . . .” And understand it not as some distant promise but as a present reality. So much power rests in our hands. In closing, there is a story told of an elderly woman who lived deep in a wood. The children of the local village who played in the wood liked to tease and taunt the elderly woman. One day, the leader of the children decided to play a trick on her. He caught a small bird and cupped it in his hands. He told the other children his plan. “We’ll go up to the elderly woman and I will hide the bird behind my back cupped in my hands and say to her, ‘Old woman, tell me if the bird in my hands is living or dead.’ If she says, ‘It is living,’ I’ll smoother it to death. If she says, ‘It is dead,’ I’ll let it fly away. In either case she’ll be wrong.” When the children found the elderly woman, the leader called out, “Old woman, tell me if the bird in my hands is living or dead.” The elderly woman considered the child carefully and said, “Well now, that’s in your hands, isn’t it?” In the spirit of humility we will never be smothered but rather deeply considered for our attempts at goodness and blessing no matter how difficult or trying the situation may be. Why? Because our God’s compassionate Spirit guarantees it. So, “my child, conduct your affairs with humility.” It makes all the difference. Raymond O’Connor, chairs the Theology Department and directs the Community Service Program at Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco.

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Trip to Lourdes marks a changed Papacy (Believe it or not, I spent the better part of an hour with colleagues from broadcast and wire services debatAll papal trips are equal, but some are more equal than ing whether or not this event could be described as a others. That is, all John Paul’s travels may be motivated by “collapse.”) During his homily at a Mass for some 200,000 pilthe same pastoral and apostolic impulses, but some have a special historical significance. The pope at the Wailing grims Sunday morning, John Paul struggled again. He Wall, for example, or on the Acropolis in Athens, were could be heard muttering “Jesus and Mary” under his electric moments. On the other hand, if someone were to breath in Polish, and once mumbled “help me” to no one ask me now about the trip to Azerbaijan, I’d be a bit in particular. Later John Paul seemed confused during the Eucharistic prayers, and had to be reminded to elevate stumped, and I was there. I suspect that John Paul’s Aug. 14-15 visit to Lourdes, the host at the consecration. At another point, the pope the 104th foreign trip of his papacy, belongs on the A-list. muttered, “I have to finish,” almost as if to will himself What we saw in Lourdes, I believe, was the apotheosis of forward. In a sense we’ve seen all this before, as John Paul’s his transformation from “supreme pastor of the Catholic church,” to quote the formula in the Code of Canon Law, physical decline has been playing out on the public stage into a living symbol of human suffering, in effect, an icon for years. Three things, however, were special about Lourdes. of Christ on the cross. First, papal handlers are no longer bothering to deny or Lourdes is Christianity’s premier healing shrine, a place where sick people come to find camaraderie and hope. minimize the extent of the pope’s physical difficulties. Here “the sick are royalty.” The streets have red strips sig- After John Paul’s Saturday slump, for example, spokespernifying paths restricted to the sick, and roving bands of son Joaquin Navarro-Valls shrugged it off: “It’s normal. We young volunteers shoo others out of the way with gusto. have to get used to it.” Second, the trip seemed to ratify a theological reading Volunteers port the sick around in a special wheeled cart that looks something like a rickshaw. It’s nothing to walk of John Paul’s suffering as iconic of Christ’s. French into a restaurant where half the patrons are in wheelchairs. Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger put it this way: “The pope, This is a place where pilgrims arrive in conveyances such in his weakness, is living more than ever the role as the “Jumbulance,” a “jumbo ambulance” with 16 seats assigned to him of being the Vicar of Christ on earth, pardown one side and eight beds down the other for people too ticipating in the suffering of our Redeemer. Many times seriously ill to fly. The Jumbulance carries nebulizers, oxy- we have the idea that the head of the church is like a gen concentrators and electric feeding pumps, along with a super-manager of a great international company, a man of action who makes decisions and is judged on the basis medical staff. “In Lourdes, it’s the sick people who are real,” said of his effectiveness. But for believers the most effective Redemptorist Fr. Terry Creech, who hears confessions in action, the mystery of salvation, happens when Christ is Lourdes four months out of every year. “It’s the rest of us on the cross and can’t do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.” who are unreal.” Third, the trip put into full public view the unique As I walked through the crowd of 200,000 people gathered for John Paul’s Sunday morning Mass on Aug. 15, I bond John Paul now has with the sick and suffering of the saw tens of thousands of people using canes and walkers world. For example, French-Canadian layman Jean and in wheelchairs. When the ailing, elderly John Paul II Vanier was at the pope’s side on Saturday afternoon and appeared, declaring himself a “sick man among the sick,” evening, helping to lead a rosary procession. Vanier is the founder of the L’Arche community that works with many in the crowd recognized one of their own. severely disabled people, “My mother had and at the end of the proParkinson’s disease for 30 cession, John Paul years, and I was with her,” ‘For all the ink that’s been spilled embraced him and gave said Irish pilgrim Lyla Vanier the rosary he had Shakespeare. “When I about John Paul the politician or been praying, as if to say: looked at the pope today, “I’m part of your commuall I could see was my John Paul the globetrotter, in the nity now.” That spirit was mother.” But, she added, “I ubiquitous during the twoalso saw Christ.” long run it may be this period of day trip. The pope’s weakness For all the ink that’s was clear throughout the his papacy, John Paul the invalid, been spilled about John two-day trip. Paul the politician or John When he arrived at the Grotto of Massabielle on that leaves the deepest impression.’ Paul the globetrotter, in the long run it may be this Saturday, to pray in the spot where the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to a 14- period of his papacy, John Paul the invalid, that leaves the year-old French peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous deepest impression. We may find that 50 years from now, in 1858, he was helped to his knees. Within moments, the it’s not his role in the collapse of Communism that we pope slumped, prompting his private secretary, Archbishop remember, but these years of decline and public sufferStanislaw Dzwisz, to come to his aid. John Paul finished ing. John Paul has not allowed himself to be shunted off the brief devotion, but at his next public appearance French to a home, the normal fate of elderly and infirm people. He has refused to spare us the embarrassment of his saliCardinal Roger Etchegaray read the pope’s speech.

