January 13, 2012

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Pope picks 22 new cardinals, including New York’s Dolan, Baltimore’s O’Brien

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By Francis X. Rocca

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan of New York addresses the media at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York Jan. 6. He is among 22 new cardinals named that day by Pope Benedict XVI.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals, including two from the United States, and announced a consistory for their formal induction into the College of Cardinals Feb. 18.

Among those named were Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, progrand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem who still is administering the Archdiocese of Baltimore; and Archbishop Thomas C. Collins of Toronto.

The pope announced the nominations to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square at noon Jan. 6, before praying the Angelus.

Cardinal-designate O’Brien, who was in St. Peter’s Square when his name was announced, said his priestly life has been “a surprise at every step. I thought being appointed archbishop of Baltimore would be the last surprise, but I was wrong.”

He told Catholic News Service that the ministries he has been appointed to, and now his elevation to cardinal, were CARDINALS, page 20

Vocations director seeks broad range of qualities in future priests

By George Raine You would think it would be counterproductive for Father David Ghiorso, vocations director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and pastor of St. Charles Parish in San Carlos, to say “no” more than “yes” to men who show an interest in the seminary, given the relatively thin ranks in the priesthood.

He said five men last year were somewhat easy calls: They were 55 and older, which would give them senior status after some seven years in the seminary. Others lacked, by Father Ghiorso’s standards, fire in the belly.

“They have to be people who are going to take charge,” said Father Ghiorso, who succeeded Bishop Thomas Daly as vocations director when, in May, thenFather Daly became auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose.

The seminary is very structured, Father Ghiorso said: “‘This is what you do and when you do it.’ When you

Walk for Life Jan. 21 The 8th Walk for Life West Coast includes a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 9:30 a.m. and a 12:30 p.m. rally at San Francisco’s Civic Center.

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get to a parish no one is going to be telling you what to do. You are going to take initiative.”

The numbers and demographics for seminarians studying to be priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco reflect a national trend: There has been a slight increase in numbers of entrants in recent years, even with some being advised that at their ages it would not be practical for them or the Catholic Church for them to pursue their vocations, and the average age of men expected to be ordained is trending younger.

There are currently 21 archdiocesan seminarians, compared with 20 a Father David Ghiorso year ago. Of them, 17 are at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park; two are at Bishop White Seminary at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and one is at Theological College at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Three are expected to be ordained this year: Deacon Jerry Murphy and Deacon Armando Gutierrez, both now at St. Patrick’s, and Deacon Felix Lim, at Theological College. The three men are transitional deacons on their way to priesthood.

The Catholic Church in the United States is celebrating National Vocation Awareness Week Jan. 9-14, dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood, the diaconate and consecrated life through prayer and education.

“It is our responsibility to help children and young people develop a prayerful relationship with Jesus Christ so they will know their vocation,” said Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations.

Archbishop Carlson added, “Through a culture of vocation in families, parishes, schools and dioceses, Catholics can nurture an environment of discipleship, commitment to daily prayer, spiritual conversion, growth in virtue, participation in the sacraments and service in community. Without this environment, promoting vocations becomes simply recruitment. We believe we have much more to offer our young people.”

Each year, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University compiles a survey of newly ordained priests. It found in the class of 2011 the average age of ordinands is 34, slightly younger than in 2010, following the pattern in recent years of average age at ordination in the mid-thirties.

Those who are ordained will face the realities of the priest shortage, not as acute in the Archdiocese of San Francisco as it is elsewhere in the United States – priests in VOCATIONS DIRECTOR, page 10

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION On the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 News in brief . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Scripture reflection . . . . . . . 16 Tony Magliano . . . . . . . . . . 17

Alarming trend in religious persecution ~ Pages 12–13 ~ January 13, 2012

Conversation with Cardinal McCarrick ~ Page 15 ~

Peoria bishop decries ‘radical secularization’ ~ Page 18 ~

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By Tom Burke Happy 60 years married to Jeanie and Bill Henneberry, who celebrated the milestone in 2011. Jeanie and Bill were married at San Francisco’s St. Cecilia Church and are longtime parishioners of St. Robert Parish in San Bruno where they live today. Sharing the joy are the couple’s four children Dennis Henneberry, Diane McLaughlin, Charlene Crowley and Leslie McNaughton.

Students at Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City held an outdoor prayer service for Thanksgiving.

Seventh graders, here spelling the day’s theme, planned the rite.

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Diana and Bob Logan celebrated 60 years married in Palm Springs with family over Thanksgiving. Diana and Bob have been parishioners of St. Catherine of Siena in Burlingame for 40 years.

• The class of 1966 from Notre Dame High School, Belmont, held a 45th reunion Nov. 6. “Notre Dame provided us with a solid academic background, athletic and artistic opportunities, a better understanding of our faith and the opportunity for 164 women to Rita Gleason and become lifelong friends,” said Mary Sullivan Schoor classmate, Lorraine Turner.

The women, who endow a book scholarship at their alma mater in memory of deceased classmates, are already planning “our 50th,” Lorraine said. Classmate Rita Gleason has been principal at Notre Dame since 1991.

• Congrats to the seventh grade baseball team from St. Robert School, PPSL Division 1 Baseball Champions for 2011. Team members include Matthew O’Mahony, Jakob Uriarte, Chase Coric, Kyle Brown, Alexander Paras, Matthew Kucsak, Sage Dababneh, Michael Gonzales, Charlie Peterson and Kyle Wilson. Coaches are Bill Wilson, Dennis O’Mahony

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• Upper grade students from Our Lady of Perpetual Help School recently helped keep the ecology alive at Milagra Ridge in Pacifica. The more than 30 youths, parents and teacher, Mary Tunnell, chopped down and dug grass that hurts the habitat of the Mission blue butterfly. The nature hikes are in cooperation with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy volunteer program called “Park Stewardship.” The students learned about the native species of the area and how they can help protect them. “We were blessed with gorgeous weather,” Mary told me.

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• Noelle Langmack, a senior at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, was incorrectly identified in the Dec.16 issue of Catholic San Francisco. Also, Noelle did start very young as a musician but it was in fourth grade not at 4 years of age. None of the errors – all mine by the way – takes away from Noelle’s perfect ACT college entry test score, the focus of the tale. Thanks, by the way, to SI’s sturdy communications guy, Paul Totah, whose info was ample and correct when sent to this apologetic scribe. Sorry, too, to Michelle Benavente of St. Robert School whose name was misspelled in a recent Street item. Michelle’s name, as you can see, has two “L’s” of which I missed one. I was told simply to “get the L back in there.”

• I’m hearing the proliferation of “whisperers” loud and clear! Can a “whisperer’s whisperer” counseling practice be far behind?

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St. Mary’s Medical Center legal aid project helps patients in need St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco has put in place a new service designed to give a boost to disadvantaged patients: Free legal help that can fix that which is contributing to health problems.

One day a week, Hali Reiskin, a lawyer with the Volunteer Legal Services Program of The Bar Association of San Francisco, is at the hospital’s Sister Mary Philippa Health Center, which provides adult primary outpatient care as well as medical and surgical specialties regardless of patients’ ability to pay. There she listens to problems of patients, largely screened by social workers, dealing primarily with housing rights, disability income benefits, employment issues and family law matters. Reiskin, with her supervisor, Mairi McKeever, the managing attorney at Volunteer Legal Services Program, decides which complaints need to be referred to lawyers offering pro bono services and which can be handled in house – and they proceed to lift burdens from the poor.

“It is incredibly powerful to see someone grow, even in baby steps,” said Reiskin, who worked as a social worker before law school. Her reward, she said, is seeing the health of clients improve as she or other San Francisco lawyers serve as their advocates.

A patient with chronic asthma may be living in a substandard dwelling with mold or dust. People facing eviction or foreclosure may be at wit’s end – their health suffering.

Violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act may be exacerbating illnesses. There is a myriad of health problems that may be worsened by legal issues, and so the medicallegal project goes after the source.

“Part of whole person care is addressing all the person’s needs, medically and socially and legally,” said Mary Rotunno, senior counsel at the parent organization of St. Mary’s, Catholic Healthcare West, based in San Francisco.

Rotunno helped develop the St. Mary’s medical-legal partnership at the Sister Mary Philippa Health Center as a pilot project in 2009.

“It adds another service for the underserved clients who might not have otherwise known that they have a problem that can be addressed legally and would not otherwise know where to obtain legal services or be able to afford legal services,” said Rotunno.

Funding is provided by the St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation and, currently, four San Francisco law firms: Latham & Watkins; Paul Hastings; Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

The bar association’s medical-legal project, which also provides free legal help in San Francisco’s Bayview and Hunters Point, hears from clients that they feel less stress, that they are able to deal with other issues in their lives, said McKeever.

“Low income people just don’t have access to justice, to hire someone, but when you have somebody on your side advocating for you, your chances of prevailing in any type of legal dispute chances increase exponentially,” she said.

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Maggie, who wanted to be identified by her first name only, is a patient at St. Mary’s Medical Center and a client at the hospital’s legal aid clinic.

In the last calendar year, 63 clients with more than 125 legal issues were served by the project – and more than 70 percent of clients have two or more legal issues.

One of the medical-legal program’s clients is a San Francisco woman named Maggie, who wanted to be identified by her first name only. Maggie said her landlord threatened to file suit against her and evict her from the home she has rented since 1992. The threat, she said, rose from a disagreement over who is responsible for repairing ceiling damage and painting. It was upsetting, said Maggie, who sees a psychiatrist at the St. Mary’s clinic once every

three months for depression – and who one day saw a flier for the free legal help.

Maggie met with Reiskin who advised trying to work with the landlord amicably, making the case that they shared a common goal in maintaining a nice home in the outer Sunset District, while being clear that she has rights as a tenant. Letters to the landlord included the salutation, “respectfully.”

Several good things have happened: Maggie, trained as a teacher but disabled and unable to work for the past eight years, says her depression is improving. She has gained self-esteem as she works through issues with the landlord, who, while still resisting work on the ceiling, has made other improvements on the property, notably on a fence. Maggie thanks Reiskin.

“I learned a lesson about how to work with people,” said Maggie. “We have conversations about the law, and when you know about laws and rights it gives you self-esteem.”

Maggie, 53, is a daughter of a well-known sculptor and a graduate of Bennington, an elite private school in Vermont, where she studied art and education. She worked as a sculptor herself and teacher until depression gripped her.

“Everyone is expected to shine” upon leaving Bennington, said Maggie. “I was working and now I am on disability.

You feel you don’t have the best status in the world,” she said, although in recent months, she added, she has gained confidence, with Reiskin’s help. She reports being happy.

She says she is on the road to recovery, and she’s planning to start a business in repairing sculpture.

“With the landlord talking to me like that, accusing me like I was a bad child, that doesn’t do anything for your selfesteem,” she said. “But I know I will be working. I know I will be making money. Hali helped, totally.”

Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco Jan. 21 San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will join pro-life supporters to rally at Civic Center and then walk down Market Street to the Ferry Building for the 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 21.

“I will walk with fellow believers in the right to life for all people on Jan. 21, as the Walk for Life West Coast gives us an opportunity to publicly witness this God-given right to life,” said Archbishop Niederauer. “I believe the walk is inspired by the Holy Spirit, who accomplishes it through women and men who listen to his call. I urge all people of faith and good will to join us in this peaceful and prayerful witness.”

The walk follows a rally beginning at 12:30 p.m. at Civic Center, in a change from all previous walks, which began at the Embarcadero.

“Market Street and the Ferry Building are iconic symbols of San Francisco, and the 8th Walk for Life West Coast is a chance for us to witness again for life in our

beautiful city,” organizer Eva Muntean said.

The Walk for Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. An information fair at Civic Center will open at 11 a.m., and the rally will begin at 12:30 p.m. The evening before the walk, the 25th Annual Interfaith Service for Life will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the cathedral, with a reception following.

Other bishops who plan to join the walk are San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, Santa Rosa Bishop Emeritus Daniel Walsh, retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, Santa Rosa Bishop Robert Vasa, Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto, Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire, Orange Bishop Tod Brown, San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly and San Bernardino Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego.

For more information, visit walkforlifewc.com.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco invites you to join FORWARD IN FAITH, an exciting new program designed to deepen your knowledge and love of Catholic faith in order to strengthen your relationship with the Lord. Beginning with the week of January 17th, twelve parish locations in the Archdiocese will host men and women from neighboring parishes for weekly sessions that will provide online lectures from many of the leading Catholic theologians in the United States, followed by small group discussions focused on the theme of the evening. FORWARD IN FAITH will consist of ten sessions during January, February, and March and ten sessions in September, October, and November.

