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At Catholic Youth Organization Family Night Aug. 28, Catholic Charities CYO’s annual appreciation event for CYO families and children, more than 240 CYO attendees cheered on the San Francisco Giants as they beat the Colorado Rockies 2 to 1 at AT&T Park. Three lucky CYO youth attended the Giants’ batting practice during a pre-game field visit and had their t-shirts autographed by players, including (above) Gwendolyn Mohler of Daly City’s Our Lady of Mercy Parish by shortstop Omar Vizquel. Among CYO youth from San Francisco’s St. John the Evangelist Parish enjoying the ballpark experience were, from left: Mary Michler, Stephanie Michler, Kirsten Michler, Matthew Quintana and Tammia Hubbard.

‘Go against the current,’ Pope Benedict XVI tells youth LORETO, Italy (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI urged a gathering of more than a half million talian young people to embrace Christ and “go against the current” of a culture marked by violence, arrogance and selfishness. The pope also struck a strong ecological theme, saying young people need to press for courageous changes to save the planet “before it’s too late.” The huge crowd applauded the pope’s words at a prayer vigil Sept. 1 and at a Mass the following day on a hillside next to the Marian shrine of Loreto. The weekend assembly featured music and skits, but the highlight was clearly the pope’s presence. “The (Christian) message is this: Do not follow the way of pride but the way of humility,” the pope said at the Mass. “Go against the current: Don’t listen to the persuasive and self-seeking voices that today promote lifestyles marked by arrogance and violence, by self-importance and success at any cost, by appearances and possession to the detriment of being,” he said. He asked young people not to be passive recipients of the countless messages that arrive through the mass media. “Be vigilant! Be critical! Don’t be dragged along by the wave produced by this powerful movement of persuasion,” he said. Instead, the pope held out an “alternative path” marked by sharing, purity, commitment to study and work, and a deep interest in the common good. This does not mean the Christian must renounce all

pleasure or success in life, he said. On the contrary, faith gives deeper satisfaction, he said. “Our faith does not propose a package of moral prohibitions, but a joyful path,” he said.

‘Be vigilant! Be critical! Don’t be dragged along by the wave produced by this powerful movement of persuasion.’ Pope Benedict XVI The pope told the young people that the key to finding the right path was in a personal encounter with Christ. He said it was also essential that they participate in the life of the church. “One cannot call oneself a disciple of Jesus if one doesn’t love and follow his Church. The Church is our family,” he said. At the prayer vigil the day before, the pope hugged young representatives after listening to them tell of their personal spiritual trials. In a talk, he raised the theme of environmental protection in the Christian context. Following Christ means

being aware that the created world belongs to all and must be protected, he said. “To the new generations is entrusted the future of the planet, where it is clear that development has not always been able to protect the delicate balance of nature,” the pope said. He said the ecological situation today calls for courageous choices. “There should be a decisive ‘yes’ to the protection of the created world and a strong commitment to reverse those tendencies that could lead to situations of irreparable degradation.” He said water in particular was a resource in danger of becoming a motive of conflict around the world unless it is shared in an equal way. The Loreto shrine holds what is revered as the house where Mary was born, raised and visited by the angel Gabriel. Tradition holds that the house was transported to Loreto from Nazareth by angels in 1294. The pope said Mary’s purity still points the way to young people today: “Looking at her and following her, you will discover the beauty of love, which is not, however, a disposable love that is fleeting and deceptive, the prisoner of a selfish and materialistic mentality, but true and profound love.” He lamented the number of divorces today. “How many failures of love there are around us! How many couples hang their heads, give in and separate! How many families go to pieces!” he said. He told the youths he was praying that “the crisis facing the family today does not become an irreversible failure.”

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Parents with young children at St. Brendan Parish are getting to know one another as members of the “Under Five Club.” The organization sponsors potluck meals and a variety of other activities to build community among families, said Kakie McMillan. Here with some of the club’s namesakes are St. Brendan pastor Father Tom Parenti, Anna McMillan, and Tom Leach cradling his son, Nicolas.

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Smiles dominated first-day expressions among students at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory especially among these seniors beginning their last year at the San Francisco school. Getting’ back to the books are Alexandria Subrahmanyam, back left, Richard Lai, Breonna Slade and Tess BartholomeuGood, front left, Juliet Chaitin-Lefcourt, Robert Romani.

Salesian Kathleen Gibson celebrated her 50th anniversary as a religious Aug. 12 at Our Lady of the Lake Chapel in San Antonio, Texas. A native San Franciscan and currently a member of the faculty at St. Peter and Paul Elementary School, Sister Kathleen has devoted her life to serving God through serving the young. She has been a teacher, vice-principal, principal, superior, and religious education director in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, New Jersey and Louisiana. “It has always been an honor for me to serve the Lord, his people, and especially the young, as a Salesian Sister of St. John Bosco,” Sister Kathleen said. “May God continually bless the people who have been a part of my life and ministry as a Sister.”…Pearl and Bob Valencia, parishioners of Mater Dolorosa Church since 1962, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Aug. 16. “Bob and Pearl are very active volunteers at Mater Dolorosa and we don’t know what we would do without them,” said Fran Lidwell, parish secretary. “God bless them both, from their Mater Dolorosa

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San Rafael Dominicans celebrate jubilees The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael celebrated jubilees at a Mass and reception in July. Among the honored religious were, standing from left: Sisters Adele Gerlach, Joan Hanna and Lois Silva (50 years), Sisters Sharon Cross and Ann Providence Frassinello (40 years); seated, from left: Sisters Eleanor Beardsley (75 years), Theophane Lewis (70 years), and Judith Vaughan (60 years). Not available for the picture were Sisters Antoninus Tucci (80 years), Martha Perez (75 years), and Jane Ferdon (40 years).

Official appointments The appointment of Father Toan X. Nguyen as administrator of St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael, and the appointment of Father Paul J. Rossi as dean of Deanery 7 were signed into effect Aug. 21 by Archbishop George H. Niederauer. Pastor of St. Raphael, St. Rafael, Father Rossi will complete the deanery term of Father Michael Keane who died Aug. 13. Father Nguyen has been a parochial associate at St. Isabella since July 1, 2006, and formerly served as administrator of St. Elizabeth Parish, San Francisco.

MSJ Dominicans honor jubilarians The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose honored 18 jubilarians in May. During a liturgy at St. Joseph Church, Mission San Jose, the honored Sisters renewed their vows in the hands of Sister Gloria Marie Jones, congregational prioress. Bishop John S. Cummins, bishop emeritus of Oakland, was the main celebrant. Seated: Sisters Hosanna Almaguer (left), 80 years; and Mary Martin Bush, 70 years. Middle row, from left: Sister Gloria Marie Jones, prioress, and Sisters Maria Goretti Campos, 50 years; Geraldine Meyer, Ellen Mary Cunningham, Maria Victoria Hernandez, 70 years; Florence Cumbelich, Sheila Keane, and Frances Marie Henriques, 60 years. Back row, from left: Sisters Elizabeth O’Donnell, 25 years; Mary Denis Baldwin, 60 years; Barbara Larner, Rose Marie Hennessy, Eileen Hinsberger, 50 years; Dolorice Ramirez and Eucharia Heidt, 60 years. Other Sisters celebrating jubilees are Veronica Mota Mendez and Imelda Loch, 50 years.

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Novena to mark 20th anniversary of Filipino saint’s canonization A novena of Masses to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the canonization of St. Lorenzo Ruiz and his companion martyrs will commence Sept. 19 and culminate Sept. 28 with a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral at which Archbishop George H. Niederauer will be principal celebrant. Canonized Oct. 18, 1987 by Pope John Paul II, St. Lorenzo Ruiz – the first saint and martyr from the Philippines – was martyred in September 1637 when captors attempted to force him to denounce his faith to save his life. He is said to have told them, “I will never do it. I am a Catholic and happy to die for God. If I have a thousand lives to offer, I will offer them all to God.” His beatification Feb. 18, 1981 in Manila was the first ever held outside the Vatican. Beatification is a step leading toward canonization as a saint. Born in about 1600 in Binondo, Manila to a Chinese father and Filipina mother, the saint was educated by Dominican friars. In

1636 he was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard and sought asylum on a ship with three Dominican priests – St. Antonio Gonzalez, St. Guillermo Courtet, and St. Miguel de Aozaraza; a Japanese priest, St. Vicente Shiwozuka de la Cruz, and a layman, St. Lazaro of Kyoto. When the boat landed at Okinawa the group was arrested and persecuted based on their Christianity. Brought to Nagasaki on July 10, 1636, they were cruelly tortured. On Sept. 27, 1637, it is said Ruiz and his companions were taken to the “Mountain of Martyrs” where they were hung upside down in a pit known as horca y hoya. Two days after, Ruiz died. The 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28 Cathedral liturgy will be followed by a reception in St. Francis Hall. A reception will also follow each of the previous nine novena Masses at the host parish. Scheduling for those nine liturgies follows: ● Sept. 19, 7 p.m., St. Anne of the

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Holy Cross founder beatification set Sept. 15 in Le Mans, France By Tom Burke Father Basile-Antoine Marie Moreau, founder of the religious Congregations of the Holy Cross will be beatified – a final step on the way to sainthood – in rites Sept. 15 in Le Mans, France where he was born. The Congregations of the Holy Cross, founded in 1857, are perhaps best known by their eight schools of higher education in the United States including the University of Notre Dame, St. Mary’s College and Holy Cross College all in Indiana. The order lists 1,670 Holy Cross priests and Brothers worldwide as well as 1,460 religious women serving as The Sisters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of Holy Cross and Marianites of Holy Cross. Since 1894, approximately 750 Sisters of the Holy Cross have served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Sisters began their ministry at St. Charles Elementary School in San Francisco serving until 1975. They have also served at St. Matthew Parish and School, 1931 to the present; St. Pius Elementary School in Redwood City, 1953 – 1990.

