September 22, 2006

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Pope’s reference to Islam brings global reaction

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By Catholic News Service

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Pope Benedict’s reference to Islam brought worldwide protests in many Muslim countries. Shown above are protests Sept. 18 in Kashmir, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Karachi, Pakistan.

WASHINGTON — Strong reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s reference to a historical criticism of Islam continued around the world after the pope said Sept. 17 that he was “deeply sorry for the reactions” to his address Sept.

12 at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

While parts of the world saw protests and attacks on churches, Catholic and Muslim leaders issued statements attempting to put the situation into perspective.

Indonesian Islamic leaders say they hope fellow Muslims will think clearly and forgive the pope.

“Pope Benedict has offered an apology to all Muslims.

We should not do something violent, because it is against our religious teachings,” the chairman of the Indonesian Ulema (Islamic scholars) Council told UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand, Sept. 17.

The scholar, with the single name of Amidan, said he regretted the pope’s remarks because they could affect the general view of the international community about Islam. He expressed hope that the incident would not create any religious conflict.

“We might be offended by the wrong remarks of Pope Benedict, but we must be professional, think clearly and seek the best solution,” he said.

Din Syamsuddin, chairman of Muhammadiyah, the second-largest Muslim organization in Indonesia, told UCA News the same day: “Pope Benedict’s apology should be responded to wisely and broad-mindedly. We might be offended by his remarks, but he has offered an apology. It is better for us to forgive him.”

Expressing hope that Indonesian Muslims would not overreact, he said his message would be: “Let us show that Muslims are forgivers. Forgive Pope Benedict.”

Pope Benedict’s remarks at the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo Sept. 17 were his first direct response to a wave of Muslim indignation over the university lecture in Germany.

“These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought,” he said.

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Pope deplores slaying of nun in Somalia, calls for religious respect

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI deplored the slaying of an Italian missionary nun in Somalia and called for mutual respect of religious convictions among peoples.

A telegram sent in the pope’s name by the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, called the Sept.

17 killing of Consolata Sister Leonella Sgorbati tragic and barbaric.

The pope said he hoped that “the blood shed by such a faithful disciple of the Gospel may become a seed of hope for building authentic fraternity between peoples, in

the mutual respect of the religious convictions of every person.”

The papal telegram was sent to the head of the Consolata religious order in Rome and was made public Sept. 19.

Sister Leonella and her bodyguard were shot and killed as they left a children’s hospital in Mogadishu where she worked. Authorities arrested one suspect and said they believed a second gunman was involved.

A spokesman for the Supreme Islamic Courts Council, which controls and administers Mogadishu, said there was no established link between the slaying

and the widespread indignation among Muslims over a recent speech by Pope Benedict in Germany.

The papal telegram said Sister Leonella had carried out her mission with joy, working in favor of children and health formation. Her work was appreciated, it said.

Islamic leaders in Somalia have condemned the killing, emphasizing that Sister Leonella was dedicating her efforts to the Somali people. The 65-year-old nun had worked in Africa for 35 years and had been in Somalia since 2001.

According to Sister Marzia Feurra, who was with her RELIGIOUS RESPECT page 3

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Holy Cross Sister Laurencita Maloney celebrated her 75th Jublilee as a religious with family and friends in Indiana July 23rd. Sister Laurencita is a native San Franciscan from Potrero Hill but has spent most of her career making new homes as a hospital CEO in Southern California, Ohio and Maryland. More recently she served at St. Pius Parish in Redwood City. Revelers on hand for the occasion included Andrea Fitzgerald, left, Steve Barros, Elaine Fitzgerald and Cece Barros.

Father Brian Costello, pastor of South San Francisco’s Mater Dolorosa Parish was among models helping out at the recent “It’s a Small World” Fashion Show. The event featured great clothes, a lasagna dinner, music, raffles and prizes. More than 200 people attended allowing for a gate of $4.500 to benefit parish and school sports programs. Among those puttin’ the event together were Grace Soriano-Abad, Angi Rodriguez, Gloria Cortez, Ria Tingin, Haydee Carrillo-Lopez, Matiana Barrera, Cynthia Del Rosario, Liza Bouska and Renee Chan….Happy 55 years married September 8th to Betsy and Don Bechter of St. Dunstan Parish in Millbrae where they have lived for more than half a century. The couple took their vows at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Burlingame with the late Father Leonard Bose, presiding, Don said….Mighty proud is the family of SFPD Lt. Colleen E. Fatooh who has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for Police Research and who will be studying in London for the next while or so. Joining her in Great Britain will be her children, Martin and Annie, both

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Church leaders join pleas for action to save Darfur population

humanitarian aid may degenerate completely,” he said.

Bishop Wenski said the U.S. bishops support a resolution authorizing the United Nations to take over an inadequately equipped and understaffed peacekeeping effort by the African Union, and the appointment of a special envoy to focus diplomatic attention on a lasting solution.

On Sept. 19, President George W. Bush announced in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly that he had named Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID, as special envoy for Sudan.

In New York, Franciscan Father Michael Perry, consultant on Africa for Franciscans

International, urged people to call members of Congress, write letters to the White House, pray and to educate others about the situation in Darfur.

In a letter to Franciscan friars and “partners in ministry,” Father Perry explained that more than 400,000 people have died in Darfur and another 300,000 face the immediate prospects of hunger and starvation.

“Darfur is the size of France and has a population of over 6 million,” he wrote.

The war began in 2002 as a local revolt by farmers and others against the government’s abuse of rights and its failure to provide protection from marauding raiders.

Although the government and the main rebel group signed a peace agreement in May, neither side has respected it, Father Perry said.

In recent months the government has progressively blocked international aid agencies from delivering food and medical supplies to civilians who have been forcibly displaced by helicopter gunships, bomber planes and military forces. Rebel groups also have committed atrocities and not respected cease-fire agreements, he said.

At one of the Sept. 16-17 weekend’s many Darfur events, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, said at a London rally that the situation in Darfur is “catastrophic in terms of the violence, the murders, the displacement of people.”

the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, said Sister Leonella “will be remembered for her exceptional dedication and kindness and for her consistently cheerful work demeanor.” It noted that while many foreign humanitarian organizations had withdrawn from Somalia since the 1990s, Sister Leonella and the

other Consolata nuns continued to run a pediatric facility as well as manage a nursing school at the hospital.

Bishop Giorgio Bertin, apostolic administrator of Mogadishu, told the Vatican’s Fides news agency that tensions have been increasing in Somalia for a number of reasons, including inflammatory statements by extremists.

“In Somalia there is a struggle for power in which religion is exploited,” he said.

The bishop said the aim of the gunmen was to “to strike a Catholic nun, any nun. The ambush was premeditated. The killers knew at what time Sister would go home for lunch and they knew where to strike.”

WASHINGTON — As people around the world joined peace rallies, concerts, prayer vigils and even a “yogathon” to press for action to bring peace to Darfur in Sudan, the head of the U.S. bishops’ international policy committee and others pleaded for more efforts to “end the killings, rape and wanton destruction.”

Events in dozens of cities drew tens of thousands of people on or around Sept. 17, which was designated by peace groups as Global Day for Darfur.

Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., the committee head, said despite hopeful signs of a peace agreement in the spring conflict has been mounting among rebel groups, the Sudanese military and its proxy militias, known as the Janjaweed.

The offensive “has trapped innocent and defenseless civilians in the middle of the fighting,” Bishop Wenski wrote in a statement released Sept. 15 in Washington. And with the deteriorating situation, it has become “a deadly challenge” to deliver humanitarian aid to the 2.5 million people who have fled their homes and another million who are at risk of starvation, he said. A dozen aid workers have been killed since June.

He warned that the cycle of violence in Darfur threatens to spiral completely out of control. “With more people being displaced, an already alarming state of insecurity that has hampered efforts to deliver

Religious respect . . .

■ Continued from cover after she was shot, Sister Leonella murmured, “I forgive” three times before dying.

In Baltimore, Catholic Relief Services,

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Sudanese women walk past African Union soldiers on patrol outside Kebkabiya, a government-controlled town in northern Darfur, Sudan, Sept. 5. The Sudanese government has rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution passed Aug. 31 to deploy more than 20,000 U.N. troops to the Darfur region to take over security from African Union troops.

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Taizé: The Healing Sound of Reconciliation A world in a state of chaos.

The taste, sounds and smell of war everywhere.

Refugees fleeing and seeking shelter.

Cynicism and disillusionment in the air.

Religious factions at each other’s throats.

Sound familiar?

This was the world into which Roger Louis Schutz, recently slain founder of the Taizé community and its international ecumenical ministry, was born in Switzerland, in 1915.

Raised as a child through the ravages of World War I, and well aware as a young man of the early unfolding atrocities of yet another world war, at the age of 25, Roger awakened to a desire, a calling, to somehow bring healing to the chaotic and deeply wounded world.

The first step in this mission of healing was his decision to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a Lutheran Pastor—but he knew his calling was not to the comfort of a country church in the safety of Switzerland.

With a handful of like-minded young men, and his sister, Genevieve, he established an un-official religious community, an abbey of sorts, in an abandoned farm house in Taizé, near Cluny, in the Burgundy hills dividing what was in 1940 unoccupied and occupied France. There the community set up a shelter for children orphaned by the war. The house soon became known as a

refuge, a safe place not only for abandoned children, but also for Jews and Gypsies fleeing the Gestapo. Although the house was eventually discovered by the Nazis, Brother Roger’s life was fortuitously spared, and, when the occupation ended, he and his community resumed their work of reconciliation.