The course will treat four topics: the Jesus whom we encounter in the Scriptures, the identity of the Church, the sacramental life of the Church, and the Christian moral life.

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Celebrating Year of Faith VATICAN CITY – In an effort to help Catholics have a better and correct understanding of their faith and become authentic witnesses to Christ, the Vatican issued a list of pastoral recommendations for celebrating the upcoming Year of Faith.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a “note” Jan. 7 outlining the aims of the special year and ways bishops, dioceses, parishes and communities can promote “the truth of the faith,” the congregation said. It also announced that within the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, a secretariat would be set up to suggest and coordinate different initiatives. The new department will be responsible for launching a special website for sharing useful information on the Year of Faith.

Pope Benedict XVI wanted the Year of

January 13, 2012 Faith, which runs from Oct. 11, 2012, to Nov. 24, 2013, to help the church focus its attention on “Jesus Christ and the beauty of having faith in him,” it said.

Study: Shroud no fake VATICAN CITY – Using lasers shooting pulses of ultraviolet light, Italy’s national research agency succeeded in reproducing on linen cloth colorations similar to those seen on the Shroud of Turin. The enormous technical difficulty in achieving the positive results also makes it highly unlikely that the shroud is a fake from medieval times, the agency said. The Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development spent five years looking for ways to recreate the micro-thin, yellow-sepia toned colorations that form the image of a man on the shroud, the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano said Dec. 29. The shroud, which by tradition is the linen burial shroud of Jesus, has a full-length photonegative image of a man, front and back, bearing signs of wounds that correspond to the Gospel accounts of the torture Jesus endured in his passion and death. Scientists who conducted tests of the shroud in 1978 discovered that the image was not painted, drawn, printed

It’s final: Archdiocese wins transfer tax case A San Francisco Superior Court judge on Jan. 9 made final the tentative ruling he issued Nov. 18 against the City and County of San Francisco which had attempted to impose a $20 million transfer tax on the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Judge Richard Kramer, in the final ruling that followed a Jan. 9 hearing, sided with the archdiocese which had fought to preserve the freedom of religious organizations to restructure. The legal battle continued for more than three years as San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting attempted to impose the tax on an internal reorganization involving archdiocesan parish and school properties.

Jack Hammel, general counsel for the archdiocese, said of Judge Kramer’s decision, “As I have previously stated, the family of archdiocesan civil law corporations has simply been reorganized to better enshrine the centuries-old principles of church law concerning the uniqueness of parishes and schools.

“The courts in recent years have said that

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if you claim that your parishes and schools are unique under church law then show it in your corporate structures and related articles and bylaws. We have done that. Each corporation is a spoke in the archdiocesan wheel and the ecclesiastical office of the archbishop is the essential ‘hub’ of that wheel. Intra-church transfers within a wheel of this nature are not subject to transfer tax.

It is as simple as that.”

Kramer agreed with the archdiocese that the transfers were not “realty sold,” and the transfers were a change in the form of ownership that did not make them subject to transfer tax.

Hammel added, “This has been a very frustrating experience. From the outset, Mr. Ting and his chief assistant in the recorder’s office, Craig Dziedzic, refused to recognize well-established law on this subject. This refusal and the repeated delaying tactics that we encountered over the past three and a half years caused a considerable disruption to the charitable activities of the archdiocese.”

– George Raine

Baptisms in Sistine Chapel Pope Benedict XVI blesses a child at the end of a Mass at which he baptized 16 infants in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 8.

or transferred on by heat and that the depth of coloration of the linen fibers is extremely thin – equivalent to the top cellular layer of each linen fiber, according to ENEA’s scientific report released in December.

Philly schools downsizing PHILADELPHIA – Forty-five of the 156 mostly parish-based elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will cease to exist at the end of the present school year as will four of 17 archdiocesan high schools, a commission recommended to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput Jan. 6. Technically the elementary schools are not closing but are combining with one or more other schools. In a letter sent to parents and guardians, Archbishop Chaput wrote of declining baptisms, an increase in charter schools and the rising cost of education, resulting in higher tuition costs for parents and heavy deficits for schools

Abuse impact ‘traumatic’ BOSTON – “Our church will never forget the clergy sexual abuse crisis,” said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston in a document marking the 10th anniversary of the abuse scandal that first rocked the archdiocese in January 2002, the reverberations of which continue to be felt.

“The traumatic and painful days we experienced 10 years ago rightfully forced us to

address the issue honestly and implement many necessary changes,” said Cardinal O’Malley in the 2,500-word document, “Ten Years Later – Reflections on the Sexual Abuse Crisis,” released Jan. 4.

Since 2003, the Archdiocese of Boston has settled approximately 800 claims of clergy sexual abuse, Cardinal O’Malley said, although no figure was offered on the total archdiocesan payout in those cases. “It is indisputable that the survivors of clergy sexual abuse have suffered greatly,” he said.

Cardinal O’Malley thanked the news media, which uncovered the scope of the abuse in Boston and elsewhere. “The media helped make our church safer for children by raising up the issue of clergy sexual abuse and forcing us to deal with it,” he said.

Bishops warn on poverty BALTIMORE – Sounding the alarm about poverty in Maryland, the state’s bishops called on Catholics to urge lawmakers to “make decisions, pass legislation and appropriate public money in a manner that is charitable, just and reflective of our shared human dignity.”

In a joint statement released Jan. 9, the bishops said Maryland’s state administrators and members of the General Assembly “have a moral obligation to act justly by enacting laws, appropriating funds and executing policies in a manner that uplifts the most vulnerable.”

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Bishop Zavala resigns after disclosing he is father of two children

By John Thavis

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Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala of Los Angeles takes part in a Pax Christi demonstration for immigrant rights in Maywood, Ill., in this 2009 file photo.

Tod Tamberg, Los Angeles archdiocesan spokesman, said the archdiocese had received questions about the possible usage of archdiocesan funds by the bishop to support his children and their mother. He said a financial audit of the San Gabriel pastoral region budget found everything in order.

“There’s been no indication of mismanagement or misuses of archdiocesan funds,” Tamberg told Catholic News Service.

“This is unexpected, sad and disorienting news for many who know and like him,” he said.

Bishop Zavala has been a longtime social justice advocate. He became the bishoppresident of Pax Christi USA, the American arm of Pax Christi International, in 2003.

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The organization also offered prayers that the privacy of Bishop Zavala and his family would be respected.

Throughout his tenure in Los Angeles, Bishop Zavala has spoken on behalf of working-class Americans, immigrant rights, ending the death penalty and reforming the criminal justice and prison systems. He also co-chaired Encuentro 2000, the U.S. bishops’ jubilee year gathering to celebrate and better understand the ethnic diversity of the U.S. church.

Born in Guerrero, Mexico, Bishop Zavala grew up in Los Angeles. He was ordained in 1977 and was named a bishop in 1994.

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“We are grateful for his past leadership and for his longtime witness to peace and justice as a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishop Zavala consistently brought the power of the Gospel to bear on issues like immigration, worker rights, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and nuclear disarmament,” wrote Sister Josie Chrosniak, who chairs the national council and is a member of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, and Sister Patty Chappell, executive director and a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

– Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez announced the “sad and difficult” news in a letter to Catholics in the archdiocese.

– Bishop Zavala submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI and since that time has not been in ministry and “will be living privately,” Archbishop Gomez said.

– The archdiocese has reached out to the mother and children to provide spiritual care and to assist with college costs, Archbishop Gomez said.

– The resignation leaves a vacancy in the chairmanship of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications.

– A longtime social justice advocate, Bishop Zavala became bishop-president of Pax Christi International in 2003. In a letter to members Jan. 5 Pax Christi said a search is under way for a new leader.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala has resigned after disclosing to superiors that he is the father of two children.

The Vatican announced the bishop’s resignation Jan. 4 in a one-line statement that cited church law on resignation for illness or other serious reasons.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez announced the “sad and difficult” news in a letter to Catholics in the archdiocese.

He said Bishop Zavala, who was auxiliary bishop for the San Gabriel pastoral region, had informed him in early December that he is the father of two minor teenage children who live with their mother in another state.

Archbishop Gomez announced early Jan. 4 that Msgr. James Loughnane, a native of Ireland, was appointed episcopal vicar for the pastoral region.

Bishop Zavala told Archbishop Gomez that he had submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI. Since that time, Bishop Zavala has not been in ministry and “will be living privately,” Archbishop Gomez said.

“The archdiocese has reached out to the mother and children to provide spiritual care as well as funding to assist the children with college costs. The family’s identity is not known to the public, and I wish to respect their right to privacy,” Archbishop Gomez said. He asked prayers for all those affected by the situation.

Bishop Zavala’s resignation leaves a vacancy in the chairman’s position of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications. Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, had no immediate announcement about who would assume the chairmanship.

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CCCYO to convert former Star of the Sea convent to housing for homeless With the gift of a nearly $1 million grant, Catholic Charities CYO is providing housing and family services for homeless mothers and their children at the long-vacant convent at Star of the Sea Church on Geary Boulevard.

Families began moving into what is being called Star Community Home in early January, a project made possible by a $955,000 grant to Catholic Charities from the Salesforce. com Foundation and Salesforce founder, Marc Benioff, and his wife, Lynne. It is part of a $1.5 million donation the Benioffs are making available to nonprofits to bring aid to homeless families.

The program is expected to run for 18 months – although that may change if subsequent donations keep it operating – and can house 12 families at any time. Some may stay for many months and others will be transitioned out when they are stabilized and are able to move on to permanent housing. The project provides basic needs, parenting education, housing placement assistance, children’s activity programs and case management services.

“It is rare that we are given such a clear path for addressing a community need in a way that is at the core of our mission of charity and justice,” said Jeff Bialik, CCCYO of San Francisco

executive director. “Star Community Home will serve as a beacon of hope and a measure of Catholic Charities CYO’s commitment to strengthening families, building community and reducing poverty.”

The project developed very quickly, over about 10 days after the Benioffs announced, on Dec. 22, that their grant was available, said Father Brian Costello, pastor of Star of the Sea Church.

He and Bialik had talks several months ago about finding a use for the three-story convent, built in the late 1920s.

“I am delighted that we have homeless women and their children off the streets,” said Father Costello. “It is a great blessing to the parish to have the convent doing some good.” He added, “All this happened during Christmas, and with the Christmas story of Mary and Joseph looking for room in Bethlehem it all seems to fit together.”

Donations are still being accepted, to purchase furnishings and other necessities at Star Community Home, at www.cccyo. org/starcommunity.

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Adult faith classes begin Twelve parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco beginning this month will host weekly online lectures in collaboration with the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, in a program called Forward in Faith.

The program begins Jan. 17 and is open to men and women from neighboring parishes who want to deepen their knowledge of the Catholic faith. Group discussions will follow the online lectures.

Ten sessions are planned during January, February and March and 10 in September, October and November. More information is available at http://sfarchdiocese.org or email gammerc@ sfarchdiocese.org.

Essay contest highlights Our Lady of Guadalupe This year’s Archdiocese of San Francisco Respect Life essay contest highlights Our Lady of Guadalupe and her role in the struggle against abortion. The essay questions invite Catholic school and religious education program students to reflect on Our Lady as Patroness of the Unborn and protector of all life.

The contest, a program of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, begins in January when essay questions are sent to schools, homeschoolers, and parish schools of religion and ends with a special Mass and awards ceremony at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Mother’s Day. For a look at the essay questions, contest guidelines and prizes, visit www.sflifeandjustice.org/essay_contest or contact Vicki Evans, director of the archdiocesan Respect Life office, at evansv@ sfarchdiocese.org.

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The lure of a better life: Human trafficking in the Bay Area

By Liz Dossa “You are a useless house girl.”

The sentence echoed daily in Sarah’s ears. Her employer, a Kenyan woman, had brought Sarah (not her real name) from Nairobi to the San Francisco Bay Area to take care of the woman’s toddler and her house.

Sarah, in her 20s, had believed life would be better in the United States.

There was no food in her village. She Holy Family Sister worked cleaning Caritas Foster houses in Nairobi to support her small daughter and her parents. When her employer asked her to come with her to the United States, Sarah felt a leap of hope.

“I was convinced life would be good.

When we landed at the San Francisco airport, everything looked so beautiful,” she told an audience of Burlingame Mercy sisters in 2005.

The cruel reality was that Sarah had been labor trafficked by the Kenyan employer, brought here to work as a household slave, imprisoned by threats of harm to her family back home if she didn’t obey. Her employer took her passport and told her that her pay of $50 per month would accumulate toward paying her ticket home. She was not to go out alone or to speak to anyone.