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School, Mountain View, 1957-1972; St. Francis High School, Mountain View, 1982-1985. Holy Cross Sister Marcelle Frizzie entered religious life in 1942 after meeting the Holy Cross Sisters at a boarding school she and her siblings attended in Woodland, Cal. She has served at St. Matthew Parish and School in San Mateo since 1974. “I became a Sister because I loved what the Holy Cross Sisters did and I wanted to serve God through service to his people,” Sister Marcelle told Catholic San Francisco. “This is definitely a great moment for the Holy Cross Sisters, Brothers and priests. I will not be in France for the occasion but will be praying the entire weekend for us all.” Sister Marcelle today serves at St. Matthew’s visiting the sick and helping in the religious education program. Before retiring in 1984, she taught fifth and sixth grades at St. Matthew Elementary. A special display highlighting the life of Father Moreau was exhibited at the school in April. Holy Cross Brother Andre Bessette

and Holy Cross Sister Marie Leone Paradis, both of Canada, were beatified by Pope John Paul II. Sister Marcelle attended the elevation rites for Brother Andre in 1982. Sister Marcelle is one of two Holy Cross Sisters currently serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Sister Mary Eliza Martin, a native of Sacramento and a religious for 60 years, is part of the executive administrative team for the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in San Francisco. It is her first assignment within the Archdiocese. At this time, no Holy Cross Brothers or priests serve here. “The entire family of Holy Cross— Sisters, Brothers and priests—rejoices in Father Moreau’s recognition by the Church as a person of heroic virtue, enjoying the fullness of God’s love,” the Congregations of the Holy Cross said in a statement announcing the beatification of their founder. Father Basile-Antoine Marie Moreau was born in 1799 and died in 1873. He was a priest of the Diocese of Le Mans, France as well as a seminary professor.

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September 7, 2007 said. Christ made clear that people will ultimately be judged on the basis of their works in this world, he said. “The evildoers will find themselves excluded, while those who have done good and sought justice through sacrifice will be welcomed. It will not be enough to declare oneself a friend of Christ.”

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Pope and Israeli president meet VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI was scheduled to have met with Israeli President Shimon Peres yesterday, Sept. 6, at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, a Vatican official confirmed to Catholic News Service Aug. 24. The meeting was to have been just three days after Israeli and Vatican representatives meet in Jerusalem to discuss financial issues related to Catholic institutions in Israel. Peres, who met with Pope Benedict in April 2006, was elected in June as Israel’s president, a largely symbolic role. Peres has served as prime minister of Israel twice, as well as in a number of highranking government posts. In 1994 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Oslo accords, which affirmed the Palestinian right of self-governance.

Allows 42 lawsuits to proceed outside diocese’s bankruptcy SAN DIEGO (CNS) — A federal judge Aug. 25 ordered 42 of the 127 lawsuits over sexual abuse claims to be removed from the Diocese of San Diego’s bankruptcy case so they can go to jury trials in state court. Bankruptcy Court Judge Louise DeCarl Adler found that leaving the 42 plaintiffs in the group that the diocese has sought to settle with in bankruptcy proceedings would amount to depriving them of their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial and “will cause severe prejudice to the plaintiffs, especially since these cases are intensely fact-driven.” Adler’s 14-page ruling said that although the diocese filed for bankruptcy because of the lawsuits, “prompt resolution of these claims through the bankruptcy process is unlikely.” She said twice in the ruling that the $95 million offered to the plaintiffs in a financial reorganization plan is “far below the historical statewide average.” The Archdiocese of Los Angeles in July announced a settlement agreement that called for the church to pay more than 500 victims of sexual abuse by priests a total of $660 million.

Salvation not easy, pope says CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Salvation through Christ is open to all, but the way is not easy because it requires a real commitment to love and justice, Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope, speaking Aug. 26 to hundreds of pilgrims at his summer residence outside Rome, said that when Christ told his disciples the gate to heaven was narrow he did not mean it was for the privileged few. “Christ’s message goes in the opposite direction: Everyone can enter into (eternal) life, but for everyone the gate is narrow ... because it requires commitment, renunciation and mortification of one’s own egotism,” the pope

WASHINGTON (CNS) — More powerful than bodybuilderturned-California-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger? It’s true if you’re Sister Carol Keehan. The issue isn’t about who can lift the greatest weight in the gym. It’s about who has more muscle in the health care arena. Sister Carol, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, the trade group for Catholic hospitals, finished first in the sixth annual reader poll conducted by Modern Healthcare magazine of the 100 most powerful people in health care. Schwarzenegger finished third. Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, was second.

Labor Day statement issued WASHINGTON (CNS) — Immigration issues, including the “failed immigration debate” that preceded Congress’ unsuccessful vote to change U.S. immigration policy, were highlighted in the U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement. “This vital national immigration discussion polarized our people, paralyzed the Congress and failed our nation,” said Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ domestic policy committee, in the statement. “After this debate, we are a society more divided, a people more confused and a nation unable to move forward on one of the most serious and complicated issues we face as a nation.” Although members of Congress could not work together on immigration policy, some low-wage workers were able to work together to carve out a better life for themselves, one of the “signs of hope” pointed to by Bishop DiMarzio in his statement. Dated Sept. 3, the statement, “Labor Day 2007: A Time to Remember; A Time to Recommit,” was released Aug. 24. The text is available at www.USCCB.org. CNS PHOTOS/ARNE FOLKEDAL)

Baptisms mark cardinal’s birthday MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Manila parishes baptized more than 5,000 children 6 years old or younger as part of a Special Day for the Poor set by the archdiocese to commemorate its cardinal’s birthday. Auxiliary Bishops Bernardino Cortez and Broderick Pabillo designated the special day to mark Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales’ 75th birthday Aug. 10. The original date Cardinal Rosales of the baptisms was postponed to Aug. 21 due to recent typhoons. The bishops also called on Manila’s 84 parishes to hold fellowship activities and special services for poor communities throughout August. Father Bajao and six archdiocesan priests spent most of their day pouring holy water on the heads of approximately 4,000 children at San Agustin Church in downtown Manila. Four other Manila priests baptized about 1,500 children at Manila’s metropolitan cathedral. Cardinal Rosales visited the San Francisco Bay Area June 18-21.

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Chinese priest released HONG KONG (CNS) — Father Paul Jiang Surang, diocesan chancellor of the clandestine or underground Catholic community in Wenzhou, China, was released Aug. 24 after being detained by Chinese authorities for 11 months. The 38year-old priest had been kept in a small solitary cell in the Putaopeng Detention Center in Wenzhou, in China’s Zhejiang province, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. Father Jiang and the diocese’s vicar general, Father Peter Shao Zhumin, 46, were arrested together in Shenzhen, China, Sept. 25, 2006, shortly after they returned from a pilgrimage to Europe. Their belongings, including notes and photographs taken when Pope Benedict XVI received them at the Vatican, were confiscated. In March, both priests were charged with “illegal exit.” Father Jiang was sentenced to 11 months’ imprisonment. Father Shao was sentenced to nine months, but was released on parole in May.

Poverty down, uninsured up WASHINGTON (CNS) — The number of Americans living in poverty went down slightly last year, according to the Census Bureau’s annual report, but the number of uninsured Americans rose a bit. The dip in the poverty rate — the first this decade — brought the percentage of Americans living in poverty from 12.6 percent in 2005 to 12.3 percent in 2006. The number of people in poverty — 36.5 million — was “not statistically different” from 2005 levels, the Census Bureau announced. The child poverty rate stayed the same, 17.4 percent, while the poverty rates for adults and senior citizens declined. Both the number and percentage of Americans without health insurance rose from year-before levels — from 44.8 million to 47 million, and from 15.3 percent uninsured to 15.8 percent.

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Denounce Amnesty policy WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denounced Amnesty International’s recent adoption of a policy to fight for the decriminalization of abortion around the world. Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., president of the conference, said in an Aug. 23 statement that the U.S. bishops urge Amnesty to “reconsider its error and reverse its policy on abortion.”

Women await emergency assistance in a rural community on the outskirts of Ica, Peru, Aug. 24. The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima has responded to the Aug. 15 earthquake aftermath by sending rotating teams of psychologists to help people. Catholic organizations have been in the lead to provide relief including Catholic Relief Services and, locally, the Earthquake Relief Fund established by the Seton Institute, 1800 Sullivan Ave., Suite 506, Daly City, CA., 94015.

Safer water statement signed WASHINGTON (CNS) — A dozen Catholic organizations have joined other religious groups in calling for U.S. leadership to increase access to safe water for the world. “Water is a gift from God to be preserved and shared for the benefit of all people and the wider creation,” said the Religious Working Group on Water’s in a statement, “Water for All.” Still, “around 1.2 billion people do not have access to safe water and 2.5 billion do not have access to improved sanitation,” they added. “Two million children die each year from infections spread by dirty water and lack of access to decent sanitation.” On average women in developing countries walk nearly four miles each day to fetch water. “Clean water is key to every other aspect of development — from children’s education to economic growth and environmental sustainability,” they said.

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A resident checks the damage after Hurricane Dean passed the Bull Bay area in Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 20. Hurricane Dean, a Category 5 storm, hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Aug. 21 and also caused extensive damage in Haiti. Organizations including Catholic Relief Services and Food for the Poor have responded to needs of those displaced and hurt by the hurricane.

CLARK, N.J. (CNS) — Calling for unity among African missionaries and religious in the United States, a New Jersey pastor welcomed “those worthy ambassadors from the African soil” at the eighth annual convention of the African Conference of Catholic Clergy and Religious in the United States. “Our work is truly extensive and scattered,” said Father Anselm I. Nwaorgu, pastor of Blessed Sacrament/St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Newark and president of the organization known as ACCCRUS. Held Aug. 2-5 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Clark, the national gathering of African missionaries and religious, which celebrated a welcoming spirit of openness, unity and diversity, featured keynote presentations by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry of Chicago, episcopal liaison to the African apostolate, and Bishop Martin Munyanyi of Gweru, Zimbabwe.

Kazakhstan Church grows, but … WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Catholic Church in the western Asian nation of Kazakhstan is facing unprecedented growth spurred by the country’s burgeoning economy and an influx of foreigners working in the oil industry. But as the economy booms, Catholic leaders face challenges helping the country’s small Catholic population prioritize spiritual

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More open to sisterhood WASHINGTON (CNS) — Girls often dream of saying “I do” at the altar to their future spouse. Katrina Gredona hopes she’ll be saying those words to Jesus as a religious Sister. “When I look at a community of religious women, I see women who contribute fruitfully to the Church and to the world in a very special way and in a very essential way, and I think that’s exciting,” said Gredona, a student at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Ten years ago, Gredona’s interest in religious life would have been unique in comparison with the majority of other Catholic girls, as reports indicated a decline in the number of Sisters in the United States. But recently campus ministers and the vocations directors of some women’s religious communities have been noticing a new trend of more young women looking into religious life.

