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A prayer in Haiti A woman prays during a church service to mark the second anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 12. Reconstruction is slowly progressing, with two-thirds of the initial 1.5 million homeless housed and debris removal half complete. See story on Pages 12-13.

‘Great day for First Amendment’ High court upholds church-state separation in job case

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – The Supreme Court on Jan. 11 issued what is widely regarded as its most significant religious liberty decision in many years, maintaining there is a “ministerial exception” to anti-discrimination laws, barring suits against churches for firing an employee classified as a minister.

For the first time, the court held that such an exception to federal employment laws exists. The unanimous opinion in the case, Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, reversed a ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

“The members of a religious group put their faith in the hands of their ministers,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “Requiring a church to accept or retain an unwanted COURT, page 9

8th 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. For more on the day’s activities, turn to Page 11.

Letter objects to treating same-sex unions ‘as if they were marriage’

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – A letter signed by more than three dozen U.S. religious leaders objects to the specter of religious groups being forced to treat same-sex unions “as if they were marriage.”

“Altering the civil definition of ‘marriage’ does not change one law, but hundreds, even thousands, at once,” said the letter, “Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,” released Jan. 12.

“By a single stroke, every law where rights depend on marital status – such as employment discrimination, employment benefits, adoption, education, health care, elder care, housing, property and taxation – will change

so that same-sex sexual relationships must be treated as if they were marriage,” it said.

“That requirement, in turn, will apply to religious people and groups in the ordinary course of their many private or public occupations and ministries – including running schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other housing facilities, providing adoption and counseling services, and many others.”

Four Catholic bishops were among the 39 religious leaders signing the letter: Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, chairman of the USCCB Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage; Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport,

Conn., chairman of the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty; and Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., chairman of the USCCB Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

Other signers included top representatives of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Assemblies of God, the Church of the Nazarene and the Salvation Army, along with a collection of smaller Protestant denominations, seven pan-Christian associations including the National Association of Evangelicals, and two representatives of Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION On the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 News in brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sisters’ study closed . . . . . . . 8 Father Barron . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Pastoral Year, Part 2: Learning to preach ~ Page 3 ~ January 20, 2012

Writer spots trend in recent bishop picks ~ Page 17 ~

Where have all the heroes gone? ~ Page 18 ~

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Question Corner . . . . . . . . . 16 Datebook of events . . . . . . . 20

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By Tom Burke Carol and John Camarra celebrated 50 years married Sept. 2.

Married at San Francisco’s St. Brendan Church, family and friends joined them on the “Delta King” for a riverboat remembrance of the day.

• John Calandra, a senior at Junipero Serra High School, has hit a mark he set for himself as a Serra freshman. The plan was to raise the equivalent of a year’s tuition in raffle ticket sales for school fundraisers. John surpassed the goal with his $5,075 in sales for the school’s annual auction. It brings his raffle-rally total to almost $20,000. John’s proud folks are Susan and Phil Calandra and they’re OK with their son’s rifling the family address registries for potential ticket buyers.

John’s record sales brought him a signed jersey of the SF Giants’ Brian Wilson.

Serra principal, Lars Lund The school’s annual trivia and John Calandra contest, started by teacher, Randy Vogel, 27 years ago, was won by Hillsborough’s Crocker Middle School with St. Raymond and St. Dunstan schools right behind.

Nothing trivial about Randy’s long service at Serra though.

He is now two years past his “Jack Benny birthday” at the school – for those not familiar with the Benny gag, that’s 41 years.

• The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco announced winners of its annual essay contest for eighth grade Catholic school students Dec. 8. Winning essays were chosen from more than 100 entries said Robert Zaletel, St. Thomas More president. First place winner was Angelina Rubino of Holy Angels School in Colma, who was awarded $500 for herself and $500 for the school.

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them and have a good and kind heart so you can genuinely help others,” Angelina wrote.

• Catholic Charities CYO thanks churches throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco for their generosity in helping CCCYO make it a better Christmas for the people it serves. The youth group at Our Lady of Lebanon Parish in Millbrae collected food baskets and turkeys; St. Patrick’s choir in Larkspur adopted three immigrant families; and the religious education classes and their families at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley collected educational and fun gifts for children. Also in on the giving action were students at Holy Angels School in Colma, who took a Burmese refugee family under their wing.

• St. Isabella Parish CYO kicked off its basketball season with a special Mass on feast of the Epiphany. Father Mark Reburiano, pastor, presided and was given his own Cougars sweatshirt as coach-in-chief. “The church was packed,” Rosie Feeney told me. “Father Mark gave an inspiring homily and all the players were thrilled to be there in their uniforms.”

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Seminarian perfecting preaching through plenty of practice

By Lidia Wasowicz Editor’s note: This is the second in an ongoing series periodically reporting on Archdiocese of San Francisco seminarian Tony Vallecillo’s journey through his pastoral year at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael toward his ordination as a priest in 2014.

Four months into his pastoral year at St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael, seminarian Tony Vallecillo stands before a congregation of more than 200, translating the ancient message of the Epiphany into the contemporary language of the cinema.

Gazing at the Sunday morning worshippers, Vallecillo warns of the false sense of self-sufficiency that casts an impregnable darkness over the brutally violated heroine of the Swedish-novel-based movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

“If we’re like the girl with the dragon tattoo, caught with our own addictions, with our own compulsions, what we can do is turn to the light of God, and God can heal us from all these things that afflict us, whether it’s the Internet, pornography, gambling, shopping,” Vallecillo says.

He hopes his audience will find this interpretation of the day’s Scripture readings relevant to their daily lives.

“This is the Epiphany, the manifestation of God, the appearance of God,” he concludes, smiling and gesturing to emphasize the good news. “The light has finally come to the earth, and the light shines in the darkness. God has come to help us.”

The self-described perfectionist spent 10 hours reading, researching, ruminating and rehearsing to deliver the seven-minute “reflection,” the equivalent of the homily reserved for the ordained.

The experienced public speaker has followed the same rules – keep it short and focused; maintain eye contact; avoid using notes – and grueling format since his debut at the ambo before 15 St. Brendan parishioners at a 6:30 a.m. weekday Mass in December 2010.

“The first thing I do is pray, then take a look at the readings for the day,” Vallecillo said, noting he studies the entire Bible for a deeper understanding of individual passages.

Since he cannot read the Old and New Testaments in the original Hebrew and Greek, he compares different translations, using the New American Bible, the Revised

PASTORAL YEAR A seminarian’s immersion in parish life Standard Version Catholic Edition, the Douay-Rheims Bible and the non-Catholic New Living Translation “for a different perspective.”

He takes notes, writes summaries and studies key words, using the concordance, or verbal index, that locates all the passages where they occur.

“The word ‘trumpet’ is listed 500 times in the Bible,

The self-described perfectionist spent 10 hours reading, researching, ruminating and rehearsing to deliver the seven-minute ‘reflection.’ and the word ‘repent’ appears in three books of the Old Testament,” Vallecillo said. “Reading the word in all its contexts helps me understand what it meant at the time of Jesus, which may be different from what it means today.”

After reviewing the material, he brainstorms, writing down “even the silliest ideas,” then lets his thoughts gel with a prayer and walk or workout. He conducts a second, more focused session, seeks God’s guidance to the “pearl” of ideas and formulates a structure for the presentation.

Heeding his seminary professors, he caps the process with an analysis of commentary on the passage from Scripture scholars, then composes and rehearses his talk,

repeating it 21 times, the number experts prescribe for mastering the material.

At the start of his field trial at St. Raphael, intended to determine his affinity and aptitude for diocesan priesthood, the seminarian adhered to this grueling protocol even for the two or three-minute talks he gives at an average three daily Masses a week. Pragmatics have forced him to now limit the arduous preparation to the longer Sunday reflections.

“One of my important goals as a priest is to be an excellent preacher,” Vallecillo said.

That aim gets enthusiastic support from Father John Balleza, the pastor of St. Raphael, who has provided Vallecillo with unusually ample practice opportunities.

“Though technically only bishops, priests and deacons can preach at Mass, some dioceses, such as this one, allow seminarians to do so to gain experience,” Vallecillo said.

“My biggest surprise has been how often I’ve been permitted to preach.”

Father Balleza, who considers preaching central to the priestly calling, had only one semester of speech, in his second year of college in 1979.

“I remember getting up even as an ordained transitional deacon and feeling so nervous about it, I’d have to change my T-shirt after each Mass because I was so nervous,” Father Balleza said.

With a superior schooling in oratory and a personal penchant for the pulpit, Vallecillo doesn’t sweat his delivery.

His presentations are “well prepared, well thought out, well delivered and well received,” although he needs to “let loose of his perfectionism,” Father Balleza said.

“I have not heard one complaint from any parishioners about his preaching,” he said.

“He’s the first seminarian we’ve had, and he’s just terrific,” said Sister Patricia Boss, who has heard Vallecillo speak nearly a dozen times at the Dominican convent in San Rafael where parish priests have been taking turns saying Mass three times a week since 1889.

“He relates Scripture to contemporary times in a thoughtful, insightful and refreshing way and has a real gift of making an ancient message relevant and applicable to our 90-year-old sisters and to parish teens.”

Reanna McMillan, 16, of San Rafael, deemed Vallecillo’s SEMINARIAN, page 10

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China ‘damaged’ by priests’ jailing VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s highest-ranking Chinese official called on Beijing to release nine arrested Catholic bishops and priests, saying their continued detention “damages China’s international image.”

Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-fai, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, made his remarks in an interview published Jan. 17 by AsiaNews, a Rome-based missionary news agency.

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Eight of the arrested clergy are members of the so-called “underground” or clandestine Catholic community, whose leaders refuse to register with the Chinese government.

The government’s refusal to acknowledge the church leaders’ detention shows that the priests and bishops “disappeared for religious reasons,” Archbishop Hon said. “If these people have done something wrong, please send them to court, not to prison or isolation.”

China requires bishops to register with the government, but many refuse, believing registration forces them to operate within certain limits. Those who, for decades, refused to register and suffered persecution at the hands of communist

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Cardinal Angelo Comastri walks past a police horse during an animal blessing outside St. Peter’s Square in Rome Jan. 17.

The Italian cardinal blessed police horses, farm animals brought by an association of livestock owners, and family pets.

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VATICAN CITY – The millions of refugees and migrants in the world are not numbers but people in search of a better life for themselves and their families, Pope Benedict XVI said.

“They are men and women, young and old, who are looking for a place they can live in peace,” the pope said Jan. 15, which the Vatican marked as the World Day for Migrants and Refugees.

The pope welcomed migrants living in Rome to his recitation of the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square and told the thousands of people gathered for the midday prayer that migrants and refugees are not only recipients of the church’s outreach, but also can be agents of evangelization in their new communities.

A prayer rally to stop the separation of immigrant families takes place Jan. 28 from 2-4 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Contact Veronica Ramirez at (415) 614-5570 or email ramirezv@ sfarchdiocese.org.