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va and his slurred, unsteady speech. He makes us watch him slump, and wince, and become confused, and thereby forces us to confront the reality of decline and death our own and that of our loved ones. Whatever one makes of the particular policy choices that have marked his pontificate, one simply can’t watch the pope these days and not think about the final things, about the meaning and purpose of life. That, indeed, is a legacy. John L. Allen, Jr. is Vatican Correspondent for National Catholic Reporter. His latest book is All the Pope’s Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks (Random House). This article is excerpted from Allen’s August 20 column in National Catholic Reporter. Reprinted with permission.

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Curtain up on the 150th year of service of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. A year of celebration commences November 13th with a theatrical interpretation of the Sisters’ history in Ireland and San Francisco. Dancers, singers, and actors, especially women, are being sought to appear in the production. This call is for people of all ages and abilities. Auditions will take place September 9th at 7:30 p.m. at 281 Masonic Ave. cross street Turk 3rd floor, SF. Bring a song to sing without accompaniment. Rehearsal schedule to be announced. “The actors need to be able to do movement as there is narration rather than lines for the actors,” said Presentation Sister Stephanie Still. “The director is going to try to cast everyone who auditions.”

August 27, 2004 liminary rites beginning at 6:30 p.m. Jesuit Father Robert Faricy will preside. Call (650) 756-3223. Oct. 1 – 3: Return to Me, a Holy Spirit Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center, Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Opens with Mass at 7 p.m. Fri., Bishop Ignatius Wang presiding. Call Ernie Von Emster (650) 594-1131. Speakers include Father Joe Landi. Fees are $20 per day or $30 for both days. Sept. 11 and subsequent 2nd Sat.: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur offer Saturday Morning Prayer 9:30 – 11:30 at their Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. across from Ralston Hall on the campus of their Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350. This year’s theme is Beatitudes: Becoming Beatitudes People.