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Faith conference: 2000 people, 100 workshops, 3 languages Nearly 2,000 participants from the San Francisco Bay Area are expected for the Sept. 21-22 annual Faith Formation Conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center. A joint effort of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Dioceses of San Jose, Monterey, Oakland and Stockton, the conference will offer more than 100 workshops in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. “The two-day event is open to all adults who want to know more about their faith, to catechists and to Catholic school teachers to enhance their teaching, and to lay leadership on their role in parish life,” said Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the Archdiocese’s Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry. Archbishop George Niederauer will open the two-day event with morning prayer on Sept. 21. San Jose Bishop Patrick McGraw will preside at the closing liturgy on Saturday at 4:45 p.m. Stephen Johnson, director of character education at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University will deliver the keynote address, “Character Basics: Prophetic People Living and Speaking the Truth.” “Steve will illuminate the idea of how to be prophetic and influence the character of people we care about,” Sister Arbuckle said. Friday speakers will also include: ● Zeni Fox, Ph.D., on insights from “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord,” a pastoral letter of the U.S. bishops on lay ecclesial ministry; a professor of pastoral theology at

Immaculate Conception Seminary, Seton Hall University , South Orange , N.J., Fox is the author of “New Ecclesial Ministry: Lay Professionals Serving the Church” and serves as an advisor to the bishops’ Subcommittee on Lay Ministry. ● Bill Huebsch on an adult faith formation program called “Into the Fields;” a well-known theologian, Huebsch has published more than a dozen books on Vatican II. ● Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Kate Dooley from Catholic University of America on the Catechetical Directories; 2005 winner of the National Catholic Education Association’s Emmaus Award for Excellence in Catechesis, Sister Dooley is a professor of catechetics and liturgy in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. ● Tony Alonso on liturgy and youth; called “the voice of a new generation in Church music,” Alonso composes lyrics in both English and Spanish and has authored two books on liturgy for youth and youth ministers; he is director of liturgy and music at St. Nicholas Parish, Evanston, Ill; the musician will perform in concert at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. ● Gregory Kepferle on “Putting Love and Justice into Action” including topics of immigration, evangelization, methodology and learning styles; Kepferle is CEO of Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County. ● Father Jose Antonio Rubio, director of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the San Jose Diocese, will present the Saturday morning keynote and prayer reflection

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Volunteers and donations from Kelly Moore Paints and the Golden State Warriors Foundation have helped convert a “once gloomy basement space into a brightly painted and newly lit Warriors Reading and Learning Center” at Megan Furth Academy in San Francisco, reports Pamela Harrington, Academy development director. An Aug. 27 unveiling and ribbon-cutting ceremony took place at the 2445 Pine St. campus. In addition to many of the K-8 elementary’s 140 students, participants included Christopher and Angela Cohan who spearhead founding of the Warriors Foundation in 1997 (Angela Cohan is its current board of directors president and with Christopher Cohan owns the Warriors); Robert Rowell, Warriors president and Foundation vice president; Brandan Wright, Warrior rookie player; Mark Zielinski of Kelly Moore Paints; Nicole McAuliffe, school principal; Jesuit Father Charles Gagan, pastor of St. Ignatius Parish and a

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St. Anthony Foundation staff recently handed out 240 free backpacks filled with dictionaries, notebooks and school supplies to children in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. This is the fourth consecutive year that backpacks were distributed. According to Franciscan Father John Hardin (above), executive director of St. Anthony Foundation, many Tenderloin area children come from low-income families and are at risk for education and literary deficiencies, but a new backpack "filled with great things" can play an important role in making school and education exciting.

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Archbishop to preside at Handicapables Mass The faith-based Handicapables will meet for lunch and fellowship at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco following a noon Mass Sept. 15 at which Archbishop George Niederauer will preside. “We are very happy to welcome Archbishop Niederauer,” said Nadine Calligiuri, the group’s founder. “He has been very good to make time for us.” Calligiuri said the mission of Handicapables, entering its fiftth decade, is to “help disabled people who don’t get out from home or hospital.” “I knew from my experience with disability how much of a struggle everyday life can be,” said Calligiuri, who has lived with cerebral palsy her entire life. “Handicapables is here to help people with disabilities meet their needs. We need friends, we need jobs, we need to socialize.”

“We are happy to welcome new members from every parish,” she said, noting that approximately 55 volunteers are currently on board as drivers and helpers. “We are especially lucky to have children from the Salesian Boys and Girls Club. They serve people, take care of the tables and do so much for us. But we always need more volunteers, especially drivers.” A 1958 graduate of Presentation High School in San Francisco, Calligiuri founded Handicapables in 1965. Other chapters have been formed in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. For information about the California Handicapables or to volunteer, call Jane Cunningham at (415) 585-9085. The Sept. 15 Mass, lunch and reception will all take place in Hall C of the Cathedral Event Center, Gough and Geary St.

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ty, we must also acknowledge the tremendous work of the entire community of faith, which has created a shared safety net for all men, women and children in need,” said Archbishop George H. Niederauer. “ShareSF commemorates the building of our community, recognizes with love and gratitude the many lives changed over the past 100 years, and highlights our mission to serve and advocate for the most vulnerable among us, regardless of religious affiliation.” California Attorney General Jerry Brown will be keynote speaker at the luncheon on the anticipated topic of the partnership between faith-based nonprofits, government and community institutions in meeting the needs of the poor and the forgotJerry Brown ten, particularly women and children. Brown “presents a unique perspective on this topic as he has previously served as the governor of California and mayor of Oakland, and also comes from a background of faith, having attended the seminary at Sacred Heart Novitiate,” the CCCYO release said. During the luncheon Archbishop Niederauer will present a Centennial Service Award to Clint Reilly, immediate past president of the Catholic Charities CYO Board of Directors, for “his extraordinary leadership and dedication to enhancing the quality of life for the underrepresented and less fortunate,” the CCCYO release said. Reilly was the first lay board president in CCCYO history. Along with former San Francisco Archbishop William Levada, Reilly helped found the Annual Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner and the Archbishop’s Charity Council, which have raised millions in support of CCCYO programs. Luncheon tickets are $100 and directly benefit CCCYO programs for women and children. For information, call (415) 972-1205 or visit www.cccyo.org.

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Symbolic $2.6 million check and keynote Cathedral of Christ the Light by actress to highlight anniversary gala A keynote address by well-known actress and model Lauren Hutton and presentation of a symbolic $2.6 million “overdue” check from the City of San Francisco will be among highlights of a 150th anniversary gala celebration for St. Mary’s Medical Center tomorrow evening at the Herbst Pavilion in Fort Mason. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will deliver the honorary check, an allusion to a slice of San Francisco history. In 1855, the city contracted with the Sisters to operate the City and County hospital. However, the city reneged on the contract and, in 1857, the Sisters of Mercy started an institution that is now the oldest continually operating hospital in San Francisco. KGO-AM radio personality Ronn Owens will be master of ceremonies for the Saturday event. “Since 1857, St. Mary’s has always been here to care for the people of San Francisco and has served this city during its most critical times,” said Ken Steele, the medical center’s president. “As a model of comprehensive, advanced health

care and compassionate service, our rich history is an inspiration to us all.” Established after the California Gold Rush by the Sisters of Mercy—a teaching-nursing-social services congregation and the largest English-speaking order of religious women in the United States—St. Mary’s was founded to care for the poor and underserved. It has seen San Francisco through epidemics of cholera, smallpox and typhoid, as well as the 1906 earthquake, the AIDS epidemic and other health crises. Out of the hospital base, the Sisters created a network of services including community and prison outreach programs; refuges for battered women; homes for the frail elderly; nursing schools, medical education programs; and volunteer and auxiliary corps. The hospital operates one of the largest free medical clinics and HIV programs in San Francisco, second only to the county public health department. Last year it provided nearly $18 million in charity care. More information about the St. Mary’s Medical Center is available online at www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org.

Archbishop Niederauer hopes to attend World Youth Day with local pilgrims Archbishop George H. Niederauer hopes to join participants in next summer’s World Youth Day (WYD) in Sydney, Australia, according to Mary Jansen, director of the archdiocesan Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry, Jansen also noted that there is the potential of adding local pilgrims to a “land only option” for the July 2008 event if interested persons contact her office before Oct. 1: (415) 614-5596 or jansenm@sfarchdio-

cese.org. The office’s Web site is www.sfyam.org. The “land only” option, she said, would require attendees to arrange for their own transportation to Sydney, but once there they could “link up” with the other Bay Area participants for the July 14-22 WYD program. Fee for the hotel, WYD registration, and most event meals would be approximately $1475, Jansen said. While the international event is titled “World Youth Day,” participants taking place will range mostly from ages 18 to 35, she said.

The Catholic Professional and Business Club WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 2007 SETON MEDICAL CENTER – DALY CITY 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. 1900 Sullivan Ave., Daly City, CA 94015

CATHOLIC JOURNALISM - Dan Morris-Young Dan Morris-Young has sat with us at many CPBC meetings. We now will have him stand on the other side of the microphone to speak to us. Aside from his extensive work in the Catholic Press, Dan has also operated an insurance and investment practice. He has owned and operated a tavern; was sales manager for a mobile home sales organization; has taught communications and business at Gonzaga University. Dan has taught high school journalism and also directed the development and public relations department for Morning Star Boys’ Ranch in Spokane. His has authored of “Beatitude Saints,” a book published by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. Dan started in the Catholic Press as a non-Catholic reporter for the Inland Register in Spokane, Wa. while an undergraduate student at Gonzaga University in 1968. He became its first lay editor, and served there until 1980 when he was named first lay editor of The Catholic Voice in the Oakland Diocese until 1987. In Oakland he was co-producer and coanchor of a syndicated television news magazine, Video Edition. Dan also served as editor pro tem at the Seattle Progress and at the Arkansas Catholic In 1998 he joined the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s communications department and helped spearhead resurrection of a weekly Catholic newspaper – Catholic San Francisco – becoming its first editor. In 2002 he returned to the Pacific Northwest where he resumed reins of Young Ocean Life Enterprises, the diving and export company he owned and operated since 1987. He has written a weekly column (“Uncle Dan”) for Catholic News Service for three decades. He returned to Catholic San Francisco in February. Awards have included the Catholic Press Association’s top honors for news writing, coverage of ethnic diversity, for work on the Santa Rosa Diocese’s turmoil at the turn of the century, for newspaper campaigns for the disabled.

Mass at 6:30 am in the Chapel

About the Catholic and Professional Business Club (CP&BC) You are invited to become a member of the CP&BC of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Club meets for breakfast on the second Wednesday of the month. Catholic people come together to share our common faith, to network, to hear speakers on pertinent topics, and to discuss ways to incorporate our Catholic spirituality and ethics into the workplace. To become a member, or to make a reservation for the upcoming meeting, please visit our website at www.cpbc.-sf.org. Questions? Call (415) 614-5579

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Construction continues on Oakland’s Cathedral of Christ the Light, which will replace the former cathedral, St. Francis de Sales, damaged irreparably by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Completion of the $190 million cathedral, mausoleum and conference center at Lake Merritt is slated for the fall of 2008. Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron recently appointed Father Paul Minnihan as the cathedral provost. Father Quang Dong is rector of the cathedral parish which includes the former Oakland parishes of St. Mary-St. Francis de Sales and St. Andrew-St. Joseph.