Vatican urges ‘apologetics’ renewal VATICAN CITY – While sects and fundamentalist groups challenge Catholics in many parts of the world, almost all Catholics face objections to the idea of belief in general, said Legionary of Christ Father Thomas D. Williams, a professor at Rome’s Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University.

Father Williams is author of “Greater Than You Think: A Theologian Answers the Atheists About God,” written in response to the late Christopher Hitchens’ book, “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” and similar works.

Over the past 50 years, apologetics – which means “to answer, account for or defend” and once was a staple of Catholic formation – lost its general appeal because “it was considered proselytism,” an aggressive attempt to win converts that was replaced by ecumenical dialogue, he said.

It didn’t help that many Catholics started seeing all religions as equally valid paths to salvation, so they thought it was best to encourage people to live their own faith as best they could without trying to encourage them to consider Christianity.

Among the Regina Apostolorum students, he said, there is a renewed interest in apologetics – usually covered today under the heading of fundamental theology. “You can change the name, make it gentler and nicer, but you always have to give reasons for your hope and belief,” he said.

Bishops pledge abuse payments OXFORD, England – Belgium’s Catholic bishops pledged a “culture of vigilance” against future sexual abuse by priests and said guilty clergy must compensate their vic-

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Celebrating MLK Day Shirley Martin sings with the Antioch Baptist Church choir Jan. 15 during an interfaith service held in observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at St. Brigid Church in Westbury, N.Y. The civil rights leader was assassinated at age 39 in 1968, four years after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

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“We cannot repair the past, but we can take moral responsibility by recognizing sufferings and helping victims recover,” Bishops Guy Harpigny of Torunai and Johan Bonny of Antwerp, the church’s delegates for abuse, told a Brussels news conference Jan. 12.

“Above all, we ask forgiveness for the suffering we weren’t able to prevent, and we commit to treat this problem differently in future.”

Days after the announcement, Belgian authorities searched church offices in four dioceses as part of their investigation into whether church officials protected alleged abusers.

At their news conference, the bishops introduced a 52-page booklet, “A Hidden Suffering,” setting out lessons from the abuse scandal and a “global action plan” to prevent similar “contradictions of the Gospel ethic.”

They said church leaders had been “filled with confusion” at the “wave of moving accounts” of abuse and had accepted proposals by a parliamentary commission for a neutral arbitration procedure outside church structures to enable victims to seek financial damages.

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Correction A Jan. 13 story on the “Women & Spirit” exhibit at the California Museum in Sacramento misspelled the website.

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City posts ‘blatant’ pro-abortion banners

Williams added: “Through A memorial Mass for Barbara Elordi was celebrated Jan. 19 at St. Stephen Church in San Francisco. Ms. Elordi, her ministry, leadership, writvictims’ assistance coordinator for the Archdiocese of San ing, and counseling, she comFrancisco since 2005, died Jan. 12 from pneumonia. She forted, taught, touched and healed thousands of people. was 62 years of age.

Born in San Francisco, Ms. Elordi attended St. Her passing is a tremendous Robert School in San Bruno, and Mercy High School loss for the archdiocese; Barbara Elordi in Burlingame graduating in June 1967 and entered the her joyful reunion with her beloved Lord is solace.”

Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame just months later.

She taught at St. Stephen School in San Francisco and Deacon John Norris is director of pastoral ministry for also served at St Gabriel School in San Francisco. She the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Barbara was a gift,” he was a regular retreat leader for school faculty members said. “She was a very spiritual and gifted woman who had at Mercy Center in Burlingame. a marvelous capacity for being able to look In 1988, Ms. Elordi left religious life. past someone’s faults to see the goodness She earned a graduate degree in psychology of the person God created. She then worked She from Holy Names University and was later with that person using that image – not the certified as a Licensed Marriage and Family image typically seen by so many of us. This comforted Therapist. She maintained a private practice capacity enabled her to work with people that focused on counseling and grief miniswho have been abused or mistreated as well and healed try, and was part of a three-person team that as those who were grieving the passing of brought grief care training and programs to a loved one.” thousands. parishes throughout the Archdiocese of San “Barbara was never alone in her last days, Francisco for more than 20 years. as was her wish,” said a memo communicat“I was privileged to work with Barbara ing Ms. Elordi’s death from the Archdiocese Elordi over the course of my 23 years in funeral service,” of San Francisco. “She made all of her own decisions said Monica Williams, director of cemeteries for the regarding her life and her end-of-life care. In her last hours Archdiocese of San Francisco. “As a mentor, she trained a Mercy sister brought music into her room that centered me to be a minister of consolation; as a collaborator, on trust in God and his great mercy. This was Barbara’s she had hopeful plans for the role of the Department of enduring theme for most of her life. At the end, she grateCatholic Cemeteries in support of this ministry.” fully received the affirmation of close friends and family, Williams said Ms. Elordi saw “a need for a grief and the prayers of many whose lives she had touched. She support program” as well as “the commitment to form was at peace when she took her last breath and joined the it and fight for it and the tremendous gift of presence to God she has known so well.” sustain it.”

Survivors include a brother, Edward, and his wife, Toni.

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California bishops support life, family ballot measures SACRAMENTO – Proposed California ballot initiatives on parental notification for minors seeking abortion and replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment present the state’s Catholic bishops with “a unique teaching moment on life and family,” the bishops’ statewide episcopal conference announced Jan. 10.

“As Catholics, we believe and teach that we bear the image of God,” the California Catholic Conference announcement stated. “We come to life as the result of humanity’s collaboration in God’s creative work. Ordinarily, each child is the result of the loving union of a man and woman who have formed a family. The family then cradles the newborn, raises up the child and guides the young person’s development to adulthood. As citizens, we believe that government serves best when it supports families in their irreplaceable task of nurturing the next generation.

“We therefore wish to express our support for the Parental Notification Initiative, which would require a young girl aged 12-17 to include her parents in a decision to secure an abortion,” the announcement continued. “Because current law allows secrecy for ‘confidential medical services’ a young girl could have multiple abortions – at state expense – without her parents’ knowledge. Not only are her parents still responsible for her medical and emotional needs if she suffers complications from the abortion, but current policy denies them accurate information as to how best to care for her. The relationship between that girl and her parents will be forever altered because of her secret.”

The bishops also discussed the death-penalty initiative in light of Catholic teaching.

“As Catholics we hold human life as sacred,” the bishops’ statement said.

“Therefore, we also offer our support for the second of the initiatives— labeled SAFE California by its sponsors —which would offer Savings, Accountability and Full Enforcement by replacing the expensive death penalty for a capital offense with a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

We have long held that the use of the death penalty is no longer necessary to protect the community,” the bishops continued.

The bishops thus support both initiatives “as responsible efforts to bring common sense, compassion and prudent justice into California’s public policy.”

Banners with pro-abortion slogans are posted along Market Street, timed to coincide with the West Coast’s largest public pro-life demonstration, the 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast.

Life Legal Defense Foundation sent a complaint letter to the city, saying the banners are a “blatant” violation of San Francisco’s own codes which require banners posted on city utility poles to promote a specific city event of significant interest that draws more than 500 people or promote city institutions or neighborhoods.

Banners issued by the Trust Women Silver Ribbon Campaign include the slogan, “U.S. Out of My Uterus.”

“The Walk for Life West Coast is peaceful and getting bigger every year. There are those in San Francisco who cannot stand this success,” said George Wesolek, director of communications for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“The city minions who ‘approved’ these illegal banners might have thought that the public would ignore the challenge, but they are in error,” said Dana Cody, executive director of Life Legal Defense.

This is the first year the Walk for Life route is Market Street rather than along the Embarcadero to Marina Green. Last year more than 40,000 people walked.

The city issued two permits: a parade permit for Saturday, Jan. 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. including Justin Herman Plaza, and an event by Walk for Trust/Women’s Silver Ribbon Campaign on Friday, Jan. 20, 6-8 p.m. for a portion of Market Street., the San Francisco Chronicle reported Jan. 17, but a Silver Ribbon spokesman said the demonstration would be Sunday.

Gloria Chan, Department of Public Works spokesman, said Jan. 17 that the department just learned the date of the event had changed. “DPW recently learned about this change in date of event and is looking into how and if this change violates conditions of the banner permit,” Chan said.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – A three-year study of U.S. women religious called for by the Vatican has been completed with the final comprehensive report recently sent to Rome.

No details of the findings in what the church calls an apostolic visitation were released by Mother Mary Clare Millea, superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the apostolic visitator appointed by the Vatican to undertake the study.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, confirmed Jan. 10 that reports had been received by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life “and is now studying them.”

“At this time, it is premature to expect comments from the congregation,” he said.

The Vatican spokesman said the congregation is expected “to make known its evaluation of the results of the visit” at some future date.

The apostolic visitation office in Hamden, Conn., did not respond to several requests for an interview.

In a Jan. 9 press release, the visitation office said a comprehensive report was sent to Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, the congregation’s secretary. In addition, the release said, Mother Clare had submitted most of the reports on each of the nearly 400 religious congregations in the U.S. and continues to work on completing them by spring, the release said.

Mother Clare said in the release that the visitation “generated widespread interest.”

“The attention to it has resulted in a renewed appreciation for the role of religious in the church and society and has increased dialogue and mutual awareness among the various communities in the United States,” she said. “These tangible benefits of the visitation will continue to be realized.”

The visitation was initiated in December 2008 by Cardinal Franc Rode, then prefect of the congregation who has since retired. He cited the desire to learn why the number of members in U.S. religious communities had declined since the late 1960s and to look at the quality of life for some 67,000 women religious as prime reasons for the investigation.

As the process began, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents about 95 percent of U.S. women religious, questioned what its officials considered a lack of full disclosure about what motivated the visitation. They also objected to the plan to keep the orders from seeing the final reports.

Mercy Sister Mary Winifred Ceravola receives Communion as she marks her 50th anniversary as a nun during a Mass for religious jubilarians at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, N.Y., in September 2011.

A three-year study of U.S. women religious called for by the Vatican has been completed with the final comprehensive report recently sent to Rome.

– The visitation process began with meetings with 127 superior generals.

– Next, the orders were sent questionnaires on the life and governance of their communities.

– Visitor teams then met with congregational leaders as well as individual members of orders.

– The process was initiated in 2008 by Cardinal Franc Rode, then prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

He cited the desire to learn why membership in U.S. religious communities had declined since the late 1960s and to look at the quality of life for some 67,000 women religious.

– The Leadership Conference of Women Religious questioned what its officials considered a lack of full disclosure about what motivated the visitation. They also objected to the plan to keep the orders from seeing the final reports.

– Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, an American, who became congregation secretary in 2010, told Catholic News Service last August that the congregation would review all of the reports and that its responses to the religious communities would be marked by dialogue and would be a step toward healing.

The decision to conduct the visitation, combined with the subsequent announcement that the LCWR would undergo a doctrinal assessment by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, cast a shadow over the work of women religious.

