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Storm-ravaged New Orleans symbolizes destruction brought to Gulf Coast States by Hurricane Katrina.

Catholics mobilize to offer food and housing to hurricane refugees

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Catholic parishes and organizations across the country and particularly in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas are responding to emergency and long-term needs for Hurricane Katrina refugees by providing shelters, food, medicine and schooling.

Virtually all dioceses nationwide planned parish collections the first weekends of September and immediate assistance is coming from Catholic Charities agencies, St. Vincent de Paul societies, Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals, parishes, retreat centers and families.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco, at the request of the Red Cross and San Francisco city officials, made St.

Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center available as a shelter site for 300 people. Services will be provided by a cooperative effort involving the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities CYO, San Francisco Department of Human Services, and the San Francisco Office of Emergency Management/Homeland Security.

Bishop John C. Wester, apostolic administrator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said, “In following the example of Christ, we have a willingness to help others, and we reach out to welcome those in need with love and compassion. This is who we are as a community, as a church, as the body of Christ.”

Brian Cahill said Catholic Charities/CYO, which serves people in need regardless of their faith affiliation,

would be providing case management and services for seniors and children.

Father John Talesfore said planned events at the Cathedral Conference Center would have to be rescheduled. He said, “At a time like this, we open the doors of the Cathedral and we open our hearts to those who have been displaced by the devastating hurricane.”

The Katrina refugees are expected to remain in the temporary shelter at St. Mary’s Cathedral for about 30 to 60 days.

Bishop Wester said the welcoming of Hurricane Katrina victims to St. Mary’s Cathedral is an act of compassion that involves all of the faithful in all of the parishes of the Archdiocese. HURRICANE REFUGEES, page 3

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Soon to be donning their uniforms as 4th graders is last year’s 3rd Grade basketball team at St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco who went 8 and 0 on the season to become CYO Division 5 champs. Front from left: Isabella Fong, Claudia Fong, Florence Fong, Viviane Nguyen, Kelly Wong. Back from left: Nichole McManus, Brigid O’Brien, Mary Driscoll, Sophie Napoli Kudos to coaches, too.

From left: George Salfiti, Willie Durkin and Mara Durkin Thanks to Kelly Wong’s folks, Victor and Jenny for the good news.

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Students from St. Finn Barr Elementary School led song at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in June. Back from left: Marietta Mendoza, mom of 6th grader Christopher and Geraldine, an upcoming freshman at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Dominican Sisters Esther Pedgato and Imelda Sorianosos, Peter Smith, dad of 4th grader, Clayton, Father Steven Meriwether, Most Holy Redeemer pastor, Tom Dooher, St. Finn Barr principal. Members of the choir included 3rd graders, Reyana Maguad, left, and Rebecca Stapleton.

The artwork of Holy Angels 5th grader Natalie Gomez took first place in February’s Black History Month celebration sponsored by the Daly City Park and Recreation office. Natalie’s winning poster depicted civil rights hero, Rosa Parks. Natalie’s teacher last year was Joan Roensch.

This school year she is under the tutelage of Laura Nordman….Rose Franco, a mainstay of San Mateo’s St. Bartholomew Parish, celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends June 5th at St. Bart’s Parish Center. At her mother’s side for the festivities was Rose’s daughter.

Lorraine Carmassi, who with her husband, Angelo, celebrated 50 years of marriage in August. Also sending along best wishes to the new centenarian were President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. Everyone enjoyed Amazing Grace as performed by Vanessa Ament, now studying music at Seattle’s Cornish Music College.

Thanks for the good news to Marie Ament, Vanessa’s grandma and also of St. Bart’s. “Rose was certainly perky,”

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Marie said. “She blew out all the candles on her cake.” The party was part of a Bingo Luncheon held twice a month at St. Bart’s with the help of volunteers including Trudy Huygen, Louise Molinelli, Joan S c h a u g h n e s s y, Ursula Esteves, and Gloria D’Angelo. Also remembered was Rose’s husband, Dennis, who died in 1958. Dennis was the first manager of the Westlake Natalie Gomez with Holy Angels branch of Bank of vice-principal, Kathi Lee. America and actually learned the banking business at the knee of B of A founder, A.P. Giannini….Happy to run into Msgr. John Foudy, retired pastor, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish and who at 91 says he’s in the top tier of aging for a man. “There are three stages,” the former Superintendent of Schools told me. “Boyhood, middle age and ‘Gee, you look great’.”…Happy birthday to Father Gerry O’Rourke who turned 80 years old May 27th. “For the 80th, you get to celebrate the whole year long,” the Director Emeritus of Ecumenical and Interfaith Affairs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said…. Thanks and congrats at St. Timothy Parish to Irl Tessari Bolin who has retired after

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Hurricane refugees . . .

Elsewhere, the Archdiocese of GalvestonHouston has responded to a request from the American Red Cross to open one of its 21 available shelters to help with the flow of refugees from Hurricane Katrina.

Josephite Father Rawlin Enette, pastor at St. Peter Claver in Galveston, said, “We mobilized very quickly. They called and said they wanted to come in and I said, ‘Bring the folks!’” said Father Enette. As refugees arrived, American Red Cross nurses assisted those with medical needs, and everyone received food and clothing.

The Diocese of Alexandria, La., 190 miles north of New Orleans, had several of its facilities designated as evacuation sites.

The diocesan high school was housing people evacuated from Our Lady of Wisdom House, a retirement facility in New Orleans, which initially evacuated 103 residents to a stadium in Alexandria.

The Diocese of Shreveport, La., where a number or refugees have been resettled, announced it would accept any children affected by Hurricane Katrina in Shreveport diocesan schools at no cost. The schools will keep a transcript of grades to send back to the schools in southern Louisiana when they reopen.

In Beaumont, Texas, the Catholic schools are also opening their doors to the children displaced by the hurricane and students from Msgr. Kelly High School in Beaumont are volunteering their time at the shelters. Local churches have been feeding the people in shelters and in hotels, cooking meals and providing monetary and medical assistance. The St. Vincent de Paul Society in nearby Winnie, with a population of about 5,000, has coordinated community efforts to house and feed several hundred refugees at the local community center.

Dozens of parishes in Arkansas are also assisting parishioners who are taking in family members and other evacuees who relocated to the state. Catholic Charities of

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National Guard and federal agents evacuate residents of New Orleans Sept. 5 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast Aug. 29.

Hundreds of thousands of evacuees were taking refuge in shelters, hotels and private homes across the country following the powerful hurricane. The storm, with its subsequent flooding, was thought to be one of America's worst natural disasters.

Arkansas is planning for long-term assistance to families. Several Catholic schools have already enrolled students at no charge.

The diocese and schools are going to ensure families will not have to pay for their child’s textbooks, uniforms and lunches.

Meanwhile, expectations are that Louisiana and New Orleans face a long recovery from Hurricane Katrina and related flooding — one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the United States.

Archbishop Alfred E. Hughes of New Orleans and Bishop Robert W. Muench of Baton Rouge appeared on television Aug. 31 with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco as the governor declared a day of prayer.

Archbishop Hughes, who has set up temporary operating quarters in Baton Rouge, thanked the governor for “designating this moment for prayer.”

“God has brought us to our knees in the face of disaster,” he said. “We are so overwhelmed, we do not really know how to

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And we know when we turn to God, God offers us his grace.”

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onfessions are tough. Real tough. But, sometimes a confession can set the record straight, and I want to give credit where credit is due. Before I talk about my confession, though, let me say a few other things first.

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“Back then I was a student just about ready college, when my younger brother developed a painful leg condition known as ‘sciatica.’ In his case it came on suddenly. The pain in his leg was so intense that he couldn’t walk without limping, and sometimes he couldn’t straighten his legs to put on his socks. I remember him telling me it felt like someone was stabbing his leg with a screwdriver. He was afraid that he would be confined to a wheelchair if the disability continued. It all happened so fast, one week he was competing as an athlete at the national level and the next week he could barely take care of himself. He was devastated.

After considering surgery (that was the only option, according to the surgeon) he decided against it. I remember feeling so helpless, I wish there was something I could do for him. It was a very scary time . But there’s more . . .

A friend of mine convinced me to have my brother give their doctor a try. This new doctor did an exam, took some films, and then ‘adjusted’ his spine. He told me that the adjustment didn’t hurt, it actually felt good. He got relief, and he can use his legs again. Oh, did I mention that this doctor is a chiropractor? It worked so well for my brother, and I’m so impressed with the other ‘miracles’ I see in this doctor’s office, that

“It looks like it’s going to be a long haul — a very long haul,” said Divine Providence Sister Mary Bordelon, Alexandria diocesan director of Catholic Community Services.

Alexandria is about 150 miles northwest of New Orleans but Sister Bordelon said the Coliseum, a domed arena that can hold more than 5,000 people, was being turned into a shelter for flood and storm victims.

“There are a lot of refugees from southern Louisiana,” she said. “We’re just trying to deal with people as they come in.”

The Alexandria Diocese was not in Katrina’s direct path and did not suffer much damage, Sister Bordelon said, although the eastern portion, along the Mississippi River, had some power outages.

Laura Deavers, editor of The Catholic Commentator in Baton Rouge, said “Baton Rouge is fine,” apart from some power outages and a few fallen trees, she said, but the damage to New Orleans and coastal regions of Mississippi and Alabama “is just incredible.”

“We really don’t know how bad New Orleans is,” she added. “There are areas where there will be nothing (left).”

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I eventually go to chiropractic school myself.

And that’s how it happened!”

Now for my son Rion (pronounced Ryan), who is the baby in the photo. He’s not old enough to know how chiropractic works, but he loves to get his spine adjusted. Along with making sure that his spine develops properly, spinal adjustments keep Rion’s immune system working at its best. Rion rarely gets sick. That seems like a small thing, but it makes a huge difference to him. It seems like only a new puppy will be able to keep up with his energy.

It’s amazing how life is, because now people come to see me with their sciatica problems.

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California bishops support parental notification initiative SACRAMENTO — California’s Catholic bishops support an initiative on the Nov. 8 special election ballot that would require doctors to notify parents when a minor seeks an abortion. In a statement, the bishops urged Catholics statewide to promote the initiative as “good public policy” and to vote in its favor at the polls. Proposition 73, called the Parents’ Right to Know Act by its sponsors, is a constitutional amendment that would prevent minors from having an abortion until 48 hours after a doctor has informed their parents or legal guardians in writing. Parents who had been told of the procedure could waive the notification delay, which the initiative terms a “reflection period.” Doctors could also waive the notification if they deemed the abortion a medical emergency. A judicial bypass would also be provided for cases of physical or sexual abuse by the parent or guardian, and a minor would be guaranteed access to the juvenile court if she is being coerced to have an abortion.

Father Kevin McCarthy registers Meghan Wolthusen and Allison Clark to spend the night at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Student Center in Valparaiso, Ind., Sept 4. St. Teresa invited students, community members and area families to sacrifice their comfortable beds and air conditioning for one night and be in solidarity with all victims displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In response, St. Teresa donated $100 toward relief efforts for every individual who participated.

Diocese to appeal bankruptcy court decision that parishes are assets

Patricia Williams of Spokane ruled Aug. 26 that civil property laws prevail in a bankruptcy proceeding despite any internal church laws that might bar a bishop from full control over parish assets. Diocesan lawyers had argued that in church law parish assets belong to the parish itself, not to its pastor or to the bishop. They said that, while the diocesan bishop was nominally the owner in civil law, even in civil law he only held those properties in trust for the parishes themselves. “It is not a violation of the First Amendment,” Williams wrote, “to apply federal bankruptcy law to identify and define property of the bankruptcy estate even though the Chapter 11 debtor is a religious organization.”

SPOKANE, Wash. — Citing the “national consequences,” Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane said he will appeal a federal bankruptcy court’s ruling that parish properties must be included in the Spokane diocesan assets used to settle millions of dollars in clergy sex abuse claims. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge

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Catching up with Archbishop Levada

Former Polish President Lech Walesa, his wife, Danuta, and his son, Jaroslaw, kneel next to Jolanta Kwasniewska, right, wife of Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, during a Mass near the main gate of the shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, Aug. 31.

Representatives of 30 governments as well as human rights activists and historians gathered in Poland to commemorate the 1980 Gdansk shipyard strike that ended with the birth of Eastern Europe's first independent trade union, Solidarity.

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SAN FRANCISCO – More than 800 people, many in colorful ethnic costumes, paid tribute to Archbishop William J. Levada at a dinner Aug. 10 at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center. The event was an opportunity to express gratitude and good wishes to Archbishop Levada, said Sister Maria Hsu, director of Ethnic Ministries for the Archdiocese. Archbishop Levada left for Rome Aug. 15. Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Levada Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on May 13. The Vatican announced Aug. 24 that Pope Benedict had appointed Archbishop Levada a member of the Congregation for Bishops.

Child farmworkers face double standard WASHINGTON — At an age when Norma Flores was too young to legally work in an air-conditioned office, she was fleeing an airplane spraying pesticides on the field where she was tending crops as a migrant farmworker. “We had to run out of the field,” recalled Flores, who was 14 when the spraying took place.

“They sent us to the wrong field,” she said. Flores, now 20, was personalizing what critics of U.S. child labor law call the double standard embedded in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. The law, still in force, does not provide the same protection to children working on farms as it does to youngsters working at other occupations. Many fruits and vegetables eaten daily at U.S. tables

were sown, cultivated and harvested by kids as young as 10, without limits on the number of hours they could work daily under a summer sun. Flores’ story does not surprise Sister of Notre Dame Charlotte Hobelman. As coordinator of migrant ministries for the U.S. bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services, Sister Hobelman knows that farm work for minors is no field of dreams. She sees firsthand the harmful effects on children’s health, education and psychological well-being under current migrant child labor law.

“We have an outdated labor law,” she said.

Catholic official calls number of uninsured a ‘moral injustice’ WASHINGTON — The number of people without health insurance is “a moral injustice that must end,” said Michael Rodgers, interim president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association, commenting on newly released U.S. Census Bureau figures. The Census Bureau’s annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage, released Aug. 30, showed that the nation’s poverty rate increased for the fourth year in a row, from 35.9 million people (12.5 percent) in 2003 to 37 million people (12.7 percent) in 2004. Last year, the number of people without health insurance was 45.8 million, an increase of 800,000 from the previous year, but the percentage of people without health insurance remained at 15.7 percent.

The percentage of people covered by employer-based health insurance decreased, while the number covered by federal insurance programs increased. Rodgers said the overall increase in the uninsured is particularly “unconscionable” because he said many of the newly uninsured are infants and toddlers.

Pope says faith is not just following dogma, but constant search for God CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Faith is not just compliance with dogma, but entails an incessant search for the authentic face of God, Pope Benedict XVI said in his Aug. 28 Angelus talk.

“Looking for Christ must be a constant yearning of believers, of young people and adults, of the faithful and their pastors,” the pope told pilgrims gathered in the courtyard of the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. “Faith is not simply compliance

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400 Bible experts to attend Vatican conference VATICAN CITY — More than 400 biblical experts from 98 countries are expected to attend a Vatican-sponsored conference in September to commemorate the Second Vatican Council’s document on Scripture and revelation. The Sept. 14-18 encounter in Rome will feature formal presentations and discussions on the theme, “Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church.” In addition to Catholic experts, representatives of other Christian churches and other religions also have been invited, the Vatican said Sept. 1.

Participants will attend an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, who attended the council as a theological expert and had a key role in the preparatory discussions on the revelation document. Published in November 1965, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (“Dei Verbum”) said the church depends on both Scripture and tradition as the one deposit of the faith. It encouraged biblical reading for all members of the church as an essential spiritual resource.

Zimbabweans’ plight alarms church officials CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The plight of Zimbabweans who have fled to neighboring

South Africa to escape political and economic hardships has alarmed South African Catholic officials as well as a church delegation from Zimbabwe. Those seeking asylum complain about ill treatment by South African government officials and police, said Kabelo Selema, organizing secretary of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference justice and peace department in Pretoria. He said most of the estimated 1.5 million Zimbabweans in South Africa are economic refugees and seek work on farms in northern South Africa or in Johannesburg. A group of seven clergy representing the Hararebased Zimbabwe National Pastors’ Conference said Zimbabweans living in South Africa had jumped “from the frying pan into the fire” because of the squalid conditions in which they live and the failure of South African police to offer them protection against harassment.

Polish prelate says values that led to Solidarity needed for Europe GDANSK, Poland — A Polish archbishop said the same Christian values that led to the formation of the country’s Solidarity union movement in 1980 are needed to build a united Europe today. “Solidarity was born out of concern for the human person and his spiritual and material needs and from a feeling of great responsibility for the nation’s common good,” Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow told a congregation of 30,000 at a Mass in Gdansk’s Solidarity Square Aug. 31.

“Although it brought together various often diametrically different viewpoints, it appealed to national and religious traditions and awakened a patriotic awareness. It made people sensitive to the needs of others, especially the weak, sick and interned. This spirit of

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with a complete set of dogmas, which would drown out” humanity’s thirst for God, he said.

Rather, faith propels human beings on a path toward God, who is “always new in his infinity,” he said. The Christian, then, “is someone who both seeks and finds at the same time,” said the pope. This cycle of longing, searching and discovering is what makes the church “young, open to the future, and rich in hope for all of humanity,” he said.

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Members of the Missionaries of Charity sing on the eighth anniversary of Blessed Mother Teresa's death in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta Sept. 5.

Mother Teresa, who founded the order, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

Christian values is needed today ... by a united and uniting Europe if it is not to share the fate of a castle built on sand,” said the archbishop.

Senior politicians and church leaders from two dozen countries gathered in the northern port city to mark the signing of the Gdansk Accords, under which Poland’s communist regime accepted 21 demands by 17,000 striking shipyard workers from the newly formed Solidarity union.