Domestic violence prevention seminar September 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral Archbishop George H. Niederauer will be one of the speakers at a Sept. 29 workshop on domestic violence in the Spanish-speaking community. Catholic Charities CYO will team with groups focused on domestic violence prevention to host the seminar at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, from 1 - 5 p.m. Diana Otero, parish immigration services coordinator for CCCYO explained the format of the meeting: “The event will be entirely in Spanish, and will be focused on educating the Latino community about domestic violence and the services available to them.” The workshop will act as a lead-in to October, which is Domestic Violence

Awareness Month. Participants can expect to find information about services to help victims and abusers, immigration benefits afforded to victims of violence, and education about the Church’s position on domestic violence. Archbishop Niederauer was among the guest speakers at the two previous domestic violence seminars sponsored by CCCYO. The first, which was also aimed at the Hispanic community, was held September 2006. The success of this workshop prompted CCCYO to hold a similar event on March 17 geared toward the Filipino community. For more information about the workshop, contact Otero at (415) 406-2372 or dotero@cccy.org.

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he distraught mother’s worst fear became a very real possibility: her baby might die.

Just one month old and weighing only 5 pounds, Fidelino was suffering from malnutrition and pneumonia. The baby was fighting for his life at a nutrition center in Jocotán, Guatemala. In a nearby crib lay his 3-year-old brother, José, who was also suffering from the ravaging effects of malnutrition. Maria, the boys’ mother, lost a child to illness and malnutrition two years ago. She was terrified that it was about to happen again. She tried to nurse Fidelino, but because she herself was malnourished, her body had little to offer. Like Mary watching her Son suffer on the cross, Maria felt helpless in her despair. Drought, poor crops and other factors have devastated subsistence farmers in

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Monday meeting critical for boys’ home future At a special meeting Monday, Sept. 10, the Marin County Board of Supervisors will begin hearings on a revised countywide plan, which currently includes land-use recommendations that are severely detrimental to St. Vincent School for Boys. Recommendations for restrictive land-use policies contained in the draft countywide plan are a threat to St. Vincent’s ability to continue providing care for neglected youth. The school’s land is the charity’s only patrimony, and if special interests succeed in forging policies that make responsible development impossible, it is as if policies were established preventing the school from accessing its own bank account. In jeopardy is St. Vincent’s plan to develop a small portion of its 770acre property, located north of San Rafael, for senior citizen, workforce and affordable housing. The St. Vincent plan envisions environmentally sensitive development of less than 15 percent of the property, with 85 percent of the land dedicated to open space. This plan would provide St. Vincent with the funds needed to provide new homes and a school for the boys and also preserve the historic chapel and other buildings. With strong support from the senior community in Marin as well as people concerned about affordable and workforce housing in the affluent county, the Marin Planning Commission in April approved the St. Vincent plan. However, a month later in May, under pressure from groups and individuals opposed to virtually any further development, the planning commission reversed its vote. Before forwarding the draft countywide plan to the Marin Board of Supervisors for a final decision, the county’s planning commission voted to recommend that St. Vincent be allowed to develop only 85 market-rate units and 70 affordable units on its 770 acres of land. This restrictive recommendation strips away the economic and societal value of the land, precluding the development of much needed senior, workforce and affordable housing, as well as the ability to build new homes and a school for the St. Vincent boys. Father Tom Daly, chaplain at St. Vincent School for Boys as well as vocations director for the Archdiocese and president of Marin Catholic High School, spoke to the planning commission in May and cited a quotation by Nelson Mandela, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Father Daly added, “I would only add ‘in the way in which it treats its children and senior citizens.’ The use of this quote not only applies to health care coverage for children but also to land use policies that should embrace the health care and housing needs of senior citizens, affordable and workforce housing and the needs of at-risk children and youth. “I believe, as do more Marin County citizens than you realize, that the severe and unfair land-use policies you are about to recommend to the Board of Supervisors do not reflect the soul of a majority of the people and families whom I have come to know in my 20 years as a priest in this County. “Rather, these policies reflect an attitude and agenda of some very dedicated, but in my opinion misguided groups and individuals who, under the guise of environmentalism, have influenced the Commission to recommend policies that are more about ‘no growth’ and ‘exclusion’ than responsible environmental and community land use planning.” “It is our hope,” added Father Daly, “that when your recommendations reach the Board of Supervisors, they will embrace the tremendous opportunity for the sensitive and responsible development of less than 15 percent of St. Vincent’s to serve the housing, social, environmental, economic and recreational needs and interests of the broader community.” In expressing his concern, Archbishop George H. Niederauer said, “Those of us who are committed to St. Vincent’s and the welfare of the boys ask nothing more from the elected officials of Marin and its citizens than for fairness and social justice as they consider land-use policies that will guide the future of the school’s lands. We ask for policies that will provide for the welfare of the St. Vincent’s boys and, at the same time, allow for the development of market-rate and affordable housing to serve Marin County’s aging population and others. It is important to note that St. Vincent’s does not receive archdiocesan financial support and that all of the income realized from the responsible future development of its lands will be dedicated to support the boys by building a new campus, preserving the historic chapel and buildings and providing educational scholarships for other children from low-income families.” Marin County Supervisors Susan Adams, Judy Arnold, Harold Brown, Jr., Steve Kinsey, and Charles McGlashan have an opportunity to address the inequity of St. Vincent School for Boys when deliberations begin Monday at 1 p.m. at Marin Civic Center. We urge them to reverse the planning commission’s recommendation and allow an adequate level of development at St. Vincent’s. MEH

God bless Father Keane I hope that through this letter your readers will be able to know better a holy, humble, extraordinary priest — our beloved pastor and friend, Father Michael Keane, pastor of St. Isabella Church in San Rafael. He died peacefully in the Lord on Aug. 13. It was just a short time ago we celebrated with him his golden anniversary of ordination. Father Keane never forgot to live up to his calling as a dedicated servant of Jesus the High Priest and our Holy Mother the Church. Father Keane gave his entire life, his entire heart, to God and to those he was called to serve. At St. Isabella’s we were blessed to have him in our midst for 18 years. I am one of the most recent to get to know him, coming to the parish as his parochial vicar in July of 2006. He received me with hospitality, graciously applying a heap of good, oldfashioned ,Irish charm. He made you feel he was there just for you. He listened carefully and responded with wisdom. He assured me all would go well and “please don’t sweat the details”. The words “thank you” were in his daily vocabulary. Even in his months of illness, he profusely thanked those who did even the smallest tasks for him or parish. It is my privilege to join with parishioners, family and friends in thanking God for Father Keane as we commend him to the Lord in prayer. For Father Keane practicing the faith was like breathing in and breathing out. His greatest pride and joy came from being pastor here at St. Isabella’s. He loved everything about priesthood: the people, the parish, the work, the company of other priests, the Church, the rectory, the joys, and even the challenges. Hopefully, his holy life and holy death will sow the seeds for more young men to follow. A man of prayer, he loved the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. Placed near his head in the coffin was his ragged copy of the Church’s official prayer — what old-time priests used to call their “wife,” the breviary. He was faithful to “her” all his priestly days. Often Father Keane was seen adoring the Blessed Sacrament or with a well-worn rosary in his hands. Even in his final days he struggled to celebrate Mass or receive Communion. This was a special inspiration since he could not take solid food or drink for more than three months. He was greatly comforted by the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick over the past few months. He humbly received the comfort and ministry of his spiritual director and friends as he prepared to face the Lord. In his final hours he had on his weathered face a beautiful, innocent, boy-like smile. I like to think he laughed his way from this world to the next. Well done, good and faithful servant. Father Mark G. Mazza, Parochial vicar St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael

the Aug. 24 Catholic San Francisco. I thought I was the only one who noticed that reverence, tradition and consecration had flown the Church. I just attended a welcome back Mass for blessing on the new school year. The pastor, as he does quite often with the children, asks questions. He mentioned Jesus’ name many times. Somewhere in my 85 years, I was taught you bow your head at the name of Jesus. No one out of approximately 750 children, their teachers or the principal bowed their heads. It might also be a learning experience for the younger congregation to pay attention to the miracle taking place on the altar. Reverence? Tradition? Consecration? Thank God for memories. I was lucky enough to have the “best” of the Catholic Church – fasting from midnight, no meat on Friday. It wasn’t that hard and I hope it strengthened my faith. After all, life and faith are sacrifices. Thank you to the three writers above mentioned. L. G. Dockery San Francisco

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Bravo for reverence I am grateful for the letters of Mary McCurry, C.M. Creighton and Ron Carkrey in

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Spiritual hubris? In George Weigel’s Aug. 24 column, “When petitions become sermonettes,” he makes the point that he is “particularly scornful” of petitions he believes “politicize” the liturgy. He then goes on to give examples, carefully parsing each line to demonstrate, in his opinion, how the words of these petitions, while appearing to offer prayer, are in fact nothing more than a disguised political agenda. Then Mr. Weigel says, “I trust the Lord wasn’t listening.” This smacks of real spiritual hubris. How can he decide whether or not God is “listening” to a particular prayer? After all, isn’t God always listening to us, no matter how humble our prayers, or how suspect, or misguided, or even, in some cases, destructive? Perhaps Mr Weigel might consider this: all words and intentions offered to God during the prayers of the faithful, no matter what he himself thinks about them, start from a place of faith, hope, and yes, good intention, even if at times that intention is misguided. Let us trust the Lord will sort out the wheat from the chaff. Sarah Stockton Daly City

Plane wrong Mr. Weigel has done it again. In his latest (Aug. 24) effort to tell the rest of us how to manage our spiritual lives, he objects to a parish praying “For the leaders of the United Nations, may they effectively design programs to provide aid to the people who experience the greatest suffering.” He then writes that the prayers “would be better directed at ending the rape of children by U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan.” At our parish, we pray for the safety of our troops serving in Iraq. Does he insist we instead pray for the victims of Abu Ghraib? It just doesn’t make sense. His column is titled “The Catholic Difference.” Over the last few years, it seems to have rather become the “Neocon Difference” or perhaps just the “Weigel Difference.” One more thing: the aircraft he refers to as a DC-3 in the column’s closing is, in fact, a Lockheed Electra 12-A. Greg Smith San Francisco

Keep Weigel I want to congratulate this paper for featuring George Weigel — not so much for his treatment of the subject matter, but for the letters to the editor his columns generate. I find the “Letters” in response to be far superior than anything Mr. Weigel can come up with. Keep up the good work. Christopher Courter San Francisco

Language of crucifiers Latin is the language of the crucifiers, the Roman occupation troops. Our Lord looked into the eyes of his LETTERS, page 18

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How can we sustain our prayer life? It’s hard to sustain a regular life of prayer. Why? Some reasons are obvious: over-busyness, tiredness and too many demands on our time, constant distraction, spiritual laziness, worship services that bore us, and methods of prayer that leave us flat. But there is another reason suggested by monks and mystics. The problem we have in sustaining prayer, they say, is often grounded in the false notion that prayer needs to be interesting, exciting, intense and full of energy all the time. That is impossible! Nothing is meant to be exciting all the time, including prayer and church services, and nobody has the energy to always be alert, attentive, intense and actively engaged. Sometimes we don’t pray regularly precisely because we simply cannot find within ourselves the energy, time, intensity and appetite for active participation we think prayer is demanding. But prayer respects that, even if spiritual authors and liturgists often don’t. Prayer is meant to respect the natural rhythms of our energy. Praying is like eating and, as we know from experience, you don’t always want a banquet. If you tried to have a banquet every day, you would soon find coming to the table burdensome and would look for every excuse to escape, to sneak off for a quick sandwich by yourself.