Sarah’s story is one of a pattern which many believe is the largest international criminal operation after drugs. Because victims like Sarah are so well hidden, statistics of human trafficking are difficult to verify. The U.S. State Department estimates that each year more than 600,000 men, women, and children are brought across international borders for both forced labor and sexual exploitation mainly from Asia, Eastern Europe and

Latin America, and more than 14,000 are trafficked into the United States.

“We in the San Francisco Bay Area are one of the largest receiving areas with our borders and coasts,” said Sister of the Holy Family Caritas Foster, who has dedicated her ministry for four years to educating the public on trafficking. “The fallacy is that anyone illegal comes in through our southern borders,” she said. “Transnationals come into our state at our airports and docks. The lure of a better life is powerful.”

Sister Caritas is tireless in telling the powerful story of people often hidden in plain sight, working in restaurants, nursing homes and even private homes. She has spoken to Rotary clubs, Soroptimist groups and parishes, describing the power that traffickers hold over the workers they have brought to the area. They take away the workers’ documents and threaten them with deportation. Isolated by their lack of English and often prohibited from ever leaving their work site, many victims have no idea where they are.

In 2000 the U.S. government first recognized trafficking as a crime with the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The law funds identification and support of victims through coalitions of law enforcement, the courts and nonprofit organizations. The act is up for reauthorization, and Congress has not yet acted on it.

In 2007 the U.S Bishops Committee on Migration called trafficking “a horrific crime against the basic dignity and rights of the human person.”

Women religious in the Bay Area have been working quietly for years on trafficking. Some have housed victims as they made slow steps toward gaining the protection of a visa designating them as trafficked immigrants. The sisters asked that neither they nor the location of the housing be identified: Traffickers are ruthless in trying to regain control of their victims and could harm their protectors as well.

A note of hope is that the Holy Family Sisters Caritas and Elaine Marie Sanchez are part of a new Cross Bay Collaborative, funded six months ago by the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The organization Standing Against Global Exploitation in San Francisco applied for a grant partnering Alameda district attorneys, Newcomers Health Program SF, Bay area Women Against Rape and the sisters. The groups work together to train providers of services, educate people about trafficking and ultimately identify more victims.

Many skills are needed to help trafficking victims. “We need to be patient, continue to work together and partner,” said Caritas.”We must realize (the solution) is going to take a long time.”

Sarah’s case contained a surprising twist.

She begged her employer to allow her to go to church, where she pleaded with a priest for help. He called on Sister of Mercy Marilyn Lacey, then Catholic Charities’ director of immigration and refugee services in San Jose. With their encouragement, Sarah ran away from her employer.

Sister Marilyn found a shelter for Sarah and connected her with social services and legal counsel, then referring her case to the justice department for an application for a

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visa giving her protected status and support as a trafficking victim. With the generous support of a local volunteer who paid for her professional training, Sarah eventually became a medical technician, and her daughter is with her, doing well in school.

An ironic twist is Marilyn’s discovery that Sarah’s abusive employer was on a fellowship at a local university – in the field of human rights.

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with the 2012 Blessed William Joseph Chaminade Award for his service to our country and support of the Marianist Order.

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Archdiocesan women religious, bishops discuss future of religious life

By Valerie Schmalz Last Dec. 10, 95 women religious representing 21 religious congregations met with Archbishop George Niederauer, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy at St. Cecilia Church in San Francisco to hear a panel presentation on the future of religious life.

Catholic San Francisco spoke with Presentation Sister Rosina Presentation Sister Conrotto, director of the office Rosina Conrotto of women religious for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, after the event.

Catholic San Francisco: What were some key views on what future religious life will look like?

Sister Rosina: While we don’t know exactly how it will all unfold, I think future religious life will continue to express fidelity to the vision and charism of founders, faithfulness to vowed life and commitment to lives of prayer, service and witness. Women religious have always responded to the needs of the times and I don’t think that will be any different in the future. Needs change, times change and we, too, will change, finding new ways to meet those needs and those times. The theme of our day was”Future Religious life: Looking into the Kaleidoscope.” All the multicolored pieces are contained within. The kaleidoscope is twisted and turned and new patterns are formed, but the necessary pieces are still the same – those elements that are essential to religious life are all there but simply reconfigured.

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Catholic San Francisco: How is the growth of congregations in Africa and Asia likely to affect religious congregations in the church at large and in the U.S. church?

Sister Rosina: Experience is showing us that the growth spurt in religious congregations is taking place in developing countries. As vocations in those countries increase we will begin to discover that, for some congregations, the future leadership will be among their African and Asian members.

This will necessitate a mind shift for those of us living in the United States and in Europe – we have a tendency to think that the American way or the European way is the right way. Cultural diversity will show us differently. This will be a rich time when we will be introduced to new customs and new prayer forms and rituals.

Catholic San Francisco: What about the role of new congregations and new forms of religious life in the American church and the church at large? Can you give some examples, particularly in our archdiocese and explain what they are contributing here?

Sister Rosina: One of our panelists described new forms of consecrated life that are approved by the Congregation of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the congregation in the Vatican that deals directly with religious life. We have two communities in our archdiocese that are considered new forms. The Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity, whose mission is to announce the word of God, and to propagate the kingdom of God through prayer, the ministry of the word, and the testimony of evangelical life. The

community consists of consecrated women religious, consecrated men religious and associated married couples. These three distinct branches have one organizational structure.

They were founded in Spain in 1963 and received ecclesiastical approval in 2000. Members of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity have been ministering in the Archdiocese of San Francisco since 1978. The second group is an active-contemplative-charismatic Carmelite congregation. This group is comprised of women religious, the Daughters of Carmel; men religious, Carmelitae Sancti Eliae; and a lay branch, the Holy Trinity Community. The Daughters of Carmel, whose main ministry includes retreat work, spiritual formation and spiritual direction, was founded in 1982 and was recognized as a religious congregation of diocesan right in 2002. The lay branch of this congregation, Holy Trinity Community, was founded in 1987. The Daughters of Carmel have been in the Archdiocese of San Francisco since July 2009.

Catholic San Francisco: What is your personal view of religious life and the role of women religious going forward?

Sister Rosina: Religious life, no matter what form it takes, will always be a gift in the church. As women religious we’re called to live consecrated lives of poverty, chastity and obedience and to respond to the needs of our time. Our response can be through direct service, through prayer and through the witness of our lives as we strive to live the Gospel values of justice, compassion and respect for the dignity of all persons and for all creation. Forms may change, but the commitment will remain the same.

Cardinal Levada, classmates celebrate priesthood Four of the cardinal’s classmates VATICAN CITY (CNS) – At the are U.S. bishops and concelebrated same altar in St. Peter’s Basilica the anniversary Mass, in cluding where they were ordained priests retired Archbishop John C Favalora exactly 50 years ago, Cardinal of Miami and Archbishop John William J. Levada and 17 of his G. Vlazny of Portland, Ore., who classmates celebrated a Mass of were ordained priests with Cardinal thanksgiving “for the great gift of the Levada. The other concelebrating priesthood” Dec. 20. classmates were Archbishop George Cardinal Levada, prefect of the Niederauer of San Francisco, who Congregation of the Doctrine of the was ordained a priest four months Faith, told the concelebrating cardilater, and Bishop Tod D. Brown of nals, bishops and priests and several Orange, who was ordained in 1963. hundred family, friends and semiSpeaking at the end of the Mass, narians, “We do not anticipate some Cardinal Levada led the 17 in giving miraculous appearance again here to thanks to the Lord “for the priesthood celebrate our 100th anniversary, so we received 50 years ago as a great we ask you to sustain us with your gift of our loving God.” prayers and your friendship in these Cardinal Levada in Cardinal Levada celebrated his our final priestly years,” he said.

St. Peter’s Basilica 75th birthday in June. Bishops who The cardinal, a student at Rome’s at the Vatican Dec. 20. reach the age of 75 are required to Pontifical North American College at offer the pope their resignation, but the time, was ordained with 53 other men at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s in 1961. the pope often keeps his closest aides on longer.

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The story of four Daughters of Charity and a Vincentian priest who escaped the fall of Saigon in 1975 with more than 40 crippled children and young adults is chronicled in a traveling exhibition about the contributions of religious women to the United States since the arrival of the first Ursuline Sisters in New Orleans in 1727.

“Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America” makes its last stop at the California Museum, 1020 O Street, Sacramento from Jan. 24–June 3. The traveling exhibition sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious features 70 artifacts from more than 400 communities of women religious including a letter from President Thomas Jefferson assuring religious freedom following the Louisiana Purchase, a custom fluting machine for the sisters’ habits, and a medical bag used by the nuns as they nursed both sides during the Civil War. The exhibit has appeared at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Ellis Island Museum in New York since it first opened in Cincinnati in 2009. It includes some artifacts specific to California, including a video clip about the group that escaped from Vietnam, and information about the arrival of orders during the Gold Rush and the work of women religious during the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The exhibit chronicles sisters in photos, documents and artifacts as they nursed San Franciscans in “pest housing” through the small pox epidemic of 1868, provided health care to Midwest loggers in the 19th century,

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(PHOTO COURTESY OF SISTERS OF CHARITY OF NEW YORK)

Women religious – an American story comes to Sacramento Jan. 24

A Sister of Charity of New York is pictured at the New York Foundling Hospital in 1920. The hospital’s mission continues today.

Dolores Bundy listens intently at 1970s religious vocation conference, showing support for Dr. Martin Luther King’s nonviolent movement for change.

Sister Hilary Ross was a scientist and award-winning medical photographer who authored over 40 scientific papers on the biochemistry of leprosy.

walked picket lines for farm workers and protested the Vietnam War. After the 1906 earthquake and fire leveled much of San Francisco, “the Sisters of the Holy Family opened tents,” said Holy Family Sister Gladys Guenther, an organizer of the California exhibition. The sisters taught catechism, held sewing classes, cared for children and assisted refugees in the tent cities and prepared altars in various places on Sundays so Mass could be offered without benefit of church buildings.

During the past 300 years, sisters have founded hospitals, orphanages, schools, homeless shelters and soup kitchens, the website womenandspirit.org notes. The exhibition includes photos and artifacts including

shoes created from corn husks and student work from the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first all black community.

Among the historical facts about Catholic sisters in America that are highlighted in the exhibition: – The St. Joseph incubator was developed

by Sister Pulcheria Wuellner.

– The first medical license given to a woman in New Mexico was to Sister Mary de Sales Leheney.

– In 2005, approximately one in six hospital patients in the U.S. was treated in a Catholic facility.

– More than 600 sisters from 21 religious communities nursed Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War.

– In the founding days of Alcoholics Anonymous, Sister Ignatia Gavin of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine successfully advocated that alcoholism should be treated as a medical condition.

– Catholic sisters established the nation’s largest private school system, educating millions of young Americans.

– More than 110 U.S. colleges and universities have been founded by Catholic sisters.

– Since 1980, at least nine American sisters have been killed while working for social justice and human rights overseas.

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Father David Ghiorso’s qualities for the successful priestly candidate: – Charity – Seeking deeper meaning in life – Having a good prayer life – Leadership ability – Commitment – Being sociable

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Idaho are circuit-riding between parishes, for example, and there were 39,466 priests in the U.S. in 2011 compared with 58,632 in 1965 – but that’s not enough for Father Ghiorso, who was ordained in 1981, to lower his bar.

“People are going to be looking to you to be a mover and a shaker, and that is a difficult transition for some,” he said. “They understand balance in their life. And here are the qualities I like to see: Charity would be the first one. You want to help other people.

I look for ones who are looking for a deeper meaning in their life. I want them to have a good prayer life. I want to see leadership. I want to see commitment. It is not a big word in our society today, to be able to make a lifelong commitment. And sociality: Do you like people?”

Patrick Summerhays reportedly passes this test. By his own account, however, it took him a long time to hear the voice of God. When he did hear it he knew the call was unmistakable. “God has spoken to me not only in prayer but through other people and encouraging me, or at least he thinks I have what it takes to be a good priest and to minister to people,” said Summerhays, 38, studying theology at St. Patrick’s with an expected ordination in 2015.

“When I finally gave God a shot and asked him what he wanted me to do,” he said, “I really began to see for myself. I really don’t think it is something that I have sought out for myself. I think God is constantly calling people.”