Numbers increase at Irish national seminary DUBLIN, Ireland — For the first time in years, numbers are up at Ireland’s national

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Nineteen first-year seminarians began their studies for the priesthood Aug. 27, bringing the total number of seminarians at St. Patrick’s at the start of the new academic year to 75, compared with 63 last year. Church officials say the small increase is good news for a country that has seen vocations shrink from thousands to dozens. Since the 1940s, when Ireland was ordaining more than a thousand priests per year, Irish vocations have decreased steadily.

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As Katrina relief begins, Vincentians reaffirm commitment to poor

By Michelle Martin CHICAGO (CNS) — As scenes of destruction along the Gulf Coast played on television, more than 700 members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society gathered Aug. 31-Sept. 3 in Chicago to discuss and reaffirm their mission to serve the poor.

Samuel Carocci, chairman of the society’s national disaster response committee, took the microphone before the keynote address Sept. 3 to update members on the situation.

“We have to aid these people,” said Carocci, a member of a St. Vincent de Paul council in Buffalo, N.Y. That means raising money and sending it to volunteer councils in the affected areas, Carocci said, where local members can use it to provide direct aid to those in need. But, he said, the affected areas have spread far beyond Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as people displaced by the storm and the aftermath make their way to other areas.

When they appeal for funds, Carocci said, local councils should emphasize that every penny donated to hurricane relief through the society will be used to help victims.

He said the disaster also should serve as a wake-up call to members of local councils to get disaster response training from their local Red Cross chapters to prepare themselves for other disasters.

Most importantly, Carocci said, members should pray for the victims and for those working directly with them.

“Pray for them to have patience,” he said, noting the stress stretching both victims and volunteers to the breaking point.

“People in distress don’t act normal.”

The emphasis on prayer and Vincentian service is what sets the St. Vincent de Paul Society apart, said its leaders.

“We pray together,” said Eugene Smith, the outgoing national president. “We reflect on the service of Jesus, and then we do that. The faith is what drives us to serve the people who are in need. It’s Jesus washing the feet of the poor.”

Doing so means Vincentian volunteers render direct service.

They go in twos to visit people in need, and offer whatever aid is necessary, said Smith, who volunteers with his local council in San Francisco. “It’s neighbors helping neighbors.”

Joseph Flannigan, the incoming president, agreed.

“We see the face of Christ in the poor,” he said. “So when we visit them, we visit Christ.”

Emphasizing the need for Vincentian formation was one of the main accomplishments of his six-year term, Smith said.

That was part of the strategic plan Smith helped create — a plan that Father Michael Boland, the society’s spiritual adviser, said helped to unite the councils.

“The work flows from the spiritual side,” said Father Boland, who also is administrator of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago. “With the strategic plan, the spiritual component really helped bring every one to an understanding of why we do what we do.”

The plan also focused on increasing membership, which nearly doubled, to 120,000. Last year, the society, through its local councils, raised and spent more than $200 million to help 15 million people in the United States.

The aid included money for rent and utilities, food, goods donated to St. Vincent de Paul stores and other items. Perhaps more important, it came with the hand of friendship.

Flannigan, a volunteer with a St. Vincent de Paul council in East Brunswick, N.J., said he wants the society to continue to work against racism and advocate for social justice.

“We need to create an awareness that we are an organization that is called to serve the poor regardless of our race,” he said.

“We also need to find a way to welcome people from other cultural and language groups.”

The society must welcome them as friends, as they welcome those whom they serve. That is the key aspect of Vincentian spirituality, said Father Gregory Gay, the general superior of the Congregation of the Mission, who offered the keynote address.

Father Gay discussed the spirituality that unites the lay St. Vincent de Paul Society, Vincentian priests and brothers, the Daughters of Charity and their lay associates.

“The poor are not objects of our charity,” Father Gay said.

“They are members of our Vincentian family. ... They are sent to prove our justice and charity, to save us by our works. The more difficult they will be, the more you must love them.”

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In hurricane’s wake, a new dilemma: Treating the dead with dignity WASHINGTON (CNS) — Not long after Hurricane Katrina devastated U.S. cities along the Gulf of Mexico, news media captured an image as indelible as it was poignant: a woman weeping alongside the body of her common-law husband, who had died of cancer amid the rising floodwaters of New Orleans. With his body wrapped in a sheet, she found little solace and even less help until, for $20, a truck driver carted both the woman and her dead companion in a flatbed truck filled with downed tree limbs to a hospital.

It is “an image that’s stayed with me the last couple of days, the woman with the body of her husband on a raft, carrying him down the streets, floating his body to some place of proper repose,” said Msgr. James Moroney, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Liturgy.

“What was she looking for? She was looking for a way to carry him to his place of rest. She was looking for the arms of God,” he added.

The woman’s plight brings home one dilemma that will confront Catholics throughout the hurricane-stricken areas of the Gulf Coast: how to deal with the dead with dignity.

Hundreds were feared killed in the hurricane, although no comprehensive tally was available in the days immediately afterward. Catholics were no less likely to be victims than those of other faiths.

In the Archdiocese of New Orleans, where the hurricane struck hardest, the situation could be more acute, since about 35 percent of all residents of the archdiocese are Catholic; in the United States as a whole, the figure is closer to 24 percent.

Both Msgr. Moroney and Mark Christian, president of the National Catholic Cemetery Conference, made comparisons between Katrina’s devastation and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“Although the loss (in 2001) was tragic, it certainly wasn’t as widespread,” Christian said. “Our infrastructure was fairly intact on 9/11 — it’s not here.”

Msgr. Moroney said there are “a number of strategies that could be employed that remind us all in a particularly tragic way of what took place immediately after 9/11 — large numbers of Catholics who needed to be buried in the full course of Catholic burial rites.”

The primary goal was to “provide for the greatest respect of ... the body of the deceased — (to give) the fullest extent of Catholic burial rites wherever possible,” he said. He acknowledged that in Katrina’s aftermath “the first challenge is simply getting the bodies to a place where bodies can be preserved to an extent that burial is possible.”

The next concern “would be the celebration of funeral rites to whatever extent possible. Just as neighboring dioceses have embraced the family members of these dioceses that have suffered so terribly,” Msgr. Moroney said, “at the same time I know that the neighboring dioceses would welcome the opportunity to be of assistance in the burial of those who have died.”

Msgr. Moroney and Christian each have seen other images on television of grave markers upset and uprooted by the hurricane and its flooding, and of floodwaters halfway up the above-ground burial vaults in New Orleans, much of which lies below sea level.

“We’re dealing with massive destruction at the cemeteries themselves,” said Christian.

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Associates of the Union County Coroner's Office recover bodies at the University of Southern Mississippi's Huckleberry Hill Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Pass Christian, Miss., Aug. 31. Catholic officials said the massive number of deaths caused by Hurricane Katrina presents a challenge in treating the dead with appropriate dignity.

Msgr. Moroney said it is not an absolute requirement to have the body of the deceased present at a funeral Mass to be able to pray for the dead. “We experienced that in a painful way in (the case of) 9/11, often when there was just ashes and sometimes no body at all. I sus-

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Archbishop Levada receives Assumpta Award Archbishop William J. Levada was presented with the Assumpta Award at the home of Theodore and Dorothy Kitt in San Francisco on August 11. The Assumpta Award is granted each year by the Board of Regents of St. Mary’s Cathedral to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the life of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The award is usually presented at a Gala dinner, however, because of Archbishop Levada’s departure for Rome, it was held at a private reception with former and current Cathedral Regents as well as former recipients of the Assumpta Award.

The award itself is a bronze bas-relief of the Cathedral’s Shrine of the Assumption by Italian Sculptor Enrico Manfrini. The award represents the recognition of the mother Church of the Archdiocese for the leadership and service of the awardee. Past recipients include among others, Former Archbishop John R. Quinn, Mrs. Alice Asturias, Richard and Marygrace Dunn and Christian Brother Christopher Brady.

Archbishop Levada received the award with much gratitude and promised to display it prominently at his new residence in Rome. The Archbishop’s name has also been inscribed on a plaque honoring Assumpta Award recipients at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) — Should Judge John G. Roberts be confirmed as the chief justice of the United States, he would become the third Catholic to hold that post.

Two days after the Sept. 3 death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, President George W. Bush announced that he was nominating Roberts, 50, to become the new chief. In July Bush had nominated Roberts to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. His decision to make Roberts his nominee for chief justice means there remains a vacancy for an associate justice.

Confirmation hearings for Roberts were to begin sometime after Rehnquist’s Sept. 7 funeral.

The first Catholic on the Supreme Court was also the first Catholic chief justice. Justice Roger B. Taney served as chief from 1836 until 1864. Taney, the son of a Maryland plantation owner and slaveholder, was named to the court to fill the vacancy for chief justice.

The only other Catholic to have been chief justice, Edward Douglas White, was elevated to the position in 1910 after 16 years on the court as an associate justice.

Roberts would be the 10th Catholic on the court since it first assembled in 1790.

He also would be the fourth Catholic among its current members, joining Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas, the most at one time. Until Kennedy joined Scalia on the court in 1988, there had only been one Catholic on the court at a time.

Roberts, his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, and their two children are members of Little Flower Parish in Bethesda, Md. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., he attended Catholic schools there and in Indiana when his family moved to the northwestern part of the state when he was in junior high.

The nomination of Roberts to be chief justice in some ways echoes the situation when Rehnquist joined the court, when there also were two vacancies. The late

Justice Lewis Powell was sworn in as an associate the same day as Rehnquist in January 1972. Rehnquist was elevated to chief justice in 1986.

The last justice to join the court as chief was Warren Burger in 1969, Rehnquist’s immediate predecessor as head of the nation’s highest court.

Roberts, who has been a member of the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia for two years, previously was in private practice in Washington, after serving as a deputy U.S. solicitor general from 1989 to 1993 and as a White House legal adviser during the Reagan administration. He also clerked for Rehnquist.

As of Sept. 6 it was unclear whether both O’Connor’s and Rehnquist’s seats could be filled by the time the court reconvenes Oct. 3. When she announced her retirement, O’Connor said she would continue to work until her replacement was sworn in. So, depending on how quickly another nominee is confirmed, she might still be on the job for the first cases of the term.

Senate Judiciary Committee staffers said it takes about six weeks from the time a nominee is named to gather background material and hold confirmation hearings.

The last time the court functioned with seven members was the first few months of the term that began in 1971, when Justices Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan announced their retirements shortly before the beginning of the session.

The New York Times said Sept. 5 that after Black and Harlan resigned Burger and the remaining justices sorted out which cases were clear enough to hear with reduced numbers and which were likely to become so contentious that they should be put off until there were nine members seated.

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Local pilgrims reflect on World Youth Day

By Evelyn Zappia An estimated crowd of nearly a million gathered in Marienfeld near Cologne, Germany eager for the final event of World Youth Day to begin - Pope Benedict XVI celebrating the Concluding Mass, Aug. 21. Vatican officials reported that the Pope was just as excited as the young people. It was considered the highlight of the WYD 2005 events that spanned the week from Aug.16-21.

Among the immense crowd stood 49 pilgrims from the dioceses of San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, and Reno. Their trip, one of many from the region, was sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and organized

by Mary Jansen, director of Young Adult Ministry. They camped overnight in the giant field with nearly a million WYD participants from 190 countries. Included among them were 24,000 U.S. young people. Some 73 U.S. Bishops met up with their delegations.

Pope Benedict XVI was welcoming and encouraging, according to Father Francis Goode of San Francisco’s St. Dominic Church.

The Dominican priest who traveled with the San Francisco pilgrims as a spiritual advisor was impressed with the gentle tone of the Pope’s many messages. For example, the Pontiff called upon the faithful to participate regularly in Sunday Mass saying, “You will realize that this is what gives a proper focus to your free time.� “The Pope didn’t condemn anyone or say they were going to Hell if they didn’t go to Sunday Mass,� Father Goode said. “He explained that Mass is an important way to set our orientation for the rest of the week in a world of mixed values.�

Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox, also a spiritual advisor for the group, was “impressed� by the Pope’s obvious delight in being with the young people.

Stephanie Wesolek, a 23 year old from St. Vincent de Paul parish in San Francisco said a personal highlight of the trip was “the mass that we put on in with Archbishop Levada. It was a beautiful mass, with a beautiful choir that came together within our group so easily.� Wesolek stressed though that the trip was “not a vacation, it is a pilWORLD YOUTH DAY, page 11

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World Youth Day . . . ■Continued from page 10 grimage. We prayed together, we celebrated Mass, we walked for miles, saw amazing architecture and sang for hours together.�

Becky Stone, a young parishioner of Reno’s Our Lady of the Snows Parish was moved when Pope Benedict said, “We must not abandon the elderly to their solitude.

We must not pass by when we meet people who are suffering.� “It’s important that the Pope reminded us to take care of the elderly,� Stone said. “Although youth is the future of the Church, we still need to connect with the elderly. They have many gifts, and so much we can learn from them.� “The pure joy that the young people had in the presence of the Holy Father was not just contagious but it filled all present with hope for a better future,� said Mark Hanifan, seminarian with the Diocese of Reno. “’Unity in diversity,’ are words of our Pope that express his hope for all Christian people,� said Sister Patricia Farrell, spiritual advisor for the pilgrims. “Certainly, this crowd represented that unity and diversity with a multitude of languages and flags from many countries.�

The Dominican Sister of San Francisco’s St. Dominic Church added, “It was a privilege to accompany this wonderful group of young adults on pilgrimage. I believe we have transformed one another.�

The 49 travelers began their pilgrimage Aug. 11 at the San Francisco International Airport. Before their departure to Germany, Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang celebrated Mass in the airport’s chapel, and blessed the pilgrims.

Their six-day travel from Munich to Cologne made a stop at Dachau, Germany’s first concentration camp built in 1933. Sister

Christine said she was “deeply touched to pray with others at Dachau: for the souls of those lives lost there; for peace in our world; for all of us that we grow to be more tolerant and loving as Jesus taught us.�

Stone said that Dachau allowed her to focus on the suffering of people and the suffering of Christ. It was a moving and learning experience for her.

For Kira Creighton, 16, Dachau was an “intense� experience that overwhelmed her. “I felt so close to the world and God – it was amazing,� she said.

Creighton appreciated her entire weeklong trip. “Not only do you grow in faith, but you learn so much,� she said. “No words or pictures could explain or capture the most amazing experience of my life. It was hard. It was fun. It was wonderful!�

Stone explained upon her arrival home, “I am so spiritually fulfilled. It was a blessing.�

Father Goode quipped, “It was uncomfortable, physically demanding - and anyone who decides to go will love it.�

Sister Christine hoped that the Archdiocese would continue to sponsor such trips for the young adults “who are not only the future of the Church they are the present of the Church. These opportunities to pray and praise with others are invaluable in helping our community to grow stronger and more unified as well as teaching us the diversity that abounds.�

Pope Benedict described the WYD journey that young people undertake as an “Interior journey.� He explained, “the ultimate goal of the journey can be found through an encounter with Christ, an encounter which cannot take place without faith.�

The Pope spoke directly to the youth present saying, “I know that you as young people have great aspirations, that you want to pledge yourselves to build a better world.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

The bashing has begun The appointment of Archbishop Levada as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has provided a new opportunity for the cottage industry of Catholic Church bashers to regurgitate venomous assaults.

One such piece appears in the current issue of San Francisco magazine.

Months ago, freelance writer Jason Berry talked with the magazine’s chief editor about writing a profile of Archbishop Levada and his “secretive handling of the sexual abuse issue.”

With this “finding” established even before the project began, the writer’s efforts were directed at framing a case against Levada. The result is an article that omits pertinent facts and information, presents fictional interpretations, and ignores journalistic balance in an unrelenting drive to reach a predetermined judgment.

Ignoring a wealth of published information and access to people who have worked with Archbishop Levada, the writer produced a character assassination.

Berry packed his article with negative comments about Archbishop Levada — made by critics with a an obvious axe to grind or self-interest to promote – giving free rein to several trial lawyers who are notorious for suing the Church.

Some factual errors in the article typify a disturbing sloppiness in reporting. For example, Bishop John Wester is referred to as “George” Wester; the title Monsignor is given to a priest who never had the title; and “One Peter Yorke Way” is called the Archbishop’s residence, when, in fact, it is the Chancery office.

Other errors are more serious. For example, Berry writes that Father Ingels “helped fashion the church’s zero-tolerance policy and wrote a guidebook for U.S. Bishops on how to handle abuse cases.” Wrong on both points: After the approval of a zero-tolerance policy, the independent Canon Law Society of America asked several canon lawyers to write a resource guide for canon lawyers, separate and apart from the U.S. Bishops.

The writer completely misconstrues the lawsuit brought by Father John Conley against the Archdiocese and fails to note that the sitting judge threw out his claim of defamation. The writer also fails to note that Father Aylward’s admission was made two years after the incident in an unrelated deposition.

Berry claims that San Francisco District Attorney Hallinan “forced “ the Archdiocese to turn over records. In fact, Hallinan in a letter requested records and Archbishop Levada immediately volunteered to provide information on allegations of child sexual abuse made against clergy and other church employees going back 75 years.

Contrary to Berry’s assertions, Archbishop Levada strongly supported policies aimed at protecting children and young people from sexual abuse by clergy or other employees of the church. Nearly a year before the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” was proposed by U.S. Bishops in 2002, he established an independent fact-finding committee to review any allegations of sexual abuse against minors by clergy or others in the church.

Archbishop Levada also was vigorous in implementing all of the 17 articles of the 2002 U.S. Bishops’ Charter, including outreach and pastoral care for clergy abuse victims; a zero-tolerance policy that removes from ministry any member of the clergy with even one credible allegation of child sexual abuse; strict requirements for reporting sexual abuse to civil authorities; improved training and screening measures; and safe environment programs for children and youth.