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Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry: Connecting men and women in their 20s and 30s to the Catholic Church. Contact Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox, (415) 614- 5595, wilcoxc@sfarchdiocese.org, or Mary Jansen, (415) 614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Sept. 18: Fall Fest, Choices: What’s God Have to do With it? at University of San Francisco with keynote address, workshops, exhibits, Mass, dinner and dance. Bishop Jaime Soto of Orange is among the speakers. Registration is $50 in advance and $60 at the door. Call (415) 614-5594 or www,sfyam.org. 2nd and 4th Mon.: St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Group meets. “Just show up and be part of our community.” Meetings take place at SVDP, Steiner and Green, SF at 7:30 p.m. Thurs. at 7:30 p.m.: St. Dominic Adult Formation Series in the parish hall 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF. Explore the skills needed to understand the bible and help it inform daily life. Join at any time. Contact Scott Moyer at scott@stdominics.org.

Recently recognized were volunteers who assist in the work of Rainbows, a program for children in single parent or blended families. Back from left: Maureen Cassidy, Tom White, Mercy Sister Paulina Simms, Rosalina Roque, Mercy Sister Jane Meus. Front from left: Louise Fentsch, Delia Armendariz, Adrienne Tarp, Toni Guerrero. Rainbows has been in existence since 1987 and helps more than 250 children each year, said Barbara Elordi, director. Among participating schools are St. Rita’s, Fairfax, San Francisco’s St. Peter’s and St. Anne of the Sunset and in the Diocese of Oakland, St. Joseph’s, Alameda. Reception and brunch follows. All are welcome. Call (415) 422-2188. Oct. 7: St. Mary’s Cathedral Assumpta Award Dinner takes place Oct. 7, 2004 at the Cathedral. Honorees include Christian Brother Chris Brady and SFFD Chief Joanne Hayes White as well as retired Cathedral volunteer, Mary Hehir, and young adult Scott Moyer. For ticket information call Maryanne Murray at (415) 564-3846. Oct. 6: Catholic Networking Night, a support group for job seekers, at St. Dominic’s Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF from 7 – 9 p.m. Exchange ideas and brush up on job search skills. Admission is free. Those attending are asked to bring a snack to share. Reservations are requested. Contact Connie at daura@ccwear.com or (415) 664-0164. Future meetings to be held Dec. 1. Oct. 16: Buckle your seatbelt and settle in for the rollicking Late Night Catechism coming to St. Stephen’s, 601 Eucalyptus next to Stonestown Mall, at 7p.m. Tickets are $35 per person. Enjoy a front row seat and a “meeting with Sister” for $10 more. Group discounts are available. Call (415) 681-2444, ext. 26. Nov. 6: Bal de Paris, annual fundraiser benefiting Notre Dame des Victoires school. The evening’s theme, Claire de Lune a Paris, will commemorate the school’s 80th anniversary and honor Marist Father Etienne Siffert, who shepherded the downtown parish for almost two decades. Tickets include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dancing and other entertainments. Call (415) 421-0069 or Bal2004@ndvsf.org. Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free. Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30

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Respect Life/ Family Life Sept. 8 – Oct. 13: Relationships and Prayer From the Heart, a Wednesday morning and evening conference at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae. Meets 10 – 11 a.m. and 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. Theme is Recognizing Your Unique Sacred Gift. Facilitator is graduate psychologist and St. Sebastian parishioner, Andra Dhein. Class includes prayer, scripture, centering meditation. Registration is $30 per person. Call (415) 925-0487. Sept. 11: Film and television star, Jennifer O’Neill, is featured speaker for the 2004 Respect Life Conference of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The event takes place Sept. 11th, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Also on the program is Wesley Smith of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Tickets $20 per person. Contact the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at (415) 614-5567. In the evening, Ms. O’Neill will speak at St. Sebastian Church, Greenbrae on behalf of the Marin County Respect Life Program. Contact Vicki Evans at (415) 945-0180. Sept. 18: Would you like to deepen your marriage relationship? Marriage Enrichment Workshop at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, 9:15 a.m. – 4 p.m. $40 per couple includes lunch, book and expenses of presenting couple, Anne and Bob Herendine of Salinas. Call (650) 359-6313.