Summerhays, as part of his mandatory field education, is also performing one of priests’ most critical duties – hospital

Seminarians pray during morning Mass at Theological College in Washington Nov. 29.

visitations –– in which he sees the spectrum reaching from new life in maternity wards to death and dying, and finding the right tone for a priestly presence. He’s doing the work at Sequoia Hospital and Kaiser Hospital, both in Redwood City, learning from Father Kevin Kennedy, in residence at St. Pius Church in Redwood City, the chaplain.

Of standing with a patient and a family at death’s door, he said, “This is one of the most important parts of being a priest, and

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Summerhays is one of 104 seminarians at St. Patrick’s, which serves 17 western and Pacific Rim dioceses and a religious order, the Franciscans. There may be three or four more added this year, if immigration and other issues are resolved, which puts the seminary at capacity.

Sulpician Father James L. McKearney, the president and rector of St. Patrick’s, is likewise an advocate of quality over quantity. “That is our modus operandi,” he said.

“Sometimes it means asking good guys, nice people, to leave the seminary until they are ready to be in a seminary,” he added.

“For some, it is obvious they do not have a priest’s vocation.”

But when applicants wend their way through a filtering system of multiple layers and psychological exams and reach Father McKearney’s office, he wants to know, “Why the priesthood? Why now? With everything that is going on in our society, in our culture, the clergy sex abuse – outrageous stuff.”

Father McKearney said, “They say, ‘That is precisely why, Father. I want to be a good priest. I want to help the church.

I want to regain our status in society.

Help people save their souls.’ It is all this practical pastoral but also deeply spiritual instincts and to be good priests. It is always inspiring.”

Discernment weekend Jan. 13-15 A discernment weekend for men considering the priesthood takes place Jan. 13-15 at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park.

Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly of the San Jose diocese will lead the event, and San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will celebrate the closing Mass on Sunday, said seminarian Patrick Summerhays, who helped in coordinating the retreat. He called it a “come and see”-style opportunity for men – “a significant step in the discernment process by which they get a sense of what a seminary is and have a chance to talk to seminarians, priests, vocations directors, and other men in the same position.”

In addition to several conference talks

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Summerhays said some 50 men are expected, all 18 and older, representing the San Francisco archdioPatrick cese and the San Summerhays Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Stockton, Fresno and Monterey dioceses.

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Catholic seminary enrollment up, but numbers tell only part of story

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien

Vocations in the U.S., 2011 vs. 1965 Diocesan priests: 39,466 (58,632 in 1965) Religious priests: 12,629 (22,707) Priestly ordinations: 467 (994) Graduate-level seminarians: 3,608 (8,325) Religious brothers: 4,606 (12,271) Religious sisters: 55,944 (179,954) Parishes: 17,782 (17,637) (CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)

WASHINGTON (CNS) – In his first months as rector of Theological College in Washington, Father Phillip J. Brown has been confronting a problem that the national diocesan seminary for the U.S. Catholic Church “has not had for a long time” – it is bursting at the seams.

Enrollment is maxed out for the 2011-12 academic year at 90 seminarians. Five of those seminarians are back in their dioceses this year gaining pastoral experience, but a Sulpician seminarian and five priests from other countries also live there, bringing the total number of residents to 91 plus faculty members.

“If I had to start with a problem, that’s the problem I’d like to have,” Father Brown told Catholic News Service. “It’s a very healthy sign, a positive sign for Theological College and for the U.S. priesthood.”

The trend of rising seminary enrollment is being duplicated around the country: – At the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, 40 new seminarians arrived this year, bringing total enrollment to 186, the highest level since the 1970s.

– St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., welcomed 30 new graduate-level seminarians, making its class of 100 seminarians the largest since 1980. The influx forced 24 seminarians and two priests off campus into leased space at a former convent.

– In the Diocese of Scranton, Pa., where the St. Pius X diocesan seminary closed in 2004 because of declining enrollment, the number of seminarians has more than doubled from eight to 17 in the past two years.

Most of the Scranton seminarians are studying at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa. just outside Philadelphia where communications specialist Dan Skalski said enrollment has remained steady over the past five years, or at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where a class of 76 “new men” brought enrollment this fall to a full house of 250 seminarians.

In an April report, the Center for Applied Research in the

Seminarians pray during Mass at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., Nov. 11, 2011.

Apostolate at Georgetown University said enrollment was up for those studying for the priesthood, diaconate and lay ecclesial ministry during the 2010-11 academic year – the latest for which statistics were available.

In all, there were 3,608 post-baccalaureate U.S. seminarians last year, a net increase of 125 seminarians, or 4 percent, over the

Study to explore low count of US Hispanic vocations WASHINGTON – A study sponsored by the U.S. bishops will explore why Hispanic Catholics are underrepresented in religious vocations.

The survey, underwritten largely by a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, aims to identify common and distinctive cultural traits that affect the openness and ability of Catholic youth to respond to a call to a vocation to the priesthood or religious life.

The Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has commissioned the Center for Applied Research at Georgetown University to conduct a national survey of never-married Catholics, ages 14 and older, to study their views about vocations and their own consideration of a vocation.

Previous reports commissioned by the secretariat indicate fewer than expected religious vocations among the Hispanic and Latino Catholic population in the United States.

Father Shawn McKnight, executive director of the secretariat, said that Hispanics/Latinos constituted 15 percent of the ordination class and 10 percent of the religious profession class, while constituting 34 percent of the total adult Catholic population.

In the same reports, other cultures show a stronger representation.

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The trend goes beyond Catholic schools to all seminaries, according to figures from the Association of Theological Schools in the U.S. and Canada from 2010-11.

The organization that accredits theological schools said 75,431 people were studying for the ministry at 261 institutions during the last academic year, an increase of .6 percent from the year before.

But Theological College’s Father Brown said a rise in enrollment is only part of the story.

“It’s not just the numbers but the quality and spirit of the men who are coming,” he told CNS. Contributing to this story was Julie Asher.

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‘Hatred, hatred, hatred’ The Christmas Day church bombings in Nigeria highlighted a rising tide of anti-Christian repression worldwide

Pope decries religious ‘terror’ VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI condemned “religiously motivated terrorism” and restrictions on religious freedom during his annual address to diplomats accredited to the Vatican.

“In many countries, Christians are deprived of fundamental rights and sidelined from public life; in other countries they endure violent attacks against their churches and homes,” the pope told the diplomats Jan. 9, mentioning particularly the Christmas Day attacks against churches in Nigeria.

On Jan. 6 the latest in a series of church attacks in northern Nigeria left six dead and 10 wounded, Voice of America reported.

“In other parts of the world we see policies aimed at marginalizing the role of religion in the life of society, as if it were a cause of intolerance rather than a valued contribution to education in respect for human dignity, justice and peace,” the pope said.

or belief constitutes a violation of human rights.” It pointed to incitement of religious hatred as a “burgeoning trend” and urged states to combat it.

The U.N. action followed a report by Human Rights First documenting over 100 recent cases from 18 countries on the

A Muslim cleric says the conflict is not sectarian but a question of good people versus evil people. abuse of blasphemy laws, which criminalize defamation and enable governments to target individuals for the peaceful expression of political or religious views.

Any religious or ethnic minority can be a target: Consider Iran’s Sufi Muslims or China’s Uighurs. But Christians are a growing target of hate crimes worldwide, according to the latest annual hate crime report by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The report “provides irrefutable proof of a growing intolerance against Christians,” Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Vatican secretary for relations with states, said last September.

Heiner Beilefeldt, appointed in 2010 and mandated as an independent expert by the Geneva-based Human Rights Council to promote religious freedom worldwide, said the most shocking experience he came across almost daily was that of the “extreme degree of hatred” and intolerance.

“Hatred, hatred, hatred,” he said, noting that depending on the location, such hatred played out in different ways, targeted different groups and sometimes was perpetrated under different auspices, such as competing religions or national identity.

“Religious minorities always occupy the last position in society,” said Haroon Barkat Masih, director of Pakistan’s Masihi Foundation, which is defending a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, imprisoned under the country’s blasphemy laws.

In Nigeria, the Boko Haram sect, author of the Christmas attacks and numerous other deadly incidents, has its origins in the colonial and post-colonial history of the north African nation, the church news agency Fides said in a recent article.

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Shocking as it was, the series of Christmas Day bombings that killed 40 people at Catholic churches and other sites in Nigeria was anything but isolated.

Since 1999, at least 13,000 Nigerians have been killed in religious-related violence between Muslims and Christians, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its latest annual report.

What’s going on? Christian as well as Muslim vigilantes have been getting away with murder, thanks to government inaction and a climate of impunity. Forms of religious repression, such as Islamic law, fill a vacuum where civil society falters.

This deadly mix, which takes different forms in different societies, is a source of growing concern among states and human rights groups worldwide.

In December the U.N. General Assembly responded with its strongest condemnation of religious tolerance in more than a decade. It urged states to outlaw “defamation of religions” and declared that “discrimination on the grounds of religion

“Boko Haram” is translated as “Western education is prohibited.” The attitude stems from the arrival of British colonization and the introduction of a Western educational system. Western ways were suspect because they did not teach about the Koran or Islam and instruction was in English.

For the local Muslim elites white people and their seemingly incomprehensible ways were often associated with witchcraft – Boka. The prejudice has persisted and thus Western education is categorized as Haram – forbidden.

The suspicion of Western education is shown by the low statistics of school enrollment all over the northern states of Nigeria. Today, well over 80 percent of Muslim parents in the rural areas but also urban northern states still refuse to send their children to school to acquire Western education. The situation of the girls is worse, registering less than 10 percent of children of school age.

A large number of Muslim children who today roam the streets of Nigeria are graduates of the Islamiyya schools, under the tutelage of an itinerant teacher, Mallam. These children, with no job, are the lifeblood that feeds sects like the Boko Haram and other similar millenarian movements.

Ordinary Muslims feel overwhelmed by the changes around them. Unable to access the tools of modernization, they have remained largely outside the loop of power. In the major cities of their states, almost all forms of activities are conducted by people they consider foreigners – almost all southern traders are Christians. Their habits and rituals have made ordinary Muslims nervous for the future of their families and their faith.

The leader of Boko Haram took advantage of this situation by arguing that turning inward away from external “contamination” and that Nigeria must return to a fully Islamic society in order to face the weaknesses of the state.

Nigeria’s population is almost evenly divided between Christians and Muslims, with Christians dominant in the south and Muslims in the north.

President Goodluck Jonathan has met with Muslim and Christian leaders in an attempt to restore calm. The Christian Association of Nigeria, which includes Catholics, said in an open letter to Jonathan that the Christmas bombings were “a declaration of war on Christians and Nigeria as an entity.”

One of Nigeria’s leading Muslim clerics, the sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, said after meeting with Jonathan that the violence was not religious in nature.

“It is a conflict between evil people and good people,” he said, adding that “the good people must come together to defeat the evil ones.”

Catholic Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto urged governments at all levels to rise to the security challenge. He said if religious and government leaders did not act quickly “this threat will no doubt continue to divide us, as those perpetrators of this act are already thinking of breaking the country.”

On Dec. 28, six children and an adult were injured in the bombing of an Islamic school in Sapele. No one has claimed responsibility for that attack, in which the homemade bomb was lobbed from a passing vehicle.

Women weep Dec. 31, mourning their loved ones who died in the Christmas bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, just outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram said it planted the bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria.

The explosion at St. Theresa’s killed at least 27 people.

True religious leaders condemn violence, he said, but some seem to have difficulty in convincing their communities.

“One must focus especially on the young and on their formation,” he said. “The pope has insisted strongly on the formation of young people for peace, solidarity, justice and universal brotherhood” and focused on young people in his message for the Jan. 1 celebration of World Peace Day. In the aftermath of an earlier series of bombings in Nigeria last November, Bishop Oliver Doeme of Maiduguri said the causes of the violence are social, economic, political and religious.

In an interview Dec. 30 with L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, said the Christmas bombings “underline the urgency of interventions by all religious leaders to infuse the hearts and minds of their faithful with a true mentality of peace.”

Cardinal Tauran said interreligious dialogue “does not have the aim of uniting the faithful of different religions into one temple or church,” but rather to promote knowledge of one another’s teaching, mutual respect and cooperation for the good of humanity.

“In particular, there are some powerful people in our society who are losing their importance and use religion to incite the minds of uneducated youth to sow violence,” the bishop said. “In fact, these young people are exploited by greedy politicians who are losing relevance and want to still remain in power to continue to improve their finances.”

The bishop also spoke of “a strong level of indoctrination based on the belief that if one dies fighting for the cause, he will go to heaven.”