The magazine reveals ignorance or animosity in calling Levada “a relatively obscure” archbishop. Trained for the priesthood in Rome, Archbishop Levada received a doctorate in theology and taught for a decade. He was recommended to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1976 by Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin; he was praised by Belgian Cardinal Leo Jozef Suenens, a major architect of Vatican II; and he was appointed auxiliary bishop and archbishop by Pope John Paul II. He was the only U.S. Bishop who worked on the new Catechism, and he chaired the U.S. Bishops’ Doctrine committee. Widely respected in intellectual and interfaith circles, Archbishop Levada’s experience as a theologian and pastoral leader “make him well-suited for heading the doctrinal office,” said writer John Allen, who covers the Vatican for the independent newspaper National Catholic Reporter.

Perhaps the most disheartening aspect of Berry’s article is its blatant and potent attack on the Catholic Church. He demeans and deconstructs Catholicism just as a torturer de-humanizes his victim. For the writer, the Catholic Church is not a faith or a religion, but rather an evil “system”.

For a magazine that claims to represent literate San Francisco, the publication by San Francisco magazine of this attack on Archbishop Levada and the Catholic Church is beyond understanding and something that cannot be accepted by Catholics or those who respect honest and fair reporting.

We suggest that complaints be lodged with Steven Dinkelspiel, publisher, and Bruce Kelley, editor-in-chief. They can be reached at 415 398-2800. If you receive the magazine, you also might want to call the magazine’s advertisers and KQED Television, whose monthly listings appear in the independent publication. MEH

Voices on New Orleans from around America What do people really know about New Orleans?

Do they take away with them an awareness that it has always been not only a great white metropolis but also a great black city, a city where AfricanAmericans have come together again and again to form the strongest AfricanAmerican culture in the land? . . .

Later in the 19th century, as the Irish immigrants poured in by the thousands, filling the holds of ships that had emptied their cargoes of cotton in Liverpool, and as the German and Italian immigrants soon followed, a vital and complex culture emerged. Huge churches went up to serve the great faith of the city’s European-born Catholics; convents and schools and orphanages were built for the newly arrived and the struggling; the city expanded in all directions with new neighborhoods of large, graceful houses, or areas of more humble cottages, even the smallest of which, with their floorlength shutters and deep-pitched roofs, possessed an undeniable Caribbean charm.

Through this all, black culture never declined in Louisiana. In fact, New Orleans became home to blacks in a way, perhaps, that few other American cities have ever been. Dillard University and Xavier University became two of the most outstanding black colleges in America; and once the battles of desegregation had been won, black New Orleanians entered all levels of life, building a visible middle class that is absent in far too many Western and Northern American cities to this day.

Anne Rice – New York Times The thought of this region, or even the nation, being somehow punished for its sins, conjures twin feelings of excitement and dread among apocalyptic thinkers. On one hand, they seem delighted that a divine plan appears to be unfolding. With horrific events such as this, they believe, God (or Mother Nature) has shown them the world is so evil that it is closer than ever to the end of human history—which means they will spend eternity in a happier place. Yet they also believe God (or Mother Nature) is punishing Americans. That gives rise to their urgent need to stave off destruction through prayer, scolding, and trying to convert people to their way of thinking.

It’s worth noting that end-times fever also broke out during the Persian Gulf War, around the turn of the millennium five years ago, and then around September 11, as it has many times in history. Each time it happens, Americans (and humanity for millennia before) become convinced the End is upon them

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because they’ve sinned and that God or Mother Nature is angry.

Yet if people actually read the Bible, they can just as easily find an alternate view of the divine, a view that is diametrically opposite the wrathful avenger.

The Book of I Kings reads: “Behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind and earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.”

Deborah Caldwell – Beliefnet Bureaucrats, regardless of political persuasion, are always slow to act. After all, they’re the ones blowing all the answers in the wind talking. Fortunately, blessedly, ordinary Americans are responding. . .

Residents are now “refugees” — a political term usually reserved for people fleeing one country for another because of war or persecution. These very people — who tried to ride out Katrina — are now being welcomed to Texas and other states, where they will receive things New Orleans no longer can offer — food, shelter and clothing, even a drink of safe water. . .

This is who we are. We are rescuers.

And the despite the bureaucrats in the nation’s capital and the state capitals, we rise to the occasion.

Deborah Simmons – Washington Times For a city of only half a million people, New Orleans looms as large in our cultural imagination as L.A. or Chicago . . .

From its prissy French Quarter architecture to its brawny riverfront, to the shotgun houses of the traditionally black and Creole 7th, 8th and 9th wards, it is a place whose swirling eddies of French, African American, Caribbean and Roman Catholic influence have proven irresistible to those with brooding souls and hungry hearts. . .

Even people who’ve never set foot in Jackson Square may feel as if they know the Crescent City from poring over Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer” or John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces,” or by glimpsing the Southern Gothic underworld of Anne Rice’s vampire novels. Others may be transported there just by listening to a few bars of Jelly Roll Morton or the Marsalis brothers, Harry Connick Jr. or Dr. John, Buckwheat Zydeco or Master P. Reed Johnson – Los Angeles Times New Orleans, more than any other city in America except New York, was truly cosmopolitan.

Founded by French explorers and fur trappers, evangelized by Ursuline nuns and Jesuit fathers, rebuilt and reorganized by Spaniards (who constructed the French Quarter as we know it after a devastating fire), purchased and expanded by Jacksonian Americans, the city grew great on the commerce of the Mississippi, filling up with “free persons of color” and exotic hybrid Americans who called themselves “Creoles.”

The city also accepted many thousands of Irish, Sicilians and Jews, who defined its unique, near-Brooklynesque accent, and built the countless small shops and thriving businesses on the “American” side of Canal Street — the dividing line in the 19th century between the Anglos and the French.

John Zmirak – New York Post

September 9, 2005

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The Catholic Difference In late July, the Polish Parliament created a new national holiday, “John Paul II Day,” to be celebrated every October 16, the anniversary of Karol Wojtyla’s election as the 264th Bishop of Rome. According to the bill establishing the holiday, “John Paul II Day” is meant to “express the pride that a great humanist, a man of profound science and culture, was formed by the Polish tradition” - a man, the bill continued, who “taught how it is possible, keeping one’s own faith, to give respect and love to others.”

Just a month later, John Paul’s longtime secretary and confidant, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, was installed as the archbishop of Cracow. During the three-plus weeks I spent in Cracow this summer, I spoke with many of the new archbishop’s old friends, who were eager to welcome him home.

As indeed they should be. At the same time, Archbishop Dziwisz, his (and my) friends, and the entire Polish Church face a tremendous challenge. The parliament’s decision to create “John Paul II Day” is an admirable expression of a broadly felt national desire to honor a great son of Poland. The challenge for the Church in Poland will be to honor the memory of John Paul II by looking ahead, not by looking back.

Shortly after Archbishop Dziwisz’s appointment was announced, former Polish president Lech Walesa welcomed the news enthusiastically, saying, in so many words, that, just as John Paul II had told the Poles what to do with their hardwon freedom, Archbishop Dziwisz would now do the same.

The former Solidarity hero was wrong on both counts: John

Paul II didn’t give Poles political instructions (although he did talk President Walesa out of a hare-brained scheme to acquire nuclear weapons from rogue ex-Soviet operatives); and Archbishop Dziwisz shouldn’t (and won’t) issue political instructions to his people. The fact that Walesa seemed nostalgic for the days when the Polish hierarchy was a de facto political party does suggest, though, one measure of the challenge facing the new archbishop of Cracow.

Contrary to some expectations, Polish Catholicism hasn’t gone the way of Irish Catholicism, Spanish Catholicism, and Portuguese Catholicism in the sixteen years since the Revolution of 1989 - which is to say, Poland hasn’t abandoned its historic faith and the religious roots of its national culture.

Quite the contrary. Poland today remains the most intensely Catholic culture this side of Guadalupe or Manila. Vocations to the priesthood and religious life are strong in their own right, and astonishingly high by western standards. The Church remains the most respected institution in the country.

As an American friend says every year in Cracow, “It’s amazing to be in a city where the principal civic activity on Sunday morning is going to Mass.”

Yet fervor, piety, and high rates of religious practice aren’t the whole story of Polish Catholicism. With rare exceptions, the Polish episcopate has yet to find a genuinely “public” voice in the debates over the life issues, biotechnology, and marriage in which all European and North American democracies are now embroiled. The Marxism of the bad old

days in Polish high culture has frequently been replaced by the kind of post-modern skepticism and relativism that have eroded the civilizational morale of western Europe; and the Church has not, to George Weigel date, effectively taught John Paul II’s conviction that we can, in fact, know the truth of things - even moral things - in ways that challenge the regnant intellectual cynicism. The intellectual and spiritual formation in diocesan seminaries must be strengthened, so that the priests of Poland’s 21st century are equipped to deal with the questions of Catholic faith and practice that inevitably arise in modern societies - and equipped to give more persuasive answers than “Because I told you so.”

John Paul the Great tried to help Poland prepare to be “the Church in the modern world” envisioned by Vatican II - a Church engaging the hardest question of contemporary life out of a deepened appreciation of the riches of its own tradition. Poland will best honor the memory of its noblest son by applying his teaching boldly and creatively, not nostalgically, to the future.

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

Family Life

Care for the caregiver “Respite care” means a break for someone who is taking care of an sick person, a rest for the person who has accepted responsibility for the well-being of another, usually a family member. In some instances it’s a mother taking care of a child with a severe disability. In other cases it’s an adult child and a sick parent. In still others it’s one aging person taking care of a spouse.

No matter the particular circumstances, a primary caregiver needs to take breaks. Otherwise the caregiver soon will burn out and will be unable to take care of anyone, including himself or herself.

These are some points to consider: —Caregiving is physically and emotionally draining.

There’s a tremendous sense of responsibility that can be coupled with strong feelings of guilt: “I’m not doing enough.” “I’m not doing this well.” “Sometimes I don’t want to do this.” Without a break, it’s easy for anger to surface, and with that comes an increased risk of physical and/or verbal abuse. If abuse already is occurring, it’s a clear indication that respite care is overdue.

—Respite care does not mean a week off every six months or a free weekend every few months (although such breaks are very helpful and healthy). It’s several hours — perhaps once or twice a week — away from the situation, with someone else assuming the caregiver role. But often that’s more easily said than done. It can be hard for the primary caregiver to allow someone else to do the job, even for a short while.

—Don’t be surprised if you feel guilty when you’re taking a break, or if you blame yourself because you need to get away or if you feel bad because in some ways you might not want to go back. But remember that respite care will help you be a better caregiver. Taking that short step back from the immediate situation will help you see it better. It will give you a moment to catch your breath.

—Remember, too, that the break is for you. Don’t fill the time running errands for the person in your care, going grocery shopping, getting the car fixed and so on. Do something for you. Do what you used to like to do but no longer have time for.

—One final point: Perhaps you are not a primary caregiver but your spouse or parent is.

Remember it can be very difficult for people in that position to say “I need some time off.” A caregiver may be waiting for Bill and Monica encouragement from you Dodds to begin to take those vital breaks. Be gentle, be loving, be firm as you help the caregiver see what a difference respite care can make.

Monica Dodds’ Web site for Catholic caregivers is www.YourAgingParent.com.

Bill and Monica Dodds are the editors of “My Daily Visitor” magazine.

Spirituality

Moving to a new job and a new city Never assume that your life is as interesting to others as it is to yourself.

A wise axiom. In the more than twenty years I’ve been writing this column, I have only on rare occasions focused on my own life. But this particular column will be an exception because I have just undergone a major transition and believe it’s helpful for a reader to know at least the broad strokes of the life of the one who stands behind the words he or she is reading.

So what’s happened in my life? I’ve just moved to Texas, the land of George Bush, of staggering distances, of large ranches, of huge oil deposits, of evangelical churches on every corner, of stadiums named after orange juice, of warm hospitality, of over-large beef steaks, of championship basketball, where you’d best learn Spanish if you hope to converse with half of the population, and where you will find, amidst this all, some wonderful Catholic communities.

What’s my new job? I’ve been sent by my community, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, to head up our school here in San Antonio, the Oblate School of Theology. The plan is that I be here for five years.

During that time, I will work mainly as an administrator, going to meetings, working with faculty, helping develop academic programs (particularly in spirituality and missiology), trying to keep harmony among our employees, meeting with seminary rectors, being a liaison with bishops, trying to help our school keep its moorings and its charity in a time of increasing polarization and nastiness inside society and the church, and (though I’m not sure exactly how this is done) even doing some fund-raising. If you can believe this, tomorrow, as part of this new job, I will be blessing golf

balls at our annual golf tournament. Hardly the stuff of mystics, but discipleship demands flexibility.

I will, of course, continue to do some teaching (though less than I’d like) and some writing, including this column. I have several books on the boil; one on Secularity (virtually finished), and another, a follow-up to the Holy Longing, which unfortunately won’t see the light of day for another year or so.

What had I been doing? I’ve just finished a six-year term on our General Council in Rome. Like my new job, it too was an administrative position, so the jump to blessing golf balls isn’t as radical as it sounds. I wasn’t exactly teaching advanced mysticism the past six years, but it was important work and it had me dividing my time between two of the world’s most wonderful cities, Rome and Toronto.

Leaving those cities and the friends and colleagues I met there has been the hardest part of this. I’ve never been good at saying good-bye and I’d just got through the worst of grieving Rome when I had to leave Toronto three weeks ago. Moving isn’t easy.

But I’m excited about being in San Antonio and have always enjoyed the opportunity inherent in going to a new place and meeting new people. Painful as it is to have to move, it’s also a graced-opportunity because we meet new people and every person we allow into our live makes us richer.

Moving means saying good-bye, but it also means saying hello. Moreover persons we’ve had to say good-bye to don’t leave us. We carry them with us, as part of us, as part of who we are and what we bring to our new situation.

When we stand before new people in a new place we stand there not as persons who have come out of a vacuum, but as men and women formed in heart, soul, mind, and body

by that nexus of family and friendships out of which we’ve come.

What we bring to a new situation is very much the people and the things that have touched us in our previous ones.

In a real way, we carry Father family and friends with Ron Rolheiser us as part of who we are and what we do. I can’t imagine either my life or my person today without factoring-in all the persons, friend and foe, I’ve met in the different places I’ve lived: Cactus Lake, Lebret, Battleford, San Francisco, Edmonton, Louvain, Seattle, Oakland, Saskatoon, Rome, Toronto. I shed some tears leaving every one of these places, but now each of them will always be home for me.

Once home, we’ll always find our way back there, even when for all kinds of reasons we have to go far away.

That’s true for family and for the friends I’ve made in the various places I’ve lived, or met elsewhere along the way.

I am now in a new place, San Antonio, with a new job, inside a new community, meeting new friends. But my old family and friends, and all those places I’ve lived and worked enroute here, will always be home for me - as will, now, San Antonio, Texas.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Scripture

Sirach 27:30-28:7; Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12; Romans 14:7-9; Matthew 18:21-35 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF SIRACH (SIR 27:30 - 28:7) Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.

The vengeful will suffer the Lord’s vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor’s injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.

Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the Lord? Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself, can he seek pardon for his own sins? If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins? Remember your last days, set enmity aside; remember death and decay, and cease from sin! Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor; remember the Most High’s covenant, and overlook faults.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12) R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion.

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

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

R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion.

He pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills. redeems your life from destruction, he crowns you with kindness and compassion.

R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion.

He will not always chide, nor does he keep his wrath forever.

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

R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him.

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

R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE ROMANS (ROM 14:7-9) Brothers and sisters: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For this is why Christ died and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 18:21-35) Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount. Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt. At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.’ Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan. When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized one of his fellow servants and started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’

Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’ But he refused. Instead, he had the fellow servant put in prison until he paid back the debt. Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master and reported the whole affair. His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?’ Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt. So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.”

FR. MUNACHI EZEOGU, CSSP

Forgive as we are forgiven There is the story of a man named George Wilson who in 1830 killed a government employee who caught him in the act of robbing the mails. He was tried and condemned to death by hanging. But the then President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, granted him executive pardon. George Wilson, however, refused to accept the pardon. The Department of Corrections did not know what to do. The case was taken to the Supreme Court where Chief Justice Marshall ruled that “a pardon is a slip of paper, the value of which is determined by the acceptance of the person to be pardoned. If it is refused, it is no pardon. George Wilson must be hanged.” And hanged he was.

Even if we are opposed to the death penalty, we still cannot but agree with the principle that pardon granted has to be accepted to become effective. This is the point of today’s gospel.

When God forgives us, we must accept God’s forgiveness. But then the gospel goes on to indicate that the way to accept God’s forgiveness is not just to say “Amen, so be it!” but to go out and forgive someone else.

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant raises the frightening prospect that pardon already granted by God could be revoked.

The king who forgave his servant his debt meant it. But when the servant went out and failed to forgive his fellow servant, the king revoked the pardon. By his action the servant had shown that he did not appreciate and therefore was unworthy of the pardon he had been given. Is this a good analogy of how God deals with us? That seems to be the point of the parable. “So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart” (Matthew 18:35). In other words, when God gives us His word of forgiveness, everything is not over yet. The deal is finally concluded only when we are able to go out and forgive those who sin against us. The free grace of God’s forgiveness needs our response of forgiving our neighbor to be finally ratified. Isn’t that a frightening thought? “Forgive your neighbor’s injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven” (Sirach 28:2).