It was during this post-war period that the Taizé community, aware of the healing and restorative power of music and ritual, began to develop a unique type of public religious service based neither on the lowLutheran nor high-Roman liturgical styles, but, rather, drawn from an eclectic mix of Eastern Orthodox worship, Buddhist/Hindu meditation, and ancient monastic traditions of chanting and centered prayer.

Key elements of the “Taizé experience” are its physical atmosphere and its sounds, both, unique to this form of prayer.

The atmosphere is as monastic as one can imagine: a darkened church, with only candlelight gently illumining the altar area, where, as the center of attention, is the Taizé Cross, an iconic representation of Jesus with arms outstretched in surrender, in embrace, in welcoming to all who gaze on it and approach it.

The Taizé style of chant reflects both the simplicity of life of the abbey, and the community’s commitment to an all-embracing, ecumenical approach to ritual and prayer.

The chants are exceptionally simple

melodies, nearly archetypal in their directness and power, barely accompanied, and repeated in a mantric manner that allows for the words (in many languages) to become less intellectual concepts, and more a flowing, soothing pattern that allows their healing, generative power to take effect.

The service moves gently, ebbing and flowing through its succession of elemental mantric chants, silent reflection, and the reading of scripture. Silence is key to the service, allowing the participants to be not only active in the voicing of their prayer, but contemplative in their openness to hear and experience the compassionate, forgiving Christ, whose image they see beckoning peace and reconciliation.

Many participants find the highpoint of the experience to be the invitation to approach the cross, kneel before it, and place one’s head upon it, resting there for as long as one cares to, allowing the calming, strengthening, reconciling, forgiving, redeeming power of the cross to work its way into the soul.

What began in the village of Taizé 65 years ago is now an international phenomenon, with weekly services held in over 100 countries across the world. At the original Taizé site, the Friday evening service typically draws between 2,500 and 3,000 people each week.

Taizé Prayer around the Cross is celebrated in San Francisco every Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. at Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, located at Bush and Stockton. Taizé services also take place monthly at Mercy Center in Burlingame and at Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park.

U.S. bishop speaks on detainees WASHINGTON (CNS) — The United States must regain the moral high ground when it comes to treatment of detainees, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Policy. In a Sept. 15 letter to U.S. senators, Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., asked their support for legislation that unambiguously rejects torture and cruel treatment of prisoners.

The letter came as the U.S. Senate weighed legislation that would govern treatment of those detained by the United States, particularly at locations such as the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they are not subject to rights granted prisoners on U.S. soil. The legislative efforts follow reports over the last couple of years about the mistreatment of detainees held by the U.S. military or the federal government.

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Amnesty International urged not to abandon neutrality on abortion WASHINGTON — Amnesty International would risk “its own well-deserved moral credibility” if it were to abandon its neutral stance on abortion, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a letter to the secretary-general of the international human rights organization. “To abandon this long-held position would be a tragic mistake, dividing human rights advocates and diverting Amnesty International from its central and urgent mission of defending human rights as outlined in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights,” Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., said in a letter to Irene Khan, who is based at the organization’s London headquarters.

Amnesty members have been debating the abortion issue at country meetings since 2005, when the International Executive Committee was asked to set policy by the end of 2006 on the questions of “decriminalization of abortion, access to quality services for the management of complications arising from abortion and legal, safe and accessible abortion in cases of rape, sexual assault, incest and risk to the woman’s life.”

Bar raised on abuse prevention NEW YORK — The U.S. Catholic Church’s response to its child sexual abuse problem has raised the bar on sex abuse pre-

Hilda Shlick looks on as her brother, Simon Glasberg, cries during their meeting in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem Sept. 18.

The two were recently reunited after 65 years of living on separate sides of the world, with each believing the other had died in the Nazi Holocaust.

vention for all U.S. organizations that serve children, said Monica Applewhite, an expert in abuse prevention strategies.

Writing in the Sept. 25 issue of America, a national Catholic magazine published by Jesuits, Applewhite said that when the U.S. bishops issued their “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” in June 2002 “the ‘industry standards’ for child protection changed.” “Formerly unwritten rules, like not allowing a sexual offender to work with children and defining specific boundaries for ministry relationships, were now clearly articulated — not just for the Catholic Church, but for everyone,” she wrote. Applewhite is president of the religious services division of Praesidium, a Texas-based organization that provides abuse-prevention training programs for churches, schools and other organizations that serve children and youths.

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Nun killed for sheltering Jews beatified in Hungary OXFORD, England — A nun executed for sheltering Jews during World War II was remembered for her feminine example of holiness during her beatification in Hungary. Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, said the martyrdom of Sister Sara Salkahazi of the Sisters of Social Service is “close to us, and her example is within our reach. She is someone of modest circumstances, who lived through the storms of 20th-century history and gave us an example of the feminine way to holiness.” Sister Sara “dedicated special attention to the dignity of women” and recognized the burdens of the working class, Cardinal Erdo said at the beatification Mass Sept. 17 in front of Budapest’s St. Stephen Basilica. About 20,000 people attended the Mass. “It was her love for Christ which urged Sister Sara to welcome and shelter those persecuted for their political views or because they were Jewish,” NEWS IN BRIEF, page 8 Cardinal Erdo said.

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The Upper School offers a distinctive boarding and day college preparatory program to 160 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 theatre arts, dance, and visual arts programs, all 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. In addition, San Domenico offers a boarding program for both local and international students.

CURRICULUM San Domenico’s superb academic curriculum prepares students to succeed in college. Advanced Placement classes are currently offered in Biology, Calculus, Physics, 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 a one-week break from traditional classroom learning to participate in alternative educational experiences. Past “Spring Discovery” activities have included building a house in Mexico, exploring rain forest ecology in Costa Rica, attending Broadway shows in New York, and participating in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

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 Students participate in a number of curricular field trips throughout the year.

They may include Bay Area theater and dance performances, art museums, service days, and national college visits.

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■ Continued from cover The pope said he hoped his explanation and earlier Vatican statements would serve to “appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address, which in its totality was and is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with great mutual respect.”

Churches in Egypt and Lebanon beefed up security.

Two churches in the Palestinian West Bank were firebombed Sept. 17. Four other churches in the West Bank and one in the Gaza Strip reported gunfire.

Protests against the pope — including some that turned violent — took place in London; in Delhi and Srinigar, India; and in Jakarta, Indonesia.

It was unclear whether the Sept. 16 shooting death of an Italian nun, Sister Leonella Sgorbati, who worked at a children’s hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, was related. The Italian news agency ANSA reported Sept. 18 that the Union of Islamic Courts, a fundamentalist body that con-

trols Mogadishu, said the killing of the nun and her bodyguard were unrelated to reaction to the pope’s speech.

In London, a radical British Muslim said the pope should be executed for “insulting” Mohammed, the founder of Islam.

Anjem Choudary, 39, was among about 100 Muslims who gathered on the plaza of Westminster Cathedral in London to express their anger over the pope’s Regensburg speech.

Speaking to British ITV News Sept. 17, Choudary said: “The Muslims take their religion very seriously and nonMuslims must appreciate that, and they must also understand that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the Prophet.

“Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment,” he said.

“I am here to have a peaceful demonstration,” Choudary added. “But there may be people in Italy or other parts of the world who would carry that (the killing of the pope) out.”

Some Catholics attending Mass at the London cathedral doctors, scholars and bioethicists met in Rome Sept. 14-16 for an international conference sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life and the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations.

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Pope endorses adult stem-cell research ROME — Pope Benedict XVI endorsed stem-cell research and therapy utilizing stem cells harvested from adults and umbilical-cord blood. He also called for researchers and doctors to work more closely together in applying the latest research. “The possibilities opened up by this new chapter in research are in themselves fascinating” because adult stem-cell studies have pointed to actual and potential cures of degenerative diseases that would otherwise lead to disabilities or death, the pope said at an audience for participants attending a Vatican-sponsored congress on stem-cell therapy. “How can I not feel compelled to praise those who dedicate themselves to this research and those who support it and its costs,” the pope said Sept.

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Christian Palestinians downplay Muslim attacks on churches JERUSALEM — Christian Palestinians tried to downplay the significance of Muslim attacks on seven Christian churches in the West Bank and Gaza in protest of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks on Islam in Germany. Just after the Sept. 16 shooting attack on St. John the Baptist Church in Nablus, West Bank, Melkite Father Youssef Saadeh, the parish priest, told a journalist Christians were no longer safe and would not be able to live in Nablus if the situation continued. The church’s door was set afire in the attack. However, in a phone interview with Catholic News Service Sept. 18, Father Saadeh made light of the situation, saying things were quiet, although it was impossible to know what would happen. Father Saadeh skirted a question about fear that the attacks had instilled in the Christian community and instead pointed out that Muslim religious leaders and municipal leaders had visited Christian churches to signify solidarity. No arrest had been made in connection with the attacks aimed at four Nablus churches, he said.

argued with the protesters, but the demonstration continued peacefully without any arrests.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor of Westminster ordered a statement to be read at Masses in every parish Sept. 17.

“It is quite clear to me that Pope Benedict has no intention of offending the sensibilities of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” the cardinal said. “What clearly emerges from his lecture is a radical rejection of any religious motivation for violence.”

Australian Cardinal George Pell said in a Sept. 18 statement that, while he considered it hopeful that there had been no organized violence in Australia, violence elsewhere in the world “justified one of Pope Benedict’s main fears. They showed the link for many Islamists between religion and violence, their refusal to respond to criticism with rational arguments, but only with demonstrations, threats and actual violence.”

Cardinal Pell said the statements of two Australian Muslim leaders in particular were “unfortunately typical and unhelpful.” He cited comments by Sheik al-Hilali, Australia’s mufti, and Ameer Ali of the Prime Minister’s Muslim Reference Group as bothersome.