As the apostolic visitation and doctrinal assessment were carried out, both were conducted with little formal comment from the parties involved. Privately, however, some sisters and leaders of religious orders questioned why the two inquiries were being undertaken and they expressed concern that their ministries, often among people on the margins of society, were being misunderstood by church leaders.

Cardinal Rode subsequently said in a statement released by the Vatican that he hoped the visitation process would encourage vocations and “assure a better future for women religious.”

In an interview on Vatican Radio after the statement’s release, Cardinal Rode said some media presented the investigation “as if it were an act of mistrust of American female religious congregations or as if it were a global criticism of their work. It is not.”

Cardinal Rode also asked the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to help cover the cost of the visitation, which was estimated at $1 million.

The visitation process began with meetings between Mother Clare and 127 superior generals. It was followed up with the distribution of a questionnaire to the religious orders. Topics covered were related to the life and operation of the orders: identity; governance; vocation promotion, admission and formation policies; spiritual life and common life; mission and ministry; and finances.

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■ Continued from cover minister, or punishing a church for failing to do so, intrudes upon more than a mere employment decision. Such action interferes with the internal governance of the church, depriving the church of control over the selection of those who will personify its beliefs.”

The court stopped short of saying whether the exception would apply to nonministerial employees and left open the possibility that the Michigan Lutheran school teacher who sued might have a case under another legal argument. The court also pointedly avoided setting boundaries for who can be considered a religious employee, concluding only that the teacher who claimed she had been wrongly fired, Cheryl Perich, a teacher at Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School, a part of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, fit the definition.

The decision was quickly hailed by advocates for the Catholic Church, which had been among entities urging the court to support Hosanna-Tabor Church; the school has been closed for several years.

Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, called it “a great day for the First Amendment.”

Texas bishops praise ruling to uphold sonogram law AUSTIN, Texas (CNS) – Texas Catholic bishops applauded the Jan. 11 decision of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals allowing the state to enforce a sonogram law requiring abortion providers to offer women the opportunity to view the ultrasound images of their unborn children.

“Providing mothers access to sonograms informs them about the risks and complications associated with abortion,” said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.

“These consultations save lives by educating mothers who may not realize that the child in their womb is exactly that – a unique, irreplaceable human life.”

The ruling by a three-judge panel of the appeals court ruling overturned a U.S. District Court judge’s temporary injunction against enforcing the measure that requires doctors who perform abortions to show sonograms to patients, and describe the images and fetal heartbeat.

The state’s bishops made the sonogram law a high priority during the previous legislative session because they said it would help mothers recognize the humanity of their unborn children and choose life.

Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio said he was particularly impressed by Chief Judge Edith Jones’ recognition of the state’s legitimate interests in protecting life. “The court today acted to protect the smallest voices of those whom God already knows, alive in their mothers’ wombs,” he said.

In a statement issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Lori said the ruling makes clear “the historical and constitutional importance of keeping internal church affairs off limits to the government – because whoever chooses the minister chooses the message.”

Anthony Picarello, general counsel and an associate general secretary for the USCCB, said the decision “affirms the common-sense proposition that religious schools must be free to choose religion teachers based on religion, without interference from the state.”

William Bassett, a retired professor of law at the University of San Francisco, called the ruling “the premiere opinion of the Supreme Court in recent times on religious freedom for the churches and for Bishop William Lori church organizations.” He said he considered it “remarkable” that the decision was unanimous, with three concurrences. He also said he believes the high court was prudent in simply addressing the case before it without elaborating on nonministerial employees.

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Perich taught largely secular subjects but did spend 45 minutes a day on religious matters. Justice Roberts noted that and wrote, “The issue before us, however, is not one that can be resolved with a stopwatch.” Bassett agreed.

“She was ordained,” said Bassett. “She did all kinds of things that are outside the realm of just a purely secular activity.

She was a commissioned teacher. In Lutheran theology, she had accepted a call to this as her vocation,” he said.

Indeed, the school argued that because she was a “called” minister of the church, the decision to fire her was protected by the First Amendment.

Roberts noted that the court was expressing an opinion only about Perich, as a minister, and her church’s decision to fire her.

“We hold only that the ministerial exception bars such a suit,” he wrote. “We express no view on whether the exception bars other types of suits.... There will be time enough to address the applicability of the exception to other circumstances if and when they arise.”

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Francesca McMillan, 18, of San Rafael, praised the lack of “any unnecessary embellishments – usually, homilies take so long to make a point, you forget what it is by the time it’s made.”

“The point didn’t hit home” for her father, Lorne McMillan, and reference to the controversial movie “clicked off” any interest for Mary Arlot.

Vallecillo had recognized the risk but proceeded in hopes of capturing attention with a “refreshing and relevant” treatment of the topic.

The tactic has paid off in his previous use of “real-life examples that show how to relate the Scriptural message to our world,” said Ann Huseman.

One that struck a chord with Peigin Barrett, 69, came from newspaper headlines announcing the return of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard from 18 years in captivity. During all that time, mother and daughter held on to a belief in their ultimate reunion.

“When I left church, I thought, ‘My God! That’s our faith, that’s how every day we need to renew our belief in God,” Barrett said.

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Washington, DC, March for Life marks anniversary of Roe v. Wade WASHINGTON (CNS) – Tens of thousands of people from across the United States are expected to gather in the nation’s capital Jan. 23 for this year’s March for Life in Washington with the theme: “Unite on the life principles to overturn Roe v.

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The night before the rally, March for Life organizers are planning a mini-rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House. They are also sponsoring a youth rally that night at a Washington hotel.

A capacity crowd of about 20,000 pilgrims is expected to fill the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life, which begins with a Jan. 22 opening Mass. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will be the principal celebrant and homilist.

Marchers are invited to participate in various services, including a rosary, confessions, hourly holy hours, night prayer and morning prayer, concluding with a morning Mass celebrated by New York Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, USCCB president.

For the 16th year, the Archdiocese of Washington will sponsor its annual pro-life youth Mass and rally the morning of Jan. 23. The popularity of the event prompted the archdiocese to hold this event in two sports venues last year – the Verizon Center and the D.C. Armory – to accommodate a crowd totaling about 28,000.

The event includes a concert, confessions, praying the rosary, and Mass, before most of the crowd heads to the annual March for Life.

After the March for Life the rallying spirit will continue with several pro-life organizations sponsoring the National Pro-Life Youth Rally near the Supreme Court.

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March for Life participants make their way up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court building in Washington Jan. 24, 2011. Tens of thousands of people from across the United States are expected to gather in the nation’s capital Jan. 23 for this year’s March for Life.

8th annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 21 The 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast is Saturday, Jan. 21, and begins with a 12:30 p.m. rally at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco. The walk down Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza begins at 1:30 p.m.

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Two years after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, 750,000 Haitian children are back at school, 80,000 in 193 seismic centers built to date by UNICEF, the church news agency Fides reported Jan. 10.

The United Nations organization has also started 314 therapeutic feeding programs for 15,000 children and has improved health conditions in 95 rural communities.

The situation is slowly improving countrywide in access to health care, education and food, although the unhealed scars of devastated infrastructure highlight the challenges faced by Haiti’s newly installed government as it struggles to rebuild.

What’s more, a half-million Haitians are still living in 800 refugee camps. Before the earthquake, about 77 percent of Haitians lived in rented houses, so most of them have nowhere to go.

The recovery is particularly trying for women and girls.

“Women and girls in post-earthquake Haiti face additional hardships: lack of access to family planning, prenatal and obstetric care; a need to engage in survival sex to buy food for themselves and their children; and sexual violence,” Human Rights Watch said in a report last August. “The crisis is reflected in pregnancy

rates in displaced person camps that are three times higher than in urban areas before the earthquake, and rates of maternal mortality that rank among the world’s worst.”

On Jan. 12 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement honoring the victims of the 7.0 earthquake. Some 300,000 people died, including 103 United Nations personnel.

Ban spoke to Haitian President Michele Martelly by phone, pledging the U.N.’s support as the country rebuilds, Voice of America reported.

The good news is that nearly a million people have left the camps, and nearly half of the 10 million cubic meters of debris generated by the earthquake has been cleared, the humanitarian news service AlertNet said in a report citing International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies data.

“The progress made in re-housing the displaced population over the last 12 months is encouraging,” the AlertNet report said.

“But this progress must be maintained and there are currently not enough housing solutions planned to meet the need.”

The U.S. church has contributed to the recovery effort through Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and

communities that would be flooded, and bishops in Peru and Brazil spoke out in defense of indigenous people’s land rights.

In a region that has been strongly marked by civil wars and IMA, Peru (CNS) – The rocky road to Milagros dictatorships in the past half-century, governments in some Echevarria’s flimsy wooden house is lined with plascountries are still too weak to defuse tensions over such issues tic barrels. Several times a week, when a bright blue before they erupt into conflict. tank truck rumbles up the hill to fill the barrels, she and her Weak governments also contribute to the problems of drug neighbors must lug buckets of water up the steep slope to trafficking, violence and organized crime that have spread their homes. through Mexico, Central America and Colombia and are gainEchevarria has worked since she was 13, mostly cleaning ing a stronger foothold in South America. other people’s homes. She finished high school and hoped to Last year, Latin America registered the most murders of study accounting, but the birth of her daughter, Lucero, put church workers, both religious and lay, with seven killed in her plans on hold.

Colombia, five in Mexico and one each in Nicaragua, Brazil Now 25, she earns just more than $200 a month cleaning and Paraguay. local government offices at night, returning in the morning to Problems of “security, drug trafficking and violence are the dusty neighborhood on the edge of Lima, where no one likely to continue, despite the best government efforts,” said has a water hookup and many lack electricity. Although Peru’s Richard Jones, Catholic Relief Services’ deputy regional direceconomy has grown by more than 5 percent annually for most tor for global solidarity and justice. of the past decade, Echevarria feels the boom has passed her by.

Countries such as El Salvador, Honduras While immigration, organized crime and Guatemala have become transit routes and protests against huge development for drug shipments to the United States. El projects grab headlines around Latin Church leaders Salvador had 4,300 murders in 2011, the America as 2012 begins, little progress highest number since the civil war ended will be made unless underlying povwarn that little will in 1992, although the murder rate there was erty and inequality are addressed, said still lower than in neighboring Honduras.

Peruvian Archbishop Pedro Barreto change in South In Mexico, where drug-related Jimeno, who heads the social justice comviolence may have claimed as many mission of the Latin American bishops’ as 40,000 lives in the past five years, council, or CELAM. America until the bishops wrote a pastoral letter and While poverty rates in Latin America pledged action by the church, turning to have crept downward in recent years, underlying poverty their Colombian counterparts for advice. countries that are rich in natural resources Mexican bishops have been “very outmust ensure that the economic benefits and inequality are spoken that they need to address violence of industries such as mining, oil and gas in terms of the Gospel,” Jones said. reach people like Echevarria, who still addressed.