– Catholic San Francisco, Catholic News Service, Fides

Where the faithful suffer most ➊ Cuba. The government continues to hinder the ability of religious organizations to build new or repair existing houses of worship. In December the U.S. State Department decried new reports of repression by the Cuban government, including against the “Damas de Blanco.” Several members of the Ladies in White, a group of women who have for years held silent marches after church each Sunday in protest of their relatives’ imprisonment, were arrested after Mass Dec. 4.

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A car burns at the scene of a bomb explosion outside St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, just outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja, Dec. 25.

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➋ Egypt. Serious problems of discrimination, intolerance, and other human rights violations against members of religious minorities, as well as disfavored Muslims, remain widespread. Significant upsurge in violence targeting Coptic Orthodox Christians. ➌ Iraq. Members of the country’s smallest religious minorities still suffer from targeted violence, threats and intimidation, against which they receive insufficient government protection. Perpetrators are rarely identified, investigated, or punished, creating a climate of impunity. In December Msgr. Louis Sako, archbishop of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, blessed a memorial commemorating the 36 Christian martyrs of the city since the U.S. invasion in 2003. ➍ Iran. Systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused. Dissident Muslims increasingly subject to abuse and several sentenced to death and even executed for the capital crime of moharebeh – “waging war against God.” ➎ Pakistan. Religiously discriminatory legislation, such as the anti-Ahmadi laws and blasphemy laws, foster an atmosphere of intolerance. Growing religious extremism threatens the freedoms of expression and religion or belief, as well as other human rights, for everyone in Pakistan, particularly women, members of religious minorities, and those in the majority Muslim community who hold views deemed un-Islamic by extremists. ➏ India. Following incidents and reprisals at and after Christmas 2007, the murder of an influential Hindu leader in August 2008 sparked a prolonged and violent campaign targeting Christians in the state of Orissa. Christian leaders in Karnakata state say Christians are the target of ongoing violence by Hindu fundamentalists. ➐ China. Religious freedom conditions for Tibetan Buddhists and Uighur Muslims are the worst they have been in the past 10 years. Almost 400 unregistered Protestants were detained in the past year and the Chinese government stepped up efforts to destroy churches and close “illegal” meeting points. Unregistered Catholic clergy and Falun Gong adherents remain in detention, in home confinement, under surveillance or have disappeared.

Sources: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, asianews.it, Union of Catholic Asian News, Catholic News Service

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Modeling an angel My name is Alessia (Manfrini) Dempsey and I am the granddaughter of Enrico Manfrini.

I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your article “Artwork’s intimacy, building’s majesty, complete sacred space”

sculptures inside the church. I’m the top angel in the sculpture of Mary’s Assumption, and again at an older age with my brother holding a slab in another scene.

I’m actually making a trip out to San Francisco in a few weeks to finally show my grandfather’s artwork to my husband, and reading your article made it so much more special.

Alessia Dempsey Boston

Interfaith hospitality

Enrico Manfrini’s grandchildren posed for the angels in the artist’s bronze portraying Pentecost.

(St. Mary’s Cathedral 40th anniversary issue, April 22, 2011). It felt wonderful to read your kind words about my grandfather’s artwork.

I’m actually portrayed in two of the

Letters welcome Catholic San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5641 Email: delvecchior@sfarchdiocese.org, include “Letters” in the subject line.

Thank you for the article (“Cathedral hosts winter shelter as part of interfaith outreach,” Dec. 16) on the San Francisco Interfaith Council’s winter shelter program and the vital part played by St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Boniface Parish, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church and First Unitarian Church.

Your readers might be interested to know that Christmas Day dinner was the gift of Congregation Sherith Israel so that Christian congregations could enjoy being with their families.

Rita R. Semel Executive vice chair San Francisco Interfaith Council

Food stamp article helpful Thank you for running George Raine’s article on Congresswoman Jackie Speier (“Humbling, difficult: Bay Area rep’s week on a food stamp diet,” Nov. 18). Her going for a week on food stamps helped raise awareness.

I think it is important not to paint anyone or any group with a broad brush. I would not call Congresswoman Speier a career politician who looks out only for her own interests.

Instead, I would call her a government leader who works hard for her constituents in District

12 and for the country. Prior to working in Washington, she worked diligently in both the California Assembly and the Senate, sponsoring legislation to help many Californians. I am also aware that her campaign contributions are in large part from the nearly 80 percent of the district’s electorate who voted her into office. I am grateful to have her in Washington.

Barbara Balbi South San Francisco

citizens of her district with access to health care and other concerns as our social safety network is so frayed during this economic downturn. I’ve seen the good work she does.

I am sure the Holy Spirit celebrates when sinners promote the corporal works of mercy.

Mary Margaret Flynn, MD San Carlos

Undeserved diatribe

Regarding your Dec. 9 article on the plight of Iraqi Christians, it is sad to see what has become of a community that has been a part of the region for centuries.

This situation is of course a result of various factors including wars, insurrection and Saddam Hussein, and has led to the Christians in Iraq being discriminated against. Unless the Iraqi government can guarantee the safety of the Christian community, you will continue to see Christians leaving the country.

Anthony Ordona San Francisco

I am not one to respond to letters but the letter (Dec. 9) regarding Rep. Jackie Speier was such an undeserved, uninformed diatribe it had to be answered.

Our Congresswoman Speier is one of the most compassionate, do-something people in Congress.

She listens to her constituents and responds immediately to any phone call, question or request. She is for the everyman and shows it in every way. She is an outstanding Catholic and a wonderful role model as to her ability to withstand hardships in her personal life and go on to serve all of us. Her whole life has been devoted to faith, family friends and country. She is far from the person described in the letter. We should have more like her in Congress and in our lives. She is a great example to young and old. A true member of the church.

June Wisecarver Burlingame

Iraqi Christians’ plight

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Avoid calumny How delighted I was to read the story about our Rep. Jackie Speier and her living on a food stamp diet. Just as Mother Teresa once explained she accepted money from anybody because it helped her works for the poor, so it is always “good news” to read of acts of compassion and solidarity. Don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good. Calumny, attributing bad faith to others one does not know – for example saying Rep. Speier could care less about working men and women – is also sinful and hateful. Rep. Speier, I happen to know, does care about the working man and woman and her office staff has helped many

Science and climate

With the threat of my being classed as a right-wing nut, I completely disagree with Bishop (Stephen) Blaire’s insinuation in his column on environmental stewardship (“Breath of life,” Dec. 16).

Obviously he has bought into the liberal theory that man is largely responsible for global warming.

Sorry, but there is a lot of egg on his face. Man, it has been scientifically proved, is responsible for 4 to 6 percent of the pollution while the rest is sun-related and occurred at various times in our history. Twelve-thousand years ago, there is a boatload of evidence that Great Britain was subtropical with palm trees and so forth. Yet, at that time, there were no machines, no factories to explain that warming. Let’s worry about pollution but not to the extent that exaggeration and poor judging skills take over for good sense and provable science.

Gerald Studier San Rafael

Guest Commentary

Listening to Christopher Hitchens I have, over the years, playfully accused some of my atheist interlocutors of being “secret Herods.” The biblical Herod arrested John the Baptist but nevertheless took pleasure in listening to John preach from his prison cell. So, I’ve suggested the atheists who come to my website and comment so acerbically and so frequently on my Internet videos are, despite themselves, secretly seeking out the things of God. I will confess to having a certain Herod syndrome in reverse in regard to Christopher Hitchens, who died Dec. 15. Though he was certainly the most outspoken and biting critic of religion in the last 50 years, and though he often infuriated me with this cavalier and insulting dismissals of what I hold most dear, I will admit that I loved to listen to him.

I think I watched every Hitchens debate that I could find on YouTube. I subscribed to Vanity Fair largely because Hitchens was a regular contributor. I read every one of his books – in fact, I’m currently plowing through his paving-stone sized collection of essays called “Arguably,” and I delighted in watching him thrust and parry with news interviewers from across the political spectrum, who just could never seem to get a handle on him. Part of the attraction was what the ancient Romans called “gaudium de stilo” (delight in style). No one wrote quite like Christopher Hitchens. Whether he was describing an uprising on the streets of Athens, or criticizing the formation of young men in the British boarding schools of the 1950s, or defending his support of the Iraq war, or begging people to let go of what he took to be their childish belief in God, Hitchens was unfailingly intelligent, perceptive, funny, sarcastic and addictively readable. Another part of the appeal was that his personality was always massively present in what he wrote.

There was absolutely nothing detached about a Hitchens book, article, or speech. Rather, his aggressive, inquisitive, cocksure, irritated, delightfully alert self was consistently on display.

Also, Hitchens and I liked a lot of the same people and topics: Evelyn Waugh, contemporary politics, religion, and above all, Bob Dylan. But what I appreciated most about Christopher Hitchens was his passion for God. I realize this might require a bit of explanation.

One of the fundamental mistakes that Hitchens and his new atheist colleagues consistently made in regard to religion was their misconstruing of what serious believers mean by the word “God.” Time and again, the new atheists mocked God as a “sky fairy” or an “invisible friend,” and they argued that religious belief was tantamount to accepting the existence of “a flying spaghetti monster,” a wild mythological fantasy for which there is not a shred of evidence. Or they ridiculed religious philosophers for proposing, over and again, a pathetic “god of the gaps,” a supernatural cause fitted awkwardly into a schema of explanation that science would eventually clarify in

Hitchens, despite his protestations, actually loved God. its own terms. In all of these ways, however, they missed their mark. For the classical theological tradition, God is not a being in the world, one object, however supreme, among many. The maker of the entire universe cannot be, himself, an item within the universe, and the one who is responsible for the nexus of causal relations in its entirety could never be a missing link in an ordinary scientific schema. Thomas Aquinas makes the decisive point when he says that God is not “ens summum” (highest being) but rather “ipsum esse” (the sheer act of being itself).

God is neither a thing in the world, nor the sum total of existing things; he is instead the unconditioned cause of the conditioned universe, the reason why there is something rather than nothing.

Accordingly, God is not some good thing, but goodness itself; not some true object but truth itself; not some beautiful reality, but beauty itself. And this helps us to see how Christopher Hitchens, despite his protestations, actually loved God. What you couldn’t miss in Hitchens’ writing and speaking was a passion for justice, a deep desire to defend those who were denied their rights. This comes through from his first book on Cyprus and Greece to his articles in defense of his friend

Salman Rushdie to his recent essays and speeches on the Iraq war. Where does this passion come from? What makes sense of it? If there is no God, which is to say, no unconditioned justice, no absolute criteria Father of good and evil, why precisely would someone burn Robert Barron with righteous indignation at violations of justice? If we are here simply by dumb chance, if all of us will one day die and simply fade away, if the earth will one day be incinerated and the universe spins away without purpose and in utter indifference to human cruelty and human nobility, why would anyone finally bother? Wouldn’t in fact Dostoyevsky be right in saying that if there is no God everything is permitted? My point is that the very passion for setting things right, which burned so brightly in Christopher Hitchens, is a powerful indicator that he was, whether he acknowledged it or not, connected to unconditioned justice. And that connection brought him very close indeed to what serious believers mean by God. Soon after Hitchens revealed that he had been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer, I wrote a piece for the CNN Belief Blog in which I urged my fellow Christians to pray for him. The article, which I considered rather benign, awakened a furious response on the part of Hitchens’s allies.

More than 2,000 respondents told me, effectively, to leave Hitchens alone and not impose my “medieval mumbo jumbo” on their hero. I didn’t abide by their recommendation. I prayed for Hitchens throughout his illness, and I pray for him now – a man religious despite himself.

Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry “Word on Fire” and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.

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Cardinal McCarrick: ‘If we stop loving people we are in terrible trouble’ (PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

By Rick DelVecchio Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who retired in 2006 as archbishop of Washington, D.C., took time to meet with Catholic San Francisco during a visit to the archdiocese in November, where he gave an Advent talk at St. Rita Church in Fairfax. Here are excerpts from the conversation. The questions have been edited for clarity and the answers for space.

Catholic San Francisco: The bishops of New York were just in Rome for their “ad limina” visit and spoke with the pope about the “grave challenges” facing the church. How did we get from a place where there seemed to be a healthier relationship on the role of the faith in public life to one we’re almost at war, pushing back, highly defensive?

Cardinal McCarrick: Certainly a number of things happened. Every time there’s a recession there’s less money and there’s always some who say it has to go to the secular world. And then of course in the 1960s all authority was attacked. All authority had to defend itself and some was not able to. It was unexpected.

(Pope) John XXIII saw it coming. The situation We don’t save affected not only church vs. state or state vs. church. our souls as There is a hardening. We to realize we are individuals, we have living in an antiauthoritarian world. That’s part of save our souls the background of why we’re having trouble. In a as part of a certain sense it is, almost horribly to say, the logical community. conclusion of the anti-life movement in our country.