Eating has a natural rhythm: banquets and quick snacks, rich meals and simple sandwiches, high times with linen serviettes and low times with paper napkins, meals which take a whole evening and meals which you eat on the run. And the two depend upon each other: You can only have high season if you mostly have ordinary time. Healthy eating habits respect our natural rhythms: our time, energy, tiredness, the season, the hour, our boredom, our taste. Prayer should be the same. But, too often we are left with this impression: All prayer should be high celebration, upbeat, with high energy. The more variety the better. Longer is better than shorter. Time and tiredness should never be a consideration. During prayer, nobody should ever look at a wristwatch. People at a prayer service need not be told how long the service will last. No wonder we are often lack the energy to pray and want to avoid church services. Monks have secrets worth knowing. They know if you pray regularly boredom and lack of energy will soon begin to wear you down. The answer then is not so much new prayer forms and more variety, but rhythm, routine, and established ritual. For monks, the key to sustaining a daily life of prayer is not so much variety, novelty, and the call for higher energy, but rather a reliance on the expected, the familiar, the repetitious,

the ritual, the clearly defined. What’s needed is a clearly delineated prayer form which gives you a clear durational expectancy and does not demand energy you cannot muster on a given day. There are times of Father course for high celebraRon Rolheiser tion, for variety and novelty, for spontaneity, and for long celebrations. There are also times, and these are meant to predominate just as they do in our eating habits, for ordinary time, for low season, for prayer that respects our energy-level, work pressures and time constraints. It is no accident, I suspect, that more people used to attend daily church services when these were shorter, simpler, less demanding, and gave people a clear expectation as to how long they would last. The same holds true for other prayers, the office of the Church and basically all common prayer. What clear, simROLHEISER, page 19

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Faith values create effective citizens Politics can be a messy business. It can bring forth both the best and worst from people: the desire to promote the common good (and better society) versus the desire for power, wealth and prestige. As Catholics, we have a duty and a responsibility to bring Jesus’ message to the world. And as a member of a democracy we have a duty and a responsibility to participate in the public decision-making process. The two can mix. Faith and religion shape who we are. They focus our view of right and wrong, our relationship to our community and our priorities. We don’t stop being a human being when we walk into the polling place, and neither does a politician stop being human when he or she casts a vote. Thomas Jefferson, whose odd blend of religious beliefs would surprise most current Americans, crystallized this thought when he said: “Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.” Sound familiar? It echoes St. Francis of Assisi who said, “Always preach the Gospel, and sometimes use words.” It would be a breath of fresh air if more of our politicians stopped talking about their religions and started acting like they had one. The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and prevents establishing a state religion. It says nothing of excluding religious values from influenc-

ing the principles any of us brings to public debate. In fact, the founders would have been appalled at the suggestion. The “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church” elaborates on this point in a very common sense sort of way: “The mutual autonomy of the Church and the political community does not entail a separation that excludes cooperation.” Pope Benedict XVI, in Deus Caritas Est, explains very clearly that it is the job of the lay faithful to remind our elected officials of what a just society looks like: “The direct duty to work for a just ordering of society…is proper to the lay faithful. As citizens of the state, they are called to take part in public life in a personal capacity.” Incumbent upon us as Catholics is to help our politicians understand our moral and ethical standards and ask them to include them in their decision making. Then it is up to us to vote them back in or out depending on how they respond. An important effort is to become familiar with Catholic social and economic teaching. Shaping our values and beliefs is a life-long process, which includes forming our conscience properly, study, and discernment. We are advised, for example, to hold sacred to the life and dignity of the human person as we show a preferential option for the poor. These standards encapsulate our Catholic political view: the care for the most vulnerable of society and the thoughtful promotion of the common good. To borrow a Vatican II phrase, we can act as leaven to the world of politics. That’s why guidance such as the American bishops’ teach-

ing document “Faithful Citizenship” is so important. Every four years the U.S. bishops revise this document which reflects on what it means to be a Catholic who participates in a messy democracy. One of my favorite Steve Pehanich thoughts in the document is that we have no home in either party. The bishops will decide at their November meeting whether to update “Faithful Citizenship” for 2008. When I look at the state of politics in the world today – lacking conviction, unable to deal with difficult decisions – I look forward to the next installment. The U.S. Senate cannot deal with comprehensive immigration reform. California politicians delayed over passing a budget, hurting the poorest Californians. More than a year before the presidential election, the news is filled with the candidates’ foibles and fundraising levels. Our democracy can use some help. Steve Pehanich is executive director of Catholic Charities of California and represents the state’s 12 agencies in Sacramento. E-mail him at spehanich@cacatholic.org.

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School year review of family safety The beginning of a school year is full of possibilities for learning. Whether your children attend preschool or graduate school, vital health-related knowledge supports strength, mental sharpness, character and overall respect for themselves and others. Indeed, health education is more than merely defining terms. It can be a character-building and lifestyle-informing process that provides a part of the foundation for a lifetime well-lived. Establishing early safety rules is part of learning health (not touching something that is too hot, sharp or fragile). So is teaching and reinforcing how to respond to strangers and unwelcome attention. In preschool and beyond, how children treat others will greatly impact their learning experience as more socialization and educational subjects are taught. Respect for others can be reinforced in a number of ways, including through teaching the correct way to treat a pet (no pulling the tail or yanking the ears) or how to cover the mouth when coughing to avoid spreading germs. The lesson of how to be kind to someone who is physically challenged — visibly or otherwise — can begin at a young age and build strong character for life. As children grow older, their ability to grasp complex health concepts increases. They learn about foods that give them fuel versus those that provide empty calories. They can take part in sports and enjoy the thrill of competition as

well as the good results from physical activity. They might become ill themselves, learning the importance of caring for a body fighting infection. Healthy faith is vital to living well, too. When I was sick growing up, my mother inspired me to take time each day to pray. This has given me great hope and comfort over my life. Many young adults are eager to become involved in health. Encouraging them to study a health care profession or volunteer in a helping capacity is a win-win for them and for society. CPR and first-aid classes give excellent knowledge about survival skills and how to turn them into lifesaving help. Parents should enlist the help of their children in putting together family emergency preparedness kits and then allow them to lead safety drills at home to give them a true sense of empowerment about their own protection. Nowadays, at a younger age, children are often enticed to deviate from healthy lifestyles, experimenting with drugs, alcohol and sex. Home-inspired, positive health habits will come in more than handy at times when friends are pushing children to abandon common sense; those good habits might even save their lives. The beginning of the school year is an excellent time for families to review their approach to healthy living. They can plan ahead for eating healthily as fall and winter sched-

ules become packed with activities. They would do well to schedule family (and individual) time to exercise, too. It is a smart move for families to update their contact informaMaureen Pratt tion at the children’s school and designate at least one alternative contact if a parent is not available. In case of a natural disaster, parents should establish a way to communicate with their children and get back in touch with them if they all become separated. Along the way, children should be encouraged to discuss any fears about health or safety with parents. This way children are sent off to school knowing they have been given life-affirming tools for a healthy sense of themselves now and long after the final school bell has rung. Maureen Pratt is a Los Angeles-based author who writes on health and spirituality for Catholic News Service.

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September 7, 2007

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Jeremiah 20:7-9; Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 16:21-27 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM (WIS 9:13-18B) Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the Lord intends? For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans. For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns. And scarce do we guess the things on earth, and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty; but when things are in heaven, who can search them out? Or who ever knew your counsel, except you had given wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high? And thus were the paths of those on earth made straight. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17 R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. You turn man back to dust, saying, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, now that it is past, or as a watch of the night. R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. You make an end of them in their sleep; the next morning they are like the changing grass, Which at dawn springs up anew, but by evening wilts and fades. R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Have pity on your servants! R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. And may the gracious care of the Lord our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands! R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO PHILEMON (PHMN 9-10, 12-17) I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus, urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment; I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you. I should have liked to retain him for myself, so that he might serve me on your behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel, but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary. Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man and in the Lord. So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE (LK 14:25-33) Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them,“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”

Scripture reflection FATHER JOSEPH PELLEGRINO

‘Happiness and love found by letting God grasp us’ Last year a parish family gave me a copy of one of my favorite pieces of art, a sculpture by Auguste Rodin called The Hand of God. Perhaps you have seen pictures of it or have seen one of the many copies at an art museum. In this sculpture an enormous hand is cupped, half closed. Emerging from its palm are a man and a woman embracing. A famous author tells how he was looking at this piece with a coed he had brought to the museum. “It is beautiful, isn’t it?” the author asked. “No, I don’t like it,” the girl said. “If only we could escape that terrible hand.” “But to escape from that hand would be to escape from love,” the author said. “But, maybe I would prefer freedom,” the girl responded. “But, maybe,” the author retorted, “we can only find freedom and love when we obey the Divine Hand.” The true religious person does not want to escape the hand of God but to merge with the hand of God. Speaking for myself, I have a long way to go. Often I find myself doing this and that in the silly notion I can appease God, as though he needs my rather meaningless actions. So often I am willing to say to God, “Take this action, this prayer, this sacrifice, but don’t take me.” But God wants me. And he wants you. And he doesn’t just want a bit of us. He wants all of us. And so we come to the difficult Gospel reading, “Unless you turn your back on father or mother, wife or children, brother or sister, and your very selves you cannot be my followers.” Love demands a total claim upon the beloved. The married are aware of this. They know they cannot expect their marriage to grow if they hold back part of themselves from each other. Indeed, the success of marriage is directly proportional to the capabili-

ty of a couple to enter into intimacy, to their ability to give and to share with each other. This truth reaches its perfection in the relationship with the one who is Love Incarnate, with our Lord Jesus. He has given himself totally to us. For our relationship with him to flourish, we have to accept his gift of himself and give ourselves totally to him. The relationship to the Lord must supersede all others. The relationship to the Lord means putting him before our possessions. We are in a love relationship with Jesus. Sometimes we forget this. We treat religion as an obligation rather than as an action of love. But like all relationships, we have to work hard for the relationship to succeed. We have to make time for our loved one. We have to seek his presence in the community where we receive his intimacy in the sacraments. We have to seek his presence in our homes where we unite his presence to the intimacy of our family. We have to protect our relationship with God from anything that would diminish it. That’s why we have to avoid sin and the occasion of sin. Our Christian morality is not a way of life to keep God happy. He doesn’t need that. He’s perfectly happy. Our Christian morality is a way of life to keep ourselves happy. We grow in the intensity of his love when we fight off anything that diminishes this love. As couples who have been married for 40, 50 or even 60 years say, “Success in marriage results from looking for new ways to love.” We have to look for new ways to love God and to allow his love to grow in us. Rodin’s sculpture animates Jesus’ message in today’s Gospel. We are in the hand of God. We have been claimed by the Lord. Happiness and love are found by letting him grasp us. Father Joseph Pellegrino is pastor of St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish, Tarpon Springs, Fla.