Observers worry that drug money is lack basic services, Archbishop Barreto increasingly influencing elections and told Catholic News Service. governments throughout the region.

“The church continues to criticize the “People talk about narco communities, especially in the dominant economic system,” Archbishop Barreto said, noting Peten,” a vast rural region of farms and forests in Guatemala, that at the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin bordering Mexico, where drug lords install water and electricity America and the Caribbean, held in Brazil in 2007, the region’s service or pave roads, Jones said. prelates called for a new economic model based on the social The security threat to rural residents from organized crime doctrine of the church. and violence is exacerbated by severe storms, which have hit Such a model would include more dialogue among governCentral America and Colombia especially hard in the past ment leaders, industry executives and communities about large several years, destroying crops and displacing families. The development projects such as mines, oil drilling, dams and disasters cut into food supplies, pushing prices up. highways that would displace local residents or have a sig“There are serious food crisis issues on the horizon if govnificant impact on the environment, Archbishop Barreto said. ernments don’t do something,” Jones said. “I don’t see major In recent months, protests have flared over the Belo Monte changes if they don’t create more jobs.” dam, which is already under construction on the Xingu River Latin America and the United States are increasingly linked in northern Brazil; a gold mine in northern Peru; and the pavby shared problems – from food shortages, which spur migraing of a highway through a Bolivian national park that is also tion, to money laundering and trafficking in drugs, guns and home to indigenous communities. people. Archbishop Barreto called for stronger bonds between “There is a need for honest, transparent dialogue,” churches in the two regions.

Archbishop Barreto said. “In these social conflicts, there is a “We have to get over the idea that anything that doesn’t lack of credibility on both sides. The company does not trust affect me personally isn’t my problem,” he said. “We have to the people and the people don’t trust the company.” work hard on global solidarity.”

Those and similar battles are likely to continue during the He added that church workers in both regions must encouryear ahead. Brazil, where demand for electricity is expected age young people to become involved in social justice issues. to rise by more than 50 percent over the next decade, has “The future of the world depends on the young people of expressed interest in financing and building hydroelectric today,” he said. “If they do not learn to dialogue for justice and dams in neighboring countries, including Peru and Ecuador. peace, the future will be much more uncertain.”

The projects in Peru stalled after protests by from indigenous

By Barbara J. Fraser

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500,000 homeless

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After work as a janitor she goes home to a neighborhood with no running water: Peru’s economic boom has passed her by

Milagros earns $200 a month

Milagros Echevarria stands outside her home on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Jan. 8. Benefits of Peru’s booming economy are slow to trickle down to the shantytown where she lives and works, earning just over $200 a month cleaning local government offices at night.

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Two years after the earthquake, Haiti’s rebuilding progresses but a half-million people remain in camps development agency. For example, CRS has helped move 460 families from a camp into long-term housing since November under a pilot program initiated by Called Ann Ale Lakay, Creole for Let’s Go Home.

The program is designed to address a variety of needs in addition to long-term housing by preparing camp dwellers frustrated by months of living in squalid conditions for a return to some sense of normalcy. The program incorporates two professional psychologists and 12 social workers to guide earthquake survivors in resolving conflict, managing money and overcoming the sense of loss that lingers two years after disaster disrupted their lives.

Sonya Mallebranche, 51, finds her new three-room home far better than living in a tattered tent in the fetid, dusty camp known as Petite Place Cazeau alongside hundreds of other displaced people.

“I’m so much more comfortable. Now I can sleep peacefully.

Now I have my family with me,” Mallebranche told Catholic News Service Jan. 5 via cell phone from her new home.

“I am really happy to have that house,” she said through a translator.

The resettlement program has put a small dent in the camp population in and around Port-au-Prince.

“We realized there was a lot of fear about moving out of the camps, about restarting their lives after the earthquake,” she said.

“People were concerned about how to go about returning to a normal life.”

But Luke King, CRS country director in Haiti, said he is seeing more urgent efforts by various agencies working with the government to provide permanent housing.

“The government has gotten very involved in this return process as well,” he said. “There’s a lot of momentum at this time to help people return home.”

Mallebranche said she now lives in more peaceful surroundings, giving her plenty of time to play with her grandsons, a 15-month-old and twin 3-year-olds. The daily headaches she attributed to the excessive heat in the camp have disappeared. And the putrid smell of the camp that she said forced her to leave her tent during daylight hours is gone.

“I’m feeling really good,” she said.

– Catholic San Francisco, Catholic News Service

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Young people stand in the schoolyard of the Academy for Peace and Justice while waiting to sing the national anthem in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 9. Jan. 12 will mark the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people, destroyed numerous schools, crippled infrastructure and left 1.5 million homeless.

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Clerical freedom to hire dates to Magna Carta, says top US jurist WASHINGTON (CNS) – The religious freedom history lesson that Chief Justice John Roberts gives in writing the Supreme Court’s Jan. 11 unanimous ruling affirming a “ministerial exception” to federal employment laws goes back to the Magna Carta, the English law created in 1215.

The decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC held that fired teacher Cheryl Perich could not sue under federal disability discrimination laws, because the Michigan Lutheran school where she worked considered her a “called” minister.

In getting to the ruling, Roberts described the judicial and legislative path to the recognition of a ministerial exception, beginning with one of the three provisions of the Magna Carta that remains on the books today: a grant of freedom to the Church of England: “We have granted to God, and by this our present charter have confirmed, for us and our heirs forever, that the Church of England shall be free, and shall have all her whole rights and liberties inviolable,” says the Magna Carta. “We have

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By Patricia Zapor

The U.S. Supreme Court justices gather for an official picture at the court in Washington in 2010. Chief Justice John G. Roberts is seated front row center.

granted also, and given to all the freemen of our realm, for us and our heirs forever, these liberties underwritten,

to have and to hold to them and their heirs, of us and our heirs forever.”

Roberts drew a line through the history of colonial America’s efforts to establish – or to pointedly not establish – state religions. In colonial Virginia, for instance, the governor had the power to induct ministers presented to him by church vestries.

When the first Catholic bishop in the United States, John Carroll of Maryland, asked the government who should be appointed to manage the church’s affairs in the newly acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase, Secretary of State James Madison was clear, Roberts explained.

“The selection of church ‘functionaries’ was an ‘entirely ecclesiastical’ matter left to the church’s own judgment,” Roberts wrote.

Madison, he said, explained that the “scrupulous policy of the Constitution in guarding against a political interference with religious affairs” prevented the government from rendering an opinion on the “selection of ecclesiastical individuals.”

Guest Commentary

A persecuted church and its heroes A recent survey has indicated something that should lift the hearts of Christians everywhere, namely, that the fastest growing religion on the planet is Christianity. This explosive growth is on particularly clear display in Africa and Asia, where churches and seminaries can’t be built fast enough to accommodate the need. It is especially important that we in the West become cognizant of this state of affairs, for with the rise of secularism and the falloff in church attendance in Europe, Canada, Australia and America, we can far too easily assume that Christianity is in a state of permanent decline. Au contraire, in point of fact.

But other studies carry the dark truth that the fastest growing religion in the world is also the most persecuted. Again, this might surprise many in the post-9/11 West, who presume that Islam is the religion most in danger and hence most in need of special protection. But all over the world, and particularly in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Christians are by far the most threatened religious group. Indeed, Vatican research shows that 75 percent of those killed around the world for religious reasons are Christians.

Who can forget the horrendous attack on a Catholic church in Baghdad last fall? Islamist militants burst into the church while Mass was in progress and proceeded to open fire indiscriminately on men, women, and children. As they finished up their grisly work, the killers found themselves trailed by a toddler who asked plaintively, “Why are you doing this?” In time, they turned on the child and killed him. In the wake of that assault, huge numbers of Catholics and other Christians left the country. Estimates are that in the last 10 years somewhere between 600,000 and a million Christians have been forced to flee Iraq. In Saudi Arabia, no Christian is allowed to worship publicly, and no church of any kind can be built. Many were cheered by the Arab Spring, which saw the expulsion of dictators from Libya, Yemen and Egypt and the shaking of the Assad regime in Syria, but Christians in those countries are far from encouraged. The secularist proclivities of the dictators at least allowed for a rough toleration of non-Islamic religions; thus the collapse of the tyrants has made possible the tyranny of the

Global Christianity

Islamic majority, resulting in an aggressive campaign against Christianity. Just a few weeks ago, Egyptian Copts – members of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world – were publicly assaulted in the streets of Cairo by representatives of the Muslim brotherhood. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that an Egyptian Christian mother of two young girls was blithely informed by her Muslim physician that, according to the prescriptions of Shariah, religiously based Islamic law, her daughters would have to be circumcised. Convinced that the government would no longer protect them, mother and children fled the country.

Just days ago, Nigeria’s president declared a state of emergency in sections of his country, due to a series of unprovoked

Christianity, the fastest growing religion in the world, is also the most persecuted. attacks on Christian churches. Boko Haram, a militant Islamist sect, has claimed credit for the assaults, including attacks on Christmas Day that left 42 people dead. One of the most troubling stories of Christian persecution comes out of Pakistan, where fierce anti-blasphemy laws are in effect. A Christian woman named Asia Bibi was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of speaking against the prophet Muhammad. Despite protests from around the world, she was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Currently she languishes in prison, awaiting her execution and praying for her jailers.

Now God knows that Christians have far from a spotless record when it comes to tolerating religious diversity, but the fact remains that as the year 2012 commences, Christians are, by far, the most victimized religious group in the world. From Pakistan to Nigeria, from Egypt to Iraq, ordinary Christians

Countries with the lowest percentages of Christians are in North Africa and Asia.

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routinely risk their lives simply by declaring their faith and worshipping according to their rights.

They are walking in the footsteps of great martyrs of the tradition, from Stephen, Peter, and Paul Father to Charles Lwanga and Edith Stein. And this leads Robert Barron me to declare persecuted Christians as people of the year.

At this point, I will make a confession. This reflection was prompted by a piece published by the editors of the National Catholic Reporter. In their lead article, they declared Sister Elizabeth Johnson, a theologian from Fordham University, as the “person of the year” in the Catholic Church. What was the reason for this designation? Sister Elizabeth, they explained, had been unfairly “persecuted” by the bishops of the United States who dared to question the theological integrity of one of her many books. The bishops did not excommunicate Sister Elizabeth, or strip her of her teaching position, or declare her not to be a Catholic theologian. They simply were critical of aspects of one of her books. And for this, a tenured professor at Fordham, a woman lionized by the academic establishment, is declared a persecuted victim. Give me a break. The 1970sera narrative of brave progressive theologian fighting against the repressive church is tired and utterly unilluminating. Far more compelling is the story of the truly brave souls who are risking livelihood, life and limb in order to declare their faith in Jesus Christ.

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

World Christianity’s spread and strength A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life found Christians to be so geographically widespread that no single continent or region can claim to be the faith’s center. There are 2 billion Christians today, up from 600 million in 1910, the study found. Christians make up about the same portion of the world’s population in 2010 (32 percent) as they did a century ago (35 percent). The share of world Christians living in Europe and the Americas is 63 percent, down from 93 percent in 1910. The number of Christians grew significantly in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.