Why do we find it hard to forgive others even though that is the only way to anchor God’s forgiveness? I think the reason is because we fail to appreciate and celebrate our own forgiveness. Like the ungrateful servant in the parable, we focus on the 100 denarii our neighbor owes us rather than the 10,000 talents we owe to God, which God has graciously cancelled. Let us think about this in proportion. A denarius is a labourer’s daily wage. So his fellow servant owed him 100 days pay, which could be paid back in a couple of months. But this same servant owed his master 10,000 talents. A talent was equal to 6,000 denarii. So he owed his master the equivalent of 60,000,000 denarii. For a labourer working 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, it would take 280,000 years to raise that kind of money. This astronomical figure shows that the servant owed his master so much that there was absolutely no way he could ever hope to repay that. This is symbolic of the debt each of us owes God through sin; a debt we could never ever hope to repay even if we spent our whole life in sackcloth and ashes. Not even the combined penitence of all humankind suffices to blot out a single sin. But God in his infinite mercy sent his own Son to die on the cross and take away our sins. And all He asks of us is to be grateful; to realize that He has done for us so much more than we could ever be required to do for our neighbor.

If we find ourselves in the club of those who find it so hard to forgive other people, chances are that we have not come to appreciate and celebrate enough the immeasurable forgiveness that we ourselves have received from God. So, let us pray today for a deeper appreciation of the amazing love that God has shown us in Christ. It is this awareness that will make it easier for us to let others off the hook for their relatively minor offences against us.

Fr. Munachi Ezeogu is a Nigerian priest in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost (Spiritan).

Year of the Eucharist

The Heart of the Mass At the beginning of the Last Supper Our Lord blessed the bread and at the end of the meal He gave thanks over the cup. To these customary Jewish rituals He added a startling statement and gave a definite command. The statement: “This is my Body … This is my Blood”; the command: “Do this in memory of me.” From this event was born the liturgy of the Eucharist.

The Jewish blessing before the meal was a prayer of gratitude for the gifts of creation, a prayer which the priest recites quietly when the bread and wine are placed on the altar. After the meal, another blessing was spoken, and a petition offered that God’s saving work may be fulfilled. This model of blessing and petition is at the heart of all Christian prayer (for example, the Lord’s Prayer), and forms the pattern for our Eucharistic Prayers.

Following the example of Christ, the early Christians “blessed” the Father (gave thanks) for what He has accomplished for us in Christ, and petitioned that through the power of the Holy Spirit the work of salvation would be completed. This simple pattern blossomed into the beautiful Eucharistic Prayers of East and West which we still use today. Along with the Roman Canon, we now have several other Eucharistic Prayers in the Latin rite: our Second Eucharistic Prayer is modeled on an ancient Roman text of the third century; our Fourth Eucharistic Prayer is inspired by a Prayer from the Eastern Church by St. Basil; and our Third Eucharistic Prayer is a new work based on elements of other early Prayers. In recent years other new prayers have enriched the liturgical life of the Church.

The Eucharistic Prayer is the heart of the Mass, but because we

hear it so often we may miss its beauty and significance. A fruitful subject of meditation would be to read over the Eucharistic Prayers privately while reviewing the elements of these prayers as described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. (CCC 13521354) In this way, we can enter more attentively into this great Prayer which the priest proclaims in our name.

The introductory dialogue is rooted in Jewish ritual, and it signals that what follows is indeed the most solemn prayer of the Mass. The dialogical nature of the introduction underscores that, although the priest alone proclaims the Eucharistic Prayer, it is not his private prayer; he gives voice to praise and petition of the assembly.

In the Preface (CCC 1352) the Church praises the Father, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit, for the works of creation, redemption and salvation; the Church on earth unites with the angels and saints in praising the thrice-holy God. While in the East it is customary to have one set Eucharistic Prayer which gives thanks for the whole history of salvation (see Eucharistic Prayer IV), the western tradition is to vary the Preface to highlight some specific facet of the mystery of Christ.

The thanksgiving continues after the “Sanctus”, and is followed in the West by a petition that the Holy Spirit may transform the gifts of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. This epiclesis occurs later in the Eastern Prayers (CCC 1353, 1105).

There follows the Institution Narrative, in which the words of Christ at the Last Supper are spoken over the bread and wine. As far back as St. Ambrose, the West has linked the transformation of

the bread and wine into the Eucharist with these words, and various ceremonies highlight this part of the Eucharistic Prayer in the Roman rite. (CCC 1375) In the anamnesis which follows, the Church calls to mind the passion, resurrection and glorious return of Christ and presents the self-offering of the Son to His Father. (CCC 1354, 1103) In another epiclesis we ask the Holy Spirit to transform us more deeply into the ecclesial Body of Christ. This request naturally leads to petitions for various members of the Church: the living and the dead, the saints, and fellow believers throughout the world.

In the concluding doxology, the Prayer ends as it began, with praise and thanksgiving offered to the Father through Christ and in the Holy Spirit. The whole Prayer concludes with the “Amen!” of the whole assembly, ratifying the Prayer offered by the priest in its name.

For many centuries it had been customary for the priest to recite the Eucharistic Prayer very quietly. Now it is proclaimed aloud, so that we can all hear the prayer and make it our own.

However, it is easy for our attention to wander; prayerful reflection before Mass on this most important prayer of the Eucharist can help us to pray it “by heart” during the celebration.

Part of a series presented by the Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Father Pearse McCarthy, revered pastor, dies at age 88 Father Patrick Pearse McCarthy, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco who was ordained 61 years ago, died Aug. 28 at St. Mary’s Hospital at the age of 88.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 31 at Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco, where Father McCarthy served as pastor from 1976 until his retirement in 1992. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.

Father Anthony McGuire, pastor of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo, delivered the homily. He said Father McCarthy died in peace because the many people who came to see him felt his friendship. “He was a great priest and pastor, helping people to come to Christ,” Father McGuire said.

He added that Father McCarthy, with his own strong cultural identity, “was able to help others, particularly at Epiphany Parish, appreciate the importance of their own culture. He helped each group sense the value of their culture while finding common faith in the Lord.”

Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said “Father McCarthy was a gentle, loving and caring priest.

Throughout his priesthood he reached out to everyone. He was a builder of parishes, but he also was a builder of relationships. He worked collaboratively with religious sisters, and was an associate of the Sisters of Social Service.”

Father McCarthy was born in San Francisco on June 3, 1917. His family, which had moved back to County Kerry in Ireland when he was in grade school, returned to San Francisco a few years later.

He completed his studies at Most Holy Redeemer Elementary School, Saint Joseph College in Mountain View, and Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park.

Following his ordination to the priesthood by Archbishop John J. Mitty on September 23, 1944, Father McCarthy served as parochial vicar at Saint Anselm Church in San Anselmo for six years. He was appointed

parochial vicar at Saint Leo Church in San Jose in 1951, Saint Brendan Church in San Francisco in 1953, and Saint Mary Church in Walnut Creek in 1958.

Father McCarthy, in 1961, was named pastor at Saint Catherine of Siena Church in Morgan Hill, where he had the responsibility of building the new church and school. He became pastor at Saint Elizabeth Church in Milpitas in 1968, and again took control of the building of the new church.

In early 1976, Father McCarthy was appointed pastor of Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco, where he served for over sixteen years, until his retirement in 1992. After five years in residence at Saint Veronica Church in South San Francisco, Father joined a number of his brother priests at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo.

Father McCarthy is survived by his younger sister, Patricia Lautze, and his younger brother, Edmond, as well as many cousins, and his nieces and nephews. His brothers, Dennis and Seamus, and his sister, Maura, preceded him in death.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco.

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

Oct. 1: The San Francisco Archdiocesan Respect Life Program will offer an Education Day, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m., for parish respect life coordinators to help them learn more about the complex life issues they face today. The $20 registration fee includes a Continental breakfast and a buffet lunch. Speakers include William Hurlbrut, MD, Consulting Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University and a member of the President’s Bioethics Counsel and Vicki Thorn, Director of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing. Both talks will include give and take with the audience in a classroom-type setting. Bishop John Wester will celebrate Mass at 12:10 p.m. followed by a commissioning of Respect Life coordinators. After lunch, Sarah Silva, who works in Parish Outreach and Organization, will lead a panel discussion offering tips for organizing a parish Respect Life Program. For information and reservations, call Vicki Evans at 415-9450180 or email evansv@sfarchdioces.org.

Oct. 7, 8, 9: Catholic Charismatic Conference. Friday: Praise Night at 7-p.m. Free admission. Doors open at 8 a.m. Sat & Sun. $20 per day/$30 for the weekend.

Lunch available for $5. Call (800) 700-1849 or (415) 753-3732. High School/Middle School Youth Teen Holy Spirit Conference, Friday night Upbeat Praise/Worship at 7pm, Doors open at 8am Sat./ Sun, Special $10 price for weekend includes lunch.Visit our web-site www.sfspirit.com/events or call 1-800-700-1849.

Food & Fun Sept. 16, 17, 18: St. Dunstan Caribbean Daze Festival. Enjoy rides, Live Music, Friday & Saturday Night Dance, Booths, Games, Sunday Night Dinner, Live & Silent Auction. Fri: 6 to 10 p.m.; Sat.: noon to 10 p.m.; Sun: noon to 8 p.m. For information call Ann Woolen at (650) 697-4730.

Sept. 17, 18: Palmdale Spectacular VIII benefiting the Sisters of the Holy Family. Features silent and live auction, dinner, raffle and strolling musicians. Sat. 1 – 4 p.m. with auction preview and Mass at 4:40 p.m.

Sun.: 1 – 5 p.m. Call Linda Micciche at (510) 624-4581.

Sept. 24, 25: St. Philip Annual Festival, a Noe Valley tradition for almost 70 years. Free admission with games for children, teens and adults plus homemade foods, arts and crafts, and live entertainment. All proceeds benefit St. Philip Elementary School. Open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. both days. Call (415) 282-0141.

Sept. 24: Huge Saturday Sale benefiting Vincentian Help Desk of St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at 425 4th St. at Harrison, SF. Lots of furniture, electronics, DVD/VHS movies, household items, tools and more.

Cash/credit cards only. Donations and dealers welcome. Call Sally Rosen at (415) 202-9955.

Sept. 24: Hawaii on the Bay Luncheon/Bingo sponsored by League of the Sacred Heart Altar Society of St. Cecilia Parish, 17th and Vicente St., SF at 11 a.m.

Plenty of parking. $25 ticket includes lunch and free bingo card. Reserve by Sept. 20th to (415) 753-5680.

Oct. 8, 9: 86th Annual Columbus Day Bazaar benefiting St. Peter and Paul Elementary School on Washington Square, SF. Sat.” 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sun.: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. A North Beach family festival of games, food and entertainment. Call (415) 421-0809.

Oct. 7, 8, 9: All Souls Parish Festival featuring games, prizes, music, food, silent auction and more. Fri: 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat.: noon – 10 p.m.; Sun.: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Come join the fun at 315 Walnut Ave. in South San Francisco.

Oct. 1: Third Annual Gospel/Jazz Mass and Prayer for World Peace at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 5:30 p.m. The Inspirational Voices of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Gospel Choir will join with the Jubilation Choir of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in a “dialogue of cultures,” information promoting the event said. “All are invited to come and share in this joyful and much needed Day of Prayer for World Peace.” The Annual Blessing of Animals will be celebrated earlier the same day at 10 a.m., in the Geary Boulevard Plaza of the Cathedral.

Children’s Choirs from throughout the Archdiocese will participate. “Bring your pets - on a leash - or pictures of pets, and don’t forget your pooper-scooper!”

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory awarded Gold Diplomas May 14th to alums marking their 50th year since graduating from the San Francisco school.

From left: Robert Haggett, Carol Flynn Abeling, Louis Meyer, Donald Boscacci, Mickey Michelozzi Lena, Peter Caciedo, Robert Dower, Robert George Des Meules, Robert Abeling, Cherell Ritzenhaler Bassett, Henry Aguirre, Thomas Rowan, Patricia Hogue Tilley, Beverly Reinhard Hendon.

Shows/Entertainment Sept. 23: Concert at 8 p.m. benefiting St. Dominic’s Community Services featuring Ensemble Phoenix, a noted Chamber Music group. Reception follows with wine, raffle, and arts and crafts. Tickets $20 per person. Takes place at Presidio Post Chapel. Call (415) 567-7824 or contact Christina Halsey at christinemhalsey@yahoo.com.

Sept. 24: Saint Stephen Parish proudly presents Manolito Jaldon, Jr, pianist, Dawn Farry, soprano and Michael Burroughs, organist in a gala concert to open this year’s concert series at the Lakeside District church, Eucalyptus Dr. at 23rd Ave. at 8 p.m. Opening Gala reception begins at 7:15 p.m. Program includes vocal works by Puccini, Verdi, and more with keyboard works

by Rheinberger, Mozart, and other composers. Donation $20. For more information call (415) 681-2444, x26 Through Sept. 23: The art of Angela Repetti, at Mercy High School, 3250 19th Ave., SF where the painter graduated in 1964. Her work is shown in the school’s McAuley Art Gallery, Mon. – Fri. 8 a.m. –3 p.m.

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free.

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. Sept. 11: Sarabande Ensemble, The Serene Republic of Venice, A Program of Italian Chamber Music. Sept. 18: Synchronopolis, Susannah Barley, violin; Katrina Wreede, viola; Moses Sedler, cello. Original Music for Dance. Sept. 25: Organ Recital, Jonathan Dimmock, English Music for Organ.

TV/Radio Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt presiding.

1st Sun, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: Mosaic, featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

3rd Sun, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

Reunions Sept. 23: Class of ’77 from St. Stephen Elementary School, SF, at home of Kathleen Dowling McDonough.

Contact kmcdonough@bpmllp.com or (415) 564-6487.

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Oct. 15: Training for New Lectors, 9 a.m. -3:30 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, San Francisco. Sponsored by the Office of Worship.

Please pre-register at 415-614-5585 or at vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org. Cost $15.

Sept. 29 – Oct. 7: Novena for Peace at St. Anthony’s Church 3215 Cesar Chavez St. at Folsom, San Francisco. Sept. 29: 7-9 p.m./Sept 30: 4-6:45 p.m./Oct. 1: 7-9:30 p.m./Oct. 2: 1-3 p.m./Oct. 3 through 6: 7-9 p.m./Oct. 7: 5-7 p.m. Contact Christine Watkins at (415) 931-5517, or christinew@runbox.com.

September 10: To Live in Hope in Today’s World, a new series of Saturday Mornings of Prayer, 9:30 11:30 a.m. at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Avenue, Belmont. The series is in honor of Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang who was murdered in Brazil on February 12. Information: 650-593-2045 X 277 or www.SistersofNotreDameCA.org.

Oct. 4: Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont is pleased to announce that the first speaker of their Catholic Scholars Series is Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman who will offer a talk “Addressing the Stem Cell Issue” at 7 p.m. in Ralston Hall on the University campus.

The free lecture is open to the public. For more information call Sister Roseanne Murphy at (650) 508-3551.

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Reunion in planning for Class of ’55 from St. Cecilia Elementary School. “Come back to the finest, the greatest and the best,” said classmate.

Andi Thuesen Ibarra. Contact Andi at (415) 6650959 or andrea.ibarra@med.va.gov.

Class of ’56, Notre Dame des Victoires High School is planning a reunion for June 2006. Call Marilyn Donnelly at (650) 365-5192.

Marin Catholic High School announces Homecoming for Sept. 24 as well as upcoming reunions for class of ’75, Sept. 22; ’85, Sept. 23 – 24; ’50, Sept. 24; ’55, Oct. 1; ’65, Nov. 5; ’95, Nov. 26.

Contact LeAnn Tarrant at (415) 464-3843 or ltarrant@marincatholic.org.

Sept. 17: St. Paul’s Grammar School reunion for class of 1960, 6 p.m. at Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco. Call Liz Hinds Hannan at (650) 342-1759.

Sept. 21: Class ’45 Presentation Academy at Sinbad’s Pier 2 Restaurant on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Contact Peggy Sweeney Volponi at (925) 447-0569/pegneye@pacbell.net or Marian Fallon Sweeney at (650) 5833679/doorbells6@sanbrunocable.com .

Oct. 1: Dinner/Dance for all who graduated in the ‘70s from St. Paul Elementary School in San Francisco beginning at 5:30 p.m. Contact Anne Cunningham Campbell at (650) 365-3653 or annec@3cisfca.com. Tickets not sold at door.

Oct. 1: All Class reunion for St. Brigid High School at St. Brigid school, Broadway at Van Ness. Contact Adrienne Mansi at (415) 479-2974.

Oct. 1: Golden Diploma ceremony for 1955 graduates from Marin Catholic High School beginning with Mass at 4 p.m. in MC’s St. Francis Chapel.

Father Tom Daly, school president, will preside.

Dinner and dancing follows at Marin Art & Garden Center. Call Tracy Hogan at (415) 464-3843.

Oct. 1: Calling all Stars who graduated in 1965 from Star of the Sea Academy - a 40th Reunion.

Contact Teri Baldocchi at 650-592-6763 or xbaxter11@comcast.net.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Sept. 17: Training for New Communion Ministers, 9 a.m. -3:30 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, San Francisco. Sponsored by the Office of Worship.

Please pre-register at 415-614-5585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org. Cost $15.

Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check out our Web site for a list of events around the Bay Area and download our Newsletter at www.sfyam.org.

We publish a quarterly newsletter to connect college students and young adults to the Catholic Church.

Sept 24: Fall Fest 2005, 9th Annual Young Adult Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Volunteers needed.

Contact Mary, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org, 415-6145596. Registration available in June. www.sfyam.org.

Single, Divorced, Separated Nov. 4 – 6: Widowed, Separated, Divorced Weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park. The weekend is designed to be a time of closure on the past and new beginning in the present.

For more information, call La Verne (650) 355-3978, Ward (415) 821-3390, or Nicole (408) 578-5654, or see the website: www.beginningexperience.org.

Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452. Group also meets 1st and 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica. Call (650) 359-6313 for location.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston Hall on the campus of their Notre Dame de Namur University. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225.

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Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633.