“Sheik al-Hilali often responds to criticism by questioning the intelligence and competence of the questioner or critic,” said Cardinal Pell’s statement.

He said Ali’s published reply “was more surprising as it called on Pope Benedict to be more like Pope John Paul II than Pope Urban II, who called the First Crusade. In fact the pope’s (Benedict’s) long speech was more about the weaknesses of the Western world, its irreligion and disdain for religion and he explicitly rejected linking religion and violence. He won’t be calling any crusade.”

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Wedding Guide Focus groups see help, challenges in church teachings on marriage

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Catholic married couples find church teaching on marriage as a sacrament and a vocation to be very helpful but see its teaching on contraception as a challenge, according to participants in nearly 200 focus groups sponsored by the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family Life.

The focus group study, which was completed earlier this year, involved more than 1,500 people in about one-third of U.S. dioceses. Groups were held for newly married couples, those in their middle years and older couples; Spanish-speaking couples; and remarried couples. There were also groups for divorced and separated people and single young adults.

“We pastors need to find fresh, bold ways

to promote the rich teachings of the church,” said Bishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Knoxville, Tenn., committee chairman. “Hearing from the focus groups is one step toward that goal.”

Participants in the focus groups discussed their personal experience of marriage, church teaching about marriage, and parish and diocesan support for married couples. Among key findings were: — Although participants generally did not see their parish as a source of direct support for marriage, many found that participation in parish ministries strengthened their marriage.

— Participants expressed a need for more opportunities for adult faith formation, small groups and support groups, retreats and days of reflection for married couples, mentoring, and resources and referrals for

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— Some couples spoke positively about the value of natural family planning, while others were open to learning more about it.

“The teaching on sexuality in general and contraception and natural family planning in particular drew a mixed response,” said the report on the focus groups. “Some cited it as helpful in their marriage, but most who mentioned it saw it as a challenge.”

— Pastors should raise awareness about marriage, especially through preaching, and clergy and parish staff should be trained so that

they can better respond to couples in trouble.

Couples ranging from those recently married to those married for years expressed an appreciation for the church’s teaching on marriage as a “lifelong commitment,” the report said.

— Some divorced participants said the annulment process brought them healing and closure, while others said they had not begun the process, sometimes because of incorrect information about what is involved. Some said they do not believe in annulments, and some were deterred because they heard it was a difficult and complicated process.

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Wedding Guide Practical checklist for a Catholic wedding

By Mark Pattison Any bridal magazine worth its salt will include, somewhere within its hundreds of pages of photos and advertisements, a checklist of things to do before the big day arrives. But if yours is a Catholic wedding, you will want to have a spiritual and sacramental checklist as well.

The first thing to do, once you get engaged, is to call the parish church and notify the pastor of your intent to marry in the Catholic Church. Most U.S. dioceses require sixmonthsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; notice before a couple can marry. Other dioceses require a longer period. This is meant to ensure sufficient preparation time for couples who are engaged to come to grips with building a faith-centered life together. Some individual churches, though, are extremely popular for weddings, so early notification can help you get the wedding date youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hoped for.

The next step comes in following parish and diocesan marriage preparation guidelines. Ask the priest at your parish what the guidelines are. Get a copy of them if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re available in print. Then follow them â&#x20AC;&#x201D; well, religiously.

Virtually every diocese wants couples to show the priest that they have completed some kind of sacramental preparation program. Ask the priest or parish staff what options are available for completing the required marriage preparation. Some required programs last an entire day, some two days or a full weekend, and others are conducted over a series of days or evenings.

This kind of preparation may be different in scope, but similar in nature, to the preparation parents and godparents make for an infantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s baptism, that children make for first confession, first Communion and confirmation, and that adults entering the church undertake in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

An important checklist step involves the wedding liturgy itself. A Catholic wedding is a public declaration of the

coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for one another and their commitment to be faithful in marriage â&#x20AC;&#x153;as long as we both shall live.â&#x20AC;? While the vows are taken by bride and groom, everyone in the church, from guests to altar servers, are witnesses to this declaration.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to make decisions jointly. As one couple told authors Gertrud Mueller Nelson and Christopher Witt for their book â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Wedding With Spiritâ&#x20AC;?: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do one of those â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;traditional weddingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; where the bride and her folks do all the work, make all the decisions and pay all the bills. Those days are over.â&#x20AC;?

Speak with the parish music director about appropriate music both before and during the ceremony. Parish musicians have extensive experience with weddings and know what works and what doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. For a wedding Mass, focus on songs the entire assembly can sing. There is no shortage of good songs that speak of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for us that couples can take to heart.

Friends who are skilled singers or musicians may be able to share in the day by taking an active role in the wedding music, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t merely presume that they know a certain song or that the music director wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind at all if they step in. Consultation and collaboration go a long way here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good practice for married life too.

In addition to music, there are readings to be selected. A priest can give you a booklet containing several choices for Old Testament, New Testament and Gospel readings that can be proclaimed, as well as responsorial psalms to be sung. Engaged couples can further involve friends by asking them to proclaim one of the readings or the general intercessions following the wedding vows.

The sacrament of marriage in a Catholic Church is a wonderful opportunity to begin life together as a married couple with the abundant grace of God. So when an engagement is announced, get that checklist started.

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Wedding Guide Building a solid foundation: A marriage’s first five years

By Jennifer E. Reed The early years of marriage can be rocky terrain, but they also provide the chance to build a strong foundation for marriage in the years ahead.

“A common mistake newly married couples make is that they don’t sit down together and establish their priorities,” said Kathy Passauer. She and her husband Fred, married 26 years, serve as a presenting team for Worldwide Marriage Encounter.

Both husband and wife need to participate actively in deciding what their main concerns are for their life together, she said.

Areas the couple should examine when setting priorities are faith, money, time with family, having children, time alone together, sexuality, careers and household chores. If couples do not talk frankly and listen openly to each other’s hopes and dreams, things can easily veer off course. “You can wake up five years later and ask, ‘Why are your dreams so different from mine?’” her husband said.

Like many couples, the Passauers struggled in their early years with what they thought each of them expected and found that they were growing apart early into their marriage. Kathy said: “We didn’t fight, but it was like Fred was in a boat, drifting away from me. I didn’t know how to get that romance back.”

He was working two jobs, and the family was well provided for, but their relationship was suffering. “I was never home, we were never together,” he said. Then five years into their marriage, they attended their first Marriage Encounter weekend. As they talked that weekend, he said, it was devastating to his ego to hear his wife say, “I don’t want a rich husband.” But through what she called an ”eye-opening” weekend, they gained a clearer understanding of each other and renewed their priorities as husband and wife.

Without a common understanding of where you are going, animosity can set in, said Fred. “The first five years of marriage, you’re groping in the dark,” he said. Instead of blaming each other when problems arise, spouses need to

learn that the solution may be that they themselves need to invest more time in doing things differently.

“A husband, for example, may never have thought that his wife feels used when he goes out to play softball with his friends,” Fred explained. But when she becomes bitter about it, he may think to himself, “Well, she never said anything before.” By coming to a decision together about spending time with family and friends earlier in their relationship, this could have been avoided, the couple said.

A husband and wife also need to understand the dynamics of their own relationship in the early years. Being married to anyone is a major transition, and it takes time to adjust to that. A marriage relationship has cycles, Kathy said, including romance, disillusionment and joy. Being aware of this helps couples.

Couples should not be startled or feel panicked when they experience disillusionment after the fun and romance of courtship.

Kathy cautioned that when disillusionment enters in, it’s important for a couple not to give in to escape routes such as TV, the computer or alcohol. Setting aside some time to be together and talk honestly is important for strengthening their intimacy and growing in love as a couple over time.

Finally, creating a support network for themselves in the early years of marriage can be very beneficial to a couple’s relationship. “Some couples tend to isolate themselves,” said Kathy. “It is so important that they share their relationship, their love and their faith with others.”

In their work as a sponsor couple for engaged couples at

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Sometimes when disappointments and hardships set in, “a couple alone is not going to be able to go beyond disillusionment to joy.” But through their friendship, “maybe others in their lives can be instruments of grace,” he said.

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Catholic San Francisco

September 22, 2006

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Guest Commentary In Christian-Muslim relations, peace not served by ignoring history

By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput Over the past few decades, studies have shown again and again that Americans tend to have a poor grasp of history. In fact, the scholar Christopher Lasch once wrote that Americans love nostalgia, because we see it as a form of entertainment. But we dislike real history, because real historical facts are inconvenient. Yesterday helps shape today.

Real history places annoying obligations of truth on our present and future, and gets in the way of re-inventing ourselves.

As a result, quipped a teacher friend, “history is whatever we say it is, as long as we can get away with it.”

I remembered her words recently as I read a news story. The story reported an Islamic leader as suggesting that it was European Christians, never Muslims, who tried to root out those who didn’t agree with them.

Perhaps the reporter misunderstood the speaker. Perhaps the speaker made an honest mistake. Both Muslims and Christians have committed many sins against each other over the centuries. In the United States, we have an opportunity to overcome that difficult history and learn to live with each other in mutual acceptance. But respect can’t emerge from falsehood.

Catholics who do know history may remember the following: Islam has embraced armed military expansion for religious purposes since its earliest decades. In contrast, Christianity struggled in its divided attitudes toward military force and state power for its first 300 years. No “theology of Crusade” existed in Western Christian thought until the 11th century. In fact, the Christian Byzantine Empire had already been resisting Muslim expansion in the East for 400 years before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade — as a defensive response to generations of armed jihad.