If human life does not become as important, then families do not become as important. You see as a generation that’s opposed to life, except for the minorities in our country. We find a situation where life is not that valuable and where values that provide what we consider the dignity of life are no longer present. The values now are everybody does what they want to do rather than the common good, where we all must work together to build a family, build a nation, build a world. That’s what we all have to face. The bishops who have responsibilities in dioceses, this is what they’re giving voice to.

CSF: What is your observation about the relationship between the episcopate and the laity and how they can

Reaching across the aisle Tell you a story. Pope John Paul II was in New York in 1995. He was in the back of the cathedral and he realized he was only going to go down one way. Usually if he were visiting a cathedral he’d go down one way and greet the people and then go the other way. His schedule was too tight, and he looked and realized the middle was not that large. So he walked down that way and his legs were not that good but he stayed there. And I said to myself, there’s a symbol in that. The symbol is you stay in the middle, because then you can reach the right and the left. I’ve tried to do that. I think the middle is so important. From the center we can reach out to both ends and make a difference, and basically try to bring them together.

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work together in their different roles to restore the values that are embodied in the common good?

Cardinal McCarrick: There is no one America. I do not accept your distinction between the people and the episcopacy. There has always been a body on the right and a body on the left who are not happy with the center. Life is like that.

I see many problems. I don’t interpret the word “grave” as you do. It has other connotations. There are serious difficulties, sure. We’ve had them before, we’ll have them again. I’m not naive, but I don’t see this as being a time of total crisis.

I was in the Diocese of San Jose over the weekend and was really very impressed by the faith of the people. It was standing room only. Very, very crowded churches. I’ve been in other places in the country and the world where the churches are not filled or they are filled with older people, not with the young. Certainly one of the great problems is to hold on to our young people without the methodology we had before, which is the Catholic schools. When I was a kid 70 percent of youngsters went to Catholic schools. We have to recover some way of holding these youngsters close to the Lord and giving them an opportunity of growing in their love of God and growing in their understanding that we are not made as individuals; we don’t save our souls as individuals, we save our souls as part of a community.

Many young people need to find that the church reaches out, that the church takes care of the poor, that the church wants justice, that the church wants to be a promoter of peace and harmony in the world, justice in the world. They want to do it themselves. We have to open the door and let

them see, “Hey, you can do it here. You can do it better as part of the church.” Then we can begin to develop strength in this church of today.

CSF: Is part of the challenge to turn up the volume on the church’s message?

Cardinal McCarrick: You put your finger on something very important. I’m teaching what I believe as a Catholic priest – special dreams, special hopes. We mustn’t be afraid to talk to the press. We mustn’t be afraid to talk to the politicians, to the rich and the poor. We have our programs – four books in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

CSF: Sometimes Catholics get upset over how other Catholics practice their faith and want a bishop to step in. How do you manage that pastorally?

Cardinal McCarrick: If you are going to say that you are not going to be involved with anyone who is not 100 percent on your side, you’ll have almost no one to deal with. In a lot of ways you leave these decisions to an individual and their confessor. You can’t say because a man or a woman did “x” they take themselves out of the church. If you did that you wouldn’t be talking to anybody, and the pope wouldn’t be talking to anybody, and Jesus wouldn’t have been talking to anybody. There’s a certain understanding of where the Lord is and where we are. He preaches the Gospel of love, and if we stop loving people we are in terrible trouble.

Rick DelVecchio is editor of Catholic San Francisco.

Guest Commentary

By Tony Magliano “With what attitude should we look to the new year?” asks Pope Benedict XVI in his message for World Day of Peace, celebrated by the Catholic Church on Jan. 1.

Reflecting on Psalm 130, the pope echoes its message that people of deep faith wait for the Lord with unshakable hope, because they know that he will bring light, mercy and salvation.

These are, indeed, encouraging and comforting words for believers to hold on to in the midst of so much dark heartlessness.

“It is true that the year now ending has been marked by a rising sense of frustration at the crisis looming over society. ...

It seems as if a shadow has fallen over our time, preventing us from clearly seeing the light of day,” writes the pope.

But hoping to tap into and guide the particularly hopeful expectations of youth, Pope Benedict titled his World Day of Peace message: “Educating Young People in Justice and Peace.”

In this message, the pope urges parents, families, educators and all people in leadership positions to communicate to young people “an appreciation for the positive value of life and of awakening in them a desire to spend their lives in the service of the good.”

In order to inspire youth “to move beyond themselves,” Pope Benedict insists that “we need witnesses capable of seeing farther than others because their life is so much broader.”

But instead, countless “leaders” are providing a very different, negative witness.

In the midst of America’s worship of its military might, the Obama administration, together with a majority in Congress, continue to feed young people to the god of war.

The ancient Romans called this god Mars; perhaps the United States should name its war god the “military-industrial complex” – a term of warning borrowed from President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address.

In his World Day of Peace message, the pope boldly proclaims that “peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: It is also a task to be undertaken.

In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity ... in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth.”

But sadly, the only “redistribution of wealth” in the past 30 years has been the taking of money from the poor and shrinking middle class, and moving it into the bank accounts of the rich.

The federal government continues to protect tax breaks for rich individuals and corporations while slashing safety-net benefits to the needy.

A firsthand example for me comes from a neighbor who explained that her elderly, very low income mother received a letter

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In peace message, the pope reflects on the young and Christian witness

Youths perform during the opening ceremony of the National Catholic Youth Conference Nov. 17 in Indianapolis. Pope Benedict XVI, in his 2012 World Day of Peace message, urged parents and other leaders to rise to the challenge of awakening in the young “a desire to spend their lives in the service of the good.”

from the Social Security Administration stating that her Supplemental Security Income check would be reduced, effective Jan. 1, 2012, from $335 a month to $99 a month!

All of this narrow, selfish economic injustice and lust for war-making and war preparation fails to provide young people with the “witnesses capable of seeing farther than others because their life is so much broader.”

On a hopeful note, Pope Benedict concludes: “Let us feel a common responsibility toward present and future generations, especially in the task of training them to be people of peace and builders of peace.”

In this way, hopefully, younger generations will do the good that older generations refuse to attempt.

Tony Magliano writes a column on social justice for Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL 1 SM 3:3B-10, 19 Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was. The Lord called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. You called me.”

“I did not call you,” Eli said. “Go back to sleep.”So he went back to sleep. Again the Lord called Samuel, who rose and went to Eli. “Here I am,” he said. “You called me.” But Eli answered, “I did not call you, my son. Go back to sleep.” At that time Samuel was not familiar with the Lord, because the Lord had not revealed anything to him as yet. The Lord called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, “Here I am.

You called me.” Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the youth. So he said to Samuel, “Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” When Samuel went to sleep in his place, the Lord came and revealed his presence, calling out as before, “Samuel, Samuel!” Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, not permitting any word of his to be without effect.

How do I know God is speaking to me, individually, and how do I interpret God’s action in my life? Is God’s act a singular event, or is it a history? Samuel’s experience is a paradigm for a soul waking up to the divine call, and to one’s personal destiny, accompanied by God. Earlier in the story, his mother Hannah had counted Samuel an answer to her prayer in the temple for a son. She had to defend herself against the same priest Eli’s accusation that she must be drunk because her prayer was so desperate. As vindication, her prayer was answered, and Samuel was born.

When he was still very young, she brought him back to the same temple and dedicated him to the Lord (I Samuel 1:27-28). Eli knew that Samuel was a child offered to God’s service out of his mother’s gratitude. Maybe he was sorry for the way he had treated Hannah.

God’s call to Samuel – and his eventual mission as priest, prophet, adviser and anointer of David – arises out of Hannah’s anguish, and her profound devotion to God. In this account, God’s revelation to Samuel in the night is an expression of reciprocity toward Hannah, seen in answering her prayer, and then accepting the dedication of her son. God who was close to Hannah and answered her prayer now calls her son into consciousness of that relationship, “Samuel, Samuel.” So it is not a new relationship, but one that has been continuous. Samuel only had to be wakened up to his inheritance.

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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time I Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; I Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I have waited, waited for the Lord, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.

And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me.

Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.”

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!”

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know.

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 6:13C-15A, 17-20 Brothers and sisters: The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one Spirit with him.

Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 1:35-42 John was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus.

Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to him, “Rabbi” - which translated means Teacher -, “where are you staying?”

He said to them, “Come, and you will see.”

So they went and saw where Jesus was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” – which is translated Christ –. Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas” – which is translated Peter. life’s questions and desires. When they respond with a trivial answer, “Rabbi, where are you staying?” they probably can’t think of what answer they should give this stranger. Jesus invites them to join him, “Come, and you will see.” So they enter into a conversation with Jesus that lasts all day. They come away enthused, feeling they have found an answer to their spiritual questions and a religious direction they didn’t feel before: “We have found the Messiah!”

John’s Gospel describes the beginning of discipleship this way: Not as blind obedience to God’s command, but as an invitation into a mysterious conversation that gradually opens doors to what you most deeply long for.

Scripture reflection SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT

Following God’s call Does Samuel’s knowledge of his mother’s devotional history and his servant-like relationship to Eli prepare him to hear God calling him? Samuel’s ears are attuned to hear God, even though he doesn’t know it is God who is calling him. He sleeps near the ark. He has a personality that is responsive, and an emotionality that leans toward God. Quickly he learns that he should address the voice in the night directly, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

The narrator announces the future of Samuel after his experience this night.

“Samuel grew up and the Lord was with him.” The Lord had always been with him, but Samuel begins to live in fuller and fuller consciousness of that presence.

immoral person sins against his own body.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

The Gospel of John describes the disciples’ mysterious first encounter with Jesus.

The synoptic Gospels, by contrast, narrate that Jesus simply summons men who are fishing, and they leave everything to follow him. But in this Sunday’s reading, John the Baptist advises his followers to recognize Jesus as the Lamb of God. It’s a parallel to Eli telling Samuel it’s not the priest calling him, but to turn his attention to the Lord.

Lamb of God is an allusion to someone cherished and led by God, but also a vicarious sufferer and redemptive sacrifice.

Jesus asks the disciples, “What are you looking for?” It is a question laden with meaning, and an invitation to express their

Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.

For further reflection – What is the faith of your mothers, faith of your fathers or faith of your friends that you understand is a context for your own relationship with God? – If Jesus asked you, “What are you looking for?” what would be on your spiritual list?

Twenty Something

Resolve to write in the new year Benjamin Franklin was 27 when he dipped his pen in red ink, drew a seven-column, 13-row chart and resolved to master all the moral virtues.

It was Sunday and the first day of July. The last of the 13 British colonies to be founded, Georgia, was being settled, and each colony was working out its own system of self-government.

Young Franklin was ready to look within and devise his own self-governance. He broke down his day – eight hours of work, seven hours of sleep, a two-hour lunch break – and dedicated one week to each of the 13 virtues he had identified, beginning with temperance.

“I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined,” he wrote in his autobiography, “but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish.”

It is an impulse that returns each January: to systematically detect and diminish one’s faults, day by day, row by row, like yanking weeds or drilling cavities.

This month we adjust to a new year and celebrate the patron saint of writers, St. Francis de Sales, and whether the prospect of 2012 has you feeling ambitious or overwhelmed, I can think of no better response than writing.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David

McCullough owes part of his career to the fact that founding fathers like Franklin wrote prolifically.

“The loss of people writing – writing a composition, a letter or a report – is not just the loss for the record,” he told Time magazine last year. “It’s the loss of the process of working your thoughts out on paper, of having an idea that you would never have had if you weren’t [writing]…

People (I research) were writing letters every day. That was calisthenics for the brain.”

McCullough uses a 60-year-old Royal typewriter to pound out his thoughts on the page. “I’ve written everything I’ve ever had published on it,” he said. “It’s a superb example of American manufacturing.”

But writing is not just an intellectual exercise. It can also be a religious one.

I recently interviewed Mitch Albom, author of “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the bestselling memoir in history. The Detroit journalist told me that writing is an inherently spiritual endeavor. “You need to be infused with a certain spirit in order to be able to create,” he said, “and I believe all our talents come from God.” We write to make sense of our lives and our world, to examine who we have been and who we hope to become.

That’s what Anne Bradstreet did. Among the British colonists settling in America, she was the first to have a book of poetry Christina published. She chronicled her first impressions, havCapecchi ing found “a new world and new manners, at which (her) heart rose.” She wrote about her pregnancy, her granddaughter’s death and the burning of her home. In a poem honoring Queen Elizabeth, written 13 years after Bradstreet had arrived in Massachusetts, she wrote of “terra incognita” – Latin for “unknown territory,” “unexplored land.”