Brazil, with 134 million Catholics, has the world’s largest Catholic population, which totals more than the number of Catholics in Italy, France and Spain combined. Other countries with the highest percentages of Catholic populations include: Mexico, the Philippines and the United States. The 10 countries with the largest number of Catholics contain more than half of the world’s Catholics.

The rest of the global Christian population breaks down to: Protestants 37 percent; Orthodox Christians 12 percent; other Christians such as Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses 1 percent.

– Catholic News Service

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Bishop’s resignation So (Los Angeles Auxiliary) Bishop Zavala has been perpetrating a fraud for decades, lead-

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ing two lives, fathering children, not giving the mother the benefit of marriage and yet his praises are sung in the news article as if he is not resigning in disgrace (“Bishops Zavala resigns after disclosing he is father of two children,” Jan. 13). It is a disgrace to deceive so many for so long and to inflict such hurt on the mother of his children and on the children too. So why is the Archdiocese of Los Angeles helping with the bishop’s children’s college expenses? Is Bishop Zavala drawing money from the archdiocese or from an archdiocese retirement fund or from some other church fund as well? Let him get a

job in the world and support his children like a responsible “honest” man ought to do.

Edmond McGill Novato

A parent’s grief As a parent I can only imagine the grief that Brian Cahill has had to carry since the suicide of his son. I do agree that we should not “worry” about the eternal salvation of our departed loved ones although we should pray for them.

At Mass and at home praying for our departed loved ones regardless of how they lived their lives I believe helps bring peace and grace to our lives. As Our Lady of Fatima implored the little seers in Portugal, “Pray, pray, pray!”

Brendan Frost San Francisco

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(“Breath of life”) on Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton calling us to environmental stewardship as part of our pro-life stance as Catholics. The author of a letter in the Jan. 13 issue (“Science and climate”) got hung up on differences in interpretation of how much humans are responsible for global warming. It would be a great loss to get stuck in the argument about who/what is to blame. This is the time to learn together how we can work in harmony with creation’s life support systems. Clean air, clean water, and healthy soil are critical for all life on earth – and human choices and actions do make a difference.

The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, at http://catholicclimatecovenant.org, is an excellent resource for Catholics. It provides Catholic teachings, resources for learning and understanding, and stories of creative responses of parishes and LETTERS, page 18

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Pro-life and climate Thank you for the Dec. 16 article

Looking Around

Father William J. Byron, SJ Recently, a lawyer friend asked me whether forgiveness can, in any way, be a form of justice.

I think it can, but I’m not sure how to explain it.

The healing power of forgiveness cannot be overemphasized. Whether given or received, and regardless of whether it comes from God or another human being, forgiveness heals.

Jim Wallis, pastor of Sojourners Community in Washington and longtime editor of Sojourners magazine, says that “the idea of forgiveness often seems abstract and ‘religious’ in an otherworldly kind of way. But in fact forgiveness is very practical and necessary for human life on the planet to survive.

“When we refuse to forgive, the cycle of vengeance, retaliation and violence just escalates. ... It is only genuine forgiveness that breaks the cycle of destruction and opens up new possibilities.”

The Sermon on the Mount, which contains some firm instruction against retaliation, addressed the issue of forgiveness in the context of worship. Your refusal to forgive would make you unworthy to stand before the altar.

“If you bring your gift to the altar and there recall that your brother or sister has anything against you, leave your gift at the altar, go first to be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift” (Matthew 5:23-24).

We Christians should measure our performance in this regard against the standard embodied in the Lord’s Prayer: “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Realize that, in making this prayer, we are asking to be forgiven on a contingent basis.

We are declaring ourselves willing to be forgiven only if we forgive others. This is a remarkable standard. No one is perfect, of course, but no one can dodge that standard; it will be there to challenge us every day of our lives.

It takes a large-hearted person to decide to forgive; by the act of forgiving the heart of the forgiver becomes even larger.

Forgiveness fastens friendships. Anyone interested in contributing to the return of loyalty to everyday life might simply look for opportunities to forgive.

And anyone who can count should take a moment to calculate in practical terms the value of the lesson that is available to all in these words of writer Merle Shain: “There is no way to hate another that does not cost the hater, no way to remain unforgiving without maiming yourself.”

Most of us are familiar with Alexander Pope’s dictum: “To err is human, to forgive, divine,” and we’ve often heard that it is wise to “forgive and forget,” although Shakespeare put that proposition the other way around on the lips of King Lear: “Pray you now, forget and forgive.”

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Is there a link between forgiveness and justice?

Tucson tragedy remembered A vigil at the University of Arizona campus in Tucson Jan. 8 memorialized the first anniversary of a shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz., that left six people dead and wounded 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

None of us will ever be divine, but we can imitate divinity in forgiving. We may never be able to forget, but we can act as if we have forgotten whenever we forgive from the heart.

In either case, true forgiveness is the restorative measure, the transforming decision that puts you on a brand new page. And that, it seems to me, has to have some relationship to justice.

However you understand justice, it has to do with the promotion and protection of right relationships. Biblical justice refers to right relationships with God. Economic justice refers

to right relationships with others in the marketplace. Legal justice looks to right relationships under the law.

Forgiveness, it seems to me, is an instrument capable of forging all right relationships.

Jesuit Father William J. Byron is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. His column is carried

by Catholic News Service.

The Catholic Difference

Breaking bad liturgical habits II As I remarked late last year, the introduction of the third edition of the Roman Missal and the new translations of the liturgical texts offer the entire English-speaking church an opportunity to correct some bad liturgical habits that have developed over the past four decades. The point of these corrections is neither liturgical prissiness nor aesthetic nostalgia; there is no “reform of the reform” to be found in lace surplices, narrow fiddleback chasubles, and massive candles. The point of correcting bad habits is to celebrate the Novus Ordo of Paul VI with dignity and beauty, so that Mass is experienced for what it is: our participation in the liturgy of saints and angels in heaven – where, I am quite confident, they don’t sing treacly confections like “Gather Us In.” Note to celebrants (not “presiders”): If you’ve fallen into the bad habit of concluding Mass by some variant of “May almighty God bless us all, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” please cease and desist. You were not ordained to the ministry of word and sacrament to invoke, generically, the divine blessing, which anyone can (and should) do before and after meals; you were given the power to confer the divine blessing by being configured to Christ in holy orders. Catholics who embrace the truth of Catholic faith do not enjoy clericalism. But they do not find comfort, much less evangelical leadership, from priests who imagine they can avoid clericalism by unwittingly denying the truth of their own sacramental vocation and its distinctiveness.

Extraordinary ministers of holy Communion: The

same admonition applies to you, but in a different way – you must not offer a “blessing,” in any form, to pre-first Communion children who join their parents in the Communion procession.

Extraordinary ministers are not junior grade clergy or petty officers; no one outside of those in holy orders should “bless” in a liturgical context. Again, this is not a matter of prissiness, and still less one of clericalism; it is a matter of doctrinal and theological precision – which, if lost, can damage the celebration of the Mass. Extraordinary ministers of the holy Communion are vastly overused in U.S. parishes, a practice that risks of signaling that the Mass is a matter of the self-worshipping community celebrating and feeding itself. But the problem of the ordinary use of what is supposed, after all, to be “extraordinary” can be addressed another time. For now, pastors must make it clear that no one blesses children during the Communion procession except bishops, priests, and deacons, i.e., those in holy orders.

Music directors and pastors: As a general rule, sing all the verses of a processional or recessional hymn. Good hymns have a textual integrity that is lost when we sing hymn excerpts rather than hymns. It doesn’t take that much more time to sing all six verses of “For All the Saints” or all four verses of “Crown Him with Many Crowns”; cutting such great texts by two-thirds or one-half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler – and there is no room for filler in the Mass.

The congregation: Sacred space is different from other

space; the inside of the church is different from the narthex (not “gathering space”). Thus we should all break the bad habit of commencing the post-Mass conversation immediately after the conclusion of the George Weigel recessional hymn or organ postlude. Wait until you leave the interior of the church before beginning to chat with the neighbors. If there is a choral postlude, chatting over it is an insult to the choir, which has worked hard to prepare something beautiful for God; if there is only an organ postlude (with or without a recessional hymn), chatting over it is an insult to the organist. Thirty seconds of silence after Mass are no bad thing.

And while we’re on the subject of the congregation, might we all reconsider our vesture at Sunday Mass? Dressing in one’s “Sunday best” was not an affectation; it was an acknowledgment of our baptismal dignity. Let’s reclaim that dignity and its expression in our “Sunday best.”

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JONAH JON 3:1-5, 10 The word of the Lord came to Jonah, saying: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.” So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the Lord’s bidding.

Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; it took three days to go through it. Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed, “ when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth. When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9.

R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.

Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; In today’s Gospel, Jesus announced the imminent appearing of the kingdom. Those words are a brief summary of the first sermon that Jesus preached, and it came with great expectation. When we look at it, it seems to suggest that the ideal society would occur very soon. We know, of course, that that did not happen. The world in which Jesus lived and died was every bit as evil and violent as the world into which he was born. Yet he confirmed that God’s kingdom would come. He taught his disciples to pray: “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” But it did not happen during their lifetime and it has not happened during ours.

This hope and expectation that we call the kingdom of God is much more than just a beautiful dream. It is also a creative power. The sermon that Jesus preached in today’s Gospel was not altogether in vain, and it hardly needs to be said that his full vision was not realized then and has not been realized yet. But a few people believed his message and took it to heart. Four of these were two sets of brothers, named Peter and Andrew, and James and John. Jesus called them to follow him and his way of life, and they accepted the challenge. From that day

January 20, 2012

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Jonah 3:1-5; Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; I Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20 teach me your paths, Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior.

R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.

Remember that your compassion, O Lord, and your love are from of old.

In your kindness remember me, because of your goodness, O Lord.

R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.

Good and upright is the Lord;

thus he shows sinners the way.

He guides the humble to justice and teaches the humble his way.

R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 7:29-31 I tell you, brothers and sisters, the time is running out. From now on, let those having

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God’s kingdom is personal forward, their lives would never be the same.

For them, the kingdom of God became a reality, not as an ideal society, but as a personal experience. This can be the same for us. We do not have to wait for a new order of justice and peace to be established in the world. Our daily “yes” to God’s call in our lives becomes a reality that allows us to live and experience God’s kingdom in our midst.

The sermon that Jesus preached in today’s Gospel had two parts. The first

was the annunciation: “This is the time of fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand.”

The second was an exhortation. “Reform your lives and believe in the good news.”

This calls for a personal response on our part. We are admonished to be responsible for our actions and to get ourselves together believing in the good news of the kingdom.

To truly believe this we must put our faith into action. We must open our hearts and minds to Jesus so that he can mold us and

wives act as not having them, those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning, those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 1:14-20 After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea; they were fishermen.

Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Then they abandoned their nets and followed him. He walked along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets. Then he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him. make us fishers of men. Perhaps, as with the apostles, we may then experience the kingdom of God in our lives.

Leo Tolstoy told a story about a young man who lived in Russia during the days of the czars. He received a notice to report for military service, but he refused to go. He was arrested and carried before a magistrate. The judge demanded an explanation for this treasonous behavior. The young man explained that his refusal to fight was based upon the teaching of Christ. He would not kill any human being because he was under an order to love all people, even his enemy. He was ridiculed by the judge, who said: “That law was intended for the kingdom of God, which has never come and probably never will.”

The young man squared his shoulders and said: “Sir, I am aware that God’s kingdom may not be a reality for you, or for Russia, or for the world. But for me, the kingdom of God has come, and I cannot go on living as if it has not.”

Jesus said: “The reign of God is at hand.”

Everyone is invited to start living in that kingdom now.

Deacon Faiva Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo.

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Helping the poor; pets in heaven Question: To our delight, our 13-year-old daughter reads newspapers. Sometimes this prompts her to ask religious questions, and today’s was a tough one: “The paper says there is a lot of poverty and that the bishops are asking Catholics to help the poor. But it also says, on another page, that a diocese in California wants to spend $57 million to buy a glass church. With so many poor people in the country, how can that be right?” Can you help us to give her an answer? (Turnersville, N.J.) Question: The Diocese of Orange is buying the Crystal Cathedral, and this raises a question: Why not spend the money on the poor? We have some beautiful cathedrals here in Nebraska, too. They keep them warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and then they lock them up at night. Why don’t they let homeless people sleep in the pews? (Arnold, Neb.) Answer: The recent purchase by the Catholic Church of the former Crystal Cathedral has fanned the flames of a simmering debate; whenever the church buys or builds a new facility, the perennial biblical question is: “Why could this money not have been spent on the poor?”

The answer is not a simple one. The church has multiple goals, the overall one being to put people in touch with God so that they can live out the Gospel and progress on the path to heaven.

Certainly, part of the mission is to provide dignified and inspiring places of worship that can help lift minds and hearts to God. Just as surely, the church needs to reach out with compassion to those who are vulnerable – especially the poor, the sick and the homeless.

That is why Catholic hospitals serve nearly one-sixth of all patients in America and why Catholic Charities is America’s largest private provider of services to the poor, with a network of hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, etc.

As to the matter of the Crystal Cathedral, those closest to the situation seem to agree with the recent USA Today headline that called the church’s purchase a “sweet deal.” The Diocese of Orange has grown rapidly and now includes more than 1.2 million Catholics.

To meet expanding needs, the diocese was already planning to build a new cathedral, as well as administrative offices for its many projects and programs;

It’s safe to say that if in heaven you need your pets to be happy, they’ll be right there with you. the availability of the Crystal Cathedral offered the opportunity for a ready-made 2,800-seat worship space as well as 31 acres of property for office space and a relocated parish school – at a price less than one-third of what construction costs would have been.

As to opening churches at night to house the homeless, worship spaces are not always ideally suited, and alternate Catholic facilities might more readily provide sleeping accommodations, kitchens, showers and bathrooms. But neither a cathedral nor any Catholic church can ignore the needs of its neighborhood for human services.

A good example is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Wichita, Kan., which last year, during the worst of the winter’s cold, housed 120 homeless men in its gymnasium, with evening meals provided by several parishes throughout the diocese.

Question: Will our cat and dog be with me and my family in heaven? Every day I say the rosary to ask God to help me, but then sometimes I can’t go to sleep at night worrying about what Father will happen to our pets Kenneth Doyle when they die. I have no one to talk to but you, so I’m hoping you can answer me. (Flemington, N.J.) Answer: I suppose the traditional philosophical position would be that only human beings have immortal souls. On the other hand, the revered British author C.S. Lewis once said that, since the loyalty of pets often exceeds human fidelity, dogs and cats may well find their way to heaven with their masters.

Left to a plebiscite, the vote is split. A few years back, ABC News did a poll and found that 43 percent of Americans think that dogs and cats go to heaven (that figure goes up to 47 percent among pet owners), 40 percent said no, and the rest were reserving judgment.

The most honest answer is that we do not know.

What our faith does tell us, though, is that the joys of heaven are beyond compare, beyond our poor power even to imagine them. So, it’s safe to say that if in heaven you need your pets to be happy, they’ll be right there ‘ with you.

Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to askfatherdoyle@gmail. com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.

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Theologians, defenders of faith, prominent among recently named bishops worldwide

By Sandro Magister ROME – Rounding the turn of his first year as prefect of the congregation for bishops, Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec has surveyed the course in an interview for Avvenire, the newspaper owned by the Italian episcopal conference.

In the Nov. 18 interview, he revealed among other things that it often happens, “more than I could have expected,” that the candidate chosen to be made a bishop does not accept the appointment.

He indicated the reasons for such refusals in the growing difficulty of fulfilling the role, in a society in which the bishops are under public attack, “in part as a result of the scandals and charges concerning sexual abuse.”

As for career ambitions, the cardinal cautioned that if a priest or a bishop aspires and maneuvers to be promoted to a prominent diocese, “it is better for him to stay where he is.”

He concluded the interview by sketching the profile of the bishop the church needs most today: “Today, especially in the context of our secularized societies, we need bishops who are the first evangelizers, and not mere administrators of dioceses, who are capable of proclaiming the Gospel, who are not only theologically faithful to the magisterium and the pope but are also capable of expounding and, if need be, of defending the faith publicly.”

This profile of the bishop as theologian and “defensor fidei” fits Cardinal Ouellet himself perfectly.

A Canadian from Quebec, 67, a member of the Society of St. Sulpice, Ouellet was part of the circle of the international theology journal Communio, founded by, among others, Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar, who were his intellectual mentors.

In Quebec, he witnessed one of the most dizzying collapses of Catholicism in the past century. This region, which had a strong Catholic character until the middle of the 20th century, is today one of the most secularized in the world. As an archbishop, he fought energetically to give a voice and a body back to Christianity in his land. Pope Benedict XVI appreciated this so much that he called him to Rome first as a speaker at the synod of bishops in 2008, and then, since 2010, as prefect of the congregation for bishops.

Among the cardinals of the Roman Curia, Ouellet is the closest to Pope Benedict XVI, with whom he meets regularly, once a week. And he may be the only one in whom the pope confides without reservation.

Since Ouellet has presided over the Vatican congregation that selects and proposes new bishops to the pope, the preference shown for theologians and defenders of the faith has been more and more evident. Over the past five months alone, at least 12 appointments could be characterized this way.

1. Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan As a theologian, his mentor was above all von Balthasar; but Ratzinger also had no small impact on his formation. His

talent was and is that of making himself heard, more than in the halls of academia, in the public square. After Carla Maria Martini, Scola is the cardinal to whom the secular media pay the most attention. He speaks and writes in full harmony with the magisterium of Pope Benedict XVI. 2. Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Philadelphia Chaput has never been a theologian in the specific sense of the word. But he is certainly a great apologist, capable of preaching the Gospel from the rooftops, without timidity and without compromise, in a society where the competition is particularly fierce both within and against the religious sphere.

Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle

Archbishop Charles J. Brown, apostolic nuncio to Ireland

3. Ivo Muser, bishop of Bolzano and Bressanone He studied theology in Innsbruck, and in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He taught at the Academic Theological Institute of Bressanone. He was also for several years the secretary of his predecessor as bishop, Wilhelm Egger, a theologian and renowned biblicist in his own right.

4. Stanislaw Budzik, archbishop of Lublin He has been secretary general of the Polish episcopal conference and also studied theology in Innsbruck, where he acquired the title of professor at the Pontifical Theological Academy of Krakow.

5. Nuno Bras da Silva Martins, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon He received his doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and taught fundamental theology at the Catholic University of Portugal as well as at the Gregorian in Rome, where he was also rector of the Pontifical Portuguese College.

6. Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila He received his doctorate in theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., with a thesis on episcopal collegiality. In 2001, he became bishop of Imus, where he distinguished himself by his nearness to the poor and his simple and charitable way of life. At the episcopal conference of the Philippines, he is president of the commission for the doctrine of the faith. Manila is a cardinal see, and there are some who have even added Tagle to the list of the “papabili” – cardinals considered papal material by Vatican pundits.

7. Charles Morerod, bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg A Dominican, 50, he is a theologian of world renown. On relations among the religions, he has harshly criticized the relativistic ideas of the Catholic Paul Knitter and the Anglican John Hick.

He is one of three theologians on the Roman side in the discussions under way between the Church of Rome and the schismatic Lefebvrist traditionalists of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X.

Is it hard to find a bishop for the Catholic Church?

The church has an established practice of consultation for the appointment of bishops.

To make this choice you listen to the views of a list of people that can vary from situation to situation but that usually includes a grid of figures. This survey provides enough data to rule out some candidates and propose and accept others. In some cases you have to wait and investigate further. Overall it is a serious process, usually well done.

– Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, interviewed by Gianni Cardinale for a Nov. 18, 2011, article in Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian episcopal conference.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec

8. Francesco Cavina, as bishop of Carpi A doctor in canon law, he had been an official of the Vatican secretariat of state since 1996, in the section for relations with states. At the same time, he taught sacramental theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.

9. Filippo Santoro, archbishop of Taranto As a young priest, he began as director of the Higher Institute of Theology in Bari. After which he went on mission to Brazil, as the Communion and Liberation director for that country and for the entire Latin American continent. In 1992, he participated as a theologian in the fourth conference of the Latin American episcopate in Santo Domingo. Ordained a bishop in 1996, he served as a member of the commission for the doctrine of the faith at the Brazilian episcopal conference.

10. Franco Giulio Brambilla, bishop of Novara An auxiliary bishop of Milan since 2007and the vicar for culture, he is one of the most accomplished Italian theologians.

11. Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen, bishop of Breda, in Holland He was a professor of biblical theology and has been a member of the international theological commission since 2004.

12. Charles J. Brown, titular archbishop of Aquileia Aquileia, which as a diocese lives only in historical memory, is not where the newly elect is going. His true destination is the apostolic nunciature in Ireland. Brown has never been part of the Vatican diplomatic corps, and is an American from New York, but the pope wanted him specifically as his ambassador in a nation rocked by scandals.

Ireland, with seven vacant dioceses, is awaiting a redesign and a new beginning with new men.

Rome-based journalist and author Sandro Magister is the creator of the website http://chiesa.espresso. repubblica.it, where this article first appeared.

He studied theology, philosophy and history at the Theological Faculty of Milan and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

Two US cardinals, 20 other bishops could retire for age reasons in 2012

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – Two U.S. cardinals and 20 other U.S. bishops could retire because of age this year.

There are eight active U.S. bishops, including a cardinal, who have already turned 75. Another cardinal and 13 other bishops will celebrate their 75th birthday in 2012.