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In times of trouble, that’s when TV excels

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — After writing for the better part of one week about the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, it suddenly came to my mind that television helped all of us gain a deeper understanding of the crisis along America’s Gulf Coast.

Words can always be used to describe any situation, but images bring the point home more clearly.

While we could all probably do without another weathercaster or TV correspondent standing outside in the blowing rain wearing a rain slicker, television has succeeded in connecting us to the unconnected in New Orleans and elsewhere.

As with most disasters — natural or man-made — we are able to witness events that the people directly in the middle of the situation could not witness.

People could also argue they’re tired of seeing aerial pictures of inundated locales, or of poor people carrying bags stuffed with their most treasured (or necessary) possessions. But they’d be missing the point.

The enormity of the Katrina disaster encompasses not

just individuals, but families, neighborhoods, cities, counties and states. The effects also show up nationwide, and not just at the gasoline pumps.

The images have pricked the national conscience. They have spurred us to heed the better angels of our nature.

When confronted with a disaster of this scale, the question can be posed: Shouldn’t you put down that camera or that notebook and help these people? My answer: If the pictures recorded and the stories told encourage more people to give to Catholic Charities USA or any of the dozens of other aid groups working to help Katrina’s stricken souls, then it’s a trade-off I’m happy to make.

Granted, there are some for whom the better angels of their nature have long lain dormant. That’s OK, too. If seeing the effects of Katrina roils them to ask how such damage could have been lessened in the present and can be minimized in the future, then we’ll all have come out ahead.

The last time television came to the nation’s aid in this manner was after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. TV helped bring America and its people together. The enhanced news coverage helped us collectively put a face

Upcoming EWTN TV programming Upcoming programming on EWTN, the 24-hour Catholic TV network, includes a new series titled “Marriage Works In Christ.” A priest and a married couple talk candidly about the status of marriage today and the blessings of a Christcentered marriage. The series airs Sundays at 3:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. and Fridays at 7:30 a.m. “Knights of St. Michael,” another series, features 11 young adults who teach the Catechism of the Catholic Church in a whole new way, Mondays at 2:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 8:00 a.m. In “Journey Home Roundtable,” three converts from Mormonism discuss their former faith in relation to the Catholic Church. It airs Sept. 18 at 7:00 p.m. and Sept. 20 at 11:00 a.m.

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on the tragedy. The lesson has stuck with TV news organizations as soldiers now dying in Iraq and Afghanistan are also remembered, however briefly.

It’s discouraging to think that only adversity brings Americans together. A true sign of our society’s progress will come when television can use its influence to bring Americans together in our everyday, more ordinary lives.

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Book explores Church’s role in science, art, law and learning HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILT WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. Regnery Publishing (Washington, DC, 2005), 256 pp., $29.95.

Catholics believe the Church was founded by Christ and it exists simultaneously on earth and in heaven. For two thousand years it has been abused, scoffed at and disrespected both from within and without as only humans are capable of doing on earth. And yet, it has continued to develop and grow in numbers, strength and influence. This is one of the great credentials of authenticity for the Church. In two thousand years its contributions have been singularly powerful, profound and pervasive on Western Civilization. Professor Woods documents these contributions convincingly in his book, grandly-but aptly titled, “How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.”

The Church invented modern education and the University, as we know it today. Prior to the formation of the Catholic Universities, education was typically one-on-one, one student and a tutor employed by a wealthy ruling family. One percent or less of the general population could read or write. There was no set curriculum, course material, time length of study and no way of defining the level of study and education achieved by the student. Universities received Charters from the Pope and were usually connected with major Cathedrals after the first millennium. They had a set curriculum, lectures to a group of students, reading and term paper assignments, written and oral examinations and a set period, usually five years, to complete the comprehensive study of seven “liberal arts”. Each student was then subjected to a rigorous schedule of oral comprehensive examinations before the faculty. These were designed to determine if he had mastered all of the course matter presented to him. After passing these examinations, he was awarded the degree of “Master” and allowed to lecture at any other University that possessed a charter from the Pope. Eventually, some Kings and cities began giving out University Charters, but their degrees were not generally recognized. The graduates could lecture only at the University issuing their degree.

Catholic hospitals were originally intended to provide hospitality to strangers. Later on they also took care of those marginalized in society, the sick, the aged, the poor, widows and

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A long list of Jesuit priests made enormous scientific contributions advancing astronomy, meteorology, seismology, solar physics, light diffraction, atomic theory, optics, geometry, mathematics, Egyptology, archaeology, anthropology, biology, philosophy and geology. Music, art, architecture, literature, economics, free markets, western civil and criminal law, international law, unconditional charity, social justice, medical education, healthcare, hospitals, ethics, morality, freedom and life itself- as gifts from God, human dignity, human rights, respect for every human life, all owe debts to the Church for their sponsorship, promotion and development.

Church opposition to science is a current popular myth mainly because of one incident, the sensationalism and exaggeration of the suppression of Galileo’s ideas. Most knowledgeable scientists in the Church agreed with most of his hypothesis. However, due to the political correctness of the time, specifically protestant criticism that the Church ignores scripture, Galileo was asked to present his ideas as theories and not fact.

Today, when the general media reports about the Church are so negative, the public needs to know all of the positive accomplishments over the past two thousand years. At present, the amount of pure charity offered unconditionally by the Church to anyone in need around the world surpasses by far all other organizations and governments. This is another great credential for authenticity.

Professor Woods’ book sets the record straight.

orphans. The Old Testament is very clear on the obligation to help aliens, widows, orphans and the poor. The Greek Stoics considered helping the sick and the poor a strong character virtue. However, they also thought compassion was a great weakness; you can imagine how the sick and the poor were treated. Before the fourth century, the Church began establishing hospitals. Eventually every major city had one. In the fourth century Saint Basil the Great started a hospital in Caesarea. He was especially known for his compassion to the lepers who came there seeking medical aid. As part of her penance a Christian woman of Rome named Fabiola opened the first large hospital and went about the city picking up those needing medical care. After the fall of Rome in the fifth century monasteries were providing medical care that was not available in Europe for several hundred years. From the fifth to tenth centuries, they served as schools for medical education. Their orderly and disciplined practices, compassion, prayer life and peacefulness helped to promote a sense of wellness and healing.

Modern science began to emerge in medieval times largely through the work of Professors Fulbert and Thierry at the liberal arts Cathedral School of Chartres, France, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Franciscan Friar, Roger Bacon, taught at Oxford University and conceived the notion of modern scientific experimentation. Saint Albert the Great, who taught Saint Thomas Aquinas at the University of Paris, was “one of the most famous precursors of modern science” according to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

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■ Continued from page 3 per, said the city’s historic St. Louis Cathedral lost a few slate roof tiles but otherwise was undamaged, and as far as he knew the French Quarter, where the cathedral is located, had not flooded. He added that when the hurricane knocked down a large oak tree in St. Anthony’s Garden behind the cathedral, the tree narrowly missed a Sacred Heart statue.

Jesuit Father Charles L. Currie, Washington-based president of American Jesuit Colleges and Universities, which represents 28 Jesuit institutes of higher learning, said the Loyola University campus in New Orleans is on relatively high ground and apparently was safe from the flooding.

But with warnings that it may be months before the city can be inhabited again, other Jesuit institutions across the country have taken steps to accept Loyola students in the meantime. Both the University of San Francisco and Santa Clara University have opened their rolls to these students. Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont also has said it would enroll students displaced by the hurricane.

As of Sept. 5, the University of San Francisco had enrolled about 100 students from Loyola and other affected universities.

Catholic San Francisco staff contributed to this report.

September 9, 2005 New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes talks with Bertha Myles after Sunday Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 4. Myles, also a New Orleans resident, was among those attending the service who had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding.

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▲ Catholics join in Sunday Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 4. Celebrated by New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, the service was attended by people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. "God has brought us to our knees in the face of disaster," the archbishop said in an earlier televised interview.

attend Mass at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, La. Sept. 4. From left are Nellie Perkin, Lanell Scott and her daughter, Lacy Thomas, 4. The center was sheltering 2,000 people displaced from New Orleans and surrounding areas

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We are blessed to have so many remarkable Catholic high schools, and so many exceptional administrators and teachers in this Archdiocese. Beyond the academic preparation for college and the opportunity to excel in athletics, though, the young men and women attending our Catholic high schools are invited to grow into a more mature knowledge and practice of their faith, and will find many opportunities to serve those in most need in our community. It is hard to overestimate the importance and impact of these life-changing experiences.

The four years of high school are extremely important years in a student’s life. God bless you as you begin the important task of considering the best placement for your child. I look forwad to seeing you in the future at one of these exemplary schools.

Sincerely yours in the Lord,

Most Reverend John C. Wester Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco Apostolic Administrator

TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S Letter from Archbishop William J. Levada --------------------------------------------------------------------2 Steps For Applying to Catholic High Schools------------------------------------------------------------------3 Archbishop Riordan High School --------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Immaculate Conception Academy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 Convent of the Sacred Heart High School --------------------------------------------------------------------6 Stuart Hall High School --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 Junipero Serra High School----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8 Marin Catholic High School --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 Mercy High School, Burlingame --------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Mercy High School College Preparatory ----------------------------------------------------------------------11 Notre Dame High School ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12 Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory --------------------------------------------------------------------------13 Sacred Heart Preparatory ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------14 San Domenico School --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15 St. Ignatius College Preparatory --------------------------------------------------------------------------------16 Woodside Priory School ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17 Letter From Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Catholic Schools ------------------------------18 Why Choose A Catholic High School? ------------------------------------------------------------------------19 Locator Map/Open House Calendar --------------------------------------------------------------------------20

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS3

S T E P S F O R A P P LY I N G T O C AT H O L I C H I G H S C H O O L S 1.

2.

Obtain the application packets from all of the Catholic High Schools to which you plan to apply.

Attend OPEN HOUSES and visit at least two schools which interest you and meet your needs. Consult this brochure for calendar dates or call individual schools. Seek information about other opportunities for school visitations. Considering your personal strengths and aptitudes, discuss with your 8th Grade teacher(s), principal, counselor, and parents, the high school programs that best meet your needs.

3.

Complete and submit your applications on time.

4.

Take the High School Placement test at one of the schools to which you have applied.

The HSPT may be taken only once, but on the form list the other Catholic Schools to which you have applied, so your test scores can be sent there.

5.

On March 16, 2006 letters will be mailed regarding your admissions status.

6.

Pay registration fees to the school you plan to attend.

CS4

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL 175 Phelan Avenue • San Francisco, California 94112 • (415) 586-8200 • www.riordanhs.org

PROFILE

When the first students walked through the doors of Archbishop Riordan High School in 1949, they encountered a community similar to the one our students experience today.

We welcome young men from various ethnic and economic backgrounds with differing abilities and gifts. We provide a rigorous academic program with clearly defined codes of personal conduct in a supportive family atmosphere.

Archbishop Riordan High School, an Archdiocesan Catholic High School, educates young men in an academic environment that fosters the Marianist tradition of preparing students for a productive and rewarding life.

PHILOSOPHY

In a Marianist school, students cultivate skills that prepare them to learn throughout their lives. The students join an inclusive community of caring people who treat one another as family.

The foundation of this community is articulated through a written doctrine, Characteristics of Marianist Education, which aims to: ● educate for formation in faith, ● provide an integral, quality education, ● educate in family spirit, ● educate for service, justice, and peace, ● educate for adaptation and change.

Archbishop Riordan High School engages young men in a process that promotes growth and development in the intellectual, spiritual, social, and physical arenas of the student’s life. Riordan is a community of faculty, students, parents, and alumni, who mutually support and assist one another to develop Christian values.

CURRICULUM

At the core of the Riordan academic program is a challenging college prep curriculum that blends a classical liberal education with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate contemporary times. The curriculum is designed to develop a student’s understanding of key topics and issues in each academic discipline.

The 4x4 Block Schedule: Archbishop Riordan High School’s school year is split into two semesters, and students take four classes at a time. Each class lasts eighty minutes (five days a week), thus providing sufficient time for students and teachers to delve more deeply and actively into topics and activities.

This emphasis on depth promotes greater understanding of skills, concepts, and ideas. Rather than depending only on the traditional lecture to present materials, ARHS teachers encourage students to actively participate in the learning process.

Archbishop Riordan offers 12 Advance Placement courses, with four of the twelve courses offered in science and math disciplines. 320 A.P. exams were taken by 178 Riordan students in May 2005.

Over the past two years 100% of our graduates moved on to higher education. 72% of our Class of 2005 matriculated to four-year colleges and universities.

The Visual and Performing Arts Department (drama, music, video production, and fine arts) is integrated within the school curriculum. Our Drama Department, housed in the 1,100 seat Lindland Theatre, boasts an excellent reputation for its quality and professionalism. The Crusader Marching Band Performs at various Bay Area parades. The Advanced Video Production Class broadcasts news and other programs to the entire school.

Our Resource Specialist Program (RSP) is a program unique among the Bay Area Catholic high schools. With the support of the Resource Specialist, students with learning differences participate in Riordan’s regular college prep curriculum.

The goal of the RSP program is to help students achieve their maximum potential while developing the necessary compensation and coping skills to succeed independently.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Archbishop Riordan High School recognizes the role and importance that extracurricular activities play in the personal growth of the whole person. ARHS offers over thirty clubs and activities that reflect the wide range of interests of our students.

All Riordan students are encouraged to become involved in Riordan’s numerous clubs and Campus Ministry programs.

Campus Ministry offers spiritual retreats to all grade levels.

Retreats provide time for reflection, community building, and spiritual growth away from the Riordan campus.

Archbishop Riordan High School has a very successful athletic program, winning numerous championships over the years. The Crusaders field twenty-seven interscholastic teams (football, cross-country, soccer, wrestling, basketball, baseball, track and field, tennis, swimming, and golf). ARHS is a founding member of the highly competitive West Catholic Athletic League.

Archbishop Riordan High School prepares its students to meet the challenges of life. The combination of demanding academics, abundant co-curricular activities, and supportive atmosphere make Riordan an empowering place. Archbishop Riordan High School continues to proudly serve and educate young men in the Marianist tradition.

ENROLLMENT 754 LEADERSHIP Fr. Thomas J. French, S.M., President Mr. Gabriel A. Crotti, Principal TUITION & FEES $10,400 annual tuition, $600 reg fee ENTRANCE INFORMATION Mr. Dion Sabalvaro, Director of Admissions (415) 586-1256 dsabalvaro@riordanhs.org www.riordanhs.org

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS5

Immaculate Conception Academy Catch the Spartan Spirit Inspiring Excellence Since 1883 3625 - 24th Street at Guerrero • San Francisco, CA 94110 • (415) 824-2052

PROFILE

Immaculate Conception Academy is a college preparatory Catholic high school for young women, sponsored since 1883 by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose.

Maintaining a multi-ethnic population and drawing students from San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the Academy provides a challenging curriculum within the warm family setting that only a small girls’ school can provide.

• On-site College Admission Day, ICA’s College Fair and College Panel have empowered Spartans to achieve great successes in the 2004-2005 school year. One hundred percent of our 2005 graduates will journey on to colleges and universities such as UC Berkeley, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UCLA, Colgate University, Southern University and Santa Clara University. At ICA’s On-Site College Admission Day in October of 2004, over 82 percent of seniors applied and were awarded admission letters to colleges that very day.

• The Class of 2005 was awarded over $1 million in scholarships. Several of our students received scholarships and awards from the Universities, the Elks Foundation and the Bank of America Awards Program.

• ICA’s technology curriculum enables every student to be proficient in the use of sophisticated word-processing, spreadsheet, data base and graphics programs. Many students also pursue the opportunity to take AP Computer Science, computer programming, Photoshop and web design classes.

• An Investment Fund in excess of $4 million enables ICA to meet the increasing need for tuition assistance.

PHILOSOPHY

The Academy serves the San Francisco community as a vibrant school where love of God and respect for family, friends, and country are nurtured. In preparing young women for the future, we provide opportunities for their advancement in challenging academic fields, career opportunities, and leadership positions. Faculty and students work together to create an environment that fosters the development of the whole person, the pursuit of truth, and the building of community.

An ICA graduate is a Woman of Learning, Leadership, Community, Faith and Vision. These core characteristics mark each alumna as a young woman whose education has brought her to value her personal, academic and spiritual growth, and as a person who recognizes her responsibilities as a member of her family, her church and her community.

CURRICULUM

ICA engages young women in a college preparatory curriculum. The block schedule provides a more focused and in-depth learning experience for our students.

• All students take four years of Religion and English, with the option of enrolling in English III Honors as juniors and Advanced Placement Literature as seniors.

• Qualified students may choose Algebra II Honors, Pre-Calculus Honors and AP Calculus.

• Four years of laboratory science are offered, including physiology, chemistry and physics.

• All students take four years of social science, beginning with Ancient History.

• Spanish and French language classes, required for two years, culminate in elective honors and Advanced Placement classes.

• Spartans have the opportunity to take several challenging AP Courses: Studio Art, Calculus, English Literature, U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, Spanish Literature, Spanish Language and Computer Science.

• Electives in art, dance, drama, psychology and home economics stimulate students to discover their individual gifts and interests, as well as to fulfill the admission requirements for both public and private colleges and universities.

• The FLAME program: Focused Learning for Academic Motivation and Excellence focuses specifically on students who achieve well above grade expectations and on those students for whom academics are challenging.

ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS

Extracurricular activities are an important part of student life at ICA. They include Student Council, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, Block Society, Student Ambassador Club, Girls’ Athletic Association, yearbook, school newspaper, Campus Ministry,

LIFE & Preachers, Black Student Union, Fil-Am Club, Las Latinas Unidas, Aina ‘O’ Hawaii, SAVE Club, Double XX Science Club, choir, drama production, Spartan Film Society and the Close-Up Trip to Washington, D.C.. Volleyball, basketball, softball, soccer, cross-country, tennis and Spirit Squad complete the sports offerings.