Much of the modern Middle East was once heavily Christian. Muslim armies changed that by imposing Islamic rule. Surviving Christian communities have endured centuries of marginalization, discrimination, violence, slavery and outright persecution — not always and not everywhere; but as a constant, recurring and central theme of Muslim domination.

That same Christian suffering continues down to the present. In the early years of the 20th century, the Muslim Ottoman Empire murdered more than one million Armenian Christians for ethnic, economic, but also religious reasons. Many Turks and other Muslims continue to deny that massive crime even today. Coptic Christians in Egypt — who, even after 13 centuries of Muslim prejudice and harassment, cling to the faith — continue to experience systematic discrimination and violence at the hands of Islamic militants.

Harassment and violence against Christians continue in many places throughout the Islamic world, from Bangladesh, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan and Iraq, to Nigeria, Indonesia and even Muslim-dominated areas of the heavily Catholic Philippines.

In Saudi Arabia, all public expressions of Christian faith are forbidden. The ongoing Christian flight from Lebanon has helped to transform it, in just half a century, from a majority Christian Arab nation to a majority Muslim population.

These are facts. The Muslim-Christian conflict is a very long one, rooted in deep Healing of conflict religious differences, and Muslims have their own long list of real and perceived requires honesty grievances. But especially in an era of religiously inspired terrorism and war in the and repentance Middle East, peace is not served by ignorsubverting or rewriting history, but from both parties. ing, rather by facing it humbly as it really happened and healing its wounds.

That requires honesty and repentance from both Christians and Muslims.

Comments like those reported in the recent news story I read — claiming that historically, it was European Christians, never Muslims, who tried to root out those who disagreed with them — are both false and do nothing to help.

Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput is Archbishop of Denver.

Pope spoke wisdom Rather than speak folly, Pope Benedict XVI spoke wisdom last week in a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he taught theology before going to Rome. However, his remarks largely have been misinterpreted by some in the media as “Muslim bashing.” An intelligent examination of the pope’s comments shows this could not be further from the truth. Although the lecture was complex and didactic, it did contain two fundamental and easily understood propositions to consider regarding the Middle East.

Rather than viewing the current conflict as Bush says, “a clash of civilizations,” the pope sees it as a “dialogue of cultures.” For Pope Benedict, two affirmations must be made by each party: 1) For Islam, there must be a recognition that violence is anathema to God. The west cannot accept Islam until it renounces violence. 2) For the West, religion must be placed not as a subset of the culture but as a critical component of Western culture. Islam cannot accept the secular West until it stops marginalizing religion and making it a phenomenon of individual taste.

Michael McGreevy San Francisco

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War on terror I was dazed and confused by Douglas W. Kmiec’s remarks (Sept. 8, “How should we feel about 9/11 today?”). Most Americans are not of a mind to “cower in defensive fear,” but are in a mood and mind to be protected from Islamic fascists who wish to kill us. The danger is real, not imaginary. The U.S. is not causing us to fear as “rationalization for extreme and misdirected measures,” but acquainting us with the current inconvenient truth. We are at war with Islamic terrorism, and this war is likely to go on longer than any of us want. But is it sane to suggest that we have succeeded enough in prosecuting this war against terror, and have no further need to continue the fight? Mr. Kmiec is unhappy that our fight to protect ourselves from terror will be longer than the time we spent in WWII. But we fought that war as long as it took to win.

What if after three years we had had enough?

We are obligated to win the war on terror, and do our best to help create a future world that is

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Help in understanding Father Gerald Coleman has done a great service (one of very many) to the Archdiocese by his article on “Adoptions and the Archdiocese of San Francisco” (Catholic San Francisco, Aug. 22). With clarity and helpful distinctions based on traditional moral theology, he has helped us understand the appropriateness and advisability of the new program of CCCYO. The new plan also offers a challenge to all Catholic parishes to assist in any way possible “to encourage parish families to consider whether they might be able to open their hearts to such a child.” Thank you for printing his article.

Rev. Anthony E. McGuire St. Matthew Church, San Mateo

L E T T E R S

The story in the Sept. 8 issue (“U.S. diplomat says Hezbollah arms, Iran’s aims key to stable Mideast”) quoting Ambassador Rooney is very misleading. Since the article was posted from Rome by the Catholic News Services, quoted the statements of our ambassador to the Vatican, and appeared in our local Catholic newspaper, one might think these statements reflect official Vatican opinion.

However, Ambassador Rooney is not a Vatican official, but a political appointee of President Bush, and, consequently, his comments reflect the attitude of our administration in Washington. His comments on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict carry no more weight than those of, say, the United States ambassador to Iceland. Ambassador Rooney’s comments also are wrong. Hezbollah rockets were not fired until after the initial bombing of Lebanon by the Israeli Air Force. The ostensible reason was the capture of two Israeli soldiers at the IsraelLebanon border.

Paul Edwards San Francisco Ed. Note: The headline begins, “U.S. diplomat says …” and, in the first paragraph of the story, Francis Rooney is identified as “the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.”

Letters welcome

livable. This is not a choice between either trusting in God or in our own efforts. The two are inseparably joined. WWII was not won by pacifism, denial or naiveté. Surely Mr. Kmiec must remember the WWII song that went, “Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!”

Roger Bruno San Francisco

Support for policy I am writing in support of the new adoption policy of Catholic Charities CYO. More than forty years ago as a seminarian I learned about formal and material cooperation in evil and have applied the traditional principles to hundreds of individual cases since that time.

The new adoption program of CCCYO is the result of careful study done by a number of competent moral theologians and others. It appears to me that Father Gerald D. Coleman has made a good traditional moral analysis of this unusually complex situation. It would help if those who disagree with Father Coleman and the new policy would indicate their competence in the matter.

Simply to say “I disagree” (but without any explanation) gives the impression that their disagreement arises from an unspoken, or maybe unrecognized, prejudice somewhere in their hearts.

Rev. Joseph Walsh St. Stephen Church, San Francisco

Chronicle congratulations It seems clear that neither all the king’s horses nor all the king’s men have succeeded in persuading many of us that Catholic Charities is not complicit in placing children for adoption in homosexual “households” in direct contravention of Church teaching.

Father James Garcia is right when he says that if Tom Ammiano likes the plan, it can’t be good. Add to that the obvious approbation of the San Francisco Chronicle in its Aug. 27 story, which effectively congratulated Catholic Charities for an “adroit end-run” around the Vatican ban on same-sex adoptions.

E. L. Gelhaar Millbrae

In their own words I am trying to understand the logic behind the decision to have Catholic Charities employees working for, and collaborating with, Family Builders, which calls itself “the gayest adoption agency in the country.” I really want to have an open mind, but no explanation that I can come up with makes sense.

Obviously Catholic Charities will be aiding gay adoptions as even Family Builders acknowledged. The director of Family Builders said, “The Catholic Charities partnership may even result in more LGBT families adopting children than before...”

Penelope Boldrick San Francisco

How to measure?

Based on Father Coleman’s analysis and Brian Cahill’s comments, in order for any well meaning Catholic to apply their ethical principles, that is, to determine the extent of formal and material cooperation with evil, it is mandatory for Catholic Charities to keep a record of all referrals, LETTERS, page 15

September 22, 2006

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The Catholic Difference Five years ago, confronted by the rubble in lower Manhattan, the smoldering wreckage at the Pentagon, and the debris of United 93, most Americans instinctively, and correctly, understood that the country was at war. But with what? Or whom? What was at stake, and what passions motivated an enemy who struck in this way?

Those questions have been debated with the vigor appropriate to a mature democracy for the past half-decade. Recent events in Lebanon should have had a clarifying effect on the debate. Our enemies may call this the latest round of “Islam vs. the Crusaders.” We should name it for what it is: the global war against radical Islamic jihadism, which aims at nothing less than the submission of the entire world, by violence if necessary, to what it understands to be the will of Allah.

That the war is global can no longer be doubted. It is inaccurate to speak of the “Afghanistan War” or the “Iraq War,” or “the war in Lebanon,” as if these were discrete incidents. They are different fronts in the same war. And whether the enemy is Sunni radicalism or Shia radicalism (or an alliance of convenience between the two), the enemy’s strategic purpose is the same: to impose Islam for its own sake (because this is what Allah requires of the faithful) and/or to hasten the end of days, the appearance of the Twelfth Imam, and the kingdom to come.

As for the most recently opened front, Hizbollah has never needed much excuse to lob rockets into Israel, deliberately targeting women and children. In this instance, how-

ever, one of Hizbollah’s motivations was to deflect international attention from Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, just as the G8, the U.N., and even the European Union were preparing to bring serious pressure to bear on Tehran. To repeat: the same war is being fought on multiple fronts, not unlike like the world wars of the twentieth century.

Five years after 9/11, and facing an adversary prepared to carry on the struggle for decades, even centuries, the peoples of the West, while retaining our distinctive commitment to moral self-examination and self-criticism, must shed the bad habit of gratuitous self-flagellation. British Prime Minister Tony Blair put this well in a speech in Los Angeles last month: “...it is almost incredible to me that so much of Western opinion appears to buy the idea that the emergence of this global terrorism is somehow our fault...No one who even half bothers to look at the spread and range of activity related to terrorism can fail to see its presence in virtually every major nation in the world. It is directed at the United States and its allies, of course. But it is also directed at nations who could not conceivably be said to be allies of the West. It is also rubbish to suggest that it is the product of poverty. It is true [that] it will use the cause of poverty. But its fanatics are hardly the champions of economic development. It is based on religious extremism. That is the fact. And not any religious extremism, but a specifically Muslim version.”