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An exploration of a much-needed theology of the cross THE CROSS IN OUR CONTEXT: JESUS AND THE SUFFERING WORLD, by Douglas John Hall. Augsburg/Fortress (Minneapolis, 2003). 274 pp., $17.00.

Hall, author of “The Cross in Our Context: Jesus in the Suffering World,” claims that for almost 2,000 years, Western Christendom in both its Roman Catholic and major Protestant expressions has been welded to an atonement theology that has guaranteed keeping God the father quite distinct from the suffering son. Historical Christianity — Christendom — has steadfastly avoided the theology of the cross, he says, because such a theology could only call into question the whole imperialistic bent of Christendom. But with the demise of Christendom in the modern and postmodern periods, it has become possible for serious Christians to reconsider the meaning and role of this submerged “critical theology.” The author describes how the spirit and method of this theological view — one not well known in English-speaking lands — works itself out in modern ecumenical Christian thought. “God’s commitment to the world entails suffering,” says Hall. To live with purpose we need a God best revealed in the suffering love of Jesus. This suffering God helps us understand our context, or current reality. The power of love reverses both the secular power and destructive submissiveness with which the church has too often been identified. God’s apparent weakness in Jesus is actually strength. It does not glorify suffering since suffering is not the goal. It is life-focused. Suffering is rather the consequence of claiming the power of faith in Jesus. The weakness of Jesus, and those who suf-

Reviewed by Wayne A. Holst Catholic News Service “The theology of the cross is not a single chapter in theology, but the key signature for all Christian theology,” says noted European theologian Jurgen Moltmann. Douglas John Hall has focused on this “theology of the cross” for much of his long career as a Canadian Protestant theologian, one widely read in the United States and beyond. Martin Luther coined the phrase, it seems, clarifying a biblical theme strongly present in the writings of St. Paul and other early teachers, distinguishing it from a “theology of glory.” A theology of glory focuses on a God and a church that is triumphalistic and judgmental. A theology of the cross emphasizes a God and church who offer people strength in another way: “My power is made perfect in weakness” is what Paul puts into the mouth of God (2 Cor 12:9). This power is reflected in suffering love. In Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” Jesus dying on the on the cross is portrayed as a substitutionary, sacrificial victim for human sin, offered to placate a judging God. A theology of the cross counters that image. It is a “not-much-loved but much-needed” interpretation that portrays a God and church who suffer along with people and do not stand in judgment over them.

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Catholic readers should value this book. It interprets a stream of biblical, early church and reformation theology that connects with modern Catholic teaching and practice. It could help all Christians to recover a faith tradition “not much loved, but much needed” in our time. Holst is a parish educator at St. David’s United Church in Calgary. He has taught religion and culture at the University of Calgary.

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From Canterbury to Rome: Pilgrims rediscover ancient Francigena Way Australia and South Africa, “because they see Europe as being the base of Christianity and the development of the Christian faith.” One of the first Americans to cover the entire 1,100 miles was Brandon Wilson of Hawaii. A pilgrimage is a “great way to get to know people and a different culture; it’s traveling in a country one step at a time,” he said. “I found it fascinating to stay in a 15thcentury monastery or what once was a hospital of the Knights Templar, to have nuns serve me warm soup or sit with Capuchin monks in the evening, sipping wine,” he said. But the pleasures did not come without pain. “There were some days I hurt so bad I didn’t want to get out of bed,” Wilson said. What made him bear the blisters and the 18-21 miles a day — including travel through the Alps — was “tenacity. I felt I was carrying on a tradition. ... I had the feeling of past pilgrims with me along the way.” Trezzini said she wanted to make sure pilgrims traveling the Francigena Way received some official recognition for all their hardship when they reached their goal of St. Peter’s Basilica. She said she worked with the Vatican to create a certificate for all pilgrims who make it to the basilica after covering at least 81 miles on foot. When the Francigena Way pilgrims present their special passports at the sacristy, they are greeted by a priest who takes them to the tomb of St. Peter in the grottoes below. “He reads them a passage from the Bible in their own language, presents them with the signed parchment,” and has them write their names and comments about their pilgrimage in a large registry kept in the basilica, she said. “The people aren’t always Catholic, but they are moved and appreciate it all the same,” she added.