PRINCIPAL Sister Janice Therese Wellington, O.P. FACULTY A 40-member faculty and staff, composed of religious and lay colleagues, are in teaching and administrative positions.

A student-teacher ratio of 1 to 10 allows for individual attention.

ENROLLMENT 265 TUITION AND FEES 2005–2006 $9,000 – Tuition • $525 – Registration Fees/books vary by class level from $400 to $800 TUITION ASSISTANCE ICA offers tuition assistance and awards based on scholarship, citizenship, and financial need.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Gina Espinal, Admissions Director, ‘78 • E-mail: gespinal@icacademy.org Patricia Cavagnaro, Development Director/Alumnae Moderator ‘60 • pcavagnaro@icacademy.org (415) 824-2052 • FAX (415) 821-4677 • Web site: www.icacademy.org

CS6

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOLS OF THE SACRED HEART 2222 Broadway • San Francisco, CA 94115 Phone: 415/563-2900 • Web Site: www.sacredsf.org

PROFILE

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory high school for girls founded in 1887 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart. One of the oldest private schools in California, CSH offers a challenging curriculum that provides a strong foundation to meet the demands of highly competitive college entrance.

As a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, CSH participates in Network service projects, leadership seminars, and student exchange programs which offer students opportunities at Sacred Heart campuses throughout the U.S. With a value-oriented perspective, the intention of a Sacred Heart education is to educate the whole person — spiritually, intellectually and socially.

Students at CSH will experience the opportunity to participate in a variety of service outreach programs in the Bay Area community.

Students are encouraged to pursue leadership opportunities available through student council and class activities.

In the spring of 1998, CSH was once again recognized as a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

ACTIVITIES

Extracurricular activities are an essential part of the CSH experience. All clubs are student directed and options include school publications, debate, drama, service, spirit, outdoors, environmental, and Honor Societies. Several clubs offer co-ed opportunities.

CSH-SHHS PARTNERSHIP

CSH continues a strong partnership with Stuart Hall High School.

Students from CSH/SHHS participate together in performing arts, extra-curricular programs, student leadership activities, service projects and social events. This unique opportunity at Schools of the Sacred Heart allows a serious focus on academics for young women and young men along with the benefits of a co-educational campus experience. Our academic program and coed offerings were enhanced with the recent opening of Siboni Arts and Science Center.

The new building houses biology, physics and chemistry labs, math classrooms, an art studio and student center. In addition, there is a state-of-the-art theatre/lecture hall.

PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy of Convent of the Sacred Heart High School is stated in our Goals and Criteria shared by all Sacred Heart Network Schools in the United States. Sacred Heart Schools educate to: • A personal and active faith in God; • A deep respect for intellectual values; • A social awareness which impels to action; • The building of community as a Christian value; • Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.

CURRICULUM

The rigorous academic program, which is based on traditional study of the humanities, also requires that students be thoroughly grounded in the sciences and social sciences. The English program places serious emphasis on writing skills, as well as offering a variety of literature courses. Instruction in the social sciences includes courses in world and U.S. History, Government, Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Economics.

All of our students enroll in extra courses beyond the graduation requirements. The mathematics program is fully integrated, with the traditional strands of algebra, geometry and trigonometry interwoven throughout each of the first three years. Science courses include Biology, Marine Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Anthropology, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Human Geography, AP Physics and AP Environmental Science. Foreign language classes are taught in French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin and Latin. The school’s technology department has been acknowledged as one of the most innovative in the country introducing students to computer programming and computer applications. Each student has access to the internet for research projects. In 2001 Palm technology was intoduced into the students’ daily routine to facilitate communication, organization and learning, which continues to support the emphasis of integrating technology in the classroom. The Fine Arts Department offers classes in studio art, chorus, co-ed choir, instrumental music, dramatic and musical theater, photography, as well as AP Art History, and Art History. Twenty-two Advanced Placement courses are available, and an average of 98% of the students enroll in at least one AP course during their four years.

The average number of AP courses taken by students is three.

From 2000 –2005, 344 CSH students passed 833 AP exams.

HEAD OF SCHOOL: Douglas H. Grant AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 14 2005–2006 ENROLLMENT: 200 • FACULTY: 42 TUITION 2005 – 2006 $23,500 • All fees included in tuition.

SCHOLARSHIPS Scholarships and Financial Aid are available to any student who demonstrates interest and need without consideration to race, religion or national origin.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Caitlin Curran, Admissions Director • (415) 292-3125 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED BY OUR TOP 15 STUDENTS IN EACH OF THE LAST SEVEN YEARS American U. in Paris (2) Art Institute of Chicago Barnard (3) Boston University Boston College Brown (5) CA Polytechnic State University Carleton Christian U. (Japan) College of Notre Dame Colorado College (2) Columbia Cornell (3) Davidson

Duke George Washington University Georgetown (2) Grinell College Harvard (4) Harvey Mudd College (4) Haverford International M.I.T. (5) Mt. Holyoke NYU (3) Oberlin Princeton (4) Reed College

Rhoades College Rice RISD Santa Clara Skidmore College (3) St. John’s (NM) Stanford (6) Tufts U. of Chicago (4) U. of Colorado (3) U. of Notre Dame (2) U. of Pacific U. of Pennsylvania (3) U. of Portland (2) U. of Puget Sound

ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES

Art History Biology Calculus AB & BC Chemistry Comp. Gov’t & Politics Computer Science A & AB English Lang. & Comp.

English History Theology

4 years 4 years 4 years

English Lit. & Comp.

Environmental Science European History French Language French Literature Human Geography Latin

U. of St. Andrew’s U. of Tokyo U. of Vermont (2) U. Southern California (8) U.C. Berkeley (14) U.C. Davis (5) U.C. Irvine (2) U.C. San Diego (7) U.C. Santa Cruz (2) U.C.L.A. (11) Villanova Wellesley (2) Wesleyan (2) Yale (3)

Psychology Physics Spanish Language Spanish Literature Studio Art U.S. Gov’t & Politics U.S. History

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS Mathematics Lab Science Fine Arts

4 years 3 years 1 year

Physical Education 2 years Computer Science 1 year International Language 3 years Community Service 100 hours

SPORTS PROGRAM

Cross Country Volleyball Tennis Basketball Soccer Swimming Golf Track

COED

Choir Drama Orchestra Musical Theatre Badminton Fencing

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS7

• 1715 Octavia Street • San Francisco, CA 94109 415/345-5811 • FAX 415/931-9161 • e-mail: farrell@sacredsf.org

PROFILE

Stuart Hall High School, part of Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco, forms a unique partnership with Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. The two schools provide the best of educational opportunities: single-sex classes in a coeducational environment. Founded in 2000 as a school dedicated solely to the education of young men, Stuart Hall High School offers an essential and significant option for Bay Area families, a high school where the spirited nature of adolescent males is incorporated into an active learning process. Faculty members understand the learning styles of young men as well as their emotional and social needs. By design, the school is small and personal in nature. Class size averages 15 students, encouraging a personalized, challenging approach to education. A rich Catholic, ecumenical tradition provides an ideal climate for spiritual growth.

PHILOSOPHY

Stuart Hall High School, as a member of the worldwide Network of Sacred Heart Schools, commits itself to the distinctive spirit and dedication to excellence that marks these schools.

Specifically, Stuart Hall High School educates students to: • A personal and active faith in God; • A deep respect for intellectual values; • A social awareness which impels to action; • The building of community as a Christian value; • Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.

The young men who choose Stuart Hall High School are called to be persons of courage and integrity, people who clearly choose to use their education and personal convictions in the service of society.

ACTIVITIES

Co-curricular activities make up a vital part of the Stuart Hall High School experience. The clubs and activities are an outgrowth of student interest and needs. Since the development of leaders is an important aspect of education at Stuart Hall High School, students encounter many opportunities to lead, assist in program development, and work with the faculty and administration in creating the culture of the school. Organizations and committees that facilitate this involvement of students make up a key part of the activity program.

“The Knights of the Hall” are members of the Bay Counties League West and field teams in soccer, cross country, fencing, basketball, golf, tennis, baseball and lacrosse.

In the short history of the athletic program, the Knights have already won league championships in soccer and baseball, and have participated in the North Coast Section Championships in baseball and golf.

SHHS-CSH PARTNERSHIP The partnership with Convent of the Sacred Heart High School enables SHHS and CSH students to participate in extracurricular programs, service projects, and social activities. This unique opportunity at Schools of the Sacred Heart allows a serious focus on academics for young men and women with the benefits of a co-educational campus experience.

CURRICULUM

The academic program at Stuart Hall High School challenges the students to develop their talents in all areas—the humanities, arts, mathematics, science, and technology—and offers them an excellent college preparatory program. Each student is required to take a minimum of six courses for credit per semester. The following courses are required for graduation from Stuart Hall High School: four years of English, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Religious Studies; three years of International Language and Laboratory Science; two years of Physical Education; one year of Computer Technology and Fine Arts; and 75 hours of Community Service. Students may choose additional courses from a variety of electives and a range of honors courses.

The Advanced Placement Program at SHHS offers courses in which qualified students can challenge themselves beyond the standard curriculum, exploring areas of particular interest.

The AP Program currently includes offerings in English, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Laboratory Sciences, International Language, and Computer Science.

The school’s facilities offer the latest in computer and media technology hardware and software programs.

A wide array of courses in technology addresses the needs of students who show exceptional skill and interest in this area.

HEAD OF SCHOOL Gordon Sharafinski ENROLLMENT 2005-2006 160 TUITION 2005-2006 $23,500 FINANCIAL AID Scholarships and Financial Aid are available to any student who demonstrates interest and need without consideration of race, religion, or national origin.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Anthony Farrell Stuart Hall High School Admissions Director (415) 345-5812 • e-mail: farrell@sacredsf.org

CS8

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

The Road to Your Future Begins Here!

451 West 20th Avenue • San Mateo, California 94403 • (650) 345-8207

PROFILE

Junípero Serra High School is the Archdiocesan Catholic school educating the young men of San Mateo County. We are an academic high school with a strong college preparatory curriculum. We reflect the cultural richness of San Mateo County and the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Although we are a school for young men, we are involved in a Tri-School program with two schools for young women – Mercy, Burlingame and Notre Dame, Belmont. Coed activities include classes, retreats, drama and music productions, some club activities and dances. Our mission is to develop the gifts and talents of each student and foster Gospel values in an environment of academic excellence and mutual respect.

CURRICULUM

At Junípero Serra High School we offer a college preparatory curriculum, including more than twenty Advanced Placement and Honors courses.

Ninety-nine percent of our graduates continue their education at the college or university level. Among the schools our graduates currently attend are Princeton, UCLA, USC, Harvard, Notre Dame, Stanford, Santa Clara, Yale, Cal Poly, Duke, and UC Berkeley. The reason our students are so successful is that our faculty has created a challenging and yet comfortable learning environment in which students are placed at various levels of our program according to their needs and abilities. Junípero Serra students are required to complete a minimum of 240 units, pass all required courses, and perform eighty hours of Christian Service in order to graduate.

Students may also earn college credits while at Junípero Serra.

Our John L. Zoph Library contains approximately 18,000 volumes and over 30 online subscription databases. It is a curriculum-based collection that can be accessed by Junípero Serra students from any remote location by visiting the library website to view the online catalog at www.serrahs.com and clicking on the library icon.

The Junípero Serra Guidance Department assists students in making academic, social, spiritual and personal decisions. Our College & Career Center allows students to research more than 3000 colleges and universities on College View, a multimedia program. In addition, the Guidance Department helps coordinate the annual Tri-School College Night, an informational gathering which includes more than one hundred of the top colleges and universities form throughout the country.

ACTIVITIES & ATHLETICS

Extra curricular activities and athletics are an important part of life at Junípero Serra. More than ninety percent of our students participate in at least one activity or sport.

Junípero Serra offers thirteen sports and more than thirty-two clubs ranging from the Angler’s Fishing Club and a Cultural Awareness Club to a Big Brother’s program and the Trivia Club. In addition Junípero Serra offers three student run publications — the yearbook, a monthly newspaper and an annual literary magazine —all of which offer writing, photography and design opportunities.

Junípero Serra has a rich athletic tradition. Many of our student/athletes have competed for some of the top collegiate programs in the country, while several have also been successful in professional sports. We participate in the West Catholic Athletic League, one of the top leagues in California.

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS

The arts are an essential component of a Junípero Serra High School education. We offer numerous performance opportunities — Symphonic Band, Men’s and Mixed Chorus, Jazz Band, Dramatic Workshop and Musical Theater Workshop — that allow students to experience the arts both in the classroom and on stage. In addition, we offer Architectural Design, Art, Advanced Art, Beginning Guitar, Beginning Percussion and Films.

SPIRITUALITY

Our Campus Ministry Program provides students with liturgical and prayer opportunities, builds community through retreats, and empowers students to develop their gifts and talents through our Christian Service program. Theology courses offer instruction in the Catholic faith, morality and worship, and stress the importance of individual faith development. The curriculum addresses the needs of students with extensive religious education as well as those with little or no knowledge of the Catholic faith.

PRINCIPAL: Mr. Lars Lund ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR: Mr. Randy Vogel, (650) 345-8242 ENROLLMENT: 1,000 TUITION AND FEES 2005 – 2006 Tuition: $10,850 • Registration Fee: $650 FINANCIAL AID Tuition assistance at Junípero Serra is based on financial need. Those families interested in applying for financial aid should contact the Business Manager, Mr. John O’Sullivan, for further information at (650) 345-8207.

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS9

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL “faith, knowledge, service”

College Preparatory 675 Sir Francis Drake • Kentfield, CA 94904

PROFILE

Marin Catholic is a co-educational college preparatory high school situated on fourteen acres at the base of Mt. Tamalpais in Kentfield. Just minutes from Highway 101, Marin Catholic is ideally located to serve students from all over Marin and the neighboring Bay Area Counties. Marin Catholic is fifteen minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge and just twenty minutes from the East Bay communities located across the Richmond - San Rafael Bridge.

The student body is made up of approximately 715 young men and women meeting admissions criteria for a challenging college prep curriculum. Students are drawn from a broad spectrum of social, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. Marin Catholic High School is committed to class sizes that provide an excellent teaching environment.

The average class size is twenty-four students. The committed and dedicated faculty of Marin Catholic is often cited by students, parents, and alumni as the greatest strength of our school. As teachers, counselors, advisors, coaches, and activity moderators, the men and women of the faculty and staff ensure that the mission of our school is fulfilled. Thirty faculty members have Masters or higher academic degrees, and a large number have specialized certification and academic degrees. Several faculty members have been granted research fellowships, conduct lectures and in-services on various academic and educational topics, and have won prestigious academic awards and honors.

MISSION

Marin Catholic High School is a college preparatory school serving young men and women in the Catholic tradition. Consistent with our Gospel values, the school is committed to the education of the whole person.

Marin Catholic provides a spiritual, academic, and extra-curricular environment dedicated to imparting knowledge, values and vision.

The school expects the students, through their experiences in the classroom and as active members of the school community, to develop the attributes of an educated person: responsibility, both personal and social; critical ability; appreciation for the beauty and complexity of the world around us. Marin Catholic hopes to instill in the students the confidence that will empower them, as informed and compassionate individuals, to effect change in that world. The school is committed to learning as a lifelong process.

CURRICULUM

The Marin Catholic curriculum is designed to provide a challenging, college prep experience for all of our students.

Along with the development and enhancement of essential skills, the required course of study encourages exploration and self-evaluation. Successfully completing the academic program, which includes pursuing the most rigorous course of study one can, qualifies students for admission to the most competitive colleges and universities. Ninety-nine to 100% of our graduates go on to college each year, with 93% of the Class of 2005 matriculating to four year colleges and universities. A detailed matriculation report is available from the Admissions Office.

Marin Catholic offers twenty-three honors and Advanced Placement courses to students who are willing and able to undertake more sophisticated, challenging course work. Honors courses are available freshman through senior year, while Advanced Placement courses

traditionally are taken the junior and senior year. Students enrolled in Advanced Placement courses have the ability to gain college credit after passing the national exams.

Graduation requirements include four years of English, four years of Religious Studies, three and one half years of Social Studies, three years of Mathematics (including Advanced Algebra), two years of Foreign Language, two years of Science, one year of Fine or Performing Arts, and one semester each of Computer Studies and Physical Education. Students complete the balance of their graduation requirements and are able to enrich their education through our diversified elective program.

ACTIVITIES

Marin Catholic High School offers a wide array of student activities. Participation in programs and activities outside of the classroom are an important part of the student’s high school years. The goal is to provide as much diversity as possible to appeal to the eclectic interests of our entire student body. A partial list of extra curricular programs include Student Government, Italian Club, Habitat for Humanity, International Dance Club and a St. Vincent de Paul Club.

Marin Catholic High School has one of the most comprehensive and successful athletic programs for boys and girls in the Bay Area measured by both winning seasons and the high percentage of student involvement in the athletic program.

In addition to the academic requirements students must complete one hundred hours of Christian Service and participate in an annual retreat. The many activities and opportunities offered to our students through our Community Service Program allow students a chance to learn more about their own spirituality.

PRESIDENT: Fr. Thomas Daly PRINCIPAL: Mr. Don Ritchie TUITION AND FEES 2005 – 2006 Tuition: $12,995 • Registration & Fees: $810 TUITION ASSISTANCE Tuition assistance at Marin Catholic is based on financial need.

Marin Catholic was able to grant over $700,000 in assistance to 20% of the school community for the 2005-2006 school year.

Marin Catholic High School is committed to providing tuition assistance to families unable to afford the entire cost of tuition.