The West must also recognize the stakes in this war,

which are nothing less than the moral truths at the heart of our civilization: the inviolability of innocent human life; the sanctuary of religious conscience; the dignity of the human person as the George Weigel bearer of inalienable rights; the moral superiority of consent over coercion as a political method. Radical jihadism denies every one of these truths, and indeed regards them as abominations. I’d suggest substituting “moral truths” for that overused and slippery term “values;” but do that, and I think Prime Minister Blair defined the stakes correctly when he told his audience that “what is happening today out in the Middle East, in Afghanistan and beyond, is an elemental struggle about the values that will shape our future.” Nothing less than that is at issue.

This is a mid-1930s moment. The adversary is energized and ruthless; it has its apologists; it counts on our weakness.

The West must not make the mistake of appeasement again.

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

Coming of Age

What to reach for when you’re falling I was walking across the sales floor of a fancy men’s clothing store with two small children in tow. Two-and-a-half year old Skip already had noticed that the rack with expensive silk blazers made an awesome hiding place from the imaginary bad guys who were chasing him. Meredith, 13 months, toddled behind me with that funny duck walk, waving and grinning at the shy college guy who was showing us around.

There we were in the middle of the sales floor when Meredith tripped over a piece of lint. She wasn’t hurt but seemed devastated that she had to take her eyes off her darling college friend, who was oblivious to the whole thing.

Anxious to resume her flirting, Meredith looked around frantically for something to grab hold of in order to pull herself to a stand. To my horror, she grabbed the closest thing she could find: the rear end of the college kid in front of us.

He immediately let out a whelp, spun around to see who’d grabbed him, then fixed his gaze directly at me.

“I didn’t do it!” I shouted defensively. “It was her!” and I pointed at the bald little dumpling who was gazing adoringly at her dream date.

What do you grab hold of when you’re falling?

I don’t mean the type of fall when you slide-tackle an

opponent on the soccer field or wipe out on your dirt bike.

I mean the emotional falls we all take from time to time.

Most of us reach out for friends. They’re likely to understand our feelings, and, we hope, they won’t totally humiliate us if we’ve done something stupid or if we’re asking them for advice on something that everyone else in the universe already knows.

Friends form part of the backbone of our lives, the security that helps us know we’re loved and the future we look forward to. They probably reach out to us when they’re falling too. If we’re fortunate to have a close-knit family, we can reach out to parents, grandparents, siblings or other family members.

I know a brother and sister who bickered every moment, except when they were eating, for 14 years. About the time they started high school, however, they became really close friends. When the sister started high school a year after her brother did, she often hung out at her brother’s locker for moral support and because he made her laugh. In fact, she hung out there so often that her new friends started asking her, “Who is that hot guy you’re hanging out with?!”

“Ewwww!” she replied. “He’s not hot; he’s my brother!” But secretly she was proud to know that she could

depend on him to hold her up when she felt she couldn’t do it alone.

Another guy I know leans on his grandmother, who raised him.

She’s now elderly and frail, but her inner strength still holds him M. Regina Cram up. Truth be told, she relies on him too.

The best person to turn to, of course, is God. There’s a great story in the Bible about a woman who’d been bleeding for years, and somehow she knew that if she could just grab onto the bottom of Jesus’ robe, she’d be OK. So she grabbed it and immediately was healed.

For some funny reason, it reminds me of Meredith grabbing the college kid’s rear, pulling herself to a stand and giggling at her cleverness. And hey, it worked, didn’t it?

Regina Cram writes for Catholic News Service.

Spirituality

The struggle to trust Perhaps the most important thing we ever need to learn is this: It is safe to love!

It is safe to love. Yes, it is safe to be vulnerable because we are in loving hands. It is safe to surrender because we fall into light, not darkness. It is safe to be weak because the strength we need is found when we give up on our own power.

It is safe give up the hurts we cling to because these lose their force when we are in love. It is safe to trust, to let our loved ones be free, because a power beyond us loves them more than we do and ultimately takes care of their safety. It is safe to give ourselves over without fear because, as faith teaches, in the end, all will be well. And it is safe to live our lives with daring because God, as Julian Norwich assures us, sits in heaven, smiling, completely relaxed, his face looking like a marvellous symphony. The world is ultimately safe. It is safe to love.

But it’s not easy to believe that. Perhaps if we had all been loved perfectly, had perfect confidence, and had never been wounded, disappointed, betrayed, or made to cry tears of regret, we would find it easier to believe that it is safe, that we can trust, that we have no need to protect ourselves, and that we do not need to be forever anxious about how we are measuring up, how we are being perceived, how we are being understood, and whether we are worthy of love.

Most of the time we find it hard to trust because we find ourselves wounded, lacking confidence, anxious about many things, feeling the need to protect ourselves. It is hard to trust and especially it is hard to show weakness and to be vulnerable. In the air we breathe everywhere (sometimes even in our most intimate relationships) we inhale a distrust

that makes us want to show a superior strength, attractiveness, talent, intelligence, self-reliance, and cool detachment. Distrust and self-protection are everywhere. It’s hard to let ourselves be vulnerable, to trust that it is safe to love.

And yet, deep down, vulnerability and surrender are what we most deeply want. At every level, we need and want surrender. Morally and religiously, the entire gospels can be put into one word: Surrender. Emotionally, psychologically, and sexually the deepest imperative inside of us is simply: Surrender. And, deeper than all of our anxieties and our need to protect ourselves, lies a truth we know at the core of our being, namely, that in the end we cannot take care of ourselves, we cannot make ourselves whole, and we cannot hide our weaknesses from each other. We need to surrender, to trust, to let ourselves fall into stronger and safer hands than our own.

But in order to do this we need to trust, trust that it is safe to love, to let go, to reveal whom we really are, to show weakness, to not have to pretend that we are whole and self-reliant.

This, as we know, is not easy to do. Indeed, on any given day and at any given moment, it is existentially impossible for us to feel safe, to give ourselves over, to be vulnerable. And so we generally risk the cold misery of detachment rather than risk being misunderstood, rejected, shamed, or seen as needy.

How do we move towards trust? How do we, as Henri Nouwen puts it, move from the house of fear to the house of love?

There is no easy way, no simple formula, no magic bullet, and simply realizing where we need to go is not enough to get us there. Awhile back, at a workshop, a woman came up to me at

the break and said: “I agree with what you, trust is everything, but ... I can’t get there!” She speaks for almost all of us.

How can we get there? How do we pull the trigger on trust?

This is a journey Father that takes a lifetime. To Ron Rolheiser master this is to be a saint. So we shouldn’t be surprised if we still find ourselves, at least on any given day, a long ways from where we want to be. Perhaps the best advice comes from Ruth Burrows, the British Carmelite. In her “Guidelines for Mystical Prayer”, she offers us this: Surrender and abandonment are like a deep, inviting, frightening ocean into which we are drawn. We make excursions into it to test it, to see whether it’s safe, to enjoy the sensation of it. But, for all kinds of reasons, we always go back to dry land, to solid ground, to where we are safe. But the ocean beckons us out anew and we risk again being afloat in something bigger than ourselves. And we keep doing that, wading in and then going back to safety, until one day, when we are ready, we just let the waters carry us away.

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

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TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Wisdom 2:12, 17-20; Psalm 54; James 3:16-4:3; Mark 9:30-37 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM (WISDOM 2:12, 17-20) The wicked say: Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training.

Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him.

For if the just one be the son of God, God will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes.

With revilement and torture let us put the just one to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience.

Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own words, God will take care of him.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 54:3-4, 5, 6 AND 8) R. The Lord upholds my life.

O God, by your name save me, and by your might defend my cause.

O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth.

R. The Lord upholds my life.

For the haughty men have risen up against me, the ruthless seek my life; they set not God before their eyes.

R. The Lord upholds my life.

Behold, God is my helper; the Lord sustains my life.

Freely will I offer you sacrifice; I will praise your name, O LORD, for its goodness.

R. The Lord upholds my life.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT JAMES JAS 3:16-4:3) Beloved: Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace.

Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask. You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (MK 9:30-37) Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.”

But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”

Taking a child, he placed it in the their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”

Q. During a recent discussion about upon” the Messiah, identifying the charthe Holy Spirit, someone asked about the acter with which he will carry out his gifts of the Spirit. Would you remind us saving work. We believe, of course, this what they are or where we might find prophecy is fulfilled in Jesus. them? (Alberta, Canada) The works, or gifts, of the Spirit A. In Catholic theology and spirituality, recorded by Isaiah are wisdom, underdifferent facets of our salvastanding, counsel, courage, knowledge tion are attributed to differ(especially of the things of God), piety ent persons of the Holy (parent-like compasTrinity. The role of our sion and kindness) sanctification is attriband fear or reverence uted to the Holy Spirit. of the Lord. Ancient The Spirit’s mastertranslations of the piece, of course, is Jesus Scriptures differ in himself. He was conceived their forms for this by the power of the Spirit, Father John Dietzen passage, but Catholic and the Spirit guided him piety generally has in all the steps of his redemptive work, to accepted these as the seven gifts of the Calvary and the resurrection.

Spirit, first to our Lord and then to us.

We believe the Holy Spirit works in In his famous passage about the differus to make us living images of Jesus, to ing talents that come together to enable bring the body of Christ to its fulfillment the Christian communities, the body of and perfection in us, as the life of Jesus Christ, to function properly, St. Paul idenand his love of the Father are renewed in tifies many “gifts” that the Spirit bestows human life until the end of time. on the people. They include, among othOne of the ways the Spirit directs us to ers, the gifts of healing, working mirabecome what we are meant to be as follow- cles, teaching, wisdom, expression of ers of Jesus Christ, and moves us to perform knowledge about God, prophecy, discernthe works to which God calls us, is through ment of spirits, speaking in tongues and the gifts of the Spirit described in the Bible. interpretation of tongues.