At age 75, bishops are required by canon law to submit their resignation to the pope.

With the retirements in 2011 of Cardinals Bernard F. Law, Justin Rigali and Roger M. Mahony and the death of Cardinal John P. Foley, Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the only U.S. cardinal still active over age 75 at the start of the year.

The former archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Ore., and former auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles turned 75 on June 15, 2011, but is expected to remain in the Vatican post until Pope Benedict XVI names his successor. He took the job at the Vatican in 2005 and became a cardinal in 2006.

Turning 75 on Jan. 16, 2012, is Cardinal Francis E. George, who has served as archbishop of Chicago since 1997 and was named a cardinal in 1998. He previously served as archbishop of Portland and bishop of Yakima, Wash.

Pope Benedict often has asked cardinals to stay on the job after they reached the age of 75. Even when a cardinal retires in his 70s, he remains an active member of the College of Cardinals, eligible to enter a conclave and vote for a new pope, until age 80.

In addition to Cardinal Levada, the seven other active U.S. bishops who are already 75 and the dates of their 75th birthday are: – Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 6, 2010.

– Bishop Thomas G. Doran of Rockford, Ill., Feb. 20, 2011.

– Bishop Edward U. Kmiec of Buffalo, N.Y., June 4, 2011.

– Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, June 14, 2011.

– Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa., June 24, 2011.

– Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., Sept. 12, 2011.

– Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange, Nov. 15, 2011.

In addition to Cardinal George, the 13 bishops turning 75 in

2012 and the dates of their 75th birthday are: – Archbishop John G. Vlazny of Portland, Feb. 22.

– Auxiliary Bishop Roger W. Gries of Cleveland, March 26.

– Bishop Michael D. Pfeifer of San Angelo, Texas, May 18.

– Bishop Walter A. Hurley of Grand Rapids, Mich., May 30.

– Bishop Robert J. Shaheen of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, June 3.

– Bishop John F. Kinney of St. Cloud, Minn., June 11.

– Bishop Matthew H. Clark of Rochester, N.Y., July 15.

– Auxiliary Bishop Paul H. Walsh of Rockville Centre, N.Y., Aug. 17.

– Bishop Ibrahim N. Ibrahim of the Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle, Oct. 1.

– Archbishop Henry J. Mansell of Hartford, Conn., Oct. 10.

– Bishop Joseph N. Latino of Jackson, Miss., Oct. 21.

– Auxiliary Bishop John C. Dunne of Rockville Centre, Oct. 30.

– Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell of Springfield, Mass., Dec. 23.

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Intellect and Virtue

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Where have all the heroes gone?

By John Garvey Tim Tebow is living a life that most young boys only dream about. He played football for four years at the University of Florida, winning a Heisman Trophy his sophomore year. He led the Gators to two national championships. After college, he was drafted by the Denver Broncos as a backup quarterback.

When Denver began the year 1-4, Tebow became the starter. He came from behind in his first game (the score was 15-0 with three minutes left) to beat the Miami Dolphins.

The home-schooled son of American Baptist missionaries, Tebow was born after a medically difficult pregnancy. He survived a doctor’s recommendation that he be aborted.

Today, he is outspokenly pro-life and a devout Christian. He has a habit of kneeling and praying after his team wins games. (In pop culture it’s called “Tebowing.”)

When he was a college player, he would write Bible verses (John 3:16) on his eye black, a practice the NCAA has since forbidden (the “Tebow Rule”).

In a different era, Tebow would be admired, even envied. Instead, he is a controversial figure. Some sportscasters criticize him. Some players disdain him. Sports agents warn that his flamboyant Christianity will cause him to lose endorsements.

I was tempted to see this as just another example of how the culture looks down its nose at believing Christians. But I think that there is a deeper lesson, though, and a sadder one, in Tebow’s mixed reviews: We just don’t want to believe in heroes anymore.

Letters . . . schools as we work with the Spirit to realize God’s dream for our world.

Ours is a faith of incarnation, meant to be lived in love right here on earth. What does that look like in the 21st century?

As Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in one of his Advent sermons, “… An assertive protection of creation has become a noble and urgent goal for people everywhere …. We have a moral imperative to protect the environment ‘out there’ – as well as ‘in here,’ within our own person.”

Please keep articles on this topic coming. We need the vision and encouragement to see and live into this dimension of our faith.

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My father’s generation admired Jesse Owens. My boyhood idol was Roberto Clemente. They were great athletes. They were also admirable people, and that was an important part of the package.

A hero is someone whom you want to be able to identify with through and through.

This natural human desire for someone to look up to finds a more sublime outlet in the veneration of the saints.

When our children were young, I would read the lives of the saints at breakfast. The accounts were not always first-rate history. Some veered off into Christian mythology and romance. They rarely mentioned the saints’ character flaws, though they certainly had them.

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Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow prays after the Broncos defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime in the National Football League AFC wild-card playoff game in Denver Jan. 8.

Abortion is wrong because the golden rule is right. Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you. It is a fact that a human fetus is a fetal human, a human being.

In my opinion, the most forceful visible efforts to try and stop the destruction of God’s precious infants in the womb are the walks for life both East and West. The abortion industry advocates and promotes the inhuman practice of killing the unborn child with successful results.

The Roe v. Wade massacre is at hand.

They are slaughtering human beings, made in the image of God, in the womb. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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Rep. Jackie Speier has always supported abortion. Her statement: “Abortion should always be legally available.” NARAL ProChoice America has given Jackie Speier a 100 percent rating because she has always supported the choice of abortion for any reason in her voting record supporting abortion legislation. Also, Planned Parenthood has given her a 100 percent on all pro-abortion issues. Such compassion for the innocent unborn condemned to death by her stance on abortion – particularly by one who claims to be Catholic. The problem with J.S. is that she does not listen to the “unborn.”

Nello Joseph Prato San Francisco

Questionable Catholicity Regarding the letters from Ms. Wisecarver and Dr. Flynn (Jan. 13), how can

one in good conscience refer to Ms. Jackie Speier as “a true member of the church” and as a beacon of compassion and solidarity?

I emailed the then-frosh congresswoman pleading with her to vote nay on HR 1964, the “Freedom of Choice Act,” and her response stressed her support of reproductive rights – including late-term abortions, more sex education and contraceptive measures.

She wrote trumpeting HR 1964 because it “…would codify the rights guaranteed to women under the Constitution by Roe v.

Wade for the first time.” Like Dr. Flynn, I too “… am sure the Holy Spirit celebrates when sinners promote the corporal works of mercy.” However, Ms. Speier may want to read and then live the Gospel of life by Blessed John Paul II. I pray then, with the grace of God, she may be a true light for her colleagues in Congress, and promote the general welfare of all – including the unborn.

Christian Clifford San Mateo

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of the saints are, as Christopher Dawson observed, an expression of our spiritual ideals.

There is a risk in equating sports stars with saints.

Most of them, like most of us, won’t bear close scrutiny.

Think about Tiger Woods, someone I used to admire until the details of his extramarital escapades came out.

The press seems to revel in exposing the tawdry side of celebrities. The very word “hagiography” (literally “writing about saints”) has a negative connotation.

It refers to unduly flattering, even sycophantic, media coverage of public figures. The implication is, that’s something we shouldn’t do.

I think that the explanation for all of this is that we no longer share a common conviction about what counts as a good life.

It’s hard to be a hero in this kind of culture.

In this world, the only moral quality that we can insist on is a thin sort of integrity, a requirement that we own up to who we really are.

And the only moral failing that we can accuse someone of is hypocrisy – hence the Tiger Woods scandal. His unforgivable sin was not adultery; it was that he presented himself (or at least his sponsors did) as a family man who liked to kick back with his beautiful wife and kids after winning the U.S. Open on a bad knee. But he wasn’t.

And, in this world, the media play the watchdog role of holding people to the only moral standard that still counts. They root out hypocrisy wherever it occurs.

Woe betide Tim Tebow if he harbors some secret vice or took a false step while he was winning those championships at Florida.

I find it all kind of sad. Boys and girls need heroes.

It would be great if they picked saints, but there is no harm in admiring athletes, too, if those athletes live virtuous lives.

And if it turns out that they have feet of clay, let’s not give up on the idea that we really can, with God’s grace, live lives that are worth celebrating.

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Spiritual practices get a fresh look, even for 19th-century saint “FLUNKING SAINTHOOD: A YEAR OF BREAKING THE SABBATH, FORGETTING TO PRAY, AND STILL LOVING MY NEIGHBOR� by Jana Riess.

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Reviewed by Mitch Finley (CNS) Too often, “spiritual exercises� and formal prayer practices end up going by the wayside for one reason: We expect them to have effects they don’t have, so we give up on them. Jana Riess found this out from firsthand personal experience, and that’s what she wrote about in “Flunking Sainthood,� which is a literary breath of fresh spiritual oxygen.

One month at a time, for a full year, Riess took a running jump at fasting, looking for the sacred in the kitchen, “lectio divina,� giving up shopping as a form of entertainment, centering prayer/the Jesus prayer, observing the Sabbath, being thankful, Benedictine spirituality, vegetarianism, practicing generosity – and she was a flop at every one of them. But, she concludes, there are important lessons to be learned from trying each one, from not giving up or giving in, and that’s what this book is all about.

“Flunking Sainthood� is easy to read; the pages almost turn themselves. At the same time, nearly every chapter whistles up the possibility that you, the reader, can be better than you are; whispers to your heart that you’re not nearly as much of a spiritual wimp as you think you are. “I may have spent a year flunking sainthood,� Riess declares, “but along the way I’ve had unexpected epiphanies and wild glimpses of the holy I would never have experienced without these crazy practices.�

St. Therese of Lisieux, she of a late 19th-century Carmelite

monastery in France, was the “little flower� known for her famous “little way.� In recent decades, fortunately, she has been liberated from the sappy spiritual sentimentality to which she was relegated for so long after she became, you know, famous.

Heather King wrote a great autobiographical book, largely about her journey to Catholicism, titled “Redeemed.� In “Shirt of Flame� – an image from T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets� – King completely knocks the patina of false piety off Therese and gives us back the rock-solid spiritual wisdom and theology this unconventional nun lived and wrote about, which is the real reason she was named a doctor of the church.

In “Shirt of Flame,� for each month of the year King gives us a fine, insightful reflection on the young saint – she died at age 24 – and her writings. Each one concludes with a prayer written by King that is invariably honest, hopeful, and – if you read between the lines – not without gentle humor. Along the way, she quotes others including, from one of Therese’s fellow nuns, words to be pondered and pondered: “I would never have suspected her sanctity.� “Shirt of Flame� will wake you up spiritually and put you back on the right path, and you’ll be very glad it did. Read it. No excuses.

Finley is the author of more than 30 books on Catholic themes.