Stepping into 2012 with our private struggles and secret hopes, our Catholic faith and our piecemeal education, each of us faces terra incognita, and we owe it to ourselves to process it on paper. Every journey requires a journal.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

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Guest Commentary

By Brian Cahill On the night of Dec. 3, 2008, my son John Francis Cahill walked up a trail in the Santa Cruz Mountains and shot himself in the temple. A hiker found his body the following morning. He was 42 years old. He was a police officer for 19 years. He was the father of two daughters.

He was my firstborn. He was my rock.

I love all four of my children, but John and I were kindred spirits. Whether it was backpacking in the Sierras, quietly sharing a beer or discussing politics and religion, I knew our bond was an unearned gift from God. When I went through my divorce from his mother, without choosing sides, John was my “rock.” And later, when he went through his divorce, I was his “rock.” Three months before his suicide, he wrote in my birthday card, “Dad, you have been my rock this year. I am so proud to be your son.”

John sunk into deep depression after his divorce, not only about the failure of his marriage and his financial problems but also about his worry about the impact of the divorce on his youngest daughter, who was 11. He saw a counselor and he was trying to concentrate on the positives in his life. We talked often, and I thought that just as I had started a new life with Donna, he would begin to see that he could have a new life. My perception of my son did not allow me to see that he could do this.

But he was a cop, and I have learned about cops and suicide. Good cops are highly functioning, are used to bringing control out of chaos, and are willing to risk everything during a critical incident because they know the incident will come to closure. But when a cop gets depressed, these characteristics become lethal. John did not think he was functioning well in any aspect of his life.

He was wrong, but that became his reality. He told me how frustrating it was not to be in control, and he said to me a number of times, “This will never end.” He was convinced that everyone would be better off if he was gone. Thomas Joiner in “The Myths about Suicide” points out that this is a common pattern in most suicides, and that contrary to conventional wisdom, suicide is not an act of cowardice or weakness.

On the Sunday after John’s death, Donna and I went to Mass at the parish near his apartment. At the consecration, I have always prayed “My Lord and my God, if you wish, you can protect my children.” My response that day was, “Who are you? You did not protect my son! You let him die! Why did you let him lose his way?”

The first few months after John’s suicide were a blur

of panic, horror and suffocation. Later, when the shock and trauma stopped serving as a filter, the real, intense pain and loss set in. I did not realize it at the time, but I think I know when God’s grace began to work in me. Sometime in the middle of the night of Dec. 16, I was awake in bed seeing John lying on the trail. I was sobbing and Donna woke up. I told her what I was seeing. She held me and said “remember, his soul never touched the ground!”

A week later, Donna reminded me that on the night we learned of John’s death, our night prayers included Psalm 62: “… God alone is my rock and salvation ….”

My only thought then was that I had lost my rock. Donna also reminded me that on the night of John’s funeral, we read Psalm 31: “…You are my rock and my refuge….” It took many months before that would mean anything, and many months before I would become aware how often in the psalms God is referred to as “our rock.”

One month later, I was in the shower at midnight, which was a safe place for me. I was crying and telling John how much I missed him. I told him that I knew he was with God, and that he was not in pain, but I missed him so much. I heard, “Dad, I am with God, I am not in pain and I will always be close to you.” It was not an external voice that I heard, but I knew with total clarity that it was John.

A week later, again in the shower, I said to John, “I know you are with God and with me.” I heard “I am with God and with you, dad.” I asked “then why do I miss you so much?” I heard, “Because you are in the old life. You have to be in the new life, and then it won’t hurt so much.”

As an adult, John was not a person of faith. I never pushed him because I saw the way he lived his life. I always felt he was one of Karl Rahner’s “anonymous Christians,” individuals who are neither believers in God nor followers of Christ, but live their life in such a way that God’s grace is manifest in their values and their behavior. When they die, they go right to God. I believe John is with God. Father Ron Rolheiser, the spiritual writer, states, “We should not spend much time worrying about the eternal salvation of those who die by suicide. God’s love, healing, understanding and forgiveness reach into those places where we cannot.”

The pain and loss of my son’s death will always remain, but my grief is beginning to be transformed into grace, the grace of having heard John and focusing on his new life, the grace of my children and grandchildren and friends, the grace of my wife whose spirituality, strength and intuition guide me and whose love keeps me breathing,

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Suicide, grief and grace

A child’s joy Dennis Gini, 5, chases a pigeon in St. Peter’s Square after attending Pope Benedict XVI’s recitation of the Angelus at the Vatican Jan. 1. “From within the fabric of humanity, rent asunder by so much injustice, wickedness and violence, there bursts forth in an unforeseen way the joyful and liberating novelty of Christ our savior, who leads us to contemplate the goodness and tenderness of God,” the pope said at the evening prayer service New Year’s Eve. “There is no more room for anxiety in the face of time that passes, never to return.

Now there is room for unlimited trust in God, by whom we know we are loved.”

and the grace to be able to live out my life in honor of my son and with trust in God, my other “rock.”

Brian Cahill is the retired executive director of San Francisco Catholic Charities CYO. He is a volunteer suicide prevention trainer with the San Francisco Police Department and a volunteer in prison ministry at San Quentin State Prison.

Making Sense Out of Bioethics

Unconditional parental love Once I met a woman who had worked for years in fashion and modeling. Unsurprisingly, she was strikingly attractive. She was accompanied by her teenage daughter who, by contrast, was rather unremarkable to look at, maybe even a plain Jane. After spending time with them, I began to sense that the mother, whose life had largely revolved around her appearance, seemed to look down on her daughter, perhaps unconsciously, because of her average appearance.

Her daughter seemed aware of this lack of maternal acceptance, and seemed troubled and uncomfortable as she tried to compensate and please her mom in other ways.

The girl’s situation was a strong reminder to me of how important it is for every child to experience unconditional acceptance from their parents if they are to grow and mature in a healthy way. Unconditional love profoundly and beautifully molds us as human beings.

A growing number of parents in our society, however, no longer seem to hold to this key notion of unconditionally accepting their own children. If parents are told by doctors that their children might be born with physical or mental disabilities, many parents today will reject them and even yield to the temptation to end their lives through direct abortion.

I was recently discussing the Special Olympics with the father of a boy who has Down syndrome, and he remarked that when he takes his son to the local chapter, there seem to be reduced numbers of new children participating each year.

He wondered if this could be due to the expanded targeting of Down syndrome children through prenatal testing and abortion.

Most unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome, in fact, are never allowed to be born. Data from the United Kingdom indicate that between 1989 and 2006 approximately 92 percent of women chose to terminate a pregnancy with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, while in the U.S., several published studies suggest the figure may be somewhere between 87 percent and 98 percent. A great many Down syndrome children, indeed, never see the light of day.

In the face of these harsh data, the importance of explicitly repudiating the eugenic mindset that has taken hold in our society cannot be overstated. No child is perfect, but every child is precious. We need to act as a people “set apart” in our attitude to the begetting of children who may be disabled.

Historically, Catholics have always stood apart in this way.

Practically, this means overturning our culturally conditioned attitudes toward “imperfect” children, and accepting every child without preconditions. We must push back against the almost ubiquitous pressure that counsels us to

The importance of explicitly repudiating the eugenic mindset that has taken hold in our society cannot be overstated. ensure that our children are born without defects.

Bioethicist Luke Gormally argues it this way: “In part these pressures are the natural temptation to avoid the burdens of care for the handicapped .... In part, however, they are the pressures of cultural attitudes, assimilated by many Christians, toward the child.”

He continues: “For many it has become merely quaint to think of each child as a unique gift of God; children are more like planned acquisitions in our culture, acquisitions which should fit into our expectations about how our lives should go, about the ease and enjoyments that should characterize our lifestyle. A child who might threaten our ease may, if he or she is viewed as an acquisition, be thought of as a replaceable acquisition. And indeed genetic counselors will tell parents: You can terminate this pregnancy and try again for a ‘normal child.’”

A husband and wife are called to give themselves to each other completely and unreservedly, and to accept each other unconditionally in the marital embrace. Every child of theirs, whether Father Tadeusz entering the world with a handicap or not, is an Pacholczyk expression and fruit of themselves and their acceptance of each other. To reject their own progeny because of a disability is to reject each other on some level. To deny life to their own flesh and blood is also to reject an infinite gift from the giver of gifts, and to take for themselves a ruthless power over life. Meanwhile, the unconditional acceptance of a child as a gift of God flows from the true and unconditional acceptance of each other as husband and wife, even with all their spousal faults and defects.

As Gormally concludes, “Truly unreserved self-giving carries with it a commitment to unreserved acceptance of the fruit of that self-giving. The dignity of the child is only adequately recognized in the acceptance and cherishing of him just as he is.”

We do well continually to realign our thinking, so we can come to see how our children, whether “perfect” or not, are treasures and never possessions; they are gifts, and never acquisitions. They are blessings to be safeguarded and nurtured in the embrace of unconditional parental acceptance.

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D , a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Mass., is director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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Peoria bishop warns on ‘radical secularization’ Bishop Jenky criticizes some Catholic politicians

By Tom Dermody PEORIA, Ill. (CNS) – Steps toward “radical secularization” taking place in Illinois pose growing threats to the religious freedom of Catholics, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria warned in a letter designed to “raise an alarm among the faithful” at the beginning of 2012.

Bishop Jenky also said he was “especially scandalized” by Catholic politicians who willingly collaborate with efforts to exclude God and faith from the public forum.

“Many of those in office who were taught to read and write in Catholic schools now seem entirely indifferent to the consciences of those Catholics who live their faith,” wrote Bishop Jenky in a teaching document titled “Secularism.” The text was published in the Jan. 8 issue of The Catholic Post, the newspaper of the Diocese of Peoria.

Calling to mind civil union legislation and court rulings that in 2011 led Catholic Charities agencies throughout the state to dismantle their adoption and foster care programs, Bishop Jenky expressed concerns about possible future actions against Catholic health care, schools and other public ministries.

“There are certainly some in our state whose commitment to aesthetic secularism is so intense that they may well try to restrict the church’s role only to the sacristy and the sanctuary,” he wrote.

He called faithful Catholics to “more assertive action in defense of our religion and those public ministries which we hold to be the work of Christ.”

“Eventually it may come to pass that our fidelity to the Gospel of Christ and to Catholic tradition may place us in direct conflict with recent legal definitions by the state of Illinois,” wrote the bishop.

Sadly, he noted, many Catholics today choose to remain silent when their institutions are attacked or beliefs held up for scorn. Bishop Jenky warned that “the witness we either offer or withhold will have eternal consequences for each one of us.”

The document, known as a “festival letter,” continues a 10-year tradition in Peoria

by Bishop Jenky of providing extended teaching on a timely topic at the beginning of the calendar year.

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky While he names no politician and says he would never tell Catholics how to vote, Bishop Jenky’s words for Catholic office holders who would “restrict the civil liberty of the faith tradition from which they were originally sprung” were especially pointed.

“On Ash Wednesday, they like to be conspicuous with crosses on their foreheads, but the true cross of Christ seems far from their minds,” Bishop Jenky wrote. “They enjoy parties on March the 17th and wearing green sweaters but in effect are ashamed of St. Patrick’s unwavering zeal for the Catholic Christianity.

“Such people certainly need our prayers, but they should no longer be able to take our friendship or our support for granted,” said Bishop Jenky.

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New death sentences in US lowest since 1976 as national mood shifts Executions fell by more than half over a decade WASHINGTON, D.C. – New death sentences dropped to 78 in 2011, representing a dramatic decline from last year’s number of 112 and marking the first time since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 that the country has produced fewer than 100 death sentences in a single year, according to a Dec. 15 report by the Death Penalty Information Center.

Based on data as of midDecember, death sentences have declined about 75 percent since 1996, when 315 individuals were sentenced to death.

Executions have also steadily decreased nationwide, with 43 in 2011 and 46 in 2010, representing a 56 percent decline since 1999, when there were 98. Texas had 13 execuCatholic and other opponents of the death tions in 2011, and 24 in 2009, representing a 46 percent drop penalty praised Oregon over two years.

Gov. John Kitzhaber “This year, the use of the last November for death penalty continued to placing a moratorium decline by almost every meaon the use of the death sure. Executions, death sentencpenalty for the rest es, public support, the number of states with the death penalty all of his term. dropped from previous years,” said Richard Dieter, DPIC’s executive director and the report’s author. “Whether it’s concerns about unfairness, executing the innocent, the high costs of the death penalty, or the general feeling that the government just can’t get it right, Americans moved further away from capital punishment in 2011.”