Scripture, in fact, gives two different These, then, are also significant and listings of this work of the Spirit: one in essential works of the Spirit in the Christian the book of Isaiah and one in the first let- communities, perhaps different but similar ter of Paul to the Corinthians (mainly ways of describing those listed by Isaiah.

Chapter 12).

Though we are many parts, says St. Paul, The works of the Spirit given in Isaiah we are all one body, one Spirit in Christ.

(11:2-3) are those most commonly listed The gifts, whether in Isaiah or Paul, as the gifts of the Holy Spirit in Christian help us to understand what is happening spirituality. The prophet mentions them — and how — in our relationships with as ways the power of God will “rest Christ and with each other as his members.

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QUESTION CORNER

Scripture FATHER GERARD O’ROURKE

Really listening to Jesus A friend of mine recently questioned me about my preparation of a homily. “How do you connect Jesus to the people who read or hear what you say or write?”

As I reflected on this challenging question, I realized that it was what I have been trying to do over the years. It is what I try to do for myself and then hopefully pass on the results. It is a listening process, a listening way to read the Gospel Readings. My commitment is to listen to the Gospel Reading as if Jesus actually set it up for that purpose: as if Jesus wanted me “to get” or “to access” what he was saying or doing in that passage.

When that happens my commitment is to hand it on to you the reader or the listener.

So let us see how it works out in the Gospel Reading for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus was attempting to pass through the Region of Galilee as quietly and unnoticed as possible. Ordinarily it seemed to be an impossible task. This time, however, it seems to have worked. Jesus on this occasion wished to have some very important conversations with his Apostles. For this he needed to have some special time with them.

Once again he wanted to prepare them for his coming death. He wished to let them in on the reality of the coming events surrounding his death. He really wanted to prepare them for the inevitable shock that his arrest, his suffering and his death would bring for them. He especially wished to open up for them the great news of his Resurrection, that he would Rise from the dead.

However it was clear that they had no listening for this news. I hope you notice that I did not say that they did not hear the message of Jesus. They did hear it. But they had no listening for it! They did not let it in. The resisted it. They even seemed to ignore it.

From the point of view of Jesus, it was essential for his program and his agenda that they listen to it, absorb it, and accept it.

It was his foretelling of his arrest, his suffering, his death on the cross and his Resurrection from the dead. Yet it is clear that they never accepted his prediction and his foretelling of these events.

All of the Evangelists record these predictions. All of them spell them out clearly.

Yet the Apostles were totally stunned and surprised when in fact these events happened exactly as they were foretold. They were unprepared for the single most important series of events in their lives when they occurred. The Apostles simply did not listen to Jesus when he told them, more than once, what in fact did happen to him.

This must be a stark reminder to us all.

Prayer of Pope Paul VI Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

What do you and I not listen to in our lives.

Maybe we are being told some “hard things” by someone who is reaching out to us. It could be a child in trouble. It could be a loved one in pain. It could be a mentor in our lives trying to reach us. It could even be a troubled inner voice or conscience. It is surely worth spending a moment with the question and not avoid it as is mentioned about the Apostles in the Gospel Reading.

The Gospel Reading also lets us know that the disciples not only ignored the words of Jesus but they went off to have a conversation that was totally at odds with what Jesus wanted. They had a discussion, even an argument about “who was the greatest?” Given what Jesus had wished them to discuss, their discussion about “who was the greatest” was truly, hilariously off the target! Now that we are in the serious moments of the baseball season it reminds me of the famous Abbott & Costello skit about “Who’s on first!”

For Jesus, however, it was really serious stuff. Mark tells us that, “he sat down and called the twelve and spoke to them.” In the system and rule of life for Jesus, they must be very clear that the number one and the greatest “shall be the last of all and the servant of all.” In fact it is the motto for the Papacy: “Servus servorum Dei” — the servant of the servants of God. It is good for us to notice and remember that all of us from the Pope to the least of us are included in that beautifully inclusive motto.

Then the Master Teacher, Jesus, taught his Apostles and all of us a graphic lesson. He choose a child, no name, it could indeed be any child. Jesus placed the child in the middle of them so that the presence of this child would be a mentoring experience for all of them and for all of us. The child becomes a teacher and an example of one who is open, receptive and willing to listen. The child has not yet become immune or closed to new truths. The child has not learned to be cynical or hypocritical or to put an evasive spin on what he/she hears or experiences.

No wonder Jesus embraced the child. No wonder he declared his love and the love of his heavenly Father for all children and in doing so he encouraged all of us to include the children we encounter in our love and protection.

Once again when we listen to the Gospel stories, may we be touched by the wonder, the privilege and the magnificence of Jesus as our teacher, our mentor and our inspiration.

Father Gerard O’Rourke is director emeritus of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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September 22, 2006

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Rome Correspondent

Pope brings simple and complex messages

(CNS PHOTO/WOLFGANG RATTAY, REUTERS)

Papal trips are essentially about communication, and Pope But when he expanded on this theme in an address to aca- his face and the time he Benedict XVI’s communicating style came into clearer focus demics in Regensburg, the pope discovered that some of his spent greeting the people. during a September pilgrimage to his Bavarian homeland. scholarly ideas were just too dense for the sound-bite culture.

But he shared very The pope came to Germany with a challenging message His main point in the speech was that reason and faith few of his personal about the place of Christian faith in personal lives and in mod- must be reconciled in the West, and his critique of the “de- memories. When he visern society. In conveying it — to the faithful, to non-Christians Hellenization” of Christian theology was detailed and ited the Marian and to the world — he scored some hits and misses.

Sanctuary of Altotting, provocative.

But he introduced it by quoting a medieval emperor on for example, he did not He connected best when he broke the faith down to its fundamentals and reminded people that Christianity is not the errors of Islam and jihad, or holy war, which the press mention that he had John Thavis that complicated. In Munich, meeting with Catholic families, naturally found more exciting. The pope’s speech was not come there frequently as a child. When he passed he spoke the simple language of a parish pastor, advising about Islam, but the headlines the next day were. by the house where them to pray together, go to church and “walk with Jesus.” he was born in Marktl am Inn, he barely looked at it.

In Regensburg, the theologian-pope said people should The one exception came on the trip’s final day, not feel overwhelmed by all the high theology and books when he reminisced with priests in Freising about his about Christianity. The faith is not something created for the own ordination 55 years earlier. Then he set aside a preexperts but for everyone and should generate happiness, not pared discourse on the priest’s “ontological relationship trepidation, he said. Then he summed it up neatly as belief with Christ” and explained in more digestible language in God the creator, Christ the savior and everlasting life. that the priesthood was not a management job but a The papal liturgies themselves, uncomplicated and ministry that works with the human heart. elegant, were designed to communicate the joy of the Unlike the Polish homecoming visits of Pope John worshiping community.

Paul II, this one had few outwardly emotional moments.

People appreciated the pope’s back-to-basics stratThat no doubt reflects Pope Benedict’s tendency to egy. Tomas Miklos, a factory worker in Regensburg depersonalize the papacy, as well as his characteristic who attended the papal Mass there, cited the pope’s sense of reserve.

2005 encyclical, “God Is Love,” and said: “This is Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, something we can understand.” who has known the pope for 33 years, told reporters in But it’s not always easy for the pope to take the Altotting that the pontiff has always been “very dissimple approach. His vision of the faith and its place in creet” about his personal feelings. the world is multifaceted and complex; sometimes it finds a perceptive audience, and sometimes it’s open to “He always looks at what is behind the apparent and misinterpretation. the emotional for something deeper,” the cardinal said. That In talks in Munich and Regensburg, the pope process gives the pope tremendous freedom, he added. developed a central message of his trip: that in a world While the pope clearly does not feel obliged to where religions and cultures risk colliding, Christians emote in public, sometimes excitement shines through. must make sure their faith is firm and is reflected in At a ceremony to bless a new church organ in their own culture.

Regensburg, for example, the pope seemed thrilled to listen Other religions, he said, do not see a threat to their to a Bach fugue blast through the pipes. He thought the Pope Benedict XVI waves farewell at Franz Josef Strauss identity in the Christian faith but in the “contempt for International Airport in Munich, Germany, Sept. 14, at the end event was important enough to give a short talk, declaring God” and the “mockery of the sacred” in the West. without hesitation that the organ dominated the hierarchy of a six-day trip to his homeland. of musical instruments.

That was an interesting approach to the issue of secuAlthough the pope did not specifically endorse the 600larization. By distinguishing the church’s agenda from that of Then he compared the sour notes of rundown organs the dominant Western culture, the pope seemed to stake out new year-old criticisms of Islam that he quoted, he did not dis- to the dissonance that can arise inside the church when too ground in the debate over the potential “clash of civilizations” tance himself from them, either. Thus, the story quickly mor- many members are out of harmony.

— or, as the pope prefers to view it, the “dialogue of cultures.” phed into “Pope hits out at Islam” — an exaggeration, but It was a “Benedict” moment, revealing once again that, for this pope, even the simple things run deep.

Although he is concerned about radical Islam, the pope one that might have been foreseen by a media-savvy pope. was emphasizing that the church wants no part of a political Pope Benedict’s communication relies more on intellect John Thavis is head of the crusade that would impose a materialistic, godless society on than emotion, and that, too, was evident in Bavaria. The pope the rest of the world, under the banner of “enlightenment.” appeared to enjoy visiting his homeland, judging by the smile on Catholic News Service Rome bureau.

Letters . . .