Guest Reflection

Remembering 9/11 – prayer to access the best in us As the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attack approaches, we find ourselves asking the big, the existential questions: What kind of species are we, anyway? How can we be at once so merciless as to intentionally crash fuelladen planes into 110-storey buildings, and, at the same time, so compassionate as to intentionally run up the stairs of those burning, ready-to-collapse buildings to rescue perfect strangers? A complex human family we are — as noble as we are barbaric, as insightful as we are clueless, as selfless as we are self-absorbed. How do we access that compassion, that nobility, that insight, that selflessness–not just on the adrenaline-rushed occasion, but as the natural, organic response to the often harsh realities of the human experience? The great religious traditions answer with variations of the same theme: The way of tapping into the best of our frail human selves is through a conscious “re-membering” of the divine origins from which we spring, to which we are drawn, and through which we are united in the all-encompassing embrace of Creation. In the Christian tradition, one form of spiritual practice that focuses on this acknowledging of the loving REMEMBERING 9/11, page 17

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By Rob Grant

Maryknoll Father Raymond Nobiletti (left) and others covered in dust and debris are told to run from the area following the collapse of the south tower of the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. The priest was among the first on the scene ministering to victims of the attacks.

September 7, 2007

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Archbishop Niederauer ‘It will always be hard to make Jesus the highest value’ together to those who most need you. Following is the homily delivered Aug. Under Father’s leadership, you will pray 19 at St. Elizabeth Parish in San and reflect and teach about why you Francisco by Archbishop George H. believe. You will show why you believe, Niederauer. Father Charito Suan was in the way that you are “church” and installed as St. Elizabeth’s pastor during “parish” together. Then people can say of the liturgy. you in St. Elizabeth’s Parish what they The theme of today’s readings is defisaid of the earliest Christians: “See these nitely not “Have a nice day!” Christians, how they love one another.” In the first reading, the prophet In that second reading, Paul puts Jeremiah has a difficult job in difficult courage in us to do all this, day in and day times. Jerusalem was under siege by a out. He tells us about 1) our goal: life Babylonian army. Surrender meant exile, with Jesus, now and forever; 2) our inspiwhile holding out meant death by starvaration: the “cloud of witnesses” who have tion and thirst. Nevertheless, Jeremiah gone before us in faith; 3) the handicaps spoke for God as his prophet. He said we face: sin which “weighs us down”; 4) what would happen and why. Jeremiah our means: perseverance; 5) our example: was not popular, because other leaders Jesus. You are called to become this said he was “demoralizing”. The prophet “cloud of witnesses” here in St. was not happy himself about the message. Elizabeth’s Parish. He himself shared in the bad news, but he But still those Gospel words are so wouldn’t water it down. unsettling. Remember, though, the diviJesus in today’s Gospel talks of divisions are not the mission of Jesus, but sions between fathers and sons, mothers they are often a side effect. I used to teach and daughters, and in-laws as well. Jesus literature, including modern drama. I is not in favor of division and dissension taught a play by Robert Bolt, “A Man For among people, or within families, but he All Seasons.” It was about St. Thomas says that it will come with the truth of the Father Charito Suan, left, was installed as the 12th pastor of St. Elizabeth Parish, More, who died for standing up for his Gospel of love. Jesus says that he has San Francisco, on Aug. 19 by Archbishop George H. Niederauer. religious faith. come to make a difference - a big differThere was a great difference between ence - all the difference - in people’s life, the value of worshiping God, the right way to treat the play and the movie. There was a character in the lives: “I have come to light a fire.” Remember, fire is ambivalent: it can cook food, keep other people, the priorities to set in life, the values to play: the Common Man. The same actor played first the choose and live out. servant in More’s house; then a boatman; a prison out the cold, or burn down a house. And that’s not just a lesson about ancient times. It guard; and finally More’s executioner. Jesus is a man of peace, the Prince of Peace. Recall This character was not in the movie version, which the risen Jesus greeting his followers on the first Easter will always be hard to make Jesus Christ the highest Sunday night: “Shalom.” But his is not a false peace, a value, the most important person in our lives. Jesus ended with the saint’s martyrdom, and as the credits peace at any price, based in cowardice, avoidance, or wants to make the major difference in our lives, if we let rolled, you were allowed to romantically identify a lithim. So often it is easier to say the kind of thing I once tle bit with this great Christian hero. Not so in the play: falsehood. Also Jesus says, “I have come to receive a baptism.” heard a parent say: “We were always having arguments at the end of the play, after the public beheading of The baptism Jesus undergoes is one of blood, on the about religion - which church to go to, which religious More, before the curtain fell, the Common Man walked Cross on Calvary. Truth-telling, like Jeremiah’s, brings instruction classes to send the kids to. Now that no one to the front of the stage and directly addressed the audiJesus there. The fire Jesus lights is the fire of divine goes to church any more, we have so much more peace.” ence: “I’m still breathing. Are you still breathing? Feels good, doesn’t it? If you want to keep on breathing, don’t love, God’s love enlivening us, calling us to love him - That’s not Jesus Christ’s kind of peace. These are hard things to say and to hear. And these make trouble. Or if you must make trouble, make the and each other – in return. God’s love for us in Jesus Christ does light a fire. It truths about how challenging it is to be a believer are kind of trouble that’s expected.” The message was: “You and I aren’t the stuff heroes warms our souls and gives them life, now and forever. certainly not all there is to being Christian. Far from it. But the fire of God’s love is also a threat. God’s love But if we never admit these truths about faith, never talk are made of. We don’t stand up for much, except our threatens selfishness; it threatens cruelty. God’s love about them, we are dishonest. And Jesus is never dis- own welfare. And that’s a good thing, too.” That’s not the kind of person Jesus calls you and me also threatens bigotry and discrimination; injustice; honest: he is the way and the truth and the life. We are installing your new pastor here at St. to be. He calls us to stand up for – and to do – what is manipulation; neglect. And you may be sure that people who want to choose those behaviors feel threatened by Elizabeth Parish today: Father Charito Suan. Father right. We are called to be uncommon men and women. the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s one reason Christian Charito has a prophet’s duty: to tell you the truth of Jesus calls Father Charito to lead you, to serve you, and faith often meets mockery or persecution. There’s an Christ’s teaching in his Church, when it consoles you to be with you as you try to do that together. In a few moments, we will profess our faith. This old Turkish proverb: “He who would speak the truth and when it challenges you, when you want to hear it and when you don’t. Father has a priest’s duty to gather faith tells us of the difference Jesus Christ can make in should have one foot in the stirrup!” One of the major reasons ancient Romans so hated you to celebrate around this altar, to gather with you for our lives - the difference divine love makes - and this Christianity, for those first three centuries, and perse- prayer and devotions, to baptize, to hear confessions, to parish locates that divine action here. You are not merecuted Christians so savagely, was that it often divided prepare you for the sacraments and celebrate them with ly common men and women and children in that actor’s family members from one another. Followers of Jesus you, to anoint the sick, to bury the dead. Father Charito demeaning sense. You are believers, disciples, witnessChrist found themselves in disagreement, even within has a shepherd’s duty: to gather you together to serve es of the risen Jesus Christ. May your lives here at St. their own families, over the meaning and purpose of and support each other in the faith and to reach out Elizabeth Parish show that forth.

Remembering 9/11 . . . ■ Continued from page 16 presence of God, the mediation of Christ and the infusion of the Spirit is called “centering prayer” and it is drawn from the ancient practices of early-century Christian contemplatives, notably the fathers and mothers of the desert. In the Middle Ages the form was refined by St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, and Catherine of Sienna. In the 20th century, it was distilled into a simple method of prayer by Trappist monks Thomas Keating, Thomas Merton and protestant monk Brother Roger Louis Schütz, recently slain founder of the Taizé community and its international ecumenical ministry. Raised as a child through the ravages of World War I, and aware as a young man of the unfolding atrocities of yet another World War, at the age of 25, Schütz awakened to a desire, a calling, to somehow bring healing to the chaotic and deeply wounded world. With a handful of like-minded young men, and his sister, Genevieve, he established an unofficial religious community in an abandoned farm house in Taizé, near Cluny, in the Burgundy hills dividing (what was in 1940) unoccupied from 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 for Jews and Gypsies fleeing the Gestapo.

After the end of WW II, the Taizé community, aware of the healing and restorative power of music and ritual, began to develop a unique type of public religious service drawn from an eclectic mix of Eastern Orthodox worship, ancient monastic traditions, Hindu-inspired mantric chanting, meditation and centered prayer. Key elements of the “Taizé experience” are its physical atmosphere and its sounds. The atmosphere is as monastic as one can imagine: a darkened church with 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, embrace and welcome. The Taizé style of chant reflects both the simplicity of abbey life and the community’s commitment to an allembracing, 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 gently, ebbs and flows through its succession of elemental mantric chants, silent reflection, and the reading of Scripture. Silence is key, allowing participants to be not only active in the voicing of their prayer, but contemplative in their openness to hearing and experiencing the Christ. Many 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, 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 weekly Friday evening service typically draws between 2,500 and 3,000 people. Centering Prayer founder, Trappist Father Thomas Keating, will speak on Centering Prayer Nov. 3 at St. Hilary Church in Tiburon and Nov. 4 at Mercy High School in San Francisco. For information visit www.contemplativeoutreach.org. Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan was among the first people to bring Taize Prayer to the United States. Sister Suzanne has led the rite every first Friday of the month at 8 p.m. for 25 years at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., in Burlingame. For more information visit www.mercyburl.org. Taize is also prayed at these locations: ● 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. ● Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. ● 2nd Friday at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay. ● 1st Tuesday at 7 p.m.: National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco.