For information and applications contact the Admissions Office.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Teri Hanley, Director of Admissions • thanley@marincatholic.org Lori Collins, Admissions Associate • lcollins@marincatholic.org (415) 464-3810 • www.marincatholic.org

CS10

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL • Burlingame 2750 Adeline Drive • Burlingame, CA 94010 Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy Mercy Education . . . a gift for a lifetime

PROFILE

Mercy High School, Burlingame, founded in 1931 by the Sisters of Mercy and located in historic Kohl Mansion, is a Catholic, college preparatory school for young women. In the tradition of the Sisters of Mercy, young women are encouraged to envision their future, discover their talents, and grow in their faith through a challenging and motivating curricular and co-curricular program. With a student body of 475 young women, we provide a unique community on the Peninsula in which each student is known by her teachers and classmates, and each girl is challenged to reach her greatest potential. Annually, 99%-100% of our graduates go on to outstanding colleges and universities throughout the country.

Enhancing Mercy’s exceptional environment for young women is the opportunity for our students to participate in a significant number of co-educational experiences through the Tri-School Program with Junipero Serra High School and Notre Dame Belmont. As members of Tri-School, our students take part in coed classes, retreats, community service projects, student activities, performing and visual arts, as well as dances.

CURRICULUM

Mercy offers a demanding college preparatory program designed to prepare students not only for college but for life. Mercy offers over 25 Advanced Placement and Honors courses in English, Mathematics, Social Science, Foreign Language, Science, and Visual and Performing Arts. Our elective program offers a wide variety of classes to meet the needs of our diverse and talented student body.

For those students who have a strong interest in languages, Mercy offers a Tri-Lingual Scholars Program, as well as a four-year UC approved program in American Sign Language. In addition, Mercy has a Learning Assistance Program for a limited number of students who need extra support in order to fulfill the requirements of our college preparatory curriculum. Mercy’s curriculum emphasizes critical thinking skills and promotes effective written and verbal communication.

ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS

Mercy is more than academics; each student is encouraged to become involved in all aspects of campus life. Our extracurricular programs offer students numerous opportunities to share and develop their talents while performing, competing, leading, giving and celebrating. Mercy offers more than twenty clubs ranging from JSA (Junior Statesman of America) to the Ski/Snowboarding Club and hosts several informal and formal dances each year. There is something for everyone at Mercy.

Athletics are a valued part of student life at Mercy High School with three-quarters of Mercy students taking part in at least one sport each year. Fall sports include water polo, volleyball, cross country, tennis and golf, followed in the Winter by soccer and basketball. The year concludes with swimming, track, softball and gymnastics, and beginning in the spring of 2006, lacrosse. Mercy teams compete at the Varsity, Junior Varsity and freshmen level in most sports, offering more students the possibility of making a team.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Fine arts are an integral part of a Mercy education. Mercy is nationally known for its outstanding visual and performing arts program which includes drama, dance, chorale, instrumental music, studio art, ceramics and photography.

We not only offer a wide range of courses including honors and AP sections, but a variety of performance opportunities as well. Student performance opportunities include Advanced Chorale, Chorale, Tri-School Chorale, Tri-School Advanced Band, Tri-School Jazz Band, the Tri-School Theatre productions and a number of smaller music and dance recitals. In addition, each spring we host a Fine Arts Night featuring student works and presentations.

SPIRITUALITY

The Campus Ministry program at Mercy offers students a number of opportunities to examine their relationship with God, self, and others through discussion, reflection, service and prayer. Campus Ministry is at the heart of our mission as a Catholic school and supports the spiritual development of our students.

Throughout the school year, Mercy has several school Masses, Seasonal Prayer Services, campus ministry events as well as the Sacrament of Reconciliation for our school community. Retreats are offered throughout the year by grade level, in addition to a number of Tri-School retreats with Serra High School and Notre Dame students.

The four-year religion curriculum offers instruction in Catholic faith and morality, and helps students to integrate spirituality and values into their everyday life. Although 75% of the student body is Catholic; Mercy opens its doors to girls of all faiths.

Community Service is an essential dimension of the mission of Mercy High School and the Sisters of Mercy. Through direct service, students respond compassionately to the needs of their greater community by providing 20 hours of service each year.

PRINCIPAL Laura M. Held ENROLLMENT 475 TUITION AND FEES 2005-2006 $11,825 • Registration $550 TUITION ASSISTANCE Tuition Assistance is offered to students based on demonstrated financial need. Approximately 20% of the student body received financial assistance for the 2005-06 academic year.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Ellen Williamson, Director of Admissions ewilliamson@mercyhsb.com • 650-762-1114 www.mercyhsb.com

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS11

Mercy High School San Francisco A College Preparatory High School for Young Women

3250 Nineteenth Avenue San Francisco, California 94132 415-334-0525 Fax 415-334-9726 www.mercyhs.org

VOTED TOP TEN PLACE TO WORK IN BAY AREA FOR 2005!

ESSENTIALS FOR YOUNG WOMEN

CONNECTIONS FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Mercy High School, San Francisco, was founded in 1952 by the Sisters of Mercy as a college preparatory school for young women. Mercy continues to build on its rich traditions to prepare women who will make a difference in the world. ➣ The Visual & Performing Arts Center houses a first-rate theater as well as studios for art, ceramics and dance to nurture and inspire artists and performers. ➣ Mercy athletes excel in: basketball, volleyball, tennis, softball, soccer, cross-country and track and field. The architecturally stunning Catherine McAuley Pavilion includes a gymnasium, classrooms and artists’ gallery. ➣ State-of-the-art physics, biology, chemistry and technology laboratories challenge tomorrow’s professionals: doctors, engineers, scientists, lawyers, executives ➣ A superb Media Center fosters independent study and research.

Students join the California Association of Student Councils, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, Ambassadors, Amnesty, Anime, Dance Committee, Environmental Green Team, Literary Magazine, Kaleidoscope International Club, Math Club, Mercy Athletic Association, Music Club, Performing Arts Association, Photography Club, Science Club, Speech Club, Spirit Squad, Campus Life Team, Student Council, Web Publishing, Writing Club, Yearbook, Dance Ensemble, cast & crews for theater performances.

ADVANTAGES FOR YOUNG WOMEN

TRADITIONS FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Mercy High School’s outstanding curriculum provides students with a four-year sequence of courses in English, math, science, world languages and visual and performing arts, in addition to various social science, religion and technology courses.

Over 98% of Mercy’s graduating seniors go on to college.

Students who seek additional challenges will choose from an extensive array of Advanced Placement and Honors courses. ● Honors: Algebra I, Advanced Algebra II & Geometry ● AP: Calculus AB & Calculus BC ● Honors: Biology, Chemistry ● AP: Biology, Chemistry & Physics ● AP: English Language & Composition and English Literature & Composition ● Honors: French, Spanish & Spanish for Native Speakers III ● AP: French Language IV, Spanish Language IV, Spanish for Native Speakers IV & Spanish Literature ● Honors: World History ● AP: US History ● AP: Studio Art-Drawing, Studio Art-2D Design, Studio Art-3D Design Students select from a wide range of innovative classes.

Course sampling: Graphics & Web Design, Contemporary World Issues, Creative Writing, Women’s Literature, Journalism, American Sign Language, Self-defense, Ethics, Social Justice, Lifetime Fitness, Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Dance, Chorus, Student Director & Performance Workshop.

Mercy faculty and staff sponsor Intersession: an enrichment program of experiential learning beyond the classroom that includes travel and day adventures.

Mercy’s faculty, the majority of whom hold advanced degrees, bring expertise, dedication, and professionalism to the instructional program.

Supported by the Mission of the Sisters of Mercy which emphasizes individual responsibility and service to society, Mercy offers each student opportunities and experiences to mature in her own religious faith. Mercy values intellectual and personal integrity, responsible decision-making, development of self-esteem, respect for life, and genuine regard for ethnic diversity. Mercy recognizes the obligation to respect and preserve the goods of the earth for the sustenance and enjoyment of future generations. Mercy acknowledges the special roles of women in all aspects of life in an ever-changing world. Mercy’s first graduation, the class of 1956, commemorates 50 years!

Working with the Campus Minister, students lead four retreats per year in addition to planning and participating in liturgies and assemblies. Each student is required to complete 100 hours of community service as directed and supported through Mercy’s Community Service Office.

PRINCIPAL Dorothy J. McCrea, Ed.D ENROLLMENT 535 TUITION & FEES 2005 - 2006 $10,175 ● $500 registration ADMISSIONS & TUITION ASSISTANCE Visit www.mercyhs.org CONTACT Liz Belonogoff, Admissions Director (415) 584-5929 ● Admissions@mercyhs.org DISCOVER EXCELLENCE Open House Sunday, October 30 ● Program begins at 9 a.m.

CS12

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL “PREPARING YOUNG WOMEN FOR LIFE”

1540 Ralston Ave.

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Belmont, CA 94002-1995

PROFILE

Notre Dame High School is an independent Catholic college preparatory school for young women dedicated to the educational mission of St. Julie Billiart and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Founded in 1851 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, the school moved from San Jose to the historic William Ralston Estate in 1923. Notre Dame High School with its sister schools, Notre Dame Elementary School and Notre Dame de Namur University, is located in Belmont, California, a professional suburban community located between San Francisco and San Jose in San Mateo County.

The essence of Notre Dame High School lies in a strong college preparatory curriculum within a caring, supportive environment committed to the development of young women of active faith, strong intellect, and Christian leadership. Notre Dame High School, Mercy High School, Burlingame, and Junipero Serra High School participate in a Tri-School program.

This unique opportunity allows Notre Dame High School students a coeducational experience in the areas of Academics, Campus Ministry, Community Service, Visual and Performing Arts, and Student Activities.

PHILOSOPHY

As a school dedicated to the education of young women, Notre Dame High School educates its students to master the foundational skills of learning necessary to become leaders of society and responsible citizens committed to justice and peace. Acknowledging that the development of the heart, mind, and body is essential and important to the growth of every young woman and seeking to educate the whole person, Notre Dame High School supports growth in six areas: spiritual, moral, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical.

CURRICULUM

The Notre Dame High School curriculum is an excellent college preparatory program designed to prepare all students to succeed in college. Graduation requirements fulfill the course requirements for admission to University of California campuses, California State University campuses, and private, public, and Catholic colleges and universities. Historically, 99% – 100% of Notre Dame High School students enroll in colleges and universities throughout the country. A challenging four-year sequence of College Preparatory and Honors courses are available in all academic areas: English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts. Notre Dame High School also offers Advanced Placement classes in Art History, Biology, Calculus AB, Chemistry, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, French Language, French Literature, Spanish Language, Studio Art, U.S. Government and Politics with Economics, and U.S. History. In addition, all students take four years of Religious Studies. The Foreign Language Laboratory, Science Department Greenhouse, and Environmental Science Field Study Program enrich the learning experience of Notre Dame High School students. Balance and choice is important in a student’s life; therefore, the required curriculum is supplemented by an extensive selection of elective courses in every department.

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650/595-1913

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Notre Dame High School provides numerous opportunities for self-expression through its comprehensive and award-winning Visual and Performing Arts Program which includes Art, Ceramics, Chorus, Dance, Orchestra, Photography, and Theatre Arts and Video Production. Honors and Advanced Placement courses and various performance opportunities offer students experiences in the Visual and Performing Arts which enhance their self-esteem in the classroom and on stage. The Tri-School Program offers Advanced Band, Jazz Band, and Mixed Chorus and sponsors the annual Fall Play, Tri-School Musical, and Dance and Music Recitals which nurture students’ creative expression and promote an appreciation for the Visual and Performing Arts.

ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS

An excellent co-curricular program is an integral part of the Notre Dame High School experience. Student directed organizations and clubs offer opportunities for all students to become actively involved, make new friends, and assume leadership roles in a strong Christian community.

Young women are empowered in all aspects of student government to pursue positions of leadership. Students produce a television broadcast (Tiger TV) and publish a newspaper, literary magazine, and yearbook. Campus Ministry supports the spiritual life of the entire school community working with students, faculty, and staff to plan liturgies, prayer services, and class level retreats. The community service program challenges students to respond to the needs of the surrounding communities with compassion and respect. Students are required to complete 100 hours of community service over four years.

The athletic program is an essential dimension of Notre Dame High School and encourages students to participate on a variety of levels. The NDB Tigers compete in the West Catholic Athletic League (WCAL) in ten sports, and the school fields twenty-five interscholastic teams on three levels (Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman). Teams are consistently successful in league and CCS play and students achieve distinction and recognition as scholar athletes. Notre Dame High School also sponsors a nationally recognized Cheerleading Team.

PRINCIPAL: Rita Gleason ‘66 ENROLLMENT: 725 TUITION AND FEES: $13,000 Tuition / $600 Tuition Deposit TUITION ASSISTANCE Tuition assistance is available to students with demonstrated financial need – over $450,000 awarded.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION www.ndhsb.org or email: admissions@ndhsb.org Lynn Stieren, Director of Admissions 650/595-1913 ext. 320 ● FAX: 650/595-2643

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS13

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Excellence in Catholic education since 1852 1055 Ellis Street

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San Francisco, CA 94109

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415.775.6626

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www.shcp.edu

Our centrally located, state-of-the-art facilities offer our students the best in technological resources. New facilities include our beautiful chapel, 12,000 sq. ft library with 22,000 volumes and 25 full-text databases, and our 44,000 sq. ft. Sister Teresa Piro, DC, Student Life Center for allschool gatherings, meals, and athletic events.

ENTER TO LEARN, LEAVE TO SERVE

PROFILE/PHILOSOPHY

As the oldest Catholic school in San Francisco and the first co-educational high school in the city, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory celebrates a 153-year tradition of serving young people in the heart of San Francisco. Since our founding in 1852, the Daughters of Charity and the Christian Brothers, along with a dedicated lay faculty, have been preparing young men and women for the rigors of college and for service to the Church and society.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory welcomes students from diverse ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds into a community that integrates Catholic beliefs with a rigorous college preparatory curriculum and a balanced student activities program.

CURRICULUM

From challenging core classes to honors and Advanced Placement courses, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s curriculum reflects the creativity of our faculty and the uniqueness of the SHCP experience. SHCP offers a four year De Paul Scholar Program, established for high ability students who show leadership potential and a proclivity toward service. All SHCP students pursue service learning units within the curriculum, preparing them to become service-oriented individuals with a commitment to living the Gospel.

100% of the members of the Class of 2005 continued on to colleges and universities.

A complete academic catalog can be found on the school’s website: www.shcp.edu.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Students are encouraged to participate and find rewards in the learning that happens outside the classroom.

SHCP offers a full complement of programs, including athletics, clubs and activities, chorus, instrumental music, theater, student government, and campus ministry.

This is the motto that greets all who walk through the school doors. Accurately portraying the aims and ideals of the institution, these words guide the Campus Ministry, Student Activities, and service learning programs where SHCP students learn to share their gifts and talents with the Church and the communities in which they live.

PRESIDENT: Mr. John F. Scudder, Jr. ’73 PRINCIPAL: Dr. Kenneth Hogarty ’66 ENROLLMENT: Co-education - 1,250 FACULTY: 91 TUITION AND FEES 2005-06: Tuition: $10,700 Fees $1,000 FINANCIAL AID: At the heart of SHCP’s Lasallian/Vincentian mission is the commitment to provide a Catholic education to young men and women of all economic backgrounds. SHCP employs a comprehensive Financial Aid Program where assistance is awarded to families solely on the basis of need.

More than $925,000 was awarded for the 2005-06 school year.

OPEN HOUSE: Saturday, October 22, 2005 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Mr. Timothy Burke ’70 Director of Admissions 415.775.6626 ext. 729 admissions@shcp.edu www.shcp.edu

CS14

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

Sacred Heart Preparatory Sacred Heart Schools • 150 Valparaiso Avenue • Atherton, CA 94027 • (650) 322-1866

PROFILE

Sacred Heart Prep is a Roman Catholic, independent, college preparatory school. It is coeducational with an enrollment of 465 in grades 9-12. The School was founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1898. It is located on a 62-acre wooded campus, bordering Menlo Park and Atherton.

An education at Sacred Heart Prep is strong in studies, serious in ethical principles, and rich in the spirit of The Gospel. The School is a member of the Network of 21 Sacred Heart Schools in the United States. It is the essence of a Sacred Heart School that it be deeply concerned for each student’s total development: spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical. School policies and practices provide for the development of leadership and self-discipline.

Sacred Heart consists of a culturally diverse student body, and this mix of individuals develops an appreciation and understanding of diverse races, religions and cultures as students prepare to be global citizens.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Schools of the Sacred Heart in the United States, members of a world wide network, offer an education that is marked by a distinctive spirit. It is the essence of a Sacred Heart School that it be deeply concerned for each student’s total development: spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical. It is the essence of a Sacred Heart School that it emphasize serious study, that it educate to a social responsibility and that it lay the foundation of a strong faith.

There is a coordinated approach to spiritual life involving the SHP Community — faculty, students, staff and parents. Monthly seasonal liturgies, planned and carried out by students, embrace the entire school community, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. An organized off campus formal retreat for each class is mandatory. Each Monday assembly opens with a call to prayer or meditative silence.

ACTIVITIES & ATHLETICS

Extracurricular clubs and activities at Sacred Heart Prep play a significant part in the life of each student. They provide fun, a sense of community, a chance to observe hidden talents and to gain confidence in one’s own initiative and abilities, and an opportunity to develop leadership potential.

Activities include drama, music, yearbook, newspaper, and student council. Many students participate in Model United Nations, Interact Club (Rotary), National Honor Society, Amnesty International, Ski Club, Hiking Club, Spanish Club, Environmental Club and Campus Ministry.