■ Continued from page 12 from Catholic Charities to California Kids Connection /Family Builders, who are or will be placed with homosexuals, so that anyone can determine the extent of Catholic Charities

enablement. Will Catholic Charities make those statistics available on every quarter, six months and yearly? Please do not reply that Catholic Charities has nothing to do with placement. Catholic Charities is enabling and facilitating homosexual adoptions.

Nello Joseph Prato San Francisco

End justifies means?

I appreciate that the San Francisco Chronicle could have slanted the Aug. 27 article “Catholic agency finds way out of adoption ban.” Please tell me that they did. Otherwise, it seems as if we’ve ended up with a humanitarian solution that rests on the non-Catholic belief that “the ends justify the means.” Perhaps if you

could elucidate the pro-Vatican solution that Mr. Cahill claims “...would be consistent with church teaching and also faithful to our mission,” I might be able to understand what appears from the article to be a case of hypocrisy on the part of the Archdiocese.

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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 about any event listed here.

September 30: Annual Blessing of Animals in honor of St. Francis of Assisi at 10:30 a.m.

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”!

Oct. 7: Annual Gospel/Jazz Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Blvd. and Gough St. in San Francisco at 5:30 p.m. Enriching our celebration in a “dialogue of cultures” will be St. Paul of the Shipwreck’s Inspirational Voices Gospel Choir, Youth Choir together with the Jubilee Choir of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, under the direction of Jane Pannikar.

Oct. 27, 28: The Archdiocese of San Francisco, the University of San Francisco, the Seton Institute, and several other national Catholic organizations are hosting a major conference on global poverty at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty will give the keynote address. The conference calls for an end of extreme poverty in which people live on less than $1 a day. www.pointsevennow.org November 18: Archbishop Niederauer will host a Day of Recollection entitled “Come, Follow Me”. It builds on last year’s Day of Recollection to mark the end of the Year of the Eucharist and will again be led by Michael McDevitt of Mystical Humanity of Christ.. Attendees will have a choice of English or Spanish, and lunch will be provided.

Call (415) 614-5505 for more information.

Cathedral Autumn Group: All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Reservations Required to (415) 5672020 ext. 218. Oct. 19: Pt. Reyes Seashore by Coach. Nov. 16: Pre-Advent Morning of Recollection. Dec. 21: Christmas Luncheon at O’Reilly’s Holy Grail Restairant, 1233 Polk between Bush and Sutter.

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Datebook Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at the annual Red Mass of the St. Thomas More Society October 19th at St. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach at 5:30 p.m. Dinner follows at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club. Franciscan Father Louis Vitale will be honored with the St. Thomas More Award whose recipients exemplify the Society’s goal of practicing the ideals of service and sacrifice in the pursuit of justice, as modeled by the martyred saint.

Tickets are $75 per person with discounted tickets of $30 available for clergy and religious. Reply by October 12 to Thomas B. Reed, Jr., St. Thomas More Society Treasurer, c/o Watson & Lanctot, LLP, 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 3685, San Francisco, CA 94104, (415) 362-0900, treed@watlanlaw.com.

You may also visit www.stthomasmoresf.org. Archbishop Niederauer will address Young Adults of the Archdiocese October 3rd at the kick-off session of a new round of Theology on Tap a Ireland 32 Bar, Geary Blvd. and 3rd Ave. in San Francisco. The archbishop will speak on Faithful Citizenship in anticipation of the November elections.

Please visit www.sfyam.org for more on Theology on Tap.

Food & Fun Sept. 22, 23, 24: St. Matthew Elementary School’s annual three-day carnival and fundraiser kicking off the school’s 75th anniversary. Fri.: 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat.: noon – 10 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. takes place on school campus at 910 El Camino Real at Aragon in San Mateo. Tickets available for raffle and special events at St. Matthew Catholic School or calling (650) 3431373. Enjoy entertainment, High Roller’s Casino, more than 35 Kids Booths, Kids Rides, plus a $20,000 Raffle, Tri-Tip Dinner. For more information on St. Matthew 75th Anniversary Carnival & Celebration, please contact Mary-Kevin Stockwell, PR and Communications Volunteer Chairperson (650) 787-5723.

Sept. 22, 23, 24: St. Robert’s Parish Festival, “Ports of Call”. Come enjoy festive entertainment all weekend long. A variety of delicious food, games and rides for the kids, a silent auction, raffles, prizes and Bingo! Located at St. Robert’s Church on Oak/Crystal Springs, San Bruno. Call 650-589-2800 for more details.

September 23, 24: St. Philip Annual Festival, a Noe Valley tradition for almost 70 years. Free admission with games and crafts for children, bingo and sports bar for adults, homemade food and live entertainment for everyone. Open 10 am to 6pm both days, bingo from1 to 4 each afterOct. 14: Crossing the Threshold to Adulthood in a Healthy Manner, a day dedicated to wellness and good health at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 3rd St. and Youngstown in San Francisco beginning at 11:30 a.m. Also available at the Arthur J. Coleman Medical Center, 3rd St. at Ingerson in the City.

Sponsored by St. Mary’s Medical Center and the San Francisco Giants. All services are free and all are welcome. In addition to new and exciting programs designed for the young, a broad spectrum of health and wellness services will be available for all age groups. Call (415) 750-5683.

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Sept. 24: Mass commemorating Feast of St. Finn Barr at the patronal church, 415 Edna St. in San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. Reception follows in parish hall. Call the rectory at (415) 333-3627.

Sept. 27: EWTN’s Bob and Penny Lord come to the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach. The couple will present a program on Franciscan saints. Free valet parking will be available. Popular stars of the EWTN religious media network, the Lords conduct pilgrimages to shrines and holy places around the world. They have produced over two hundred videos and twenty books based on their work. The evening begins at 5 p.m. with wine, hors d’oeuvres, music and dinner outside the church. Bishop John Wester presides at Vespers at 6 p.m. followed by the featured presentation. Tickets are $60 per person. For ticket information, call the Shrine during business hours at (415) 983-0405, or Molly Arthur at (415) 983-0222. You may also email Molly Arthur at mollyarthur@flash.net.

Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1: Mater Dolorosa Parish invites you to their “Viva Las Vegas” festival and assures you will have fun! Featuring raffle drawings, silent auctions, games for children and adults, and gourmet dinners. Come join us at 307 Willow Ave, So. San Francisco. Special treat for alumni on Sept 30th at 2 p.m.!

Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1: Happy Days, annual festival benefiting St. Veronica Parish and School in South San Francisco. Classic Car Show all day Saturday. Enjoy rides, great food, family fun and games!! Prizes and raffle, too!! Call (650) 5881455. Takes place on parish grounds, 434 Alida Way off El Camino Real.

Sept. 30: Aloha Festival at Holy Name of Jesus located on Lawton and 40th Avenue in the Sunset District, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.. Enjoy carnival games, jumpers, Bingo, Tiki Room, raffle, face-painting, lots of food and prizes. Admission is free. Benefits

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Oct. 2: 14th Annual Capuchin Seminarian Golf Tournament, Half Moon Bay Golf Links, Ocean Course. Tourney is 18 hole Scramble beginning with check-in at 10:30 a.m. lunch and golf at 12:30 p.m. and cocktails and dinner at 7 p.m.

Contact Mike Stecher at (650) 342-4680 or Anne Hahn at (650) 692-5044. Proceeds benefit the Capuchin Franciscan Seminary.

Oct. 7: Festa Filipiniana at St. Anne of the Sunset parish Hall beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30/adults and $12/children. Evening features authentic food, music, raffle, and entertainment. Call Freda Motak at (415) 335-5606 or Lydia Cuiting at (415) 608-6820.

Oct. 7, 8: 87th Annual Columbus Day Bazaar – Saints Peter and Paul School, 660 Filbert Street at Powell, San Francisco open 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. both days. A North Beach family festival of games, food and entertainment. Salami toss, giant slide, dunk tank, mini-golf, face painting, pumpkin bowling. Food includes the favorite grilled Italian sausage and bell pepper sandwich, hot dogs, cotton candy, snow cones.

Benefits the scholarship goals of Saints Peter and Paul School, serving North Beach since 1919. Call ( 415) 421-0809 or www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us Oct. 8: 10th Annual Vincenzo Wine & Food Festival - Join us for an afternoon filled with exquisite wine and food—all to benefit at-risk youth at St. Vincent’s School for Boys. The beautiful grounds of St. Vincent’s in San Rafael will be transformed into an Italian marketplace featuring choice cuisine and premier wines, and a live auction offering rare vintages and travel packages. Tickets are $95 per pserson. All proceeds benefit St. Vincent’s. Call (415) 972-1239, www.cccyo.org, www.vincenzo.org.

Reunions Sept. 24: The Mercy High School, San Francisco Alumnae Association is hosting an Alumnae Memorial Mass at 10:00 a.m. in the Chapel. A continental breakfast will immediately follow in Rist Hall. For more information about the event please contact Nilsa Lennig, Director of Community and Alumnae Relations at (415) 3377218 or nlennig@mercyhs.org.

Sept. 30: St. Brigid High School Alumnae Reunion Luncheon at Castagnola’s Restaurant, Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco at 11:30 a.m.

Contact Rita Fabri at (415) 346-0369 or Eleanor Matheu at (415) 566-5331.

Sept. 30: St. Rose Academy, class of ’86, for a cocktail party at the Rosewood Bar in San Francisco. Contact bebe@ski.org or Beatriz St. John at (415) 255-7512.

Sept. 30: Class of ’86, Immaculate Conception Academy aboard the Commodore Yacht on Treasure Island. Families and friends of alumnae also welcome. Call Joselyn Lazo at (925) 6996335.