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Letters . . . ■ Continued from page 14 friends at the Last Supper. He spoke their native language and did not face the wall. Even if born deaf, a Catholic tourist clearly understands the Mass in Japanese, Greek, Polish, Swedish, French or Laplander. “This is my Body. This in my Blood.” Vatican II famously let in some muchneeded fresh air. Let us continue to see the face and hear the language of our celebrant, representing Christ at the table. S. M. Verdino San Carlos (Ed. note: Scholars indicate that although Roman soldiers and officials likely spoke Latin among themselves, Greek was more commonly used in the eastern Roman Empire of Jesus’ time.)

Embrace diversity In regard to the Aug. 10 guest commentary, “Black Catholic Congress muted?”: I was in attendance with nine other archdiocesan parishioners at the 10th National Black Catholic Congress in Buffalo, N.Y. from July 12 -15. We give thanks to our pastors, the Archbishop and Father. Kenneth Westray of St. Sebastian who so graciously supported and coordinated this endeavor. It should be noted that I and several others also attended the ninth NBCC in Chicago. This was an informative, exuberant and enjoyable congress. The focus was on the seven sacraments. Information extracted from the workshops and speakers was for sharing purposes with our parishes. There were approximately 2,500 in attendance and I can guarantee you the vast majority had the same thoughts and enlightening experience. My comments are directed toward guest commentator Carole Greene. We, African-American Catholics, are fully aware of the differences in our Church. We didn’t need a spokesperson or workshop facilitators to mention the so-called painful, negative issues which can pose divisions. We are mindful that our Church is also aware and continues to have ongoing culture education and inclusive programs. There are feast days and other days of observation to educate our Catholic parishioners. We, as a minority, along with the majority are learning to worship as one family, sharing and embracing our differences. Let’s face it, we are all from various ethnic groups, but we are all created in his image. Change is taking place, slowly but methodically in all our parishes. Our Office of Ethnic Ministry has had its problems but what department hasn’t, whether it’s in our Archdiocese or a business firm? We are all members of the Body of Christ, whether we are black, brown, white, yellow or any mixture. But we must learn, as a minority, to reach out and embrace others, not to be exclusive but inclusive. As a community we can be a forceful voice in effecting change in our Church. It is our responsibility as individuals to see that division is overcome and diversity embraced as we grow in appreciation of one another. Kathryn Parish-Reese Daly City

Hard, not heart, work In response the Aug. 10 guest editorial on illegal immigration I find myself pondering your approach. In a highly controversial — as you say, “heated” – area, rather than approach this with facts and reasoning, you indicate it is from your heart you have decided what is right. What may anyone who disagrees with you think? That we do not have a heart? Or common sense? Then you quote our late pope to indicate you are on solid ground. The quote came from the 1995 World Migration Day message. It sounded good. But, I work with sales folks every day, and I have learned they generally do not lie, but they frequently don’t tell all. I read the speech you quoted. I found a different picture. Pope John Paul II did say what you quoted. But he also said he did not approve of illegal immigration. In fact, he indicated we should work to help those folks who cross borders illegally to become either legalized (if the country will accept them) or to help them return home or to a willing third country.

September 7, 2007 Did this not seem germane to you? I have not yet decided on the right actions on illegal immigration. It is very complex. On one hand, people crossing the border illegally for me means they go to the back of the line. On the other hand, our government (and corporate America) has turned a blind eye, no doubt due to a supply of cheap labor. This complicates the matter. It is our own fault we have illegal immigration. Conservatives raise the border security issue which has, in turn, brought illegal immigration into greater focus. But this just scratches the surface of the issues. We desperately need to address this as a form of basic justice. If this is your goal, I think it would be more effective to talk about reasons and the facts as you understand them. Not rhetoric, or quoting (or misquoting ) authorities to substantiate a view. Delineating the issues and weighting the relative values (each group’s rights) and determining the path that does the most good and least harm requires more than looking into one’s heart. It requires hard, painful work. I would love to see the Catholic bishops articulate their views in a document similar to the one on economic justice put out in the 80’s. That document provided a well-balanced view of the economy, and provided clear understanding of how the Gospel teachings should be applied to economics. Patrick Martin Pacifica

Immigration check list Many have commented on the political nature of immigration. I want to weigh in with a simple solution: ● Everyone who wants to visit or live in the U.S. must apply for a visa; declare on the application why you want to be in the U.S. ● The visa application will include any appropriate identification, including biometric. ● The government will check, as needed, for any possible terrorism or criminal activity. ● The government has 30 days to deny the visa — or approval is automatic. ● There are no restrictions related to country of origin or religion, race, etc. ● If you are coming to visit, declare an expected departure date. ● If you are here for school, declare where you will attend school. When your schooling is complete, go home or apply to work. ● If you are here to work, declare your employer. ● Everyone here on any kind of visa must register their situation every 60 days. ● Anyone who fails to regularly register should be hunted like a criminal; ● If you came for a vacation, you should already be gone. ● If you came for school, your school must verify your attendance in good standing regularly; if you drop out of school, you can apply for a work visa or return home. ● If you came for work, your employer must verify your employment every quarter. ● If you are laid off, find another position within 60 days or return home. ● If you are working, you must have a Social Security account and pay taxes. You will have rights of property, etc. and your family will have the same rights to attend school and receive medical attention. ● If you fail to register, when you are caught, you will receive severe punishment. ● If you employ unregistered people, you will receive the same severe punishments.

● If a corporation employs unregistered people, the chief executive officer personally will receive severe punishment. ● There are many specific situations to cover. If you stop work to have a baby, probably you should have permission to stay. You must still register and check in every 60 days. If you stop work because you are disabled, we might be better off if you return where you came from. ● Anyone can apply for citizenship after living in the U.S. in good standing after some reasonable waiting period. Tom Miller San Carlos

Invasion vs. immigration In his Aug. 10 Catholic San Francisco statement on immigration, Archbishop Niederauer compares current U.S. immigration law with the fugitive slave and Jim Crow segregation laws. Building on this comparison (there’s no legal slavery in Mexico, and illegal immigrants can eat anywhere they want and can afford to), his excellency calls our current immigration laws “immoral,” and says Catholics have a duty to “denounce such laws.” Scant evidence for the alleged immorality of our current immigration laws was offered, however. His excellency did concede that countries have the right to control their borders. He concedes the right, but at least three of the six points he cites as hallmarks of “good immigration legislation” (amnesty, chain migration,

“abandonment of the border blockade enforcement strategy”) would prevent this right from being exercised. His excellency follows this concession with “we reject such control when it is exerted merely for the purpose of acquiring additional wealth.” Talk about stacking the deck! As if there were no motive for opposing illegal entry into the U.S. except some sort of undefined greed. When millions of people illegally cross a border and settle in the neighboring country, in defiance of that country’s laws, that’s not immigration. That’s an invasion. Gibbons J. Cooney San Francisco (Ed. note: The text of Archbishop Niederauer’s remarks at the July 21 immigration awareness event at First Methodist Church, Redwood City, is available under the Archbishop’s statements on the archdiocesan Web site: sfarchdiocese.org.)

Faith (Matt 13:54-58) He had a good thing going. People flocked to him Marveling. Was there no end to his wonders? In his hometown though he flopped. Not fooled he knew what was wrong. What he needed we kept. He had it all except one thing we withheld. With it he fizzled. Mary-Alice Eldon Redwood City

Another example The Catholic San Francisco on the Feast of St. Lawrence (Aug. 10) had an article by Archbishop Niederauer on the conflict between legality and morality concerning immigration reform. The Archbishop gave some examples of battles fought to overturn unjust laws. Examples were the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and later on civil rights. Another example the Archbishop probably accidentally overlooked is the existing law that our government upholds. It is acceptable for a mother to kill her little United States immigrant in her womb who is trying to set foot in our country. I cannot think of a more cruel and evil law than the extermination of holy, innocent immigrants. Roy Dominico Petri San Anselmo

Respect rule of law Some weeks back I wrote a letter regarding the Church’s complicity in the illegal alien controversy and the detriment to citizen parishioners and their families. A letter responded to my thesis. I am glad Catholic San Francisco chose to print the counter to my position. I only wish the letter had attacked the position logically instead of attacking me. Once again, when you don’t agree with the illegal alien lobby you must be a “hater”. I suppose this means if you are an American, and you don’t want illegal immigration and you do want secure borders, then you must be a “hater”. Is it so likely those of us who believe in the laws of this nation would be so one dimensional? I would suggest that those of us who believe in the rule of law and fairness have been vastly underestimated. I would also suggest that in this country free speech is still allowed. Lastly, I believe the writer’s view of America and our laws is a bit myopic and askew. We are a country of many religions and beliefs. Our founding fathers very much considered religion and Jesus Christ in the formation of our Constitution and the laws that followed. Popular media speaks to the separation of church and state as if one were completely divorced from the other. This is not good history. In fact, God has always been part of our American history. Before someone blithely dismisses our laws, he should consider why so many people wish to live here. It is because our laws make us a civil, safe and reasonably fair society with almost boundless opportunity. My questions to illegal immigration proponents: Would we be the same secure and vibrant country if we dismiss the laws that make us uncomfortable or get in the way of our individual agendas? Is it fair to burden the American family with the financial, political and societal burden of unfettered illegal immigration? Do illegal immigrants bear any responsibility for their actions or are they now a special class exempt from criminal, civil and tax law — and even moral behavior? No, I am not a hater, but I will speak out when my country, my family and my friends are being abused and our Church is complicit. Sean J. Walsh Novato

Fairness core issue I refer to the Aug. 10 letter from Robert Jiminez of San Rafael, “Sea of despair.” We should not overlook the sea of despair and suffering of the illegals in this country. All I ask is fairness. Is it fair to grant citizenship to thousands of people who have come to this country illegally at the expense of those who have applied for immigration and have had to wait 10, 11 or 12 years before they got their papers to enter legally? Does he know that in the country that I come from Christians are discriminated against and persecuted? Does he know that many of these Christians are longing to leave and come to the land of freedom? Does he know these very same people have to wait patiently, accept discrimination and persecution for years and years — but will not under any conditions live here illegally? Is it fair to work for the illegals and overlook those who wish to come into this country lawfully? I ask for fairness, nothing more. Walter E. Marston San Francisco

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Rolheiser . . . ■ Continued from page 15 ple, and brief rituals provide is precisely prayer that depends upon something beyond our own energy. The rituals carry us, our tiredness, our lack of energy, our inattentiveness, our indifference, and even our occasional distaste. They keep us praying even when we are too tired to muster up our own energy. There is much to be commended in stressing that prayer, particularly liturgy, should demand of us real energy, real participation, and real celebration. It is meant to be demanding, but sometimes, I fear, we misunderstand what it is asking of us. Sometimes, too, I think we work too hard at it and do not let the rituals themselves work hard enough Dietrich Bonhoeffer had a little mantra he would use when he was preaching to a young couple on their wedding day. He would tell them: “Today you are young and very much in love and you think that your love will sustain your marriage. It won’t. But your marriage can sustain your love!” That’s true too for prayer. We think good intention and energy will sustain our rituals of prayer, but they can’t. Rather our rituals of prayer can sustain our good will and our energy. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and awardwinning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. His Web site is www.ronrolheiser.com.