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — This 2,000-year-old road, known as the Francigena Way, was once a crucial trading corridor and later a popular pilgrim’s path starting from England’s North Sea and leading to the eternal city of Rome. Julius Caesar first established the Francigena’s network of roads in 58 B.C. “It was the backbone of Western Europe, linking the North with Rome,” said Father Bernard Ardura, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture. Later, the Francigena Way provided Europe’s Christian pilgrims with the fastest and safest route to reach the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome. Even Sigeric, the 10th-century archbishop of Canterbury, England, trekked the 1,100-miles to receive his pallium from Pope John XV. But in the mid-17th century this “way of the Franks” died out. By the end of the 18th century, no one but Napoleon’s troops were trudging its byways until some modern-day pilgrims rediscovered the Francigena Way’s historical, artistic and religious riches and started working for its revival. “An association was started up in 1997 to get people to know about (the Francigena Way) and re-establish its cultural” value, said Father Ardura, whose council supports the work of the International Francigena Way Association. Father Ardura said the route — which starts at the Canterbury cathedral in England and cuts across France, Switzerland and Italy — helped spread different cultures and build Europe. Revitalizing the route for modern pilgrims “would be a reawakening of our common Christian heritage,” he told Catholic News Service. The founder and president of the

International Francigena Way Association, Adelaide Trezzini, agreed, saying, “The pilgrimage is a good way to unite Europe’s people and to find and touch these (Christian) roots.” “By walking on these Roman roads, passing by convents and cathedrals, you feel and touch history with your feet,” she said. Though today’s pilgrims do not have the same worries as medieval pilgrims — like running into hungry wolves or bandits — the first brave hikers of the Francigena Way in the 1990s faced severe logistical problems. Proper maps were nonexistent, signs indicating the route were sporadic, and finding a place to stay was a real ordeal until Trezzini and her organization compiled a guide listing

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PAUL K. KAPUNIAI III ~ Owner & Operator Experience Quality Service at Honest Affordable Rates Senior and Military Discounts LIC. NO. 769967

CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES (650) 742-6746 Plumbing • Fire Protection • Certified Backflow

John Bianchi Phone: 415.468.1877 Fax: 415.468.1875 Lic. No. 390254

PAINTING & REMODELING John Holtz

HOLLAND

Plumbing Works San Francisco ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND CA LIC #817607 BONDED & INSURED

Over 600 Pieces of Crosses, Patron Saints Medals in Gold & Silver. Fine Workmanship!!! www.crossesonline.com

Since 1980

(650) 355-4926

Painting & Remodeling Interiors Exteriors Kitchens Baths Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting

415-205-1235

Al Zeidler Insurance Agency

Ca. Lic 391053

General Contractor

PLUMBING

35 Mitchell Blvd. Suite 9-B, San Rafael, CA 94903

Al Zeidler Broker Lic: 0B96630

24 HR

100 North Hill Drive, Unit 18 • Brisbane, CA 94005 All purpose: Painting, Fencing, Carpenter, Small Roofing Repairs, Skylight Repairs, Demolition Work, Rain Gutter Repair & Cleaning, Landscaping, Gardening, Hauling, Moving, \Janitorial.

Religious jewelry

Phone: (415) 507-0231 Fax: (415) 507-0236 Email: zeidlerins@sbcglobal.net

Lic. # 663641

EXPERT ROOTER

Home Services

INSURANCE * Homeowners * Life * Business * Bonds * Umbrella’s Serving The Entire Bay Area

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– Senior Discount –

Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist. Offers individual, couple + family and group counseling.

Healing Your Inner Child

415-239-8491

Expert Plumbing Repairs

Lic #: 778332

Barbara Elordi, MFT The Peninsula Men’s Group, now in it’s 7th year, is a support group which provides affordable counseling in a safe and nurturing setting. Interested candidates may call for a free brochure.