Oct. 1: Nativity Elementary School in Menlo Park celebrates its 50th anniversary. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving at noon followed by a BBQ luncheon and open house. Co-chairs Russ Castle ‘75, and Karen Finney Skogstrom ‘66, say “a great time will be had by all!” For more information: Email-alumni@nativityschool.com or call Karen at (650) 367-8488.

Oct. 7: Star of the Sea Elementary School, Class of 1956 celebrates its “Golden Diploma” ceremony. Star of the Sea Academy will be doing the same on October 15. For more information please call the school office. And, as we approach our100th anniversary (2009) we are calling out to all our graduates from both schools to contact us. Please call, mail, or email us, especially if you have a list of classmates’ names and contact information. Phone 415-221-8558, e mail terryhanley@starsf.net, or address 360 9th Avenue SF CA 94118.

Oct. 7: Class of ’56 from Immaculate Conception Academy, with social at noon and lunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Basque Cultural Center 599 Railroad Ave. in South San Francisco.

Contact Nancy Sutter at (650) 756-7539 or Arlene Balestreri at (415) 883-3619.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Sept. 23: Mass commemorating the 8th anniversary of the death of Capuchin Friar St. Padre Pio at 7:30 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Chapel. 3255 Folsom St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 647-6142.

Sept. 28: Feast of San Lorenzo Ruis will be commemorated at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco at 6 p.m.

Potluck dinner follows. Call (415) 647-2704.

Oct. 21: Training for New Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Offered by the Office of Worship. $15.00 fee. 9 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Church, So. San Francisco.

Please pre-register at (415) 614-5585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

Oct. 28: Training for New Lectors. Offered by the Office of Worship. $15.00 fee. 9a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Church, So. San Francisco. Please pre-register at (415) 614-5585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Authors seek to clarify Catholics’ murky view of evangelicals “BELIEVERS: A JOURNEY INTO EVANGELICAL AMERICA,” BY JEFFERY L. SHELER. Viking (New York, 2006). 336 pp., $24.95.

“HOLY LAND USA: A CATHOLIC RIDE THROUGH AMERICA’S EVANGELICAL LANDSCAPE,” BY PETER FEUERHERD. Crossroad Publishing (New York, 2006). 192 pp., $16.95.

Reviewed by Brent Kallmer, Catholic News Service These days, “evangelical” seems like a bit of a loaded term, one whose use in conversation frequently produces more heat than light. As often as they are cited for their sheer numbers or political influence, it remains the case that most people — Catholics included — have at best a murky picture of evangelicals.

This should not be all that surprising, since evangelicalism is not a monolith but a mosaic of movements, events and people that in general has three main emphases: the need to be “born again” by entering into a personal relationship with Jesus, a conviction that the Bible — as the inerrant word of God — is the sole rule of faith, and the duty of sharing the Gospel and converting others.

Historically, evangelicalism has been watered by the streams of 17th-century pietism in the Lutheran and Reformed

churches of Europe and the Great Awakening of the 18th century in this country that made famous names like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards. It is a diverse group, to be sure, one which comprises conservative Baptists, Dutch Reformed Calvinists, Pentecostals, even pacifist Mennonites.

This is the varied terrain that Jeffery Sheler covers in “Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America,” an engrossing survey that devotes each chapter to a different part of the evangelical landscape. These include Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, the beacon of evangelical education Wheaton College, the wildly popular Creation Festival, and even a mission to a Mayan village in Guatemala.

Sheler, who spent 15 years as U.S. News & World Report’s religion editor, has the perfect touch for this stuff, and it doesn’t take long for the tired stereotypes of evangelicals to start flying out the window. Indeed, the only thing — aside from a shared faith in Jesus Christ — that seems to unite evangelicals in “Believers” is their utter normalcy.

It is rare to find a book that succeeds in weaving together the strands of a phenomenon as kaleidoscopic as evangelicalism — from its development through American history right down to individual believers’ moving descriptions of their struggles to live their faith — into such a fluid and engaging narrative. Better still, Sheler’s portrait of the evangelical world is

unmarred by any attempt to tell the reader what to think about it and so it is highly recommended.

For a Catholic take on evangelicalism, there is Peter Feuerherd’s “Holy Land USA: A Catholic Ride through America’s Evangelical Landscape,” a reflection on Catholic-evangelical encounters in a variety of settings. Feuerherd, who was drawn to the topic during a stint as an editor with the American Bible Society, covers a remarkable amount of ground in the book’s 186 pages, including those perennially awkward “areyou-saved?” conversations, “two-way conversion traffic,” and differing conceptions of the public and private nature of faith. Strangely absent, however, is any discussion of the sacramental life of the Catholic Church — and particularly the Eucharist — that stands in such stark contrasts to evangelical worship.

Contrasts aside, however, “Holy Land USA” seems most interested in teasing out the ambivalence of its believers, who often come off less as seekers after truth than as

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Brent Kallmer is a former research fellow with the USCCB and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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September 22, 2006 Catholic

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Available to hire Catholic San Franciscan Craig Diaz needs work as Janitor / Laborer / Clerk / Paper Worker / Typist with Typewriter, $11/hour.

(415) 864-9342 or (415) 552-8564

Piano Lessons

Irish Caregiver Caregiver Available

PIANO LESSONS BY

Many years experience, excellent local references, responsible and reliable.

Available days and nights.

CAROL FERRANDO. Conservatory training, masters degree, all levels of students.

CALL (415) 921-8337.

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We Take No Prisoners!! . . . No, Really . . . We Don’t . . .

Alcatraz Cruises is Now Hiring

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

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SF native seeking caregiver work for elderly woman. Excellent refs, over 15 yrs. experience, part- or full-time, with car.

Help Wanted For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins

This is a Career Opportunity!

• Generous Commissions • Minimal Travel • Excellent Benefit Package • Stong Office Support • Work in Your Community. E.O.E.

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Special Needs Companion Services

Francisco

For Information Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

Catholic San Francisco

RNs and LVNs: we want you.

Provide nursing care for children in San Francisco schools.

Full or part time.

Generous benefit package.

Send your resume to: Email: Fax: Mail:

Call 1-800-675-5051, Fax resume: 707-258-1195

Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN, PHN RNTiburon@msn.com 415-435-0421 Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street #427 Tiburon, CA 94920

PRINCIPAL

Special Needs Nursing, Inc.

URSULINE HIGH SCHOOL is a private, Catholic, all girls, college preparatory high school, serving 330 students in grades 9-12. The school was founded by the Ursuline Sisters. Ursuline is located in Santa Rosa, in beautiful Sonoma County, in northern California. Ursuline High School is in the midst of a successful capital campaign. This position provides a unique opportunity to continue a rich 125-year heritage, of educational excellence while advancing innovative ideas that enrich the school’s future.

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL BELMONT, CALIFORNIA

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS: The principal reports to the Board of Trustees and serves as the educational leader of the school, directly responsible for overseeing the faculty, staff, and students.

POSITION DESCRIPTION: The principal has the primary responsibility for carrying out the mission of the school: committed to excellence in educating young women through a strong spiritual and academic program which empowers young women to clarify their values, pursue community service, and develop leadership skills. The Principal will maintain and develop a strong academic program, a spiritual community, and be involved in fundraising, advancement, and strategic planning.

THE

IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

1. Be a practicing Roman Catholic 2. Possess a valid administrative credential and teaching credential 3. Have administrative and teaching experience 4. Excellent oral and communication skills 5. Development and fundraising skills

COMPENSATION: Competitive salary with full benefits APPLICATION: Send a resume, a short personal statement, and a description of your educational philosophy

– PRINCIPAL – The Board of Directors at Notre Dame High School, a Catholic independent school sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and serving 700 young women in grades 9 through 12, invites candidates who are practicing Roman Catholics to apply for the position of Principal. The school has inaugurated the President/Principal model of administration.

The Principal is the Chief Operating Officer and, as such, has the general charge of the day to day operation of the school.

The Principal reports to the President who is responsible to the Board of Directors. The ideal candidate will have a strong record of accomplishment as both an enthusiastic educator and an academic leader with a belief in the value of single-gender education. Discover more about the school at www.ndhsb.org.

Position qualifications include an advanced degree, five years of successful educational experience in teaching and in Catholic school administration, collaborative leadership style, and superior communication and interpersonal skills.

ADDRESS

ALL INQUIRIES, LETTERS OF INTENT, AND REQUESTS FOR APPLICATION TO:

(one page) to:

Notre Dame Principal Search Robert F. Shea, President Shea Consulting Services, LLC 7601 Churchill Way, Suite 1116 Dallas, TX 75251 972.458.7755 Robert@sheaconsulting.com

John Wehde President, Board of Trustees of Ursuline High School 1260 Farmers Lane Santa Rosa, CA 95405 Phone: (707) 542-4544, 542-4545 E mail: john@johnwehde.com FAX: (707) 542-3043

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Catholic San Francisco

September 22, 2006

Friends of Saint Francis of Assisi The National Shrine of Saint Francis invites you to a Special Event An evening of spiritual enlightenment, prayer and celebration

Wednesday September 27, 2006

Convivio Italiano!

5:00 to 6:00 pm

Music, vino and antipasti in a gracious piazza

6:00 to 6:30 pm

Vespers with Bishop John Wester

6:30 to 8:00 pm

“Franciscan Saints” presented

by Bob and Penny Lord (EWTN personalities)

8:00 to 9:30 pm

Reception in Piazza San Francesco Raffle of Items from Porziuncola Gift Shop

Please make your reservations as soon as possible as attendance will be limited.

Tickets are $60 and include program, food and drink.

Complete this form and mail to:

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610 Vallejo Street San Francisco, CA, 94133

For additional information, call Molly Arthur at (415) 983-0222, or email mollyarthur@flash.net

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