A lecture and visual presentation on her dramatic July visit to Tanzania and Sudan will be given by Angela Testani at her parish, Holy Name of Jesus, 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco, on Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. in Flanagan Center. During her sojourn, the registered nurse befriended local Catholic bishops and confronted officials of the United Nations and the Sudanese Ministry of Health. In photo, Testani (left) visits a patient at St. Bakhita Clinic in the remote area of Nimule in southern Sudan.

‘Musicians Gala’ September 11 at NDNU campus BELMONT — The Ralston Performers Series will kick off its fall season Sept. 11 with a “Musicians Gala” featuring Notre Dame de Namur University’s professional Music and Musical Theatre faculty as they perform arias, instrumental solos, and music from Henry Mollicone’s opera “Emperor Norton.” Other repertoire will include songs from Stephen Schwartz’s “Wicked,” Bernstein’s

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Food & Fun Sept. 9: Variety Show Fundraiser for St. Mark Church, 4 – 6 p.m. at 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont. Tickets are $10. Call (650) 591-5937. Sept. 9: Palmdale Spectacular X, an evening fundraiser benefiting the works of the Sisters of the Holy Family at 159 Washington Blvd., Fremont. Fun begins at 1 p.m. Enjoy silent and live auctions plus dinner and entertainment. Call (510) 624-4581. An online auction commenced August 3. Visit www.holyfamilysisters.org. Sept. 15: Fiesta Filipiniana benefiting Fil-Am Society of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San Francisco. Begins at 6 p.m. with no-host cocktails. Evening includes dinner, dancing to music of DJ Nolly Yamzon. Tickets are $30 adults/$12 children 6 – 12. Call Freda Motak at (415) 3355606 or Edith Andaya at (415) 564-2118. Sept. 21, 22, 23: Journey through the Years, annual St. Robert Parish festival, Crystal Springs Rd. at Oak, San Bruno. Enjoy entertainment, food, games, rides for the kids plus raffles, prizes and bingo. Call (650) 589-2800. Sept. 29: Annual festival benefiting Holy Angels Parish in Colma from 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Enjoy entertainment, food from around the world, and games for young and old.. Admission free. Contact virginiasimon@msn.com for more information.

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More than 130 young adults in their 20s and 30s attended the Aug. 16 Mass hosted by the archdiocesan Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry at St. Mary Cathedral, according to Mary Jansen, office director. Pictured at the reception which followed the liturgy are, from left: St. Vincent de Paul parishioners Lindsay Hanover, Hunt Hanover and John Brust along with Archbishop George H. Niederauer who presided at the Mass. The next young adult Mass at the cathedral is expected to be in November. The Young Adult Ministry Web site is www.sfyam.org.

Respect Life/ Family Life Sept. 15: Memorial Mass and Healing Liturgy remembering deceased children and praying for healing of their family and friends. The outdoor liturgy is celebrated by the Rachel Mourning Shrine in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma at 11 a.m. Father Floro Arcamo, pastor, Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco, will be main celebrant. Reception follows. The multilingual (Spanish, Vietnamese, English) event is sponsored by the archdiocesan Project Rachel Ministry and Holy Cross Cemetery. Call (415) 717-6428 or (415) 614-5572 for more information.

Reunions Sept. 13: Star of the Sea Academy, Class of 1950, Annual Reunion Luncheon at Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. and Sloat Blvd., San Francisco. Contact Carol Emery at CEDanville@aol.com. Sept. 15: First Annual Fall Homecoming Dinner Dance for graduates and friends of Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma. Tickets $15/$25 per couple. Call (650) 755-0220. Sept. 15: Class of ’87, Presentation High School, San Francisco at Thirsty Bear Brewing Co., 661 Howard St., San Francisco 6 – 10 p.m. Tickets are $40. Contact Linda Ravano at (415) 751-4643 or presentation1987@gmail.com. Sept. 22: Mercy High School, San Francisco

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nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, was beatified in 2003. The 416-page book published by Doubleday was released Sept. 4 to mark the 10th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death Sept. 5, 1997. Several of the letters and diary entries were published in 2001 in the “Journal of Theological Reflection” of the Jesuit-run Vidyajyoti School of Theology in New Delhi. In a letter to her spiritual director in a 1959-60 spiritual diary, Mother Teresa said, “In my soul, I feel just the terrible pain of loss, of God not wanting me, of God not being God, of God not really existing.” In another letter she wrote she wanted to love God “like he has not been loved,”

Tridentine Mass to be broadcast live on EWTN on September 14 A Mass in Latin celebrated according to the Missal of Blessed John XXIII will be broadcast live at 5 a.m. on Sept. 14 over the Eternal Word Television Network, the network has announced. To take place at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Ala., the Tridentine rite Mass will feature priests from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, an international Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right. In 1988, Pope John Paul II canonically established the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter as a society of apostolic life. According to its Web site, the group “seeks to reunite those who have been alienated by liturgical abuse and theological dissent by

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and yet she felt her love was not reciprocated. In the context of Mother Teresa’s life, the thoughts are not heresy, but signs of holiness, Father Kolodiejchuk told CNS in 2002. Mother Teresa was convinced God existed and had a plan for her life, even if she did not feel his presence, the priest said. “Everyone wants to share, to talk about things, to be encouraged by others,” he said, but Mother Teresa, “hurting on the inside, kept smiling, kept working, kept being joyful.” At one point, a former archbishop of Calcutta, India, wanted to share some of her letters with the struggling founder of another religious congregation, Father Kolodiejchuk said. Mother Teresa begged him not to and asked that all her letters be destroyed. When asked if he worried that he was betraying her wishes by publicizing the

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Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way? Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems today. You can be the person God intended. Inner Child Healing Offers a deep spiritual and psychological approach to counseling: ❖ 30 years experience with individuals, couples and groups ❖ Directed, effective and results-oriented ❖ Compassionate and Intuitive ❖ Supports 12-step ❖ Enneagram Personality Transformation

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Belmont: 650.888.2873 Complimentary phone consultation www.InnerChildHealing.com

September 7, 2007

Hall for Rent

Piano Piano HALL FOR RENT Lessons Lessons Knights of Columbus San Rafael #1292 Dining and dancing rooms for up to 120. Kitchen facility. Ideal for Baptisms, graduations, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. tassonejoe@hotmail.com

415.215.8571

PIANO LESSONS BY

CAROL FERRANDO. Conservatory training, masters degree, all levels of students. CALL (415) 921-8337.

PIANO LESSONS by university professor. (415) 587-8165

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Biblical Organist Organist Study Course ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS

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

Theology Classes “GREAT CATHOLIC THINKERS”

Need 2-3 bedroom apt. or home in San Francisco for a family up to $1,500 per month.

The Letters to Saint Paul A Biblical Study Course by Fr. David Anderson In Marin Catholic High School (Kentfield) On Thursday evenings, 7:30 to 9:30 pm, starting Thrusday, September 20th, 2007. We will be using the Ignatius Bible Study Guide for many of the Letters. Donations welcomed. For more information, call (415) 566-5166 or email michele@leblogdelabergerie.com Or check www.lebogdelabergerie.com/SaintPaul.htm

415.567.7936

Dr. Charles James, Professor – St. Patrick’s Seminary Class starts Tuesday, September 11 – 7:30 p.m.

Help Wanted

ST. LUKE’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 1111 Beach Park Boulevard, Foster City, CA 94404 (510) 495-5345

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JOB OPPORTUNITY – CATHOLIC PRE-SCHOOL TEACHER TEACHER: Beacuse of our continued growth, we are in need of another afternoon Pre-Kindergarten teacher. During this class schedule, children arrive, have circle time, snack and outside time, small group and open center time. DUTIES: (1) Part-Time, Monday through Thursday 12:00 to 4:30 pm position to team teach a group of Pre-Kindergarten children ages 4-5. (2) Plan activites and goals for Pre-Kindergarten Program. (3) Maintain accurate records on children’s development progress. QUALIFICATIONS: (1) Christian values and character. (2) 12 ECE Units, minimum. (3) Minimum of 1 year actual classroom teaching experience. (4) Clearance by California Department of Social Service. (5) Current CPR and First Aid Certification. POSITION: Position open until filled (Catholic applicants given priority). COMPENSATION: $12 to $15 per hour based on experience and ECE units APPLY:

Please send cover letter and resume to: Mrs. Hope Peterson, Pre-School Director Hopepetersonpredir@sbcglobal.net FAX 415.282.8962 or phone 415.282.0141, ext. 230

We are looking for full or part time

RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers In-home care in San Francisco, Marin County, peninsula Nursing care for children in San Francisco schools If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and want to make a difference, send us your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Fax: 415-435-0421 Email: info@snsllc.com Voice: 415-435-1262

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Catholic San Francisco

September 7, 2007

ince the Sisters of Mercy first arrived from Ireland in the 1850s and began tending the sick and poor, St. Mary’s Medical Center has touched the hearts of generations of San Franciscans. The Sisters began their lifesaving ministry, first by visiting patients at The State Marine and County Hospital, then managing and establishing the first St. Mary’s Hospital. This year, St. Mary’s Medical Center honors its rich legacy as the oldest continuously operated hospital in San Francisco. We look forward to continuing our mission to provide the Bay Area with compassionate, personalized care combined with the latest advances in medical care and cutting-edge technology. Call 415-750-5831 today for a booklet commemorating St. Mary’s 150 years of service to San Francisco.