Carpentry, Cabinetry, Painting,Refinishing Floors and Furniture, Door & Window Instal.,Cement Work. Se habla Español & Tagalog. Serving also the East Bay, Contra Costa,&Marin Counties not a licensed contractor

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August 27, 2004 Catholic San Francisco

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Caregiver/companion available 7 days per week, days or nights. 3 years experience. Excellent references. 415-564-5717

Garage Sale

Housekeeping

Artist needed

Garage items for sale. Various items for sale for people giving garage sale. Call after 6 P.M. 584-4321.

Persons wanted to clean flat. Call Larry after 6 pm. 584-4321

Artist needed; Seniors writing children’s books. Artist call 584-4321 after 6:oo pm.

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto Responsibilities include:

• Organizing

an after school program for boys. This will include opportunities for the boys to learn, grow and develop in academics, sports and arts.

personal

• Recruit, train and supervise staff, including

$2400/month. 2 bdrm., 1 bath, sparkling detached home in Lakeshore. Remodeled kitchen, 2 car garage, close to St. Stephen’s. Washer and dryer, spacious living room, plus fireplace. Call Jim 415-271-3943

Thank You St. Jude for prayer granted. O.E.

• Develop program reports as needed

Worship Services, Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069, Page: 823-3664 VISA, MASTERCARD Accepted Please confirm your event before contracting music!

Renting a room. Fee $500/mo. Use of bathroom, kitchen, laundry room. Parking privileges. Glen Park area. Near Bart and freeway, good transportation. Pat 415-587-3704

Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks. R.M.L.

PUBLISH A NOVENA Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Cost $25

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640

Send cover letter and resume to: Fr. Lawrence Goode, Pastor 1425 Bay Road East Palo Alto, CA 94303

Special Needs Nursing, Inc. RNs or LVNs We are looking for you. Work FULL or PART time while your children are in school. Nurses are needed to provide specialized nursing care for children in the San Francisco Public School setting. Generous benefit packages for generous nurses. Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421

Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

St. Jude Novena

St. Jude Novena

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us. Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days. Thank You St. Jude. M.P.L.

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us. Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days. Thank You St. Jude. Y.M.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. R.Z.

Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. M.C.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Name Adress Phone MC/VISA # Exp. Select One Prayer: ❑ St. Jude Novena to SH ❑ Prayer to St. Jude

❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin ❑ Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Please return form with check or money order for $25 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. E.S.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. M.P.L.

Contact: Chair, Search Committee for Campus Minister, Schools of the Sacred Heart, 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94115. Fax: (415) 563-3005. E-mail: heart@sacredsf.org For a complete description see “careers” at www.sacredsf.org.

volunteers.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may pubsish this as soon as your favor is granted. Y.M.

Serve as full-time Campus ministry coordinator in a K-12 Catholic, independent school with 1,100 students. Previous experience needed. Master’s Degree in related fields preferred.

DIRECTOR FOR START-UP BOYS CLUB

for room for Organist House rent rent ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS

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Help Wanted

Opportunities We’re offering 400 limited partner interests to finance a Hollywood motion picture about Mother Teresa. We have an Oscar-nominated cinematographer and an Oscar winning make-up artiist on board our film. All documentation will be disclosed upon qualification of investor. Please contact (310) 902-7713 or astronet@Lycos.com

Catholic San Francisco

Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

Special Needs Companion Services We are looking for you.

• Honest • Generous • Compassionate • Make a Difference • Respectful

Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

CLASSIFIED AD INFORMATION

DEADLINE THURSDAYS - 3 PM

TO PLACE AN AD: By phone, call (415) 614-5639 or (415) 614-5640 or fax (415) 614-5641 or

COMMERCIAL ADS: (Four line minimum) $15 for four lines, $2 per EXTRA line – applies to

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Business Services, Real Estate, Buying or Selling for profit, and Transportation Dealers.

PRIVATE PARTY ADS: (Four line minimum) $10 for four lines, $1.00 per EXTRA line – applies to

by telephone, mail, or fax. ONLY VISA or MASTERCARD ACCEPTED.

PAYMENT: All ads must be paid in advance. Money order, or imprinted checks. Credit Cards

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