Authors inspire, teach, motivate with stories of saints and heroes “A DANGEROUS DOZEN: 12 CHRISTIANS WHO THREATENED THE STATUS QUO BUT TAUGHT US TO LIVE LIKE JESUS� by the Rev. C.K. Robertson. SkyLight Paths Publishing (Woodstock, Vt., 2011). 171 pp., $16.99. “TEN AFRICAN HEROES: THE SWEEP OF INDEPENDENCE IN BLACK AFRICA� by Thomas Melady and Margaret Melady. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y., 2011). 205 pp., $25.

Reviewed by Regina Lordan (CNS) In the face of violence and political instability, certain brave Christians have answered with a rebellion and

conviction, changing the world forever. Two books highlight these people who impacted the world throughout history.

In “Ten African Heroes: The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa,� Thomas Melady and Margaret Melady offer an insider account about the influence of faith and theology on African leaders who were the impetus for peaceful revolution from colonization in Africa in the 1960s. The Rev. C.K. Robertson’s “A Dangerous Dozen: 12 Christians Who Threatened the Status Quo but Taught Us to Live Like Jesus� features men and women from early Christianity to modern history who were a threat against political order and the status quo, sexism, anti-Semitism and bigotry.

A noted Anglican theologian, Rev. Robertson wrote a truly interesting book that even offers for the amateur reader

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some unknown information about important Christians and their rebellious spirit.

For example, St. Francis of Assisi is often viewed as a peaceful man with birds perched on his shoulder and rabbits snuggled at his feet. Though he was a friend to the animals, according to Rev. Robertson, St. Francis’ order of men evoked anything but an ambivalent response from church leaders. Living in poverty and preaching among the people, St. Francis’ followers bordered on the extreme and weird, and were viewed by some as a threat to the status quo.

Rev. Robertson also wrote about other game-changers: St. Paul, Dorothy Day, Sojourner Truth and Archbishop Oscar Romero, to name a few. Rooted in historical research and reflection, these stories are inspiring, engaging and educational.

In their book, the Meladys describe in great detail the many meetings and correspondence they shared with key African leaders involved in the peaceful independence movements that swept the continent. Former U.S. ambassador to Burundi, Uganda and the Vatican, Thomas Melady built relationships with these leaders by coordinating visits with universities and other agencies when they traveled to the United States.

A little dry, the book is appropriate for the reader who is familiar with and interested in African politics and movements. However exclusionary to the common reader, it gives an interesting insight into the so-called “Arab Spring� protests and reminds the reader that faith and religion cannot be discounted as a powerful motivator for action, good and bad.

Lordan is former assistant international editor of Catholic News Service.

SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for January 22, 2012 Mark 1:14-20

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 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.

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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 Info Faire 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. All the event activities are available at www.walkforlifewc.com. You may also email info@ walkforlifewc.com.

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. Free admission.

Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

ARMENIAN MASS: Mass in Armenian at Our Lady of Angels Friary, 1345 Cortez Ave., Burlingame at noon.

TUESDAY, JANUARY24 AUDITIONS: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale, 5:30-6:45 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.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28 BATTER UP: 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.

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.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLERS: San Francisco Catholic Alumni Club meets at 5:30 p.m. at Tommy’s Joynt, 1101 Van Ness at Geary, San Francisco For discounted validated parking, use parking garage for the AMC 14 Van Ness Theater, entrance is on O’Farrell Street between Van Ness and Polk. Contact Kevin Mullaney, (415) 664-9375 or Jennie Lee at jennieret@gmail.com.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 REUNION: St. Cecilia School Alumni Mass and reception, 18th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco.

Contact the alumni office at (415) 753-3917 or email alumni@stceciliaschool.org.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 AUDITIONS: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale, 5:30-6:45 p.m. in Angelico Hall at Dominican University in San Rafael. Call (415) 482-3579 for

EXHIBIT: National touring exhibit of Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America Jan. 24-June 3 at The California Museum at 1020 O St., Sacramento. Already seen in Washington at the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibit features a handwritten letter from President Thomas Jefferson and a replica of a prototype of the first incubator developed by a religious sister. Visit www.womenandspirit.org.

Paulist Father Terry Ryan

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, ST. PAUL: St. Paul the Apostle, a talk with Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California Street, San Francisco from 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.

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St. Bartholomew, San Mateo: Call (650) 3436156 St. Peter, Pacifica: Call (650) 359-6313 St. Pius, Redwood City: Call (650) 361-0655 St. Robert, San Bruno: Call (650) 589-0104.

St. Anselm, Ross: Call (415) 454-7650 St. Anthony, Novato: Call (415) 883-2177 St. Hilary, Tiburon: Call (415) 388-9651 Our Lady of Loretto, Novato: Call (415) 8972171 St. Gabriel: Call (415) 731-6161 St. Mary’s Cathedral: Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 218 St. Dominic: Call (415) 567-7824 Young Widow/Widower Group: Call (415) 614-5506.

Parents: Call Ina Potter (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena (650) 344-3579.

VOLUNTEER: 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.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Women’s business luncheon sponsored by Immaculate Conception Academy takes place 11:30 a.m. at the City Club in San Francisco. Betsy Rafael, vice president at Apple is guest speaker.

Carol Squires Brandi, an ICA board member, is emcee. Tickets are $65 per person with tickets for “young professionals under 30” at $45. Visit icaluncheon2012.eventbrite.com.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 ST. PAUL: St. Paul the Apostle, a talk with Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California Street, San Francisco from 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. 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.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 AUTOGRAPH PLEASE: Jesuit Father James Martin introduces his new book “Between Heaven and Mirth” at University of San Francisco’s McLaren Conference Center 4-6 p.m. Call (415) 422-4463 or visit http://tinyurl.com/7t9agch.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 PROUD TRADITION: Valentine Fantasy, a Turrisburnea Club lunch at City Forest Lodge, San Francisco. Tickets are $55 per person. Proceeds benefit San Francisco charities including Project Rachel. Father Dan Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish is chaplain. Former chaplains include Msgr. John Foudy and the late Father James Atkins.

Call Shirley Terry at (415) 682-9617.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 PLAY BALL! A St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco fundraiser, 6 p.m. at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco. Theme is baseball so wear your favorite team’s attire. Tickets: $40 for adults, $20 for children 12 and under. Come and enjoy a fun night with some of San Francisco’s finest gourmet food trucks, live music and dancing. Tickets are now being sold in the back of church after Mass. Call (415) 487-8560 or email zack@saintagnessf.com.

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We are committed to providing weekend retreats for couples preparing for the sacrament of marriage. Give your marriage a solid foundation by attending one of our weekends.

For more information and dates, please visit our website at www.sfcee.org Scholarships Available E-mail us at: catholicsfee@aol.com

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. Interview required before attending the training. Visiting is with youth 11-18 years old.

Monthly meetings are mandatory. Spanish-speakers especially welcome.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 FACE TO FACE: Marriage Encounter Weekend to be held in San Mateo. Call Paul or Yvonne at (650) 366-7093 or visit www.wwme12.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 SOLD! Belmont to Broadway Auction and Show benefiting Notre Dame High School, Belmont at the Foster City Crowne Plaza Hotel. For ticket, sponsorship, or volunteer opportunities contact Denise Severi at (650)595-1913 ext. 446 or dseveri@ndhsb.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.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 REUNION: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Save the date. Contact Notre Dame alumnae office at (650) 595 1913 ext. 446 or email dseveri@ndhsb.org or eileen_browning@yahoo.com.

ONGOING SERVICES DIVORCED AND SEPARATED INFORMATION: Contact Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu or (415) 422-6698.

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.

COUPLES: Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi), a Catholic program for couples at all stages of disillusionment in their marriage. Call (415) 893-1005 or email SF@Retrouvaille.org or visit www.Retrouvaille. org or www.retroCA.com.

CONSOLATION MINISTRY: Good Shepherd, Pacifica: Call (650) 355-2593 Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City: Call (650) 755-2727 Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City: Call (650) 366-3802

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Catholic Charities CYO: Liz Rodriguez at erodriguez@cccyo.org or (415) 972-1297. St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco: Tim Szarnicki at tszarnicki@svdp-sf.org or (415) 9771270 ext. 3010.

St. Anthony Foundation: Marie O’Connor at (415) 592-2726 or visit www.stanthonysf.org The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County: Atrecia at (650) 373-0623 or email svdpinfo@yahoo.com.

Handicapables: Jane at (415) 585-9085.

La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi: Contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@comcast.net or go to www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

YOUNG ADULTS RETREAT: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose have announced retreats for young adult women and men. Visit www.msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6335 or (510) 657-2468. You may also email blessings@msjdominicans.org or vocations@ msjdominicans.org.

VOCATIONS DISCERNMENT: A monthly discernment group for single, Catholic women ages 18-40 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with the Mission San Jose Dominican Sisters.

Day includes group discussion and reflection on your vocation, and Eucharist and lunch with the sisters at their motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place in Fremont. Email vocations@msjdominicans.org with questions or for more information.

MEDIA TV/RADIO: Fridays, 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger church. Program is rerun Friday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. Email info@sfarchdiocese. org with comments and questions about faith.

Sunday, 6 a.m.: KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding.

First Sunday, 5 a.m.: CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

EWTN Catholic television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com.

CONTACT US: Datebook is a free service for parishes, agencies and institutions to publicize events. Copy deadline is noon Friday before requested issue date. Our next issue is Jan. 20. Send item including who, what, where, when, cost and contact information to burket@ sfarchdiocese.org or Datebook, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109.

Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus

Our Lady of Lourdes Novena Feb. 3 – 11, 2012 Masses: Mon–Sat: 8 am & 5:30 pm; Sun: 11:30 am (Masses preceded by the Rosary; blessing with the relic of St. Jude on weekdays.)

Walk & Retreat for Healing Sat, Feb. 4; begins @ 10 am

Fr. John Marie Bingham, O.P. Novena Preacher

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

M.P.L.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

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

The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 20122013 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential (preferred), and five years of successful teaching experience at the elementary level.

Please send resume and a letter of interest by March 16th, 2012 to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational & Professional Leadership One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, California 94109 Fax (415) 614-5664 E-mail: allenb@sfarchdiocese.org

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cookbooks Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 125th Anniversary Cookbook of Memories As food has always been a comfort to families who have experienced a loss, it seems only fitting that Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery would create a cookbook in honor of its 125th Anniversary. We would like to create a cookbook of memories – special recipes of your loved ones who are interred in Holy Cross. If your Grandmother, Mom, Dad or Great Uncle Sam made a special dish and is interred in Holy Cross, we hope that you will share that favorite recipe.

You may forward your recipe to the attention of Christine Stinson by email costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com, by mail to Holy Cross Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 94014 or drop it off at our office or All Saints Mausoleum on weekends. Please include your loved one’s name, date of burial and grave location with the recipe. Also, please include your name and contact information.

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Celebrating

January 20, 2012

125 years of service to the people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Since 1887, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma has been performing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy: to bury the dead and to pray for both the living & the dead. Join us this year as we tell our story and the stories of the hundreds of thousands of lives commemorated here. This is your Catholic Cemetery.

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