While academic commitments come first at Sacred Heart Prep, the School also seeks to develop fine athletes. The diversity of the interscholastic athletic program, with emphasis on participation, and attention to the individual student athlete. The goal of many of our students is to achieve the Varsity level of competition. All in all, over 82 percent of the Sacred Heart Prep student body participate in at least one of the many championship caliber sports offered.

PHILOSOPHY

Each Sacred Heart School offers an education that is distinguished by its commitment to the following five goals: • A personal and active faith in God • A deep respect for intellectual values • A social awareness which impels to action • The building of community as a Christian value • Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom

CURRICULUM

The Sacred Heart Prep course work is designed to offer an intellectually challenging education to college-bound young men and women. (100% continue on to colleges and universities).

Students carry six academic subjects and are required to satisfy the following distributional requirements for their diploma — 4 years of English, 3 years of a foreign language, 4 years of History, 3 years of Science (2 Laboratory Sciences), 3 years of Mathematics, 3.5 years of Religious Studies, 3 semesters of Fine Arts and 2 semesters of Physical Education. Our Fine Arts program includes: drama, choral and instrumental music, studio art, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. Students are encouraged to become critical thinkers and to develop an enthusiasm and lifelong love for learning. Most of the students enroll in Honor and Advanced Placement courses during their junior and senior years.

In addition, students must complete twenty hours of community service to the Sacred Heart community and two service projects – one charity and one justice project. Charity projects respond to immediate needs in the community.

Justice projects respond to structural injustice and empower people to help themselves.

ENROLLMENT 2005 – 2006 465 boys and girls Sacred Heart Prep attracts students from South San Francisco to San Jose.

PRINCIPAL Richard A. Dioli FACULTY 55 full-time and 15 part-time members of the faculty.

80% hold advanced degrees. The student/faculty ratio is 15:1.

TUITION AND FEES 2005 – 2006 $24,060 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Sacred Heart Prep remains committed to an effective financial assistance program which supports socio-economic diversity. Last year over $1,100,000 was awarded to families with demonstrated financial need. Thirty percent of currently enrolled students receive some form of financial assistance.

Financial assistance is awarded on the basis of need, as determined by the Financial Assistance Committee.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Carl Dos Remedios, Admission Office 650/473-4006 FAX 650/326-2761 Website: www.shschools.org E-mail: admission@shschools.org

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS15

SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL 1500 BUTTERFIELD ROAD SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960-1099 ●

PROFILE AND PHILOSOPHY

San Domenico School is the first Catholic School and the first independent school in California established by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael in 1850. The Upper School offers a distinctive boarding and day college preparatory program to 175 young women from the greater Bay Area, California, and over 8 countries.

Best known for its friendly, welcoming community, rigorous academics, and superior performing arts in which teachers mentor their students and promote collaborative learning, San Domenico’s spectacular campus on 515-acres just 20 miles north of San Francisco is an ideal setting in which to grow and learn.

In addition to its superior academic program, San Domenico is home to a music conservatory and its nationally renowned Virtuoso Program, an outstanding pre-professional chamber music program.

The Upper School’s other exceptional offerings include a lively theatre arts program which stages six different performances annually, and a visual arts program taught by professional artists. San Domenico’s campus features a state-of-the-art Hall of Arts and Athletic Center, a full library, technology center, art studio, music practice rooms, a chapel, three dormitories, an outdoor swimming pool, athletic fields, tennis courts, an equestrian center and an organic garden.

CURRICULUM

San Domenico’s superb academic curriculum prepares students to succeed in college. Advanced Placement classes are currently offered in Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Environmental Science, English, French, Spanish, Statistics, Studio Art and US History. An innovative learning program is offered to Freshmen (Freshman Foundations) and Juniors (American Studies) in which literature, history, art, religion and theatrical performance are presented in an integrated structure, providing a thematic and holistic educational experience.

All students participate in San Domenico’s R.O.S.E. (Real Opportunities in Service Education) program. Campus ministry, along with teachers and students, integrates pertinent community projects to enhance academic depth and promote social activism. Students develop unique personal interests with community involvement.

Each spring, students take one week’s break from traditional classroom learning to participate in alternative educational experiences. Past “Spring Discovery” activities have included backpacking in Hawaii, building a house in Mexico, studying coral reef ecology in Costa Rica, volunteering in the Tenderloin, and attending Broadway shows in New York.

Our school takes pride in its commitment to ecological literacy and environmental science. Our Director of Sustainability involves students in integrating the garden into the curriculum and San Domenico’s mission.

ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS

Organizations and clubs add an exciting dimension to student life.

Choose from Student Council and Resident Council, Model United Nations, Environmental Club, Drama Club, Student Ambassadors, Poetry Club, Peer Counseling, Photography Club, Promoting Positive Body Image, Organic Gardening, Verities (a magazine featuring creative literature) Yearbook and the Student Newspaper.

San Domenico competes in the Bay Counties League, West Bay in volleyball, cross country, basketball, soccer, softball, and is a Bay Area Conference (includes both east and west BCL teams) participant in tennis, swimming, badminton, and track & field. The varsity soccer team is the 2005 BCL West Bay Division II Champion.

COLLEGE PLACEMENT

Our graduates attend both public and private colleges and universities. Recent graduates attend such colleges as Boston University, Brown, Emory, John Hopkins/Peabody Conservatory, Lewis and Clark, Oberlin, Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts, Stanford, Tufts, Universities of California, University of Washington, USC and Wellesley.

HEAD OF SCHOOL Dr. Mathew Heersche UPPER SCHOOL DIVISION HEAD Tekakwitha M. Pernambuco-Wise TUITION, 2005-2006 Boarding: $38,717 ● Day: $23,157 FINANCIAL AID San Domenico is committed to diversity in its student body and provides financial aid to qualified students. All financial aid is awarded on the basis of need. Payment plan options are also available to help make a San Domenico education affordable.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Wendy Feltham, Director of Admissions Phone: (415) 258-1905 Fax: (415) 258-1906 Email: admissions@sandomenico.org Website: www.sandomenico.org

CS16

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

St. Ignatius College Preparatory 2001 - 37th Avenue • San Francisco • California • 94116 (415) 731-7500 • www.siprep.org

PROFILE

St. Ignatius College Preparatory celebrates its 150th year of providing Jesuit secondary education in the San Francisco Bay Area. SI is one of 44 Jesuit secondary schools in the United States providing values-centered education. SI was the tenth Jesuit secondary school to become coeducational.

During their four years at SI, our students receive rigorous academic training designed to ensure that they are well prepared to enter the world of higher education. Historically, over 99% of St. Ignatius graduates enroll in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Our strong college preparatory curriculum is balanced by an active Campus Ministry program, an excellent athletic department which offers inter-scholastic competition on over 60 teams, and a superb fine arts program highlighted by productions and presentations throughout the school year.

PHILOSOPHY

There are two primary objectives to a Jesuit education: first, educating the total person; and second, forming “men and women for others.” In achieving the first objective, SI offers programs that enable students to develop academically, physically, spiritually, and socially.

Student activities are a vital part of the curriculum at SI. They provide opportunities to develop interests and talents that are normally untapped in classroom activities. The second objective permeates all aspects of an SI education but is most clearly focused in the 100 hours or more of community service.

This special graduation requirement has as its goal the development of Christian leaders.

CURRICULUM

The academic program at St. Ignatius College Preparatory is designed to prepare students for their college education, offering them four years of college preparatory study.

Minimum graduation requirements meet or exceed the prerequisites and recommended subjects for any selective college in the country. They include 8 semesters of English, 7 semesters of Religious Studies, 6 semesters of Mathematics, 6 semesters of Social Science, 4 semesters of the same Foreign Language, 5 semesters of Science, 2 semesters of PE, 2 semesters of Fine Arts, 8 semesters of college preparatory electives, and 100 hours of supervised community service.

For students who wish to be challenged further, SI offers Advanced Placement and Honors classes in English, Mathematics, Social Science, Foreign Language, and Science.

Students who pass Advanced Placement exams receive college credit and thus save on university tuition. AP success has ranked SI among the top 30 schools nationally and among the top three schools in Northern California in terms of the number of exams administered.

PRINCIPAL Mr. Charles Dullea ENROLLMENT 1415 FACULTY 100 TUITION / FEES $12,480 / $500 FINANCIAL AID Available to students with demonstrated financial need. $1.3 million of need-based financial aid has been awarded to over 20% of the student body for the 2005-2006 academic year. The average grant was $4,550.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION www.siprep.org Mr. Kevin M. Grady, Admissions Director Mrs. Lori Yap, Assistant Admissions Director Ms. Larkin Callaghan, Admissions Associate

September 9, 2005 Catholic San Francisco

CS17

Woodside Priory School 302 Portola Road Portola Valley, CA 94028 • 650 / 851-8221

California’s Benedictine College Preparatory School

Web site: www.WoodsidePriory.com

OUR MISSION

Woodside Priory School is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory school in the Benedictine tradition. Our mission is to assist students of promise in becoming lifelong learners who will productively serve a world in need of their gifts.

We believe in these Benedictine values: Spirituality: God works in us, through us, and for us.

Hospitality: All are welcomed with honor and respect.

Integrity: Learning flourishes in an environment of honesty, trust and personal responsibility.

Individuality: Every student has gifts to be discovered, nurtured, and treasured.

Community: Together we find strength and purpose in supporting one another We believe these values are made real in a community in which every student is known and loved.

OVERVIEW

The Priory is a coeducational, college preparatory school that includes a middle school program for grades six through eight and a high school for the freshman through senior years.

The Priory’s challenging curriculum combined with a full program of interscholastic sports, extra-curricular activities, cultural events and service to community provides an atmosphere that encourages growth in the personal, intellectual, physical and spiritual aspects of a young person’s life. Through the Chapel program, students and faculty gather each week to experience a sense of spiritual community.

The Priory’s student community of 350 is unique among Bay Area Catholic schools as it provides a boarding program for 45 high school students, fostering community living within a structured family environment.

Boarders from throughout the Bay Area, as well as from the US and the world consider boarding as an exciting opportunity. Seamless interaction between boarders and day students adds a diversity of cultures within the student body.

The Priory’s campus has outstanding educational facilities and a location unsurpassed in natural beauty – sixty acres of woods and meadowland in rural Portola Valley, forty miles south of San Francisco and five miles west of Stanford University.

PHILOSOPHY AND CURRICULUM

Priory students are challenged to engage in a complete range of educational experience, demonstrating intellectual inquiry, knowledge of human history and culture, and clear thinking, speaking and writing. Critical thinking, study skills and research skills are integrated into all academic disciplines.

The Priory’s curriculum prepares all students to meet the admission requirements of the University of California and other highly regarded colleges. Students develop a strong academic base in skills and knowledge, with a special emphasis on math-science and writing-research skills training.

The Priory’s strengths include: ● Eighteen AP courses, in addition to honors and a wide range of elective choices. ● Modern athletic and arts facilities, with a complete range of physical education, fine and performing arts courses.

Community service is integrated into student life and the curriculum. Students complete a significant, individually planned service learning experience. Many go far beyond the program with club and class activities. ● Advanced technology and a totally wireless campus is supported through the use of technology that is integrated across the curriculum. ● Over 40 faculty-supervised co-curricular activities are offered within the school day that provide opportunities for students to discover talents and develop skills not tapped in typical academic studies. ● Students are engaged in a four-year retreat program centering on their spirituality and faith journey within the context of Benedictine values.

The small school environment, small class size and 6-to-1 student-teacher ratio create a strong, interactive academic environment in which individual strengths are encouraged. ●

HEADMASTER Tim Molak, M.A. COMPREHENSIVE FEE 2005 - 2006 Day Students: $25,617 (Includes: Tuition, lunch, activities and athletics. Additional fees include a $400 Student Store deposit. Books are extra.)

TUITION ASSISTANCE The Priory is committed to working with families regarding tuition.

A tuition assistance program is available and aid is awarded on the basis of family need. For the 2005 - 2006 school year over $900,000 has been awarded to 20% of the student body.

ENROLLMENT Co-educational - 350 students FACULTY Sixty teachers form the Priory’s faculty, including five members of the Benedictine Community. Three teachers hold doctorates and a majority hold advanced degrees.

VISITING THE PRIORY From the I-280 freeway, take the Alpine Road/Portola Valley exit.

Follow Alpine Road west three miles to a stop sign at Portola Road. Turn right onto Portola Road. The Priory entrance is one half-mile.

SHADOW DAYS Students wishing to spend a day at the Priory are encouraged to make a reservation early as Shadow Days are limited.

OPEN HOUSES Saturdays, October 22nd, November 19th & December 10th, 2005 at 10 AM. R.S.V.P to Admissions as spaces at the Open House are limited.

See the Priory website for further information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Al Zappelli, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Woodside Priory 302 Portola Road Portola Valley, CA 94028 650-851-8223 - or E-mail: azappelli@woodsidepriory.com Web site: www.woodsidepriory.com

CS18

Catholic San Francisco

September 9, 2005

M S . M AU R E E N H U N T I N G TO N S U P E R I N T E N D E N T O F C AT H O L I C S C H O O L S A

s parents and students select a Catholic high school, many factors are taken into consideration.

Parents look for high academic standards; talented and dedicated teachers and administrators; and a safe, nurturing, faith filled environment for their student. Students look for many of the same things, but they also want to go to a high school where learning is fun; where their many talents can be nurtured and enhanced; and a place where they can make good friends. I am honored to present to you, our outstanding Catholic High Schools. Each school, unique in culture and environment, is deeply committed to teaching and living the values of our Catholic faith. The commitment toward academic excellence is evident at each campus and in each classroom.

Each Catholic high school is unique in size, culture, charism and environment. Students are treasured for their individuality, talents and interests. The teachers and administrators at each school work closely with the parents and the family to make sure each student receives the attention they need to be academically successful and the support and encouragement they need to grow and mature into faith filled adults. This ethical and moral foundation provides our young people with the foundation they need to grow into adults with strong moral decision-making skills.

I urge you to consider a Catholic High School for your son or daughter. These four years of high schools will all the difference to your child.

MAUREEN HUNTINGTON

Ms. Maureen Huntington Superintendent of Catholic Schools Archdiocese of San Francisco

W H AT F I N A N C I A L H E L P I S AVA I L A B L E T O A S S I S T A F A M I LY W I T H T H E E X P E N S E O F A C AT H O L I C H I G H S C H O O L E D U C AT I O N ?

Significant scholarship and financial assistance programs help families meet tuition responsibilities. In the 2004-2005 school year alone, more than $9.5 million in financial assistance was given by Catholic high schools

within the Archdiocese. At the time of application to a Catholic high school, parents should inquire about programs available through the San Francisco Archdiocese as well as through the individual school.

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can I get the most supportive environment for my child during the next four years?

The community environment experienced in Catholic schools fully supports students in their spiritual and academic growth. Teachers dedicate themselves to helping students achieve their full potential.

What can a Catholic high school do for my child?

The teaching of Catholic values and faith formation are core to the curriculum in Catholic high schools. Equally important is the religious community of adults surrounding Catholic schools, which supports the schools’ mission. Catholic schools mandate that their students take more college preparatory classes. Catholic schools provide a challenging academic curricula in which students thrive, particularly in religious studies, mathematics, science, English and other core subjects.

I am unable to afford the expense of

a Catholic education; what can I do?

All Catholic high schools in the San Francisco Archdiocese have substantial scholarship and financial aid programs for students and families who qualify.

What are the results for

Catholic high school graduates?

Over 98% of Catholic school graduates in the San Francisco Archdiocese enroll in colleges and universities.

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Mercy High School – Burlingame 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010 (650) 343-3631 Web Site: www.mercyhsb.com Open House: Sun., Nov. 6 (12:00 pm – 4:00 pm) 6th & 7th Gr. Day – Fri., April 28 (1:30 pm – 3:30 pm) Mercy High School – San Francisco 3250 – 19th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 (415) 334-0525 Web Site: www.mercyhs.org Open House: Sun., Oct. 30 (9:00 am) Notre Dame High School 1540 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, CA 94002 (650) 595-1913 Web Site: www.ndhsb.org Open House: Sun., Oct. 30 (10:00 am – 4:00 pm) 6th & 7th Gr. Day – Fri., May 5 (1:00 pm – 3:00 pm)

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Marin Catholic High School 675 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Kentfield, CA 94904 (415) 464-3800 Web Site: www.marincatholic.org Open House: Sun., Oct. 23 (2:00 pm – 4:30 pm)

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory 1055 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94109-7795 (415) 775-6626 Web Site: www.shcp.edu Open House: Sat., Oct. 22 (9:00 am – 11:00 am)

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Sacred Heart Prep High School 150 Valparaiso Avenue, Atherton, CA 94027 (650) 322-1866 Web Site: www.shschools.org Open House: Sun., Oct. 23 (1:00 pm) Sun., Nov. 20 (1:00 pm)

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San Domenico School 1500 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo, CA 94960 (415) 258-1905 Web Site: www.sandomenico.org Open House: Sun., Nov. 13 (1:00 pm – 4:00 pm)

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St. Ignatius College Preparatory 2001 - 37th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 731-7500 Web Site: www.siprep.org Open House: Sun., Nov. 13 (1:00 pm – 3:30 pm)

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Stuart Hall High School 1715 Octavia St. (at Pine), San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 345-5812 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org Open House: Sun., Nov. 6 (1:00 pm – 3:00 pm) Woodside Priory School 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028 (650) 851-8223 Web Site: www.WoodsidePriory.com Open House: Sat., Oct. 22 (10:00 am – 1:00 pm) Sat., Nov. 20 (10:00 am – 1:00 pm) Sat., Dec. 10 (10:00 am – 1:00 pm)

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Archbishop Riordan High School 175 Phelan Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 586-1256 Web Site: www.riordanhs.org Open House: Sun., Oct. 16 (Program begins at 11:00 am) Sun., Nov. 6 (Program begins at 11:00 am)

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