Many states with the death penalty on the books, including Maryland, South Carolina, Missouri, and Indiana, had no new death sentences this year. California had a sharp drop in death sentences in 2011, decreasing by over half since 2010 when there were 29 sentences.

“The reduction of death sentences in California without tion and ordered that no others would occur during his term. an increase in homicides is evidence that public safety Kitzhaber, who oversaw two executions in the 1990s, urged can be protected without the risk of executing the inno- citizens to “find a better solution” to a system that he said cent and would allow us to utilize our resources more is arbitrary, expensive and “fails to meet basic standards wisely,” said Catherine Huston, coordinator of the Catholic of justice.”

Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty, an effort Also this year, the Gallup Poll, which measures the in the Archdiocese of San public’s support for the Francisco. death penalty, but withThe campaign is working out offering alternatives, The change shows that public on a ballot initiative to create recorded the lowest level the Savings Accountability of support and the highsafety can be protected without and Full Enforcement for est level of opposition California Act, which would in almost 40 years. Only the risk of executing the replace California’s death 61 percent supported the penalty with a sentence of life death penalty, compared innocent. in prison with no chance of to 80 percent in 1994. parole as the maximum senThirty-five percent were tence for murder. According – Catherine Huston, opposed, compared to to a Loyola Law Review 16 percent in 1994. A study by Judge Arthur L. in-depth CNN poll Catholic Campaign to more Alarcon & Paula M. Mitchell, gave respondents a choice the act would save California the death penalty End the Use of the Death Penalty between taxpayers more than $100 and life without parole for million a year. those who commit murder.

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In separate statements, the North American cardinals were quick to stress the collective rather than the personal nature of the honor.

“This is not about Timothy Dolan,” the New York cardinaldesignate said. “This is an honor from the Holy Father to the Archdiocese of New York. ... It’s as if Pope Benedict is putting the red hat on top of the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, or on home plate at Yankee Stadium.”

Cardinal-designate O’Brien said his nomination reflected the “zealous faith” of Catholics in Baltimore, and Cardinaldesignate Collins attributed his elevation to the pope’s “esteem for the role of Canada and of the Archdiocese of Toronto in the universal church.”

The latest additions will bring the United States and Canada’s share of the College of Cardinals to 22. The U.S., which is home to about 5.5 percent of the world’s Catholics, will provide almost 10 percent of the 125 cardinals under the age of 80, who are the only cardinals eligible to vote in a conclave for a future pope.

By contrast, only one of those named, Cardinal-designate Joao Braz de Aviz, comes from the country with the most Catholics, Brazil. When the cardinals are inducted in February, only seven of the 22 cardinal electors from Latin America will have been appointed by Pope Benedict.

With his latest appointments, Pope Benedict will have named more than 50 percent of the current cardinal electors, with the rest having been named by Blessed John Paul II. The pope’s latest nominations include 16 Europeans, continuing a trend in his cardinal appointments since his election in 2005.

Seven of the new appointments are Italians, which will bring that nation’s total of cardinal electors to 30 – or 24 percent – more than any other country.

None of the new cardinals are from Africa, the region where the church is experiencing its fastest growth, or Oceania.

Ten of the new cardinals are officials of the Roman Curia, whose offices by tradition often entail membership in the college. Pope Benedict, when he was known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, spent more than 23 years in the curia as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, though he had been elevated to cardinal in his previous role as archbishop of Munich-Freising, Germany.

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– Born April 8, 1939, in New York – Became Army chaplain in 1970, rising to rank of captain. Served in Vietnam from 1971-72 with 173rd Airborne Brigade and then 1st Cavalry Brigade.

– From 1973-76, studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, earning doctorate in theology.

– Appointed director of communications in New York archdiocese in 1981; helped launch Catholic New York, the archdiocesan newspaper. Two years later, named secretary to New York Cardinal Terence Cooke and later to Cardinal John J. O’Connor, his successor in New York.

– Named an auxiliary bishop of New York Feb. 6, 1996; ordained a bishop March 25.

– In 2005-06, served as papally appointed coordinator for visitation of U.S. seminaries and houses of priestly formation.

– Ordained to priesthood in 1976.

– Secretary to apostolic nunciature in Washington for five years before serving as rector of Pontifical North American College in Rome.

– In 2001, ordained to the episcopate when appointed auxiliary bishop in his native St. Louis. A year later, appointed archbishop of Milwaukee. – In 2007 lecture at North American College, said Catholics need solid preaching about Jesus, the cross and the church, and not “feelgood” spiritual advice that demands no sacrifice.

– Appointed to Archdiocese of New York in 2009 to succeed Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who retired.

– In first pastoral letter as archbishop, called on Catholics to “keep the Lord’s day holy” and reminded them that it is in receiving the Eucharist on Sunday that they sustain their faith.

Four of the new cardinals are already over the age of 80 and, therefore, ineligible to vote in a conclave. The pope uses such nominations to honor churchmen for their scholarship or other service to the church. Among the new so-called honorary cardinals is Cardinal-designate Karl Becker, a Jesuit and former theology professor at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University.

The Jesuits remain the religious order with the highest representation in the college, with eight cardinals, followed by the Salesians with six, including the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. There are seven Franciscan cardinals, divided between the Order of Friars Minor and the Capuchins, with the latter represented by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston.

Here is the list of the new cardinals: – Italian Archbishop Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, 65.

– Portuguese Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, major penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 73.

– Spanish Archbishop Santos Abril Castello, archpriest of Basilica of St. Mary Major, 76.

– Italian Archbishop Antonio Maria Veglio, president Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, who turns 74 Feb. 3.

– Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Bertello, president of the commission governing Vatican City State, 69.

– Italian Archbishop Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council for Interpreting Legislative Texts, 73.

– Brazilian Archbishop Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, 64.

– U.S. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, 72.

– Italian Archbishop Domenico Calcagno, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, who turns 69 Feb. 3.

– Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Versaldi, president of Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, 68.

– Indian Archbishop George Alencherry of ErnakulamAngamaly, major archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, 66.

– Canadian Archbishop Thomas C. Collins of Toronto, who will be 65 Jan. 16.

– Czech Archbishop Dominik Duka of Prague, 68.

– Dutch Archbishop Willem J. Eijk of Utrecht, 58.

– Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Betori of Florence, 64.

– U.S. Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, who will turn 62 Feb. 6.

– German Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki of Berlin, 55.

– Chinese Bishop John Tong Hon of Hong Kong, 72.

– Romanian Archbishop Lucian Muresan of Fagaras and Alba Iulia, major archbishop of the Romanian Catholic Church, 80.

– Belgian Father Julien Ries, expert on history of religions, 91.

– Maltese Augustinian Father Prosper Grech, biblical scholar, 86.

– German Jesuit Father Karl Josef Becker, retired professor of dogmatic theology, 83.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 8 CURSILLO: Marin Women’s Cursillo weekend at St. Anne Parish in San Francisco. Applications are being accepted now. Please contact Kathleen and Will Silverthorne of St. Rita Parish at (415) 454-5177 or visit www.marincursillo.com.

MLK, JR: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, Third Street at Jamestown Avenue, San Francisco, celebrates its Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Solidarity Mass at 10:30 a.m. Divine Word Father Chester Smith is guest homilist.

Conventual Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor, concelebrates with Deacons Larry Chatmon and Bernard O’Halloran assisting. All are welcome! Call the Church Office at (415) 468-3434.

CONCERT: Gail Archer, organist, will play at 3:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Admission is free. Visit www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 ALUMNAE DAY: Notre Dame High School Legacy Luncheon at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont, Invitations will be mailed in late April.

Contact Denise Severi at Dseveri@ndhsb.org. Reunions for class of ’87, Aug. 5, contact Heather Oda at moda@ co.sanmateo.ca.us; class of ’67 Oct. 27, contact Susan Angle at susanangle@comcast.net or (925) 680-4917.

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AUDITIONS: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale, 5:306:45 p.m. in Angelico Hall at Dominican University in San Rafael. Call (415) 482-3579 for appointment. Auditions required for new members. Singers are expected to match pitch readily, have some music reading skill and choral singing experience. Visit www.duwbc.org.

MILESTONE: The 25th Anniversary of the Interfaith Memorial Service for Victims of Abortion, 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Featured speakers include Father William Nicholas, parochial vicar at Mission Dolores Church, and Mary Ann Schwab, Project Rachel Coordinator for the San Francisco archdiocese. Light refreshments will follow in Cathedral Event Halls B and C. Contact the Interfaith Committee for Life at (415) 614-5533 or email evansv@sfarchdiocese.org.

RETREAT: “Religious Life Discernment Retreat” for single, Catholic women age 18-40 at Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. with entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Email vocations@ msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6335.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 LIFE: “Walk for Life West Coast” is at a different time this year and takes a different route. Opening Mass Jan. 21 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard is at 9:30 a.m. The rally preceding the walk begins at 12:30 p.m. at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall. Guest speakers include former abortionist Dr. Vansen Wong and Silent No More representative, Jacquie Stainaker. An information fair at Civic Center Plaza begins at 11 a.m. The Interfaith Committee for Life Prayer Service is Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. www.walkforlifewc.com. Email info@walkforlifewc.com.

CRAB FEST: Archbishop Riordan High School hosts its annual Crab Feed Dinner benefitting Crusader athletics. Enjoy delicious fresh crab, good fun, and good

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CRAB FEST: Boosters Bingo Crab Feed benefiting Marin Catholic High School, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield, 6-11 p.m. in the new Pope John Paul II Student Center. Enjoy a family style dinner of local fresh cracked crab, pesto pasta, Caesar salad, and rolls plus music by DJ and dancing. Tickets are $70 per person. Please buy your tickets by Jan. 15. Visit www.

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ON DECK: Ben Legere Memorial Scholarship fundraiser at St. Brendan Hall, 29 Rockaway Ave. at Ulloa Street, San Francisco, 6:30-10 p.m. Tickets begin at $60 per person. Event is sponsored by the San Francisco Parish and School Baseball League. Contact Jeff John at jeffjohn@sfgravel.com.

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CIOPPINO: SHCP Annual Cioppino Dinner Experience at Pier 1055. Proceeds benefit Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep students. All family and friends of SHCP are welcome. Visit shcp.edu/Cioppino.

VISIT ME: Attend two-day training in preparation for visiting youth in jail. The ministry is Comunidad San Dimas and their One Youth at a Time: Responsibility, Rehabilitation, Restoration program. Contact Julio Escobar at (415) 244-5594 or email info@comunidadsandimas.org or visit www.comunidadsandimas. org. Applicants should be 18 years of age or older.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 CONCERT: David Troiano, tenor, sings at 3:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Admission is free. Visit www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

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GROUP HELP: Separated and divorced Catholics, St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, on second and fourth Tuesdays, at 7 p.m., in the spirituality center; and in O’Reilly Hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call (415) 422-6698 or (650) 347-0701 for more information.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: Call Bob at (415) 897-0639.

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ST. PAUL: “St. Paul the Apostle” with Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California Street, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon.

Hear how the saint “prone to violence toward Christians” had a “direct encounter with truth” and “fell in love with Christ.” Admission is free but freewill donations are welcome. Call (415) 288-3844.

COME AND SEE: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael invite women from 20-40 years of age and interested in exploring a vocation in religious life to join in a day of sharing and prayer on Saturday, Feb.4. Lunch is provided. Contact Nan Brenzel, vocations promoter at (415) 257-4939 or email vocations@sanrafaelop.org.

LITURGY: Mass at 11 a.m. in Holy Cross Cemetery’s All Saints Mausoleum chapel, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma. Call (650) 756-2060 or visit www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

ROSARY: A pro-life rosary is prayed at 9 a.m. on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo. Event is sponsored by San Mateo Pro-Life.

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Counseling

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Clinical Gerontologist Care Management for the Older Adult Family Consultation –Bereavement Support

Children reflect the strains of childhood within and outside of the family

Family Systems Therapy Murray Bowen, M.D. Founder, Georgetown Family Center

A child may be suffering from: The bully at school, adolescent adjustment, A separation /divorce or a new“blended family” They are withdrawn, angry, acting out, Failing in school or just sad or too quiet.

The family gathers together to understand, support and heal.

Single parents and couples have their issues. Depression, infidelity, gambling, substance abuse , often unspoken in the family, take their toll.

Family Systems Therapy has guided families for nearly 50 years.

If you would like to talk over your family issues call for a free phone consultation.

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Licensed contractors are required by law to list their license numbers in advertisments. The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be state-licensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

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